The internet has taken a giant leap. An American astronaut, the Expedition 22 flight engineer of International Space Station (ISS), TJ Creamer, sent for the first time a Twitter message from space on Friday, Jan 22, 2010. NASA described it as, The “ultimate wireless”. “Hi Twitterverse!” (pun in English between worlds “universe”, and Twitter), says [...]
Jan
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2010
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Jan
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2010
Internet and Twitter reached space
Direct Internet and Twitter on space :- The crew of the International Space Station obtained direct Internet access for the first time . U.S. astronaut Timothy Creamer for the first time sent a short message on Twitter from the International Space Station (ISS). “Hello Twitterverse!,” “We r now LIVE tweeting from the International Space Station—the [...]
Jan
22
2010
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2010
First tweet live from space @ Astro_TJ
The astronauts of NASA can now live twittering from space. Previously astronaut TJ Creamer was sending messages indirectly through the control room on earth . “Technical Update was given by him twelve days ago when he said ,I hope soon to be twittering from space! “. Creamer was immediately nominated for the awards twitter Shorty. [...]
Jan
22
2010
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2010
Eventually access Internet in Space
Astronauts eventually have internet access in space. According to the website of NASA, “Astronauts on board the International Space Station received a special software upgrade this week – personal access to the Internet and the World Wide Web via the ultimate wireless connection.” This is one giant leap for the Internet. Expedition 22 Flight Engineer [...]
Dec
23
2009
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2009
BT Signed Five Millionth Broadband UK Customers
BT Signed Five Millionth Broadband UK Customers – BT annunciated that it has signed up five millionth broadband UK customers. And, that lucky five millionth customer is a woman named Elizabeth Patterson of East Kilbride situated in Glasgow and on 9 December, she was presented with a trip to Winter Olympics to see people acting [...]
Dec
21
2009
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2009
Vodafone to Offer iPhone in UK from 14 Jan’2010
Vodafone to Offer iPhone in UK from 14 Jan’2010 – It has been stated by Vodafone that it will start selling and offering iPhone in UK from 14 January, 2010. Besides this, Vodafone is amongst the UK’s major phone networks, which will be offering iPhone to customers. For 24 months, the most non expensive tariff [...]
Dec
6
2009
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2009
Social networking power & recursive incentive helped MIT team win Balloon hunt
A team from MIT takes the winning amount of $40,000 for the red balloon contest arranged by DARPA. The contest organized to prize the fastest and strongest network was tagged as DARPA Network Challenge. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized the Network Challenge in which almost 4,000 teams registered to complete the task to correctly [...]
Nov
16
2009
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2009
Egypt starts new trend: introduces non-Latin Arabic Domain name
Following the ICANN’s announcement Egypt would become the world’s first country to introduce an Arabic language internet Domain. Named as “.masr” written in Arabic, the first non-Latin character domain would “offer new avenues for innovation, investment and growth” in the Arabic-speaking world as stated by Egyptian communications minister Tarek Kamet. In October ICANN issued the [...]
Oct
30
2009
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2009
Web Domain name extended from Latin to 100000 characters
World Wide Web or Internet is getting wider. From 16 November doors will be open for countries and territories to apply for extensions in their own native language because ICANN has now voted in favor of the motion. So anytime after the mid of November you will find internet address containing non-Latin characters throughout the [...]
Oct
10
2009
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2009
FCC brings Google Voice under its strict eyes
FCC has finally dealt in the Google’s action of banning calls to rural areas after lawmakers demanded an explanation to this, earlier AT&T has also complained against this out of rule behavior of Google Voice. Federal regulators issued 28th of Oct. as the date when Google should submit information regarding its Google Voice service. The [...]