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Amateur astronomers in South Korea and the U.S. have jointly discovered a faint new comet streaking across our solar system.

Called Yi-SWAN, the newfound comet is already visible to backyard telescopes in the Northern Hemisphere, although viewing will improve as the moon begins to wane on April 11.

Sky-watchers will be able to see Yi-SWAN until about mid-May, when it will wander too close to the sun to be visible except to the largest telescopes.

The comet is named after Korean amateur astronomer Dae-am Yi, who first noticed it on March 26, and the SWAN instrument on board NASA's sun-gazing satellite SOHO.

(Related photo: "Sun Probe Spies New Periodic Comet.")

Meanwhile, amateur astronomer Rob Matson of California independently spotted the comet in publicly available SWAN images and notified the Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams (CBAT), the world clearinghouse for comet discoveries, on April 4.

The comet has since been seen by several astronomers around the world.

Yi-SWAN is traveling in a tilted elliptical orbit and is currently about 164 million miles (264 million kilometers) from Earth.

It is still too early to tell if Yi-SWAN will be a recurring visitor like Halley's comet, said CBAT director emeritus Brian Marsden.

"We'll need observations over several months before we'll be able to say that."

Crossing Cassiopeia

During its visit, Yi-SWAN will appear as a small, fuzzy dot in the sky. It's reported to have a faint greenish glow, or coma, around its main body.

No tail has been observed yet, but that may change as the comet moves closer to the sun.

Starting on Saturday, comet hunters should look near the constellation Cassiopeia to see Yi-SWAN.

The comet should be visible all night, although the best times to look are around dawn and dusk, when Cassiopeia is high in the sky. Around April 20, Yi-SWAN will move into the constellation Perseus.

Marsden cautioned that finding the comet could be challenging for novice astronomers.

"If you don't really know how to find locations in the sky, you will have trouble finding it," he said.

Dan Green, the current CBAT director, has these three suggestions for beginners:

• Buy an introductory astronomy book and learn how to find an object's ascension and declination, the celestial versions of longitude and latitude. Then visit the CBAT Web site to get the comet's coordinates.

• Contact a local planetarium or astronomy club and ask someone to point out the comet.

• If all else fails, Green quipped, find a brighter comet to look at.

Hubble was built to be tuned up in orbit. But it wasn't designed for the major overhaul NASA astronauts undertook during its fourth servicing mission, 3B, in March 2002. They delved into the telescope's guts during long space walks, like the one shown here illuminated by a sunlit crescent of Earth, and replaced parts that the original designers never thought they'd need to.
Installation of a new power-control unit forced an unprecedented and nerve-wracking shutdown of the entire satellite—a move comparable to a surgeon stopping a patient's heart during surgery, says Anne Kinney, NASA's director of astronomy and physics. Astronaut John Grunsfeld raced to finish the task before the temperature of the switched-off telescope dropped far enough to damage it. Would it power back up? "When you run a computer for 12 years, you don't know what kind of ghosts you have in the system," Kinney says. When all systems reactivated as planned, the astronauts, as well as astronomers and mission controllers on the ground, breathed a collective sigh of relief. The rest of the mission went like clockwork, including installation of a new cooling system for Hubble's near-infrared camera—NICMOS—useful for surveying dusty and cold areas of space, and installation of new solar panels and other science equipment.

It was the most challenging service mission ever attempted in space, and its success elated astronomers. Chief among the wonders was the long-awaited ACS, or Advanced Camera for Surveys. It essentially made Hubble into a new telescope. "ACS has roughly ten times the discovery power of the previous camera," says Mario Livio, astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore. Translation: Hubble can now see twice as much with five times more light sensitivity.

Tragically, this mission would be the last successful voyage for space shuttle Columbia;. The disaster in February 2003 grounded Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour, the three remaining shuttles, and will delay plans to bring Hubble a spectrograph and a new wide-field camera with ultraviolet and infrared capability.

Oronteus Finaeus fitter picture is actually the normal map. But the work is done Topografer France until now is still a tremendous mystery. Why ...?

In the year 1532, Oronteus Finaeus drawing a map of the world. Not a problem if the digambarnya a map of Continental Europe, Africa, Asia, and the United States, but that was unusual is that Oronteus Finaeus Continental to describe the six - the Antarctica (South Pole) ...! In fact there is no person who had sailed to Antarctica ...!

Dan yang lebih mencengangkan lagi, garis pantai pada peta Antarktika yang dihasilkan oleh Finaeus - ternyata sama persis seperti peta Antarktika modern saat ini…! Tentu saja hal ini menjadi luar biasa, karena benua Antarktika ditutupi es abadi yang tebalnya mencapai 2 Kilometer…

Dari mana Finaeus mengetahui semua itu…??? Itulah misteri yang belum terpecahkan hingga hari ini.

Saya pun akhirnya tertarik untuk sedikit mengupasnya…..

Siapa Oronteus Finaeus ?



Oronce Finé, Orotius Finaeus, Oronteus Finaeus (1494-1555)

Oronce Fine itulah sebutan marganya, dilahirkan di Briançon tahun 1494 dan besar di Paris. Dia sempat meringkuk dalam penjara tahun 1518. Walaupun ia sendiri adalah seorang ahli matematika, namun di tahun 1522 masih mendapat gelar medis dari universitas Navarre di Paris.

Tahun 1524, ia masuk sekali lagi dalam penjara dan di tahun yang sama ia membuat sebuah jam matahari dari bahan sisa gading. Pada abad ke-16, banyak orang menyukai karya-karya para ahli matematika. Akhirnya Oronteus Fine diangkat menjadi ahli perbentengan dan dipekerjakan di pertahanan Benteng Milan-Italia.

Tahun 1531, ia mendapat gelar kehormatan di Collège Royal Paris. Pada saat itu pula karirnya menanjak dengan menulis banyak karya ilmiah. Karya-karya itu yang sempat dipublikasikan a.l:
Risalah ilmu perbintangan dan alat-alat falak. Pada tahun 1520, dialah yang mengusulkan bahwa gerhana bulan dapat digunakan untuk menentukan garis bujur sebuah tempat.
Tahun 1519 Menemukan proyeksi peta dan kemudian memproduksi peta dunia yang sekarang ini kita pakai.
Di tahun 1544, menghitung nilai dari pi (22:7) = ( 22 2/9)/7, kemudian diperbaiki menjadi 47/15. Ia percaya bahwa bumi adalah pusat dari alam semesta.

Peta itu…



Gambar 1 - Peta Oronteus Finaeus tahun1532 di belahan bumi selatan Gambar 2 - Oronteus Finaeus menggambar kembali proyeksi modern peta kutub itu

Gambar 3 - Peta modern Antarctica

Peta ini ditemukan di Perpusatakaan Congress, Washington DC di tahun 1960 oleh Charles Hapgood. Bertuliskan “ digambar oleh Oronteus Finaeus tahun 1531”. Hampir sama persis dengan pemetaan Piri Reis, Antarctica ditunjukkan dengan es yang bebas mengalir seperti sungai, pola pengeringan dan coastline.

Peta Oronteus Finaeus lebih akurat dibanding peta yang lain pada waktu itu. Sesungguhnya, lebih akurat dibanding peta manapun yang dibuat sampai ke tahun 1800.

Traveler 915BT Laser is a laser mouse with Bluetooth capabilities, the latest creation from the Genius, which is deliberately designed for traveling and has the size of a mobile phone. Users no longer need to receiver, because the user can instantly menkoneksikan the Traveler 915BT Laser, a Bluetooth mini laser mouse, Bluetooth to a notebook in there directly. This device can eliminate the distance and give the user freedom.
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CD / DVD-ROM driver for installation softwareh resolution 1600dpi advanced sensors to track the surface of varieties, rather than better optical device, even able to penetrate walls or wood surfaces. Mouse is an ideal choice for notebook. Traveler 915BT Laser has a unique design metal eye-CATCHING. There is a scroll-4D, which provides faster Internet browsing, the key left, right, up, down, is a key function that is useful and looks comfortable.

Mouse Traveler 915BT Laser has two functions simultaneously, ie, as a mouse and presenter. Simply press the switch between mouse and presenter. Mouse is suitable for the investor who like traveling, and the user will be more productive when using it. The main features of the Traveler 915BT Laser mouse:
Slim and flat design with metal cover
Switch to 1600/800dpi Bluetooth mini laser, easily connect with Bluetooth notebook
Laser technology provides more power than the LED optic mouse
Surface of the user-friendly
Dual function, for the mouse and presenter
4D scroll for browsing the Internet and Windows documents
Switch to save battery power
Ideal for notebook users
Specifications Traveler 915BT Laser mouse:
Interface: Notebook with Bluetooth Wireless technology
System: Windows Vista / XP x64/XP, Mac OS 10.2.8 or above
Number of keys: 4
Resolution (dpi): 1600 (default) / 800 dpi laser engine
Scrolling: 4D scroll
Batteries: 2 AAA
PC: IBM PC Pentium 233 or higher
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An ancient nation Ceritera Maya said that 10,000 years ago, they are in the peak of civilization. Although experts doubting ancient truth "time 10,000 years ago," is in their, but I will still be considered as something very important, because no one can explain, the origin from which the Maya peoples and then they go perginya. Because has been proven, that the cities of the nation Maya not destroyed by war or natural disaster disaster. Cities that have been abandoned as such by the population. Maya nation has disappeared without the former. Why they have left the cities they are great, they wake up "to survive long into the future" with the beam-beam is intact?

Have recognized that what is called the period "before the time of the ancient" is between 1000-2000 years before Christ, but in this case is recognized by the university, they did not know what-even on the "old era" that actually, that preceded "the era of before the era of the ancient. " It is very likely, that all "significant incident" in history that until now could not be found, there are books in the book that has been burned by lye bishop.
There are only three books from the ancient writing of the nation does not participate in the Maya burned; lembarannya made from tree bark and the folded-fold as harmonica. Books is called the name of the place, where each is stored: Dresdensis Codex (Codex = ancient book in hand), and the Paris Codex Madrid Codex, also known as Tro-Cortesianus.

Hot writings that have been colored yellow as parents, are still not truly be understood. That have been dapatdipecahkan is "system according to the numbers" they are very good, but simple. They calculate with the scratch-scratching, which are dots on top of it. One point equal to 1, with 3 three-point, its ff. Figures 5 is depicted with a sketch, so the number 7 to be a stroke added two points above. Maya is also the nation to know the values and the relative zero. They use the system "vigesima", on the basis of 20. If they want to write the number 23, then put them three points in the "unit" and one sketch in the "twenty". Mudahlah to distinguish
"Twenty-scratches" from "scratches limaan".
Scratches were given two tens place far higher than the scratches on limaan. Maya calendar nations have a very high quality. Beginning date of the order of time they are a day in the year 3113 before Christ. Experts from the United States southern states, that magical year 3113 before Christ there is no hitungannya with the actual history of the Maya peoples, but will only have a value of the original "symbolic" speech such as the Jews "since creation of the world."

How can they say it is so certain, if we do not know the origin of the Maya people came and went where they disappeared. Very banyaklah any posts are any posts about the Maya calendar of the nation. One fact is that the calendar system that uses lap-lap-year period putarannya every 374,000 years. Buildings according to established kalendernya: For each day during the month of a child, for each month a "platform, and finally, on to the 365, where already stand them. It seems as if the Maya peoples of the ancient kingdom that make religious buildings because they are not pushed by the needs of the trust, but because the calendar impose an obligation that they must meet them. Observatory experts astrology them, a round building on the terrace of two giants that tower high above the forest grove, located in Chichen Itza. Experts know the constellation of the nation Maya orbit in four months to decimal, and they can also calculate the year to the planet Venus to the three decimal.

According to ancient Ceritera, the beginning of the gods of the nations of the Maya came the stars, the relationship with the earth, and then return to the stars stars. In the "Popol Vuh", a nation Ceritera ancient Maya, are the youth of 4000 that horizon back to the "seven stars", after the defeat they suffered in the scuffle with the man. God Kukulkan appearance-apparently betukar Aztec nation with the news, called Quetzalcoatl. He is described as a feathered serpent, and who come from the sky. If those nations Maya, in her life every day to see pennon crawl on the ground, then sulitlah to understand, why pennon picture in relief, and they can "fly". The writings of Maya peoples still exist, covering 208 pages according to how the folded harmonica. And see many many macamnya signs, forms, symbols, symbols and forms of combination, it is not surprising that until now only sedikitlah means that can be solved.

Paintings on the fiber of trees which are thin layers of limestone as a base paintings, kept between two glass sheets. "Dresden Codex" has 74 pages and contains about astrology and the calculation also includes lists of movement and travel days and the planet Mars. In the paintings are always seen the grisly creature shaped like a snake in the near-number. Being connected with the moon and the earth to spew water. Being "human" is put on the mask and the complex, and often seems to be put on such a wet suit. Are they the pastor-pastor Maya nations that are doing the experiment, animals or animal experiments? Beings that can not be determined beings, what is actually, by using the many tools that exotic.

"Paris Codex" was bought by the "Bibliotheque Nationable" (National Library) in 1832 from a collection. Created from the same material with the "Dresden Codex" and have 22 pages that are already damaged. In the last century, maintenance of pages folded-folding is so jeleknya so that now only two pages that can only be in a box of glass. Fortunately for us is that of "Paris Codex" mainly contains the forecast-forecast according to the calendar. "Codex Madrid" stored in the "Museo de America" in Madrid, and consists of 112 pages illustrated, where the image can be seen deities in the attitude of the religious ceremony. Images and part-part, to the small is very interesting. We can see all kinds of objects in the picture-image.
Reek gods on earth, leather, gods before eating blood vessel, with a penalty on the tongue thrust, a goddess with a snake head on the wheel spinning. I was copying parts of books, which is only known by the experts only, so that each person has and the attention to and have attention to this problem, can assess their own what is truly drawn. I have suspected, that the people will formulate ideas-ideas more freely than a nation of experts Maya.

During the investigation, penyelidikannya in the field from 1949 until 1952, a Mexico expert ancient nation named Alberto Ruz Lhuiller storage room to find a corpse in the "Temple of script writing in Palenque. Front room of the temple which is located on the highest podium bertangga a pyramid, there is a slightly sloping bordes a steep and slippery because of the air humidity, which menjurus down to almost 75 feet and ended up 6 feet under ground. Insomuch Tangganya hidden, so that we can pull the conclusion, that the ladder was certainly concealed. The size and location of rooms that match the "understanding of witchcraft" (Marcel Brion). Experts with adjuvant-old pembantunya take three years to clean up the ladder, from top to the foundation. Terbuatdari room floor is one piece of stone measuring 14 feet long and 7 feet wide, with a picture of extraordinary relief. I have never seen an other relief, which is beautiful and so carefully pembuatannya. Carving-carved Maya there are nations in the vicinity of corners of a flat surface, but only very sedikitlah of carving carvings-that means that can be solved. Datarnya decorated with stone carvings, carving, as there are any posts in the Dresden Codex Madrid and Paris. In the pictures that we see a mask of the god earth, with the trappings in the chest feathers, lace and lace-pipe-pipe from the color of the stones and not also considered a holy bird (bird Kwitzel from middle America). Paul Rivet, a group of experts who have found ancient remains in the room in the temple of Palenque, said, that the person depicted Indiannya was sitting on the altar and the sacrifice that behind places duduknya graven god Weather beard hair, which is always motifmotif recrudesce dikota -Maya city.

Under the stone piece that is decorated in beautiful, there is a framework in which a coffin be painted red. A gold mask covering the face; some grains of stone found in the first frame, as if the ritual objects and religious objects, objects that sacrificed. Since I see the grave stones in Palengue that, then I interpret and merumuskannya in terms tekhnik. It does not become a problem, whether we are using this, or the point of view, but I have a feeling, that there are adventurers adventurers-space involved in this matter. Portrait-portrait that I never see the grave stone, which is behind a locked iron door that is the result of the photographer shooting the film "Train-the train of the god of war do? "After eight times of applying, then the government allows us to work for half an hour with the camera and lighting - spotlight. Portrait portrait will provide a better picture to the readers about the issues that I talked of the pictures in my book the first. Finally all of the menujukkan, that the grave stone that is a framework that in the middle there is a middle makhuk, who sat quite membongkok to the front (like an Astronaut in the module komandonya).

Being foreign is put on a helmet hats, hats from the back of the helmet is out mencuat two pipe stem. There is a nose in front of the oxygen apparatus. Being the kind of tools are the key observation with both hands. Fingers that arranged the top, as if being a key is being set up in the future. We see from the rear, four fingers of the hand down the crooked finger kelingkingnya. What creature does not look like that are the tool controller as there is a stir in the motorcycle? Heels left foot on the pedal bertangga. See the relief in the Palengue akan heran see reality, that "the Indian people who are on the altar of" the wear which is very modern. Right under the dagunya there is such a roll neck wool shirt. Shirt has a narrow sleeve, which ends at the wrist to be folded up. He used belt on the wrist, to be folded up. He used wide belt, and wear long trousers, the top section width and figured as the retina, while the lower, ranging from slightly above the knee to hold the ankle is narrow. Circle in the legs look like the clothes wear socks for a full astronaut!, The equipment in which the adventurous space is sitting in prison with a rigid, showing the technical characteristics of equipment for space travel.

Microsoft Corp. has announced that the government will stop support for Office 2003 on 14 April, the same day with the termination of Windows XP. Office 2003, which have experienced the last update in September 2007 not with Service Pack 3 (SP3), mainstream support will be discontinued in less than two weeks, and will enter the extended support.
Microsoft has released Office 2003 in November 2007. Meanwhile, according to Microsoft policy, mainstream support will provide a free repair, to patch security bugs and other for all people. While the support extended, non-security improvements provided only to companies that have support contracts with Microsoft. Date 14 April will also include Microsoft Windows XP to the support extended.

On Saturday (04 / 4) then, Microsoft has been that the hackers have targeted 2003 for PowerPoint exploited. Microsoft will also continue to provide security updates for all users of Office 2003 during the extended support phase. Support also includes extended refresh regularly junk-mail in Outlook. Meanwhile, Office 2003 extended support will end on 8 April 2014.

Digg, a social news site where users can find news and share content from anywhere on the Internet, have created new features for Digg user satisfaction, ie, DiggBar. Interface DiggBar this interface will be applied in the Digg Blog. The fact that there is DiggBar about this feature is not like a traditional toolbar and installed must be downloaded, the toolbar, but this one is far more practical. DiggBar own style navigation roll-over to save more time and see when the page is greater.
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iPhone 3.0 is exposed to cracker? yet have a month after the launch of iPhone operating system 3.0 Beta, now the system has been infected cracker. Reporting system cracker iPhone 3.0 presented in the blog and QuickPWN claim that cracker can create iPhone software to automatically open the iPhone is not officially or false. Cracker that is working for a Russian hacker dijuluki as the Vortex. Blog is also said that the news is not created by the developer team has iPhone. May have been a lot of iPhone developers who want to upgrade iPhone 3.0, iPod Touch 3.0 or 3G iPhone 3.0, but they do not want to release the secret. However, Vortex Russian hacker has released a confidential crack in the iPhone 3.0 iPhoneApps.ru website., And when the crack is tried in the iPod Touch Firmware 3.0 Beta 2, has also been successful. However, the crack has however the possibility to create a bug in the iPhone 3.0.

Meanwhile, the iPhone 3.0 developer team also have been trying to crack the system the previous version, but this was the case in a rift system software that has not been previously repaired, and because the software is still in beta. This will turn off the ability to make Apple users to run applications that do not terotorisasi from Apple for their iPhone. Apple also has updated the terms and conditions milikinya to prohibit the use of the software cracker in Russia. (H_n)

Jakarta - The program is called evil Kido aka Conficker aka Downadup has spread. New version also threatens internet users. How do I remove them?
Here are tips from the computer to delete Kido delivered by antivirus company Kaspersky in detikINET information received, on Thursday (2/4/2009):

Peranti special called KKiller.exe can be used to remove this worm.

To prevent all of the computers and servers infected Kido, you are advised to do the following steps:


Install the patch from Microsoft that the rift MS08-067, MS08-068, MS09-001.
Make sure that the local administrator account password can not be easily diterka-password must consist of at least 6 characters which is a mix between capital letters and non-capital, numbers and special characters such as punctuation.
Turn off features that run the file in a USB flash disk automatically.

Peranti KKiller.exe can be run locally on the computer that is infected or run a remote bantukan with Kaspersky Administration Kit.

To Delete The Local


KKiller_v3.4.3.zip Download and extract the package to a folder in the computer that is infected.
Run the file KKiller.exe. When the scan is complete, bsia command prompt window appears on the screen. To me, that minimize the window, press any ombol. So that the window is closed automatically, it is suggested KKiller.exe gar run with the parameter "-y".
Wait until the scan selesai.Bila Agnitum Outpost Firewall installed on computers that run KKiller.exe, restart after KKiller.exe.
Make a full scan on the computer with Kaspersky Anti-Virus.


To Delete the Administration Kit


KKiller_v3.4.3.zip Download and extract the contents into a folder.
In the console Administration Kit, create installation packages for KKiller.exe. In the package installation, select "Make installation package for speficied executable file." In the box "command line executable file (optional)" any posts of the parameters "-y" to the console window is closed automatically after the process is complete.
Create a task for remote installation can be done globally or only a certain group. Run the task. KKiller.exe can be run on all computers in the network.
When KKiller.exe work is completed, scan the computer using Kaspersky Anti-Virus.Kalau Agnitum Outpost Firewall is installed on the computer, restart the PC after KKiller.exe used. To obtain additional information, run KKiller.exe with additional parameter "-help".

AMD has introduced the ATI Radeon HD 4890. Graphics card processor is referred to as the most powerful in the world.

Graphics card on the market, 'red bastion' ATI Radeon continued strength collide with the 'citadel hijau' its Nvidia. On 2 April 2009, AMD also introduced the newest member of the family ATI Radeon HD 4000 series.
Numbered series ATI Radeon HD 4890, graphics processor is referred to as the most powerful in the world. Ability diarak the ATI Radeon HD 4890 DirectX 10.1 include, perhaps game-game terbaru akan appear more formidable with the support of DirectX 10.1.

Some games that have been called to support DirectX 10.1 is Tom Clancy's HAWX (Ubisoft) BattleForge (Electronic Arts) and Stormrise (Sega). Likewise detikINET quoted from the written description, Saturday (4/4/2009).

AMD also claims Radeon HD 4890 as the most powerful in the world. Graphics processor is called the power of computing has a 1:36 TeraFLOPs (based on AMD internal testing). As a comparison, Nvidia GeForce GTX 280 GPUReview.com been tested by the ability to record komputansi 1.06 TeraFLOPs.

In addition, the AMD ATI Radeon HD 4890 using GDDR5 memory and the machine with the ability to 1GHz clock speed. Ability to multimedianya, this graphics card is claimed to be able to bring the quality of High Definition with HDMI support.

AMD ATI Radeon HD 4890 will be available starting from USD 260 price range. Partners AMD has been preparing to bring the latest graphics card from the 'red bastion', including ASUS, Gigabyte, MSI, bankrupt Multimedia, Sapphire and others.

SAN FRANCISCO — T-Mobile is planning an aggressive push deep into the home with a variety of communications devices that will use Google’s new Android operating software that already runs one of its cellphones.
T-Mobile plans to sell a home phone early next year and soon after a tablet computer, both running Android, according to confidential documents obtained from one of the company’s partners. The phone will plug into a docking station and come with another device that handles data synchronization as it recharges the phone’s battery.

A T-Mobile spokesman, Peter Dobrow, declined to discuss the specifics of any future products but confirmed that T-Mobile had plans for several devices based on Android.

Last August, T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth-largest wireless carrier after AT&T, Verizon and Sprint, was the first carrier to sell a cellphone, the G1, based on the Android software, an operating system that handles the basic functions for mobile devices.

Google maintains some control over Android, even though the software is open source, meaning other companies can alter it to suit their needs. But so far, only the T-Mobile phone, made by the Taiwanese manufacturer HTC, uses the software.

Android competes with operating systems made by Apple, Microsoft, Nokia and others. The vision for the operating system, however, has stretched to cover a wide range of mobile devices, including computers.

T-Mobile’s use of Android to advance its ambitions also shows just how blurry the line has become between phones and computers. Its tablet-size phone device resembles a small laptop without a keyboard and has a seven-inch touch screen. It would handle basic computing jobs like checking the weather or managing data across a variety of devices in the home.

“All of the carriers are going to be supporting these mobile Internet devices that range from laptops to smartphones,” said Greg Sterling, an analyst with Opus Research, which monitors the mobile industry.

It started slowly, but Android has attracted more interest lately among handset manufacturers and carriers. For example, Samsung committed last week to ship a number of Android-based phones this year, with T-Mobile and Sprint likely to offer the devices in the United States.

In addition, Motorola is expected to sell a phone running Android by October, according to industry analysts. HTC has also said it planned to make other Google phones.

Smaller companies have seized on Android as well. For example, a start-up called Touch Revolution, based in San Francisco, uses the software to run a desk phone with a seven-inch screen. The device handles calls, voicemail and e-mail through its wireless access.

The chief executive of Touch Revolution, Mark Hamblin, worked on creating Apple’s touch-screen technology for the iPhone. He said that home phones with advanced software could offer people functions that go beyond what today’s cellphones do.

For example, the company’s phones will have many of the functions of computers. Some will have larger screens, which makes them handy for displaying recipes and a family calendar. “If you put this in a convenient location in the house, it will get a lot of use,” Mr. Hamblin said.

T-Mobile shares in this grand vision of more sophisticated devices in the home. For instance, its line of Cameo digital picture frames can receive new photos sent via e-mail or from cellphones. T-Mobile would like to link phones, photo frames, digital cameras, security systems, webcams and TVs through its software and networking services.

Verizon, with its new Hub phone, and AT&T, with its HomeManager, sell similar products that merge the delivery of information and phone calls on a computerlike appliance.

“This is their attempt to keep people interested in landline services,” Mr. Sterling, the analyst, said.

AT&T announced a trial program last week in which it will sell small, low-cost laptops known as netbooks for just $50 to people signing long-term contracts for its wireless data services.
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