December 31st, 2008 by admin
AP - Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was from his wife. Rebecca Griffin, who works in marketing, sent her message with the subject line “Campaign for Mike” to friends and family. It asked them to sign an online petition [...]
December 31st, 2008 by admin
AP - Late on Christmas Eve, one last wish was sent, by e-mail: Please let NASA Administrator Michael Griffin keep his job. It was from his wife.
December 31st, 2008 by admin
Arriving nine years late to the Y2K phenomenon is the Microsoft Zune. Reports are flowing wildly that, last night at around 2AM, every first-gen 30GB Zune abruptly crashed.
It’s a bizarre problem that has <a href=”http://forums.zune.net/403986/ShowPost. …
December 31st, 2008 by admin
AP - Of all the threats to scientific research Wesley Sizemore has stymied over the years, satellites and cell phone towers don’t stick in his memory quite like the possessive old hound and its treasured heating pad.
December 31st, 2008 by admin
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Are photographs of a mother breast-feeding her child indecent? The social networking site Facebook has sparked a massive online debate — and protests — and after removing photos that expose too much of a mother’s breast.
December 31st, 2008 by admin
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online sales for the holiday period up to December 23 fell 3 percent from the same period last year, marking the first decline in online spending since comScore Inc started tracking online sales in 2001.
December 31st, 2008 by admin
AP - When the first of many loud alarms sounded on the space shuttle Columbia, the seven astronauts had about a minute to live, though they didn’t know it. The pilot, William McCool, pushed several buttons trying to right the ship as it tumbled out of control. He didn’t know it was futile. Most of [...]
December 31st, 2008 by admin
(Reuters) - Dell Inc’s president of global operations, Michael Cannon, and chief marketing officer, Mark Jarvis will leave their roles in moves expected to be announced soon, the Wall Street Journal said, citing people briefed on the matter.
December 30th, 2008 by admin
AP - When the first of many loud alarms sounded on the space shuttle Columbia, the seven astronauts had about a minute to live, though they didn’t know it. The pilot, William McCool, pushed several buttons trying to right the ship as it tumbled out of control. He didn’t know it was futile. Most of [...]
December 30th, 2008 by admin
Well at least someone had a good 2008: The high-tech criminal underground, which used the year of living desperately to pump out a banner collection of malware, spam, and online scams. …