“Sometimes when I’m driving on the road at night, I see two headlights coming toward me. Fast. I have this sudden impulse to turn the wheel quickly, head-on into the oncoming car. I can anticipate the explosion. The sound of shattering glass. The flames rising out of the flowing gasoline”. — Annie Hall Just south [...]
A collection of non-profit groups staged a Silicon Valley Simulation Day, a demonstration of how low-cost technology can provide online access in the wake of an earthquake, hurricane or other calamity, reports the Mercury News. Gregg Swanson, a former Silicon Valley executive, organized the volunteer demonstration project. He started a group called HumaniNet (www.humaninet.org) in [...]
“T1 is like pizza — you order it, you get it. The problem is, you order it for dinner and you get it for lunch next day,” said Ali Afrashteh, VP of access technologies for Sprint Nextel. He expanded on the reasons behind the carrier’s move to WiMax at the “Backhaul Strategies for Mobile Operators” [...]
The ZigBee Alliance, a short-range, wireless solutions for use in residential, commercial and industrial applications, today announced the completion and immediate member availability of ZigBee 2006, its enhanced version of the ZigBee standard. The original ZigBee standard was ratified by members in December 2004. EE Times reports one of the main differences between the 2006 [...]
Intel today unveiled details around a high definition digital set-top box with integrated digital media adapter. Through the integrated DMA, the DIRECTV digital set-top box users can access pictures and music on their TVs from Intel Viiv PCs. In a keynote at the Intel Developer Forum, Intel President and CEO Paul Otellini detailed plans for [...]
MIT researchers, in collaboration with Boeing’s Phantom Works, have developed a UAV airborne fleet that requires little human supervision, covers a wide area, and automatically maintains the “health” of its vehicles, reports Science Daily. Aeronautics and Astronautics Professor Jonathan How, who heads the research team, believes it is the first platform to publicly demonstrate sustained, [...]
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