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The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) recently held a free public meeting to review status and future plans associated with the agency’s IntelliDrive multimodal transportation research initiative. The event focused in particular on applications involving real-time data capture and management and dynamic mobility.
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Industry analysts often end the year with predictions of future trends. Bill Kircos, Intel’s director of product- and technology-related public relations efforts, has rounded out the year with 11 technology trend predictions for 2011. Although Kircos admits his list is “a bit slanted toward Intel,” this guest post offers a glimpse of what’s in the trend-setting chipmaker’s near-term crystal ball.
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Industry analysts often end the year with predictions of future trends. This guest post from IdentityMine, a specialist in the “user experience” (UX) aspect of software development, predicts eight mobile application trends for 2011.
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Industry analysts often end the year with predictions of future trends. This year, CCS Insight has suggested possibilities such as an Apple iScreen TV, the dawn of mobile 3D video, implosion of the nascent tablet market (other than the iPad), Facebook adding VoIP, Android undermining Google’s new Chrome OS, the emergence of Meego as a mobile device OS, Apple acquiring GPS-maker TomTom, and more.
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Last month, we learned from Gartner that Android will probably be the number-two worldwide mobile OS this year, and may lead the pack by 2014. With Android’s growing use as the OS embedded in phones, netbooks, tablets, set-top boxes, and LCD HDTVs, we can’t help wondering: will the Linux-based OS soon dominate the entire non-PC consumer device OS market?
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[Updated Oct. 22, 2010] — Following months of teasers, Logitech finally launched its Google TV player today at simultaneous press events in New York and San Francisco. The company’s Google TV family includes the Android-based “Revue” STB (set-top box), large and mini remote controls, free iPhone and Android remote control apps, and a video cam.
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Launched in October of 2004, Linux Mint has rapidly emerged as one of the most popular desktop Linux distributions. In this review, DeviceGuru takes a look at the latest Linux Mint release and finds it to be preferable to Ubuntu (on which it’s based) in several significant ways.
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Sonos has released its new remote controller app for the iPad to Apple, and expects it to show up as a free download in the iTunes app store September 29. The app, which joins a similar one for iPhones and iPod Touches, enables owners of Sonos media streaming devices to control their gadgets without requiring the company’s somewhat pricey dedicated wireless remote.
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The U.S. DOT’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) division has chosen eight companies to develop prototype on-board devices capable of transmitting basic “Here I am” safety messages to other vehicles and devices using wireless vehicle-to-vehicle/infrastructure (V2x) communications. The devices will be used in an IntelliDrive safety pilot deployment of up to 3,000 vehicles
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The University of Minnesota’s federally-funded Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Institute is conducting a series of seminars presenting updates on its research into human factors, intelligent vehicles, traffic modeling and management, sensing, communications, and controls. The webcasts are free and open to the public, and may be viewed live on the web or streamed on demand afterwards.
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