|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Bob Smith
|
if it makes it easier - I'm all for it - power to the people Software-as-a-service pioneer Salesforce.com has unveiled a new strategy to become a global platform for business services delivered over the internet.
|
|
Wednesday 26 September, 2007 12:10 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
|
sounds like its got all of the gear At NI Week in Austin, TX, conference sponsor National Instruments announced LabView 8.5 , the latest version of the graphical system-design platform for test, control and embedded system development
|
|
Monday 24 September, 2007 01:29 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
|
standing still is the death knell - not only do you have to do it - you've got to tell the world that you're doing it In the fiercely competitive business of smartphones , you're only as good as your last innovation.
|
|
Monday 24 September, 2007 01:26 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
|
just wave that magic wand Old production machines don't have to retire when they start to become less productive — not when modern automation systems can give them a new lease on life. That's one of the messages that emerged from last week's Siemens Automation Summit in Orlando, FL.
|
|
Monday 24 September, 2007 01:19 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Susan Decker
|
all part of the development world - focus on the specifics The newest generation of multicore processors promises tantalizing boosts in speed with lower power needs than older single-core processors.
|
|
Monday 24 September, 2007 01:00 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ali Hamoud
|
if it's not what people want - no amount of marketing spin will make it better -- It took took five years and $6bn (£3bn) to develop, but Microsoft's Vista operating system, which was launched early this year, has been shunned by consumers – with computer manufacturers taking the bizarre step of offering downgrades to the old XP version of Windows.
|
|
Monday 24 September, 2007 12:52 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dave Ellery
|
there seems to be a re occuring theme with these Euro ventures - like, just not going very well ----- FRANKFURT (AFP) - The struggling European navigation system Galileo faces yet another delay with a three-month postponement of its second satellite launch, a press report said Monday.
|
|
Monday 24 September, 2007 12:49 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
|
missed opportunity - ?? WASHINGTON: Ambitious plans for big Wi-Fi networks to provide free or low-cost wireless Internet access are being abandoned or scaled back by US cities as the economics of the deals turn out to be more challenging than expected.
|
|
Monday 24 September, 2007 12:31 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Rose Shah
|
here's another budding genious with an answer to the energy crunch
If Michael Whelan's dream comes true, the Atlantic ocean will soon help keep the lights on in Ireland. And if it does, it will complete a circuit for Whelan: 30 years ago he was a commercial diver working on North Sea oil and gas installations.
|
|
Thursday 20 September, 2007 12:33 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by JW
|
it could take all the fun out of arguing about who caused the accident IBM researchers are looking into active safety and driver assist technologies in which vehicles exchange information with each other and with the road infrastructure, take corrective action where appropriate, and provide essential feedback to the drivers to help avoid dangerous situations.
|
|
Wednesday 19 September, 2007 12:12 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by JW
|
The DS1321 Flexible Nonvolatile Controller with Lithium Battery Monitor is a CMOS circuit which solves the application problem of converting CMOS SRAMs into nonvolatile memory
|
|
Tuesday 18 September, 2007 12:26 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
|
If you want a job doing right - do it yourself -****** Star Wars Episode IV may have recently been named the most influential visual effects film of all time but its director, George Lucas, was unsatisfied with the technology available in the 70s.
|
|
Monday 17 September, 2007 11:31 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Adam Crighton
|
It's a long way from home, but it all seems to be working very well - go, go, go
A Martian rover has taken the plunge into a crater on the Red Planet after a cautious toe-dip to ensure a slip-free way out.
|
|
Monday 17 September, 2007 11:23 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Ryan
|
well I'm excited - I just can't wait to own one Honda has enhanced the mobility control technology of its humanoid robot Asimo so that it can now participate in a marathon.
The world's most advanced humanoid robot could already walk forward, backward, up and down stairs and manoeuvre smoothly around obstructions. Now it can also move in a circular pattern and run at a maximum of six kilometres per hour.
|
|
Saturday 15 September, 2007 09:55 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
|
we need some little green men out there to keep it all on track NASA's Opportunity rover has found that the route down into a half-mile-wide (800-meter-wide) crater could be trickier than expected, mission managers reported.
|
|
Thursday 13 September, 2007 12:34 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Dillon Smatcher
Perpetual motion machines have been the subject of ridicule for hundreds of years, but there is plenty of scope for harvesting small amounts of energy from various sources for performing useful tasks. Jon Severn reports of how technological developments are presenting new opportunities for low-powered wireless electronic devices.
|
|
Wednesday 12 September, 2007 11:40 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by John Chadwick
|
Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp ., the world's largest semiconductor maker, began building its first computer-chip manufacturing plant in China, a $2.5 billion investment.
|
|
Sunday 9 September, 2007 10:08 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Administrator
|
Hybrid electric cars need much better batteries—and A123, a plucky Massachusetts start-up, says it's got them
|
|
Saturday 8 September, 2007 08:54 AM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by Sean
Security of WiFi networks, VoIP systems and USB devices remain to be addressed by many organisations, according to a survey by the National Computing Centre .
It finds that virtually all organisations are now working on external IT security threats, with measures such as virus detection, spam blocking and firewalls – but that the more advanced threats aren’t getting the attention they need.
|
|
Tuesday 4 September, 2007 12:31 PM |
|
|
Clipped to the Drawing Board by JW
|
IBM researchers have used scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) techniques to manipulate individual iron atoms and arrange them with atomic precision on a specially prepared copper surface. They then determined the orientation and strength of the magnetic anisotropy of the individual iron atoms.
|
|
Tuesday 4 September, 2007 12:28 PM |
|
Save This Page
