Israel wants own technology on F-35 stealth fighters

JERUSALEM, Oct. 3 (Xinhua) -- As Israel plans to buy the Joint Strike Fighter (F-35) from the United States, the Israeli Defense Ministry is seeking American approval to install Israeli-made technology on the stealth fighter jets it buys.

One reason for Israel to ask for the changes is that the version of Israel Air Force (IAF) will be unique and superior in case the aircraft is also sold to Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries, said a Thursday report by local daily The Jerusalem Post.

"We have unique needs and need to retain our superiority in the region," a senior Israeli defense official was quoted as saying. "To meet these needs, we must be able to install our own systems."

With the Iranian nuclear threat looming, Israel has been looking for further U.S. support on a variety of defense measures, including developing advanced missile defense capabilities, acquiring smart bomb technology and expediting the F-35 sale.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Defense Department notified Congress of plans to sell up to 75 Joint Strike Fighter fifth-generation fighter jets to Israel in a 15.2-billion-U.S. dollar deal for the aircraft, which is expected to be the mainstay of air power in the U.S. and several other nations for decades.

The Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) said it informed Congress last Friday that Israel has asked to buy 25 of the F-35s,with an option to buy an additional 50 at a later date.



In its statement to Congress, the DSCA said the sale would help Israel "develop and maintain a strong self-defense capability" and that the deal would not upset the balance of military power in the region.

The sale would be the first to a country outside the U.S. and the other eight partner nations that are collaborating on the F-35,which is manufactured by Lockheed Martin, the largest U.S. defense contractor, according to The Jerusalem Post.

The first batch of 25 would be the variant of F-35 designed for conventional takeoff from military airfields, but the later 50 could include a version that can land and take off vertically, similar to a helicopter.

If approved by Congress in the next 30 days, Israel will likelysign an official contract with the U.S. Air Force in the coming months and begin receiving the aircraft in 2014, said the report.

While news of the Pentagon approval was positively received in Israeli Defense Ministry, Israeli officials said it was still too early to celebrate since Israel has yet to receive final Pentagon approval to allow the IAF to install Israeli-made systems in the plane.

Israeli demands include installing an advanced radar and conformal fuel tank design for long-range missions made by Israel Aerospace Industries, as well as other electronic and weapons systems that could require changes to the configuration of the aircraft.

The technology issue was discussed last week between the IAF and a team of U.S. military officers from the Joint Strike Fighter program who were in Israel. It was also at the focus of talks Israeli Defense Ministry Director-General Pinhas Buchris held in Washington earlier this month.

The result of the negotiations will be a determining factor in the number of aircraft Israel decides to purchase.

If Israel exercises the vertical option, it would be the first time that the IAF obtains this capability, needed out of fear that Israeli airfields would be paralyzed by enemy missiles in a future conflict and planes would have difficulty taking off in a conventional fashion, said The Jerusalem Post.

Britain, Turkey and Australia are among the eight countries participating in the Joint Strike Fighter program.

Israel enjoys the status of a Security Cooperation Participant after paying 20 million U.S. dollars in 2003 to obtain access to information accumulated during the development of the jet, which will be priced at somewhere between 50 million to 60 million U.S. dollars.

The jet is still under development and is not yet in service. While the jet is expected to be widely used, the program has suffered delays and escalating costs that have been criticized by government auditors.

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Israel Deploys New Missile Tracker Against Hamas

NEW YORK -- In yet another signal that the war with Hamas may be intensifying, Israeli media are reporting that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have deployed an experimental new rocket tracking tracking system in the port city of Ashkelon, near the Gaza border.

The IAI MC4 is now in place and operational in Ashkelon reports The Jerusalem Post.

The MC4, a new product of Israel Aerospace Industries, is an outgrowth of the Arrow anti-missile system jointly developed by Israel and the Pentagon.

The Arrow, a successor to the Patriot, was designed as part of President Reagan's Star Wars anti-missile defense originally designed to counter Soviet ICBMs.

While both the Patriot and the Arrow were designed to intercept and neutralize incoming ballistic missiles, the MC4 is designed to counter much smaller missiles such as 122mm ammunitions including Russi an made Katyusha's.

The smaller missiles are quickly launched and have a much more restricted range, giving the attacker the ability to rapidly move to new locations and minimize any counter-measures.

Tracking such highly mobile launch sites had been very difficult as Israel experienced in fighting Hezbollah in Lebanon in 2006.


As a result of the Lebanese war, IAI began a crash program to counter such mini-missiles which caused havoc in Haifa in 2006 and now in the Ashdod-Ashkelon region.

According to The Post, the MC4 had been deployed for field testing in Ashkelon last week, but now has been activated for full operation.

Built by the Malam Missile and Space Factory of IAI, the MC4 uses state-of-the-art technology including GPS and camera sensors to scan areas where rocket launch sites may be suspected.

Once a launch is detected, the MC4 pinpoints the site and projected flight path. It also has the ability to back track launches already in progress.

According to Israeli sources, the MC4 gives the IDF the ability to hit rocket launch sites in a manner that did not exist during the Lebanese war.

The MC4 is said to have the ability to triangulate the coordinates of launch sites within a minute of a firing, giving the IDF a new opportunity to respond to "hit and run" missile attacks. It can also pinpoint targets hit, giving emergency medical teams quicker response times.

Neither the US nor Russia currently have such systems in their arsenals say military sources.

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Technology Delivers War Propaganda to Gaza, Israeli Citizens

To the suicide vest, the rocket and the battering ram, those longtime staples of conflict in the Middle East, add the cell phone.

Both sides in the Gaza war have employed cell phones as a form of psychological warfare, among other purposes -- part of a trend toward using new media in a century-old conflict.

Hagar Mizrachi, a 25-year-old Israeli, recently received a text message that said rocket attacks on all of Israel's cities were imminent. The message was signed "Hamas" and the sender name was listed as "Qassam.hamm," he said. Qassams are rockets that Hamas militants have been firing from Gaza into southern Israel. "It's unnerving to receive something like that," said Mizrachi, an editor at an online news service. "It feels like they've invaded you."


Effective Tool, Poor Grammar

Yaniv Levyatan, a psychological warfare expert at the University of Haifa, said cell phones are a natural tool because soldiers and militants are generally young and have grown up using them. Israel and Gaza are small, densely populated areas blanketed by wireless service, making the phones' use even more effective, he said.

Levyatan said the messages from Hamas to Israeli cell phones were generally crude and not targeted very well. "The Hebrew was terrible," he said.

Palestinian phone users report receiving calls on both cell phones and land lines, encouraging them to turn in Hamas militants or warning them their home is about to be bombed, said Amman Aker, head of the Palestinian mobile phone company Jawwal, which operates in Gaza.

"We can't do anything about it," Aker said. He said the calls come in from international carriers and cannot be traced or blocked.

Israeli officials say they are doing Palestinians a service by advising them of impending attacks so civilians can get out of a building.

"We have to do what we can to warn civilians," said Maj. Jacob Dallal, an Israeli military spokesperson. Dallal declined to discuss how the Israeli military obtains cell phone numbers in Gaza. Land-line phone numbers here are generally available in phone books.
Leave Them Behind

Jonathan Fighel, a retired Israeli colonel at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, based near Tel Aviv, said it's relatively simple for both sides to use cell phones and land lines to spread their messages. He compared the technology to that used by telemarketers around the world, who obtain lists of phone numbers and then use computers to place automatic calls.

This isn't the first war in which cell phones have been a relevant issue for Israel. During the war in Lebanon in 2006, Israeli soldiers commonly tucked their phones into their cargo pockets when they went onto the battlefield and regularly used them to call home or keep in touch with friends.

The constant phone calls from the field became a security issue since Hezbollah militants had the capacity to listen in on conversations. "We know it was common in Lebanon that the bad guys were eavesdropping on cell phones," said Shlomo Brom, a retired Israeli brigadier general. In Gaza, soldiers have been ordered to leave their phones at their base, Dallal said.

The cell phone battles are part of an aggressive effort by both sides to use technology to shape the world's perception of the Gaza war. Except for occasional news media tours set up by the Israeli military, foreign journalists have been prevented from reporting from the battlefield.
Other Techy Tools

The Israeli Defense Forces started a YouTube channel shortly after the conflict began Dec. 27. It was the brainchild of a couple of soldiers and has attracted millions of viewers, said Maj. Avital Leibovich, a military spokesperson. The Israeli military posts videos of precision airstrikes and ground forces operating in Gaza. "We want the world to see the conflict from our point of view," Leibovich said.

YouTube allows the Israeli military to communicate directly with the audience, without the filter of traditional news media. "We don't have a mediator here," Leibovich said.

Hamas has a Web presence and has continued to operate a television station called Al-Aqsa. Israel's military has occasionally cut into broadcasts of the Hamas channel to urge the population to turn against militants.

On Jan. 3, Israel's Channel 10 News aired a video it said appeared that day on Al-Aqsa, featuring mug shots of Hamas leaders who had been killed and a ticking clock. "Hamas, your time is running out" flashes across the screen.

Israeli military officials have declined to discuss the reports -- or whether they use phone calls for other means, such as deceiving militants.

"All I can say is we call them, especially when we're going to target a building," Dallal said.

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Microsoft, Intel research parallel computing with US universities

Microsoft and Intel said Tuesday they are teaming with US universities to unleash the mighty potential of multi-core computer chips.

Microsoft and Intel will jointly spend 20 million dollars over five years to fund Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

A recent trend is to increase computing power but reduce electricity use and heat production by crafting multiple processors, or computer brains, into each chip.

Designing software and support architecture that best enables such chips to divide tasks equally among the brains, or cores, in ways that let them simultaneously tend to jobs and maximize computing speeds has proved daunting.

"It is important for industry to work in tandem with academia to unleash the immense power of parallel computing," said Microsoft Research vice president Tony Hey.

"Working jointly with industry and academia, we plan to explore the next generation of hardware and software to unlock the promise and the power of parallel computing and enable a change in the way people use technology."

Intel and rival Advanced Micro Devices already market chips with two or four cores and say it is likely the number will rise. Intel researchers have made an 80-core research processor.

"We're quickly moving the computing industry to a many-core world," said Intel Research director Andrew Chien.

"Working with Microsoft and these two prestigious universities will help catalyze the long-term breakthroughs that are needed to enable dramatic new applications for the mainstream user."

Harnessing the power of multi-core chips will let computers "bridge the physical world with the virtual," according to Chien.

He expects "efficient and robust" applications for digital media, data analysis, and Internet-enabled mobile devices.

Predicted research breakthroughs include software enabling people's mobile telephone to recognize faces of approaching acquaintances and whisper their names to users.

Another foreseeable application is described as voice recognition software so accurate it could be used to record witness testimony in courtroom proceedings.

"This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to recast the foundations of information technology and influence the entire IT industry for decades to come," said UC Berkeley professor of computer sciences David Patterson.

The universities will have to provide millions of dollars in funding for the centers in what is said to be an unprecedented parallel computing research alliance.

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Jaguar Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer To Petascale Computing

Upgrades to Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jaguar supercomputer have more than doubled its performance, increasing the system's ability to deliver far-reaching advances in climate studies, energy research, and a wide range of sciences.

The system recently completed acceptance testing, running applications in climate science, quantum chemistry, combustion science, materials science, nanoscience, fusion science, and astrophysics, as well as benchmarking applications that test supercomputing performance.

The Jaguar system, a Cray XT4 located at ORNL's National Center for Computational Sciences, now uses more than 31,000 processing cores to deliver up to 263 trillion calculations a second (or 263 teraflops).

"The Department of Energy's Leadership Computing Facility is putting unprecedented computing power in the hands of leading scientists to enable the next breakthroughs in science and technology," said ORNL Director Thom Mason. "This upgrade is an essential step along that path, bringing us ever closer to the era of petascale computing [systems capable of thousands of trillions of calculations per second]."

Jaguar was among the most powerful computing systems within DOE's Office of Science even before the recent upgrade and has delivered extraordinary results across a broad range of computational sciences.

"The leadership capability at Oak Ridge has been delivering real scientific results," said Michael Strayer, associate director for advanced scientific computing research in the DOE Office of Science.

"Benoit Roux of the University of Chicago used Jaguar to simulate in unprecedented detail the voltage-gated potassium channel, a membrane protein that responds to spikes of electricity by changing shape to allow potassium ions to enter a cell. This work has the potential to help us understand and control certain forms of cardiovascular and neurological disease."

Climate scientists are calculating the potential consequences of greenhouse gas emissions and the potential benefits of limiting these emissions. Combustion scientists are modeling the most efficient designs for engines that use fossil fuels and biofuels.

Fusion researchers are using the system to lead the way toward a clean and plentiful source of electricity. Physicists are exploring the secrets of the universe, illuminating its most elusive mysteries. And materials scientists are searching for the next revolution in technology.

"This is an important advancement," said Thomas Zacharia, ORNL associate laboratory director for computing and computational sciences.

"Leading researchers need many orders of magnitude more computing power and infrastructure than we can yet provide, and they have shown us how they will use these new resources, whether it be to predict the consequences of climate change at the regional level, design new materials with predetermined properties, discover new chemical catalysts, explore more efficient ways to manufacture biofuels, or simulate all important aspects of new reactor designs."

"The U.S. Department of Energy and its Oak Ridge National Laboratory have been making huge strides in providing more and more simulation capabilities to advance some of the world's most important scientific and engineering research-and invaluable partners with Cray to push the leading edge of supercomputing," said Peter Ungaro, president and CEO of Cray.

"This upgrade is another big milestone in leadership computing and we, along with many others around the world, are looking forward to learning about the scientific breakthroughs that are borne as a result of this powerful new computing capability."

With its new power, Jaguar will be able to double its contribution to DOE's Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment program, which is revolutionizing key areas of science by facilitating the world's most challenging computer simulations.

The NCCS will host 30 INCITE projects in 2008 from universities, private industry, and government research laboratories, contributing more than 140 million processor hours on Jaguar.

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Increasing Runway Safety with GPS Aircraft Positioning

For pilots, knowing what runway or taxiway they’re on is critical information. That knowledge is especially important at night, in poor weather or when the crew is unfamiliar with the airport layout.

Pilots have traditionally acquired that information by looking out their windshield. Now, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made it easier for pilots to have an invaluable electronic tool in the cockpit. It provides a moving map display with “own ship position” — that will change and improve runway safety the way GPS has changed the way we safely navigate our cars.

The FAA has aggressively focused on reducing runway incursions for the last several years. After thoroughly reviewing safety data, including human factors research on the safety benefits of own ship position versus the potential safety risks, we changed our certification process to make this technology available while maintaining all appropriate safety standards.

Electronic Flight Bags and Moving Maps

In recent years, paper charts and manuals have increasingly been replaced by the Electronic Flight Bag or EFB: an electronic display system that gives pilots information about a variety of aviation data. These EFBs range from laptop-like devices totally independent of the aircraft that can be used on planes across the existing fleet, to high-end displays permanently installed and fully integrated into the airplane’s cockpit for newer aircraft. The FAA focused our efforts on a third type of device, referred to as a “Class 2 system” that is still portable but takes its power and data directly from aircraft systems.

Most EFBs incorporate a feature called Airport Moving Map, a display that provides a constantly changing view of an airport’s runways, taxiways and structures to help pilots identify and anticipate the airplane’s location on the surface. GPS technology makes it possible for the moving map to show pilots their actual position (own ship) on the airport surface.

The FAA has varying certification levels for Electronic Flight Bags based on the technical complexity of the EFB and the types of data it is intended to display. Devices able to show data both on the ground and in the air, including an Airport Moving Map that identifies the aircraft’s position, are subject to the highest, or “Class C,” standards. These standards were set with particular regard for the strictest in flight requirements.
Same High Standards, Streamlined Certification Process

Since issuing its original guidance for EFB certification in 2003, the FAA has been listening to industry concerns about the complexity and high cost of certifying EFBs to provide the Airport Moving Map/Own Ship Position function for surface movements. The agency also reviewed studies and human factors research on those systems.

Research showed that pilots had far better awareness of their position on the airport’s surface using an own ship position display. Tests also demonstrated that pilots typically glanced at the own ship display, then quickly looked out their windows to verify that information visually, eliminating one of the FAA’s major concerns that pilots would be “heads down” too long for safe operations.

With that data in hand, the FAA decided to streamline the process of certifying the own ship position function of moving map displays to give pilots the safety benefits on the airport surface as soon as possible. FAA certification standards for EFBs remain the same, but we worked with several companies to develop revised certification policies that make this important safety enhancement more cost-effective for operators.

The new policies were finalized and ready for use by the end of April 2007. The first certification was given to Jeppesen in March 2008.

By focusing on the Own Ship Position function and finding innovative ways to simplify certification, the FAA believes the cost of certification for surface operations could drop to as little as $20,000 per unit — about one-tenth the original anticipated cost of EFB certification for ground and air operations. Based on feedback we have received, we believe the aviation industry will have the financial incentive to produce these devices in mass quantities. The result: A higher level of safety at a significantly reduced cost.

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GPRS Technology Explained

Historically data speeds on mobile phones has been very very slow, in fact when modems were @ 56kbps (dial up) the mobile was still at 9.6kbps and it stayed there for quite some time, in fact if you don't have GPRS or a high speed data service and use wap you'll be using a 9,6k dial up connection.

The arrival of GSM technology gave the chance for a different type of data connection one where data is moved in packets, IP data is already packetised and bytes of info are sent all round the world in this form everyday

GSM networks are made up of a number of transmitters or cells each of these can have a range of a few kilometres or just a few hundred meters depending on their proximity to each other, the range of frequencies used by each transmitter cannot overlap with its neighbour. In the UK 2 main GSM frequency sets are used GSM 900 and 1800 (1900) is used in the USA, a transmitter will work within a 200mhz band and split this up into a number of radio channels or time slots.

The GPRS system may not be allowed to use them all, but dependant on the class of GPRS network the operator is running the mobile device may connect to multiple channels to achieve a greater bandwidth. Also the coding schemes shown below can effect the bandwidth systems will drop to a lower coding system (CS-1) if the radio reception is poor as it includes higher error correction much like an FM radio might switch to mono if the stereo signal get too weak.



GPRS sits on top of this GSM technology and mobile service providers can offer the general packet radio service to its subscribers as an always on connection rather than the traditional dial up data connections.

Cells that have been upgraded to GPRS add a packet control unit that distributes data over one of the radio channels to your device and also GPRS gateways or nodes these bridge the data between the mobiles network and the outside world or internet. The packetsied nature of GPRS data allows networks to dynamically fill the unused voice channels with GPRS data, providers normally allocate a minimum bandwidth to GPRS data but at off peak times you can get much more throughput perhaps 4 times as much. Lets not forget this is a far more efficient way of delivering data from the network providers as they no longer need to use a whole voice channel to deliver data GPRS users effectively buy the left overs from voice users.

So what are the benefits of GPRS to the user?

For a start its always on, the mobile device will gain an IP address from the DHCP pool available at each cell, the network will then allow you to exchange data whenever you need to without having to dial up an authenticate. Practical uses of this allow for swift recovery of email with frequent pop3 checks of your mailbox and messenger style applications can work on GPRS too so having MSN on your mobile is possible, although Symbian messenger and other 3rd party applications are far more common.

Of course there is the much vaunted benefit of speed, while GPRS theoretically could deliver 172.2kbps by using all 8 timeslots without any error correction in practice network configurations will allow up to 40kbps which is a 4 fold increase on the 9.6kbps still offered as a data service.

Then there are the rich media applications which while publicised by 3G providers are equally at home on a 2 or 2.5g GPRS enabled platform, very little content on the 3G networks is streamed it is far more likely to be downloaded to the phone and then viewed.

So despite the higher speeds of 3G the current GPRS services are enabling video to mobile application to operate successfully at least once you get past the fact that each network has differing video standards!

Applications that work well on GPRS are those that fall into the category "I want it now" that can quite easily be email or the latest goal scored by your team, but this can also extend to web browsing on a long train journey or Navigation applications. In fact a real life example is the ability of LP to manage the technical parameters of this site and view live statistics via his GPRS enabled P800.

GPRS technology will continue to evolve, but now it is driven by users rather than a government frequency auction so we should see more and more useable applications and cheaper access packages.

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Sun Microsystems acquisition of Q-Layer

JAKARTA - Sun Microsystems successfully acquires Q-layer, a cloud computing company that mengotomatisasi implementation and management of cloud computing for the private sector and public.

Q-layer company based in Belgium will be part of the Cloud Computing business unit owned by Sun to develop and integrate technology, architecture and cloud computing services.


Q-layer technology to simplify the management as well as cloud computing allows users to quickly monitor and run the application. This is the main component of the strategy to build Sun cloud computing in the private sector and public. See how the business world is now increasingly dependent on technology to control many important processes, datacenter reliability determine the overall flexibility of the company.

Q-layer software supports the direct supervision of the service server, storage, bandwidth and applications, which in turn allows the user to measure their own environment to meet the specific needs of each.

"The Sun that is open and based on the network, combined with the system, software and services that have been optimized, provide an important foundation to offer cloud computing for the private and public. Technology and expertise Q-layer will increase the quality of bidding Sun, simplifying the cloud and accelerate the launch of applications, "said David Douglas, Senior Vice President of Cloud Computing and Chief Sustainability Officer, Sun Microsystems through description, Wednesday (14/1/2009)

Cloud computing bring computing and data resources to the Web, offer higher efficiency, high scalability and software development faster and easier. Sun is the ideal partner as well as consultants for companies that want to build a cloud computing facilities in their companies, but also for companies and service providers who want to build a cloud computing service open to the public through open technology, expertise and vision to help companies build, run and facilities mendayagunakan cloud their own computing.

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China to issue 3G licenses

China will issue third-generation mobile phone licenses as early as this month and expects companies to spend 200 billion yuan ($30 billion) on installing equipment, the industry minister said Friday.

China has the world’s biggest population of mobile phone users and adoption of 3G — which has been long delayed — was eagerly anticipated by equipment suppliers, which are seeing demand elsewhere decline due to the global financial crisis.

“The 3G licenses will be issued either later this year or early next year,” Li Yizhong, whose ministry regulates telecoms, said at a news conference.

Third-generation mobile phone technology supports Web surfing, video downloads and other added services. Its adoption in China is expected to boost demand for mobile service and spur growth of new services.

China’s mobile phone market…

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3G and 3.5G Phones - New Technology,New Way of Life

With the advancement of technology mobile phones have become more sophisticated than ever. Do you still remember those mobile phones with a limited set of features? If not, it's a quick reminder-the earlier mobile phones were used only for talking-there was no camera feature, no music feature. It's just a matter of few years back, mobile phones had witnessed the tremendous growth in technology. Built-in VGA camera is passé. Mobile users are now using high resolution cameras to store their memorable moments forever. Technology is vrooming ahead at a lighting speed. Isn't that?

Most of the latest mobile phones are 3G enabled. Now, what is 3G? 3G (third-generation) is a wireless communication technology that has emerged from the first generation analog and second generation digital communication systems. 3G is capable of offering increased voice capacity and higher-speed data rates. It allows users to receive TV signal, stream video and send large files.

What's more, with the help of 3G technology you can make face-to-face video calls. The entire Nokia N-Series range including Nokia N76, Nokia N80 is 3G enabled smartphones. Other manufacturers like Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola have also brought some high end 3G phones like Sony Ericsson W880i, W850i, W950i, Samsung F500, F510, F520, Motorola KRZR K3, RAZR Maxx, RAZR V3x, RAZR V3xx and so on. But the most sought-after 3G phone available in the market at the present time is the Nokia N93i.

Another technological wonder that is creating great stir in the 'mobile fraternity' is 3.5G. 3.5G is nothing but a technology standard used in HSDPA. Now, what does HSDPA mean? HSDPA is an acronym for High Speed Downlink Packet Access. It's an improvement upon the 3G protocol for mobile telephone data transmission.

HSDPA provides download speeds equivalent to an ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) line on your mobile phone. Theoretically speaking, with HSDPA it is possible to reach data transmission speeds of 8-10 Mbps. That is the reason, HSDPA enabled mobile phones are more faster than the WCDMA 3G phones.

To get some of the best deals on latest 3G handsets like Nokia N76 and Nokia N93i in UK, please visit the site.

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Panasonic Financing Options Sign of Coming Times

Economic times are tough and one of the biggest problems for companies that need to buy critical technology is getting financing and protecting critical cash reserves. Banks and financial institutions are simply not able to reliably lend at the moment, which is forcing some vendors, like Microsoft, into their own reserves. Others, like Panasonic’s Toughbook Division, put programs in place to assure that their customers can continue to make purchases — and Panasonic can continue to benefit from sales. This practice is becoming widespread and includes other big names like HP and IBM.

Looking at the Cause

I met with the folks from Panasonic this week to better understand what was going on. What they were seeing was that the economic downturn was resulting in a knee-jerk reaction to either postpone or shelve entirely critical IT projects that used Panasonic Toughbook solutions. Those projects had previously been set as a high priority and intended to improve critical operational efficiencies. In some cases, they saw instances where specs were modified to accept inferior products that [...]

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Samsung HSDPA Phone

At CES 2006 Samsung also announced the Samsung HSDPA Phone it is the first phone in the world to successfully demonstrate, new High Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) technology, reaching speeds up to 3.6 Mbps. There have been several demonstrations of speeds up to 1.8 Mbps in the past, but HSDPA phone is the first phone to reach speeds of 3.6 Mbps.

Samsung's 3.6 Mbps HSDPA handset allows users to download content and surf the web much faster than on WCDMA or GSM/GPRS networks, it only takes 10secs at 3.6MBps HSDPA to download a 4MB file.

This phone is totally awesome you will be able to download large DVD-Quality Movies and vidoea games really fast, how cool is that? HSDPA, is seven times faster than that of WCDMA. In Europe the HSDPA phone will be carried by Vodafone. No word yet on a USA release date, I will keep you updated, peace out. www.samsung.com

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Intel processors will trim the price to 50%

Good news emerged from the Intel website announced that trimming the price of some processors to its fifty percent (50%). Processors that are given to the discount price includes the processor Q6700 Core 2 Quad (U.S. $ 530 to be worth U.S. $ 266) and the Intel Xeon X3230 (U.S. $ 530 to be worth U $ 266). Trimming the price is generally applied to 65 nm processor built that is now starting abandoned the technology because of the presence of 45 nm production process.

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Compatible With socket AM2 socket AM3 processors

AMD announced that the socket AM2 will be compatible with AM3 processor generation. AMD asserts AM3 support DDR3 and DDR2 SDRAM, but not on the same motherboard. This means the CPU socket AM3 has a DDR2 memory controller and DDR3 terintergrasi that may be running on the motherboard socket AM2 with DDR2 memory or the motherboard learner-AM3 socket with DDR3 technology and HyperTransport 3.0 (HT-3). HT-3 allows data transfer of 5.2 GB / s AM2 compared with only 2.0 GB / s. The possibility of using the pin socket 940 if it is compatible with socket AM2.

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Intel's 65nm in Ireland

Intel's 65nm have also developed in ireland. For the Intel project must grope pocket $ 2 billion to create a factory that produces Intel's 65nm. Indeed, for the current technology is a technology that Intel's most high for the processor.

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SPEEDY

What is Speedy?

SPEEDY is the product of the Internet access service end-to-end from PT. TELKOM with the base technology Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL), which can distribute data and voice simultaneously through a single phone line with the normal speed which are pledged with the service package, which was launched from the modem to Bras (Broadband Remote Access Server).


What is DSL?

ADSL (Asymetric Digital Subscriber Line) technology is a modem that works on the frequency between 34 kHz to 1104 kHz. This is the main cause of the difference in speed transfer of data between the ADSL modem with a conventional modem (which works on the frequency of below 4 kHz). Benefits of ADSL is the ability to provide high-speed internet access and voice / fax simultaneously (in the customer using the line Splitter to separate phone line and modem).


Are all the phone can be used for Speedy?

Not all the phone network can be used to service Speedy. Contact Customer Care Telkom 147 for more information


What is the understanding and upstream?

Downstream is the speed of data flow when customers do with a maximum download speed of up to the ADSL connection Speednya (384/512 Kbps).

Upstream speed the flow of data is when customers do with the maximum upload speed of up to 64 Kbps


What if I forget my password?

Take the contract or subscription charges with evidence last SPEEDY pay to the nearest Plasa Telkom.

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WIRELESS

When viewed as a method of data transport, wireless technology appears very similar to wired technology. You have a piece of hardware, a method of transmission, and connections on both ends that transform data from human-intelligible to transportable and back. For both wired and wireless technology, the range of transmission is an issue. You can't move your laptop 15 feet from the wall jack when depending on a 10-foot cable. Similarly, you can't go out for a jog and expect your in-home cordless phone to keep a connection five miles away from its receiver.

But if you get either a 20-foot cable or a wireless connector of sufficient power, you can move your laptop 15 feet away from the wall jack; and if you get a cellular phone, you can go jogging five miles away from your house and still take calls (as long as your service provider has a reasonable antenna set up). The methods of connection and ranges of service available vary in wireless technology just as they do in wired technology. Home telephones with a wireless handset have a more limited range than cellular phones; infrared transmissions have a more limited range than radio-wave (including microwave) transmissions. Different types of wireless solutions can communicate ten feet, ten miles, or with a satellite in orbit.

According to its name, wireless local area network is a link between some unit computers without using cable as a media. In this case, used a micro radio wave through air as a media with the frequency 2,4 GHz. This Frequency is a frequency ISM (Industrial, Medical & Science) where Indonesia and most state in world have ratified the agreement agreeing using of above mentioned frequency for the sake of industry, health, and science. The existence of the international agreement minimizes the problem of interference frequency with the facility of military and or governmental.

Frequency use 2,4 Ghz for the WLAN by empiric have given very good result especially for the tropical zone, considering wheatear condition which relative stable and at least magnetic trouble from earth. Optimal reach which can be reached till 25 km, on condition that each antenna transmitter and receiver could 'see' each other (good of line of sight, LOS).

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ISP (Internet Service Provider)

ISP (Internet Service Provider) is a company or agency business that sells Internet connections to customers, or the like. ISP's are identical with the initial phone network, as the first ISP to sell Internet connection or access through the telephone network. As one instant Apnic from Telkom.
Now, with the development of technology, the ISP is not only using the telephone network, but also using technology such as fiber optic and wireless. In Bali, especially in denpasar ISP with wireless technology, most grow.


What are the contents of the ISP?

ISPs that the content is the people and equipment necessary to provide Internet connection service to its customers equipment is usually the form of servers, routers, equipment to connect to its customers and equipment to interconnect their upstream. ISPs usually work with network operators in running the business. So there are ISPs that do not have network equipment. They only have the human resources to sales, customer support and billing or billing. The rest, start-bandwidth, the network system, submitted to the network operator. For example, my ISP is working with the owner of the phone network to make the system a dial-up Internet connection. I also buy bandwidth from the owner of the phone network and I accept all wrong. After that I live sell Internet dial-up, the system provides customer support and handle payments.

Source : http://www.channel-11.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISP

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Information technology

Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer hardware." IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store, protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.

Today, the term information technology has ballooned to encompass many aspects of computing and technology, and the term has become very recognizable. The information technology umbrella can be quite large, covering many fields. IT professionals perform a variety of duties that range from installing applications to designing complex computer networks and information databases. A few of the duties that IT professionals perform may include data management, networking, engineering computer hardware, database and software design, as well as the management and administration of entire systems.

When computer and communications technologies are combined, the result is information technology, or "infotech". Information Technology (IT) is a general term that describes any technology that helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and/or disseminate information. Presumably, when speaking of Information Technology (IT) as a whole, it is noted that the use of computers and information are associated.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology

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