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8 nations join hands to harvest methane
Washington:
Under
a plan announced by the George W Bush administration the
United States will work with India and six other countries
to harvest methane gas emissions as a clean-burning fuel.
The counties include India, Australia, Italy, Japan, Mexico,
Ukraine, and Britain as founding partners along with US.
The plan involves a transfer of commonly used technology
in the US to an initial group of seven countries, harvesting
methane emissions from landfills, coal mines and oil and
gas systems. The members will work in coordination with
the private sector to share and expand the use of technologies
to capture methane emissions that are now wasted in the
course of industrial processes and use them as a new energy
source.
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HP iPAQ h6300: Integrated wireless capabilities
San
Diego, USA: Wavecom SA has announced that its wireless
technology will be used in the HP iPAQ Pocket PC h6300,
the first personal communications device with integrated
3-way wireless capabilities. The device is the first mainstream
cellular wireless handheld to offer Bluetooth 1.1 and
Wi-Fi (802.11b) GSM voice service and GPRS wireless networking.
Wavecom's WISMO P5186 module, the world's most compact
fully integrated GSM/GPRS solution, allows users to access
global voice and data wireless networks. The P5186 module
provides the h6300 two critical connections: a data connection
to corporate networks that offer continuous access to
global internet-based content and a voice connection to
GSM voice providers worldwide.
Wavecom's P5186 module supports Class-10 GPRS/GSM data,
approximately twice as fast as dial-up service, which
enables iPAQ h6300 users to send and receive emails in
transit. The h6300 uses Wavecom's wireless technology
to provide worldwide roaming capabilities via Quad-Band
(850/900/1800/1900 MHz) GSM/GPRS. Users have the option
of switching between 850/1900 MHz for North America and
900/1800 MHz for the rest of the world. The HP iPAQ Pocket
PC h6300 provides the broadest high-speed wireless connectivity
currently available in the personal communication device
market. It includes a removable snap-on thumb keyboard,
optional built-in camera, transflective color display,
and removable/rechargeable lithium battery. The clip-on
keyboard enables users to more easily compose or receive
email, notes and SMS messages. The built-in camera feature
allows pictures to print directly to a Bluetooth enabled
printer and transmit the images via GPRS data channels.
Founded in 1993 and headquartered near Paris, Wavecom
is a worldwide provider of integrated technology solutions
for wireless voice and data applications.
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Tissot
tactile watches: Information at the fingertips
Le Locle, Switzerland: Swiss watchmaker Tissot
has launched the latest innovation in watch technology:
The Tissot High-T with MSN Direct. The Tissot High-T Smart
Watch, with exclusive tactile technology, enables wearers
of the timepiece to simply touch their watch dial to receive
news, weather, sports, stocks, appointment reminders,
time and other customized information, courtesy of MSN
Direct. Combining the touch-screen technology from its
popular T-Touch line with up to date personalized information
from MSN Direct, the Tissot High-T represents the latest
in Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology.
The Tissot High-T display can be tailored to the wearer's
desire: digital readout, roman numerals, scrolling stock
quotes, weather and more. The wearer controls the data,
the dial and the design to suit particular needs - all
through the user-friendly interface. This information
is relayed to the watch through FM radio waves. Each watch
has a built-in antenna in the band and stores the updated
data until the wearer touches the dial. The watches also
feature multiple watch faces and automatic time-zone adjustment
based on location. Tissot High-T will be available at
select retail locations beginning July 26. The Tissot
High-T retails for $725 and comes with six months of MSN
Direct service for free. Following the initial free period,
the MSN Direct service will cost $59.95 per year. Tissot
embodies more than 150 years of innovation and Swiss watch-
making tradition. Tissot has been, since 1983, member
of the Swatch Group, the biggest watch producer and distributor
in the world.
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