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Pandora founder Tim Westergren said he hopes Pandora will remain profitable in 2010 after posting its first profit in the fourth quarter of 2009. In an online world saturated by struggling streaming music services, Internet radio site Pandora appears to be making all the right moves. Last year, the 10-year old company recorded its first [...]
A growing number of software companies are capitalizing on an unexpected business opportunity: Internet censorship. In countries where governments continue to ramp up Web filtering systems, more people are searching for tools that will allow them to access inaccessible information — and they are willing to pay for them. Such tools include virtual private networks [...]
Ahead of today’s apology from Tiger Woods, some people speculated that the event would break the Web’s record for most people watching a live video stream at the same time. Obama’s inauguration in January 2009 set that record, with 7.7 million simultaneous video streams across the Internet as a whole, according to Akamai Technologies Inc. [...]
Pennsylvania parents are suing their son’s school, alleging it watched him through his laptop’s webcam while he was at home and unaware he was being observed. Michael and Holly Robbins of Penn Valley are suing the Lower Merion School District, its board of directors and the superintendent. The parents allege the district unlawfully used its [...]
You’ve probably had moments watching science fiction films when you thought, “Naw, that couldn’t happen.” And it’s true – sci-fi movies often contain elements that don’t conform to the laws of physics. But modern science can say a lot about the plausibility of such things as stopping an asteroid from destroying the planet, and these [...]
An artist’s illustration of the WISE orbiting spacecraft, which will snap millions of pictures of asteroids, comets and galaxies NASA launched a new telescope into space on Monday to scan the cosmos for undiscovered objects, including asteroids and comets that might threaten Earth. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, spacecraft will employ an infrared [...]
NASA’s latest unmanned missions to the moon have scientists rethinking their concepts of Earth’s closest neighbor. Forget almost everything you ever thought you knew about the moon.NASA’s latest missions indicate the moon is much more than a dead, unchanging satellite orbiting Earth. It’s a dynamic environment, with changes occurring by the day and week, not [...]
Hubble’s discovery indicates galaxies formed millions of years earlier than astronomers previously thought. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has reached back 13.2 billion years — farther than ever before in time and space — to reveal a “primordial population” of galaxies never seen before.”The deeper Hubble looks into space, the farther back in time it looks, [...]
India is launching a series of rockets to study the impact of Friday’s solar eclipse, a rare occurrence that will briefly reduce the sun to a blazing ring. The Indian Space Research Organization has already sent up three rockets, and at least five others are scheduled for launch during the eclipse, its spokesman, S. Satish, [...]
NASA has launched an investigation after a small of amount of cocaine was found at Kennedy Space Center in Florida NASA says it has launched an investigation after finding cocaine in a processing hangar for a space shuttle at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A small amount of cocaine was found in a restricted area [...]