Company Watch - Starwood Hotels.
Apr 7, 2008 Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide has opened the Four Points by Sheraton Houston, Memorial City in Houston, Texas. The new 171-room property will be in the heart of west Houston - at the intersection of I10 and Beltway 8 - 17 miles from downtown...

Aerospace & Defense News - Space.
Mar 17, 2008 Space station robot fails to power up. The new $210 million robot on the International Space Station failed to power up on Thursday. NASA officials say they are fairly confident that they can fix the robot quickly and plan to make software changes after...

MDA sale caused unlikely alliance of opponents.
MEMBERS OF the Canadian Forces have a lot to celebrate in the government's decision to block the sale of a large part of Canada's space industry to a U.S. firm last month. The government's intervention ensured that crucial satellite technology, vital to the conduct of CF missions at home...

Aerospace & Defense News - Space.
Feb 11, 2008 Iran inaugurates space terminal and launches research rocket. Iran conducted a successful test launch of what it has publicly identified as the Kavoshgar 1 (Explorer 1) research rocket on 4 February - the same day it inaugurated its first domestically constructed 'space terminal'. While...

Third-world laptops come to Alabama schools.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] FIRST-THROUGH EIGHTH-GRADE students in Birmingham City (Ala.) Schools will soon each have their own computer, and it will be a laptop designed for children in third-world countries. Under a purchase agreement signed by Mayor Larry Langford, the 30,000-student district will receive 15,000 of...

Nokia Introduces 2 New XpressMusic Devices.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-23 April 2008-Nokia Introduces 2 New XpressMusic Devices(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Nokia introduced two new music-enabled devices as additions to its XpressMusic range. The company stated that its new Nokia 5320 XpressMusic and Nokia 5220 XpressMusic offer a range of affordable music and...

Company Watch - Raytheon.
Feb 4, 2008 Raytheon Team GOES-R. The next generation of the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite System will launch in 2014 and will take environmental data collection, analysis and weather forecasting to new heights of efficiency and effectiveness. Feb 3, 2008 Raytheon posts 64% increase in...

Altera Demos Solutions at NAB Show 2008.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-10 April 2008-Altera Demos Solutions at NAB Show 2008(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Altera and its high-definition (HD) video partners will showcase a broad portfolio of programmable solutions, including a 3-Gbps serial digital interface (SDI) for use in broadcast system designs, at the upcoming NAB Show...

Web cellular automata: a forest fire modeling approach and prototype tool.
Introduction Rapid advances in computer processing and visualization capabilities, coupled with the decreasing costs of personal computers, have allowed a wider end-user group to access advanced GIS, spatial modeling, and visualization technologies. Consequently, the development of GIS-based applications and environmental models on standalone desktop computers and workstations...

Company Watch - JetBlue Airways.
Mar 17, 2008 JetBlue Airways already offers free Internet access via its BetaBlue system, which is provided by JetBlue's LiveTV subsidiary. As the name suggests, this system is in its trial phase and is only in use on a single Airbus A320. BetaBlue allows passengers to use...