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 to launch space shuttle Endeavour

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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 with .NET Services. The software giant revealed the details during the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference 2009 in Read more »

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 free browser plug-in, Silverlight enables a new class of rich, safe, secure and scalable cross-platform experiences. Silverlight 3 Read more »

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.

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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 Orbiter Camera, or LROC, were activated on June 30.
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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 black holes
Astronomers, led by astrophysicists at the Centre dEtude Spatiale Read more »

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 it today!
This new version of Firefox browser is based on the Read more »