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Photos: QR codes, herbal medicine and ping pong? Welcome to the Urban Physic Garden

...site sewage waste disposal unit so the volunteers and visitors of the Urban Physic Garden can have a minimal impact on the local ecology. Photo... Read more

24 June, 2011 by Shelley Portet

Government unveils £100m for urban broadband

...Osborne announced the move in his Autumn Statement (PDF) on Tuesday. The urban broadband cash will form part of a £5bn fund the government is... Read more

29 November, 2011 by David Meyer
A Critical Review on the Development of <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Traffic Models & Control Systems

A Critical Review on the Development of Urban Traffic Models & Control Systems

...development of control systems to deal with the congestion at intersection in urban traffic is a critical research issue. Several approaches have been used to... Read more

1 January, 2012
Holistic 3D Reconstruction of <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Structures From Low-Rank Textures

Holistic 3D Reconstruction of Urban Structures From Low-Rank Textures

...a new approach to reconstructing accurate camera geometry and 3D models for urban structures in a holistic fashion, i.e., without relying on extraction or... Read more

2 September, 2011
Impact of Vehicular Array Position on <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> MIMO Channel Characteristics

Impact of Vehicular Array Position on Urban MIMO Channel Characteristics

MIMO channel measurements have been performed in urban environments with antenna arrays positioned on the roof and sides of the... Read more

18 July, 2011
A Device-Aware Spatial 3D Visualization Platform for Mobile <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Exploration

A Device-Aware Spatial 3D Visualization Platform for Mobile Urban Exploration

...displaying 2D map representations are already commonly used for the exploration of urban surroundings on the move. Even though mobile detailed 3D visualizations promise to... Read more

11 July, 2011
Leveraging Cloud Computing and High Performance Computing Advances for Next-Generation Architecture, <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Design and Construction Projects

Leveraging Cloud Computing and High Performance Computing Advances for Next-Generation Architecture, Urban Design and Construction Projects

Architecture and urban design projects are constantly breaking barriers of scale and complexity and continuously... Read more

10 March, 2011
GeoServ: A Distributed <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Sensing Platform

GeoServ: A Distributed Urban Sensing Platform

Urban sensing where mobile users continuously gather, process, and share location-sensitive sensor... Read more

7 December, 2010
Bridging the Mobile Web and the Web of Things in <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Environments

Bridging the Mobile Web and the Web of Things in Urban Environments

Embedded sensors are massively deployed around the world, especially in urban areas. The increasing urbanism implies advanced challenges for the citizens. Real-time... Read more

10 October, 2010
Macrocellular Propagation Prediction for Wireless Communications in <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Environments

Macrocellular Propagation Prediction for Wireless Communications in Urban Environments

In this paper, the signal propagation characteristics of urban environments are predicted by modeling important propagation parameters of the Code Division... Read more

1 October, 2010
A Semantic World Model for <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Search and Rescue Based on Heterogeneous Sensors

A Semantic World Model for Urban Search and Rescue Based on Heterogeneous Sensors

In urban search and rescue scenarios, typical applications of robots include autonomous exploration of... Read more

16 August, 2010
Study <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Extension Spatial Differentiation Based on Multi-Temporal Satellite Remote Sensing Images

Study Urban Extension Spatial Differentiation Based on Multi-Temporal Satellite Remote Sensing Images

Taking Yiwu city for example, dividing the urban region into 4 spatial units that is northeast, northwest, southeast and southwest... Read more

14 August, 2010
An Efficient Hybrid HIP-PMIPv6 Scheme for Seamless Internet Access in <endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Vehicular Scenarios

An Efficient Hybrid HIP-PMIPv6 Scheme for Seamless Internet Access in Urban Vehicular Scenarios

...authors present a novel mobility management scheme for seamless Internet access in urban vehicular scenarios. The scheme is based on Proxy Mobile IPv6 and Host... Read more

1 June, 2010
<endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Warfare App Pack 1.0

Urban Warfare App Pack 1.0

Own the definitive resource for urban warfare. Over 600 pages of room clearing, offensive/defensive operations, and specific... Read more

27 May, 2012
<endeca_term>Urban</endeca_term> Problems And Policy Perspectives 1.1

Urban Problems And Policy Perspectives 1.1

Urban Problems And Policy Perspectivesby Gopal BhargavaThe absence of consolidated and up-to... Read more

26 May, 2012

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Dean Talboys

What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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SoapyTablet

Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

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Lonnie

those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

12 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

13 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
bobandroid

496,999 BT Fon Hotspots lovingly situated in your next door neighbours garden, no matter how you dress that up its still a pup... Not where I need...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

17 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

17 hours ago by Smilig Eddie on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

18 hours ago by SRist on Photoshop users attack Adobe upgrade policy change
Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

20 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

I would love to hear why Microsoft believes that "upgrading from Windows XP to Windows 7 pays for itself in a year, in increased productivity and...

20 hours ago by apexwm on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

21 hours ago by debsmk on Samsung Galaxy 'S3' delayed by special paint
Atangana

I would like a job for me and do good to their tackiness vellent my help I will do my best to help you mercie for all

22 hours ago by Atangana on UK's 15-year-old World Excel champion offered £100k job
BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

23 hours ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Burn-IT

As said, sponsored by Microsoft........

1 day ago by Burn-IT on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
mrbigdong

@620W, I mine 1 BTC/daily for cost of 1.7eur, they naysayers regurgitate the rubbish they read as usual

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Mike Denton

If the link to the next section existed that would be awesome.... Guess I have to ask uncle google where it is

1 day ago by Mike Denton via Facebook on Security on the farm: Accounts and permissions
minzhu

Don't blame CEO, they want RIM win. RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment. In RIM if a new hired person figure out...

1 day ago by minzhu on RIM CEO: Time to squash BlackBerry myths