satellites
| 4:00AM 9/21/2010
Need more cell-phone coverage? AT&T on Tuesday plans to start selling its first satellite phone, the TerreStar Genus smartphone, which can use the regular network or can tap into a satellite to deliver service when users are in the wilderness or even hundreds of miles offshore.
| 7:00AM 9/03/2010
In Japan on Friday the Nikkei 225 Index rose 0.6% to 9,114 and in Hong Kong the Hang Seng edged up 0.5% to 20,972. China's Shanghai Composite Index slid 0.4% to end the day at 2,655.
| 7:00AM 9/26/2009
A California technology startup is rapidly pushing forward with plans to build the first space-based solar power station to beam 200 megawatts of electricity back to Earth via microwaves to a receiving station near Fresno. The firm, Solaren Space, has been pushing for space-based power since 2001...