You would think all of these would be common sense. They are not.

Keep all of your valuables out of sight in your vehicle when left unattended. This includes sat. radios and gps units. If you choose to leave these two items in your vehicle all of time, engage their password protection if equipped.
Put all purchases in your trunk and engage the seat locks (if equipped) and disable the push button trunk release in the passenger compartment if you can. Thieves have figured out that people keep their Christmas presents in their trunks, so make as hard as possible for them to gain access. Never leave book bags, back packs, purses, etc. in your vehicle at any time. They will steal the bag and figure out what’s in it later. Don’t give them a reason to break into your vehicle and you won’t have a problem.

Before you wrap your electronic gifts write down the serial number and model. This will aid in a possible recovery if they are stolen. Remember the serial number will be on the device itself, not the box. Also write down the serial number on bicycles. These get stolen all of the time post Christmas and it makes it very difficult to prove ownership if the bike is located.

Always lock your vehicle. Some people believe they would rather leave their vehicle unlocked just to prevent a thief from breaking the glass. This is just stupid.

According to CEO, Chris Hutcherson (www.chrishutcherson.com), The Elevision Network intends to become the world's largest Internet Television Network and premier Affiliate Training Site. The Elevision Network is seeking Master Affiliates and portals with large Affiliate lists. Internet Marketing Affiliates and Master Affiliates are about to be presented the most comprehensive Affiliate Training Program ever devised. The Affiliate and Master Affiliate Programs will be introduced on December 9, 2009 as a pre-launch to The Elevision Network in mid-January. The model will include a monthly subscription plus downloadable media, Pay Per View and Social Media Ecommerce revenue. The Elevision Network will be leveraging a multi-million dollar state-of-the-art Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) distribution platform as well as a $5.5 million studio and network control center equipped with robotic cameras and virtual set technology. It is designed to take new and existing video programming and convert it into high-quality, entertaining, educational and compelling video in a huge array of niche content channels. These specialized Internet TV and Video programs are delivered 24-7 online to any IP address around the world. This is done through the utilization of a global high-speed content delivery network with a 2 second buffer time. In addition, The Elevision Network has partnered with the leading content providers in the industry to create the largest content library of its kind in the world. The Elevision Network subscribers will have access to over $7 million dollars worth of content for a cost of less than a cup of coffee a day. The Elevision Network is also mentored by Chairman of the Board Frank Maguire, former founding member of Federal Express and Vice Chairman Gary Goldstein, distinguished Hollywood producer. (PRWeb Dec 5, 2008)

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See that Meizu M8 there? See that multitool-equipped hand? Yeah, you know damn well what's going to happen next, and we think the translated text expresses it best: "Well, the last one of the screws removed, MEIZU M8 has been completely broken up in a heap before us." The M8's guts make for some predictably boring pictures (unless you're really into circuitry), but the interesting bit might come in the accompanying narrative where we learn that the phone seems pretty dang solid -- good build quality, good materials, and name-brand components. That being said, they found it wasn't quite up to the iPhone 3G's standards for sheer manufacturing prowess -- but hey, they wouldn't want to take any cues from Apple, would they?

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div align="center"a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbbs.meizu.com%2Fthread-719230-1-1.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadgetmobile.com/media/2008/12/meizu-m8-teardown.jpg" alt="" //abr //div See that a href="http://www.engadgetmobile.com/tag/meizu"Meizu M8/a there? See that multitool-equipped hand? Yeah, you know damn well what's going to happen next, and we think the translated text expresses it best: "span onmouseout="_tipoff()" onmouseover="_tipon(this)" style=""Well, the last one of the screws removed, MEIZU M8 has been completely broken up in a heap before us./span" The M8's guts make for some predictably boring pictures (unless you're really into circuitry), but the interesting bit might come in the accompanying narrative where we learn that the phone seems pretty dang solid -- good build quality, good materials, and name-brand components. That being said, they found it wasn't quite up to the iPhone 3G's standards for sheer manufacturing prowess -- but hey, they wouldn't want to take any cues from Apple, would they?br /br /[Thanks, Jeff]pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a, a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/handhelds/" rel="tag"Handhelds/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/meizu-m8-gets-stripped-of-its-shell-dignity/"Meizu M8 gets stripped of its shell, dignity/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:32:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbbs.meizu.com%2Fthread-719230-1-1.htmlRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/meizu-m8-gets-stripped-of-its-shell-dignity/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1392048/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/05/meizu-m8-gets-stripped-of-its-shell-dignity/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/dypcXUULH-t7jk9ouISDYWrHF7Y/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/dypcXUULH-t7jk9ouISDYWrHF7Y/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=1n2Ngsqz"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=1n2Ngsqz" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=oOuGYwP6"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=oOuGYwP6" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/Qq8zZWPq7pk" height="1" width="1"/

divimg alt="" src="http://hits.guardian.co.uk/b/ss/guardiangu-feeds/1/H.15.1/47153?ns=guardianpageName=World+news%3A+School+accused+of+Mumbai+terror+role+opens+its+doorsch=World+newsc3=The+Guardianc4=Mumbai+terror+attacks+%28News%29%2CIndia+%28News%29%2CPakistan+%28News%29%2CTerrorism+-+international%2CWorld+newsc5=Not+commercially+usefulc6=Saeed+Shahc7=2008_12_05c8=1129193c9=articlec10=GUc11=World+newsc12=Mumbai+terror+attacksc13=c14=h2=GU%2FWorld+news%2FMumbai+terror+attacks" width="1" height="1" //divpAt first sight, they could be the grounds of an English public school, with neatly trimmed lawns and earnest young pupils walking between classes. But this is the site that India believes is the headquarters of the terrorist group responsible for last week's Mumbai attacks. /ppBoarding houses provide spartan accommodation, and orderly rows of trees line the sprawling site, just outside the eastern city of Lahore. Smartly turned-out pupils perform science experiments in the classrooms, peering into microscopes and connecting electric circuits. There is a farm, a swimming pool and a hospital. /ppIndia, and some western terrorism experts, believe this is the headquarters of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a banned Islamist group suspected of carrying out last week's Mumbai attacks. But according to the organisers of a tour of the site yesterday, it is simply the educational and charitable arm of Jamaat-ud-Dawa, an Islamic group that is legal in Pakistan but declared a terrorist organisation by the US./ppFollowing Pakistan's ban on Lashkar-e-Taiba in 2002, it is widely believed to have morphed into Jamaat-ud-Dawa, though the two claim to have no link./ppThe campus, set in countryside at Muridke, an hour's drive from Lahore, is the place that India would be likely to target if it took retaliatory military action over the Mumbai attacks. /pp"This is a residential and educational complex," said Abdullah Muntazir, Jamaat-ud-Dawa's spokesman, taking journalists around the Muridke site yesterday in a media charm offensive launched by the group. "You can see for yourself. This is all Indian propaganda."/pp"Jamaat-ud-Dawa speaks up very loudly against Indian conspiracies; we let the public know that India is the real enemy. That's why they always point at us."/ppThe carefully orchestrated visit took foreign and local journalists around the beautifully equipped school and hospital. The school follows the national curriculum, the headteacher, Rashid Mehnaz, said, taking pupils from around the country. The poor were given financial help, with richer pupils paying fees. Mehnaz condemned violence, saying suicide attacks were "absolutely wrong - it is forbidden in Islam"./ppA press conference and sumptuous lunch was laid on for journalists. However, the madrasa, mosque, and other facilities remained out of bounds, and once the official tour was over the media were no longer welcome. Although the group had said anyone was welcome to look around the site at any time, the Guardian's attempt to take up this offer after the tour was met with a heavy-handed response: burly young men arrived on motorcycles and circled, demanding that we leave. /ppGiven the attention that has suddenly been focused on Lashkar-e-Taiba, and on to the complex at Muridke, the invitation to visit may have been arranged after a prod from the Pakistani authorities. /ppCertainly there were plain-clothed officials present, who said they were members of "special branch" - often a euphemism for the Pakistan's ISI intelligence agency. They wanted to provide an armed escort back to Lahore, but why intelligence agents were there - and why an escort might be necessary - was unclear. Muridke is not in a dangerous part of Pakistan, and the offer was declined. /ppIt has long been said that the ISI has secretly backed Lashkar-e-Taiba, though the agency always rejects the accusation./pp"The Indian media is creating a hype, but I don't think they'll bomb us," said Muntazir. "If they did, it would be up to the government of Pakistan and the armed forces to deal with it."/ppHe said Jamaat-ud-Dawa was a peaceful group, but it had "supported" Lashkar-e-Taiba until that organisation was banned. He said that "morally", they still backed those who were fighting Indian rule in Kashmir. Lashkar-e-Taiba is the leading such group. "The [Kashmiri] freedom fighters are doing their job very well. Their cause is just," said Muntazir. 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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/motorsports/" rel="tag"Motorsports/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/hybrids/" rel="tag"Hybrids/Alternative/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sports/" rel="tag"Sports/GTs/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/green/" rel="tag"Green/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/videos/" rel="tag"Videos/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/tesla-tangles-with-tango-ev-on-dragstrip-loses/"img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="0" align="top" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autobloggreen.com/media/2008/12/tango-versus-tesla.jpg" alt="" //abr / div style="text-align: center;"span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"smallClick above to watch the video/small/spanbr //div br /Quick! What's the hottest electric car currently on the market? Did you say the Tesla Roadster? You may in fact be right, but there's another contender that you should consider before making up your mind so quickly. The fish-shaped a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2006/08/10/ev-startup-of-the-day-commuter-cars-does-the-tango/"all-electric Tango/a by a href="http://www.commutercars.com/"Commuter Cars Corporation/a might not be as much of a looker as the Roadster, but it may be a quicker in a straight line. Need proof? Take a look at the video after the break of a Tango going up head-to-head with a Tesla Roadster to see which green drag-racer came out the victor -- you may be surprised. It bears noting that this particular Roadster was equipped with drivetrain V.1, not the updated 1.5 that would improve performance considerably. For what it's worth, a href="http://nedra.com/record_holders.html"an official record/a was set by the Tesla Roadster on this pass, though we know the car can do even better. The Tesla's owner and driver, Jorg Brown, also knows that it's got more in it. For an accurate depiction of just how quick Silicon Valley's electric car can be, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/11/03/tesla-roadster-scores-a-time-slip-in-the-12s/"click here/a. br /br /[Source: a href="http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/12/04/video-tesla-versus-tango-on-the-drag-strip/"AutoblogGreen/a]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/tesla-tangles-with-tango-ev-on-dragstrip-loses/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emTesla tangles with Tango EV on dragstrip, loses/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/tesla-tangles-with-tango-ev-on-dragstrip-loses/"Tesla tangles with Tango EV on dragstrip, loses/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:27:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.autobloggreen.com/2008/12/04/video-tesla-versus-tango-on-the-drag-strip/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/tesla-tangles-with-tango-ev-on-dragstrip-loses/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1391549/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/tesla-tangles-with-tango-ev-on-dragstrip-loses/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/yf2sV6U7xQfz5Tz6615LhJh0TmI/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/yf2sV6U7xQfz5Tz6615LhJh0TmI/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=PEKaxKyr"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=PEKaxKyr" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=bBWwqZPv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=bBWwqZPv" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/KLG9PjDu_A0" height="1" width="1"/

SPAR Canada has partnered with Koodo Mobile for the holiday season! SPAR Canada has many years of experience with merchandising and in store events for a variety of clients and a variety of products. WeÂ’re excited to be working with Koodo Mobile to provide consumers with a new wireless approach!br / br / Who are we:br / br / 1. We are a different kind of wireless provider.br / 2. We believe in doing business in a refreshing, honest and transparent way. What you see is what you get and we say it like it is. br / 3. We do not sell everything to everyone. Instead we believe in giving our select customers a simple, no frills approach to their mobility service. If you want bells, whistles and the kitchen sink, youÂ’ve come to the wrong place. br / 4. We actually respect our customers and donÂ’t believe in hiding or twisting things in order to make money. br / br / Who you are:br / br / 1. You want to be part of something different. br / 2. You have a passion for doing business fairly.br / 3. You are excited to work with people. br / 4. You like pop culture, politics, blogs, facebook, or at least learning about them. br / br / Why you want to work here: br / br / 1. To be part of something different. br / 2. To work in an honest and open environment.br / br / br / The Skinny:br / br / 1. Weekends leading up to the holiday season (end of November, through to Christmas).br / 2. An opportunity to show off your sales skills while providing the consumer with the best option in wireless services. br / 3. Great hourly pay, plus commission.br / br / br / The Locations:br / br / #61607; We are recruiting in the following cities: Greenfield Park, Drummondville, St. Jerome, Joliettebr / o br / br / If you are interested in this exciting opportunity please send your résumé to koodo@sparinc.com. Please indicate which city you are applying for.br / SPAR is the leading in-store sales and merchandising company in the world, with field offices in over eight countries and a multi-billion dollar global client roster. With over 4,900 Merchandising Specialists in North America alone, weÂ’re equipped to impact our clients sales and profits by handling projects both large and small. We can leverage our scale to make the most impact in the store, when and where it counts.br /

Seems like the U.S. carriers are finally catching on to the benefits of putting mobile broadband connectivity in netbooks. On the heels of Dell#8217;s announcement of its addition of an AT#38;T option for the Inspiron Mini 9, HP is announcing that its Mini 1000 can be equipped with either Verizon or AT#38;T mobile-broadband. For an additional [...]div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?a=jwGamW2C"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?a=8RH9JMqo"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?a=Lj1wEFNC"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?d=198" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?a=d8u2nJqt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?i=d8u2nJqt" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?a=RyO4yBoh"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/LaptopMagazineNews?i=RyO4yBoh" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LaptopMagazineNews/~4/C6Ot80bNhus" height="1" width="1"/

pTelemedicine has caught on over the past several years as an effective way to bring patients and specialists together via the magic of video conferencing. Unfortunately, most telemedicine setups require the patient to be in a room equipped with a computer, camera, microphone and monitor, so that specialists can remotely assess his or her condition. Could robots be the answer, providing both patient care and a view for specialists checking in from afar? a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=robot-telemedicine[More]/a

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Konami will bring an all-new Suikoden to DS next March titled Suikoden Tierkreis. Here are the first batch of shots.

Official blurb reads: Suikoden Tierkreis casts the player as a member of a tightly knit security force in a remote setting called 'Citro Village'. During an ongoing task to get rid of the land's fearsome creatures, players uncover a mysterious phenomenon... a light emits something inexplicable at the top of the tower in the old ruins. From then on, the player and their comrades' destiny begins to change...

The Nintendo DS title boasts a cast of 108 fully interactive characters. Each will work independently of the others, but can be recruited to make a four-person party, ideally suited to the tasks ahead. Each character enjoys a detailed history which is unfurled as the game progresses, with voice-overs and animated sequences fleshing out their many stories. From these, players than assemble their team to utilise the various skills on offer, while weapons such as swords and bows can be equipped and customised. Together, they are then pitted in turn-based battles against the many hostile creatures that lurk within Suikoden Tierkreis.

In addition to running battles, players and their parties will also be given specific quests during the course of the adventure. Suikoden Tierkreis is set in a series of parallel worlds, wherein users play in their own bespoke locale, while other players inhabit their own. This system will introduce the user to even more characters and the opportunity to make friends, while the Wi-Fi or Wireless communication capabilities of the Nintendo DS also allow users to send characters to these other worlds to receive missions from other players. Extra items such as money and items are offered as rewards, and ensure that the game is capable of constantly surprising the player.


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div align="center"a href="http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2008/12/04/Novatech-X50MV-Pro-Gaming-Notebook/p1"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/12/12-4-08--x50mv-pro.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Man, remember when everyone a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/03/09/asus-w5fe-sideshow-laptop-and-u1f-ultra-portable-shipping-this/"thought/a their next laptop would a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/07/asus-w5fe-sideshow-laptop-hands-on/"have a minuscule SideShow display/a baked in the lid? Yeah, whatever a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/lge-z1-laptop-packs-sideshow-too-but-sexier-this-time/"happened/a to that a href="http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/21/benq-unveils-the-joybook-q41-sideshow-equipped-laptop/"fantasy/a? Apparently the engineers over at Novatech never got the memo that said technology was a href="http://www.engadget.com/tag/sideshow/"doomed for failure/a, as they certainly included a 2.5-inch color display on the lid of the X50MV Pro gaming laptop. That nifty inclusion aside, the unit also packed some pretty stout internals, though reviewers did lament the GeForce 9600M GT graphics chip. Still, the LCD was deemed gorgeous to look at, the inbuilt TV tuner was a welcome extra and performance was highly lauded in every area except hardcore gaming -- which is obviously odd given the nature of the beast. In the end, critics couldn't wholeheartedly recommend this machine over a litany of others for close to the same price, but there just might be a few unique features here that push you over the edge.pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/laptops/" rel="tag"Laptops/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/novatechs-x50mv-pro-gaming-laptop-reviewed-sideshow-makes-surp/"Novatech's X50MV Pro gaming laptop reviewed, SideShow makes surprise appearance/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.engadget.com"Engadget/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 11:20:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.trustedreviews.com/notebooks/review/2008/12/04/Novatech-X50MV-Pro-Gaming-Notebook/p1Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/novatechs-x50mv-pro-gaming-laptop-reviewed-sideshow-makes-surp/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1391046/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/12/04/novatechs-x50mv-pro-gaming-laptop-reviewed-sideshow-makes-surp/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/RyiTp8APuHn6OuYTUZQMgaiBGxw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/RyiTp8APuHn6OuYTUZQMgaiBGxw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=s2MWBvt4"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=s2MWBvt4" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=8i4HwFjv"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=8i4HwFjv" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/NGKxH_TBA0I" height="1" width="1"/

div class="rxbodyfield"p page="1" class="ArticleBody"A new computing fabric to replace today#39;s a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/serverblades.html"blade servers/a #160;and a quot;podquot; approach to building datacenters are two of the most disruptive technologies that will affect the enterprise datacenter in the next few years, Gartner said at its a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/120308-gartner-energy-virtualization-cloud-computing.html"annual datacenter conference/a Wednesday./pp align="right"a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" target="_blank" /img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/idg.us.info.rss/news;pos=imu;tile=6;sz=336x280;skey=patch_management;pkey=security;ord=123456789?" width="336" height="280" border="0" alt="" align="right"//a/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Datacenters increasingly will be built in separate zones or pods, rather than as one monolithic structure, Gartner analyst Carl Claunch said in a presentation about the Top 10 disruptive technologies affecting the datacenter./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"b[ For#160;recent news#160;on the modular design approach to datacenters read quot;a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/12/03/Microsoft_applies_Model_T_factory_methods_to_datacenters_1.html?source=fssr"Microsoft applies Model T factory methods to datacenters/a.quot; ]/b/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Those zones or pods will be built in a fashion similar to the a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/100808-modular-data-centers.html"modular datacenters/a sold in large shipping containers equipped with their own cooling systems. But datacenter pods don#39;t have to be built within actual containers. The distinguishing features are that zones are built with different densities, reducing initial costs, and each pod or zone is self-contained with its own power feeds and cooling, Claunch says./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Cooling costs are minimized because chillers are closer to heat sources; and there is additional flexibility because a pod can be upgraded or repaired without necessitating downtime in other zones, Claunch said. (Read more about how to a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2008/ndc1/021808-ndc-power-five-steps.html"reduce cooling costs/a in the datacenter.)/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"quot;Modularization is a good thing. It gives you the ability to refresh continuously and have higher uptime,quot; Claunch said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"By not treating a datacenter as a homogenous whole, it is easier to separate equipment into high, medium, and low heat densities, and devote expensive cooling only to the areas that really need it, Claunch added./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"The move to pods and zones is among what Gartner calls the most disruptive technologies affecting the datacenter. In no particular order, these technologies are a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2008/ndc3/051908-storage-virtualization-status-report.html"storage virtualization/a ; cloud computing; new server architectures; PC virtualization; enterprise mashups; specialized systems (aka hardware appliances); social software, and social networking; unified communications; zones and pods; and a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2008/ndc1/"green IT/a .#160;/pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Many of these technologies have been covered by Gartner in previous lists (including quot; a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/100907-10-strategic-technologies-gartner.html"Gartner#39;s Top 10 strategic technologies for 2008/a quot; and quot; a target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/101408-gartner-strategic-technologies.html"10 strategic technologies for 2009/a quot;). Enterprises won#39;t have to wait long to take advantage of these technologies: All these trends are beginning to happen now or will do so within the next few years, Claunch said./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"If Gartner#39;s predictions are correct, the server industry is soon to undergo a significant transformation./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"Gartner views today#39;s blade servers as an interim technology that will give way to a new, more flexible type of server that treats memory, processors and I/O cards as shared resources that can be arranged and rearranged to suit a business#39;s needs. Like virtualization technology, this computing fabric of the future will make hardware more adaptable to changing needs./pp page="1" class="ArticleBody"IT shops will be able to create machines of whatever size they need, and shift resources around as often as necessary, Claunch said. In addition, instead of relying on vendors to decide what proportion of memory, processing and I/O connections are on each blade, enterprises will be able to buy whatever resources they need in any amount, a far more efficient approach./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"While rack servers are self-contained units, today#39;s blade approach allows a combination of some components, Gartner notes. ( a href="http://www.networkworld.com/buyersguides/guide.php?cat=881344"Compare/a blade servers.) I/O cards don#39;t have to be included in each blade because they are accessed over a shared fabric. Memory and processors are still fixed parts of each blade, however, limiting flexibility. If extra memory is needed, you may have to buy another blade instead of just accessing the memory of another one, Claunch said./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"quot;The next step in this progression is the introduction of technology to allow several blades to be merged operationally over the fabric, operating as a larger, single system image that is the sum of the components from those blades,quot; a Gartner PowerPoint presentation states. quot;The fabric-based server of the future will treat memory, processors and I/O cards as components in a pool, combining and recombining them into particular arrangements to suit the owner#39;s needs.quot;/pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"For example, an IT shop could combine 32 processors and any number of memory modules to create one large server that appears to an operating system as a single, fixed computing unit. This approach also will increase utilization rates by reducing the resources wasted because blade servers aren#39;t configured optimally for the applications they serve. quot;This evolution will simplify the provisioning of capacity to meet growing needs,quot; Gartner states./pp page="2" class="ArticleBody"ema target="_blank" href="http://www.networkworld.com"Network World/a/em emis an InfoWorld affiliate/em/p/divbr style=clear: both;/ a href=http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=df71c541163ff94462c983fa91abb9c5p=1img alt= style=border: 0; border=0 src=http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=df71c541163ff94462c983fa91abb9c5p=1//a img src=http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=df71c541163ff94462c983fa91abb9c5 style=display: none; border=0 height=1 width=1 alt=/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/sedans/" rel="tag"Sedans/Saloons/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/etc/" rel="tag"Etc./a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/jaguar/" rel="tag"Jaguar/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/uk/" rel="tag"UK/a/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-jaguar-xj/1201538/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/xj_1_opt.jpg" alt="" //abr / div align="center" smallstrongemClick above for high-res image gallery of the 2009 Jaguar XJ/em/strong/smallbr //div br /There's a new Jaguar XJ coming at some point, but there's not much wrong with the current top cat. The XF likely signals a shift out of the generations-long styling rut the brand has been in with its revered sedan, but it's hard to find fault with an all-aluminum sedan sporting V8 power and serving up old-world cachet. To sweeten the deal, Jaguar has added more standard content to the 2009 XJ, though we still don't get the 2.7-liter diesel that other markets get to enjoy. Settling for the AJ V8 is no chore, and the XJ Super gets the supercharged 4.2-liter engine we know and love from the XJR and others. br /br /Newly designed seats improve leg- and footroom for rear seat passengers, and seat heaters are standard in all models. Soverigns get cooling functionality added to the chairs, as well as 20" wheels, soft grain leather, Jaguar branded sills and the traditional wool rugs in the rear. Navigation is standard in Executive and Soverign trim levels, along with parking radar, and bi-xenon lighting. If these are the last XJs before the model is redone with an all-new look, they may be very well equipped final examples of a classic sedan idiom.em /br /br /div class="postgallery"pstrongGallery: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-jaguar-xj/"2009 Jaguar XJ/a/strong/pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-jaguar-xj/1201538/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/xj_2_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //aa href="http://www.autoblog.com/photos/2009-jaguar-xj/1201537/"img src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/12/xj_1_thumbnail.jpg" alt="" title="" //a/divbr /[Source: Jaguar]pa href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/jaguar-updates-the-2009-xj/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emJaguar updates the 2009 XJ/em/a/pp style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/jaguar-updates-the-2009-xj/"Jaguar updates the 2009 XJ/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.autoblog.com"Autoblog/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:33:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/jaguar-updates-the-2009-xj/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1390701/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/12/04/jaguar-updates-the-2009-xj/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/T0q83Ur2KNyDW4P_8Edrnu0ewE8/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/T0q83Ur2KNyDW4P_8Edrnu0ewE8/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=LMfmcBUk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=LMfmcBUk" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=2MYO0QFW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=2MYO0QFW" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/UdZaRGWVzuc" height="1" width="1"/

pThis holiday season all kinds of products are coming equipped with GPS receivers to tell consumers exactly where on earth they are. The choices include dashboard navigators for cars, pocket navigators for humans, ldquo;golf buddiesrdquo; that reveal the distance between a golfer and greens and sand traps, and, most prominently, cell phones. GPS transponders also now track paroled criminals, errant pets, migrating elephants and retreating glaciers./ppPositioning satellites have been beaming signals for decades, but three converging factors are broadening the marketplace, according to Per K. Enge, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Stanford University. The size of the circuitry needed inside a receiver has shrunk. Circuit makers are selling that hardware to consumer electronics manufacturers for less than $5 a unit. ldquo;And Apple provided visibility,rdquo; Enge says, ldquo;by putting GPS into the iPhone.rdquo; Buyers loved it, proving there was a desire./p a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=how-gps-units-work[More]/a

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Truephone has launched a new VoIP application that enables an iPod touch to be used as a phone. If equipped with a microphone and headphones, the device can make phone calls to Google Talk or Skype users, another Truephone-enabled iPod touch, or certain Nokia handsets, from anywhere in the world where a Wi-Fi connection is available. Other features include instant messaging to Skype and MSN, along...


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Quote: While retaining the chipset mentioned above, Asus's new Eee Box B204 and B206 aim to lick the HD problem via inclusion of discrete graphics circuitry and dedicated video memory. According to the company, the devices now include ATI's Radeon HD 3400 GPU (graphics processor unit), equipped with 256MB of DDR2 RAM, and claimed -- by ATI, at least -- to support 1080p (1920 x 1280 pixels). The new Eee Boxes also sport HDMI ports, for direct A/V connection to HD television sets. http://www.windowsfordevices.com/news/NS5745312672.html

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Truephone has launched a new VoIP application that enables an iPod touch to be used as a phone. If equipped with a microphone and headphones, the device can make phone calls to Google Talk or Skype users, another Truephone-enabled iPod touch, or certain Nokia handsets, from anywhere in the world where a Wi-Fi connection is available. Other features include instant messaging to Skype and MSN, along...

Truephone has launched a new VoIP application that enables an iPod touch to be used as a phone. If equipped with a microphone and headphones, the device can make phone calls to Google Talk or Skype users, another Truephone-enabled iPod touch, or certain Nokia handsets, from anywhere in the world where a Wi-Fi connection is available. Other features include instant messaging to Skype and MSN, along...