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- Robot buoy to track oil spills
- Yesterday, Japan Today reported about a prototype of robotic buoy developed at Osaka University to fight sea pollution in the event of an environmental disaster caused by an oil spill. The current prototype, dubbed SOTAB (short for 'Spilled Oil Tracking Autonomous Buoy') is a 110-kilogram GPS-equipped robot. The cylindrical buoy...
- Tags: Oil, Buoy, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2008-08-03
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- News to know: iPhone Dev Camp; So long computer science; Intel
- Notable headlines: Andrew Mager: Touring iPhone Dev Camp 2 Live: Day 2 from the iPhone Dev Camp 2 Hands full? Get the iPhone arm Video: Spectrum ZX game montage Dion Hinchliffe: Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Comcast Corp., Yahoo! Inc., Computer Science, Broadband, Computer, Intel Corp., Robots, Corporate Governance, Digital Cameras, Federal Government, Monitors & Displays, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Emerging Technologies, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Government, Hardware, Components, Telecommunications, Networking, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-04
- Islands of hope in an ocean of energy
- Courtesy Wavebob. Britain and Ireland have a long and bloody mutual history. They've ended open hostility and the neighboring nations now share and compete with a possible future energy source: the restless waves of the North Atlantic. Both Ireland and the United Kingdom are looking...
- Tags: Ireland, Strategy, Blade Servers, Utility Computing, Management, Servers, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- A flying fish or a seaplane?
- University of Michigan engineers have developed a new unmanned aerial vehicle UAV after looking at real flying fish. Like the fish, this seaplane takes off and lands on water. The 7-foot wingspan electric UAV has been funded by the DOD's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA and designed as 'an...
- Tags: University Of Michigan, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle, Aerospace & Defense, GPS, Manufacturing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-12-06
- A new weapon against tsunamis
- A new mooring system has been developed by U.S. researchers to install a seismic monitoring station on the top of an active underwater volcano in the southeastern Caribbean Sea. According to the researchers who installed the underwater earthquake monitoring system on top of Kickem Jenny volcano, their Real Time Offshore...
- Tags: RTOSS, Kickem Jenny, Real-Time Offshore Seismic Station
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- On visiting the bookstore
- Neither Murphy nor his executive officer were paying attention when the battle alerts flashed - then they fell all over themselves explaining what had happened to the civilian observer absorbing their attention. "Well get imagery in a few seconds from the buoy we kicked back at the height of...
- Tags: science fiction, computing
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- Services buoy IBM profit
- Services buoy IBM profitMicrosoft should be in this business more than it currently ishttp://www.accenture.com/Global/About_Accenture/Corporate_Governance/default.htm demonstrates that Ballmer, president of Microsoft is on the board of directors of Accenture, which is a company comprised of the old Arther Anderssn Counsulting business prior to Arther Andersen going backrupt in the US after...
- Tags: Accenture Ltd., IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-01-17
- What's the tech policy agenda for 2004?
- What's the tech policy agenda for 2004?Hidden agendasWhat the CSPP isn't telling anyone is that they are using outsourcing as a way of forcing wages down in this country. Even a highly-skilled, highly-experienced worker is going to be willing to work for less if he can't find anything else. By...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Outsourcing, Benefits, financial, Protectionism
- Discussion threads 2004-03-12
- New Data Warehouse to Buoy 7 Terabytes for State of Alaska
- The Alaska Department of Revenue, Permanent Fund Dividend PFD Division, managed a multitude of disconnected and continually failing technologies, housing several terabytes of data, with only a six-person IT staff. It needed a new data infrastructure to support its operations, which includes the distribution of between U.S.$500 million and a...
- Tags: Data Warehouse, Terabyte, Microsoft Corp., Image, Business Intelligence, Storage, Databases, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Hardware
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