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Intel Touches on Mobility, Notebook Security at IDF
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:20:06 -0400
While most of the 2008 Intel Developer Forum focused on Intel processors that will use the upcoming Nehalem microarchitecture, part of the forum also looked ahead to what Intel would offer for both laptops and notebook security. Intel also introduced its first quad-core processors for laptops called the Core 2 Extreme QX9300 and the Core 2 Quad Q9100. Intel is also expected to offer an anti-theft device for notebooks. - SAN FRANCISCO While the majority of the 2008 Intel Developer Forum here has focused on Intels Nehalem microarchitecture, the chip makers top executives also took time to emphasize Intels focus on consumer and business notebooks. During his keynote address Aug. 19, Dadi Perlmutter, an Intel executi...
Intel Shines Spotlight on Upcoming Nehalem Processors
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:51:50 -0400
At the Intel Developer Forum, Intel's top executives focused on an upcoming series of Intel processors built on the new Nehalem microarchitecture, which will scale up from two to eight processing cores. These new Intel processors, which will eventually find their way into servers, notebooks and desktops, add new power management and virtualization capabilities. The Intel processors will also offer an integrated memory controller, which will rival what AMD has offered with its Opteron processors. - SAN FRANCISCO Intel lifted the curtain a little more on its upcoming lineup of processors based on the quot;Nehalem quot; microarchitecture, which will include new power management features and enhanced capabilities for virtualization. While the chip maker held back some critical information on...
Intel Unveils Its First Solid-State SATA Storage Drives
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:31:22 -0400
Intel has been putting a great deal of R D into developing flash memory SSDs that will withstand the rigors of 24/7 data center server usage, heavy-duty client/server desktop and laptop use, and embedded applications. Intel is convinced that it has added enough storage capacity up to 160GB on these SSDs to more than handle enterprise duty. - SAN FRANCISCO Intel has been developing solid-state flash memory processors for as long as flash has been around (20 years). But only on Aug. 19 at the Intel Developer Forum here did the world's largest chip maker announce its first-ever flash-based SATA drives for data storage. Intel's High...
Judge Backs Hackers in Boston Subway Dispute
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:47:18 -0400
Three students from MIT who found a way to hack into Boston's transit system to get free rides can talk publicly about the security flaw, a judge rules Aug. 19. The MIT students raised the ire of the MBTA with a paper demonstrating how someone could work around flaws in Boston's Charlie Card automated fare system. The MIT students had planned to present the paper, which showed how anyone could take thousands of free rides on subways and buses, at the Defcon hackers conference in Las Vegas earlier in August. - BOSTON (Reuters) Three students from the elite Massachusetts Institute of Technology who found a way to hack into Boston's transit system to get free rides can talk publicly about the security flaw, a court ruled on Tuesday in a decision hailed as a victory for academic freedom. The students fr...
SEC Drops EDGAR for IDEA Database
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:42:43 -0400
EDGAR, the computer database for filing documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is giving way to a new system that aims to let investors more easily analyze corporate reports and other financial information. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox unveiled IDEA, short for Interactive Data Electronic Applications, saying it would give investors faster, more accurate and more useful information about public companies and mutual funds. - WASHINGTON (Reuters) EDGAR, the computer database for filing documents with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, is giving way to a new system that aims to let investors more easily analyze corporate reports and other financial information. SEC Chairman Christopher Cox unveiled IDEA, sho...
HP Profit Rises on Overseas Sales of Desktop and Laptop Computer and Printers
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 17:35:59 -0400
Hewlett-Packard, the world's biggest desktop and laptop computer maker, reports higher quarterly profit Aug. 19 on solid international sales in its desktop and laptop computer and printer businesses, which overcame pockets of weak technology spending. HP's revenue from outside the United States counted for 68 percent of the total. HP and other desktop and laptop PC makers, such as Dell, Lenovo and Acer, have been depending on strong overseas growth as U.S. performance has lagged because of wider economic troubles. - SAN FRANCISCO, Aug 19 (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard Co results beat Wall Street targets, overcoming fears that slowing global economies and a stronger dollar would substantially weaken the world's biggest computer and printer maker. Shares rose 3.2 percent in after-hours trading on Tuesday afte...

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Retailers' profit reports reflect stress on consumers
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
From affluent shoppers at Saks to bargain-hunters at Target, from Home Depot to office supplier Staples, consumers are pulling back and...
Wholesale prices rising at fastest pace since 1981
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700
Wholesale inflation surged in July, leaving prices for the past year rising at the fastest pace in 27 years, according to government data...
CellCyte stops paying its remaining employees
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:04:06 -0700
CellCyte Genetics has fired some employees and stopped paying salaries to those who remain, the Bothell-based stem cell research company said Tuesday.

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Overseas Sales Help Hewlett-Packard
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:01:19 -0000
The world’s biggest computer maker reported a higher quarterly profit on strong international sales in its notebook computer and printer businesses.
Bits: Four Reasons Our Printers Are Getting Dusty
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 03:13:10 -0000
Consumer printer sales are flat. Are home printers just not as necessary any more?
Verizon’s FiOS: A Smart Bet or a Big Mistake?
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:53:01 -0000
As Verizon begins to roll out FiOS in its hometown, New York, the company argues that the service is proving to be more successful than it promised when it started the project.

CNN.com - Technology

Coming soon: 'wallet phones' from Japan
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:43:23 -0400
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Experts: video games can help kids learn
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:42:50 -0400
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U.S. at risk of cyberattacks, experts say
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:47:55 -0400
The next military or terrorist attack on the United States may be carried out in cyberspace by shadowy hackers half a world a way. Experts say last week's computer attacks on the former Soviet republic of Georgia signal a new kind of cyberwar for which the U.S. is not fully prepared.

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'Marketplace' Report: Fun Gadgets In Rough Times
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:00:00 -0400
Rather than going out in the evenings, Americans appear to be spending time and money on new gadgets. The U.S. government says consumer electronic sales were up 4.8 percent in July.
Clockwatcher Explains Phelps' Win
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:00:00 -0400
Michael Phelps won his record-tying seventh gold medal by a fraction of a fingernail, just 0.01 second. Even when you study the photos and the video, it's tough to tell who came in first. Christophe Berthaud, the director of Olympic timekeeping for Omega, the official timekeeper at the games, explains the system used to time swimmers.
Guerrilla Ad Campaign Pushes Boundaries
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:25:00 -0400
Troy Hitch talks about You Suck at Photoshop, a hit series of Web videos created to explore viral marketing concepts. Hitch is the creative director for the agency Big Fat Brain.

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Game sharers face legal crackdown
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:05:19 -0000
Thousands of video game pirates could face legal action after a developer wins damages from a file-sharer.
Call to tackle UK business waste
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:00:00 -0000
The government should do more to curb waste using tax as an incentive, a House of Lords committee has said.
Intel cites US education 'crisis'
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:09:35 -0000
Intel's chairman tells developers a better education system is vital to the economic well-being and future of the US.

Reuters Video: Technology

A fix for iPhone?
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:50:25 -0400
Aug 19 - Apple releases a software update for its new IPhone 3G
Alternatives to Google
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:49:06 -0400
Aug 15 - New search engines try to provide better answers to online queries by using humans or different technology to vet information.
Reuters Technology Week
Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:55:30 -0400
Aug. 15 - Le disposable cell phone, the Sphinx's facelift, and Sesame Street.org goes live action.

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Hewlett-Packard 3Q profit jumps 14 pct
By JORDAN ROBERTSON Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:50:04 -0000
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Hewlett-Packard Co.'s fiscal third-quarter profit jumped 14 percent, beating Wall Street's expectations, as strong laptop sales and a robust international presence lifted the technology bellwether....
Intel unveils new chip design to challenge AMD
By JORDAN ROBERTSON Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:33:48 -0000
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Intel Corp. cracked the lid Tuesday on a new chip design that is at once a big challenge to smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc. and an admission that AMD nailed a key design feature before it slipped into a severe financial slump....
Apple releases fix for iPhone 3G connectivity woes
By JESSICA MINTZ Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:37:17 -0000
SEATTLE (AP) -- Apple Inc. has released an iPhone software update it says improves communication between the smart phone and wireless networks....

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Salesforce broadens platform with call center buy
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:01:00 -0700
The company acquires InStranet, a call center software provider, and plans a new offering for its software-as-a-service platform.
Intel plans to deliver Atom processor next month
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 19:15:00 -0700
Chipmaker reveals during the Intel Developer Forum that it is set to deliver the new power-efficient mobile processor next month.
Google outpaces search market growth
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:02:00 -0700
In July, U.S. searches rose 3 percent to 8 billion over the last year, according to Nielsen. But Google's searches in the U.S. increased faster at 16 percent.

 

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Aerosim Blockset - A Matlab/Simulink block library useful for rapid development of nonlinear 6-DOF Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) dynamic models. Proprietary, commercial software. May be used without charge by some non-commercial users.

ARS MAGNA: Abstract Robot Simulator - Provides an extensible, abstract world in which a planner controls a mobile robot. Nisp source code utilizing a CLX GUI. Free Software under a BSD-style license.

B-Soccer - A Java robot soccer simulator that use neuro-evolution techniques to evolve soccer robots control clients. Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.
Meta Description: [ Introduction to B(erli) Soccer. A soccersimulation using neuroevolution to breed soccer clients for robocup ]

Biorobotic Simulation Program - A scripting language called Config++ that wraps a library of C++ classes for simulating the dynamics of multi-segment robotic devices. License allows non-commercial use only.
Meta Description: [ Fred Delcomyn is a professor at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. This site is his curriculum vitae. ]

BugWorks - BugWorks lets you build and play with 2D robots using a drag-and-drop interface. It offers an introductory course on robotics in the guise of a mission-based, simulation game.

Camelot - A robot offline programming and simulation environment for industrial robots. Proprietary, commercial software for MS Windows. Site in Danish and English.
Meta Description: [ Camelots Ropsim is windows based Robot Offline Programming and Simulation Software for industrial robots. With Ropsim you can program your robot on your PC. ]

DYNAMECHS - A multibody dynamic and hydrodynamic simulation library implemented in object oriented, cross-platform C++. Suitable for simulation of underwater articulated robots, ROVs, and AUVs. Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

Dynawiz XMR - Multibody dynamics simulation tool for robotics design and analysis. Proprietary, commercial software for MS Windows.
Meta Description: [ Concurrent Dynamics specializes in multibody dynamics simulation tools for the aerospace, automotive, and biomechanics industries. Our tools support mechanism design, control system analysis, validation, and failure mode evaluation. ]

EASY-ROB - A 3D robot simulation and modeling tool. Proprietary software for MS Windows only. Website in English and German.
Meta Description: [ EASY-ROB 3D Robot Simulation Tool is a powerful, comprehensive modelling and simulation tool, to create high quality and high speed rendered images for animation of 3D Scenes. Processes from the robotics and mechanical engineering field are programmed and visualized immediately. The program is a ... ]

EDTSim - Electric Drive Train Simulator. Can be used as a drive train development tool for mobile robots but was specifically developed for combat R/C vehicles such as those used in BattleBots. Proprietary software.

eyeWyre Simulation Studio - Provides real-time, 3D physics simulation of Parallax robots and BASIC stamp microcontrollers. Includes a scripting languages for customizing the simulations. Proprietary software for MS Windows.

500 Gwell - Graphical Workshop for Modelling and Simulating Robot Environments (Gwell) is an OpenGL and Qt based 3D modelling application for building and simulating robots and their environment. Written by Przemyslaw Jakwert. Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.
Meta Description: [ Gwell (Graphical Workshop for Modelling and Simulating Robot Environments) is a 3D modelling application which purpose is to provide fully integrated graphics environment for creating and simulating robots and their environments. Application is free and based on Trolltech's Qt and SGI's OpenGL li... ]

500 Hexapod - A modeling environment for simulating hexapod 6DOF robotic tool platforms (Stewart Platforms). The software includes C++ source code and is Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

Juice - A 3D simulation environment with realistic physics for developing walking or rolling robots using a visual programming language. Run MS Windows. No source code available.

Khepera Simulator - A 2D simulator for the Khepera mobile robot. Includes C source code. For non-commercial use only.

kinlab - A Java 3d kinematics modeler. Kinlab is distributed as a Java Webstart application under a BSD-like license.
Meta Description: [ kinlab is a simple solid and kinematics modeler ]

MobotSim - A configurable 2D simulator of mobile robots. Features a graphical interface where robots and objects are easily configured. Uses BASIC as a simulation development language. Proprietary software for MS Windows.
Meta Description: [ Windows software for 2D simulation of differential drive mobile robots. It provides a graphical interface in which you can easily create and edit robots and objects and a BASIC language editor for macro writing. ]

MOBS - Mobile rOBot Simulator developed at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Software models the French Robuter II robot including odometry, bumpers, sonar, and camera view. MOBS is public domain software developed in C. It requires XView, DevGuide, PVM-library, and SGI OpenInventor.

Motion Planning Game - A simple simulator meant to give people a feeling for the difficulty of planning collision free motions for a robot. Binary-only for MS Windows. May be used and distributed for any purpose. Site in English and Dutch.
Meta Description: [ free software download, kids software, children software ]

Open Dynamics Engine - ODE is a platform independent C++ library for simulating articulated rigid body dynamics; ground vehicles, legged creatures, or moving objects. Supports advanced joints, contact with friction, and built-in collision detection. ODE is Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

POPBUGS - A 2D simulation environment for track-driven robots that includes inertia and track dynamics. Poplog source should run in most Unix/X Poplog environments.

ROBOOP - An object oriented robotics simulation toolkit in C++. Includes forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, torque, acceleration and other functionality. ROBOOP is Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

Robot Auto Racing Simulator - RARS is intended as a competition among programmers. It consists of a simulation of the physics of cars, a graphic display of the race, and a robot driver for each car. RARS is Free Software written in C and C++ and licensed under the GNU GPL.

Robotect - OphirTech product that allow user to create, visualize, animate, and analyze serial-link robot arm designs. Proprietary software for MS Windows.

RobotFlow - Linux/Gnome Open Source robotics simulation toolkit for Overflow. Supports vision, signal processing, fuzzy logic, neural nets, and other control methods. Includes drivers for Pioneer2 robots. Written in C++ and licensed under the GNU LGPL.

Robotics Toolbox for MATLAB - A public domain Matlab Toolbox for robot kinematics, dynamics and trajectory generation.

RobotWorks - Interactive CAD environment for workcell design and motion simulation of industrial and factory automation robots. Proprietary, commercial software for MS Windows.

RoboWorks - A tool for 3D modeling, simulation and animation of any physical system.
Meta Description: [ RoboWorks is an easy to use software tool for 3D modeling, simulation and animation of mechanical and robotic system. It provides extremely intuitive model development, High quality, fully interactive 3D graphics, Interfacing with popular software packages. RoboWorks supports interactive animatio... ]

Robsim - 3D Robot model viewer and simulator coded in Java and built as a college engineering project. Source available on request. Non-commercial use only.
Meta Description: [ Home of Robsim, a robot simulator coded in java, and many other programs by Tanveer Singh. Free downloads, source code, and a knowledge base containing tips & tricks, hacks, etc. other useful bits of information. ]

Simderella - A simple robot simulator consisting of a controller, a forward kinematics component, and an X Windows GUI. C source is included. There is no cost for non-commercial use but commercial users must pay a license fee.

SodaConstructor - An online Java-based simulator that allows users to construct robots and other mechanical creations and watch them walk, move, or fly.
Meta Description: [ sodaplay: the home of creative play ]

System for Parallel Agent Discrete Event Simulation - SPADES is a middleware system for the creation of AI agent-based simulations. Agent have continual sense-think-act cycle interaction with the simulated world. SPADES is Free Software written in C++ and licensed under the GNU GPL.

The FLAT 2-D Robot Simulator - Simulates an RWI circular, sonar-guided robot in a flat 2D world. Includes a physical simulator, sonar, and laser rangefinder simulators. The simulated robot has internal odometry, one or two laser rangefinders, and 12 sonar sensors. You can design your own 2D floor plan. No source available.

The RoboCup Soccer Simulator - Research and educational tool for multi-agent systems and artificial intelligence. It enables two teams of 11 simulated autonomous robots to play soccer. The multiplatform C++ code is Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

TRSoccerbots - 3D Soccer simulation that uses teleo-reactive programming to expose the fundamental ideas involved in the creation of autonomous agents to students. Proprietary software for Microsoft Windows. May be downloaded and used without charge for education purposes only.

vsoc - A Java-based, robot soccer simulator that uses neuro-evolution to generate control clients. Free Software licensed under the GNU GPL.

Webots - Allows creation of 3D virtual worlds populated with multiple simulated robots. Supports customized wheeled, legged or flying robots. Includes API for robot control, physics, a complete library of sensors and actuators, and communication capabilities. Proprietary, commercial software for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X systems.
Meta Description: [ Cyberbotics: professional mobile robot simulation ]

Yobotics! Simulation Construction Set - A rigid body dynamic simulation package ideally suited for simulating legged robots (bipeds, quadrupeds, hexapods), robot arms, Stewart Platforms, and other mechanisms.
Meta Description: [ The Yobotics Simulation Construction Set is a software tool for dynamic simulation of robots and biomechanical systems. ]