Archive for May, 2008

At Mail.ru launched a new spam filter

Kaspersky Labs and the company Mail.Ru announced the completion of testing and commissioning of a new anti-system. The introduction of new technology, according to the developers, has already resulted in 5 times to reduce the number of responses to the postal service users unwanted correspondence.
At the moment the new […]

Company Dell found guilty of fraud

The Court of New York recognized the Dell company guilty of fraud, deception of consumers, with violations of debt collection and use of advertising, misleading.
As reported by CNN, in 2007, chief prosecutor of New York State Andrew Cuomo on behalf of hundreds of consumers filed a lawsuit against Dell, accusing […]

"Phoenix" on Mars: the link restored, began deployment of the robot arm

According to NASA, began deployment of the robot arm automatic probe "Phoenix". Problems with communication caused by the sudden disconnecting the VHF transmitter at the orbital Machinery Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, removed, commands from Earth passed through another orbiting apparatus - Mars Odyssey.
A fragment of color photo sent to probe […]

ITT launched in St. Petersburg third-generation mobile network

The company Mobile TeleSystems (MTS) announced the launch in St. Petersburg cellular network of third generation (3G).
St. Petersburg became the first Russian city where the operator MTS services offered to 3G. The company MTS noted that the development of third generation mobile networks will significantly improve the quality of […]

Belgian newspapers from Google require nearly 80 million dollars

The Organization for copyright protection Copierpresse requires payment from Google in favor of Belgian newspapers compensation in the amount of nearly 80 million dollars.
Copierpresse represents the interests of newspapers published in Belgium in French and German. In 2006, Copierpresse filed a lawsuit against Google, accusing the company that it […]

Microsoft discusses alternatives partnership with Yahoo

Corporation Microsoft, it seems, are no longer interested in buying Internet company Yahoo. At least, as reported by Agency France Presse, that is precisely what statement was made executive director of Yahoo Jerry Yang during a conference All Things Digital, organized by the Wall Street Journal.
Microsoft has made a […]

Our Galaxy is half proved less massive than previously anticipated

Based on 2500 data speeds of stars in our Galaxy, obtained during the investigation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), members of the National Astronomical Observatory in Beijing calculated that the mass of the Milky Way twice lower than anticipated so far. According to estimates of scientists, the total mass of the galaxy […]

Europe showed the layout of manned spacecraft

The company EADS Astrium, as reported by the Air Force, demonstrated at the International Aerospace Exhibition in Berlin mock manned space vehicle ATV Evolution.
Crew compartment layout ATV Evolution (picture from the site of the Air Force)
The emergence of Europe's own manned apparatus will reduce dependence on Russia […]

IBM opens representative office in Perm

IBM Corporation announced the opening of an office in Perm. Thus, IBM is now represented in 13 cities of Russia - and plans to further expand its presence in the regions. Last year the company opened a representative office in St. Petersburg, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Samara and Novosibirsk.
The market […]

Moscow court suspended the activities of the site "Ingushetia. Ru"

On Monday, 26 May Kuntsevskom Moscow district court held preliminary hearings on the application of the prosecutor republic of Ingushetia on the termination of the site "of Ingushetia. Ru".
The Prosecutor's Office accuses registered in the United States portal Ingushetia. Ru "in the dissemination of extremist materials and fomenting ethnic discord. […]

In Saturday to the ISS will leave the Japanese giant laboratory

Japan is preparing to send to the International Space Station module regular fragment, which are likely to become the largest bloc of ISS science: the second of the three fragments laboratory "Kibo", which would have mounted a size school bus, will leave aboard shuttle Discovery in the next weekend.
U "Kibo" […]

ICQ users complain about problems with service

In the past three or four hours of Internet users complain pager ICQ in all blogs for the next crash, it seems, which is quite serious. In any case, many users complain of inability to connect to ICQ - customers get a message about incorrectly entered password or inaccessibility of the server. […]

Prepared to release the second beta version Internet Explorer 8

Microsoft Corporation in the next quarter plans to release a second beta version of Internet Explorer 8, calculated on the widespread testing. This was reported in the blog network developers MSDN.
In the Microsoft Corporation emphasize that IE8 default mode will work in the most fully compatible with modern web […]

Yesterday: New Photoshop, sadyaschiysya "Phoenix", etc.

The court in Moscow has suspended the service "of Ingushetia. Ru" Activities suspended purely formal, "to ascertain." Editorial Staff, whom authorities accuse Ingushetia in the publication "extremist" materials, has already announced that because the servers are located in the U.S., Russian importance of addressing the court tends to zero, and the site […]

DARPA is sponsoring the development of tiny unmanned vehicles

Defence Research Agency of the U.S. (DARPA) has allocated the company AeroVironment additional funds for the project Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) to develop new unmanned aircraft type.
During the first phase of the programme NAV, pursued by DARPA has allocated 1.7 million dollars, experts AeroVironment completed consideration of the project design […]