Images from Titan, Saturn’s moon are flooding down to Earth and intriguing scientists (NPR: Science Friday). The first radar images of Saturn’s smoggy moon show what appears to be a large lake, rolling ridges and lavalike flows of ice or ammonia, researchers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory said yesterday. The Cassini- Huygens mission to Saturn will [...]
A Marine unit deployed in Afghanistan is building its own wireless network to let troops communicate with friends and family at home, using donations of money and equipment. Government Computer News reports the 3rd Battalion of the 6th Marines raised $8,000 to buy a dish and pay through December for a satellite link from Bentley [...]
Conexant Systems today announced that its IEEE 802.11a/b/g dual-band PRISM WorldRadio MiniPCI Module reference design has achieved Wi-Fi Certification for WMM (Wi-Fi Multimedia) and WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access 2). WMM provides superior quality of service (QoS) features for wireless multimedia applications. WPA2 is based on the IEEE 802.11i standard and leverages advance encryption standard (AES) [...]
Electronics giant Philips has launched Inno Hub, a test-bed facility to test and fine-tune products developed at its Philips Innovation Campus. It’s part of the US$90M Philips is investing in Singapore, to develop products under the Connected Planet programme. Philips has also announced its participation in the Infocomm Development Authority’s “Connecting the Community” pilot project. [...]
AMD and Tata Indicom is launching a low-cost, rugged PC designed especially for first time technology users in developing countries. AMD’s Personal Internet Communicator will be manufactured by Solectron. It is about 8.5 inches long and 5.5 inches wide, four USB ports, VGA and modem ports and stereo headphone jacks. It runs on the AMD [...]
Yahoo is going mobile, so cell phones can search for Web pages, local business listings and related information, as well as images, such as pictures and maps The service will launch Wednesday on several U.S. carriers, the company said Wednesday. Users can access the services from a data-enabled phone by going to mobile.yahoo.com. Google’s SMS [...]
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