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Electric wheelchairs can now be controlled by an iPhone app from Dynamic Controls .
A user’s iPhone or iPod touch connects to the wheelchair system via Bluetooth to display chair information in real time as well as speed in kph or mph and compass heading.
Connectivity features ...
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Modern Warfare 2 has made $550 million in sales in the five days after its release, breaking all previous first-to-five day entertainment industry box office records , according to developer Activision .
Activision compared their revenue figures with other entertainment ...
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“ Dead zones “, massive Oceanic low-oxygen zones, near shore, are areas that have become so oxygen-starved that most animals flee or die. To monitor the impact of this phenomena, traditional instruments deployed by ships and crews, can only operate for limited time periods at a ...
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RoboBuilder has a Christmas Special Dance Performance . You can download fancy robotic motion files from Internet and play with their three Standard Robot Platforms ; HUNO, DINO, and DOGY.
The Creator 5710K robotic kit ($680) has features not found on other kits such as; Precise ...
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Techmeme has optimized their news with Techmeme Mobile for popular smartphones and Google has announced new mobile news features as well.
Techmeme Mobile loads much faster on phones thanks to a sparser page format.
Techmeme Mobile is available for all browsers at http://techmeme.com/m , ...
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New York City has acquired radar detection units for some 200 intersections in four different boroughs. It’s part of a NYC Transportation Department traffic coordination program using centralized computer control to improve traffic flow.
The Remote Traffic Microwave Sensor supplied by ...
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Google today is open-sourcing the Chromium OS project . Google Chrome OS will be ready for consumers this time next year. It’s designed to be an alternative to Microsoft’s Windows, Apple’s OS and Linux. As with the Google Chrome browser , development will be done in the open ...
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The Department of Energy is launching a $32 million program to study how scientific codes can make use of cloud technology .
Called Magellan , the program will be funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), with the money to be split equally between the the two DOE centers ...
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NTT , Japan’s biggest wireless service provider, plans to shut off its 2G mobile phone network in March 2011 because most of its customers will have moved on to 3G, the company CEO said Wednesday in Hong Kong. NTT DoCoMo had previously said it would keep the 2G network running until ...
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Femtocell developer Ubiquisys , today announced commercial availability of a wide area femtocell solution , providing a coverage area of up to 12km2 (5 sq. miles) at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions. The new femtocell is ideal for rural areas with poor coverage, such as isolated ...
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The five-member FCC unanimously agreed to give local governments 90 days to determine whether to co-locate an antenna on an existing tower and 150 days for new sites, says Fierce Wireless. If there is still no decision, then an applicant has 30 days to take the case to court.
This “shot ...
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Kineto Wireless , the key developer of voice over WiFi devices used by T-Mobile and others, today announced the industry’s first software client that supports both their favored standard VoLGA (voice over LTE via Generic Access) and IMS voice for LTE , favored by the 3G Partnership Project ( ...
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The $7.2-billion federal program to bring high-speed Internet service to more US citizens , lacks basic information and adequate safeguards to ensure that the money isn’t wasted, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released Monday .
The U.S. Commerce, though NTIA and ...
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Google will show off its progress in developing Chrome OS on Thursday at its headquarters. Chrome OS is expected to launch next year. It’s Google’s project to develop an operating system using a lightweight browser to run applications on “the cloud”. Web-based ...
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The Google Phone Is Very Real. And It’s Coming Soon , claims Michael Arrington in TechCrunch:
The next “super” Android device will almost certainly be a HTC phone that’s much thinner than even the Droid or iPhone – The Dragon/Passion . This is the phone the senior Android guys at Google are ...
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DragonWave , a supplier of microwave backhaul gear, today announced that it has received Metro Ethernet Forum certification for its Horizon Compact packet microwave radio . The MEF certification program provides service level benchmarks in complex Ethernet-based networks. Horizon Compact is now ...
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Spanish citizens will have a legal right to buy 1 Mbps broadband wherever they live by 2011 , the country’s industry minister said on Tuesday.
A “universal service” contract would guarantee “reasonably” priced broadband throughout Spain, said Miguel Sebastian in ...
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At the SC09 supercomputer conference in Oregon today, Intel’s CTO Justin Ratner talked up the 3D web (using Intel’s Xenon and Larrabie GPUs). Come up with a killer application or the business will stagnate, he argued . For examples he used Second Life and interactive clothing design ...
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Municipal WiFi is not dead in the UK. Swindon a town of 186,000 residents is getting free internet access available to all its citizens. The Swindon City council has partnered with aQovia to put up 1,400 access points in the city, and target the technology at other towns in the UK. The first ...
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AdMob , which is being acquired by Google , today announced the launch of its new Interactive Video Ad Unit for the iPhone . This ad unit is the first to bring true interactivity to mobile video advertising with in-player actions that enable consumers to browse Web sites, view additional ...
