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After the President speech and the overwhelming information he uncovered.

One might wonder if we should give up on this BIPARTISANSHIP idea.

The truth is the American people don’t have time to watch the information provided.

They don’t understand the significance of the hidden lies. (True Lies)

That could be the reason why the President is pushing for education stimulus.

I feel sorry for those high educated people who can’t decide for them self.

Those people or slaves to the second G.

(Sorry for my French)

Peter G

SES Global offers cash for internet project

By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York

Published: November 16 2009 05:27 | Last updated: November 16 2009 05:27
O3b Networks, the Google-backed satellite venture seeking to bring affordable internet access to the “other three billion” people not served by current broadband infrastructure, will on Monday announce it has received its largest single investment.

New Monitoring Solutions from Trimble Combines Both GNSS and Optical Technologies to Monitor Dams, Bridges, Buildings and More

Monitor Movement in Real Time with New Trimble 4D Control Software

SUNNYVALE, CA /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) introduced a new version of its Trimble 4D Control software, the core of Trimble monitoring solutions, that combines Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and optical technologies for real-time deformation monitoring applications. The software is ideal for monitoring dams, bridges, buildings, pipeline support piers, large-scale construction and excavation sites, underground and open pit mines, landslides, tunnels, and other structures.

"With heightened safety concerns about aging infrastructure, deformation monitoring is a growing market," said Chris Gibson, vice president for Trimble's Surveying Division. "The new software allows users to leverage the optimal combination of sensor technologies to control, manage and analyze deformation measurements for a wide variety of engineering projects and alert project staff of potentially unsafe conditions requiring action."

InvenSense™ Unveils World's First Motion Processing Unit™ (MPU) for Smartphones with Digital 3-Axis Gyro and Built-In Sensor Fusion

Single-Chip Integrated MPU Enables Concurrent Operation of Location Based Services, 3D Gaming, Image Stabilization and Gesture Recognition with Embedded HW Acceleration Engine

SUNNYVALE, Calif., January 26, 2010 – InvenSense, Inc., the number one supplier of MEMS gyroscopes1 for motion processing solutions in consumer electronics, today announced the MPU-3000™ family of motion processing units. The MPU-3000 features the industry’s first 3-axis gyroscope with an embedded Digital Motion Processor™ (DMP) hardware accelerator engine. Today’s multi-purpose smartphones require a small, low-power gyro to provide wide bandwidth for motion-based gaming as well as high sensitivity and low noise performance for navigation assistance, video and still image stabilization and accurate gesture user interface control. The MPU-3000 provides a series of industry first features for complete motion processing in smartphones including the widest range of motions from 250 to over 2000 degrees/sec, built-in 16-bit ADCs, programmable digital filters, factory calibration to 1% sensitivity, built-in 6-axis sensor fusion, and 13mW of power consumption.

Motorola Powers Far EasTone WiMAX 4G Service

New service launch brings next-generation mobile broadband experience to Taichung users

January 25, 2010

TAIPEI, Taiwan – January 26, 2010 – Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced that Far EasTone Telecom (FET), a leading telecom operator in Taiwan, has launched its WiMAX 4G service in Taichung city with Motorola Home & Networks Mobility's end-to-end WiMAX solutions. The high-speed network is based on the latest 4G technology that supports services such as mobile movies and music, family-oriented digital entertainment and mobile Internet access, enabling a new media mobility lifestyle for FET's subscribers.

Motorola signed deployment and expansion contracts with FET in 2007 and 2009 respectively, and has deployed end-to-end solutions such as high-performance WAP 400 and WAP 450 base stations and Connectivity Service Network (CSN) Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA)/Home Agent (HA) solutions for FET. The new WiMAX network covers most of Taichung city, and the network coverage and capacity will be further expanded as usage grows.

America's Most Impressive Ski Homes - CNBC

America's Most Impressive Ski Homes - CNBC

Cisco Introduces First Service Provider Operations Certification Track and Refreshes CCNP Certification to Reflect Evolving Network Engineering Job Roles

Expansion of Certification Program Meets Growing Global Demand for Skilled Network Professionals

BARCELONA, Spain (Cisco Networkers) – Jan. 25, 2010 – In response to growing demand for highly qualified professionals capable of designing, implementing, securing and operating increasingly sophisticated networks and technical infrastructure, Cisco today announced a new Service Provider (SP) Operations certification track as well as a major revision of its popular CCNP® certification.

LORAL ENTERS INTO AGREEMENT WITH BARRETT XPLORE INC. TO PROVIDE NEW HIGH THROUGHPUT SATELLITE CAPACITY IN CANADA IN 2011

Loral Will Lease Up to 100 Percent of Its Capacity on ViaSat-1 for Broadband Services

NEW YORK, Jan 7, 2010 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- Loral Space & Communications Inc. (Nasdaq:LORL) today announced that it has entered into an agreement with Barrett Xplore Inc., Canada's largest rural broadband provider, to deliver high throughput satellite Ka-band capacity for broadband services in Canada. Under the agreement, Loral will lease up to 100 percent of the capacity that it owns on the ViaSat-1 satellite to Barrett Xplore for the expected life of the satellite. ViaSat-1 is currently under construction at Space Systems/Loral and is scheduled for launch in early 2011.

NASA to Boost Speed of Deep Space Communications

By Jeremy Hsu
SPACE.com Contributor

Rovers and deep space probes can forget about quickly posting cool high-definition videos to YouTube, given the painfully slow data transfer rates for most of today's space missions.

But NASA wants to change that by fusing together three aged space communication networks into a much faster, more efficient data network worthy of 21st century missions to the moon, Mars and beyond. And it hopes to do it all without costing taxpayers an extra cent.

NASA's overhaul aims to boost space communication by as much as 50 times faster than today's data transfer rates, so that a Mars mission squeaking by on a few megabits per second might someday get as much as 600 megabits per second, if not more. That could enable far more scientific payoff per mission in the long run.

Shipments of RFMD's Industry-Leading 2G Transmit Module Surpass 25 Million, are Expected to Exceed 100 Million Units in Calendar 2010

RF71xx Family of 2G Transmit Modules Powering RFMD's Growth In Emerging Markets

GREENSBORO, N.C., Dec 1, 2009 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX News Network) -- RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq:RFMD), a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, today announced that RFMD has surpassed 25 million units in shipments of its industry-leading RF71xx family of 2G dual-band and quad-band transmit modules. RFMD commenced volume shipments of the RF71xx product family in early calendar 2009, and shipments of RF71xx products currently exceed 20 million units per quarter.

Emerging and Exotic Auditory Interfaces

Anticipating some emerging audio devices and features, this paper surveys trends in mobile telephony (especially regarding mobile internet in Japan), wearable/intimate multimedia computing, handheld/nomadic/portable interfaces, and embedded systems like multimedia furniture, especially including research by the author's own group, which has built interfaces using Java3D, MPEG-4, and QTVR.

KU radar system provides 3D image of earth through miles of ice - KU News

LAWRENCE — In the cover article of the latest issue of the Journal of Glaciology, engineers at the University of Kansas detail a special radar array they developed that is capable of depicting a 3D view of bedrock hidden beneath ice sheets three kilometers thick.

The Internet of Things Gets Another Boost

By: Melanie Martella
http://www.sensorsmag.com/

This week has seen the FedEx and IBM talking about plans for wireless sensor networking. Not that that's what they call it, mind. They're more likely to talk about smart packages or smart infrastructure, but at heart, both reflect an integration of sensors, communications, and processing to enable complex intelligence gathering in a way that previously only cropped up in science fiction.

Cisco Puts an Internet Router in Space

In a move that could revolutionize satellite communications, Cisco extends the Internet into space for testing by the U.S. government and businesses

By Laurence Cruz
Cisco Systems wants to put a router on every communications satellite.
The networking giant has already sent the first one into space. The company announced today that the router has successfully completed initial in-orbit tests, after being launched Nov. 23 aboard the Intelsat 14 communications satellite into geosynchronous orbit, 22,300 miles above the Earth.
The move is one small step in a bold, new Cisco initiative dubbed Internet Routing in Space (IRIS), which company executives say extends the same Internet protocol-based (IP) technology used to build the World Wide Web into the heavens. The long-term goal, they say, is to route voice, data and video traffic between satellites over a single IP network in ways that are more efficient, flexible and cost effective than is possible over today's fragmented satellite communications networks.

Cisco HealthPresence Demo: Technology Recreates Face-to-Face Doctor's Visit

Cisco and the Discovery Channel team to demonstrate Cisco's HealthPresence, which creates a live, face-to-face office visit for doctors and patients, even when they are hundreds of miles apart.

CBC News - Technology & Science - Consumer electronics 2011: the future is wireless

The Wi-Fi router will have some competition starting in late 2010 as all sorts of consumer electronics will gain the ability to connect devices. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press)

If one were to guess what will be the big star of next year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, it wouldn't be too crazy to suggest a new wireless technology called Wi-Fi Direct.

Think of it as the same sort of wireless internet access you get when you connect your laptop at a local café, except it'll be on everything — your television, your camera and even your printer. By next year's annual gadget circus in Las Vegas, Wi-Fi Direct will be allowing all sorts of devices to connect to the internet, and each other. More importantly, it will offer the promise of largely removing those scourges of the technology world: cables and wires.

"You can expect that to be the case. Our members have been very energized around this program," says Edgar Figueroa, executive director of the Wi-Fi Alliance, in an interview at this year's recently concluded CES. "There's a perfect storm brewing with consumer demands and expectations."

General Dynamics awarded national intelligence contract

General Dynamics awarded national intelligence contract

The National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems an Advanced Technical Exploitation Program contract. This five-year contract has a ceiling value of $600 million to be competed among the three awardees who received contracts. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics.

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What Does 2010 Hold for the Communications Sector?

January 1, 2010 | Via Satellite | Jason Bates

Even though the satellite sector was touted as recession-proof, many companies are glad to put a difficult year behind them. And while there is no guarantee that 2010 will be immediately better, the communications sector is looking forward to what should be a much improved overall marketplace. Areas that should be good for satellite players in the coming years are:

 Hybrid networks for corporate communications. The market will continue to see demand for improved communications, and the growth of hybrid networks that include satellite contributions integrated with terrestrial components is gaining traction. Videoconferencing is growing among corporate users in the United States and Europe, both with permanent installations and for occasional use facilities that can be reserved as needed.
 All forms of mobile connectivity, primarily for the satcom-on-the-move and machine-to-machine corporate markets. There also is optimism that the MSS consumer market will see growth as more capable satellites become operational, better user equipment hits the market and transportation segments such as airlines and trains look for satellite services to help derive more revenue.

Chinese Rocket Launches New Navigation Satellite

By Stephen Clark

A Chinese Long March rocket hauled a new navigation satellite to a high-altitude perch over Earth on Saturday, marking the first space launch of the year for the world's space programs. The Long March 3C rocket blasted off from the Xichang space center at 1612 GMT (11:12 a.m. EST) Saturday, or just after midnight Sunday morning local time, state media reported. The 180-foot-tall booster flew east from Xichang, which is situated in Sichuan province in southwestern China. The Beidou, or Compass, navigation satellite was placed on a trajectory toward geosynchronous orbit, according to the Xinhua news agency.

Wireless traffic detection with Sitraffic Wimag from Siemens replaces inductive loops

Erlangen, Germany, 2010-Jan-15

With Sitraffic Wimag, Siemens Mobility offers a completely new type of detector technology. It operates with high precision, does not require any type of wiring and can be installed in just a few minutes. The system is based on magnetic sensors.

Kraft and Cadbury Agree on Friendly Merger

By MICHAEL J. DE LA MERCED and CHRIS V. NICHOLSON

Published: January 19, 2010

NEW YORK — After months of fiercely resisting any deal, Cadbury agreed Tuesday to an improved takeover offer from Kraft, worth about $19 billion, to create the world’s largest confectioner.
Together Kraft, the maker of Oreo cookies and Ritz crackers, and Cadbury, the producer of Trident gum and Dairy Milk chocolates, would have more than $50 billion in annual revenue and a big presence in markets from the United States to India.

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Are Microsoft's Support Policies Burning Businesses?

I've written it many times before: Nobody is more generous with support lifecycles than Microsoft. Operating system security updates are provided for about 10 years. Are Linux or Mac OS versions from 10 years ago still being updated? The answer is and has been "no," and for a long time.

Combine this with a couple of side policies of Microsoft's: The company doesn't issue new browsers with OS service packs, but Microsoft continues to support the browser that comes with the operating system for about 10 years. The technical term for this is "Nearly Unlimited Technical Support" or NUTS.

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INTERSPUTNIK AND EUTELSAT ANNOUNCE LONG-TERM AGREEMENT FOR EXTENSIVE CAPACITY ON THE NEW W7 SATELLITE

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Intersputnik guarantees long term availability of capacity at Eutelsat's 36° East neighbourhood for digital TV and broadband services in Russia.

Paris, Moscow, 15 January 2010

The INTERSPUTNIK International Organization of Space Communications, and Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) today announced the signature of a major contract for the long-term lease of 16 transponders at Eutelsat's 36° East video neighbourhood. The new agreement follows the entry into commercial service of Eutelsat’s W7 satellite, copositioned with W4, which has enabled Eutelsat to double resources at this flagship location for television broadcasting, including for Russian and Ukrainian markets.

The 16 transponders have been leased by Intersputnik for the entire in-orbit life of W7, progressively joining over the next two years the four transponders already leased by Intersputnik on Eutelsat’s W4 satellite.

Intersputnik will deploy the new capacity to support the rapid expansion of digital TV in Russia. It will in particular provide new resources for the Gazprom Media Group to boost the range of channels offered in its NTV Plus and Tricolor platforms. The transponders will also enable new satellite broadband access offers to be provided to homes beyond range of terrestrial broadband networks.

Cox Wireless Service Coming in March

Cox Communications will launch its wireless service in March in three markets, starting out on Sprint Nextel's network while Cox works to build its own network.

The provider of cable TV, broadband and fixed-line voice service announced in October 2008 it would add a mobile component to its offerings by building its own 3G (third-generation) wireless network. The service did launch in 2009 as planned, though only in three markets and on a test basis, using the Sprint infrastructure.

Cox Wireless Service Coming in March - PCWorld Business Center

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Technology Comes to the Rescue in Haiti

International aid workers are scrambling to rebuild communications in Haiti following the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, while people outside the country are using high-tech means to raise money for relief.

The quake, which leveled much of the capital city, Port-au-Prince, also cut off many forms of communication in the country, according to an eyewitness report provided to IDG News Service by the United Nations Foundation on Friday. That organization, along with the World Food Program (WFP), Telecoms Sans Frontiers and other organizations, are bringing in new equipment to reconnect citizens and aid workers with the rest of the world.

Technology Comes to the Rescue in Haiti - PCWorld Business Center

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Alibaba Calls Yahoo's Support of Google 'reckless' - PCWorld Business Center

Alibaba Calls Yahoo's Support of Google 'reckless' - PCWorld Business Center

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Clearwire may consider 4G alternatives to WiMax

WiMax may be Clearwire's technology of choice today as it builds out its nationwide 4G wireless network, but the upstart carrier may eventually migrate to a competing technology that's expected to be used by most of the world's major wireless operators.

Clearwire's willingness to add additional 4G technologies to its network in the future will likely help it compete more aggressively in the future with other 4G wireless providers, such as Verizon Wireless. And ultimately this could mean more choices, better services, and more competitive pricing for wireless broadband services for consumers.

In an interview with CNET after the 2010 CES trade show in Las Vegas where Clearwire was showing off its new network, Mike Sievert, chief commercial officer for Clearwire, said his company doesn't want to be identified solely as a WiMax carrier. Instead, he said people should think of Clearwire as a mobile broadband company that is open to different types of technology. This is a big change for a company that has been held up as the poster child for WiMax.

"We take a long term view of the market and we do not have a myopic view of a particular flavor of technology," he said. "We are building our network to be future proof. Because after 4G there will be 5G and 6G."

FCC orders wireless mic modifications

Broadway theaters, sports franchises, and other public entertainment forums must change the radio frequency they use for their wireless microphones under an order issued Friday by the Federal Communications Commission.
Under the order, the groups have until June 12 to find other radio frequencies, something the theaters said could cost thousands of dollars per institution but that they can do.
The FCC's ruling relates to a broader shift in the way the nation allocates precious spectrum used to transmit signals for mobile phones, TVs, and other devices. The commission said the transition was necessary to make spectrum in the 700MHz band available for use by next-generation wireless services for consumers and public safety agencies.

Use of much of that spectrum has been licensed for around $20 billion by major wireless carriers.

The Connected Life Leading the 4G Mobile Internet Transformation

Please join Cisco at the Mobile World Congress, 15–18 February 2010 in Barcelona, Spain. This event is where the leaders of the mobile community come together to collaborate, create business opportunities and experience “vision in action”.

Advanced mobile devices and applications are driving explosive demand for mobile data services, creating unprecedented opportunities and challenges. Cisco is leading the mobile Internet transformation with intelligent, highly scalable, IP based networks, devices, and services.

At Mobile World Congress, Cisco will showcase leading mobile Internet solutions that uniquely help operators meet the challenges of the rapidly growing mobile Internet, while also driving new service revenues, new business models, and personalized user experiences.

General Dynamics Awarded $60 Million Contract by U.S. Air Force for Mission Operations Support

FAIRFAX, Va. – The U.S. Air Force has awarded General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems a five-year, $60 million contract to provide network management and mission operations support to the 480th Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) Wing’s Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS) and two network operations centers in Virginia and California. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics Corporation (NYSE:GD).

Under this contract, General Dynamics will continue to provide systems, network and communications engineering; technical project management; systems integration and administration; configuration management; and network security management. General Dynamics will also provide network management, mission and performance management and data traffic routing support for the DCGS network, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. General Dynamics has supported the 480th Intelligence Group since 1994.

New Report Predicts Explosive European Growth for Mobile Broadband

12 January 2010

An exclusive report released today by global analyst house CCS Insight predicts explosive growth for Mobile Broadband across Europe. Despite varying environments across Europe’s five major markets, the one common factor is growth, underpinned by HSPA and HSPA+ Mobile Broadband technology.

According to CCS Insight’s report, the European Mobile Broadband market will see subscriber and revenue numbers nearly double by 2011:

• Total Mobile Broadband subscribers in key European markets will rise from about 22 million at the end of 2009 to over 43 million in 2011
• Total revenue from Mobile Broadband access in the major markets will rise from less than €6 billion in 2009 to more than €11 billion in 2011

“It is clear from this report that with the right network investment, European mobile network operators will see significant growth in Mobile Broadband adoption in the next two years,” said Michael O’Hara, Chief Marketing Officer at the GSMA. “HSPA technology will drive this rapid uptake across Europe as mobile operators and their customers continue to benefit from its expanding, vibrant and competitive ecosystem. HSPA technology has a vast number of enabled devices and established roaming capabilities delivering high speed broadband connectivity to users on the move, right across Europe.”

Manchester to gain fibre network

By Jane Wakefield
Technology Reporter, BBC News

A project to build a fibre network in Manchester could offer insights into how the UK can make next-generation broadband pay for itself.

The network will serve homes and businesses in the area known as the Manchester corridor.

It will exist as a testbed for new services and is likely to be watched closely by national government bodies.

The UK has been criticised for being too slow to roll out next generation broadband.

The £1m project, funded by the North West Development Agency, will initially serve 500 businesses and 1,000 homes.

Shaun Fenson is an advisor to the Manchester Digital Development Agency which is overseeing the project. He believes it is the largest publicly-funded fibre-to-the-home rollout in the UK.

It is hoped that the network will allow Manchester to compete with other European cities and reinvigorate the media the technology sectors of the city.

Eye test may detect Alzheimer's

A simple eye test might be able to detect Alzheimer's and other diseases before symptoms develop, according to UK scientists.

The technique uses fluorescent markers which attach to dying cells which can be seen in the retina and give an early indication of brain cell death.

The research has been carried out on mice, but human trials are planned.

Scientists from University College London hope this could lead to a high street opticians test for the disease.

The research, which is published in the journal, Cell Death and Disease, could enable scientists to overcome the difficulty of investigating what is happening inside the brains of those with Alzheimer's.

They currently have to rely on expensive MRI scans or post-mortems.

Fluorescent dye

This new technique enables scientists to track the progress of brain disease by looking at dying cells in the retina.

Unitronics Unveils Largest Automated Parking Garage in U.S.

Hoboken Automated Parking Facility Generates Revenue for City, Solves Parking Shortage Problem & Greatly Conserves Energy


Quincy, MA - January 24, 2008 – Unitronics®, providing twenty years of excellence in automated solutions, today announced its completion of the Hoboken, New Jersey, 916 Garden Street automated parking facility. Frank Sinatra’s hometown can now proudly claim to have a large and sophisticated automated parking facility.

“As expected, Unitronics successfully delivered on its promise - the garage’s technology infrastructure is now running very smoothly to the point where we are now able to operate it independently,” said John Corea, Executive Director, Parking Utility, City of Hoboken. “The parking facility is a win-win situation for both the City and its citizens. Hoboken now has an additional source of revenue and the residents are pleased to have a good solution that helps to improve the parking availability in the city.”

The City of Hoboken selected Unitronics to retrofit the 314 parking space facility because of its expertise in providing automated technologies and solutions for global leaders. The company’s proprietary P2 ™ Automated Parking solution was implemented into the garage and is now responsible for enabling the City to operate the facility automatically and independently.

Telemedicine with Cisco TelePresence takes off at Garrahan, Argentina -> Cisco News

Telemedicine with Cisco TelePresence takes off at Garrahan, Argentina -> Cisco News

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Royal Caribbean International and Cisco Cruise to the Ultimate Guest Experience Aboard the World's Largest Cruise Ship -> Cisco News

Royal Caribbean International and Cisco Cruise to the Ultimate Guest Experience Aboard the World's Largest Cruise Ship -> Cisco News

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Cisco TelePresence Taking Climate Change Conference Virtual -> Cisco News

Cisco TelePresence Taking Climate Change Conference Virtual -> Cisco News

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