Trimble Navigation (NASDAQ: TRMB) reports Q4 EPS of $0.21, in-line with analyst estimate of $0.21. Revenue for the quarter was $277.5 million, which compares to the estimate of $268.64 million.
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Trimble Navigation (TRMB) Reports In-Line Q4; Guides Relativity In-Line
Mindstorms Rubik’s Cube solvers are a dime a dozen, but David Gilday’s bot offers two cool twists (sorry) — first, it solves a 4×4 cube rather than the classic, ordinary 3×3 cube. Second, and cooler, rather than relying on the NXT Intelligent Brick to do the heavy lifting, it uses a Nokia N95 mobile phone that sits in a cradle above the cube, scanning it with its camera and solving the puzzle. More: Make a rubik’s cube out of dice – Make: Video Podcast Rubik’s Cube cake Rubik’s cube costume build Rubik’s Cube Mosaic Puzzle Bronze Rubik’s cube Read more | Permalink | Comments | Read more articles in LEGO | Digg this!
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Nokia-based Rubik’s Cube solver
According to our sibling site, Android Central, in the wake of Apple’s iPhone 3.1.3 update and new iPad hardware, Google issued a Nexus One software update of their own — one that enables multitouch pinch-to-zoom in the built in apps like the web browser, maps, and gallery. Oh, and there’s also a coincidentally timed Chrome OS tablet “concept” making the rounds. We’re being more than a little facetious in linking Google’s Android updates and Chrome OS concepts to any iPhone and iPad news.
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Nexus One Update Brings Pinch-to-Zoom, Chrome OS Tablet Gets Conceptual — The Competition!
Apple on Tuesday released an updated version of its iPhone OS software for the iPhone and iPod touch. The new version 3.1.3 patches several security holes, provides a few bug fixes and minor enhancements, and is available via iTunes download. The five security fixes are related to CoreAudio,..
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Apple iPhone, iPod touch Security Patch: What’s Fixed
Enagdget tipsters, digging deep into the iPad ’s iPhone 3.2 SDK and iPhone 3.1.3 firmware , have found more evidence of the 4th generation iPhone (likely to ship this June/July) namely it’s code name — N89. Buried way inside the platform simulator lies a set of folders dedicated to specific models of iPhone OS-ready devices, including the iPhone 3GS, second generation iPod touch, something called the “K48″ (yep, the codename we were told was the internal name for the iPad), and… the “N89.” Sure, it sounds like a Nokia phone just waiting to happen, but this is — according to our extremely knowledgeable and trusted sources — likely the codename of the next iPhone (previous versions were called the M68, N82, and N88). There’s also news on the 4th generation iPod touch as well (likely to ship this September): Apple’s just released firmware (3.1.3) also includes another new model, the “N80,” which we’re told will most likely be the next version of the iPod touch
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4th Generation iPhone Code Named N89; iPod touch G4, N80
The first Android phone, 5-line QWERTY keypad The LG InTouch Max GW620, the first Android phone from LG, enters the world of applications. Personalise your phone with a series of apps to suit you, from news and weather apps, to games apps, and your favourite social networking apps including Facebook and Twitter. With a slide out 5-line QWERTY keypad, just like a pocket PC, and status updates…
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LG GW620 Mobile Phone
Apple has just released iPhone 3.1.3 (7E18), a minor OS update for iPhone 3GS, iPhone 3G, iPhone 2G, iPod touch G1, iPod touch G2, and iPod touch 3G. The update includes: Fix for iPhone 3GS battery level reporting Fix for app crashes on launch Fix for app crashes while using Japanese Kana Keyboard iPhone 3.1.3 security-related update details can be found in Apple’s knowledge-base article
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Enjoy programming microcontrollers, but frustrated about how difficult it can be to get them to do more than one thing at a time? Well, then you might be interested in Concurrency , an open source programming language and environment specifically designed with multithreading in mind. That means you can write programs that do multiple things at the same time, without interfering with each other
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UPDATE: PatternMusic reveals that the issue is (mis)use of the DCIM folder (digital camera image folder — where your camera roll pictures are stored) to transfer non-image related files. Apple, however, precludes apps from reading or writing data files to any other place except the app’s “sandbox” document folder through their developer agreement.
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UPDATE: Apple has Stanza App Remove DCIM Work-around for USB Sharing
Posted by Tamar Fruchtman, Senior Corporate Counsel Today, Stanford University announced that it has expanded our original partnership to take advantage of our settlement agreement to make millions of works from its library collection accessible to readers, researchers, and book lovers across the United States. That means that if the settlement agreement is approved by the court, anyone in the US will be able to find, preview and buy online access to books from Stanford’s library. Stanford joins the University of Michigan , University of Wisconsin-Madison , and University of Texas , who also expanded their original partnerships with Google.
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Goa first woman chief minister Shashikala Kakodkar (75) and country’s third being felicitated by the Union Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar in the presence of Chief minister Digambar Kamat , north Goa MP Shripad Naik and others during the special felicitation ceremony of the former chief minister on completing 75 successful years of her life at the Gymkhana ground in Panaji. Shashikala Kakodkar who is also known as the ‘Iron lady’ of the state lit seventy five diyas (symbolic to her age) during the ceremony. Courtesy: daijiworld
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Goa’s first woman chief minister Shashikala Kakodkar felicitated
Posted by Steve Grove, YouTube’s Head of News & Politics (cross-posted from the Official YouTube Blog ) Today, President Obama had his first exclusive interview after his State of the Union speech with you, the YouTube community. The President engaged in a direct conversation about a broad range of issues, from generating jobs to opening up the health care process to investments in nuclear energy.
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The night before Steve Jobs introduced the world to the iPad, Engadget scored pictures of the device — but did they score a picture of the 4th generation iPhone as well? That’s what AppleInsider claims: People with an impeccable track record in matters such as these say the iPhone in below photo, published by gadget blog Engadget in the hours leading up to Apple’s iPad announcement last Wednesday, is a prototype of one of the handsets due to hit the market in roughly five months. Let the speculation about bezels and cameras/smudges begin! After all, it’s just under 5 months until WWDC 2010 , the likely venue for the next iPhone unveiling! This is a story by the iPhone Blog
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4th Gen iPhone Peeked in Engadget iPad Leak?
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest Internet retailer, will have to give publishers more control over the prices of digital books to match an agreement forged with Macmillan, according to the Authors Guild.After saying that Macmillan could set prices for Kindle versions..
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Publishers Seek E-Book Price Control
I should start considering more fiber enclosures for electronics, look how awesome this soft crawly earth robot is! However, creators Osamu Iwasaki and Hanakomet still call it RobotKnit, despite the fact that it is clearly crochet. After watching the video on repeat for the last fifteen minutes, I think I can forgive them.
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Officially, Google won’t confirm any solid plans to release a tablet device when their new netbook-ready operating system, Chrome OS , debuts later this year. However, documentation appearing recently on the Chromium project website , the home of the open source code on top of which Chrome is… CNET News – Google shows off Chrome OS tablet ideas Guardian – Now Flash is getting the ‘dear John’ treatment from Apple, what’s its future
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Google’s Tablet versus Apple’s iPad: Open versus Closed?
Feb. 2 (Bloomberg) — Barnes & Noble Inc. rose 9.3 percent in New York trading after the bookseller’s largest outside shareholder, Ron Burkle, asked it to waive a provision preventing unwanted takeovers and allow him to acquire as much as 37 percent of the shares.Barnes & Noble surged $1.67 to…
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Angelica Mari, Computing , Tuesday 2 February 2010 at 15:28:00 Twitter-like tools to become main vehicle of business communication, says research The business benefits of social software platforms will lead to email being replaced as the primary means of communication by 2014, according…
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Social networking to replace email by 2014
As with every new release from Apple–whether real or imagined–punditry is rampant over what the iPad has to offer and how it spells the end of e-book readers, netbooks, or Apple itself (depending on who you ask). If nothing else, the current uproar shows that the neither the IT or business… Computer World – Be grateful for what’s not on the iPad
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[France] Spotify is no longer invitiation-only in France. The streaming music startup now lets anyone register, but for some reason – probably to make sure you actually live in France – they’ll allow you to register only by verifying your phone number first. The company says it’s now because they are sure they can “maintain the quality of service for many users.” Despite scepticism from TechCrunch that Spotify is going to have a tough time launching in the US, it seems to be on its way to rolling out across Europe, at least
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Spotify removes the invitation-only lock in France
So it turns out, happily, that the mercury beating heart demo I wrote about a couple days ago can also be done with molten gallium, which is vastly less toxic than mercury and requires only slightly higher temperatures. The chemists at the University of Nottingham who produce The Periodic Table of Videos made this very informative footage demonstrating the process, which is slightly different from the mercury beating heart demo in that there is no iron nail present.
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Mercury "beating heart" works with gallium, too
Sun Direct DTH India’s First MPEG-4 and High Definition DTH service provider roped ET Now and BBC World for its ardent fans. ET Now, the English business news channel from Times Global Broadcasting delivers news on stock markets, business and finance, will be available on channel no 562.ET. ET Now is available for all South
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Sun Direct DTH wraps ET Now & BBC World in its 7 Basic Packs
You are here: News / Battery recycling not all down to retailers Retailers cannot be expected bear the entire responsibility for getting batteries recycled, says the BRC As a new requirement for shops to collect used batteries came into force on MOnday 1st February, the BRC said retailers back…
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2 February, 2010 | By George MacDonald Investors and shareholder advisory groups have criticised the pay package awarded to incoming Marks & Spencer chief executive Marc Bolland. You must be a paid subscriber to Retail Week magazine to read this article and receive complete, unrestricted access… Drapers – Bolland’s M&S pay deal ‘ridiculous’, say shareholders Drapers – Marc Bolland to take up M&S role from May Retail Week – Marc Bolland to join Marks & Spencer on May 1
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Anger over Marc Bolland’s M&S pay deal
The ambitious space initiative that President Obama unveiled for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on Monday calls for sweeping changes in mission and priorities for the 52-year-old agency, yet it omits two major details: where the agency will send its astronauts and a timetable… CBC News – NASA budget cancels moon shot CNET News – Obama ends moon program, endorses private spaceflight MSNBC – Cosmic Log: Private spaceflight goes public MSNBC – Obama axes NASA moon plan in new budget Toronto Sun – NASA abandoning return trip to moon
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News Analysis: Billions for NASA, With a Push to Find New Ways Into Space
Sony Ericsson have just announced the “Aspen” which looks to be the “Faith” we saw earlier. It’s the first phone to use the new finger-friendly Windows Mobile 6.5.3 and packs a QWERTY, 3.2 megapixel camera, stereo Bluetooth (A2DP), stereo speakers, FM radio with RDS, 3.5mm audio port, aGPS, WiFi and a 2.4″ (240×320 QVGA) screen. The phone is part of the Sony Ericsson “GreenHeart” portfolio to reduce the overall impact on the environment.
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Sony Ericsson launch the Aspen
DAVOS: Indian telecom sector will witness more competition from this month, with Videocon-owned Datacom’s decision to launch mobile operations in Mumbai on February 20. It plans to cover the entire country within 18 months.
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Sify is riding high on back of its enterprise business at least that’s what we can gauge from its latest quarterly results. Sify has announced a marginal decline in its Revenues at $39.19 Mn.
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Sify Q3-10 Results: Top-Line Down Marginally At $39.19 Mn; Net Profits At $9.46 Mn
Satyam Computer Services has probably been the buzzword of the year gone by, albeit for unfortunate reasons. Satyam was one of the top most IT services company and shouldered the industry veterans like Infosys and Wipro. Who would have known what was cooking behind the glamorous walls and the highly profitable balance sheets
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Mahindra Satyam Turnaround- The Phoenix That Rose From The Ashes Story
:thumb:ET Now, the English business news channel from Times Global Broadcasting Company Ltd (TGBCL), is now available on Sun Direct.The channel, which delivers news on stock markets, business and finance, will be on Sun Direct channel No 562. ET Now is available in all the seven basic packs offered by the DTH company- Freedom Tamil, Freedom Kannada, Freedom Malayalam, Freedom Telugu, Shine Pack (Hindi), Bengali Shine Pack and Oriya Shine Pack
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Sun Direct DTH gets BBC World & ET Now