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Cassini Sees Saturn and Moons in Holiday Dress

By Guest PostDecember 25, 2013Scienceboulder, carolyn porco, cassini, enceladus, habitable zone, holiday season, linda spilker, liquid water reservoir, moons, most fascinating moons, NASA, planetary system, saturn, saturn pole, solar system, space science institute, titan

This holiday season, feast your eyes on images of Saturn and two of its most fascinating moons, Titan and Enceladus, in a care package from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. All three bodies are dressed and dazzling in this special package assembled by Cassini’s imaging team.

The new images are available online at: https://www.nasa.gov/cassini , https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov and https://ciclops.org .

“During this, our tenth holiday season at Saturn, we hope that these images from Cassini remind everyone the world over of the significance of our discoveries in exploring such a remote and beautiful planetary system,” said Carolyn Porco, Cassini imaging team leader, based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo. “Happy holidays from all of us on Cassini.” (more…)

Christmas Miracle

By Guest PostDecember 11, 2012Culture, Generalbritish army, british broadcasting company, british forces, christmas boxes, christmas truce, clayton hall, delaware, flanders, german soldiers, Germany, holiday season, imperial war museum, london, new years day, northern france, paris opera, peace, rodelle, silent night, soccer match, stanley weintraub, the french, the troops, university, war, woodrow wilson, world war i

Author discusses World War I Christmas truce at UDARF luncheon

An unbelievable thing happened during the first holiday season of World War I — peace broke out.

How the killing stopped for a few days in northern France and Flanders was the topic of a talk given by Stanley Weintraub, the author of Silent Night: The Story of the World War I Christmas Truce (Free Press 2002), during a University of Delaware Association of Retired Faculty luncheon held Tuesday, Dec. 4, in Clayton Hall.

Weintraub, the Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities at Penn State University, has written numerous histories and biographies, including Long Day’s Journey Into War: Pearl Harbor and a World at War-December 7, 1941 (Dutton Adult, 1991). (more…)

‘People-Centric’ Windows Phone 7.5 Update Released

By Guest PostSeptember 27, 2011Technologyallrecipes, andy lees, bing, bing vision, flickster, flixster, foursquare, holiday season, hubs, imdb, internet explorer, internet movie database, live tiles, mango, Microsoft, nokia, parachute panic, samsung focus, windows phone, windows phone 7, xbox live

*A look at the latest release of Windows Phone, previously code-named “Mango,” with Windows Phone Division president Andy Lees.*

REDMOND, Wash. – Sept. 27, 2011 – Beginning this morning, Windows Phones around the world will start to “ding” with important news: Windows Phone 7.5 is starting to roll out.

The first major release since Windows Phone 7 launched less than a year ago, the 7.5 release offers hundreds of new features and experiences designed to build on the phone’s intuitive, “people-first” foundation – multitasking, more integrated apps, primo mobile Web browsing, and powerful and personalized tools, like integrated social networking and conversation threads, for connecting with the people in our lives. (more…)

Free Shipping Day Punctuates Heaviest Week of U.S. Online Spending in History as Four Individual Days Eclipse $900 Million

By Guest PostDecember 19, 2010Technologyapple ipads, computer hardware, Comscore, free shipping day, friday, gian fulgoni, green monday, holiday season, retail e-commerce spending, thanksgiving

*Cyber Monday, Which Remains Only Billion Dollar Day on Record , Likely to Become Heaviest Spending Day of the Year for First Time*

RESTON, VA, December 19, 2010 – comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 47 days of the November – December 2010 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $27.46 billion has been spent online, marking a 12-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week (week ending Dec. 17) reached $5.15 billion in spending, an increase of 14 percent versus the corresponding week last year, with four individual days surpassing $900 million, led by Green Monday (Monday, December 13) with $954 million and Free Shipping Day (Friday, December 17) with $942 million. Free Shipping Day achieved a 61-percent increase versus the corresponding shopping day last year, highlighting the appeal and success of the promotion in which more than 1,500 merchants offered free shipping. (more…)

U.S. Online Holiday Spending Surpasses $17.5 Billion for First 35 Days of the November-December Shopping Season, up 12 Percent vs. Last Year

By Guest PostDecember 8, 2010TechnologyAmazon, analysis, Comscore, cyber monday, e-commerce, gian fulgoni, holiday season, online spending, retail e-commerce spending, walmart

*More than 50 Percent of All E-Commerce Transactions for the First Five Weeks of the Holiday Season Have Included Free Shipping*

RESTON, VA, December 8, 2010 – comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 35 days of the November – December 2010 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, more than $17.5 billion has been spent online, marking a 12-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week saw four individual days eclipse $800 million in spending, led by Cyber Monday, which became the heaviest online spending day on record at $1.028 billion. Tuesday, November 30 reached $911 million, making it the third heaviest online spending day on record, with Wednesday ($868 million) and Thursday ($850 million) also reaching high levels, although growth rates for the season subsided in the latter half of the week and through the weekend. (more…)

Cyber Monday Hangover: U.S. Online Spending Growth Softens After Strong Early Week Performance

By Guest PostDecember 6, 2010Technologyannual holiday shopping survey, behavior, Comscore, consumers, cyber monday, e-commerce spending, facebook status update, gian fulgoni, gift ideas, holiday season, social media, social media sites, spending

*Holiday E-Commerce Spending Growth Slows to 9 Percent for Most Recent Week*

RESTON, VA, December 5, 2010 – comScore, a leader in measuring the digital world, today reported holiday season retail e-commerce spending for the first 33 days of the November – December 2010 holiday season. For the holiday season-to-date, $16.8 billion has been spent online, marking a 12-percent increase versus the corresponding days last year. The most recent week saw four individual days eclipse $800 million in spending, led by Cyber Monday, which became the heaviest online spending day on record at $1.028 billion. Tuesday, November 30 reached $911 million, making it the third heaviest online spending day on record, while Wednesday ($868 million) and Thursday ($850 million) also reached high levels, although growth rates for the season subsided in the latter half of the week. (more…)

Countdown to Kinect: 17 Controller-Free Games Launch in November

By Guest PostOctober 18, 2010Technologyellen degeneres, geoffrey the giraffe, holiday season, jackie evancho, kinect, Microsoft, mike delman, next big thing, oprah show, richard barry, show, susan boyle, the nutcracker, times square, xbox 360

About the image: A screenshot from Kinect Adventures, one of 17 controller-free games that will be available when Kinect for Xbox 360 becomes available in November. Image credit: Microsoft

REDMOND, Wash. — Oct. 18, 2010 —

Tune in to see it on “The Oprah Show^®.” And find out what has Ellen DeGeneres moving and grooving. Even Geoffrey the Giraffe^® knows Kinect for Xbox 360 is sure to be the hottest gift this holiday. Today, the countdown to Kinect begins, as Microsoft Corp. announced the launch of a multiyear advertising campaign and revealed the complete lineup of 17 controller-free games that will transform living rooms around the world starting on Nov. 4. (more…)

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