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Cold-Water Pressure Washers with Automatic Shutoff Technology®

12 Oct
Daimer Industries®’ 8700 Super Max™ machines with AST® offer convenience and performance for operators of electric pressure washers.
Woburn, MA, October 12, 2009 –(PR.com)– Daimer Industries, Inc.®, a major supplier and worldwide exporter of commercial cleaning products, introduced new electric-powered, cold-water pressure washers, the Super Max™ 8700AST line. The machines feature Automatic Shut-Off Technology™ (AST®) that switches off key components in the electric-powered, power washers after 30 seconds of inactivity.

“AST® switches off motors and pumps when the pressure washers are idle,” said Matthew Baratta, Daimer.com spokesman. “These machines increase productivity in pressure washing applications and are designed for operators working with long hoses far from the system.”

What is AST®?

AST® works as follows: When engaged, the technology shuts off the pump and motor after 30 seconds if the gun is not in use and water is not flowing through the system. When the power washer operator pulls the trigger again, the motor and pump go on.

This feature was engineered for applications in which pressure washer operators are working a distance from the machine and it is not practical for them to go back and forth to turn it off during every work break. The pumps and motors in many electric pressure washers remain active even if water is flowing through the system — this can damage the pump and motor.

New Super Max Electric Power Washers

Super Max™ 8700AST power washing machines offer pressure levels of up to 1500 psi, flow rates of up to 3 GPM and 3.0 HP electric motors. The units are unheated but can provide heated cleaning depending on the inlet temperature.

The pressure washing equipment is on wheels and includes: a 25-foot, high-pressure hydraulic hose; a three-foot trigger wand with quick disconnect; assorted nozzles; and a powder-coated steel, high gloss, chip/chemical resistant case.

Daimer® also offers a complete line of unheated, as well as gas pressure washers and hot water pressure washer for commercial, industrial, and cleaning business users.

 
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It’s Our Future: Broadband Isn’t Just the Web

12 Oct

The FCC seems to want to link the U.S. for broadband in much the way copper wire and telephones did last century. Fragmented technology makes that difficult.

When Ed Whitacre, CEO of AT&T (T) retired in 2007, a telecom lobbyist commented to me that Whitacre was one of the last die-hard believers in providing telephone service to everyone. This person was concerned that incoming CEO Randall Stephenson would focus less on landlines and more on growing revenue and generating profit, at the expense of rural customers. That’s coming to pass not just at AT&T, but at other telcos as well. And as I watch what’s happening at the FCC with regard to the National Broadband Plan, as well as the kerfuffle over whether or not Google Voice should provide access to rural areas, where it would have to pay high call termination fees, I realize that the FCC is embarking not on a National Broadband Plan, but a National Communications Plan.

And it isn’t just about providing access to the Web. It’s about creating an infrastructure to link the country in much the same way that copper wires and phones linked the U.S. during the last century. We may look down on that network now, but millions of Americans still use it and it’s served as the foundation upon which the Web as we know it today has been built. Still, thanks to the fragmented nature of the technologies and types of businesses that deliver broadband, that idea of a unified communications infrastructure (as well as the need for it) is fading.

Broadband, from the last mile that connects our homes to the long-haul networks that move the traffic around the world, is our voice, our video, our Web and our connection to one another. Our shared last-mile networks are the party-line equivalent of the telephone system for this century, and the FCC needs to help create regulations that take such a reality into account. No, getting broadband to everyone isn’t a profitable proposition for the carriers, but the U.S. has a responsibility to make it happen.

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Stop publishing gives writers a new avenue

11 Oct

Rick Rieser was halfway through his daily jog this summer when the idea for “Percy, The Perfectly Imperfect Chicken” first popped into his brain.

Today, Rieser is a first-time author preparing for a busy schedule of readings in the Midwest, toting boxes of the children’s book that was published with stunning speed via a small Silicon Valley startup called FastPencil. A creative process that often takes years — and typically fails to come to fruition — was accomplished in a few months, without a single rejection.

FastPencil, based in Campbell, is at the crest of a wave of innovation that analysts say could disrupt and “democratize” the book industry much as the music industry was transformed by Napster and the iPod. The changes are challenging the gatekeeper status and distribution models of big publishing houses by creating alternative routes for authors.

The Web has been a boon for self-expression, but while just about anyone can blog, a physical book remains the dream of many writers. Rare are the blog-to-book breakthroughs of such authors as Julie Powell, whose blogging homage to chef Julia Child led to a book and a film.

Advances in digital technologies have created new ways to publish and consume the written word. Innovations ranging from the print-on-demand technologies by Hewlett-Packard and Xerox to the advent of Web-connected e-readers such as Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader are changing the way books are produced, distributed and read. Speculation abounds that Apple is working on its own e-reader.
Writers, meanwhile, are exploring avenues such as Scribd, which is showcasing digital works known as “e-books,” and FastPencil, which bills itself as a one-stop shop to help authors create, publish, distribute and sell their physical books.

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Full coverage here:

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_13517761

 
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Nobel Price for Digital Camera Technology Developers

11 Oct

On Tuesday, October 6, 2009 Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics to Boyle and Smith, as well as scientist Charles Kuen Kao, who developed a way to transmit light via fiber optics. Thanks to Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith, we are able to capture billions of images without loading a single roll of film and transmit our images around the world with ease.

Building upon Albert Einstein’s 1921 Nobel Prize winning theory of the law of the photoelectric effect, Boyle and Smith stumbled upon the creation the electronic image sensor. They set out to develop a better electronic memory device in 1969 while working at Bell Labs, but instead produce the first charge-coupled device (or CCD) that is now employed in nearly all digital camera technology.

Their first 100×100 pixel video camera evolved in the 1970’s in to the first 1.4 megapixel camera in 1986, then in to the first fully digital camera in 1995. Digital camera technology has rocketed NASA’s Hubble telescope photo efforts in ways film technology never could. CCD technology has opened the doors to medical explorations, microsurgery, and diagnostics.  Digital technology is able to capture information neither film nor the human eye can see. Thanks to Boyle and Smith, you are able to take photos of nearly any and everything your heart desires, and thanks to Kao, you’re able to transmit them around the world in seconds.

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News: http://www.examiner.com/x-15750-Chicago-Photography-Examiner~y2009m10d8-Developers-of-digital-camera-technology-receive-Nobel-Prize

 
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Touch-Screen Phones From Samsung

09 Oct

Samsung  Mobile has expanded its portfolio of mobile touchscreen phones that feature the ultra-brilliant Samsung AMOLED screen.

The company had released Samsung Impression and Samsung Rogue last year and now it has added Samsung Behold II and Samsung Moment both running onGoogle’s Android operating system to its array of touchscreen phones.

Samsung is a dealer in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies. The AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology that Samsung uses for the screens on these mobile devices offers support for higher resolution, and can deliver best-in-class screen clarity whether indoors or outdoors.

Users can have the advantage of true color and richer contrast on the devices regardless of the actions they are performing with AMOLED. In addition to providing crystal-clear resolution, the AMOLED screen creates a thinner mobile phone form factor.

According to Samsung, the benefit of OLED is that it uses a lot less power than an LCD and doesn’t require a backlight, the result, a lot longer battery life in the product. OLED also delivers more vibrant on-screen colors and allows users to view the screen a lot better in bright light situations.

In a release, Omar Khan, senior vice president of product management and strategy for Samsung Mobile, said the AMOLED screens are a differentiator in their mobile phones that they’re proud to continue featuring in their U.S. portfolio — and the bright, vivid colors and thinner form factor take the user’s mobile experience to the next level.
The recently released Samsung Moment combines to power of Android platform with Google complete with built-in Google mobile services, including Google Search, Google Maps, Gmail and YouTube as well as the thousands of applications built on the Android platform. Behold II meanwhile integrates Android platform with TouchWiz user interface that provides one-touch access to a user’s favorite and most commonly used features and applications.
Both Samsung Rogue and Impression are designed to be sleek and stylish to enhance customer experience.
Recently Samsung and T-Mobile USA the availability of Samsung’s first joint Android powered mobile phone, Samsung Behold II and Samsung launched First R2 LiMo handset, Vodafone 360 H1.
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Source: http://headsets.tmcnet.com/topics/headsets/articles/66181-samsung-expands-portfolio-touch-screen-phones-featuring-amoled.htm
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Top 100 Promising Clean Technology Companies 2009

09 Sep

The Guardian along with Cleantech Group have newly issued a list of the top 100 most promising clean technology firms.  The list of companies admits firms in energy efficiency, energy generation, water and wastewater, energy storage, recycling and waste, transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture.  The 100 companies taken for the list all had to be unlisted, private, and independent companies.

Called for to produce the list, hundreds of industry insiders, entrepreneurs and investors were asked the following question: “Which private cleantech companies show the most commercial promise? Which have the most expected and highest likeliness of accomplishing high growth and high market impact?”  A list of 3500 companies was created based upon the responses.

Reuters reports: “The first ever Global Cleantech 100 shines a spotlight on which companies and which technology areas the global innovation community is currently most excited about, from a commercial standpoint.  Although none of these firms are exactly household names, their innovations and the business acumen of their leaders and investors mean that they are likely to have high impact on our future. The Global Cleantech 100 companies, and many other worthy peer companies, stand to enable environmental sustainability and generate economic growth“.

 
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HP to acquire AMR’s fresh service system

28 Aug

Hewlett-Packard Co. has contracted a letter of intention with American Airlines parent AMR Corp. to acquire the carrier’s new passenger service scheme, which will revolve about providing passengers on more customer back up as they book reservations, check prices, evaluate inventory and check in for their flyings.

Fort Worth-based AMR said the new system will be called Jetstream.

Jetstream will be designed to increase agility and consistency, American said in a statement. It also will support online and mobile travel tools for American’s customers.

Palo Alto-based HP and AMR didn’t disclose financial terms of the deal.

“This relationship pairs American, an information technology pioneer in the aviation industry, with HP, a world-renowned technology pioneer,” said AMR Chairman and CEO Gerard Arpey. “The current passenger service system has served us well for many decades and remains among one of the most reliable. Today’s decision indicates our commitment to continue to deliver the most effective tools to our employees and outstanding service to our customers.”

 
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BP awardings Application Development Contracts

27 Aug

BP bears granted contracts in the domain of applications programme development and maintenance to IBM, Accenture, and 3 big top Indian outsourcers.

BP was before outsourcing this services to 40 armed service suppliers, and determined to rationalise the amount to five, a BP spokeswoman said on Wednesday.

The five suppliers selected were already bidding services to BP, she added.

The total contract value is £1.5 billion (US$2.5 billion) across 5 years, which was 500 million pounds glower than BP had budgeted for the contract.

IBM and the three Indian outsourcers — Wipro, Infosys Technologies, and Tata Consultancy Services –said separately on Wednesday that they had been selected by BP for five-year contracts, for an undisclosed amount.

IBM said it had bagged the largest among the contracts awarded by BP at the end of a 12 month program by the British oil and gas company to consolidate its application development and maintenance vendors. The BP spokeswoman declined to discuss the share of each vendor in the total contract value.

Like its Indian competitors, IBM is likely to deliver a significant portion of the work for BP from its Indian operations, according to informed sources. This strategy would have enabled IBM to compete on price with Indian providers, the sources said.

An IBM spokesman in India declined to comment beyond the company statement.

Indian outsourcers have a dominant share of about 40 percent of the global market for outsourced application development and maintenance services, Siddharth Pai, a partner at outsourcing consultancy, Technology Partners International (TPI), said on Wednesday.

Indian outsourcers have been increasingly focusing on the European market to reduce their dependence on the U.S. market.

 
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VMware to Buy SpringSource for Java

11 Aug

VMware Monday said it will acquire enterprise application and Java developer SpringSource in a move to help the company work with customers to expand its open-source support and develop internal and external cloud computing architectures.

The acquisition would make VMware a major player in the open-source community and give it a new technology to better combat Oracle (NSDQ:ORCL), which has its own virtualization technology and which will shortly take over Sun Microsystems (NSDQ:JAVA) and its Java technology.

VMware said it plans to pay about $362 million in cash and equity and assume about $58 million of unvested stock and options for its acquisition of SpringSource, which is expected to close this quarter. The acquisition has been approved by SpringSource’s shareholders, VMware said.

SpringSource is a developer of applications based on open-source technologies, and the company leads a number of open-source communities.

These include the Spring Framework, an enterprise Java programming model that VMware said currently supports about half of all enterprise Java projects. The Spring Framework is in use by about 2 million developers worldwide as a lightweight programming environment to make applications portable across open-source and commercial application server environments.

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