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Sensing technology developed by Raytheon for the U.S. Navy's miniaturized radio frequency system has begun its one-year mission to determine whether the polar regions of the moon contain ice. Launched aboard NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter June 18 and activated July 8, the system, known as Mini-RF, will take high-resolution radar imagery of permanently shaded regions of the moon to ... read more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Jul 28, 2009This image - from the German TerraSAR-X radar satellite - shows the city of Kiel and the Kiel Fjord, an approximately 17-km long fjord or firth of the Baltic Sea on the northeastern shore of Schleswig-Holstein. The ships that were in this area at the time the image was captured are each marked with a circle. The high resolution of TerraSAR-X images makes them ideally suitable for the rapid ... more
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Apple blocking Dalai Lama, Kadeer, iPhone apps: report
US telecom company fined for bribing Chinese officials Apple blocking Dalai Lama iPhone applications: report Detroit flight plot may prove boon for security firms AT&T wants out of landline business Apple wins iPod hearing loss lawsuit Nuance buys British voice-to-text company SpinVox Facebook, Twitter to face more sophisticated attacks: McAfee Google plans Android event in January Hacker pleads guilty in huge credit card theft case 
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New Delhi (UPI) Jul 28, 2009 When the deputy chief of the Indian army recently promised the Indian public and private sectors a "level playing field" in purchases of military hardware he wasn't talking about electric golf carts to take elderly golfers around hilly golf courses. The carts, which cost about $243,000, were allegedly bought with money designated for electric wheelchairs in military hospitals and on ... more  
Baghdad (UPI) Jul 28, 2009 As U.S. forces move toward for a gradual withdrawal from Iraq, U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was in Baghdad Tuesday to discuss pressing security issues with government leaders, including the possible purchase of Lockheed Martin F-16 combat aircraft. That's a highly sensitive issue. The Americans want to build up Iraq's military forces to take over their own security but ... more  
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jul 27, 2009 The failure of an upgraded Arrow 2 missile interceptor in a test off the Californian coast was seen as a serious setback for Israel's main defense system at a time when Iran is accelerating its long-range ballistic missile program. The Arrow test scheduled for July 22 was aborted on three occasions because of technical malfunctions, including communications glitches between the missile ... more |
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Phuket, Thailand (AFP) July 21, 2009The signing by the United States this week of a friendship pact with Southeast Asia sends a strong signal of its desire to deepen ties and counter China's increasing influence, diplomats said. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will ink the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation on Wednesday in the Thai resort of Phuket during a meeting with her counterparts from the Association of Southeast ... more  
London, UK (SPX) Jul 22, 2009A new study published this week takes scientists a step further in their quest to understand how Antarctica's vast glaciers will contribute to future sea-level rise. Reporting in the journal Nature Geoscience, scientists from British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and University of Durham describe how a new 3-d map created from radar measurements reveals features in the landscape beneath a vast river of ... more 
Tel Aviv, Israel (UPI) Jul 20, 2009 The Israeli air force is training a new battalion of air-defense troops to man the first batteries of the Iron Dome system designed to shoot down short-range rockets, which is scheduled for deployment in the southern Negev Desert in May 2010. The first units will be arrayed to counter Qassam and Grad rockets fired from the Gaza Strip by Hamas, which controls the coastal territory ... more |
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