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A pair of spacewalking astronauts stepped outside Thursday to begin demanding repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope, a job ...

This revised version of SwitchEasy's VisionClip, called VisionClip 2 ($15) is a simple plastic holster that holds the iphone 3G when it's inside either the CapsuleRebel or CapsuleNeo cases, protecting its face and -- according to the company, using a tinted plastic that allows 'the user to see time and incoming call information without having to remove the iPhone from the holster.' How exactly this works, we're not sure, since the holster's supposed.

coondoggie writes 'Robocalls are a scourge, and the Federal Trade Commission today took action against one outfit by asking a federal court to shut down companies that have been bombarding consumers with hundreds of millions of allegedly deceptive robocalls in an effort to sell vehicle service contracts. According to the FTC, the robocalls have prompted tens of thousands of complaints from consumers who are either on the Do Not Call Registry or asked not to be called. Five telephone numbers associated with the defendants have generated a total of 30,000 Do Not Call complaints. Consumers received the robocalls at home, work, and on their cell phones, sometimes several times in one day. Businesses, government offices and even 911 dispatchers also have been subjected to the calls, the FTC said.' Reader powerlord points out that another such company, not named in the FTC filing, raised the ire of thousands of internet-goers, who struck back by rickrolling the company's voice mail and diggi

As Baby Boomer retire from the workforce, they are being replaced by younger, more tech-savvy employees who have greater expectations for the technology they use for work, says Forrester analyst Ben Gray, who will address the issue at the upcoming Forrester IT Forum conference. They are more mobile, and they are demanding greater choice in their technology options, putting greater strains on IT departments that are trying to keep with those demands. - IT organizations are facing a growing challenge of how to address the demands of the increasing numbers of younger, tech-savvy and mobile workers, according to an analyst with Forrester Research. Analyst Benjamin Gray said these new employees, who are a growing presence in the workforce as they rep...

Microsoft has announced a new set of interoperability projects involving PHP, including a new open source Software Developer Kit (SDK) that enables interoperability for PHP developers that want to work with microsoft's Windows cloud services platform. - microsoft has announced a new set of interoperability projects involving PHP, including a new open source Software Developer Kit (SDK) that enables interoperability for PHP developers that want to work with Microsoft's Windows cloud services platform. The PHPAzure SDK will be available as a Communi...

The second of five scheduled spacewalks to repair and upgrade the 19-year-old Hubble goes well but behind schedule as astronauts struggle to properly seat a box of gyroscopes. - It didn't happen easily, but the space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts installed new gyroscopes May 15 on the Hubble Space Telescope. Working in extremely tight quarters inside the Hubble, the spacewalking crew encountered a box of gyros that wouldn't align properly but successfully installed a di...

Now that the Space Shuttle Atlantis has lifted off, the astronauts on board can get to work on their mission of doing the final repairs on the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Is there anything Google can't do? The creators of Wolfram Alpha think so. The new search engine is slated for release this month. Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Land, explains how Wolfram Alpha works.

future.nerd tips news that Wolfram Alpha is set to be launched tonight at 8PM EST (00:00 GMT), and the entire process will be broadcast live, via webcast. Steven Wolfram said to PCPro, 'We've been rather surprised that we haven't been able to find even a single publicly available record of the commissioning of any large website at all. So we thought we would document our own experience. We can't guarantee that everything will go smoothly. We fully expect to encounter unanticipated situations along the way. We hope that it'll be interesting for people to join us as we work through these in real time.' In a related blog post, he explains how Wolfram Alpha interacts with Mathematica. of this story at Slashdot.