The U.S. Department of Transportation has issued a progress report on its current 5-year Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) strategic research plan. The plan’s goal is to advance the development of a nationwide wireless information network connecting all vehicles and infrastructure, in order to dramatically enhance safety, mobility, and environmental performance.
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The compact, Linux-powered Pogoplug device has just gained a $29 WiFi adapter companion, which enables it to work wirelessly. The new Pogoplug Wireless Adapter appears to be a standard USB 802.11 b/g/n WiFi adapter of undisclosed origin and chipset, and works with all current Pogoplugs.
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In the latest results from an online survey of 13,829 PC users, slightly over half say they’re not currently using their PCs’ power management capabilities, such as sleep and hibernate modes, to save power when they’re not actively using the systems. Fortunately, nearly all participants who aren’t currently using power management acknowledge that they’d like to change their ways.
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We’ve just learned that Linux users have finally gained the ability to use Google’s chat’s voice and video features Support for Ubuntu and other Debian-based Linux distributions is available immediately, with RPM-based distribution support said to be “coming soon.”
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In order to get a sense of the popularity of various Linux distributions over the past several years, we entered their names into Google’s search insights tool and grabbed images of the resulting graphs. The graphs display some fascinating trends and bode well for the future of Linux.
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