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World Physical Atlas
Downloads The maps are of the physical geography. The software comprises a collection of maps of the world, its continents and major regions. Relief, sea depth, rivers and lakes, cities and country boundaries are shown.
[February 9, 2006, 10:51]
Defending Against an Internet-Based Attack on the Physical World
White Papers The new world one lives in brings the cyber world and the physical world closer together. While in the past cyber attacks were limited to attacking computer systems and data, as the two worlds converge, there exists the threat of physical world...
[June 24, 2009, 10:40]
A Framework for Mobile Interactions With the Physical World
White Papers Mobile interactions with the physical world, meaning a person uses her mobile device as mediator for the interaction with a physical object, get more and more popular in industry and academia. A framework would also support the development and the...
[March 4, 2009, 0:26]
Integrating the Physical World With the Web to Enable Context-Enhanced Services
White Papers In Cooltown it was believed that the integration of our physical world with the Web offers unique opportunities to enable ubiquitous computing applications. This paper describes the latest results in building a model and a software architecture...
[November 4, 2004, 2:00]
Intel switches attention to physical world
News Because you are dealing with the physical world (as opposed to finite data sets) getting an exact, fixed answer is impossible, but accurate results can be had. IrisNet, a project currently under development by Carnegie Mellon University and Intel...
[May 6, 2004, 9:00]
SenseWeb: Browsing the Physical World in Real Time
White Papers The SenseWeb project at Microsoft Research aims to address these challenges by providing a common platform and set of tools for data owners to easily publish their data and users to make useful queries over the live data sources.
[March 21, 2009, 0:25]
Digital ID and eGovernment
White Papers Governments have long played a role in identity in the physical world, but have abdicated their responsibility in this area for digital identity. Even so, imagine what commerce in the physical world would look like if no driver's license existed...
[August 30, 2005, 3:00]
Google turns Heathrow into testing lab
News Google has taken its first foray into the physical world with the launch of an Internet cafe-style computing booth in London's Heathrow Although the search specialist claims the project is primarily about helping travellers use their time more...
[November 24, 2005, 13:00]
Auto-ID Center Field Trial: Phase I Summary
White Papers The Auto-ID Center Field Trial was conceived as a test to evaluate the capabilities and practical feasibility of the Networked Physical World system designed by the Auto-ID Center in real world supply chain applications.
[June 19, 2004, 20:00]
World of Where
Downloads World of Where is the easiest way to learn the countries, capital cities, flags, provinces and physical features of the world. Navigate "atlas style" to one of the many colourful political maps or stunning physical maps within World of Where and...
[January 24, 2008, 6:00]
Green Nature Screensaver
Downloads Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical universe, material world or material universe. Nature refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general.
[November 29, 2007, 15:26]
New technologies in 802.11n review
Reviews The proposed 802.11n standard incorporates some impressive improvements to the physical hardware and firmware. The physical data rate selection algorithm has the tough job of determining what data transfer rate should be used based on the measured...
[June 24, 2008, 9:51]
Intel dives into pervasive computing
News Micromachines will rein in the data flood by being able to directly gather information from the physical world and deliver it in real time when the data is wanted. The chip giant will increasingly focus its research on "proactive computing," or the...
[August 28, 2001, 9:19]
E-commerce fraud takes a toll on sales
News During that same time period, Visa International and MasterCard reported that about 0.06 percent of physical world sales were lost to fraud, said Avivah Litan, research director at GartnerG2. There's a lot more sales going on in physical world, but...
[March 4, 2002, 15:39]
Regions of Interaction: Spaces, Places and the Wi-Fi Plane
White Papers Furthermore, the paper conceptualizes the Wi-Fi plane as the means by which the physical- and virtual-world constructs of space and place are joined and traversed. This paper primarily focuses the attention on the emergent relationship of the Wi-Fi...
[June 20, 2008, 1:16]
Developers 'should be accountable' for security holes
Talkback They think it's like in the physical world, where you have kind of an arms race between the "evil-doers" and the code patchers who try to keep them out. Obviously, that can never provide real security, and unlike in the physical world, where...
[October 12, 2005, 23:50]
Networked world will require revolution
News According to Rifkin a networked world has no chance of making an impact on peoples lives unless it is accompanied by a revolutionary shift away from a market based economy which trades on geography, time limitations and physical transactions to...
[February 26, 2001, 14:51]
Intel: Sentient mobile devices will understand users
News Intel also plans to connect the physical and digital worlds via the virtual world, using visually rich interfaces. At the heart of connecting the physical and digital worlds are sensors, Andrew Chien, vice president of the corporate technology...
[August 20, 2008, 11:46]
Microsoft to tweak virtualisation licensing
News That poses a challenge in a world in which virtualisation software, such as that from VMware, allows companies to seamlessly move virtual machines from one physical server to another, based on demand needs.
[August 18, 2008, 9:03]
HP misses the spot
Leader It matters immensely that we can associate our physical world with the shadow universe of data we're creating: we know when we're doing it well, because things tend to disappear. That's another bad sign for Memory Spot: HP's own list of potential...
[July 17, 2006, 17:25]
