Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of seven astronauts are in orbit after an on-time launch at 6:03 p.m. EDT on Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The lift-off had been delayed by more than a month due to bad weather and technical difficulties. It was NASA’s sixth attempt...

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the business and partner model for Azure, the new cloud computing platform from the software giant. The Azure Services Platform (ASP) includes a cloud services operating system, a Web-based relational database in Microsoft SQL Azure, and connectivity and interoperability...

Microsoft has released Silverlight 3, the latest version of its Silverlight technology. Silverlight is a cross-browser, cross-platform (Mac OS, Windows and Linux) and cross-device browser plug-in that helps companies design, develop and deliver applications and experiences on the Web. Installed as a...

Google’s popular email service Gmail is finally out of Beta! Gmail Product Director Keith Coleman announced it on a blog post on Tuesday. Well, it is not just Gmail, the ‘Beta’ tag has been removed from all Google Apps — Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Talk. Others said...

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has sent its first images of the lunar surface back to Earth. On Thursday, NASA released the first image of LRO which reveals the Mare Nubium or the Sea of Clouds region of Moon. The spacecraft’s two cameras, collectively known as the Lunar Reconnaissance...

A team of astronomers have discovered a new category of black hole. Named as HLX-1, this new black hole is neither massive nor compact and lightweight. So, it is a medium-sized or intermediate black hole. Before it’s discovery, there was no solid evidence about the existence of intermediate mass...

Firefox 3.5  is finally here! Firefox 3.5 is the best performing browser Mozilla has ever released and delivers radically improved JavaScript performance, a new Private Browsing mode, native support for open video and audio, and Location Aware Browsing. If you are a fan of Firefox, you must download...