Tag archive: Venus

You know what they say, if you spend $300 million to shoot a research vessel to Venus and completely miss the planet, try try again. Japan's Akatsuki spacecraft has missed its opportunity to enter orbit around Venus and won't be able to try again for six years, says the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The 1,000 Lb. probe attempted to enter orbit Monday by firing its main engine, but after struggling, it failed to latch onto the… Read More

Somewhere between the full LCD touch screen and the traditional hard number pad lies the context-sensitive touch menu, an interface pioneered by LG with the Venus and now showing up on Samsung’s latest flagship model, the Soul. Samsung announced the slick brushed-metal phone on Friday in preparation for the Mobile World Congress, sporting a context-sensitive OLED touch screen with icons that change depending on which menu a user has… Read More

Verizon Wireless has announced a series of four new phones which will serve as the anchor products for the company's 2007 end-of-year holiday buying season: the Samsung Juke, the LG Venus, the BlackBerry Pearl 8130, and the LG Voyager—the latter of which the company hopes will compete favorably with Apple's iPhone. Of course, the phones all tie in to Verizon's V Cast mobile music, video, and media offerings, although… Read More

From Panasonic's press release: Panasonic introduces the first digital cameras to combine 12x optical zoom with an optical image stabilizer.  Integrating unrivalled optical and digital technologies with ergonomic design, Panasonic's three new 12x zoom Lumix models achieve a level of performance never before seen in digital cameras.  New models DMC-FZ3 (3-Megapixel), DMC-FZ15 (4-Megapixel) and DMC-FZ20 (5-Megapixel… Read More

When it comes to online gaming, there's a new champion in town. Of those who play games on the Web, women over 40 play most often and spend the greatest number of hours per week doing so, beating out both men and teens, according to AOL Games' “Casual Games Report,” conducted by Digital Marketing Services (DMS). The study, a nationwide online survey of more than 3,600 casual game players (i.e., those who have played… Read More