By MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) – The astronauts aboard the linked space shuttle and space station are nearly finished packing up a moving van for return to Earth in a few days.
The Italian-built van – essentially a giant cylinder – flew up aboard Discovery with seven tons of space station supplies and [...]
By JORDAN ROBERTSON
AP Technology Writer
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Sun Microsystems Inc. recorded a $147 million loss while sales eroded 31 percent in the April-June period, likely the server and software maker’s last full quarter as an independent company.
Sun’s latest numbers, reported Friday in a regulatory filing without the usual news release and conference call with [...]
By BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – Intel Corp. raised its third-quarter revenue forecast above Wall Street’s expectations Friday, citing strong demand for its chips and giving another signal that business is improving for one of the world’s biggest technology companies.
Intel’s shares rose 5 percent in morning trading.
The leading maker of computer microprocessors said [...]
By BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – The outage that knocked Twitter offline for hours was traced to an attack on a lone blogger in the former Soviet republic of Georgia – but the collateral damage that left millions around the world tweetless showed just how much havoc an isolated cyberdispute can cause.
“It told [...]
By MARCIA DUNN
Associated Press Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) – Space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts returned to Earth on Friday, completing a long but successful construction job that boosted the size and power of the international space station.
Endeavour glided through a slightly hazy sky and touched down on Kennedy Space Center’s landing strip. Its [...]
By MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) – Astronauts are aiming for an extra-long spacewalk Friday to give the international space station more fresh batteries.
This time, astronaut Christopher Cassidy will head out to the work site more slowly. NASA cut short Wednesday’s spacewalk because of rising carbon dioxide levels in his suit.
NASA officials say [...]
By JESSICA MINTZ
AP Technology Writer
SEATTLE (AP) – Microsoft Corp. says Windows 7 is complete.
The software maker sent the final code for its next computer operating system to manufacturers Wednesday, and said it’s still on track for an Oct. 22 launch.
Mike Angiulo, a general manager in the Windows group, said in an interview that getting up [...]
By SETH BORENSTEIN
AP Science Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) – The first astronauts to walk on the moon want President Barack Obama to aim for a new destination: Mars.
On Monday, the Apollo 11 crewmen, fresh from a Washington lecture Sunday in which two of them expressed concerns about NASA getting bogged down on the moon, are meeting with [...]
By MARCIA DUNN
AP Aerospace Writer
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) – Space shuttle Endeavour rocketed toward the international space station Thursday as engineers on Earth pored over launch pictures that showed debris breaking off the fuel tank and striking the craft.
Mission Control told the astronauts late Wednesday that the damage looked less extensive at first glance than [...]
By BARBARA ORTUTAY
AP Technology Writer
NEW YORK (AP) – In a counterpunch to the world’s biggest online hangout, a small Web company called Power.com has sued Facebook, saying it doesn’t follow its own policy of giving users control over their content.
Power lets users simultaneously access several social networks, including MySpace and Twitter. But Facebook isn’t among [...]
