Thursday, February 9th, 2012 3:15 am

Cameron set to give Mars rover 3D eyes

San Diego (ip-192.com): Acclaimed director James Cameron will help NASA to develop 3D cameras for the next mission to Mars. NASA originally planned to make cameras capable of 3D imaging part of its 2007 mars missions. However, budgetary concerns prompted the space agency to delay the plans. NASA now announced that Cameron, the director of [...]

In the clouds: Ubuntu 10.04 released

London (ip-192.com): Lucid Lynx, the next generation of Ubuntu’s Linux distribution, has been released. Ubuntu 10.04, available in desktop, server, and netbook editions, features a number of new tools geared towards social network integration. Gwibber, an open source micro-blogging client for Linux, is integrated in Ubuntu's new LTS (Long Term Support) release. Gwibber provides a [...]

Call connected: HP buys Palm

Palo Alto (ip-192.com): Hewlett-Packard (HP) will buy Palm Inc. for $1.2 billion. The company (ip-192.com reported here and here) was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins and has already been through several acquisitions. U.S. Robotics acquired Palm Inc. in 1995. After the 3Com takeover in June 1997, Palm became a subsidiary. Palm Inc. became an [...]

New Messenger: Focus on social networks

Redmond (ip-192.com): Microsoft just released some details on the newest version of Windows Live Messenger, an instant messaging client designed to work with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Mobile. Tighter integration with social networks and better video quality are the main improvements of the new version that will be available as a [...]