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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Sir Patrick Moore, a UK astronomer who also spent more than five decades covering space travel as a broadcaster, passed away at his home Sunday at the age of 89. Moore, the author of dozens of books on astronomy and the host of the BBC television program The Sky At Night for over 50 years, died "peacefully at 12:25 this afternoon" at his residence at Selsey, West Sussex, his friends and colleagues said in a statement Sunday,...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos revealed on Thursday that the online retailer makes no profit on sales of its Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Fire HD devices, but is relying instead on making money through sales of books and other content subsequently bought by device owners. "We sell the hardware at our cost, so it is break-even on the hardware," Bezos told BBC News during a European launch event of Amazon’s new Paperwhite...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports – Your Universe Online After several stinging defeats earlier this year, Motorola has finally won a patent case victory over rival Microsoft, as a German court has ruled the Google-owned telecommunications outfit did not infringe on a system that allowed applications to work on different devices. The verdict, announced Friday in a Mannheim courtroom, said Motorola Mobility -- which was purchased by Mountain View, California-based Google for $12.5...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Nearly all of the old-style Internet addresses in Europe have been used up, leading the governing body to place strict rules rationing the number of applications firms can submit for the remaining few, according to various media reports published Friday. According to BBC News Technology Correspondent Mark Ward, the currently utilized IP Version 4 (IPv4) addressing system was limited to just 4.3 billion internet protocol addresses...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Even in the midst of a four decade long drought, protected forests in West Africa have somehow experienced an increase in their carbon storage capacity in recent years, a team of researchers from Ghana and the UK have discovered. According to BBC News Environmental Reporter Mark Kinver, previous studies had suggested that a lack of precipitation in Ghana and the surrounding region resulted "in less carbon being stored as...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online The UN agency responsible for overseeing international information and communication technology standards has approved a new television format that has 16-times the resolution of current high-definition televisions (HDTVs), various media outlets reported late last week. Jay Alabaster of IDG News, citing "Japanese sources" (one from public broadcasting station NHK, developers of the technology, and another from the Ministry of...
HACKENSACK, N.J., May 15, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- LiveU (www.liveu.tv), the pioneer of portable video-over-cellular solutions, has announced that BBC News is extending its use of LiveU LU60 mobile uplink solution for newsgathering in both the UK and the US. The broadcaster will use the technology to enhance coverage of both the 2012 London Olympics and Paralympics, and the US Presidential election campaign. Footage will be supplied to BBC News, BBC World and BBC World America. BBC News...
LONDON, September 6, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- London based online media company StreamUK [http://bit.ly/csoQms ] today released statistics from one of their media platforms that shows its largest ever usage during the London Riots. Stream CrowdSourcer [http://bit.ly/aKQrOI ]which is used by broadcasters such as BBC News [http://upload.news.bbc.cs.streamuk.com ] and publishers such as The Guardian [http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/14/new-europe-submit-your-videos ] allows...
LONDON, September 23 /PRNewswire/ -- The healthy, active living website realbuzz.com, has featured blogs for their members for some time, and was the first site to introduce blogging for runners. In the massive growth in social media, they've still got a vast and thriving community of bloggers writing about their running challenges, losing weight and general getting fit and healthy. After a bit of research, the site has seen that bloggers or users of social networks have a tendency...
NEW YORK, March 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BBC World News marks its return to New York City this week on NYCTV, with an exclusive one-on-one interview with New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, airing on Friday, March 20, conducted by Washington-based special correspondent Philippa Thomas. BBC World News - with its new format, set and team of anchors and reporters - delivers the legendary newsgathering talents of the BBC to New York public television audiences with the newscast's...
