January 1, 2009 | VentureBeat Ten tech predictions for 2009 Everyone’s predicting doom and gloom for the tech industry next year, and hey, who are we to argue? New Year’s Eve may be coming up, but when VentureBeat’s writers were feeling far from festive when we pooled our thoughts about the year ahead.

January 1, 2009 | PC Pro Top 10 battlegrounds of 2009 The next year will be crucial for dozens of companies - many of which will be going head-to-head in a relentless battle for sales and market share. We've examined which companies will be gunning for each other in 2009 and named the big products that will be on the front line, fighting for supremacy in the...

January 1, 2009 | Yahoo! Politics NASA Taps SpaceX, Orbital Sciences to Haul Cargo to Space Station NASA has awarded a pair of contracts worth $3.5 billion through 2016 to two private aerospace firms seeking to haul vital supplies to and from the International Space Station, the space agency announced late Tuesday.

January 1, 2009 | SlashDot The 10 Coolest Open Source Products of 2008 An anonymous reader writes "Open Source Software is about more than just the Linux operating system, and 2008 brought advances in the form of OpenOffice.

January 1, 2009 | Space.com Future of Commercial Spaceflight Uncertain, But Promising This year closed with a volley of seemingly hopeful signs for what's termed by some as "NewSpace" - an entrepreneurial spaceflight trajectory markedly different than NASA and its cabal of mainstream aerospace contractors.

December 23, 2008 | Nanodot - Foresight Nanotechnology maps gene expression in brain The Allen Institute for Brain Science is using nanotech methods to map in which cells in the brain which genes are expressed, which should lead to new insights into the relationships among genes, brain regions, behavior, and disease.

December 23, 2008 | Orbitaloc Scientists Learn To Customize Nutrition Based Upon DNA By: GeneWize Play the Million Dollar Body Game Deep in each person’s genetic code may lie the answers to which medicines can help them, which environmental toxins can kill them, and even which foods they should eat to live well.

December 22, 2008 | IOM Today Bold predictions for future of internet AS dusk sets on the year 2008, many people look back over the past 12 months and take stock of what has been achieved.

December 22, 2008 | Eventseer.net 2nd CFP AIED 2009 - 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education 2nd CALL FOR PAPERS (Apologies for multiple copies) The 14th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education AIED 2009 held in cooperation with AAAI (http://www.

December 22, 2008 | Aero-News Network Google Lunar X Prize 'Mystery Team' Revealed 'Next Giant Leap' Team Includes MicroSat Systems, MIT, Draper Laboratory, Busek, And Aurora Flight Sciences Next Giant Leap, a small company that was the fourth team to register for the Google Lunar X Prize, publicly announced its name and team members at a press conference held Thursday at the NASA Ames...

December 21, 2008 | CBS news Up Next, Recaps & Links Stories, Links, More From CBS News Sunday...

December 21, 2008 | AviationNow (Blog) WhiteKnightTwo airborne! Taking advantage of a spell of clear weather before the expected arrival of another low pressure system in southern Calfornia, Scaled Composites and Virgin Galactic successfully flew the SpaceShipTwo mothership WhiteKnightTwo on its maiden flight from Mojave on Dec 21.

December 21, 2008 | The Land Space: the financial frontier The multinational effort to establish a permanently manned space station is epic in its scope. It's also mind-bogglingly expensive. A consortium of 16 nations will spend $US100billion ($142billion) building and maintaining the largest spacecraft ever built.

December 11, 2008 | Xconomy A Car Company at the Web Innovators Group? Last night’s 20th meeting of the Web Innovators Group at Cambridge’s Royal Sonesta Hotel was possibly the largest ever, spilling from the usual ballroom into the adjacent conference rooms and attracting a crowd so thick that it was difficult to see the demo tables.

December 11, 2008 | LiveScience How Crazy Ideas Could Power the Future Editor's Note: Each Wednesday LiveScience examines the viability of emerging energy technologies — the power of the future. A lucrative contest is on to find the next crazy green idea that may revolutionize the way we consume energy.

December 10, 2008 | Evening Express Plans to launch space trips from N-east air base still on course Countdown to astro tourism blast...

December 10, 2008 | Labspaces Instore web 3.0 scouting Scientists at Toshiba's Corporate Research and Development Center, in Japan have developed a system that offers shoppers advice on what to buy based on the product barcode and the current weblog buzz around the gadget.

December 9, 2008 | Spend Matters What Does the Future of Global Sourcing Hold? In another article from Supply Management's recent focus issue on global sourcing, I encountered this piece that offers up some suggestions on what the future of global sourcing might hold.

December 9, 2008 | Quote.com Russian luxury providers prepare for chilly winds By Amie Ferris-Rotman MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters Life!) - Russians may be the world's top spending visitors to western Europe, but the global financial crisis has their domestic luxury industry bracing for its first possible slowdown in 10 years.

December 9, 2008 | Exec EADS's Gallois sees crunch hitting industry in '09 The head of European aerospace group EADS said on Tuesday that its planemaker Airbus would be unable to avoid the impact of global financial turmoil, although there was "no reason to panic.

December 8, 2008 | Associated Content EcoRock: The Future of Drywall Minus the Green House Gases Al Gore came back into prominence through publicly calling out the world and how we were treating our planet. His statements have brought forth millions of people who believe the same and understand that the current direction that we were headed in would result to the death of our planet.

December 8, 2008 | What's Happening in Singapore Singaore Futurists Meeting Meet a merry bunch of people talking about artificial intelligence, the coming technological singularity (http://www.google.com/search?q=technolo gical+singularity), AI ethics, transhumanism, and much more.

December 8, 2008 | THonline.com Solar-powered car completes first around-the-world trip Vehicle covers 185 miles on a fully charged...

December 7, 2008 | Buffalo News Space medicine, physiology Living in space poses risks Space shuttle commander Christopher Ferguson and his crew took a small but crucial step for space travel in the past two weeks, enlarging the International Space Station so it can house six astronauts instead of three.

December 7, 2008 | WLNS CBS-6 Record suggests Richardson would be bold at Commerce By Pete Engardio Provided by If New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson is named commerce secretary by President-elect Barack Obama -- as reports over the weekend indicate -- his record suggests that Commerce could push for a much bolder role in supporting such strategic industries as renewable energies,...