NEWSMAKERS: ============= US spacecraft enters Mars orbit, India probe next: CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Next up, India. With NASAs Maven spacecraft safely in orbit around Mars, the spotlight shifts to Indias first mission to the red planet. The Indian spacecraft is due to slip into Martian orbit Tuesday night (Wednesday morning in India.) Its Indias first interplanetary mission, and no nation has been fully successful getting to the red planet on its first try. There have been more than three dozen attempts, and more than half of them have failed. So U.S. scientists were relieved when Maven reached its destination after a 442 million-mile journey that began nearly a year ago. It joined three spacecraft, two American and one European, orbiting Mars. >>>>>> The Carbon Time Bomb Is Set to Go Off in 30 Years—or Less Every kid who’s ever played with a bucket and a garden hose knows that the bucket will overflow and make a mess unless the water gets shut off in time. The global bucket of carbon dioxide is now two-thirds full, according to a new study published in Nature Geoscience. And we’re running out of time to cut that carbon flow to limit global temperature increases to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels to prevent catastrophic climate change. The report was released as more than 310,000 people marched in Manhattan on Sunday to demand action on climate change as world leaders prepare gather in New York City for Tuesday’s United Nations Climate Summit. To achieve the 2-degree target, that bucket’s maximum capacity is 3,200 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide, said Pierre Friedlingstein, a climate and carbon cycle modeler at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. We can only emit another 1,200 billion tons of carbon dioxide after 2015 if we want to remain on track. >>>>>> Samsung may launch first Tizen phone in India SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Samsung Electronics Co., which faces a slowdown in emerging market smartphone sales, will release its long-delayed Tizen-powered handset in India before the end of this year, a report said Monday. Samsungs first Tizen-based device will be launched in November in India, said Tarun Malik, director of Samsungs Media Solutions Center in Southwest Asia, in an interview with Economic Times. The Tizen mobile platform is Samsungs effort to build its own mobile ecosystem akin to Googles Android and Apples iOS. Samsung is the worlds biggest smartphone supplier claiming nearly one third of the global sales, most of its smartphones are powered by Googles Android system. That reliance means Samsung phone users tied to Googles services can easily switch to other Android devices from Samsungs Galaxy lineup. The Tizen device to be released in India will coexist with the Android devices, Malik said in the report. Samsungs headquarters in Seoul said it had no comment. Samsung faces rising threats from local brands in China and India, which have hurt its sales of cheap handsets. The maker of Galaxy smartphones and tablets was beaten by Xiaomi in smartphone sales in China during the second quarter according to Canalys, a market research firm. In India, Samsung was overtaken by Micromax in mobile handset sales during the second quarter, according to Counterpoint Technology Market Research, a Hong Kong-based market research firm.
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