Raumklang-Technologie von DTS wird bei Übertragungen der FIFA-WM 2010 eingesetzt

Globales Sportereignis stellt die leistungsstarken Audiosysteme von DTS ins
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CALABASAS, Kalifornien–(Business Wire)–
DTS, Inc. (Nasdaq: DTSI) gab heute bekannt, dass es seine Raumklang-Technologie
für die Fußballweltmeisterschaft 2010 bereit stellen wird, die vom 11. Juni bis
11. Juli in Südafrika stattfindet. Mithilfe von DTS Neural Surround werden ESPN
und andere Rundfunksender Fußballfans in den USA und Brasilien in die Lage
versetzen, die Begeisterung auf den Rängen in hochqualitativem 5.1-Raumklang zu
erleben.

„Die Raumklangtechnologie von DTS wird ein integraler Bestandteil der
Übertragungen der WM 2010 sein”, sagt Geir Skaaden, VP North American Licensing
Operations, DTS Inc. „Wenn es um das Raumklangerlebnis geht, arbeitet DTS
engagiert mit den Rundfunksendern zusammen, um dem weltweiten Publikum auf
effiziente Weise HD-Audio zu bieten. Während die Kundennachfrage nach qualitativ
hochwertiger Heimunterhaltung weiter wächst, werden wir von DTS weiterhin
unseren Beitrag leisten und ein Klangerlebnis von höchstmöglicher Qualität
liefern.”

Zu der vor Ort integrierten Hardware gehören die DTS Neural Surround Sound
Encoder und Decoder sowie die Mono2Stereo 4-Kanal-Stereosynthesizer, die von
DaySequerra hergestellt werden, einem Hardwarepartner und Lizenznehmer von DTS.
Beide Lösungen versetzen Tontechniker in die Lage, ein dynamisches Raumklangmix
zu schaffen, ohne Abstriche bei der Sprachklarheit der Kommentatoren hinnehmen
zu müssen.

DTS Neural Surround ist eine der vielen Sende- und Produktionstechnologien, die
DTS entwickelt hat und seinen Lizenznehmern und Vertriebspartnern wie z. B.
DaySequerra und Harris Corporation weltweit zur Verfügung stellt. Darüber hinaus
treibt die weit verbreitete Nutzung von DTS-HD Master Audio in HD-Filmen und
Musik die Kundennachfrage nach DTS-Technologien im neuen Ökosystem der digitalen
Unterhaltung weiter voran.

Über DTS, INC.

Das Digitaltechnologieunternehmen DTS, Inc. (NASDAQ:DTSI) ist entschlossen, die
ultimative Unterhaltungserfahrung zu bieten. Seine Decoder sind in den
Mehrkanal-Surround-Prozessoren praktisch aller großen Marken zu finden und es
befinden sich derzeit hunderte Millionen von DTS-lizensierten
Verbraucherelektronikprodukten in aller Welt auf dem Markt. DTS ist ein Pionier
der Mehrkanal-Audiotechnologie und seine Lösungen kommen in Heimkinoanlagen,
Auto-Soundsystemen, PCs und Spielekonsolen, DVD-Spielern, Fernsehgeräten,
digitalen Unterhaltungsmedien, Set-Top-Boxen und Surround-Musiksoftware zum
Einsatz. Darüber hinaus ist DTS ein verbindliches Audioformat unter dem Blu-ray
Disc-Standard, was zur Folge hat, dass DTS-Technologie in allen Geräten
enthalten ist, die Blu-ray-Discs abspielen können. Das Im Jahr 1993 gegründete
DTS hat seinen Unternehmenshauptsitz in Calabasas, Kalifornien, während sich der
Hauptstandort seines Lizenzgeschäftes in Limerick, Irland, befindet. Außerdem
unterhält DTS Büros in Nordkalifornien, Washington, Kanada, China, Frankreich,
Hongkong, Japan, Südkorea, Taiwan und Großbritannien. Für weitere Informationen,
besuchen Sie bitte www.dts.com. DTS und das DTS Symbol sind eingetragene Marken
von DTS, Inc., und DTS NEURAL SURROUND sowie DTS-HD MASTER AUDIO sind Marken von
DTS, Inc. Alle anderen Marken sind das Eigentum ihrer jeweiligen Inhaber. (c)
2010 DTS, Inc. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

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Risiken, Ungewissheiten, Annahmen und anderen Faktoren unterliegen, deren
Ausbleiben oder Eintreten zur Folge haben könnte, dass die Ergebnisse von DTS
maßgeblich von historischen Ergebnisse oder den Darstellungen oder Andeutungen
solcher zukunftsbezogener Aussagen abweichen. Alle Aussagen, die keine
historischen Tatsachen wiedergeben, können als zukunftsbezogene Aussagen gelten,
einschließlich Aussagen, welche die Wörter „geplant”, „erwartet”, „glaubt”,
„Strategie”, „Gelegenheit”, „rechnet mit” und ähnliche Ausdrücke enthalten. Zu
diesen Aussagen können unter anderem Pläne, Strategien und Zielsetzungen des
Managements für zukünftige Betriebstätigkeiten gehören, Aussagen über
vorgeschlagene neue Produkte, Dienstleistungen oder Entwicklungen, Aussagen über
zukünftige Wirtschaftsbedingungen oder finanzielle oder betriebliche Ergebnisse,
Aussagen, die Einschätzungen zum Ausdruck bringen und Aussagen über Annahmen,
denen oben Angeführtes zugrunde liegt. Die potenziellen Risiken und
Ungewissheiten, aufgrund derer das tatsächliche Wachstum und die Ergebnisse
maßgeblich abweichen könnten, schließen ein, sind aber nicht beschränkt auf, den
Übergang zur nächsten Generation optischer Laufwerke und die Verbraucherannahme
solcher Technologien, die schnell veränderliche und wettbewerbsintensive Natur
der Märkte für digitale Audiosysteme, Verbraucherelektronik und
Unterhaltungsgeräte, die Einbeziehung des Unternehmens in bzw. sein Ausschluss
von durch staatliche Organe und Branchenverbände aufgestellten Standards, die
fortgesetzte Akzeptanz der Technologien, Produkte, Dienstleistungen und Preise
des Unternehmens seitens der Kunden, Risiken im Zusammenhang mit dem Besitz und
der Durchsetzung von Rechten an geistigem Eigentum, die fortgesetzte
Veröffentlichung und Erhältlichkeit von Unterhaltungsmaterial, das
DTS-Audio-Soundtracks beinhaltet, der Erfolg der Forschungs- und
Entwicklungsbemühungen des Unternehmens, Risiken im Zusammenhang mit der
Eingliederung übernommener Unternehmen, unerwartet hohe Kosten, die Abwanderung
wichtiger Mitarbeiter, die gegenwärtige Finanzkrise und globale
Wirtschaftsrezession, der Verlust von einem oder mehreren wichtigen Kunden oder
Lizenznehmern des Unternehmens, Veränderungen der US-amerikanischen und
internationalen Märkte und politischen Rahmenbedingungen sowie andere Risiken
und Ungewissheiten, die in den Pflichtmitteilungen von DTS an die
US-Börsenaufsicht SEC näher beschieben werden, erhältlich unter www.sec.gov. DTS
hat nicht die Absicht, in dieser Pressemitteilung enthaltene zukunftsbezogene
Aussagen zu aktualisieren, um nach ihrer Veröffentlichung eintretenden
Ereignissen oder Umständen Rechnung zu tragen.

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Enhancement of India, Russia trade ties

Moscow, Sep 3 (ANI): President Pratibha Devisingh Patil has expressed a desire to enhance bilateral trade ties with Russia.

While addressing a gathering of expatriate Indians and some prominent Russians during the course of her five-day visit, Patil said, the only area where India-Russia relationship is lagging is in the field of bilateral economic cooperation.

“When I look at our relationship, if there is anywhere I feel we are lagging behind, it is in the field of bilateral economic cooperation. For two economies with GDP’s of this size, economic structures that only point to our strong complementarities, close political ties, at all levels of government and strong desire of political leadership of both the sides to foster closer ties, India-Russia bilateral trade and investment ties remain much too modest,” Patil added.

Acknowledging the work done by the expatriate Indian community towards enhancing ties between both the countries, Patil said, “All of you have been working in some capacity or the other with India-Russia collaborators projects. It is your work that has provided the building blocks to the India-Russia strategic partnership.”

Reportedly, Russia is keen to double the trade with India to 10 billion dollars by 2010 and cement Indo-Russian relations despite trade with India lagging far behind Moscow’s economic ties with the European Union and China.

Russia sees India, a staunch ally of the erstwhile Soviet Union during the Cold War era, as an important partner to expand Russian influence in Asia, though Moscow and New Delhi have bickered over delays in the delivery of Russian military hardware.

Russia is aiding in the setting up of two 1,000-megawatt nuclear reactors at Kudankulam as part of a deal signed in 1988. Russia agreed in 2008 to build four more reactors at the site. By Pankaj Choudhary (ANI)

NASA’s Orion spacecraft passes significant design milestone

Washington, Sept 2 (ANI): NASA’s Orion spacecraft has passed a significant design milestone by completing the Orion Project’s preliminary design review (PDR), and thus taking a major step toward building the next crew exploration vehicle.

Orion is being designed to carry astronauts to the International Space Station and other destinations.

The preliminary design review is one of a series of checkpoints that occurs in the design life cycle of a complex engineering project before hardware manufacturing can begin.

As the review process progresses, details of the vehicle’s design are assessed to ensure the overall system is safe and reliable for flight and meets all NASA mission requirements.

The Orion features a capsule-shaped crew module designed for maximum crew operability and safety, a service module housing utility systems and propulsion components and a launch abort system for improved astronaut safety.

The preliminary design review evaluated the vehicle’s capability, as currently designed, to support three types of missions: flights to the International Space Station (ISS), weeklong missions to the moon and missions to the moon for up to 210 days.

“This is the successful culmination of all of the design trade studies and activities to date,” said Mark Geyer, manager of the Orion Project Office at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

“As a project, a program and an agency, we are reviewing the design maturity, strategy and plans for NASA’s next human spacecraft and agreeing that this is the architecture we are going to build,” he added.

Teams representing each subsystem of Orion conducted focused reviews from February to July before proceeding to the overall vehicle-level review.

The preliminary design review lasted about two months and included reviewers from all 10 NASA field centers to evaluate the hundreds of design products delivered by the Lockheed Martin-led industry partnership.

According to Cleon Lacefield, vice president and Orion project manager at Lockheed Martin in Denver, “To date, we have completed more than 300 technical reviews, 100 peer reviews and 18 subsystem design reviews.”

The PDR process culminated with a review board that concluded on August 31 and established the basis for proceeding to the critical design phase of Orion.

NASA will continue the review process with an independent agency-level evaluation to validate the PDR results and gain formal approval to transition the project into the next life cycle phase. (ANI)

Delhi Stock Exchange teams up with IBM to re-start its operations

New Delhi, July 15 (ANI): IBM today announced that it has signed a 10-year information technology (IT) services agreement with Delhi Stock Exchange, one of the leading stock exchanges in India. As part of this Rs 11 crore agreement,

IBM will provide business continuity and disaster recovery services to DSE as well as remotely host and manage its IT infrastructure.

This will help the exchange meet the stringent business continuity guidelines as laid out by Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) before it could resume its operations after a hiatus of six years. By engaging with IBM in a complete operational expenditure (pay-as-you-go) model, DSE will also save 100 percent capital expenditure on IT.

Signed in June 2009, this agreement demonstrates IBM’s focus to help clients ‘Do more with Less’ by engaging in an increasingly popular operational expense (opex) model. It also leverages IBM’s global experience of over 40 years to provide business continuity and resiliency services to help clients minimize the costs and time-frames associated with recovering business operations in the event of a disaster.

DSE was one of country’s largest stock exchanges – almost at par with Bombay Stock Exchange in the 90′s, and has been in existence for over 60 years.

In 2002, however, the exchange became inactive due to negligible trading volumes. Seven years later, the exchange is now looking at resurrecting itself to its former glory-one where it used to be bustling with over 2,800 companies listed.

IBM will play a key role in helping DSE go live for trading by providing a highly secure environment and a robust resiliency solution with the goal of zero data loss once the exchange becomes operational later this year.

“As DSE looks to claim back its position as one of country’s leading stock exchanges, the agreement with IBM couldn’t have happened at a better time,” said Mr HS Sidhu, Executive Director and CEO, Delhi Stock Exchange. “As the world’s leading IT services company, IBM will bring immense value to the exchange by providing time-tested and world-class managed services-that would help DSE become operational and successful once again.”

Vijay Gupta, Chairman – Business Development Committee, Delhi Stock Exchange remarked, “DSE will play a key role in the stock trading landscape of India, once re-launched. IBM’s commitment to helping DSE achieve that goal is commendable. IBM’s strong value proposition of providing managed services in an opex model was also one of the key reasons why DSE decided to choose IBM for this strategic relationship.”

Under this agreement, IBM will build, host and manage the entire disaster recovery infrastructure for DSE from its data center. IBM will also provide 24×7 monitoring services for hardware and networking devices from its command center.

Neeraj Sharma, Director, Integrated Technology Services, IBM India/South Asia, “Companies today want to do more with less in these economically challenging times. DSE’s trust in IBM is a testament to IBM’s value proposition and world-class capabilities to help its clients improve the operational efficiency and cost effectiveness as well as accelerate time-to-market for services.” (ANI)

New water desalination system helps cut costs, time in producing clean water

Washington, July 14 (ANI): Scientists have developed a new water desalination and filtration system that helps cut costs and time in producing clean water.

The new mini-mobile-modular (M3) “smart” water desalination and filtration system has been made by researchers at the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science.

In designing and constructing new desalination plants, creating and testing pilot facilities is one of the most expensive and time-consuming steps.

Traditionally, small yet very expensive stationary pilot plants are constructed to determine the feasibility of using available water as a source for a large-scale desalination plant.

The M3 system helps cut both costs and time.

“Our M3 water desalination system provides an all-in-one mobile testing plant that can be used to test almost any water source,” said Alex Bartman, a graduate student on the M3 team who helped to design the sensor networks and data acquisition computer hardware in the system.

“The advantages of this type of system are that it can cut costs, and because it is mobile, only one M3 system needs to be built to test multiple sources. Also, it will give an extensive amount of information that can be used to design the larger-scale desalination plant,” he added.

The M3 demonstrated its effectiveness in a recent field study in the San Joaquin Valley in which it desalted agricultural drainage water that was nearly saturated with calcium sulfate salts, accomplishing this with just one reverse osmosis (RO) stage.

“In this specific field study by our team, in the first part of the reverse osmosis process, 65 percent of the water that was fed in was recovered as drinking water, or potable water,” said Yoram Cohen, professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering and lead investigator on the team.

“We can potentially go up to 95 percent recovery using an accelerated chemical demineralization process that was also developed here at UCLA,” he added.

According to Bartman, the M3 could also be deployed to various locations and used to produce fresh water in emergency situations.

“The M3′s ‘smart’ nature means it can autonomously adapt to almost any variation in source water, allowing the M3 system to operate in situations where traditional RO desalination systems would fail almost immediately,” he said.

Though the system is compact enough to be transported anywhere in the back of a van, it can generate 6,000 gallons of drinking water per day from the sea or 8,000 to 9,000 gallons per day from brackish groundwater.

By Cohen’s estimate, that means producing enough drinking water daily for up to 6,000 to 12,000 people. (ANI)

Gilani stresses on US-Mexico like fencing along Pak-Afghan border

Islamabad, July 4 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has stressed on the need of fencing the country’s border with Afghanistan on the lines of the US and Mexico border wall to stop terrorist infiltration and drug trafficking.

Talking to US Secretary for Homeland Security, Janet Napilitano, Gilani urged the United States to provide immediate military assistance to help Pakistan tackle the rampant Taliban effectively in the tribal areas.

It may be noted that Napilitano, as governor of Arizona, had initiated action to erect a boundary wall along the US-Mexico border to check the extensive drug trafficking.

Gilani also asked the Obama Administration to provide Cobra helicopters and other military hardware, as well as financial assistance to assist the Pakistan Army to establish their control over the Swat and Malakand Divisions after the offensive in the region is called-off.

Referring to the exodus of over two million people in Swat due to the military operation, Gilani said the international community should come forward and help Pakistan come out of the crises.

He said the aid received by Islamabad has proved inadequate so far, and urged the US and international donors to deliver on their pledges made in the Friends of Democratic Pakistan meeting in Tokyo, The News reports. (ANI)

Spinal cord stimulation ‘helps military personnel with chronic pain perform efficiently’

Washington, June 21 (ANI): A new study has revealed that electrical spinal cord stimulation (SCS) might provide military personnel, suffering from back and other chronic pain, to perform strenuous duties efficiently.

“We present six cases that demonstrate SCS can be a viable option for motivated patients in a physically and mentally challenging environment,” said the researchers.

The equipment is surgically implanted to generate electrical current to the spinal cord, disrupting the nerve signals responsible for perceived pain.

Because of the need for implanted equipment, SCS has generally not been considered a good option for patients who are physically active.

However, present study led by Dr. Anthony Dragovich of Womack Army Medical Center, Ft. Bragg, N.C. has shown that SCS may be useful in managing the unique medical challenges posed by pain problems in military personnel.

“Due to advances in medical science and the physical and mental fortitude of our soldiers, many previously career-ending and life-altering disabilities have been overcome,” said the researchers.

“Many soldiers desire to remain in military service, but unremitting pain is often the last standing hurdle,” they added.

All six patients were able to be deployed or redeployed after implantation with SCS hardware and effective electrical stimulation programs.

For example, one patient was able to return to duty with a special forces unit in Iraq and another patient, having completed an overseas assignment without pain, was in the process of applying to dive school. (ANI)

Now, a memory device that may store data for 1 billion yrs

Washington, May 25 (ANI): Scientists have come up with a new computer memory device that can store thousands of times more data than conventional silicon chips and that too for more than one billion years.

Packing more digital images, music, and other data onto silicon chips in USB drives and smart phones is like squeezing more strawberries into the same size supermarket carton.

The denser you pack, the quicker it spoils. The 10 to 100 gigabits of data per square inch on today’s memory cards has an estimated life expectancy of only 10 to 30 years.

The electronics industry needs much greater data densities for tomorrow’s iPods, smart phones, and other devices.

Now, Alex Zettl and colleagues have described the development of an experimental memory device consisting of an iron nanoparticle (1/50,000 the width of a human hair) enclosed in a hollow carbon nanotube.

In the presence of electricity, the nanoparticle can be shuttled back and forth with great precision.

This creates a programmable memory system that, like a silicon chip, can record digital information and play it back using conventional computer hardware.

In lab and theoretical studies, the researchers showed that the device had a storage capacity as high as 1 terabyte per square inch (a trillion bits of information) and temperature-stability in excess of one billion years.

The study is scheduled for publication in the June 10 issue of ACS’ Nano Letters, a monthly journal. (ANI)

Christian Bale prefers a ‘low maintenance’ life

Washington, May 25 (ANI): Unlike other celebs who enjoy high-end living, actor Christian Bale is different – he prefers a “low maintenance” life.

His ‘Terminator Salvation’ co-star Bryce Dallas Howard has revealed that he lives in a one-bedroom house, and barely has a cell phone.

“He barely has a cell phone. He’s not one of those flamboyant actors that need a lot of people helping him,” Contactmusic quoted Howard as saying.

“He and his wife don’t have a nanny. They live in a one-bedroom house. They’re very low-maintenance, low-key, real people,” he added.

Bale, 35, insists that his life hasn’t changed since he became a star, and he has no intention of losing his grip on normality.

“I do exactly the same as I’ve always done. I don’t have an assistant. I don’t drive a flashy car. I do everything myself. I go to the supermarket myself, the hardware store,” he said. (ANI)

Christian Bale prefers a ‘low maintenance’ life

Washington, May 25 (ANI): Unlike other celebs who enjoy high-end living, actor Christian Bale is different – he prefers a “low maintenance” life.

His ‘Terminator Salvation’ co-star Bryce Dallas Howard has revealed that he lives in a one-bedroom house, and barely has a cell phone.

“He barely has a cell phone. He’s not one of those flamboyant actors that need a lot of people helping him,” Contactmusic quoted Howard as saying.

“He and his wife don’t have a nanny. They live in a one-bedroom house. They’re very low-maintenance, low-key, real people,” he added.

Bale, 35, insists that his life hasn’t changed since he became a star, and he has no intention of losing his grip on normality.

“I do exactly the same as I’ve always done. I don’t have an assistant. I don’t drive a flashy car. I do everything myself. I go to the supermarket myself, the hardware store,” he said. (ANI)

Lanka Army discovers underwater rebel Tamil hideout

Colombo, May 9 (ANI): The Sri Lankan military says it has found a large metal structure that may have been intended to be used as an underwater home or hiding-place by the leadership of the Tamil rebels.
The Independent quoted officials as saying that the 360 foot long and 25foot wide structure, apparently split into three sections, had been found on iron rails.

In the seabed near by, a 300ft long canal had been dug, up to 30ft deep. Work was still being done on the structure by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the town of Irattavaikkal when encroaching government troops forced them to leave.

“It’s not a vessel, it’s only a structure, but someone could move inside there,” said military spokesman, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara.

“We believe they may have intended to make use of this underwater,” he added.

The potential hiding place is just one of many pieces of LTTE hardware and equipment that have been found in recent weeks as the rebels and their leader, Velupillai Prabakaran, have been squeezed into an ever- diminishing patch of land.

Last month, the military claimed to have discovered several basic submarines that were being constructed by the rebels, possibly to be used to escape. (ANI)

Cordys enables business process automation for Google Apps

Putten, May 8 (ANI/Business Wire India): Cordys, a leading provider of software for business process innovation, has joined the Google Enterprise PartnerT program and is delivering structured workflow capabilities to the Google AppsT suite of communication and collaboration tools.

Cordys Process Factory for Google Apps supports organizations of any size using Google Apps as part of their core business processes and projects.

The combination of the Cordys Process Factory with Google Apps Premier Edition, delivered in the cloud, provides a messaging and collaboration solution for less money and with no software installation. The combination of the two increases the speed of deployment of workflow and situational applications for less than the price of a mobile phone.

Google Apps brings simple, powerful communication and collaboration tools to organizations. With Google Apps, users can use applications such as GmailT webmail service, Google TalkT instant messaging service, Google CalendarT calendaring service, Google DocsT program, Google SitesT web application, and Google VideoT for business on their own domain to work together more effectively.

Best of all, it’s all hosted by Google, so there’s no hardware or software to download, install or maintain.

The Cordys solution launched today allows Google Apps users to add structured workflow to existing unstructured collaborations and to convert unstructured data from Google Docs spreadsheets to structured datasets and applications. It also provides the possibility of building and using situational applications in the cloud and integrating those with enterprise and legacy software.

Examples of situational applications include Budget Approval, Project Management, Talent Management and Change Control.

Speaking from their corporate headquarters in Putten, the Netherlands, Jan Baan, founder and CEO of Cordys, said: “This solution fundamentally changes the way software will be developed and deployed. For too long now, the power user has been excluded from the development of Web applications which has served to slow down the uptake of the technology at the corporate level. This new service brings together the innovative power of our vision and technology, and combines it with innovative services in Google Apps.”

“Organizations of any type or size can now mix and match existing on-premise processes run on “enterprise” applications with processes and applications made available on the Web. The current market climate is certainly one which requires a new way to address business challenges and we are now excited to offer this new way to our customers,” Baan added.

Scott McMullan, Google Apps Partner Lead for Google Enterprise, said: “The integration of Cordys Process Factory with Google Apps will enable our customers to create new workflows and business processes, extending the value of our applications. We’re very excited to see our customers automate more of their business processes with the simplicity of browser-based cloud orchestration services.”

Cordys Process Factory for Google Apps is a hosted development environment for building business process management applications in the cloud. Based on a Platform-as-a-Service, this process orchestration solution helps companies to rapidly build situational applications (MashApps(r)) to instantly meet specific business needs.

Organizations moving to these cloud based applications within a pay-as-you-go model will be able to drive down the overall IT spending, improve the IT effectiveness and increase the speed of innovation. (ANI)

NASA releases interactive 3-D views of International Space Station, new mars rover

Washington, May 8 (ANI): NASA has released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station (ISS) and a model of the next Mars rover.

NASA and Microsoft’s Virtual Earth team developed the online experience with hundreds of photographs and Microsoft’s photo imaging technology called Photosynth.

Using a click-and-drag interface, viewers can zoom in to see details of the space station’s modules and solar arrays or zoom out for a more global view of the complex.

“Photosynth brings the public closer to our spaceflight equipment and hardware,” said Bill Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for Space Operations at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

“The space station pictures are not simulations or graphic representations but actual images taken recently by astronauts while in orbit. Although you’re not flying 220 miles above the Earth at 17,500 miles an hour, it allows you to navigate and view amazing details of the real station as though you were there,” he added.

The software uses photographs from standard digital cameras to construct a 3-D view that can be navigated and explored online.

“This stunning collection of photographs using Microsoft’s Photosynth interactive 3-D imaging technology provides people around the world with an exciting new way to explore the space station and learn about NASA’s upcoming Mars Science Laboratory mission,” said S. Pete Worden, director of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California.

“This collaboration with Microsoft offers the public the opportunity to participate in future exploration using this innovative technology,” he added.

The Mars rover imagery gives viewers an opportunity to preview the hardware of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory, currently being assembled for launch to the Red Planet in 2011.

According to Fuk Li, manager of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, “We are making this enhanced viewing experience available from the Mars Science Laboratory project because we’re eager for the public to share in the excitement that’s building for this mission.” (ANI)

Now, an optical disc that can store 500GB of data

London, April 28 (ANI): The General Electric (GE) company has unveiled a disc that can store 500 gigabytes (GB) of data, equivalent to 100 DVDs.

According to a report by BBC News, the micro-holographic disc, which is the same size as existing DVD discs, is aimed at the archive industry.

But, GE believes it can eventually be used in the consumer market place and home players.

Blu-ray discs, which are used to store high definition movies and games, can currently hold between 25GB and 50GB.

Micro-holographic discs can store more data than DVDs or Blu-ray because they store information on the disc in three dimensions, rather than just pits on the surface of the disc.

The challenge for this area of technology has been to increase the reflectivity of the holograms that are stored on the discs so that players can be used to both read and write to the discs.

Brian Lawrence, who leads GE’s Holographic Storage said on the GE Research blog: “Very recently, the team at GE has made dramatic improvements in the materials enabling significant increases in the amount of light that can be reflected by the holograms.”

The higher reflectivity that can be achieved, the more capacity for the disc.

While the technology is still in the laboratory stage, GE believes it will take off because players can be built which are backwards compatible with existing DVD and Blu-ray technologies.

In a statement, the firm said, “The hardware and formats are so similar to current optical storage technology that the micro-holographic players will enable consumers to play back their CDs, DVDs and Blu-ray discs.”

“GE’s breakthrough is a huge step toward bringing our next generation holographic storage technology to the everyday consumer,” said Lawrence in a statement.

“The day when you can store your entire high definition movie collection on one disc and support high resolution formats like 3D television is closer than you think,” he added.

“This is truly a breakthrough in the development of the materials that are so critical to ultimately bringing holographic storage to the everyday consumer,” said Lawrence. (ANI)

‘Sleep talking’ PCs use 80 percent less power

Washington, Apr 25 (ANI): Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research have created a device that will put computers in a doze, which could mean energy savings of 60 to 80 per cent.

The experts have developed a plug-and-play hardware prototype for personal computers that induces a new energy saving state known as “sleep talking.”

Normally PCs can be in either awake mode-where they consume power even if they are not being used, or in a low power sleep mode-where they save substantial power but are essentially inactive and unresponsive to network traffic. The new sleep talking state provides much of the energy savings of sleep mode and some of the network-and-Internet-connected convenience of awake mode.

UC San Diego computer science Ph.D. student Yuvraj Agarwal presented this work on April 23, 2009 at the USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI 2009). Computer scientists at UC San Diego and Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington and Cambridge, UK collaborated on this project and the NSDI 2009 paper, “Somniloquy: Augmenting Network Interfaces to Reduce PC Energy Usage.”

“Large numbers of people keep their PCs in awake mode even though the PCs are relatively idle for long blocks of time because they want to stay connected to an internal network or the Internet or both,” said Agarwal.

“I realized that most of the tasks that people keep their computers on for-like ensuring remote access and availability for virus scans and backup, maintaining presence on instant messaging (IM) networks, being available for incoming voice-over-IP (VoIP) calls, and file sharing and downloading-can be achieved at much lower power-use levels than regular awake mode,” said Agarwal.

Following the realization, team built a small USB-connected hardware and software plug-in system that allows a PC to remain in sleep mode while continuing to maintain network presence and run well-defined application functions. It supports instant messaging applications, VoIP, large background web downloads, peer-to-peer file sharing networks such as BitTorrent, and remote access.

The computer scientists named their system Somniloquy, which means “the act or habit of talking in one’s sleep.” In fact, the system allows a PC to appear to “say” to other hosts on the network, “I’m awake and I can perform non-power-intensive tasks”-even though the PC is in sleep mode. If more computational muscle or resources present on the PC such as stored files are required, Somniloquy wakes up the PC.

The researchers evaluated Somniloquy in various settings and say that it consumes 11 to 24 times less power than a PC in idle state, which could translate to energy savings of 60 to 80 percent depending on their use model. (ANI)

Indians in Nepal can’t be bothered to vote

Kathmandu, April 17 (IANS) They think nothing of hopping across the border to India to attend a wedding, obtain medical treatment or attend business conferences.

But tens of thousands of Indians living in Nepal can’t be bothered to make the journey home to cast their votes.

This year, as India embarked on a nearly month-long parliamentary polls from Thursday, there was a strong campaign in that country to get the inert voter to the polling booth.

However, the campaign has not trickled down to India’s northern neighbour Nepal; nor has a succession of Indian governments taken any steps to ensure Indians living in Nepal are able to cast their votes in the Himalayan republic itself.

Shiva Raj Singh Raghav, immediate past president of the Indian Citizens’ Association (ICA) in Nepal, estimates that there are about 300,000-400,000 Indians and people of Indian origin living in Nepal as long-term residents.

The 50-year-old, a hardware wholesaler from Uttar Pradesh, has himself been residing in Nepal for the last 25 years.

‘The ICA had petitioned the Indian Embassy in Kathmandu, asking for the government to enable the Indians registered with the embassy to cast their votes in Nepal,’ Raghav told IANS. ‘But the embassy expressed its inability to do so.’

In addition to the long-term Indian residents, Raghav estimates there are several thousands of Indians who come and go across the open border.

Indians living in Nepal include businessmen, professionals working for Indian organisations or joint ventures like banks, telecom and hydropower companies, embassy staffers, army personnel and teachers.

Prem Lashkari, founding president of the Nepal-India Friendship Society, says one reason for the inertia is that businessmen, whether they live in Nepal or India, prefer to stay away from politics.

His friend West Bengal lad Praksh Dugar, who owns a construction business in Nepal, is a prime example.

‘The last time I voted in my home constituency Murshidabad was eight years ago,’ says Dugar, who is now planning to return to his village Nabogram and take the plunge in politics. ‘I vote if I am home during the elections. But I have never gone home just to vote.’

Lashkari, a jeweller who has been living in Nepal since 1971, thinks the young generation could be different.

‘Now more and more young people are becoming active,’ he says. ‘They realise that businessmen too should have representatives in the government. We failed to press for postal votes or even a voting booth in Nepal. Maybe they would take up the issue one day.’

The Indian community in Nepal boasts of big names like Vikram Singh Deo, the former ruler of a principality in Rajasthan whose daughter Himani, wedded to Nepal’s former flamboyant crown prince Paras, was the crown princess of Nepal; Shalini and Rakesh Wadhwa, who head Nepal’s billion-rupee chain of casinos; and R. Saraf, who owns two of Kathmandu’s most elegant hotels, the Yak and Yeti and Hyatt.

Last year, the US government made arrangements so that Americans in Nepal could take part in their presidential elections.

AMAX Security and Storage Appliances: Exhibiting at RSA Conference 2009 in San Francisco

FREMONT, Calif.–(Business Wire)–
AMAX, a leading Turnkey Appliance Manufacturer, will showcase a new series of
custom manufactured security and storage appliances at the upcoming RSA
Conference 2009. The RSA Conference, where the world talks security, is the
world`s most comprehensive exhibit in information security.

AMAX provides Turnkey Appliance Manufacturing solutions, from design prototyping
such as customized chassis and system hardware design to full-volume
manufacturing, quality assurances, global logistics, and worldwide support.

Some of the services that AMAX provides include:

* Completely customized platforms where AMAX expert Engineers assist the
customer`s decision-making process, while maintaining the utmost flexibility.
* Enhanced Manufacturing Process for QA and Fast Production Lead Times
* Multiple warehouse locations throughout North America and internationally,
allowing customers the flexibility to store systems or unique components as
consignment items.
* The AMAX Oracle Database and ERP system provides access to real time inventory
tracking
* Global drop shipping capabilities and extensive experience shipping systems
internationally
* Full RMA refurbishing for evaluation machines from OEM Customers

The RSA Conference will be held from April 20 – 24, 2009 at the Moscone Center
in San Francisco. For more information:
(http://www.rsaconference.com/2009/us/index.htm).

“Our turnkey appliance manufacturing capabilities have benefited software
companies immensely by allowing them to focus on their core competencies, while
leaving the appliance manufacturing, revision control, and global logistics to
AMAX,” stated Shou Lin Chua, Business Development Manager at AMAX.

About AMAX

Founded in 1979, AMAX is the leader in custom server and storage solutions in
North America. AMAX is comprised of two key divisions that deliver customized
computing solutions to a wide array of industries: 1) AMAX’s Contract
Manufacturing Division provides efficient custom manufacturing solutions and
global logistics services to OEM customers; and 2) AMAX’s Corporate Solutions
Division provides innovative and scalable custom server, workstation, storage
and cluster products to customers. AMAX`s headquarters are located in Fremont,
California. AMAX has additional branch offices throughout North America and
globally, including in Suzhou, China, and Shanghai, China. For more information,
see www.amax.com.

AMAX
James Huang, 510-497-8809
James_huang@amax.com

Copyright Business Wire 2009

British police search for Liverpool bomb factory

H S Rao London, Apr 11 (PTI) British police were searching for a “bomb factory” in Liverpool as they quizzed 11 Pakistani suspects arrested over a terrorist plot linked to al-Qaeda. The search for the terrorist bomb factory, which may have been used to store explosives, was being concentrated on a rundown block of flats east of Liverpool city centre, the media here reported.

Police stepped up its search operation following the arrest of a dozen al-Qaeda suspects, including 11 Pakistani who were in the UK on student visas, in raids in 14 properties across northwest England on Wednesday. The terror suspects were questioned last night amid reports that they had planned a massive bomb attack within days, possibly as soon as Easter Monday.

Some had been seen by surveillance officers filming shopping centres in Manchester, which would be packed on a Bank Holiday. The 14 raids in Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside had to be advanced after anti-terror chief Bob Quick was photographed holding a secret document detailing the targets.

Quick, 49, resigned on Thursday. Far from studying, at least four of the suspects had been working as security guards, two at a large hardware store where the gang would have had access to potential bomb-making materials.

Change Capital losses no surprise: Margaret Doyle

— Margaret Doyle is a Reuters columnist. The opinions expressed are her own –

By Margaret Doyle

Roger Holmes and Luc Vandevelde were the pair who almost drove Marks and Spencer into Philip Green’s embrace. Employees at Robert Dyas should be grateful that they have avoided the same fate.

Holmes was Vandevelde’s choice as chief executive at M and S. As the share price fell while he was in charge, Green threatened to bid, and the M and S board was obliged to do what they’d resisted doing: appointing Stuart Rose to keep the company independent.

Vandevelde had been a successful executive chairman, but after he appointed Holmes, he saw no conflict of interest when a private equity group he was involved with invested in a retail business called M and S (no relation).

So it is no real surprise that Change Capital Partners, where both are managing directors, should have lost so much in the hardware business.

The 8 million of equity has gone, along with the 22 million pounds of loan note — plus rolled-up interest at 16 percent a year. That’s 54 million pounds in real money. Not bad in five years. (Editing by Andrew Dobbie) You can read some of Margaret Doyle’s recent columns at: here (Author biography – ID:nLQ86203])

Soon, a super console that plays every game ever invented

London, February 17 (ANI): Techies have come up with a super console that can read original formats of every computer game ever unveiled.

Experts at the University of Portsmouth, along with assistance from across Europe and America, have invented KEEP that can save a huge amount of digital information including both classics and new games.

The 2-million-pound console has been expected to contain, in 2010, the equivalent of 18 million times the information in all the books ever written, all with a single click, reports the Daily Star.

Dr Janet Delve said: “People don’t think twice about saving files digitally, from snapshots taken on camera phone to national or regional archives.

“But every digital file risks being lost either by degrading or by the technology used to ‘read’ it disappearing altogether. There’s a very real risk that we could bequeath a blank spot in history.”

Dr David Anderson added: “Early hardware like games consoles and computers are already found in museums.

“But if you can’t show visitors what they did, by playing the software on them, it would be much the same as putting musical instruments on display but throwing away all the music. For future generations it would be a cultural catastrophe.”

Computer games expert Dan Pinchbeck also said: “You can actually boot up and experience these historical artefacts – not just read about them, but in the case of games, actually play, get a feel for what they are really like and how they work.” (ANI)