The ATCA-F125 is designed to enable network equipment manufacturers to combine many functions on a single blade. – Emerson Network Power, a division of Emerson and a specialist in
business-critical continuity solutions, announced its latest and most
cost-effective 10G AdvancedTCA (switch blade, the ATCA-F125. The
ATCA-F125 is designed to enable network equipment manufacturers to
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A once-great industrial power looks for inspiration across the Rhine
AS GERMANY powers ahead, France is feeling blue. Its share of European merchandise exports has fallen from 15.7% to 13.1% in a decade. Last month a study comparing French exporters with German ones landed on the desk of France’s economy minister. It makes grim reading.
In 2000 French exports were 55% of Germany’s; now they are barely 40%. France is more competitive (a measure of price, quality and demand) in only three industries: aerospace, drinks and information technology. German cars, trucks and a host of other manufactured goods are streets ahead (see article). …
SP AusNet said about 3,800 customers in Australia’s eastern Victoria state are without electricity because of a bushfire. It remains unsafe to access the area around the fire in East Gippsland, Victoria, Joe Adamo, a spokesman for the company, said by phone today from Melbourne. The company aims to install temporary generators by 6 p.m. local time tonight, he said.
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Computer voice generator software can convert any written text into spoken words. You can also convert text into audio files. And there are many benefits of computer voice generator software that you don’t know.
A new process will make solid-state rechargeable batteries that should greatly outperform existing ones
ELECTRONICS made a huge leap forward when the delicate and temperamental vacuum tube was replaced by the robust, reliable transistor. That change led to the now ubiquitous silicon chip. As a consequence, electronic devices have become vastly more powerful and, at the same time, have shrunk in both size and cost. Some people believe that a similar change would happen if rechargeable batteries could likewise be made into thin, solid devices. Researchers are working on various ways to do this and now one of these efforts is coming to fruition. That promises smaller, cheaper, more powerful batteries for consumer electronics and, eventually, for electric cars.
The new development is the work of Planar Energy of Orlando, Florida—a company spun out of America’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in 2007. The firm is about to complete a pilot production line that will print lithium-ion batteries onto sheets of metal or plastic, like printing a newspaper. …
Boustead Singapore says wholly-owned subsidiary, Boustead Salcon Water Solutions, the water and wastewater engineering specialist, has won a $25 million contract to design, engineer and construct a demineralisation plant at the Tembusu multi-utilities complex owned by Tuas Power.
Boustead Salcon will partner Boustead Projects, the specialist in industrial real-estate solutions to deliver the Demin plant.
AppTime’s Power.ME and Power.ME HD do a good job of providing a framework for individuals and ad hoc workgroups. What they offer is a brace of project- and task-management tools that allow users to maintain data synchronization across a range of mobile devices. Currently, iOS devices from Apple are supported, with Android support coming soon, according to the company. A Web client is also available. What they don’t offer& yet, anyway& is easy and straightforward integration with the rest of the business. If your need is for something that easily ties into Microsoft Exchange or a CalDAV-based system, keep looking. Although there are some questionable aspects of Power.ME, it’s useful as a tool for personal organization. It’s easy to create tasks, projects and folders, and to associate them as needed. The synchronization of these with the Power.ME service is impressively seamless. One drawback is the nonstandard user controls for editing and deletion. – …
The China District Energy Fund, which has gathered US$115 million ($147.3 million) in commitments, will invest in electricity plants that also generate and sell heat to end-users, providing a second source of revenue.
Happy Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ‘Crunchers. Remember: “It’s a day on, not a day off!” So remember to do something wonderful for someone else today. We’re up bright and early to deliver your Morning Links — which counts as our good deed for the day. You can thank us later! -Here’s a list of [...]
A malaise that goes back more than 300 years
FRANCE’S second-largest economic daily, La Tribune, has suspended debt repayments while it seeks new investors. Le Monde, the country’s greatest newspaper, found new investors in June but seems to have lost its way and is looking for a new editorial director. Bakchich, a satirical weekly, said on January 11th that it will close for want of funds.
France’s national newspapers are shrivelling. The eight main national dailies together sell 1.2m copies a day—about the same as Britain’s slumping Daily Mirror. News-stand sales in November were 10% lower than a year earlier. For La Tribune the fall was a disastrous 33%. The overall drop in sales, including postal and delivered subscriptions, was less steep. …
How you hold yourself affects how you view yourself
“STAND up straight!” “Chest out!” “Shoulders back!” These are the perennial cries of sergeant majors and fussy parents throughout the ages. Posture certainly matters. Big is dominant and in species after species, humans included, postures that enhance the posturer’s apparent size cause others to treat him as if he were more powerful.
The stand-up-straight brigade, however, often make a further claim: that posture affects the way the posturer treats himself, as well as how others treat him. To test the truth of this, Li Huang and Adam Galinsky, at Northwestern University in Illinois, have compared posture’s effects on self-esteem with those of a more conventional ego-booster, management responsibility. In a paper just published in Psychological Science they conclude, surprisingly, that posture may matter more. …
A UPS software is a device that exists between a power supply and a device (computer) to protect it from unneeded features of the power source. There are two types of software: UPS control software and UPS monitoring software.
Verizon’s iPhone will boost overall iPhone sales and help Apple maintain its momentum in the mobility space, according to new analyst reports. – Apple and Verizon Wireless executives took to a stage in New York City Jan. 11 to unveil the technology worlds worst-kept secret: the iPhone running on the latters CDMA-based network. That breaks AT amp;Ts long-held exclusivity for the smartphone in the United States, and raises a host of questions …
At 0417 GMT, Hu An shares were up 6.7% at $0.40 on a volume of 13.5 million shares.
Even though the digital-imaging process has completely revolutionized the notion of the paperless office, many businesses still have outdated workflows, capturing a paper document when it nears the end of its lifespan.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Friday dedicated the second Power Reactor Reprocessing Plant at Tarapur here, calling it “a significant milestone in India’s three-stage indigenous nuclear programme”. “I am delighted to be present at the historic occasion of the commissioning,” Manmohan Singh said at a function in Tarapur, around 100 km north of Mumbai. Recalling the [...]
The U.S. is renewing its call for Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo to yield power to the internationally recognized winner of the November election.
Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson says Gbagbo’s continued hold on power amounts to election theft.
The power of the computer and the Internet can help us with all sorts of things these days and some of these ways may be rather surprising. Using an ovulation calendar, you can easily practice natural birth control and more.
Analogous to what happens when server virtualization is used in a data center, virtual power plants use intelligent software to make more efficient use of resources. The key to the operation of a virtual power plant is to use information about resource utilization to dynamically balance loads in real-time. In particular, virtual power plants use intelligent software to link renewable energy generation systems, batteries for energy storage, smart meters, and in-home demand response systems. The true benefit of this approach is that virtual power plants can potentially delay the building of new power plants even as energy demands go up in the future.
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