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RESEARCH ANALYSIS: Review of braking systems
Published October 14, 2008, 7:22 am, just-auto
Following intensive restructuring during the 1990s, opportunities for further consolidation in the light vehicle braking system segment have largely dried up. Today, three companies - Continental, Bosch and TRW- account for half of the global market for automotive foundation brakes. Matthew Beecham talks to braking system executives about recent technical advances.
Portland's quirky cousin just around the Bend
Published October 14, 2008, 6:45 am, MSNBC
Oregon isn't all remote mountains and rustic cabins. In Bend, Portland's quirky-chic cousin, you can live the high life and get back to nature.
Antique irons on loan to museum
Published October 14, 2008, 3:51 am, Reno Gazette-Journal
Imagine that every time you washed your clothes, you had to start a fire, prepare coals and then maneuver a 12- or 16-pound iron in order to get out the wrinkles. Or better yet, what about wetting a 2-foot long wooden board called a mangle and applying pressure to press out the wrinkles? A trip to the Sparks Heritage Museum will give you everything you need to be thankful the next time you do ...
Zmanda Takes to the Cloud
Published October 14, 2008, 3:07 am, SYS-CON Media
Zmanda, the not-yet-profitable open source backup and recovery start-up that likes to think of itself – in an allusion to MySQL – as the “next billion-dollar acquisition,” is touting its widgetry for the cloud. It can back up Windows Server and Live applications, stuff like Exchange and SQL Server, to Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). read more
SILVER NEWS AND ANALYSIS
Published October 14, 2008, 12:36 am, Mineweb
A detailed assessment of Bolivia's mining industry and the Morales government's attitude towards foreign mining investment and whether further nationalization will, or will not, take place.
GOBIS: Tourney on hiatus
Published October 14, 2008, 12:06 am, The Sun Chronicle
The Attleboro Area Girls' Holiday Basketball Tournament will be in limbo for a year. Due to the withdrawal of Mansfield High, Attleboro High, Bishop Feehan High and North Attleboro High will now play each other an additional time as a non-league foe.
NComputing Wins 50,000-Seat Deal in India
Published October 13, 2008, 4:55 pm, Linux World
NComputing, a comer in low-cost computing run by the guy who started eMachines, has picked up a deal to supply 1.8 million kids in 5,000 schools in Andhra Pradesh with computer access. Andhra Pradesh is the largest and most populous state in South India and the deal, another thumb in the eye for One Laptop Per Child, represents 50,000 seats. In the next few months local authorities will be ...
Murder, sex (& high tea)
Published October 13, 2008, 4:12 pm, Independent
It's probably the most extraordinary corner in England – the blind corner at the end of Park Street, Woodstock, where two worlds collide. It looks wholly unpromising when you stroll down the main street of this dazzlingly pretty Oxfordshire town, past the Bear Hotel, the church of St Mary Magdalene, the coffee house, Chaucer's House... Then you turn the corner and see before you a huge entrance ...
Cloud Computing & Cloudy AJAX: Putting RIAs on Amazon's EC2 with Savings & Efficiency
Published October 13, 2008, 1:07 pm, SYS-CON Media
SYS-CON's 6th International AJAX World RIA Conference & Expo will take place October 20-22, 2009, at the Fairmont Hotel, in San Jose, California. The computing forecast calls for continuing heavy clouds. What are the technical issues for building AJAX applications in the cloud? What is the most productive way to build AJAX applications for deployment to EC2? This presentation will draw on ...
AJAX in the Cloud: Save Your Company a Bundle with Your RIA Strategy!
Published October 13, 2008, 12:52 pm, SYS-CON Media
Cloud computing has recently grown to encompass hosted database services. The idea behind 'Database as a Service' (DaaS) is to side step the complexity and cost often associated with running your own database. Unfortunately for AJAX programmers, it is not easy to access a DaaS directly from JavaScript. To solve security issues, AJAX apps need to talk to an intermediate server that acts as a ...
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