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Virgin Megastores Opens Music and Video Vault to Customers With New Digital Kiosk

whitepaper The result is the Virgin Vault, a highly extensible digital music listening station that also allows customers to watch video clips and preview games. Since its inception, Virgin Megastores has been viewed on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean as an...

Tags: embedded systems

[11 May 2008]

OOXML row continues

News Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky The British Standards Institution has been taken to court by a group of Unix users in an attempt to get the standards body to recant its approval of...

Tags: bsi, microsoft, ooxml

[02 May 2008]

Photos: The Birth of Hi-Tech Britain

Photo This is a sectioned model of the reactor at Calder Hall, the world's first large-scale civil nuclear power station opened by Queen Elizabeth II in 1956. Historian professor Peter Hennessy said the exhibition of post-war tech embodied public opinion...

Tags: tech, science, history

[01 May 2008]

India's high-tech cities, web whispers, Babbage's Difference engine and more...

Photo To celebrate Earth Day, Nasa has released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. This month silicon.com senior reporter Nick Heath visited India to check out the high-tech goings on in Hyderabad and Chennai.

Tags: hyderabad, robots, bangalore

[29 Apr 2008]

Photos: Nasa's top 10 on Earth

Photo To celebrate Earth Day this week, Nasa released its 10 favourite photos taken by astronauts on the International Space Station. An eruption of Cleveland Volcano in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, which lasted only hours, was captured by an Expedition...

Tags: mountain, volcano, earth, nasa

[24 Apr 2008]

Say it in pictures - Google mobile ads go graphical

News Travel the galaxy without leaving your work station… click here for the best pics from Google Sky Google is expanding its advertising business into a new domain: graphical ads that appear on mobile devices.

Tags: iphone, android, google, mobile

[24 Apr 2008]

Vodafone CEO: We will slash CO2 by 50 per cent

News Vodafone recently entered into a network-sharing agreement with Orange but, according to a Vodafone spokesperson, this will not factor significantly into the CO2-reduction goals as the agreement covers the sharing of mast sites, rather than base...

Tags: co2, green it, vodafone, sharing

[22 Apr 2008]

SkyPilot Networks Chooses Fujitsu System-on-Chip for New Generation WiMAX Mesh Networking Solution

whitepaper As the first company to announce plans to add mesh networking to WiMAX infrastructures, SkyPilot will provide multi-hop, multi-link, multi-path, and multi-base station connectivity that offers a breadth of coverage, performance, and fault...

Tags: deployments, networking, wimax, mesh

[11 Apr 2008]

A Simple Generalization of the CDMA Reverse Link Pole Capacity Formula

whitepaper A formula that computes the maximum number of users supported per base station in a cellular radio network is generalized to consider the frequency reuse number and arbitrary processing gains. The generalization quantifies a cost associated with in...

Tags: tdma - cdma, cell, frequency, interference

[10 Apr 2008]

Effective Throughput: A Unified Benchmark for Pilot-Aided OFDM/SDMA Wireless Communication Systems

whitepaper This paper studies the uplink performance of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless system where multiple antennas are utilized at the base station (BS). Further, capacity can be greatly enhanced through spatial division...

Tags: mobile - wireless communications, channel, division, transmission

[10 Apr 2008]

Commercial Vehicle Radiological System Module of an Integrated Safety and Enforcement System for the 21st Century With Homeland Security Benefits

whitepaper These technologies are deployed at an Evaluation User Facility at the I-40/I-75 Weigh and Inspection Station in Knoxville, TN. The Department of Energy (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is currently prototype testing state-of-the-art...

Tags: network security, testing, detection, commerce

[10 Apr 2008]

Geographic Surveillance and Hotspot Detection for Homeland Security: Drinking Water Quality and Water Utility Vulnerability

whitepaper An overall assessment of water quality at each sampling station taking all parameters into account is achieved by employing recent progress on multi-criterion ranking using poset (partially ordered set) prioritization.

Tags: network security, water, sampling, water quality

[10 Apr 2008]

Routers & Bridges: Linking Networks

whitepaper Routers are "smarter" than bridges, because they find the best route for all the data sent to them by the previous router or the end station of the LAN. A router stores and forwards data packets—each of which contains a destination and source...

Tags: local area networks (lan), lan, packet, address

[10 Apr 2008]

HP StorageWorks Mid-Tier Consolidation

whitepaper Storage management can be done system wide from a single management station. This paper presents an HP storage consolidation technical blueprint for building mid-tier storage solutions. Technical blueprints are the second tier of HP solutions...

Tags: storage management, tier, service level agreements, blueprint

[10 Apr 2008]

Idtechex Case Study: Johnson Controls, USA

whitepaper Their previous ID system involved basic clipboards and checklists, located with operators at each station of production, inventory and shipping. Johnson Controls of Livermore, California produces automobile seats for New United Motor Manufacturers...

Tags: rfid, controls, error, human

[10 Apr 2008]

It's All in the Wrist: Improving Patient Safety With Bar Code Wristbands

whitepaper The chip on the wristband is read when the patient attempts to leave the ward, which may sound an alarm, trigger a notification at the nurses station, or even lock the door. Wristbands can be incorporated into physical security systems, which is...

Tags: supply chain management, wristbands, radio, risk

[10 Apr 2008]

People are mugs over identity theft

Comment If you have ever attempted to report an internet-related crime at your local police station, you can imagine how the civilian assistant - it's unlikely you'll see a police officer - will react to your claiming from behind a reinforced window that...

Tags: social networks, fraud, identity theft, security

[08 Apr 2008]

Dear silicon.com... T5 chaos, mobile maladies, and laptop losses…

Comment This allowed the staff to familiarise themselves with the systems and get actual hands-on experience before the station was opened to Eurostar traffic. Before St Pancras International rail station was opened; three or four days were devoted to...

Tags: laptop, t5, heathrow, mobile

[03 Apr 2008]

BT Yahoo! Mail suffers email update glitch

News web services and tools such as a customisable radio station and a personalised homepage. Several thousand BT Yahoo! Mail customers have been unable to send email from their accounts following a Yahoo!

Tags: yahoo!, update, outage, security

[31 Mar 2008]

Photos: Road testing wi-fi at 320kmph

Photo French train operator SNCF is running a trial of a wi-fi internet service onboard three TGV trains that travel eastbound from Paris via the Gare de l'Est station. Photo credit: Natasha Lomas TGV passengers on the wi-fi-equipped trains can use the...

Tags: business traveller, train, wi-fi

[28 Mar 2008]

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