Monday Morning Tech News
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on September 12, 2005 at 2:44:22 PM
Oracle to buy Siebel. Siebel sucks.
Ebay to buy Skype.
Shuttle will use ISS for power.
My idea was simple. I sent this in to NASA. Line the inside of the cargo bay doors with solar panels. When the shuttle gets into space, it opens the bay doors to let heat escape. With the door open, it could collect solar power from the panels. I also believe that NASA should fly the shuttles to space when they are retired and leave them in orbit. It is a proven crew habitat and could be used for other things in space as well.
More X size solar flares coming.
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Siebel makes software for handling customer relationship management, or CRM. Oracle said its acquisition will add 4,000 customers and 3.4 million CRM users. Oracle will offer $10.66 for each share of Siebel stock, a nearly 17 percent premium over the company's $9.13 closing price Friday.
Ebay to buy Skype.
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The auctioneer said it plans to pay $1.3 billion in cash and $1.3 billion in stock for the Web communications company. It would make a further payout of up to $1.5 billion by 2008 or 2009 if financial targets are met, giving the deal a total value of up to $4.1 billion, executives of the two companies said.
Shuttle will use ISS for power.
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The new Station-Shuttle Power Transfer System will mean as much as an extra 8 kilowatts of electricity for the orbiter. "It's enough so that you don't have to use up the oxygen supplies to feed the fuel cells," says NASA Johnson Space Center spokesperson Kylie Clem. The $68 million project will add to Boeing's $12.8 billion ISS contract.
My idea was simple. I sent this in to NASA. Line the inside of the cargo bay doors with solar panels. When the shuttle gets into space, it opens the bay doors to let heat escape. With the door open, it could collect solar power from the panels. I also believe that NASA should fly the shuttles to space when they are retired and leave them in orbit. It is a proven crew habitat and could be used for other things in space as well.
More X size solar flares coming.
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If enough storms erupt, the odds go up that there will be effects here. And the likelihood of Earth taking one directly on the chin goes up with each passing day as the sunspot takes aim. There is a 75 percent chance of more X-class flares each day through Tuesday, the SEC says. On Friday, a space radiation storm was captured in an image from the SOHO spacecraft, which monitors the Sun.