Iflove Science Summary This Week: Shuttle Discovery, Phoenix Lander and NASA Mission. Dated from June 9 - 15, 2008

Phoenix Gets Some Dirt on Mars

An image of a sample collected from the Martian soil shows many kinds of particles. The white bar represents 1mm. (Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University Arizona) A second image clearly shows the strips of machine silicon which form the special substrate …
Mars lander probes first microscope sample The Associated Press
Hopes Are High For The Mars Lander’s First Mission Objectives eFluxMedia

Shuttle Discovery Lands Safely in Florida

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-person crew safely touched down at the Kennedy Space Center this morning at 11:15 am EDT on Saturday.
Hundreds welcome Discovery’s crew back to Houston Houston Chronicle
Space shuttle Discovery returns to Earth Reuters
Five Reasons to Get Dad a PS3

Take back the tired tie, and go get your special Dad something he really wants for Father’s Day. It’s been a year and a half since Sony launched the PS3 with lots of hype, only to have Nintendo and its scrappy Wii system steal most of the thunder with …
MGS 4 To Boost PS3 Sales? eFluxMedia
Read all ‘XBox 360′ posts in News Blog CNET News

MySpace Might Have Friends, but It Wants Ad Money

By BRIAN STELTER When the News Corporation added MySpace to its portfolio nearly three years ago, it expected that if its base of 16 million users kept growing - and each user kept adding friends, sharing photos and swapping flirty messages - the …
MySpace: My Portal? BusinessWeek
New face for MySpace as site upgrades USA Today
Obama Seen Beating McCain in Web War

By JENNIFER PARKER A record-breaking 46 percent of Americans have used the Internet to get political news and share their thoughts about the campaign this year, according to a survey released today by the Pew Research Center.
Survey: Record number of Americans following election via Web CNET News
Study: Americans use Net to look beyond sound bite The Associated Press
Web Advertisers Say End Is Near For Yahoo Search Ad Platform

SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Yahoo Inc.’s (YHOO) decision to ink an ad pact with rival Google Inc. (GOOG) likely marks the beginning of the end for Yahoo’s Panama search advertising platform, advertisers said Friday.
Google: What This Yahoo Deal Isn’t?. Washington Post
Yahoo execs provide more details on Google deal BetaNews
New look for MySpace

By James Callan MySpace, News Corp.’s social-networking Web site, will begin a global redesign next week to increase traffic from existing users and draw new ones.
MySpace eying Facebook in rearview mirror with big redesign Ars Technica
MySpace plans redesign for next week Reuters

AT&T: termination fees ultimately a great deal for consumers

By Matthew Lasar | Published: June 13, 2008 - 05:07AM CT Those early termination fees (ETFs) that consumers pay for switching cell phones in mid-contract are a great deal, an attorney for AT&T told the Federal Communications Commission yesterday.
FCC Reviews Cell Phone Terminations Fees InformationWeek
FCC Head Seeks Rules On Cell-Termination Fees Wall Street Journal
NASA taps Oceaneering to build spacesuits for moon

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA has turned to a new lead contractor to build spacesuits for its revived lunar exploration program that aims to land astronauts on the moon again by 2020, officials said on Thursday.
NASA previews future astronaut threads Register
NASA’s new spacesuit designs–and old ones, too CNET News
ISPs consider bandwidth surcharges

NEW YORK, June 15 (UPI) — Three of the largest US Internet service providers are threatening to restrict their most active subscribers’ online activity, companies say.
US broadband: Desperate ideas of an industry that resists change TG Daily
Fees for heavy Internet use “inevitable”, says AT&T Afterdawn
Finding Firefox’s First World Record

It’s been well-reported that Firefox 3, Mozilla’s popular open-source Web browser, will be released on Tuesday, June 17th.
Mozilla challenges IE (and all comers) to a browser war NetworkWorld
Firefox extension CNET News
Metal Gear Solid 4 World Tour Hits San Francisco

By Shane Bettenhausen, 06/15/2008 Yesterday, Kojima Productions’ week-long autograph tour to promote the release of Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots descended upon San Francisco, California, drawing over 500 diehard fans eager to get goods …
MGS4 play log: cut-scenes are 60 minutes of pain, pleasure Ars Technica
Ben’s Week In Review: June 15 PSX Extreme
Wii Fit Girl And YouTube Equals Fame

By Anne Shaw Up to the point when this article was being written, 3245674 had tuned in to see the e video of a girl hula hooping in her underpants on the Wii Balance Board posted on YouTube.
Wii Fit girl, CNET News
Wii Fit Girl: The shape of things to come St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Verizon Wireless Palm Centro vs. 3G Apple iPhone

By Andrew R Hickey, ChannelWeb The dueling devices both come in at an attractive price point, with Verizon offering the cobalt blue Centro for $99 after rebate with a two-year contract and the 8 GB version of the 3G iPhone hitting the $199 mark.
Sprint’s Best Cellular Broadband Devices PC Magazine
Palm jumps as Verizon Wireless to sell Centro BusinessWeek
Meet Pluto, the Plutoid

· Pluto, demoted from planet status in 2006, has been reclassified. It and other dwarf planets like it will be called plutoids. The International Astronomical Union (IAU) gave a full definition of what counts as a plutoid.
No peace over Pluto MSNBC
I shall call it… a Plutoid Ars Technica
Fitness Guru Designs Wii Workout

‘Biggest Loser’ coach Jillian Michaels readies a fitness-themed Wii game for release at year-end. SAN DIEGO (Hollywood Reporter) - Game publisher Majesco Entertainment has announced a partnership with celebrity fitness trainer Jillian Michaels for an …
Wii aims to tip the scales on exercise Nashua Telegraph
Nintendo Wii popular choice for therapists, children Houston Chronicle
Nintendo sues wireless Wii controller maker

There have been a slew of Third Party peripherals popping up all over the places thanks to the immense popularity of Nintendo’s Wii, with wireless Nunchuks being quite the popular choice amongst companies.
Nintendo Sues Nyko Over Wireless Nunchuks Shacknews
Nintendo Sues Nyko Over Wireless Nunchuk Wired News
New tree from old seeds doing well

JERUSALEM, June 13 (UPI) — Researchers say a 4-foot-high date tree grown from a 2000-year-old seed is doing well along the bone-dry cliffs of Masada, Israel.
Jesus tree: 2000 year-old date palm uprooted New York Daily News
Tree From Oldest Known Seed Thrives In Masada RedOrbit
Snow Leopard: Back to Basics

by Jason Snell, Macworld All the media attention this week has been on the announcement of the new iPhone 3G during Steve Jobs’s keynote at Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference.
Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5.4 to fix nagging shutdown glitch Apple Insider
Why is the market hammering Apple? ZDNet
Will AOL’s iPhone app pave way for Pandora?

Details of AOL’s streaming radio application for the Apple 3G iPhone have surfaced after it was revealed that the application won an Apple design award for “Best Entertainment Application” at this year’s WWDC.
AOL Turns iPhone into Radio Mac Rumors
AOL Turns the iPhone into an Expensive Radio New York Times
Phoenix Gets Some Dirt on Mars

An image of a sample collected from the Martian soil shows many kinds of particles. The white bar represents 1mm. (Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University Arizona) A second image clearly shows the strips of machine silicon which form the special substrate …
Mars lander probes first microscope sample The Associated Press
Hopes Are High For The Mars Lander’s First Mission Objectives eFluxMedia

Iflove Proudly Presents

• Phoenix Gets Some Dirt on Mars, Returns Images to Earth (1)
• Discovery American space shuttle successfully lands at the Kennedy space centre in Florida, despite losing clip (1)
• Space Tour: $30 million Purchases Austin resident a ride on Soyuz mission (0)

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