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The screen on the Android 11 Astro Slide phone slides up (hence the name) to reveal a full-sized keyboard in a format similar to a very small laptop.

Published in Mobility

GUEST INTERVIEW: Impact investment is the art of sustainable investing and achieving positive social and private investment outcomes - a win/win situation proven by investment expert Barry Palte, who says social impact and leading investment returns are not mutually exclusive!

Published in Business IT

Recharging your device with EFM can now help recharge the planet through an extension of EFM’s longstanding partnership with Carbon Neutral. The initiative sees a native Australian tree planted in the Yarra Yarra Biodiversity Corridor, Australia’s largest biodiverse reforestation carbon sink, for every EFM power product purchased.

Published in Home Tech

Nokia has released its annual sustainability report, “People and Planet 2020”, revealing it has exceeded its target to enable 6.5 billion subscriptions two years ahead of schedule.

Published in Telecoms & NBN

Melbourne-based internet provider Planet ISP has refunded over $5,000 to a customer whose phone was stolen in South Africa in August 2012 but was subsequently used to make 92 unauthorised international calls.

Published in Telecoms & NBN
Tuesday, 30 March 2010 01:03

Venus helps with hard-to-see Mercury

Usually the planet Mercury is difficult to see on Earth, but for the rest of March and into April 2010, it will be highlighted just below and to the right of the planet Venus in the northern latitudes.

Published in Space
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 20:07

2010: Mars gets brighter and closer to Earth

On Wednesday night, January 27, 2010, Mars will be only 99 million kilometers (60 million miles) away from Earth. But, on Friday the viewing might be an even better for seeing Mars and the full Moon. So, take a look up in the sky and see a brighter and closer Red Planet.

Published in Space
Wednesday, 27 January 2010 01:37

Mars Rover Spirit is now a stationary explorer

NASA announced on Tuesday, January 26, 2010, that its Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will not be considered a fully mobile rover after numerous attempts to remove it from its stuck position failed.


Published in Space
Thursday, 21 January 2010 19:14

YOU point camera and take photograph of planet Mars

The NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) contains a camera called the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). And, NASA has opened up its picture-taking ability to the public. Ready. Aim. Say "Cheese"!

Published in Space
Wednesday, 13 January 2010 00:19

NASA attempts to wake up frozen Phoenix spacecraft

After the Phoenix Mars Lander ended its last transmission from Mars on November 8, 2008, the robotic explorer sank into a frozen hibernation. NASA wasn’t expecting it to survive the harsh Martian winter, but the U.S. space agency will make several valiant attempts to recover the valuable spacecraft.

Published in Space
NASA astronomer Brian Jackson has presented information that the exosolar planet Corot-7b is vaporating due to its decreasing distance to its parent star. Its molten surface is so hot that the planet is slowly evaporating due to extreme temperatures of upwards of 1,980 degrees Celsius (3,600 degree Fahrenheit).

Published in Space
The Cassini spacecraft, as announced by NASA on December 18, 2009, has confirmed the presence of liquid hydrocarbons on the surface of Saturn’s largest moon Titan with the use of ‘specular reflection’: recording the reflection of sunlight off of one of Titan’s methane lakes.

Published in Space
Five Earth-like planets (and maybe two additional ones) orbiting Sun-like stars have been discovered (and announced in and around December 14, 2009) by an international team of astronomers lead by an Australian and American. Such discoveries add to the eventual hope (and maybe even expectation) that scientists will discover life on one of them.

Published in Space
Saturday, 21 November 2009 19:13

NASA takes Earthlings to "Planet 51"

The Sony Pictures animated movie "Planet 5" helps to promote the importance of space exploration to all peoples of the planet Earth and other planets in the Milky Way galaxy and beyond.

Published in Space
Friday, 13 November 2009 19:39

Troy War on Mars: NASA versus Nature

Trapped in sand for about seven months, the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is trying to free itself of its predicament with the help of NASA ground support on Earth. This man & machine-versus-nature scenario is being played out on Mars at a site called “Troy,” named after the Greek city at the center of the mythological Trojan War.

Published in Space
Wednesday, 04 November 2009 19:41

Third flyby images more of unseen parts of Mercury

The NASA Messenger spacecraft has mapped another 6% of the surface of Mercury, leaving only the polar regions of the planet unseen by humans with the aid of spacecraft.

Published in Space
Wednesday, 07 October 2009 19:33

Space telescope finds supersized Saturn ring

NASA announced on October 6, 2009, that its Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered another ring around the planet Saturn. And, it’s a big one. The thickness of the newly found ring would allow one billion Earths to be strung end to end.

Published in Space
Tuesday, 22 September 2009 18:19

Cassini heightens its study of Saturn's rings

Project scientists with the Cassini spacecraft mission are astonished to see for the first time that the rings of Saturn have a dramatic third dimension, height, and some of them are as tall as a couple of miles.

Published in Space
Monday, 25 May 2009 18:13

Never before seen wrinkles: On Mercury

NASA’s Messenger space probe has found "wrinkle ridges" on the planet Mercury and U.S. mission team members say they look "bizarre" and something "we’re never seen anything like that" before in the Solar System.

Published in Space
The news from planet Mars is that the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Opportunity is doing just fine, having found water signs in sand dunes. Halfway around the Martian world, MER Spirit is stuck up to its hubs in soft sand, and it isn’t looking too promising for the five-year old robotic explorer.

Published in Space
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