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One of the main hardware difference between Android devices is he GPU which is part of the SoC (System On a Chip / Chipset) powering the handset. There’s currently three big players in the market today: Qualcomm’s SnapDragon SoC with the Adreno 200 GPU, TI OMAP 3XXX with the Power VR SGX 530/535 and finally Samsung’s Hummingbird (S5PC110A01) with a PowerVR SGX540 GPU all three of them feature a CortexA8 CPU core.

AMD Z430 GPU

have shown up to a %500 increase in performance in some bechnmarks when homemade/tweaked drivers where used instead of the ones supplied with the retail device.

APC runs a custom Android system, built for keyboard and mouse input. A basic selection of applications is preinstalled. Also included is a full set of consumer I/O ports, enabling APC to connect to your PC monitor or TV.

$49.99

BELKIN Belkin WeMo Home Automation

Turn electronics on or off — from anywhere. Operates over Wi-Fi and mobile internet, at home and away. You’ve already got everything you need: WeMo works with your existing Wi-Fi router and any iPod touch, iPhone, iPad - iOS 5 or higher. Put your electronic devices on a schedule. Modular system. You can add additional WeMo Switches easily, any time. Control as much or as little of your home as you want to.

open-source social networking project Diaspora

if the team is half as good at building software as it is at building hype, there might be something interesting in the upcoming release, and maybe even a viable business.

The big challenge is that the enterprise developer world isn't screaming out for an open-source Facebook, nor are consumers really looking to run their own instances of social networks. What they really want is for Facebook to take privacy more seriously

Public switched telephone network

is the network of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks. It is a worldwide network of telephone lines, fiberoptic cables, microwave transmission links, cellular networks, communications satellites, and undersea telephone cables connected by switching centers, which allows any telephone in the world to communicate with any other. Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone systems, the PSTN is now almost entirely digital in its core and includes mobile as well as fixed telephones.

(PSTN)

Qu'est-ce que PHP? PHP est un langage interprété (un langage de script) exécuté du côté serveur (comme les scripts CGI, ASP, ...) et non du côté client (un script écrit en Javascript ou une applet Java s'exécute sur votre ordinateur...). La syntaxe du langage provient de celles du langage C, du Perl et de Java. Ses principaux atouts sont : Une grande communauté de développeurs partageant des centaines de milliers d'exemples de script PHP ; La gratuité et la disponibilité du code source (PHP est distribué sous licence GNU GPL) ; La simplicité d'écriture de scripts ; La possibilité d'inclure le script PHP au sein d'une page HTML (contrairement aux scripts CGi, pour lesquels il faut écrire des lignes de code pour afficher chaque ligne en langage HTML) ; La simplicité d'interfaçage avec des bases de données (de nombreux SGBD sont supportés, mais le plus utilisé avec ce langage est MySQL, un SGBD gratuit disponible sur de nombreuses plateformes : Unix, Linux, Windows, MacOs X, Solaris, etc...) ; L'intégration au sein de nombreux serveurs web (Apache, Microsoft IIS, etc.).

Origines de PHP Le langage PHP a été mis au point au début d'automne 1994 par Rasmus Lerdorf. Ce langage de script lui permettait de conserver la trace des utilisateurs venant consulter son CV sur son site, grâce à l'accès à une base de données par l'intermédiaire de requêtes SQL. Ainsi, étant donné que de nombreux internautes lui demandèrent ce programme, Rasmus Lerdorf mit en ligne en 1995 la première version de ce programme qu'il baptisa Personal Sommaire Page Tools, puis Personal Home Page v1.0

Mini-bots

map out building interiors

The rolling droids are being developed by Georgia Institute of Technology, the University of Pennsylvania, and the California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Equipped with two cameras and laser scanners, they can autonomously explore hallways in an unfamiliar building, detecting doors and windows, and create a map for users such as soldiers or firefighters. The project is part of the Micro Autonomous Systems and Technology (MAST) program and is being sponsored by the Army Research Laboratory. The program is aimed at developing palm-size machines that can hover in place, enter buildings, and perform other insect-like stunts while gathering data and relaying it to human controllers.

WiMAX is a wireless digital communications system, also known as IEEE 802.16, that is intended for wireless "metropolitan area networks". WiMAX can provide broadband wireless access (BWA) up to 30 miles (50 km) for fixed stations, and 3 - 10 miles (5 - 15 km) for mobile stations. In contrast, the WiFi/802.11 wireless local area network standard is limited in most cases to only 100 - 300 feet (30 - 100m).

Unlicensed Mobile Access ou UMA est une technique qui a pour objectif de remplacer la couche physique des réseaux GSM et GPRS par des bandes de fréquences libres d'utilisation, celles des 2,4 GHz, ou l'on trouve Bluetooth et Wi-Fi entre autres. Elle a été développée par un consortium d'entreprises nommé UMAC comptant entre autres Alcatel, Cingular, Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia, Nortel, Siemens, T-Mobile et Kineto Wireless. L'objectif ultime de l'UMA est de faire converger les protocoles de communications des téléphones mobiles, fixe et informatiques.

D2Plug is a Developer Kit for the Marvell PXA510 Highly Integrated SoC with PC-like performance.

The D2plug can be used by software developers, Independent Software Vendors (ISV), and System Integrators (SI); for evaluation, Application development, Rapid Prototyping, and interoperability testing for a “cloud” based service deployment. The complete solution in an attractive, innovative and “fan-less” enclosure will also be available for bundling solutions for product release with custom branding.

FastSCAN is lightweight and ultra-portable. The entire system is supplied in a briefcase, and setup only takes a few minutes. As a result, you can readily scan objects onsite, in their natural environments. The first laser scanner you can easily travel with, FastSCAN sets up almost anywhere, indoor or out.