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- Transponder
- A receiver/transmitter on a communications satellite. It receives a microwave signal from earth uplink, amplifies it and retransmits it back to earth at a different frequency downlink. A...
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- For all the good it does, technology often fails us in big ways
- Technology has improved our world in so many ways. When they work, traffic lights and pedestrian crossings with audible cues for those with visual impairments are but one example of the many simple successes of societal automation. But attempts to underpin society with technology have failed...
- Tags: transponder
- Blog posts 2005-12-06
- Air traffic tech systems vulnerable, report says
- Air traffic tech systems vulnerable, report saysThe problem is people...I won't get into the silly arguments over which OS or application is used because it doesn't really matter. The real security hole is the people with access to the systems. Horrible passwords, disgruntled employees forced to go on...
- Tags: Aerospace & Defense, Loverock, security hole, radar, transponder, security
- Discussion threads 2005-09-27
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- DIRECTV: Well HERE's Your Problem, Ma'am...
- Shortly after I posted my diatribe on my problems with my DIRECTV HD receivers and the company's horrible customer service, I was contacted by Stuart Sweet, a moderator on a popular Satellite TV forums site, DBSTalk. Apparently, my post had created quite a stir and I was asked to register...
- Tags: Digital Video Recorder, DirecTV, Satellite, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- EMEA geostationary transponder market to reach $2.95 bln by 2011
- Commercial geostationary transponder market in Europe, the Middle East and Africa earned revenues of $2,696 mln in 2006 and estimates this to reach $2,951 mln in 2011, Frost & Sullivan reports. by site admin
- Tags: Operational Accounting, Finance, site admin
- Blog posts 2008-01-06
- OMSTPD - Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform (MSTP) Implementing Data Over DWDM v8.0
- View Available Dates and LocationsIn this lab-intensive course, get an introduction to the data features and functions of Cisco ONS 15454 Multiservice Transport Platform MSTP dense wavelength-division multiplexing DWDM Release 8. You will learn the important theoretical concepts that underlie data encapsulation and how the concepts are...
- Tags: Card, 10-Gigabit Ethernet, DWDM, Gigabit Ethernet, Cisco Systems Inc., Data Card, Ethernet, Network Technology, Networking
- Training 2008-01-01
- Photos: Fight and flight
- Fallon Naval Air Station in Nevada is a training facility for aircraft carrier-based Navy combat pilots. It also happens to be home to the service's famous Top Gun academy.At the Fallon Naval Air Station in Fallon, Nev., two F-18 Hornets--the mainstay of the Navy''s fighter fleet--approach the airfield for landing....
- Tags: Workforce management, Aerospace & Defense, photograph, Fallon Naval Air Station, training, F-18 Hornet, F-16s, F-18s, air traffic control, aircraft, dogfight, mainstay, adversary, Air Force, Nevada, fleet, tower
- Image galleries 2007-08-10
- Appliance computing
- Appliance computingAppliances versus ComputersMy Korg X5 music workstation must have a microprocessor in it but I have no idea what and presumably has an operating system that one never sees or needs to know about, it "boots" instantly and has been working reliably for more than 10 years. I also...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, E-mail, Operating systems, computer, operating system
- Discussion threads 2007-07-26
- Court OKs warrantless tracking with GPS
- Court OKs warrantless tracking with GPSGPS DevicesFor over twenty years the US Government has used tracking device to locate people. The idea of these units were to be able to locate agents in the field. A few years ago a new form of these units was introduced to the public....
- Tags: Real estate, GPS
- Discussion threads 2007-02-21
- Improving TCP Friendly Rate Control Behaviour in DVB Satellite Networks
- This paper envision in the not so distant future an Internet where the biggest share of bandwidth is used by streaming applications, without any hard reservations in the network core. Such a traffic distribution calls for a robust end-to-end congestion control mechanism, eventually forced by access networks, so that the...
- Tags: TCP, Satellite, Digital Video Broadcasting, Tcp/Ip, Networking
- White papers 2007-01-24
- Uses for supercomputers
- Everybody knows what supercomputers are useful for, right? - things like weapons simulations, weather forecasting, submarine tracking, pattern matching in the biosciences, fluid dynamics and materials simulations, graph analyses, and cryptology. I think theres another one - one thats already important and likely to become more so over time,...
- Tags: E3D, grid, General, Linux, Hardware
- Blog posts 2006-12-01
- Apple partners with Nike on iPod for runners
- Nike and Apple announced a partnership targeting runners and iPod users. Tune your run is a way to use the iPod to track data captured in the soles of new Nike running shoes.You don't just take iPod nano on your run. You let it take you. Music is your motivation....
- Tags: Nike Inc., Apple iPod
- Blog posts 2006-05-24
- Photos: RFID traffic reducer
- Photos: RFID traffic reducerThat takes me backI remember having a toll tag transponder on my car windshield in New Orleans back in the 80s. IIRC, it was smaller than the one shown here.Everything old is news again.Hey, "Gov" STAY OUT of MY life and MY bank account!We already pay waaaaay...
- Tags: traffic reducer, RFID, photograph
- Discussion threads 2006-03-07
- An RFID solution to rush hour headaches?
- An RFID solution to rush hour headaches?Problem bringing this to the StatesThe biggest problem here would be that there HAS to be an alternative. In Atlanta, the mass transit system is only viable if you live and work at one of the stations. Most people have to drive...
- Tags: RFID, hour headach
- Discussion threads 2006-03-06
- RFID: A Brief Technology Analysis
- Radio Frequency IDentification RFID systems have been deployed in limited numbers for years. Two of the most predominant have been in the form of toll road collection transponders and security badges. Toll road authorities around the country have equipped drivers with a transponder that is connected to their credit card....
- Tags: Analysis, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2006-02-03
- Mastering RFID Label Converting: Where Understanding Static Control Can Help Prevent RFID Transponder Failures
- There is a more than adequate body of work showing the necessity of providing the static control measures during RFID label converting. Confronting ESD failures is analogous of fighting an invisible enemy - you need the best defense you can afford. Every RFID label converter needs to develop and implement...
- Tags: RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-10-13
- Realizing the Promise of RFID: Insights From Early Adopters and the Future Potential
- Radio Frequency IDentification RFID refers to a set of technologies that use radio waves to identify and transmit information from tagged objects. While there are several mechanisms to identify objects using RFID1, an important approach is to store a serial number that identifies a product, along with other product information,...
- Tags: Antenna, RFID, EAI, Wireless, Security, Biometrics, Enterprise Software, Middleware, Software
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Microsoft touts real-time location service
- Microsoft touts real-time location serviceUse it to locate my rep..My rep and I are testing this in order to be aware of each other's whereabouts. For example, I was looking for my rep high and low this morning at Starbucks. Ater logging onto this service, I located him in the...
- Tags: Handhelds, Microsoft Corp., GPS, real-time location service
- Discussion threads 2005-05-16
- Real World Head Aches
- Occasionally a Webroot customer will share the initial data they gather after deploying Spy Sweeper Enterprise. As the rest of the world does not usually get access to this kind of information I thought it would be valuable to share the results from one particular customer. I have...
- Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, hijacker
- Blog posts 2005-05-16
- A White Paper on: The RFID Business Planning Service
- This Executive White Paper is written in support of VDC's most recent syndicated RFID research, The RFID Business Planning Service. The Service provides the most comprehensive analysis of the RFID market available today - offering quantitative market estimates and forecasts through 2008 and deep qualitative analysis. The RFID Business Planning...
- Tags: RFID Business Planning Service, Service, RFID, Wireless, Security, Biometrics
- White papers 2005-05-01
- California bill would ban tracking chips in IDs
- California bill would ban tracking chips in IDsYUS!!!But I don't have much faith that this will sail very far.[i]" A Republican-backed federal measure that has passed a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives proposes implanting RFID chips in driver's licenses."[/i]Yup. Gotta love today's Republicans. They want to make sure...
- Tags: chip, RFID, EZ-Pass, California Bill
- Discussion threads 2005-04-29
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