New telescope GLAST is put into orbit

In Florida from the cosmodrome on cape Canaveral the carrier rocket Delta II on which board there is new telescope GLAST for studying of the big areas of space by means of gamma radiation on June, 11th started.

Start Delta II to an orbit of the Earth has been carried out at 19:05 on Kiev time. It is expected, that the telescope will study in an orbit within ten years.

Telescope GLAST will rotate round the Earth in an orbit which height will make 565 kilometres. Telescope problems include studying of sources of gamma radiation in
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Geoquake has manufactured an unusual autosimulator

Company Geoquake has manufactured an unusual simulator. With its help the virtual car or a motorcycle can be operated from height of the bird’s flight. And the landscape used in game is borrowed from Google Maps Flash API, writes Onliner.

While developers did not attend to thorough processing of a plot: for example, the car is permitted to pass through buildings, however in following versions Geoquake has promised to add realness.

Fleshki for serferov and snoubordistov

Company Burton, the known manufacturer of clothes and equipment for snowboarding, has expanded the and without that a considerable stock line a new original accessory - the firm has presented the most usual UsB-fleshku, executed in the form of a tiny colour snowboard. A remarkable marketing course, it is necessary to tell! Systems look will lovely enough and necessarily please to all fans of this kind of sports. The novelty in capacity 2 Gb can be acquired already now in Internet shop Circuitcity.com at the price of $19.99 or $29.99 depe
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"DiaWest — Komp’yuterniy світ" has summed up work for first five months

At today’s press conference, the company «DiaWest — Komp’yuterniy світ», has summed up activity of first five months 2008, and also has informed plans for the near future.

Production:

The company has expanded the division of assemblage to 900 sq.m. Thanks to it assembly capacities also have grown in more than one and a half time. Already now capacities of the company allow to collect to 15000 pieces of computers in a quarter (earlier 10000).

Sales:

For fir
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Motorola H560 and H620 - new Bluetooth-sets

Company Motorola has presented 2 new accessories — wireless sets, writes site Onliner.

Model Н560 is intended for daily use while Н620 it is focused on drivers and use is direct in the car.

Both sets should supply a qualitative sound thanks to technologies of suppression of an echo and surrounding noise. Their design is developed in corporate style Motorola TrueComfort. In carrying replaceable ear nozzles of the various sizes should supply additional convenience.

Besides, in both models automatic v
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New stylish external disks from Toshiba

On company Toshiba web site there was one more new device — portable USB 2.0 external hard disk. New models are delivered in three colour scores — Gecko Green, Hot Rod Red and Carbon Grey, with capacity 160 GB, 250 GB and 320 GB, transmits Onliner.

For maintenance of safety of storage of the information the portable USB-carrier is delivered with special software NTI Shadow which performs the work automatically at system connection. The given program will work «in a background» and will not stir in any way to your work.<
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Characteristics ThinkPad R400, R500 "have emerged"

There were specifications of two future laptops of production Lenovo, according to site Notebook Italia. Both novelties become the first step to transition to platform Intel Centrino 2 and samenyat present ThinkPad R61. Each of leptopov will be equipped with processor Core 2 Duo or Celeron M, parent payment PM45, GM45 or GL45, to 4 Gb operative memory DDR3 and a hard disk on 320 Gb with speed of rotation of 5,400 rpm or HDD in capacity 200 Gb with frequency of 7,200 rpm. The wireless communication is presented by standards Bluetooth, WiMAX 8
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Xerox has manufactured hardening gelevyie ink for the industrial printing equipment of new generation

During exhibition Drupa company Xerox has demonstrated unique technology hardening gelevyih the ink printing on such non-standard materials, as metal, plastic and a foil.

The new technology changes the status of manufacturers of digital printers in the field of packing polygraphy: does their competitive and allows to manufacture more production on the market which is evaluated in 400 billion dollars.

«Today’s digital printing systems, unlike offset printing machines, are applicable in many areas. Possibility to print on any
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Congressmen declared attempts of breaking of the office computers

The American congressmen-republicans declared attempts of breaking of the office computers by the Chinese hackers, reports Associated Press.

According to members of House of Representatives Frenk Vulf (Frank Wolf) from the State of Virginia and Chris Smith (Chris Smith) from the State of New Jersey, these incidents occurred in 2006 and in the beginning of 2007. In general six computers in which data about political dissidents worldwide were stored have undergone to attacks of hackers, the Tape writes.

Vulf and Smith which are ol
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Energizer has begun quantity production of batteries of format AAAA

Company Energizer has begun quantity production of batteries of format AAAA. These batteries on 43 % it is less on dimensions, on 40 % — on volume and on 20 % — on weight, than AAA.

AAAA-ACCUMULATORS are intended for use in the portable engineering: Bluetooth-sets, electronic pointers, universal control panels, flash-players. Already now by some manufacturers samples of models with support of format AAAA are presented. For example, wireless set Jabra BT2040.

Unlike Li-Ion accumulators, AAAA batteries will cost muc
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