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• Romanian authorities arrest man suspected of hacking into NASA and Pentagon servers

  By Lucian Constantin | 02 February, 2012 00:55

  Romanian authorities have arrested a 20-year-old man from the city of Timisoara on Monday under accusations that he hacked into computer systems belonging to NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense.

• Space storm hits satellites, airlines; consumer GPS systems are safe

  By Sharon Gaudin | 26 January, 2012 07:04

  Radiation from the largest solar flare in more than six years shouldn't adversely affect communications or technology for most people on earth, experts say.

• Startup Piston 'ready for fight' with VMware

  By Colin Neagle | 24 January, 2012 04:31

  Having just released its new cloud operating system, Piston Cloud Computing finds itself in a contentious position -- and company co-founder Josh McKenty says that is exactly where the company wants to be.

• Former NASA OpenStack researchers enter private cloud market with Piston Enterprise OS

  By Colin Neagle | 21 January, 2012 09:28

  Piston Cloud Computing co-founder Josh McKenty has laid out the same objective on several occasions, from speaking to attendees at the inaugural OpenStack design summit to addressing friends and colleagues at his company's launch party.

• Romanian NASA hacker gets a three-year suspended prison sentence

  By Lucian Constantin | 19 January, 2012 03:59

  Robert Butyka, a 26-year old Romanian man accused of hacking into multiple NASA servers, received a three-year suspended prison sentence on Tuesday after admitting his guilt.

• 2011: When cloud computing shook the data center

  By Eric Knorr | 27 December, 2011 22:09

  If I had to sum up in one word the most exciting thing that happened to cloud computing in 2011, I'd have to say it's OpenStack. This open source project, launched by Rackspace and NASA in late 2010, is assembling a private cloud "operating system" for the data center that promises vast increases in operational efficiency. The momentum behind it is phenomenal; at last count, 144 companies back the project, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, HP, and Intel.

• NASA's new rover begins work while on trip to Mars

  By Sharon Gaudin | 15 December, 2011 05:38

  NASA's newest robotic rover has already begun its work although it's only a few weeks into its eight-month-long journey to Mars.

• When IT gets to play: Skunk works projects deliver value

  By Julia King | 06 December, 2011 02:51

  It's called the technology petting zoo. Stocked with the latest high-tech gadgets, games, systems and software that could potentially be of business value, it's a place where engineers and other IT users at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory can try out the steady stream of hot, new consumer technologies and imagine the possibilities.

• Earth to satellite: When will you hit?

  By AAP | 22 September, 2011 09:13

  NASA scientists are doing their best to tell us where a plummeting six-ton satellite will fall later this week. It's just that if they're off a little bit, it could mean the difference between hitting Florida or landing on New York. Or, say, Iran or India.

• NASA amps up wicked cool competitive prize program

  By Michael Cooney | 16 July, 2010 11:52

  NASA this month greatly expanded its public prize competition program known as the Centennial Challenges.

• 10 Apollo-era technologies used today

  By Keith Shaw | 31 July, 2009 17:32

  It's been 40 years since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins launched into space in Apollo 11, with the historic moon landing occurring four days later.

• NASA research finds way into IT, consumer products

  By Sharon Gaudin | 18 November, 2008 09:02

  Aware of a history of heart disease in his family, then-50-year-old Gary F. Thompson saw his doctor for a checkup before he ran a Los Angeles marathon in the mid-1990s.