TECH SPACE - AFRICA DAILY

Feb 15, 2012 (SPX)

Every year, the number of small items of debris in space rises by tens of thousands. This number is currently based on estimates, as it has not been possible to...

A mineral way to catalysis?

Feb 15, 2012 (SPX)

Catalytic materials, which lower the energy barriers for chemical reactions, are used in everything from the commercial production of chemicals to catalytic con...

Lockheed Martin-Built Milstar Satellite Surpasses 10-Year On-Orbit Design Life

Feb 15, 2012 (SPX)

The second Milstar II military communications satellite, built by a Lockheed Martin team for the U.S. Air Force, has surpassed its 10-year design life of on-orb...

JPL and Caltech Cubesat Proposals Move Forward

Feb 15, 2012 (JPL)

NASA has selected 33 small satellites - including two Cubesats from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in partnership with the California Institute of Technology, bo...

EU to double investment in mansion-sized supercomputers

Feb 15, 2012 (AFP)

The EU said Wednesday it will double its investment in supercomputers, high-performance machines the size of a mansion that can cost more than 100 million euros...

Model analyzes shape-memory alloys for use in earthquake-resistant structures

Feb 14, 2012 (SPX)

Recent earthquake damage has exposed the vulnerability of existing structures to strong ground movement. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, researchers are...

Apple chief says factory labor under scrutiny

Feb 14, 2012 (AFP)

Apple chief executive Tim Cook said Tuesday that ensuring safe working conditions at plants making its coveted gadgets is a priority, as an audit of a key suppl...

Firm in Apple dispute seeks to ban China iPad imports

Feb 14, 2012 (AFP)

An electronics firm said Tuesday it would ask customs in China to block iPad imports after it won a copyright case against Apple, prompting one city to pull som...

Apple shares surge despite factory inspections in China

Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)

Apple's stock Monday topped $500 for the first time on Wall Street even as a probe started looking into work conditions at a Chinese factory that cranks out the...

US, EU approve Google purchase of Motorola Mobility

Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)

US and European regulators gave the green light Monday to Internet giant Google's $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola Mobility. In a related decision, the Jus...

Watchdog group begins China Apple inspections

Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)

Apple, following reports of harsh working conditions, said the watchdog Fair Labor Association began inspections Monday at a Foxconn plant in China that makes p...

Iceland promotes clean-energy data centers

Feb 13, 2012 (UPI)

Icelandic officials say they are tapping the country's abundance of green energy resources to establish it as a global player in data storage center industry. O...

Iran Launches New Home-Made Satellite into Orbit

Feb 10, 2012 (FNA)

Iran on Friday successfully sent another domestically-made satellite, named 'Navid-e Elm-o Sana'at' (Promise of Science and Industry), into orbit. The satellite...

Northrop Grumman Delivers 25,000th Electro-Optic Laser System to U.S. Army

Feb 10, 2012 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has announced that its Laser Systems business unit recently delivered its 25,000th electro-optic (EO) laser system in support of U.S. warfighte...

Samsung can continue selling Galaxy tabs in Germany: court

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

South Korea's Samsung Electronics can continue to sell its Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet computer in Germany, a German court ruled Thursday, rejecting a bid by arch-r...

New methodology assesses risk of scarce metals

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

Yale researchers have developed a methodology for governments and corporations to determine the availability of critical metals, according to a paper in Environ...

Ailing Kodak shutters its camera operations

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

Eastman Kodak, whose cheap Brownie camera brought photography to the masses a century ago, said Thursday it would stop producing cameras altogether as its strug...

A bronze matryoshka doll: The metal in the metal in the metal

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

A doll in a doll, and then one more, enveloping them from the outside - this is how Thomas Faessler explains his molecule. He packs one atom in a cage within an...

No more Brownie: Kodak gives up making cameras

Feb 09, 2012 (AFP)

Photography pioneer Eastman Kodak, whose cheap Brownie camera brought photography to the masses a century ago, said Thursday it would stop producing cameras alt...

Redu Space Services To Build EDRS Mission Operation Centre

Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)

Redu Space Services (RSS) has announced that Astrium has awarded it a contract for the design, development, testing and delivery of the Mission Operation Centre...