Chevrolet unveiled its 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup car Thursday. The matching Chevrolet SS passenger car, a new rear-wheel drive vehicle that will be available in showrooms in August, will be unveiled in February around the season-opening Daytona 500, when it will debut on the track. “As a passionate race fan, the debut of the SS […]
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Digital addiction growing in South Korea
Park Jung-in, an 11-year-old South Korean, sleeps with her Android smartphone instead of a teddy bear. When the screen beams with a morning alarm, she wakes up, picks up her glasses and scrolls through tens of unread messages from friends, shaking off drowsiness. Throughout the day, the gadget is in her hands whether she is […]
Sigma Systems launches cloud-based SaaS platform
Sigma Systems announced this morning that its Sigma Cloud ServiceBroker is now generally available to cable operators and service providers around the world. The Cloud ServiceBroker platform manages telecommunications business services, including VoIP and broadband, as well as cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications. Using Cloud ServiceBroker, service providers can extend SaaS offerings to their small- and […]
Public Knowledge: Increase OOBE limits on H-block
In an ex parte filing with the FCC yesterday, Public Knowledge recommended that the FCC not reduce the power approved for Dish’s uplink spectrum and instead impose higher Out of Band Emission (OOBE) limits on the H-block, a chunk of spectrum in which Sprint has expressed interest. “To the extent Dish uses the higher power level […]
Cablevision certifies SIP trunking with Cisco
In order to better serve its small business customers, Cablevision has certified its Optimum Voice SIP Trunking offering with the Cisco Unified Communications 300 Series. The end result is a pre-certified platform that delivers high-quality, reliable voice service for small businesses that want to take advantage of an Internet Protocol (IP) Private Branch Exchange (PBX) […]
Global Formula Racing
Wing inserts on Formula One racecar helps to provide faster racing speeds. The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) initiated Formula SAE in 1979, a program in which students design, build, and race an open wheeled, single-seated racecar. Within the program Global Formula Racing (GFR) emerged in 2010, a team in which students from Germany and […]
Book: Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge
YaleNews features works recently or soon to be published by members of the University community. Descriptions are based on material provided by the publishers. Authors of new books may forward publishers’ book descriptions to us by email. Transforming Ethnographic Knowledge Edited by Kamari Maxine Clarke, professor of anthropology, and Rebecca Hardin (University of Wisconsin […]
Japanese man’s childhood dreams give birth to giant robot
(Reuters) – Like many Japanese, Kogoro Kurata grew up watching futuristic robots in movies and animation, wishing that he could bring them to life and pilot one himself. Unlike most other Japanese, he has actually done it. His 4-tonne, 4-meter (13 feet) tall Kuratas robot is a grey behemoth with a built-in pilot’s seat and […]
Electric Vehicle Maker to Open Chicago Plant
A company that makes commercial vehicles powered entirely by electricity for FedEx, Coca-Cola, DHL and other corporations is opening a manufacturing plant in Chicago. Smith Electric Vehicles Corp.’s new plant is expected to create hundreds of jobs and boost the city’s growing battery and electric vehicle sector. Mayor Rahm Emanuel welcomed the company’s decision and […]
Clear Talk purchases Verizon Wireless B-block spectrum
Verizon Wireless today announced Clear Talk as the third buyer of its spectrum in the lower 700 MHz B-block. Clear Talk, a wireless service provider with operations in multiple states, last week signed an agreement to acquire from Verizon Wireless 10 lower 700 MHz B-block licenses covering five markets in Texas, as well as markets […]