June 2012
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Google reveals its top 10 SEO tips
via STARTUP SMART It takes a lot to match Apple when it comes to high-profile tech unveilings, but Google made a good fist of it this week.   The search engine giant unveiled its surge into the hardware market with its first tablet, the Nexus 7 and Google Glass, a futuristic-looking device that allows you to view ‘augmented reality’ through a pair of glasses. Read more on the tips: Google...
Jun 29th
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Voyager 1's Encounter with Saturn
The gravitational assist trajectories at Jupiter were successfully carried out by both “Voyagers,” and the two spacecraft went on to visit Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter, and its system of moons and rings. Voyager 1’s Saturnian flyby occurred in November 1980, with the closest approach on November 12, 1980, when the space...
Jun 29th
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Test your satellite communications knowledge
The start of a new year is a great time to test your memory and see what you may have forgotten over the past year. Do you know what a Teleport is, how a VSAT works, which industries a mobile vehicle satellite system is ideal for and what a Network Operations Centre provides customers? Watch the videos and test your knowledge.
Jun 28th
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SEO Methods: What is Affiliate Marketing
If you’re planning on earning money through the Internet, and yet you don’t have the resources to go big like some deal sites and online shopping portals, then you can always start small through what we call, affiliate marketing. Basically, affiliate marketing is a marketing practice where websites drive traffic to other websites. In layman’s term, affiliate marketing is when a smaller website...
Jun 28th
Mining the moon could reap riches, spur space...
resourceinventory: via MOTHER NATURE NETWORK Mining the plentiful resources of the moon and near-Earth asteroids could alter the course of human history, adding trillions of dollars to the world economy and spurring our species’ spread out into the solar system, a new breed of space enterpreneur says. Continue reading
Jun 27th
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Smartphones and laptops: New ways to pair them
via ARN AUSTRALIA Each new gadget brings speculation about what older device it will replace—full-featured laptops supplant desktops, while ever-smarter phones relieve you from carrying a laptop on occasion. But don’t overlook the partnerships that can result. Read more about how you can connect your smart devices
Jun 27th
Up In The Air: 'Voyager 1' Mission Background:... →
sattechno: These are the scientific instruments used by “Voyager 1:” Imaging Science System (ISS) (disabled) which utilized a two-camera system (narrow-angle/wide-angle) to provide imagery of Jupiter, Saturn and other objects along the trajectory. Radio Science System (RSS) (disabled) which…
Jun 26th
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Lower Prices for 4G-LTE iPhone Calls?
via TP: TECHNICALLY PERSONAL The 4G-LTE mania is still alive despite Apple’s silence on the release date of its first 4G-LTE iPhone line (insiders have conflicting statements, some citing the line as iPhone 5, others calling it iPhone 4S, a revamp of the current iPhone 4). The on-going controversies on LightSquared’s nationwide satellite-terrestrial 4G-LTE network will not prevent Apple from...
Jun 26th
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The advantages of wireless communications →
Plainly speaking, wireless communication is a transfer of information without any physical connection between two or more points. Because of this absence of any “physical infrastructure”, wireless communication has certain advantages. 
Jun 26th
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Microsoft buys internet startup Yammer
via SYDNEY MORNING HERALD Microsoft is paying $US1.2 billion ($A1.2 billion) to buy Yammer, an internet startup that has built a social network similar to Facebook for the business world. Read on about the acquisition 
Jun 26th
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Review of the Sony Bravia KDL-60LX903
The Good: When it comes to television, beauty and brains have to come together. In other words, fashion should never be over function and delivering must never be at the cost of style. A good example of this balancing of the aesthetic with the functional is the Sony Bravia KDL-60LX903. With a 60-inch panel in clean cut form, the Bravia KDL-60LX903 is currently Sony’s flagship TV. It’s big, it’s...
Jun 25th
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'Voyager 1' Mission Profile: Launch and Trajectory
The “Voyager 1” probe was launched on September 5, 1977, from “Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41” (SLC-41), previously launch Complex 41 (LC-41), an active launch site at the north end of Cape Canaveral, Florida at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), an installation of the United States Air Force Space Command’s 45th Space Wing, headquartered at nearby Patrick Air...
Jun 25th
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Jun 24th
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Google out to save dying languages
via NEWS.COM.AU GOOGLE has set out to save the world’s dying languages. In an alliance with scholars and linguists, the internet powerhouse on Wednesday introduced an Endangered Languages Project website where people can find, share, and store information about dialects in danger of disappearing. Continue reading
Jun 22nd
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Voyager 1: First Man-Made Object Outside the Solar...
The “Voyager 1” spacecraft is a 722 kilogram (kg; also known as kilo, the base unit of mass in the International System of Units and is defined as being equal to the mass of the “International Prototype Kilogram” (“IPK”), which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water)—1,592 lbs (pounds/pound-mass, a unit of mass used in the imperial,...
Jun 22nd
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Telecom Inventory: Where Does 'Voyager 1' Get... →
telecominventory: The “Voyager 1” spacecraft is a 722 kilogram (kg; also known as kilo, the base unit of mass in the International System of Units and is defined as being equal to the mass of the “International Prototype Kilogram” (“IPK”), which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water)—1,592…
Jun 22nd
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Read: The Applefication of Microsoft
Check out this feature from the Sydney Morning Herald on how the recent unveiling of Microsoft Surface is showing the “Applefication” of Microsoft. To quote, “Yes, Microsoft is getting into the iPad space; after sitting on the sidelines for years, it has now started running after the fastest-growing sector of the computing market with its Surface.” Read more on this...
Jun 21st
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The Communication System on 'Voyager 1'
The “Voyager 1” spacecraft is a 722 kilogram (kg; also known as kilo, the base unit of mass in the International System of Units and is defined as being equal to the mass of the “International Prototype Kilogram” (“IPK”), which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water)—1,592 lbs (pounds/pound-mass, a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other...
Jun 21st
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Brandon Lee: How was 'Voyager 1' Designed? →
brandonleesatellite: The “Voyager 1” spacecraft is a 722 kilogram (kg; also known as kilo, the base unit of mass in the International System of Units and is defined as being equal to the mass of the “International Prototype Kilogram” (“IPK”), which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water)—1,592…
Jun 21st
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The Golden Record on Voyager 1 (A Mission...
The “Voyager 1” spacecraft is a 722 kilogram (kg; also known as kilo, the base unit of mass in the International System of Units and is defined as being equal to the mass of the “International Prototype Kilogram” (“IPK”), which is almost exactly equal to the mass of one liter of water)—1,592 lbs (pounds/pound-mass, a unit of mass used in the imperial, United States customary and other...
Jun 20th
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Information technology 'revolution' will aid... →
We are on the cusp of a revolution in information technology that will be even larger than the one that’s taken place over the past 40 years. Evidence of this transformation is emerging in what’s known as direct-digital manufacturing, an innovation that could lead to the “desktop” printing of entire products from automobiles to washing machines.
Jun 19th
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Apple’s new laptop heralds ‘Air-izing’ of all...
by Gregg Keizer Apple’s new Retina MacBook Pro is a harbinger of future changes to the company’s laptop line, analysts said on Saturday. Read more on the Apple Retina MacBook Pro
Jun 19th
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NuSTAR Optics
NuSTAR (the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) is a space-based X-ray telescope that will use a Wolter telescope, a telescope for X-rays using only grazing incidence optics. It is to focus high energy X-rays from astrophysical sources; astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with the physics of the universe, including the physical properties of celestial objects, as well as their...
Jun 19th
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Up In The Air: NuSTAR Towards the June 2012 Launch →
sattechno: NuSTAR (the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array) is a space-based X-ray telescope that will use a Wolter telescope, a telescope for X-rays using only grazing incidence optics. It is to focus high energy X-rays from astrophysical sources; astrophysics is the branch of astronomy that deals with…
Jun 19th
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Jun 18th
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The harsh reality of social media
by Mark Jones - CANBERRA TIMES What if Facebook didn’t exist? Or Twitter? Or Google? Go on, try it on. Surely to utter such an idea is internet heresy. The bombshell news is there’s a good chance it will happen to at least one of these companies. Not tomorrow, not next week, or next year. But 5 or 10 years? It’s a pretty good bet. Read more
Jun 18th
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Up In The Air: Defining VSATs →
sattechno: A very-small-aperture terminal (VSAT) is a two-way satellite ground station, a terminal station designed for extraplanetary communication with spacecraft, or reception of radio waves from an astronomical radio source, that has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. It could also be a…
Jun 18th
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Twitter widens window to links in tweets
by THE TELEGRAPH TWITTER added to the array of online content people could preview in messages without having to click on links included in tweets. People who access the one-to-many text messaging service online at twitter.com or mobile.twitter.com were provided more opportunities to “expand tweets” with looks at pictures, videos, news article headlines or other content. Read more
Jun 17th
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Google pays $18.7 million to get domain suffixes →
Google wants love. But so do six other companies. They are after .love, actually, a new “top-level domain” that could catch on as .com, .org and .net did. 
Jun 16th
Jun 15th
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ASX Regulation, Products, Indices, Stocks and the...
The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) was created by the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange in July 2006. It is the primary stock exchange group—a form of exchange which provides services for stock brokers and traders to trade stocks, bonds, and other securities—in Australia. Confidence in the operations of the companies within the Group is...
Jun 14th
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Android Users: Microsoft Debuts a Version of its...
Microsoft has finally presented its version of the My Xbox Live app for the Android platform on Wednesday. This also included an update on the iOS version of the app. With this release, users will be able to manage friends list, edit  and update profiles, even change avatars and of course, send and receive messages. Read more 
Jun 14th
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Jun 14th
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Wind farm noise a concern: engineer
resourceinventory: by Cimara Pearce | WEEKLY TIMES NOW ACOUSTIC engineer Steve Cooper says there is cause for concern about wind farm noise. Existing noise data was not accurate and a multidisciplinary approach to address wind farm concerns was necessary, Mr Cooper told a room of people at a wind farm forum at Bacchus Marsh last night. Continue reading
Jun 14th
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Telecom Inventory: The Australian Securities... →
telecominventory: The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) was created by the merger of the Australian Stock Exchange and the Sydney Futures Exchange in July 2006. It is the primary stock exchange group—a form of exchange which provides services for stock brokers and traders to trade stocks, bonds, and other…
Jun 14th
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Jun 13th
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Facebook: Here’s An SEO Boost For Your Site
by Chris Chrum | Web Pro News Facebook announced some new WordPress integration today. This includes a new plugin called Facebook for WordPress. It comes with “social publishing features” and the following widgets (as listed on Facebook’s developer blog) which have been around for some time: Activity Feed: Shows readers their friends’ activity on the site, such as likes and comments. ...
Jun 13th
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Cumbria residents get satellite broadband
sattechno: by Thomas Newton | RECOMBU Residents of the Duddon Valley in Cumbria threatened with disconnection from the internet will be able to get Tooway satellite broadband from reseller Bentley Walker. The rescue package will see affected residents in the Duddon Valley and Branthwaite able to see install and set-up fees waived (which ranges from £49-£95) while benefitting from download...
Jun 12th
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Apple courts devs for new gadgets →
Apple on Monday will spotlight next-generation software for its coveted gadgets as it kicks off its annual gathering of developers whose applications are vital to the company’s success.
Jun 12th
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Jun 12th
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Wahoo Fitness Blue SC works great with bicycles
review by Edwin for COOLEST GADGETS If you are an avid cyclist, and have chosen a bicycle as your exercise machine of choice, then the Wahoo Fitness Blue SC is just the tonic for you to make your cycling experience all the more memorable. Just what is the Wahoo Fitness Blue SC? For starters, it is a Bluetooth 4.0 bike speed and cadence sensor for the iPhone. Once you have purchased this, there...
Jun 11th
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Nokia plans 3 smartphones
via Business Standard Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is planning to launch three smart phones, including its Pureview model with 41 megapixel sensor camera, in India, this year. The company’s Sriperumbudur facility, near Chennai, which saw an investment of about $500 million so far, would also start manufacturing and marketing its two new models of feature phone series Asha in 2012,...
Jun 11th
Solar Panel Grants & Feed in Tariffs
resourceinventory: Man’s existence has had a profound impact on the environment. Today, there’s a large-scale battle against environmental degradation. Climate change has become a keyphrase in the battle, and many governments and global organizations have sought to curb rising environmental and ecological problems. One of the key components of man’s solution has been to turn toward renewable...
Jun 10th
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Telecom Inventory: The Big Year for CommunicAsia →
telecominventory: The crowds at the CommunicAsia 2009 were treated to a range of new launches. This includes the latest mobile devices from the industry’s market leaders. At the show, LG unveiled its Crystal GD900, the world’s first transparent phone, while Samsung introduced its next era of smartphones in a…
Jun 10th
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Linux comes to Microsoft Azure
Microsoft is previewing several new features of Windows Azure, including the ability to run Linux on Azure virtual machines. One of the promises of cloud computing is the ability to move workloads between in-house servers and a cloud provider’s infrastructure, whether that’s to cope with spikes in demand, or to take advantage of a cloud provider’s economies of scale. A new...
Jun 10th
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Windows smartphones predicted to rival iPhones
The smartphone age is also bringing with it an era of fierce competition. Apple’s iPhone has been a bestseller but Samsung’s Galaxy series in partnership with the Android OS has equally done well. The battle for smartphone supremacy has indeed reached a fever pitch that now Apple wants a ban on Samsung’s Galaxy S3 in US soil. Read more about the new Windows Smartphone
Jun 8th
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Rediscovering IPTV at the BroadcastAsia 2009
A hot topic at the conference this year is IPTV. Although it is not a new idea, it creates a challenge to be reinvented into a more compelling feature. The day-long discussions, chaired by David Wood, Head of Emerging Media at the European Broadcasting Union, talked about the technical issues surrounding IPTV, and business opportunities such as how IPTV can be differentiated from other TV...
Jun 8th
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Signal of Satellite: Panasonic-Playbox on... →
johndiaz2: Long time exhibitor of the show BroadcastAsia 2009, Panasonic, was pleased with the business opportunities made at Broadcast Asia 2009. Panasonic Systems Asia Pacific’s assistant general manager for its Broadcast Regional Operation Centre, Max Khang said, “This year celebrates our 10th year at…
Jun 8th
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