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US
trade deficit swells
Washington: The United States has posted a record
trade deficit in March. The $46 billion deficit reported
yesterday by the Commerce Department represented a hefty
9.1 per cent increase from February's imbalance and came
despite the fact that US exports climbed to an all-time
high in March. Exports, meanwhile, have totalled $94.7
billion, which marks a 2.6 per cent advance from February.
Exports were helped out by the weaker dollar, which makes
US goods cheaper for foreign buyers.
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Roaming
solution for mobile workers
Bethlehem, USA: Roaming between different networks
is now easier for Motorola mobile data users. Motorola
and Padcom, Inc., a proven leader in providing continuous
connectivity software for mobile workers, have announced
that Motorola will be using Padcom's Total Roam solution
to integrate Motorola's advanced private voice and data
networks with public wide area and local area wireless
networks. Using the Total Roam solution, a vehicle equipped
with a mobile computer or a worker using a laptop is able
to maintain wireless data communications across different
networks securely, transparently, and with minimal, if
any, user intervention.
For example, a police car that uses Motorola's private
data system as its primary network may drive within range
of the agency's WiFi infrastructure. Using Total Roam,
data communication will automatically, and securely, switch
to the higher speed network allowing the officer to take
advantage of the increased bandwidth to enable advanced
applications and to support faster updates to local data
in the vehicle. When the vehicle leaves WiFi coverage,
network service will automatically return to the primary
Motorola network. This also enables switching between
a Motorola private data network and a public wide area
wireless network. Motorola may also offer Padcom's TR6100
hardware solution, allowing Motorola customers to install
a ruggedized mobile router that will create a wireless
vehicle area network that is independent of the mobile
computing device.
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Free
Neo Core XMS-Developer download
Colorado Springs, USA: Xpriori, the provider of
content and information management solutions has announced
the launch of its developer site and the availability
of Xpriori's Neo Core XMS-Developer download. The free
Neo Core XMS-Developer download is fully functional and
has no time limit. Only upon deployment of solutions based
on Neo Core XMS must a deployment license be purchased.
"Ever since we created XML in 1996, a barrier has
separated structured data with well-defined metadata from
the rest. And, with their complexity, XML Schemas only
raised the barrier," says Dave Hollander, co-founder
of XML and former co-chair of the XML Schema Working Group.
"Now, XMS from Xpriori offers a way to break through
that barrier. Instead of guessing what structure and metadata
will be important and spending a lot of time and effort
making data conform and configuring your XML storage management
solution, you simply store it as it exists. Then later,
you find, organize, and structure the data based on your
future information requirements. The level of information
reuse enabled by shattering the structure barrier will,
I believe, lead to new and innovative uses of XML and
accelerate XML as the platform for information convergence."
To
facilitate this, Xpriori has a dedicated developer site:
www.xpriori.com/developers.
The developer site also hosts the XMS user and developer
community forums. Neo Core XMS is an ideal solution for
many of the new breeds of applications being developed
today. Neo Core XMS is a unified XML Information Management
System that can manage data and documents, as well as
a wide variety of content types such as spreadsheets,
media files, and forms in a fully transactional and access
controlled environment. Support for free developer versions
of Xpriori products is available on the interactive developer
forum.
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