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Kaizen

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:55:52 GMT

clipped by: mehtprat

Batching. Batch similar tasks like phone calls or errands into a single chunk, and knock them off in a single session.

Cone of silence. Take a laptop with no network or WiFi access, and go to a place where you can work flat out without distractions, such as a library, park, coffee house, or your own backyard. Leave your comm gadgets behind.

Agendas. Provide clear written agendas to meeting participants in advance. This greatly improves meeting focus and efficiency. You can use it for phone calls too.

Buildings That Blog

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 02:13:22 GMT

clipped by: patchworkthreads
clipper's remarks: "Less invasively (but less interestingly) perhaps the building sprays free wifi, and the landing page for the wifi connection is that blog."

An idea from the mind of Warren Ellis.

Clip Source: www.warrenellis.com

I’ve been kicking this idea around for a few years, and have never really gotten it to settle.

It once occurred to me that buildings could cast a digital shadow.

Imagine an old building still in use, or an old shop location recently renovated

Imagine walking past this place, and, say, the place finds a bluetooth connection on your phone and pings you a message

Which leads to, for example, a history of the building you’re just passing, structured in blog format. Or maybe

a building being used as offices for several start-ups, and they all contribute to a groupblog for the building.

This actually occurred to me on a walk

where lots of old buildings were being re-rented

And I was looking up at one of them and trying to remember what it’d been

And I got to thinking — why aren’t I being pinged a link to the history of this structure?

Can you imagine what a walk

would be like, if almost every building you saw was capable of talking to your internet device?

Tags: blog, blogs, blogging, urban, history, bluetooth, internet, idea, ideas

Le Brésil expérimente le WiFi solaire

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 09:35:20 GMT

clipped by: clarisse35

Clip Source: www.zdnet.fr

Un professeur de l'université de Sao Paulo a mis au point, avec ses étudiants, un point d'accès WiFi entièrement autonome, alimenté uniquement à l'énergie solaire. Pour la liaison à internet, le point d'accès est intégré dans un réseau de type Mesh (ou maillé), où chaque point d'accès est relié à un autre par les ondes, jusqu'à un accès réseau via une ligne téléphonique.

LED WIFI

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 02:07:46 GMT

clipped by: simonxia

Clip Source: cn.engadget.com

波士顿大学告诉我们什么才叫做正港的「光世代」

假如波士顿大学的研究人员没忽悠我们的话，未来的灯泡将不仅仅是用来发光发热，还能够用来发送数据数据，当作无线网络使用。

这群研究团队以低功率 LED 组装出一套无线光学传输系统，透过超高频率快速地开关 LED，便能够在一般人不会察觉到的情况下，将数据参杂在光线中传送出去。目前这套系统单一 LED 的传输速率为 1 ~ 10 Mbps，虽然看起来并不比现行的 WiFi 来的快速，但这套「光网络」还有其它优于以无线电波为基础的无线网络的地方。比如说这套系统必须在光线能够直接照射到的地方才能接收讯息，因此外人不容易窃听，也具有较高的安全性。而光网络所消耗的电量也比传统无线网络低上许多，正中目前节能减碳的风潮。

「想想看，未来不论是个人电脑、电视、甚至 iPhone，只要随手一开电灯就能接上网络，再也不必被那些讨厌的线材纠缠」，波士顿大学的小汤玛士( Thomas Little，听起来好像火车的名字喔 )教授为这套系统做了这样的脚注。倘若这项技术成真的话，确实也是如此。唯二的缺点就只是这套系统看起来似乎只具有单向传输的能力( 没看到反向传送机制的说明，是眼花了吗？ )。以及，它剥夺了我们有时就是想要摸黑上网的权力呀！

Imobile Phone V117+ - 2.8 Inch touch screen and bluetooth, support 3GP/ MP4/ AVI/ GPS/ MSN/ QQ on li

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:41:56 GMT

clipped by: caseyywong
clipper's remarks: Imobile Phone V117+ - 2.8 Inch touch screen and bluetooth, support 3GP/ MP4/ AVI/ GPS/ MSN/ QQ on line/ Dictionary/ Java/ MMS/ Stock/ USB.

Clip Source: shopkami.com

Tags: wifi phone, cellphone, wlan cell phone

Fring VOIP and chat client goes mainstream

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:11:53 GMT

clipped by: rmowery

Clip Source: news.cnet.com

Fring VOIP and chat client goes mainstream

The iPhone app Fring, which acts as a VOIP client for Skype and other internet phone networks, as well as a voice and chat interface into IM networks like AIM and Yahoo, is now available for free to everyone. Previously it only ran on Jailbroken iPhones, severely limiting its audience.

On the iPhone, Fring can read both your IM and Skype buddy lists as well as the contacts in your phone's address book, and when you select a contact, you get the option of calling him or her by SIP call, Skype, or standard cellular. VOIP calls obviously don't count against your cellular minutes, but you do need to have a WiFi connection to make the calls.

Tags: iphone, fring, skype, voip, messenger

Benq MID S6: A New Powerful Mobile Internet Device

Sun, 05 Oct 2008 12:54:01 GMT

clipped by: rj3sp
clipper's remarks: After months MIA, BenQ’s S6 MID is available now in Italy and it is expected to hit the world market very soon. A mobile internet device with impressive specs and features: 800MHz Intel Atom CPU, 4.8-inch WVGA (800 x 480) display, 512MB DDR2 RAM, a 2GB SSD, Bluetooth 2.0 / WiFi, HSDPA, microSD slot, inbuilt G-sensor and support for many multimedia formats, and convenient “free-surf” user interface.

Clip Source: www.itechnews.net

BenQ MID S6 Officially Official (Pics, Video)

Finally, BenQ made the official product page of its MID S6 online. The MID S6 is now available for pre-order in Italy.

Clip Source: benq.com

Global

MID S6

Features

Specifications

Gallery

Internet Goes Mobile.

BenQ MID S6 gives you what the mobile Internet was made to be.

Online, on the spot.

Not just the bits and pieces, but the whole beast.

With full support for Web file formats, the MID S6 gives you all that the Internet has to offer.

Time to play. Here's the way.

Give the mouse and keyboard a break. Just touch, tilt, rotate, and shake.

Enjoy an interface that's not just simple, but fun.

[Video]

Tags: benq, mid, mobile, internet, benqs6, computers

RFID Update

Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:05:36 GMT

clipped by: Andrew Gillies
clipper's remarks: Journal of Commerce runs a decent survey of the state of radio frequency identification. Lockheed gets a mention - we covered that company's keen interest in RFID here http://www.forbes.com/beltway/2007/06/13/lockheed-savi-rfid-biz-beltway-cx_ag_0613beltway.html Further down in the story, watch also for the the mention of Ekahau, a company we profiled here http://www.forbes.com/businessinthebeltway/2007/04/26/beltway-ekahau-wifi-biz-wash-cz_atg_0426ekahau.html.

Clip Source: www.joc.com

RFID's new profile

As the hype has faded, the technology's impact on supply chains is growing

Alan Field / The JOURNAL of COMMERCE

Another innovative use for RFID, developed jointly by GeoDecisions, Lockheed Martin, and SAVR Communications, will go on sale this fall for the transportation sector. The new service will enable truckers to get up-to-the-minute alerts about weather and traffic events so they can re-route shipments and avoid bottlenecks. The service, using technology developed for the Defense Department, marries RFID systems and geo-positioning technology to make it easier for trucking companies to warn customers about delays. "Instead of you staring at a screen, this system alerts you when you are not at a screen," said Jonathan Pollack, senior vice president at GeoDecisions, which provides transportation logistics and other services.

OSA Clips of Interest

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:23:18 GMT

clipped by: OSAuthority
clipper's remarks: Best stories on the home page!

Clip Source: www.onlinesecurityauthority.com

The company mails the phone in a package with a long-life battery where it sits in the mail room and eventually gets returned. While in the company premises it scans all available wireless networks for vulnerabilities. Although it may stay in the mail room for several days they say it only needs a few minutes to gather all the information needed for them to further break into that company. Read … MORE

We met the WiFi Security Guy through a really good friend of mine and the OSA team, she is Debbie Di Vetta… Her Online JV Business is called: ProfitStrategies.org.

These 30 Posts are near and dear to my heart, our OSA mission is: Keeping Our Children Safe no matter what, and to give parents the right tools and at the right time, to help protect their children…

Mobile Porn!

The iPhone is now one of the hottest new phones available today. It is one of Apple’s new top selling products which has greatly increased both their market

Tags: online security, predators, myspace, id theft, managed pc care, children safety

Meet Nokia’s Answer to the iPhone

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:26:52 GMT

clipped by: cyberwiz

Clip Source: thehottestgadgets.com

The iPhone is already in its second generation and Apple is now ranked in 3rd place in the smartphone market while Nokia hasn’t even made a competing phone. Well all of that is due to change as Nokia is set to release the touchscreen Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone. The phone could be released as soon as October 2nd of this year.

Clip Source: thehottestgadgets.com

It has some strong features to pit against the Apple iPhone including a 640×360 display and a 3.2 Megapixel camera with video capability, both of which are better than whats available on the iPhone 3G. The 5800 will also include 3G, GPS and WiFi.

Nokia is also planning on pricing it very competitively, at a lower price than the iPhone 3G.

cs

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:54:26 GMT

clipped by: deeppatel

Clip Source: www.coolsmartphone.com

We've been covering the new Xperia X1 from Sony Ericsson quite a bit recently. Following the photo special and the appearance on Vodafone we were certainly impressed with the rather massive advertising campaign and "Johnny X" films.

The X1, as you may already know, has an 800 x 480 pixel screen, WiFi, 3G + HSDPA, microSD expansion, 3 megapixel camera, GPS, FM radio with RDS and that cool slide-out QWERTY keyboard.

The guys from Sony Ericsson wanted to show off their latest Johnny X videos along with the ones you may have missed with the help of this little widget on the right. "Sure", you might say, "but that's just an advert for their product isn't it?", Well yes, but the great bit about it is the chance to WIN a brand new Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 handset just by identifying bits from the Johnny X videos.

Bug Labs Lego-like gadgets

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:43:58 GMT

clipped by: rj3sp
clipper's remarks: With BUG, a collection of Lego-like hardware modules you can easily build your own electronic gadgets

Clip Source: www.buglabs.net

Products

BUG is a collection of easy-to-use electronic modules that snap together to build any gadget you can imagine. Each BUGmodule represents a specific gadget function (ex: a camera, a keyboard, a video output, etc.). You decide which functions to include and BUG takes care of the rest, letting you try out different combinations quickly and easily. With BUG and the integrated programming environment/online community (BUGnet), anyone can build, program and share innovative devices and applications. We don’t define the final products – you do.

BUGbase

BUGview

BUGmotion

BUGcam2MP

BUGlocate

Clip Source: dobbscodetalk.com

Roll Your Own Hardware, or Dr. Dobb's Does Bug Labs

[Video]

Clip Source: www.theregister.co.uk

Version 1.3 will see completely new modules offering GSM, WiFi and ZigBee wireless - along with an upgrade to the existing BUGbase unit that these and existing modules plug into. The BUGbase is also adopting SD flash memory to provide capacity at a low price.

Clip Source: news.cnet.com

Open-source gadgets at LinuxWorld

The Bug Base now has a Web browser.

Tags: bug labs, gadgets, electronic, modular, bug

FitBit - tracks your sleep and fitness

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 01:27:45 GMT

clipped by: tmarch
clipper's remarks: Small device available in early 2009 and a Web 2.0 start-up award winner. This is an early sync between new personal data, Web sites, WiFi, etc.

Clip Source: www.fitbit.com

Fitbit automatically tracks your fitness and sleep

The Fitbit Tracker is wireless. Walk within 25-50ft of the provided basestation and your data will be automatically uploaded to the Fitbit website. The auto-sync software runs on both Macs and PC's.

View calories, steps and distance on the Fitbit Tracker itself. You can login to the Fitbit website to see even more detailed data and also participate in collaborative fitness goals with friends, family and co-workers.

Tags: tech's appeal, crumbware

433 Mhz RTLS

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:17:48 GMT

clipped by: chaser120
clipper's remarks: Outstanding brief article explaining the pros and cons of various RTLS systems and how to set up real time supply chain.

Source: http://www.applocation.net
Go to articles

Clip Source: supplychain-logistics.com

Why 433 MHz RTLS?
• 10– 15 foot accuracy suitable for most locating applications
• Works well in Metallic Environments
• Affordable components plus deployment
• NO special environmental configuration
• Lower power requirements than other locating technologies
• Multiple tag designs to match asset groups and application
• Supports a high density of tags
• Does not rely on multi-purposing an existing WiFI network
• Instant detection provides perimeter control capability

‘Fast’ tag features increase throughput, and perimeter and inventory control reducing collisions at dock doors in warehouses and yards. The combination of fast tags, optimized readers and database means an increased number of simultaneous tag acquisitions and a higher density of tags supported on the system at one time.

Tags: rtls, real time, locating, system, article, review. overview, asset, tracking, technology, logistics

Chamonix

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:33:53 GMT

clipped by: lux72

Clip Source: www.chamonix.net

Type: Open plan apartment,2 bathrooms

Capacity: sleeps 6

Location: Chamonix Town, nearest lift 4mins (car)

Facilities: satellite TV, DVD, open fire, private parking

Rental Options: weekly

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6 comfortable quality s/c apartments sleeping each from 2-12 guests within a chalet with character. Stunning surroundings. Flexible and short stays possible. 5 mins drive to Chamonix centre. Internet & WIFI, credit card payment, minibus airport transfer, lift passes, ski school, mountain guiding and activities service, equipment rental & many other personalised services.