July 25, 2009 (Saturday)

• Ericsson
  Ericsson
  Ericsson , one of Sweden's largest companies, is a provider of telecommunication and data communication systems, and related services, covering a range of technologies, including especially mobile networks...
  
   buys Nortel
  Nortel
  Nortel Networks Corporation, formerly known as Northern Telecom Limited and sometimes known simply as Nortel, was a multinational telecommunications equipment manufacturer headquartered in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada...
  
  's wireless unit for $1.13 billion. (Reuters)

July 22, 2009 (Wednesday)

• Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
  Windows Server 2008 R2
  Windows Server 2008 R2 is a server operating system produced by Microsoft. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009 and launched on October 22, 2009. According to the Windows Server Team blog, the retail availability was September 14, 2009. It is built on Windows NT 6.1, the same core...
  
   reach the Release to Manufacturing milestone. (ArsTech)

July 20, 2009 (Monday)

• Moon landing
  Moon landing
  A moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both manned and unmanned missions. The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission on 13 September 1959. The United States's Apollo 11 was the first manned...
  
   40th anniversary.
• New terahertz detectors could make body scanning as cheap as conventional video. (TechReview)

July 16, 2009 (Thursday)

• Ununbium
  Ununbium
  Copernicium is a chemical element with symbol Cn and atomic number 112. It is an extremely radioactive synthetic element that on Earth can only be created in a laboratory. The most stable known isotope, copernicium-285, has a half-life of approximately 29 seconds, but it is possible that this...
  
   is given the name Copernicium. (BBC)
• Organic light-emitting diode
  Organic light-emitting diode
  An OLED is a light-emitting diode in which the emissive electroluminescent layer is a film of organic compounds which emit light in response to an electric current. This layer of organic semiconductor material is situated between two electrodes...
  
  's that can accurately replicate the entire color-temperature range of sunlight
  Sunlight
  Sunlight, in the broad sense, is the total frequency spectrum of electromagnetic radiation given off by the Sun. On Earth, sunlight is filtered through the Earth's atmosphere, and solar radiation is obvious as daylight when the Sun is above the horizon.When the direct solar radiation is not blocked...
  
   have been designed. (Physorg)

July 13, 2009 (Monday)

• Washington University's Genome Center can now sequence a human genome
  Genome
  In modern molecular biology and genetics, the genome is the entirety of an organism's hereditary information. It is encoded either in DNA or, for many types of virus, in RNA. The genome includes both the genes and the non-coding sequences of the DNA/RNA....
  
   in a week. (O'Reilly)
• H1N1
  H1N1
  'Influenza A virus is a subtype of influenza A virus and was the most common cause of human influenza in 2009. Some strains of H1N1 are endemic in humans and cause a small fraction of all influenza-like illness and a small fraction of all seasonal influenza. H1N1 strains caused a few percent of...
  
   can infect cells deep in the lung
  Lung
  The lung is the essential respiration organ in many air-breathing animals, including most tetrapods, a few fish and a few snails. In mammals and the more complex life forms, the two lungs are located near the backbone on either side of the heart...
  
  s, making it far more potentially dangerous than previously thought. (Physorg)

July 7, 2009 (Tuesday)

• Google
  Google
  Google Inc. is an American multinational public corporation invested in Internet search, cloud computing, and advertising technologies. Google hosts and develops a number of Internet-based services and products, and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program...
  
   announces they will release a new operating system
  Operating system
  An operating system is a set of programs that manage computer hardware resources and provide common services for application software. The operating system is the most important type of system software in a computer system...
  
   called Google Chrome OS
  Google Chrome OS
  Google Chrome OS is a Linux-based operating system designed by Google to work exclusively with web applications. Google announced the operating system on July 7, 2009 and made it an open source project, called Chromium OS, that November....
  
  . (CNet)

July 3, 2009 (Friday)

• Scientific papers are published on the Mars Phoenix Lander, one of which describes night time snowfall on Mars
  Mars
  Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after the Roman god of war, Mars. It is often described as the "Red Planet", as the iron oxide prevalent on its surface gives it a reddish appearance...
  
  . (Ars)

July 2, 2009 (Thursday)

• Michael Jackson
  Michael Jackson
  Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
  
   related internet
  Internet
  The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
  
   scams increase rapidly. (CRN)

July 1, 2009 (Wednesday)

• A likely candidate for the first medium sized black hole
  Black hole
  A black hole is a region of spacetime from which nothing, not even light, can escape. The theory of general relativity predicts that a sufficiently compact mass will deform spacetime to form a black hole. Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that...
  
   is found called Hyper-Luminous X-ray Source 1. If confirmed it would lend support to the theory super massive black holes are made from small ones. (Wired)