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Amazing Hubble Photos, Telescope's Final Tune-Up
May 21, 2009NASA's space shuttle Atlantis launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on May 11, 2009, for the last manned mission to improve and repair the Hubble Space Telescope. The seven-member crew, slated to return to Earth on Friday, successfully completed...
BlackBerry Pearl Flip is now available on Alltel.com
May 17, 2009The BlackBerry Pearl Flip is now available on Alltel. The phone is available to Alltel’s 2.2 million customers in 91 markets that it services. Alltel subscribers who are looking for the BlackBerry Pearl Flip will be happy to hear that the BlackBerry...
AT&T's take over of Alltel affects 1.5 million customers
May 17, 2009On May 8, AT&T has purchased Verizon Wireless assets for $2.35 billion in cash. The AT&T purchase will affect 1.5 million Alltel customers (Verizon purchased Alltel earlier this year) in 79 service areas across 18 states in the United States....
Craigslist to Discontinue ‘Erotic’ Ads
May 14, 2009Craigslist, the Web’s largest classified advertising site, said it would close its erotic services category, which critics have said is a forum that fosters prostitution and other illegal activities. To replace it, the company has created a category...
Moldova with highest rates of software piracy in the world
May 13, 2009Moldova continues to be among the countries with the highest rates of software piracy for PCs, according to a Business Software Alliance study. Seven countries of 110, analyzed in the study, have a piracy rate equal or even higher than 90%: Georgia...
Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-125 Astronauts En Route to Hubble
May 11, 2009Space shuttle Atlantis lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Monday, rising on twin columns of fire to embark on STS-125, the final shuttle mission to service NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Liftoff was right on time at 2:01 p.m. EDT...
Crane reintroduction effort struggles
May 02, 2009Scientists are considering how best to reintroduce whooping cranes to the eastern United States, experts say.The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Saturday that a $10 million-plus effort to reintroduce the birds was dealt a blow recently when all but...
Scottish anglers urged to free salmon
May 02, 2009Scottish anglers are being urged to release all the salmon they catch during this year's spring run.The Association of Salmon Fishery Boards said Friday that numbers of salmon dropped this year after four years of small increases, The Scotsman reported...
Lithium in drinking water may boost mood
May 01, 2009Japanese researchers say low levels of lithium found naturally in some water systems may help prevent suicides.A study at Oita University in Japan, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, found natural lithium levels ranging from 0.7 micrograms...
- May 01, 2009
A study funded by a German health food company suggests Chinese white tea may fight obesity by reducing fat cells.The study by Beiersdorf AG, published in the journal Nutrition and Metabolism, said extracts of white tea reduced fat levels on laboratory...