Scientists on Friday confirmed that NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has uncovered ice in the sandy soil of the red planet. "It is with great pride and a lot of joy that I announce today that we have found proof that this hard bright material is really water ice and not some other substance," said Phoenix...
ITT this week emerged the winner of a lucrative contract with the Federal Aviation Administration to design and build the first component of a new satellite-guided air traffic control system. The $207 million initial contract is for the development and deployment of the Automatic Dependent Surveilla...
Computer Sciences Corp. may find it a challenge to nail both the right buyer and the right price if it ends up on the block. The company has announced it is exploring various alternatives including an outright sale. On Tuesday, CSC said its board of directors "decided to explore strategic alternati...
Mercury Computer Systems and Terra Soft Solutions announced today they have joined forces to deliver an advanced dual-PowerPC 970FX-based High Performance Computing cluster node. The duo announced an alliance to provide the XR9 with its 64-bit Linux OS 'Y-HPC' and cluster management suite Y-Imager, ...
Evidence that the housing market continues to chug along was outweighed by a drop in consumer confidence and led to a sell-off on Wall Street today. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 91.34 points, or 0.9 percent, to 10,151.13. The Nasdaq lost 23.34 points, or 1.2 percent, to finish at 1,927.4
In a dramatic ending that marks a beginning in scientific research, NASA's Genesis spacecraft is set to swing by Earth and jettison a sample return capsule filled with particles of the Sun that might ultimately tell us more about the genesis of our solar system. "The Genesis mission -- to capture a ...
Made official last month by President Bush, the Department of Homeland Security consolidates 22 agencies, employing a total of 170,000 federal employees, under a single virtual roof. The question on many IT executives' minds is: What can my company gain from this reorganization? The department's 200...
Microsoft reported a strong first quarter, with profit nearly doubling and revenues rising as the software giant began to convert customers to a new yearly payment plan. But news of a $2.71 billion profit from the Redmond, Washington, software giant was not enough to power the stock market forward....
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