PeterB

Google Redefines GPS Navigation Landscape

I don't want your phone next to your ear at all when you are driving! In many states it would be illegal anyway. Get a mounting thingy so it is in a convenient consistent place for both functions.


On Oct 29 09:48 AM bmesco1 wrote:

> I want my GPS device anchored to my car so I know where to glance
> at it. I don't want it next to my ear.

AT&T, Apple Can't Win Fight Against VoIP

I have not used Truphone, but Tel3 provides a VOIP service that we use for all international calls on both my cell phone (T-Mobile) and my wife's cell phone (Verizon), as well as our landline, and get rates about the same as Skype, and pretty good service. Our phone bill totals about 1/3 of what it did before. Namibia is not on our frequent-call list, but Canada, the UK, Czech Republic, Spain and Germany are.

Harris Interactive Reputation Survey: Corporate America Rates 'Terrible'

Wow!
" * Nearly all (98%) respondents believe it is important that corporations do evolve to more sustainable business practices.
* More than two-thirds (68%) believe American corporations are lagging behind companies in other countries.
* Only 16% of Americans believe that they will make these changes on their own.
* Most Americans (90%) give some consideration to sustainable business practices when purchasing a company’s products and and services."

Has anyone told Congress? Especially the Republicans there? Sounds like Obama (esp. the candidate version) has the country behind him. I am thrilled!

Some Things Change Everything: Amazon's Cloud Computing

I am intrigued by the ideas about technological revolutions, but I think there is another between the 4th and 5th, the explosion of semiconductor technology (especially the IC) between 1960 and perhaps 1985, now in a near-mature stage, perhaps topping out in the next decade. This also fits in with several lincages in the revolutions, so that the steam engine and the railways depended on the results of the first industrial revolution, and leading to heavy machinery and electricity, thence the automobile. The IC made possible the information technology age, and low-cost telecommunications (yes, the earliest computers ran on vacuum tubes and magnetic cores, I know, I used some of them).
As to the main point of the article, in some ways cloud computing is like my early computer usage, where one fed in one's deck of punched cards (or a paper tape) to a central machine, and got back the results later as a printout, but with vastly improved input and output channels.
I wonder if Amazon has the book...

Smart Grid: Powering Us Out of Recession

I don't see how ultracaps can trim the blades on windmills. And running a flashlight for an hour is far away from running even a house for a few hours.


On Mar 12 01:51 PM andychoka wrote:

> The leader in ultracaps is a small growing company named Maxwell
> Technologies (seekingalpha.com/symbo...). Ultracaps have
> become the leading method to trim blades on windmills also.