BBC announced that, they have created a version of the iPlayer that works with both Mac and Linux versions, which have been able to stream BBC programmes for a year, will now be able to handle downloads.

So, at last BBC made the online TV tool available for operating systems other than Windows. Consumer looking to download the new iPlayer desktop application can get a test version from the iPlayer site. The completed version is probable to be released in February 2009.

From now BBC iPlayer will uses three DRM technologies, which are Windows Media Player, Adobe Air and OMA for mobile devices. The BBC also enables media to be streamed to the iPhone in using Apple’s H.264 codec. The new version of the iPlayer is written with Adobe’s AIR platform.

NASA Administrator Michael Griffin said goodbye Friday to the space agency’s employees and thanked them for their hard work during his four years on the job. He also admits that in his success there was a big support of them. He also informed that he has no plan about what he will do next.

The 59-year-old Griffin who was 11th administrator of NASA spoke to staffs around the country in a live telecast on Friday morning from NASA headquarters in Washington. In his 45-minute address, Griffin advises to employees to support the next NASA administrator, whoever it is, and support the new president’s space policy, whatever that turns out to be. Griffin has been active in guiding Bush’s plan to retire the space transports by 2010 and go back astronauts to the moon by 2020 with new rocket.

In 2005 he was appointed by President George W. Bush, two years after the Columbia tragedy and right as space transports were gearing up to goes back to trip. In recent months he said that he would be eager to stay on, but, in the last part, was not asked.

Now everybody is eager to see that who will be the new administration. The incoming Obama government has not yet named a replacement. But there is floating the name of J. Scott Gration, who was retired Air Force general, has almost no space experience but was a military consultant to the president-elect during the campaign.

G. Madhavan Nair, chairman of Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), has expected that after the success of Chandrayaan 1, ISRO is going to introduce an exclusive and special weather satellite jointly with the French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales) in  the upcoming year 2009. So, their organization is very busy now with ground work for the satellite launching. Chandrayaan-1 was the first unmanned spaceship mission to the moon. It was India’s first space craft to venture beyond Earth’s orbit successfully entered lunar orbit on 8, November 2008.

The Indian Remote Sensing Satellite (IRS) would be built it while it would be launched by ISRO but two essential instruments called SCARAB and SAPHIR would be built by the CNES. Another important critical instrument called MADRAS will be jointly engineered by both ISRO and CNES.

Talking to the press here on the sidelights of a program on last Monday, Nair said to reporters that the satellite would be launched by the end of 2009. He said “It is a joint agreement between France and ISRO. Some instruments are made by French people and some we are doing it. By the end of the 2009, it would be launched. This satellite will provide lot of inputs for weather modulates and near time weather forecast and so on.”

The new satellite, named Megha Tropiques; and it will study the tropical atmosphere. It will have associated phenomena which will help France and India to study the cyclones, monsoon and any other weather changes. The satellite will be operated by ISRO and both the countries India and France can share data from this. India looks forward to sending an astronaut into space by 2012 and a special manned mission to the moon by 2020.

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Picture published on social network site like facebook and myspace where mother breastfeeding her child is restricted. The arguments reveal how the sites’ community policing techniques sometimes struggle to keep up with the successful number and multiplicity of their members.

When facebook started as a site, it was only for the collage kids. But at present facebook is now home for over 140 millions of people around the world. Some of the new user like Kelli Roman, posted a photo of herself nursing one of her two children. However, one day she logged on and finds the picture is missing. When she asked facebook for an explanation, she received an e-mail saying,

“Facebook bars people from uploading anything “obscene, pornographic or sexually explicit” — a policy that translates into a ban on pictures depicting certain amounts of exposed flesh.”

Nevertheless, Roman replied by launching a facebook group called “Hey, Facebook, breastfeeding is not obscene!”. Roman lives in Fallbrook, Calif said in an interview that “There is nothing about bottle-feeding a child that has to be discreet,” She also added “With breast-feeding, it should be the exact same way.”

Currently this group includes 129,062 members and one of them is Stephanie Muir. She does a volunteer work associated with public health and breast-feeding, said the issue is important to her. She said “I think it’s time we all get over this notion that women’s breasts are dangerous and harmful for children to see,”

However, she also organized a Facebook protest last weekend against the site’s policies, which she believes are without rhyme or reason enforced and discriminate against women.

Nevertheless, Heather Farley and other 10 other women led a real-world nurse-in to complement the online event. They showed up breast-feeding their babies outside the front door at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif.

When all these protest and rush is going on Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said “the company’s guidelines regarding exposed flesh allow most breast-feeding photos. However, Facebook draws the line at a visible nipple or areola,” and he also added that “We decided nudity was something we didn’t want on the site. It doesn’t matter the context. We would agree that there are absolutely many contexts for nudity where it is not obscene,”

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