Latest World News Update ENGLISH http://www.currentglobalnews.com admin@currentglobalnews.com 2007 Intel Developer Forum Taipei, held at Taipei International Convention Center, started at October 15-16. With the great technology trends of wireless networking, this time, Intel Global led Navin Shenoy, Anand Chandrasekher, Shmuel Eden, and Gadi Singer talked about the WiMax, productive quantity...2007-10-16http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2447 NASA is beginning the final preparations for next Wednesdays launch of the Dawn probe, aboard a Delta II rocket. The Dawn probe, costing over $250 million, will visit the dwarf planet Ceres and the asteroid Vesta. The launch was originally planned for mid-June, however due to a damaged crate, shipping...2007-09-19http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2379 A Proton rocket which was intended to launch the JCSAT-11 satellite into a geostationary transfer orbit lifted off and successfully completed its first stage burn, but the second stage failed leading to loss of the rocket and satellite. The launch vehicle was a Proton M booster with a Breeze M upper...2007-09-05http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2333 Announced early Wednesday morning at Nokias GoEvent, in a plan to expand the companies revenue, Finland-based company Nokia Inc. is developing a mobile phone similar to its rival iPhone, which will be available in the near future for Nokia customers. The phone is expected to be available by 2008. ...2007-08-30http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2308 George Hotz, 17, confirmed on Friday that he has cracked the lock that joins the Apple iPhone to ATandampTs wireless network and was using it on T-Mobiles network—the only other major U.S. carrier compatible with iPhone technology. This crack opens up the phone, which is only being sold in the U.S.,...2007-08-24http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2277 Nokia, the Finnish telecommunications firm has issued a warning that 46 million BL-5C batteries on popular phones it sold from December 2005 to November 2006 could be faulty and overheat. After recording approximately 100 incidents, the Finnish firm said on Tuesday the problems could affect 46 million...2007-08-14http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2251 The largest extrasolar planet or exoplanet has been discovered orbiting the star GSC 02620-00648, around 1,435 light years away. The planet, named TrES-4, after the Transatlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES) is 1.7 times the size of the planet Jupiter. TrES-4 also has a lower mass than Jupiter and an extremely...2007-08-07http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2232 CNN today announced that it would be discontinuing its Pipeline service, which allowed news from the channel to be viewed online. According to the announcement, the service would be offered at no charge to online viewers beginning July 2nd. The service is currently closed, and is under construction...2007-06-28http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=2013 The Space Shuttle Atlantis has performed a successful landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California, completing STS-117, a troubled but successful mission to upgrade the International Space Station (ISS). The mission had a total duration of 13 days, 20 hours and 11 minutes, much longer than originally...2007-06-22http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=1989 The planned landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis earlier today has been postponed due to poor weather conditions in the vicinity of the landing strip at the Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle is currently on STS-117, a mission to the International Space Station. According to NASA, there were showers...2007-06-21http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=1980 NASA said yesterday that four lanes (processing channels) out of six on the two navigational and support computers that had crashed earlier in the week on the International Space Station (ISS) were now operational and may be put back online today. The two computers, the Russian Central Computer and...2007-06-16http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=1937 NASA has said that at least four out of the six main computers on the International Space Station (ISS) are now operational, after all six computers failed earlier in the week. I think we’re in good shape. We feel like the computers are stable and back to normal. We still have a lot of options to...2007-06-16http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=1936 Scientists in China have unearthed the fossilized remains of a bird like dinosaur in the Erlian Basin that was as big as the Tyrannosaurus Rex. The measurements put the fossil, now named Gigantoraptor elrianensis, at 16 feet tall and 26 feet (8 meters) long, weighing in at an estimated over 3,000...2007-06-14http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=1921 NASA has reported that a sensor aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis recorded a force of 1G on the shuttles left wing. This could have been a small impact caused by a meteorite or space junk, or a sensor glitch. The anomaly was recorded on reinforced carbon panels 7 and 8 and reported during a mission...2007-06-12http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=1903 Do you own a cat? Do you ever wonder what its up to when you are not around? Well German-American Jürgen Perthold, an inventor, has created the cat cam. I wanted to find out what he gets up to, where he spends his days. He goes out the whole day, sometimes he returns hungry sometimes not, sometimes...2007-06-10http://www.currentglobalnews.com/NewsDetails.php?id=1889