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Photos: Robot warriors engage in battle

Photo Stellar Research has designed a system that relies on three separate autonomous platforms - an Unmanned Ground Vehicle, up to six medium-height Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and one high-level UAV. The Grand Challenge is a science and technology...

Tags: military, sensor, robot

[06 May 2008]

Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth

Photo The height of Mount Everest and the Himalayas makes this photo - taken in 2004 - look as if it came from an airplane. An eruption of Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, which lasted only hours, was captured by an Expedition 13 crew...

Tags: mountain, volcano, earth, nasa

[24 Apr 2008]

IDTechEx.com Case Study: Precision Forestry Cooperative, Trees, USA

whitepaper Because trees grown from the top, the transponders have become completely embedded in the middle of the tree trunk and remain at the same height. The client is Precision Forestry Cooperative (University of Washington).

Tags: data acquisition / etl, rfid, united states, cooperative

[10 Apr 2008]

Microsoft touches the Surface of AT&T

News AT&T will use several counter-height units inside its retail stores. Microsoft has announced it has its first customer ready to put Surface computers into public use. Perhaps most interestingly, the first one out of the gate is not one of the...

Tags: at&t, surface, microsoft

[02 Apr 2008]

Photos of the month - January 2008

Photo Picture credit: H2O Networks com launched its Super Zoom online map application which allows you to view central London from a height of 10 storeys. A video was played showing Gates asking various celebrities for a job.

Tags: speech, picture, credit, history

[30 Jan 2008]

Photos: Zoom in on London from the air…

Photo The height from which you can view places across London is the equivalent of looking down from a 10-storey building. This is an aerial view of the Clock Tower - Big Ben's home at the Houses of Parliament in Westminster - on 192.com's new Super Zoom...

Tags: maps, london, city, google maps

[28 Jan 2008]

Photos: Virgin goes Galactic for SpaceShipTwo

Photo SpaceShipTwo has a 42-foot wingspan and a tail height of 15 feet. Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson (left) and Scaled Composites CEO Burt Rutan show off the final design for Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo at New York's American Museum of...

Tags: plane, virgin, space, founder

[24 Jan 2008]

HP Integrity BL860c Server Blade Linux Installation White Paper: Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

whitepaper The BL860c server blade is a full-height server blade designed for the standard BladeSystem c-Class enclosure and slides into any open slot in the enclosure. Once added to the enclosure, the server blade should go to standby power.

Tags: blades

[08 Jan 2008]

Sat-nav tackles congested HGV 'rat runs'

News The OS data will help lorry drivers calculate the safest and most suitable route to their delivery and pick-up points, taking road height, width and weight restrictions into consideration. Digital road routing information from the Ordnance Survey...

Tags: tele atlas, congestion, sat nav, maps

[21 Dec 2007]

Photos: Floating computers keep an eye on the oceans

Photo Each float weights 25kg and is 2 metres in height (including its aerial) and costs around £15,000 to operate over its lifetime. The Met Office is taking part in a global programme to monitor the world's oceans to improve understanding of how they...

Tags: met office, global, weather, satellite

[21 Nov 2007]

UK in-flight calls get green light

News Once the aircraft reaches a height of 3,000 metres the mobile phone system can be switched on by the cabin crew. UK airlines could let passengers use their mobile phones to make calls and send text messages by 2008, under proposals from Ofcom.

Tags: ofcom, in-flight, mobile

[18 Oct 2007]

Energy-Efficient Bounded-Diameter Tree Scatternets for Bluetooth Networks

whitepaper The paper first presents a height-balanced binary tree, termed ACB-tree for almost-complete-binary tree, that allows two such trees to be combined to create a larger ACB-tree retaining the height-balance requirements.

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, tree, binary, formation

[31 Aug 2007]

Energy-Efficient Bounded-Diameter Tree Scatternets for Bluetooth Networks

whitepaper The paper first presents a height-balanced binary tree, termed ACB-tree for almost-complete-binary tree, that allows two such trees to be combined to create a larger ACB-tree retaining the height-balance requirements.

Tags: tree, binary, formation, trees

[10 Aug 2007]

Telecoms body may disappear

News The CMA grew in popularity, from its establishment in the 1950s until the height of the dot-com boom, as the use of telecommunications rocketed. The only representative organisation for UK telecoms professionals is set to lose its status as an...

Tags: bcs, cma

[22 Jun 2007]

Colin Cobain

CIO Profile At the height of the dot-com boom Cobain set up an internet start-up, which reached pilot stage, before he joined Tesco. What they say about him: "He is the classic 'new CIO' - an IT professional who has been an old-style IT director, moved up and...

[06 Jun 2007]

Downloads sound the end of cassettes

News In 1989, at the height of sales of pre-recorded music cassettes, 83 million such tapes were bought by UK shoppers, while 1990 saw 95 million blank tapes shifted. Following the demise of the floppy disk, it looks like analogue tape is about to meet...

Tags: currys, cassette, tape

[08 May 2007]

Tech acquisitions hit $337bn high

News But despite the high activity levels the report says there is still no bubble, with the total M&A value still falling well short of the $764bn seen at the height of the dot-com boom in 2000. The level of European technology merger and acquisitions...

Tags: regent associates, m&a, acquisitions

[08 Feb 2007]

HP Reference Configuration for Virtualization: HP ProLiant c-Class Half-Height Servers and VMware Infrastructure 3

whitepaper Virtualization has rapidly changed from an emerging technology to a data center stalwart capable of hosting mission-critical applications and providing levels of redundancy and recovery that were once impossible or cost prohibitive with industry...

Tags: configuration, class, bladesystem, hp bladesystem

[01 Feb 2007]

Flu simulation puts spotlight on homeworking

Flu simulation puts spotlight on homeworking

News The exercise simulated levels of staff sickness rising from 15 per cent at the start of the exercise to a peak of 49 per cent at the height of the pandemic - with clusters of absence taking the peak rate up to 60 per cent in some business units.

Tags: flu

[05 Jan 2007]

Gangs groom kids for cyber crime

News Organised crime gangs, sometimes posing as legitimate employers, are using tactics which echo those employed by the KGB to recruit operatives at the height of the cold war, the McAfee report reveals. Internet-savvy teens as young as 14 are...

Tags: recruiters, cyber criminals, kids, recruitment

[08 Dec 2006]

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