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Space shuttle Endeavour lit up the predawn sky above Florida's Space Coast on Monday with a 4:14 a.m. EST launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle's last scheduled night launch began a 13-day flight to the International Space Station and the final year of shuttle operations.Endeavour's STS-130 mission will include three spacewalks and the delivery of the Tranquility node, the final major U.S. portion of the station. Tranquility will provide additional room for crew members and...

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Unity Technologies, the provider of the market-leading Unity development platform for Web, PC, Mac, Wii(TM) and iPhone, announced today the appointments of Brett Seyler as VP of Strategy and Steffen Toksvig as Development Director. Brett Seyler joins from Torque engine developer InstantAction (formerly GarageGames) and Steffen Toksvig comes to Unity Technologies from 'Hitman' developer IO Interactive. Each brings a wealth of experience and expertise to...

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Unity Technologies, the leading provider of multi-platform game development for Web, PC, Mac, Wii(TM) and iPhone, announced today the release of Unity Asset Server 2.0. Unity Asset Server is a fully integrated version control solution for all Unity assets and scripts. Like everything else in Unity, it's simple to use. Version 2.0 of the Unity Asset Server brings it in line with client side improvements introduced in Unity 2.6 and adds Windows and...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Unity Technologies, the leading provider of the multi-platform game development platform for Web, PC, Mac, Wii(TM) and iPhone, announced today that 12 percent of the games featured on AppShopper.com's Top 25 paid for apps* were built with Unity iPhone. Only 12 months since it was first released, Unity iPhone is proving to be the fastest growing game development platform for the iPhone. Unity-built new releases StarWars®: Trench Run (THQ) and...

Twelve years of design, development and hard work have come to fruition with the formal handover of Node 3 from ESA to NASA on November 20, 2009. The ceremony took place in the Space Station Processing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA.The ceremony was attended by Bernardo Patti International Space Station Program Manager in ESA's Directorate of Human Spaceflight, NASA's International Space Station Program Manager Michael Suffredini, Robert Cabana, NASA's Director of the...

MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivaty Inc., a leading social games and application services provider company, today launched its new Social Gaming Platform (SGP) with On-Demand Web Services to power social features, ecommerce, content, communication, and live operations needed for social games and applications as well as full 3D characters and levels using Flash. Vivaty's SGP On-Demand Web Services can power 2D games built in Flash or Vivaty 3D Flash. Vivaty also announced...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Unity Technologies - the leading provider of multi-platform development for Web, PC, Mac, Wii console and iPhone - today announced that attendance at Unite 2009, the company's third annual developer conference, was up 125 percent and that its user base has increased by 158 percent to 33,500 registered users since the conference's opening keynote on October 28, 2009 due to the overwhelming demand for its interactive content solutions. During the opening...

BERWYN, Pa., Nov. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Tyco Electronics Ltd. (NYSE: TEL) will host an investor meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009 to update investors on the company and its growth initiatives, strategic priorities and financial performance. The event will be held at the Jumeirah Essex House, 160 Central Park South (between 6th and 7th Avenues) in New York City. The program will include presentations from Tyco Electronics' Chief Executive Officer Tom Lynch, as well as several other...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Unity Technologies, the leading provider of the multi-platform game development platform for Web, PC, Mac, Wii(TM) and iPhone, today announced a worldwide education distribution and training relationship with Noesis Interactive. Educators around the world have begun to develop academic programs to teach students how to develop video games as part of a game development track, certificate or degree. To enhance and accelerate this opportunity, Noesis...

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Today at the Unite conference, Unity Technologies, the leading provider of the multi-platform game development platform for Web, PC, Mac, Wii and iPhone, announced the award winners of its third annual contest. This year, there were 129 submissions, twice the number of submissions last year, spanning four categories: Best Overall, Best iPhone Game, Best Visual Design and Best Technical Achievement; prizes totaled $9,500. "We're continuing to see...