Good news for AT&T customers. The Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) is finally coming to iPhone. In an official press release AT&T announced that MMS facility will be available to US iPhone 3G and 3GS customers on September 25th. The good news from AT&T came after a report that Apple could release iPhone OS 3.1 next week.
So, finally AT&T customers will be able to use their iPhones (3G and 3GS) to send and receive audio, video and pictures. But why it took AT&T so long to embrace …

The Arctic is warmer than ever. In fact it is now warmer than it’s been in the past 2000 years. This increase in Arctic temperature is reversing a long-term natural cooling cycle caused by a characteristic wobble in Earth’s orbit, an international team of researchers reported on Thursday in the journal Science.

How it happened? Thanks to Carbon dioxide and other gases generated by human activities on Earth. The Climate-warming greenhouse gas emissions disturbed a 21,000-year cycle linked to gradual changes …

Yesterday NASA spotted a piece of space junk moving towards the orbiting space shuttle Discovery and International Space Station (ISS) complex.  It is however, unlikely that the debris could come too close to the combined spacecraft. The space junk, part of a 3-year-old Ariane 5 rocket, could pass within two miles (3.2 km) of the orbiting space complex tomorrow. NASA Mission control is keeping eye on the debris and said that it would not delay the upcoming spacewalk tonight.
The news did not affect the work of …

Google on Tuesday announced that Sony will supply the Google Chrome browser with it’s new Sony Vaio laptops. This is the first OEM deal that Google has signed with a PC maker and it is hoped that it will help in improving Chrome’s market share. Right now the Sony VAIOs will carry Chrome browser only in the U.S.
“Users’ response to Google Chrome has been outstanding, and we’re continuing to explore ways to make Chrome accessible to even more people,” Google said in a statement….

Space shuttle Discovery reached Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday afternoon following a slow drive on the top of the crawler-transporter from the Vehicle Assembly Building.

The 3.4-mile rollout began at 2:07 a.m. and ended with the launch platform secured in place at about 1:50 p.m. The move took longer than expected because of weather conditions, including lightning. The crawler also had to pause occasionally so mud could be removed from its treads and bearings. Technicians will quickly ready the shuttle to host the crew’s …

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

The 16-day long mission (STS-127) of Endeavour will feature five spacewalks and complete construction of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Kibo laboratory. Astronauts …

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 New Orleans and confirmed that it will become commercially available by the end of the year.

The ASP is an internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft …

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 comes with lots of new features such as out of browser support, Smooth Streaming, 3D support, GPU acceleration and H.264 video support.

Silverlight 3 offers a new …