Thunderbird 1.0 vs. Outlook Express

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created Dec 08, 2004 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Thunderbird 1.0 is Mozilla’s next generation e-mail client. Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster, and easier than ever before with the industry’s best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, saved ...


Identifying Top Quality CD and DVD Media for Archiving

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created Dec 08, 2004 | popularity 2.1 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Will your medical or bank records stored on CD or DVD still be retrievable 10 or 20 years from now? The answer depends on how well this type of media are cared for and on specific manufacturing processes used, according to ...


Vest-pocket beamer

Vest-pocket beamer

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created Dec 08, 2004 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The vest-pocket projector could soon become reality. It is based on a tilting micromirror that builds up the picture line by line. The designers of a laboratory prototype have managed to raise its operating ...


Fastest glacier in Greenland doubles speed

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created Dec 08, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The world's fastest glacier, Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae, doubled its speed between 1997 and 2003. The rapid movement of ice from land into the sea provides key evidence of newly discovered relationships between ice sheets, se ...


JVC Develops Eco-friendly DVD Disk

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created Dec 08, 2004 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

According to JCN Network, Victor Company of Japan (JVC) has developed an eco-friendly DVD disk made from corn starch-based polylactide. The disk incorporates polyactide-based transparent plastic for optical disk use, wh ...


Los Alamos quantum cryptography team is co-winner of prestigious European research prize

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created Dec 08, 2004 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Los Alamos researchers and other members of a multi-nation collaboration that is developing a revolutionary technology for information security have captured half of the European Union's Descartes Prize for Research. Los Ala ...


Study: Ocean tides once spread massive icebergs

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created Dec 08, 2004 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Connection between changes in ocean circulation and future climate remains a matter of great interest Labrador Sea ocean tides dislodged huge Arctic icebergs thousands of years ago, carrying gigantic ice-rafted debris acr ...


optiPoint 420

New IP Phones from Siemens for Communication over IP

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created Dec 08, 2004 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

With optiPoint 420, the Siemens Communications Group has launched a new telephone family for the business customer segment. The optiPoint 420 series comprises IP phones that offer users major new advantages ...


Control circuit for future supercomputer to be produced in Finland

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created Dec 08, 2004 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The circuit will improve the computational accuracy and efficiency of quantum computers operating at extremely low temperatures. Quantum computers require an ambient temperature of approximately -273 degrees centigrade to ...


IBM Sells PC Group To Lenovo

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Lenovo Group Limited, the leading Personal Computer brand in China and across Asia, and IBM today announced a definitive agreement under which Lenovo will acquire IBM's Personal Computing Division to form the world's thi ...


Cars will become personalised communication devices

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When Bart Watson leaves home to go on a business trip, his personal communication services will accompany him. The e-mails he studied on his PC at home will also be available on the terminal in his car, where they are read ...


Young salutes the American flag next to the lunar module Orion during the Apollo 16 mission in 1972

NASA's Top Astronaut John Young to Retire

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created Dec 08, 2004 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

by Amiko Nevills After four decades and half a dozen space flights - including a moonwalk and the first Shuttle mission -veteran NASA astronaut John Young is hanging up his flight suit. So, how did this am ...


Toshiba and Memory-Tech Develop Dual Format DVD

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Memory-Tech Corporation and Toshiba Corporation today announced that they have jointly developed a dual-layer ROM (read-only) disc that can store content in both the HD DVD and DVD formats. The newly developed ROM disc has a single-sided, dual- ...


Can science lead to justice?

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Science and the English legal system are fundamentally incompatible, Chris Pamplin, editor of the UK Register of Expert Witnesses, writes in Chemistry & Industry magazine. ‘The courts want certainty; science cannot provide it, ...


Dark fiber

Dark Fiber Technology Creates Faster Networking

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The quality of real-time video events such as interactive music master classes will improve at Columbia University as a result of a new, high-speed network known as the New York City Dark Fiber Network. This ...




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