SINGAPORE: The mobile handset market is set for a stellar performance in 2010. 3Q-2010 notched up 346.2 million in handset shipments. For the first three quarters of the year, YoY growth has been hovering around 20 percent. “This is a remarkable feat, irrespective of the rebound effect following the deferred handset purchases during the economic recession,” says Jake Saunders, VP for forecasting at ABI Research. “Layer on ‘smartphone-envy’...
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Handheld Librarian 4 Online Conference: Call for Program Proposals!
Handheld Librarian 4 Online Conference: Call for Program Proposals!TAP Information Services and LearningTimes invite librarians, library staff, vendors, graduate students, and developers to submit program proposals related to the topic of mobile library services for the online Handheld Librarian 4 conference to be held February 23 and 24, 2011.Proposals are due December 1, 2010. Go to http://www.handheldlibrarian.org/proposal-submissionsto...
Halloween at the International Cryptozoology Museum
Get a free tour, or come as Bigfoot and get a free book! Readers of this blog know that I often ask people to support the ICM. It does not matter what you think of particular "cryptids" or even cryptozoology in general. There is nothing like this museum in the world, and if it were ever to fail, its collection, including thousands of one of the kind items, would be a terrible loss to both the sociology and the science of cryptozoology/zoology.You...
Amber holds keys to past
What can amber from India, 50 million years old, tell us about our pasts? Ask Dr. David Grimaldi, who's been finding hundreds of insect species in it. He told NPR's Science Friday:"Well, we can actually see transitional forms between living and other extinct things. So fossils actually are important for evolutionary research. It tells us a lot about the origins of the Asian fauna. And this particular deposit, I find probably the...
China to launch space lab by 2020
It's often been suggested that China be added to the partners of the International Space Station, but thechnical and political reasons have kept that from happening. The Chinese aren't going to do a full-blown space station, on the scale of the ISS, but they are planning a human-inhabitaed laboratory by 2020, with a test version to be launched by 20...
Amazon produces a new species every three days
On average, a new species was described out of the Amazon region every three days for the last ten years, according to the World Widlife Fund. Ecologist Meg Symington: "What we say now, and we're very conservative, is one in 10 known species is found in the Amazon." Discovered in the Amazon from 1999 to 2009 were 637 plants, 257 fish, 216 amphibians, 55 reptiles, 16 birds and 39 mammals.COMMENT: And some people STILL say cryptozoologists...
Scientis have fun with Dracula orchids andGoblin spiders
Entomologists and botanists like a cool name as much as anyone. A group of orchids famed for luring fruit flies to pollinate them by looking and smelling like mushrooms (the flies' natural preference) are classified in the genus Dracula. Goblin spiders are a very numerous group of small arachnids. Plenty of new species are being added to the spiders, the orchids have proven attractive to some previously unknown species of flies....
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween! Keeping with my philosophy of some things being more important than blogging, I'm taking the day off to spend with the ghosts & goblins here in the neighborhood. I'll be back tomorrow with more tech news and more clinical trials. i've got some good things coming up, so keep checking in daily. Now...
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Bye-bye Palm Pre... Hello Samsung Epic
Well, I finally did it. I'm back with Samsung after a brief second fling with Palm.I was a Palm user for years, going way back to the good old days of the actual Palm Pilot. I was a loyal user through many variations of the hardware and software... heck I even used to TEACH how to use Palm software before there was even...
Friday, October 29, 2010
Non-science digression: farewell to Superman, the last hero
OK, I officially hate what DC is doing to Superman. Do these people remaking him as dark and edgy and angsty have no respect whatever for an iconic character? He may be, as Batman once called him, an "overgrown Boy Scout," but the comics world needs at least ONE hero who still believes in right and wrong and isn't a borderline psycho. You know, someone people would actually look up to? Superman was the last of those heroes. The...
Digi-Key and Energy Micro ink global distribution deal
THIEF RIVER FALLS, USA & OSLO, NORWAY: Electronic components distributor Digi-Key Corp. has announced today a worldwide agreement with Energy Micro for distribution of its ultra low power EFM®32 Gecko microcontroller products.Energy Micro’s energy friendly product range, comprising 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 based microcontrollers, energyAware tools and companion development kits, are now available from Digi-Key’s global websites...
Advanced charging technologies to top $34 billion in 2015
NEW YORK, USA: Markets for advanced charging technologies (including solar-powered handsets, solar chargers, wireless power units, fuel-cell battery charging products and public charging kiosks), worth about $1.5 billion in 2010, are forecast by ABI Research to grow at a robust CAGR of more than 86 percent to exceed $34 billion in 2015.As people carry and use increasing numbers of portable electronic devices, they have a growing...
Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas
Interesting list and methodology explanationSocial Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: "The Top 20 Nonprofit Groups on TwitterOctober 27, 2010, 8:01 pmBy Derek LieuWhich nonprofits wield the most influence on Twitter?It’s not one of America’s most established or best-known organizations. It’s Charity: Water, a new global-development group that has 1.3 million...
Glasspockets – Looking Inside Foundations
Glasspockets – Looking Inside Foundations: "The Foundation Center's Grantsfire RSS FeedThis feed displays real-time, raw data reported by foundations that use the Grantsfire 'hGrant' format. Grantsfire facilitates grant reporting for grantmakers and increases the timeliness and accessibility of this information for everyone. Are you a grantmaker that would like to use Grantsfire to share your grant data? Learn more at the Foundation...
CFP: EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2011
CFP: EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference 2011URL: http://net.educause.edu/content.asp?SECTION_ID=566&bhcp=1CFP URL: http://net.educause.edu/Program/1027391Call for ProposalsPlay an active part in a leading higher education IT conference by presenting at the Southeast Regional Conference, June 1–3, in Charlotte, North Carolina. This year’s conference, "Working Together to Manage Increased Complexity with Finite Resources,"...
You can't be a true Geek without a deep rooted love of the Lego brick. Then... pair that with the Nintendo Wii and it's a really rare Geek moment when the stars align in complete tech bliss!Check out this bad boy of geekdom! This is not an inanimate toy, this is an actual licensed Wii remote that is also licensed by Lego. It...
Asus U35JC-A1
Much like the UL30A, Asus U35JC-A1 is slim, angular, and decked in lots of brushed metal in many ways, it comes across as a throwback design, like a DeLorean in laptop form. The very thin upper lid is backed in brushed aluminum, the small centered Asus logo looking more EPCOT-era than ever. Inside, a light gray silver, patterned, glossy plastic...
Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d
Lenovo continues to create very nice looking laptops with its IdeaPad line. Lenovo IdeaPad Y560d is about as far from the office ready Lenovo mindset as we've seen, with a funky tribal tattoo design on the back of the lid. Other than that, the color scheme is similar to systems such as the IdeaPad Y460, with a copper accent strip around the...
Asus Eee PC Seashell 1015PED-MU17
Like many of Asus' recent Eee PC Netbooks, Asus Eee PC Seashell 1015PED-MU17 has a sleek, teardrop shaped side profile, thicker at the back and tapering down to a sharp point at the nose. It's largely the same tapered/curved design we've seen on most Asus Eee PC's over the last year or so, particularly the 1005PEB, making it hard to muster...
Thursday, October 28, 2010
Make Your Applications More Efficient with Multitasking
Multitasking is the ability to do more than one thing at the same time. As far as Windows applications are concerned, it is one of those concepts that is easy to describe but that, until recently, has been difficult to implement without getting embroiled in the threading mechanism provided by the .NET Framework and the operating system. A good implementation of multitasking achieves two objectives:It helps to ensure that an application...
Moogle Robot Allows Home Owners to do Inspections in Tight Spaces
Whether it happens to be needed in your home or dental office, sometimes you need to be able to see in places where you just can't get a human being to fit.If that's the case for you, help may soon be on the way. Actually, help is already here, but the price tag is a little high for my tastes. This is the Moolge from Daiwa and it is a...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Packaged LED market experiencing tremendous growth with an expected CAGR of 28.2 percent between 2009 and 2015
LYON & PARIS, FRANCE: Yole Développement and EPIC will announce the publication on 15 November 2010 of their new market & technological studies dedicated to LED market and manufacturing technologies: * Status of the LED industry “SLI 2010”, 2008-2020 analysis.* LED Manufacturing Technologies “LED ManTech 2010”This comprehensive survey describes the main market metrics and manufacturing technologies implementing broad adoption...
New "sneezing monkey" discovered
Scientists in the jungles of Myanmar have discovered a new primate called the "sneezing monkey" because its nostrils are turned up, so it sneezes out water when it rains. Seriously. I'm trying to figure out the evolution of that trait.But it's another reminder that we are still finding new species all over the planet, and not just bugs and mi...
Tardigrades survive in space
I'm sure I did a post on this once before, but I can't find it, and events today brought it to my mind. Tardigrades are strange little multilegged beasties with the ability to survive dehydration and other extremes by essentially curling into a little ball and shutting down like a robot turning itself off until conditions get better. A surprising entry on the list of "Things that WON'T kill Tardigrades" is exposure to outer space....
White paper on optimizing LED-based recessed downlight apps
MONTREAL, CANADA: A new white paper providing guidelines for developing high-performance solid state downlights is now available from Future Lighting Solutions. The paper, titled “Enabling LED-Based Recessed Downlight Applications,” describes the considerations and components for implementing LED-based downlight fixtures that meet market needs as well as ENERGY STAR requirements, including light output, efficacy and longevity...
CFP: Journal of Design History's Archives, Collections and Curatorship Feature
CFP: Journal of Design History's Archives, Collections and Curatorship FeatureThe Journal of Design History welcomes contributions that introduce and explore aspects of a design archive, collection, or exhibition as a resource for design historical research. These are published in our Archives, Collections, and Curatorship (AC&C) feature. Some authors may wish to take a critical perspective, i.e. not simply describing the...
New Nord Keyboards Winter 2010 Catalogue published
The Winter 2010 edition of the Nord Product Catalogue is available for online viewing and download. Download your .pdf copy here Or view online here [http://issuu.com/soundtechnology/docs/nord_winter_201...
Propellerhead ReBirth named in Sound on Sound's 25 products that changed recording
Sound On Sound celebrates its 25th birthday with a special anniversary edition. Propellerhead ReBirth is named In its "25 products that changed recording" article.SOS said in 1997: “If you haven’t got a computer, or a TB303/TR808 duo, you might actually come out ahead by buying a new computer and ReBirth, rather than paying the inflated prices...
Call for ALA-Midwinter Proposals: ACTS CRS Electronic Resources Interest Group
Call for ALA-Midwinter Proposals: ACTS CRS Electronic Resources Interest GroupThe ALCTS Continuing Resources Section, Electronic Resources Interest Group (ERIG) is seeking proposals for presentations at our program at the ALA Mid-Winter meeting in San Diego, CA. The ALCTS CRS ERIG meeting will be on Saturday, January 8th from 10:30 a.m. - noon.Electronic Resources Management as a Public Service: Delivering quality content at the...
Avnet Memec marks 5th anniversary with nearly 13,000 design wins
PHOENIX, USA: Avnet Memec Americas, a division of Avnet Inc., celebrated its fifth anniversary by logging an impressive 12,757 design registrations since being formed in 2005.Avnet Memec is a name synonymous with design, built on the Memec legacy. The division was created with the Avnet acquisition of Memec in 2005. Today, with more than 40 dedicated field application engineers (FAEs), Avnet Memec has the technical expertise to...
Evaluating Exorvision's Newest Monitor
For the last several years, I've been a big fan of Exorvision monitors. The company specializes in monitor technology that is specifically made for the dental environment.All of their monitors are glass sealed and water resistant so they can be disinfected by wiping them down... including the screen! From their website: Per the National...
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Last flight of the Discovery
The space shuttle orbiter Discovery has a date set for its final flight. After some minor repairs induced a launch slip, NASA has set 1 November as the date for the STS-133 mission to the International Space Station. Six astronauts will deliver a module for storage and experiments, plus the first human-like robot in space, Robonaut 2. Two EVAs (spacewalks) are planned. Then the orbiter will retire, after 39 successful missions.Godspeed,...
More at risk of extinction, but we know how to help
A new report saying one of every five vertebrates (fish excepted) is at some degree of risk also highlights success stories. The authors of the study, led by the United Nations Environment Programme, estimate 18% more species would be at risk without conservation efforts. Success stories include the whooping crane, Przewalski's horse, the California condor, and humpback whale. The best way to help: habitat conservation. It can...
RFMD unveils new family of integrated configurable components
GREENSBORO, USA: RF Micro Devices Inc. has announced a new family of integrated configurable components for multiple markets. The highly integrated components, comprised of the RFFC207x and RFFC507x product families, perform multiple common RF functions in a reduced footprint while delivering the flexibility necessary to develop radio systems that operate over a wide dynamic range and across a broad range of frequencies and channel...
FIST SA publishes new patent landscape on lithium metal phosphate batteries
PARIS, FRANCE: In the current roadmap on emerging battery technologies, LiMPO4 cathodes raises high hope concerning the possibility of efficient energy storage at high charge and discharge rate, thus raising the technical potential of hybrid and plug‐in hybrid electric vehicles as well as wind and solar energy storage. The patent war has already started in this sector: more than 1100 patents have been filed and a growth rate of...
Epistar places multi-tool order for Veeco MOCVD systems
PLAINVIEW, USA: Veeco Instruments Inc. announced that Epistar Corp., headquartered in Taiwan, has placed a multi-tool order for Veeco’s TurboDisc K465i gallium nitride (GaN) Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD) systems for high volume light emitting diode (LED) production.Dr. M.J. Jou, president of Epistar, commented, “Since we qualified Veeco’s tools for production back in May, we have been extremely satisfied with...
What Fundraisers Need From Technology Consultants (and Vice Versa) : Page 1 of 2 : FundRaising Success
What Fundraisers Need From Technology Consultants (and Vice Versa) : Page 1 of 2 : FundRaising Success: "So as a fundraiser, don’t accept a consultant that forces a complete overhaul to the way you’ve always done things. Instead, look for someone willing to implement the new technology in a more organic way. Gensemer offers more things for fundraisers to look for when working with a consultan...
Nord Sound Manager v5.42 Update
The Nord Sound Manager for Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Mac OSX have been updated to version 5.42. This update includes some cosmetic enhancements and a new feature: The Download Queue. This functionality allows you to add files to a download queue by either dropping them onto the partition window or by using the Sound Download Toolbar...
CFP: Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture Area PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Joint Conference
CFP: Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture Area PCA/ACA & Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Associations Joint ConferenceApril 20-23, 2011San Antonio, TXhttp://www.swtxpca.org/Proposal submission deadline: December 15, 2010Conference hotel: Marriott Rivercenter San Antonio101 Bowie StreetSan Antonio, Texas 78205 USAPhone: 1-210-223-1000The Libraries, Archives, Museums and Popular Culture area...
CFP: International Conference Education for All (Warsaw, Poland)
CFP: International Conference Education for All (Warsaw, Poland)The 3rd edition of International Conference 'Education for All' will take place in Warsaw, Poland on June 29 – July 1, 2011.URL: http://www.researchraven.com/conference/2011/6/29/international-conference-education-for-all.aspxUniversity of Warsaw cordially invites to submit papers for the third International Conference "Education for All” to be held in Warsaw, Poland,...
GuideStar website back under wing of GuideStar International - Civil Society - IT - News - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits
GuideStar website back under wing of GuideStar International - Civil Society - IT - News - providing news and in-depth coverage of charities, voluntary organisations and not-for-profits: "GuideStar website back under wing of GuideStar InternationalFinance | Tania Mason | 22 Oct 2010Topics: IT strategy and management | WebsitesGuideStar International has taken back ownership of the GuideStar UK website following the Directory of...
CFP: Archiving 2011 (Extended Deadline)
CFP: Archiving 2011 (Extended Deadline)In an effort to encourage even more submissions, the deadline for submitting presentation abstracts to Archiving 2011 has been extended until Sunday, November 21, 2010. No extensions will be given after that date.A PDF of the Call for Papers and the submission site can be found at www.imaging.org/ist/conferences/archiving.Archiving 2011 will be held May 16-19, 2011 in Salt Lake City,...
CFP: ACRL Programs at 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim
CFP: ACRL Programs at 2012 ALA Annual Conference in AnaheimACRL invites its committees, sections, interest groups and individual members to consider submitting a program proposal for the 2012 ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim. There will be a virtual meeting on December 9, 2010, at 11:00 a.m. CST for ACRL units and members interested in submitting a proposal for a 2012 ALA Annual Conference Program. The purpose of this meeting...
Seeing Things Up Close & Personal with Zeiss
OK, I'll admit it. I'm a magnification junkie. No matter how well I see, I've got to try to see better.It all started many years ago when a good friend of mine convinced me to try using 2.6 mag while I treated patients. I'd always had excellent vision and really had a hard time justifying learning to use them. I finally settled on a pair...
New SSL Nucleus offers elegant controller/audio hub for project studios
Advanced DAW Control, versatile USB audio interface, Mic Pre’s, SuperAnalogue™ monitoring & Duende Sound Technology Ltd and Solid State Logic, the world’s leading manufacturer of professional analogue and digital consoles, are proud to present Nucleus; a unique, high quality DAW Controller and SuperAnalogue™ audio hub for professional...
Windows Small Business Server 7 and Aurora, Microsoft Connect download
Hello I am downloading I will test and I will write soon sAnTos...
Monday, October 25, 2010
RS Components to demo comprehensive range of online design resources
electronica 2010, OXFORD, ENGLAND: RS Components will be showcasing its comprehensive range of online design resources for the global electronics design engineering community at Electronica. RS will be in Hall A4, on stand 117, and will be providing visitors with unique access to a range of technical experts and tools during the week.Launching on DesignSpark this week, visitors to the RS stand at Electronica will have the opportunity...
Microchip's 16V op amps feature low quiescent current (135 microamperes)
CHANDLER, USA: Microchip Technology Inc. has announced the MCP6H01 and MCP6H02 (MCP6H01/2) general-purpose operational amplifiers (op amps) with a gain-bandwidth product of 1.2 MHz and supply voltage from 3.5V to 16V. These devices also feature low quiescent current of 135 microamperes (typ.), offset voltage of 3.5 mV (max.), Common Mode Rejection Ratio (CMRR) of 100 dB (typ.), and Power-Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR) of 102 dB...
Premier Farnell launches new proposition under element14
I wonder how is this going to help Farnell! It has had element14 for so long now. At least, I don't see any newness here! Unless, there are plans to dilute the Farnell brand, which will be strange!BANGALORE, INDIA: Premier Farnell plc has announced the launch of a new, market leading customer proposition in Asia offering a significantly expanded inventory of products relevant to electronic design engineers, next-day delivery in...
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