1/28/10

BusineSS’s Seriously

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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

1/27/10

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."

1/26/10

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.

Motivation of Hour Twelve

Telerobotics is one of the most traditional fields of robotics. Researchers are continuously developing new control strategies, advanced interfaces and applications. Furthermore telerobotic developments are based on many technologies developed in other technical areas such as speech and gestures recognition (Artificial Intelligence), predictive simulators (Computer Graphics), or human system interfaces (Virtual Reality, Haptics).

Furthermore, Internet is now a far reaching medium and it offers the platform for the proliferation of telerobotic applications. All the most important robotics conferences have already established special telerobotics sessions, which reflects the increased interest in this field. The grown interest can also be seen in the increase of publications in the most important journals and magazines such as IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Transactions on Mechatronics.


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