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Say 'cheese,' Earthlings! Spacecraft to snap home planet pic from deep space

NASA's Cassini spacecraft, now flying near Saturn, is turning its cameras back toward Earth today so it can grab a photo of its home planet from almost 900 million miles away

By Sharon Gaudin | 19 June, 2013 17:25

Tags: Government IT, NASA, Emerging Technologies, hardware systems, Atlantic
Design Automation Conference at 50: Bring on the women, cloud and maybe even open source

The Design Automation Conference (DAC) held here this week celebrated its 50th anniversary, prompting the industry and academic community that poured so much energy into chip, software and hardware design to both take a look back and to predict what the future may hold.

By Ellen Messmer | 06 June, 2013 16:31

Tags: IBM, security, Atlantic, Wide Area Network
IT weather forecast: Hurricanes with a chance of dead satellites

NOAA is working to fix a broken weather satellite -- the one that watches the Atlantic Ocean -- even as it gears up for what's expected to be an above-normal year for hurricanes.

By Patrick Thibodeau | 23 May, 2013 20:12

Tags: Government IT, Configuration / maintenance, hardware systems, Atlantic, Data Center
AT&T spectrum grab: buying Alltel for $780 million

AT&T on Tuesday said it has agreed to buy Alltel’s U.S. wireless operations, including licenses, network assets, retail stores and about 585,000 subscribers, for $780 million in cash. Technically, AT&T is buying the operation from the lesser known Atlantic Tele-Network, Inc. (ATNI).

By Bob Brown | 22 January, 2013 15:10

Tags: Mergers and acquisitions, corporate issues, AT&T Alltel merger, Atlantic, Mergers / acquisitions, anti-malware, at&t, acquisitions, 3G & 4G, mergers, business issues, Networking, wireless, Alltel, security, Department of Justice
NASA video shows life of Hurricane Sandy

NASA has released a time-lapsed video of Hurricane Sandy, showing the storm move from its birth in the Caribbean to when it made landfall on the East Coast of the U.S.

By Sharon Gaudin | 31 October, 2012 17:20

Tags: disaster recovery, NASA, applications, Emerging Technologies, hardware systems, Atlantic, software

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Physicians may be marginalized as mobile tech engages us in healthcare

Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and professor of genomics took aim at the medical community, calling for the end to paternal medicine and annual checks and the beginning a consumer-centered healthcare, where patients own their own data, including their genomes for drug treatment.

By Lucas Mearian | 06 March, 2013 11:12

Tags: consumer electronics, healthcare IT, Atlantic, Personal Technology, mobile apps