Ecuador's Pegasus Satellite Collides With Russian Debris
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Ecuador's space agency EXA announced that the remains of the Russian rocket S14 collided with its "Pegaso" nano satellite. EXA director Ronnie Nader said via Twitter that they had...
Latest Technology Stories
COSTA MESA, Calif., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX) today announced that Emulex senior executives will present at the following upcoming investor conferences. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120403/NE81278LOGO ) Conference: Craig-Hallum Conference Date Wednesday, May 29, 2013 Executives will participate in...
ClearOne disrupts professional audio with the Beamforming Microphone Array featuring the most advanced signal processing for flawless conferencing audio in any setting. SALT LAKE CITY, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- ClearOne (NASDAQ: CLRO) takes another leap ahead with the Pro Audio industry's most powerful innovation, the Beamforming Microphone Array, now supporting tabletop and wall applications. The best just got better, and continues to disrupt the Pro AV industry. "While...
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Marvell Technology Group Ltd. (NASDAQ: MRVL), a global leader in integrated silicon solutions, will be attending the following investor conferences: (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100719/SF36559LOGO-b) D.A. Davidson 5(th) Annual Technology Forum on May 29th in New York City RBC Capital Markets Communications Technology & Semiconductors Investor Day on June 4(th) in Boston BofA Merrill Lynch Global Tech...
SAN JOSE, Calif., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- NETGEAR(®), Inc. (NASDAQGM: NTGR), a global networking company that delivers innovative products to consumers, businesses and service providers, announced today that the Company will host its annual stockholder meeting at 10:00 a.m. PDT on Friday, May 31, 2013. The meeting will be held at NETGEAR's corporate headquarters in San Jose, California. The event will be available via webcast at NETGEAR's investor relations website at...
SAN FRANCISCO, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- A fascinating and informative guest presentation entitled "The Evolution of Regression Modeling" was warmly received by the 285-person audience of the San Francisco Data Mining Meetup group on Tuesday, May 20. Salford Systems' founder and CEO, Dan Steinberg, Ph.D., was invited to give this short history of methods used to solve regression problems after meetup Co-Organizer Todd Holloway, Ph.D., of Trulia, was impressed by the...
ABINGDON, England, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Only 35 per cent implement the correct BYOD rules and policies to protect data The IT department may have a clear vision of data kept within a business' four walls, however new research from Kaspersky Lab shows 60 per cent of SMBs have only a basic understanding of what company data is stored on employees' own mobile devices. A recent study by TNS Infratest for Kaspersky...
Leading online retailer offers a personalized shopping experience to Chinese consumers - 31 percent last shopped online, finds IBM survey BEIJING, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that Xiu.com, one of China's leading online retailers of overseas luxury brands, grew its daily sales by 10 times using IBM software for Smarter Commerce to analyze Big Data, offering customers a personalized shopping experience and increased product selection. (Logo:...
SAN DIEGO, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Senomyx, Inc. (NASDAQ: SNMX), a company using proprietary taste science technologies to discover, develop, and commercialize novel flavor ingredients, announced today that David Linemeyer, Ph.D., the Company's Vice President, Biology and Gwen Rosenberg, Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, will present an overview of Senomyx's technology and programs on Friday, May 31, at 10:25 a.m. Eastern Time (7:25 a.m....
BAODING, China and SINGAPORE, May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Yingli Green Energy Holding Company Limited (NYSE: YGE) ("Yingli Green Energy" or the "Company"), a leading solar energy company and one of the world's largest vertically integrated photovoltaic ("PV") manufacturers, which markets its products under the brand "Yingli Solar", announced today that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Yingli Green Energy Singapore Company Pte. Limited ("Yingli Singapore") will supply 10.269 MW of...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Con-way Inc. (NYSE:CNW) announced today that President and Chief Executive Officer Douglas W. Stotlar will make a presentation on May 29, at the KeyBanc Capital Markets' Industrial, Automotive and Transportation Conference in Boston. The presentation will begin at approximately 10 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130523/MM20339LOGO) Parties may listen to the presentation via live Internet webcast....
Latest Technology Reference Libraries
The Fairchild Channel F is a game console manufactured by Fairchild Semiconductor that was released in August 1976. It was the first programmable ROM cartridge-based video game console as well as the first to use a microprocessor. The original name for the system was the Video Entertainment System, but when Atari released their VCS the name was changed to Channel F. By 1977 sales had reached 250,000 and was second to the Atari VCS. The Channel F, using an F8 CPU, produced enough AI to use...
The RCA Studio II was released in January 1977 by RCA as a video game console. It had black and white graphics that were similar to Pong consoles. Game control used two built-in ten button keypads instead of controllers. The keypads made it difficult for two player games to be played because the players would have to sit so close together. It was discontinued in 1979. It used a switch box for the RF modulator and power supply. The sounds produced from the unit were comprised of varying...
The Bally Astrocade is a video game console and simple computer combination manufactured by Midway. The original name was the Bally Home Library Computer released in 1977 by mail order only, but shipments were delayed and the system was renamed the Bally Professional Arcade. In 1979 Bally sold the Consumer Product Division and a partnership was formed and in 1981 the system was released as the Bally Computer System. In 1982 the name was changed to the Bally Astrocade and production of the...
The Cybook Opus is an e-book reader produced by Bookeen from France, released on July 27, 2009. The operating system for the Opus is Linux with an open source firmware. In June 2010, Bookeen published and improved firmware with a one-second mode which allows the device to be turned on and off in one second. It also keeps the last page read open and the user does not have to reboot each time. There is no keyboard and it does not have a dictionary or bookmarks. There is no internet access...
The Cybook Gen3 is an e-Reader designed for reading e-books, e-news, and for listening to audio books or MP3 music. It was produced by Bookeen, a French company, and released on October 29, 2007. The display is a six-inch E-Ink screen using 166 dpi, black and white, 2-bit grayscale and on the gold edition 8-bit grayscale was used. The screen is readable under sunlight and only uses the battery for turning pages, giving it 8,000 page flips of battery life. The Gen3 uses a 200MHz CPU;...
