Earth attacks the moon tomorrow, bent on plundering that most precious of resources: water.
"Things are looking great. We're headed right for the target," says
Daniel Andrews of NASA's Ames Research Center, head of the $79 million
Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) mission. "The
very latest data suggest we are headed for one of the very wettest
spots on the moon."
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While AT&T doesn't let iPhone customers sign up for data-only
plans, customers could downshift from an unlimited voice-minute plan to
the lowest tier of minutes. Then they could use Internet services for
free or very cheap calls, taking advantage of the unlimited nature of
AT&T's data plans.
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Coming in time for Christmas is a wireless, handheld TV that's just
a TV, and it will have its own dedicated network to ensure
everything runs smoothly. Plans call for DVR functionality down the
road.
The new FLO TV Personal Television, or PTV, is from FLO TV, the
live mobile TV service from Qualcomm that is used for AT&T
Mobile Television and Verizon's V-Cast.
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Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, said in an afternoon news conference that the most common
misperceptions are that this flu should ever be called a “mild
disease,” that the vaccine is untested and that it has arrived too late.
Flu is widespread across the country and some hospitals are getting so many emergency room visits that they have set up triage
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General Petraeus, 56, who as head of the United States Central Command
oversees operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, underwent two months of
radiation treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, which had
“minimal impact on his work schedule,” according to the statement.
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Windows Mobile 6.5, which had its public debut in February, attempts to
catch up with those competitors. It includes an updated Internet
Explorer browser that can present full-sized pages with their looks and
functions intact, a simpler program-management screen, a My Phone
online-backup service, and -- perhaps most important in the long term
-- Windows Marketplace for Mobile, intended to match Apple's App Store,
Google's Android Market and Palm's App Catalog in providing simple
browsing and installation of add-on software.
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webOS 1.2 is now available for download. This comes on the heels of a slew of leaks and, of course, an iTunes update that broke the Pre's ability to sync with Apple's
software. The bad news is: webOS 1.2 does not fire a volley back in the
neverending tit-and-tat between Palm and Apple regarding iTunes
syncing. If you have iTunes 9.01, upgrading to webOS 1.2 will not let
you sync with your Pre.
The good news is: webOS 1.2 is full
of lots of other goodies. You can buy Amazon MP3 songs over a phone
network (not just Wi-Fi), the
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Our exclusive, pre-release testing of CNN’s new iPhone app revealed
it to be a solid, slick application that will be worth the one-time $2
fee for some news hounds, with no subscription payments to keep up
with. While more expensive than the free mobile web version of CNN.com
and other free alternatives, CNN’s app proves its worth by taking
advantage of a wide range of the iPhone’s latest capabilities to offer
features you can’t get elsewhere.
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A common refrain when I post about Windows security vulnerabilities like Conficker is "Get a Mac!" thanks to their long history of being comparatively secure next to Windows PCs.
Those days may be about to change. Already this year a handful of exploits that target the Mac platform have begun to trickle out. Now comes news that one of those attacks which infect MacOS computers exclusively continues to spread and has been at least moderately successful in forming a botnet, a network of computers that come under the control of a remote attacker, usually with the goal of creating a coordinated attack on other machines (or, for example, sending spam en masse).
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The new and streamlined user interface features of Windows 7 are
well-documented at this point. A cleaned-up taskbar, the sleek Aero
Peek GUI, mouse-hover Jump Lists and multi-touch capability have
generated interest from users whose Windows desktops have been
cluttered for too long.
Quicker, easier, more organized. Those were the buzzwords about Windows 7 features that Parri Munsell, Microsoft's Director of
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