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• Google Maps adds traffic data from your cell phone

  Created: Tuesday, 25 August 2009 13:44 Author:

  Google Maps adds traffic data from your cell phoneby Tom Krazit Traffic on the Bay Bridge (right, with the exclamation point) was light Tuesday morning in San Francisco, but side streets were backing up, as shown by Google Maps' new traffic feature.Say g...

• FAA's New Rules affect all Pilot Certifications, Training, And Ground Operations

  Created: Saturday, 22 August 2009 21:49 Author:

  FAA's New Rules affect all Pilot Certifications, Training, And Ground OperationsBy Mark A. Gardner August 21, 2009Wide-ranging revisions to 102 regulations concerning training, qualification, certification, and operating requirements for pilots, flight ...

• Sir Richard Branson Cautions President Obama Against BA, AA Agreement

  Created: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 21:12 Author:

  Sir Richard Branson Cautions President Obama Against BA, AA Agreement Sun, 16 Aug '09The Two Airlines Applied To Share Market Data, Fix Schedules One Year Ago Sir Richard Branson, the founder and President of Virgin Atlantic, has written to the President ...

• HUGE JUMP IN WIRELESS NETWORK DEVICES

  Created: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:40 Author:

  (Credit: Meraki)HUGE JUMP IN WIRELESS NETWORK DEVICES August 19, 2009Meraki, a known mesh network provider, released Tuesday its first Wireless Census for North America and the results, though dramatic, seem nothing of a surprise. Basically, there has be...

• Microsoft Plans to get back into the Phone Game.

  Created: Wednesday, 19 August 2009 20:17 Author:

  Microsoft Plans to get back into the Phone Game.  August 19, 2009Microsoft's efforts to regain lost ground in the mobile phone business will see the company offering two different versions of its operating system next year. The company will continue to ...

• What's the Biggest Known Planet?

  Created: Tuesday, 18 August 2009 23:03 Author:

  What's the Biggest Known Planet?                By Jeremy Hsu            Special to SPACE.com17 August 200907:56 am ETPluto huggers and haters may hog the spotlight, but there's another debate on the bigger end of the planetary ...

• Energy-aware Internet routing coming soon

  Created: Tuesday, 18 August 2009 22:43 Author:

  Energy-aware Internet routing coming soonby Marguerite Reardon August 18, 2009 1:22 PM PDT Researchers have come up with a new way to route Internet traffic that could save big Internet companies like Google millions on their electricity bills, according ...

• Get a free Windows 7 upgrade

  Created: Tuesday, 18 August 2009 22:36 Author:

   Get a free Windows 7 upgradeAs we've just completed a massive 30-plus system roundup of retail back-to-school laptops and desktops, that's a key question being asked by students, parents, and anyone in the market for a new laptop. There are likely sever...

• Space Shuttle Discovery Continues Launch Preparations

  Created: Tuesday, 18 August 2009 22:29 Author:

  Space Shuttle Discovery Continues Launch Preparations Tue, 18 Aug '09Next Scheduled Launch Just A Week Away While space shuttle Discovery's STS-128 launch preparations continue at Florida's Kennedy Space Center, the astronaut crew completed its final plan...

• Airline Training Bill Could Impact Corporate, Charter Operators

  Created: Saturday, 15 August 2009 20:31 Author:

  Airline Training Bill Could Impact Corporate, Charter OperatorsAug 14, 2009 A bill passed by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and sent to full House of Representatives July 30, imposes radical new licensing requirements for commercia...

• AirTran Leaving Newark

  Created: Saturday, 15 August 2009 20:20 Author:

  AirTran Leaving NewarkAug 13, 2009        AirTran, swapping slots with Continental, will leave Newark Airport after more than a decade of service there and add more flights and service at New York LaGuardia and Washingto...

• Apple Mac SnowLeopard OS X 10.6 coming soon!

  Created: Saturday, 15 August 2009 04:18 Author:

      Apple Mac SnowLeopard OSX 10.6 coming soon!UPDATE - APPLE RELEASED SnowLeopard on August 28, 2009.Comment: My MacBook Pro is now running the SnowLeopard Operting system. The software takes up about 7GB less space on the hard drive and it seems to r...

• NASA 21st Century Moon Car

  Created: Saturday, 15 August 2009 04:05 Author:

  The Moon: Then, Now, Next - NASA's 21st Century Moon Car by Clara MoskowitzStaff Writerposted: 15 July 200911:06 am ETNASA's new moon rover looks like it's been on TV's "Pimp My Ride."While the Apollo-era vehicle that first landed on the moon in 1971 rese...

• NASA Completes Assembly Of Ares I-X Test Rocket

  Created: Saturday, 15 August 2009 03:59 Author:

  NASA Completes Assembly Of Ares I-X Test Rocket Sat, 15 Aug '09First Test Flight Set for October 31 For the first time in more than a quarter-century a new space vehicle stands ready in NASA's Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building. The Ares I-X r...

• Frontier Announces Republic Airways Holdings As Winner Of Auction

  Created: Saturday, 15 August 2009 03:52 Author:

  Frontier Announces Republic Airways Holdings As Winner Of Auction Sat, 15 Aug '09Southwest Bid Sidetracked By Labor Issues Frontier Airlines Holdings announced Thursday that Republic Airways Holdings, Inc. has been declared the winning bidder in the ...

• First Solar Sail Might Soon Fly

  Created: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 22:26 Author:

                                           First Solar Sail Might Soon Fly                          By Jeremy HsuSpecial to SPACE.com posted: 12 August 200908:43 am ET   Solar sails have long promised to h...

• GA Shipments Continue Downward Spiral

  Created: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 21:29 Author:

  GA Shipments Continue Downward SpiralAug 10, 2009Kerry LynchThe second quarter of 2009 further compounded the economic woes of the general aviation manufacturing sector as the number of deliveries plunged some 49 percent, according to statistics released ...

• NASA to Spend $50 Million to Spur Commercial Spacecraft

  Created: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:46 Author:

  NASA to Spend $50 Million to Spur Commercial SpacecraftAugust 10, 2009 NASA plans to spend up to $50 million in federal stimulus money to help foster development of commercial spacecraft for launching astronauts and cargo into space.Under the plan, NASA ...

• New York Representative Calls Corridor The "Wild West"

  Created: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:38 Author:

  New York Representative Calls Corridor The "Wild West"In the aftermath of the tragic mid-air collision involving a Piper Saratoga and a sightseeing helicopter over the Hudson River Saturday, some aeronautically ignorant New York officials are predictably ...

• Wing problems on 787 will require more elaborate fix than first thought

  Created: Wednesday, 12 August 2009 01:28 Author:

  Wing problems on 787 will require more elaborate fix than first thoughtThe problems with the joints where the carbon-fiber wings meet the fuselage on the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner will take longer to fix and are more serious than originally thought. Durin...