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Articles tagged with: Wind and Emergency
Ultrasound imaging now possible with a smartphone
Computer engineers at Washington University in St. Louis are bringing the minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact, mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits in the palm of a hand. more
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Solar and Wind Power Brings Mobile Phones to Kenyan Village
..reen-powered site in the remote village of Dertu in northeastern Kenya. Using a combination of wind and solar power addresses the two key deterrents to building telecommunication infrastructure in remote areas: operating costs and power supply more
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Nokia kick-starts GPS market in Europe
Opinion piece by Tony Cripps and Michele Mackenzie, principal analysts
According to a new Ovum forecast, the market for GPS-enabled mobile devices
will grow rapidly, from an estimated 163.9 million shipments in 2007 to almost
572 million in 2012. In the early years this growth has been driven by the CDMA
players, namely Qualcomm, serving large CDMA markets such as the US, where the
E911 mandate stipulates the use of location-based technologies in handsets, and
markets such as Korea and Japan where demand for location-enabled services is
higher than in other regions.
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Improving Radio Communications Along the Channel Tunnel Rail Link
.. up to 150mph. An environmental feature of this application was the wind speed caused by trains within tunnels and resultant vibration that would have to be absorbed. Antennas would therefore need to be impervious to their surroundings, be tough more
Related Tags: fire-brigade, london, gsm-r, railway, antenna, thales, tunnel, emergency-services, UK
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