The European Space Agency and European Commission have launched the first satellite, kicking off the forthcoming Galileo navigation system.The satellite dubbed Giove A was launched by a Soyuz-Fregat vehicle from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning. The satellite is expected

A new unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Windows and an in-the-wild exploit appeared Wednesday as security firms raised their alarms to Critical. The bug is in Windows' rendering of Windows Metafile (WMF) images, a component that's been patched three times in

The Recording Industry of America Association is celebrating a moral victory in its worldwide crusade to stop music piracy, based on the U.S. government's demand that Russian authorities work harder to stem counterfeiting in their nation. The RIAA issued a

Ads mentioning real estate tycoon Donald Trump and those hawking "Penis Patch" body enhancements were among the top 10 junk e-mails in 2005, according to America Online.Noticeably absent? Porn. "Porn is passe when it comes to spam," Nicholas Graham, an

Even as China, by far the world's biggest telecom market that is anxiously awaiting the go-ahead from its government for third-generation telecom services, is trying out all the available 3G technology standards, industry experts believe that it will be the

The U.S. government plans to spend at least $1 billion on new facilities to fight bioterrorism over the next decade.

Ridley turtles and an 88-pound loggerhead turtle named Bruiser are expected to spend winter in rehabilitation in New York after being caught in the cold.

Students in North Dakota debating programs have been banned from broaching the topic of intelligent design.

U.S. drivers will be able to gas up their vehicles next year with nearly 3 percent of clean-burning, domestic renewable fuels such as ethanol.

Verizon Wireless announced Wednesday it has completed more than $290 million in enhancements to its Texas voice and data wireless network this year.

Cloudmark Inc. issued a consumer warning Wednesday in anticipation of an increased risk of "phishing attacks" following the holiday shopping season.

Snowfall in the eastern half of England forced hundreds of trains to be cancelled and forecasters warned of even colder weather to come.

Harry Potter may not yet be able to mend broken bones with a wave of his wand, but the pint-size wizard of book sales apparently has the power to reduce playground injuries, British scientists reported in a study published this

Much to the delight of many Leica aficionados there's now more than a hint that Leica are readying a digital version of the M7 rangefinder camera. Stefan Daniel of Leica is quoted in the latest edition of LFI (Leica Fotografie

Pre-CES 2006: The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) has posted a press release summarizing digital imaging at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show (5th to 8th January 2006). There will be a day long event showcasing the wide range of complementary services

Apple has updated its professional photo application, Aperture. Version 1.0.1 includes improved white balance adjustment accuracy and performance, image export quality, book and print ordering reliability, auto-stacking performance and custom paper size handling. The update is available as a 11

The excellent professional workflow and RAW conversion application Bibble has been updated to version 4.5. This new release adds support for the Nikon D200, Olympus EVOLT E-500, SP310, SP350 and SP500UZ, Pentax *ist DS2 and Sony DSC-R1. It also includes

Optimizing your site for your targeted key phrases won't get you to #1 over night. You won't find all your keywords rankings in the top 10 on Google in just a few days, nor will you get significant traffic improvement

It is this one common thread that makes it possible for an SEO to rank a website highly across all the major engines. While there are a variety of factors at play and an even wider variation in the weight

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Moving the U.S. Defense Department and 11 other government agencies' wireless communications to new airwaves will cost almost $936 million, according to a government estimate released on Wednesday.