Sonos offers an interesting family of high-quality devices capable of playing audio streamed from a variety of Internet and local sources wirelessly throughout the home. I’ve just spent a few weeks getting to know the Sonos ZonePlayer S5 and 90 streaming-music players. How well did they perform?
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A report published earlier this year by a Washington D.C. based think tank recommends that the U.S. significantly increase its investment in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) at the federal level, by $2.5 to $3 billion annually. The infusion of funds would go toward large-scale ITS demonstration projects, new ITS deployments, and ongoing operations and maintenance of existing ITS deployments.
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In a recent blog post, U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood extolled the potential benefits of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication technologies in reducing accidents and saving lives on America’s highways.
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eCoMove, a new EU research project, is developing “green ITS” (intelligent transport systems) technologies and applications for energy-efficient driving. The project plans to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by up to 20 percent, through the use of the latest cooperative communication, traffic control, and infrastructure technologies.
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This article explores the potential benefits of new “intelligent traffic” technology being developed by European researchers as part of the cooperative vehicle-infrastructure systems (CVIS) project. The article was originally published by ICT Results, which showcases the activities of various EU-funded R&D projects.
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