India to take second moon shot by 2012, eyes Mars

India to take second moon shot by 2012, eyes Mars

Buoyed by the success of its maiden lunar mission, India on Thursday said it will send a second unmanned spacecraft to the moon by 2012.The announcement came less than a week after Chandrayaan-1, India’s first unmanned spacecraft, entered lunar orbit for the start of a two-year mission. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said the …

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Students Invited To Name New Mars Rover

Students Invited To Name New Mars Rover

NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. NASA, in cooperation with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures’ movie WALL-E from Pixar Animation Studios, will conduct a naming contest for its car-sized Mars Science Laboratory rover that is scheduled for launch in 2009.The contest begins …

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YouTube's 75 Percent Solution- Closing Down Illegal Videos

YouTube's 75 Percent Solution- Closing Down Illegal Videos

“Two years ago, illegal use of professionally created video was rampant on the Web, particularly on video sharing sites such as YouTube. Among those most visibly undercut were NBC Universal and Viacom, which filed a $1 billion suit against YouTube parent Google to stop illicit publishing of their content.” Now, a year after YouTube introduced …

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India's moon mission enters lunar space!

India's moon mission enters lunar space!

India’s first unmanned moon mission entered lunar space early Tuesday as part of its final journey this week into the moon’s orbit, a top space official said. The Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft was launched with an Indian-built rocket on October 22 from the country’s southeastern coast. “The operation to put Chandrayaan into lunar space went off very …

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Paypal Powered by a mere 4000 Linux Servers!

Paypal Powered by a mere 4000 Linux Servers!

This is yet another Linux success story. PayPal says Linux grid can replace IBM mainframes: PayPal is currently processing $1,571 worth of transactions per second ( that is $2,262,240 per day) in 17 different currencies on about 4,000 servers running Red Hat Linux. Thompson supervises a payment system that operates on about 4,000 servers running …

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IRON :CHROMIUM without leaks – Fatherland's Answer to the CHROME's Privacy concerns..

IRON :CHROMIUM without leaks – Fatherland's Answer to the CHROME's Privacy concerns..

well, Sorry guys it has almost become a fetish for me to follow and write about Chrome and If you had followed my blog or any technology post for that matter , a hailstorm is averted coz’ of Google License and rights use. And as you probably know by now, The Bundesrepublik Deutschland was really worried about the Data Collection …

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College Students Develop "Rocket Motors" In Tamil Nadu

College Students Develop "Rocket Motors" In Tamil Nadu

Applause  Well, Its not really a rocket motor , but a motor used onboard rockets,  And its by a team composing of faculty and students of VIT and AU.  Appreciation and Critical Point Yes its an achievement for the stdent folk and needs to be appreciated, but I’ll certainly say the staff of the universites …

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College Students Develop "Rocket Motors" In Tamil Nadu

College Students Develop "Rocket Motors" In Tamil Nadu

Applause  Well, Its not really a rocket motor , but a motor used onboard rockets,  And its by a team composing of faculty and students of VIT and AU.  Appreciation and Critical Point Yes its an achievement for the stdent folk and needs to be appreciated, but I’ll certainly say the staff of the universites …

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