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Commentary: Less is moreWashington (UPI) Jul 20, 2010 America's global commitments, from Japan to Germany, from NATO to Afghanistan, from EUCOM to AFRICOM, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Persian Gulf, from USPACOM in Honolulu to CENTCOM in Tampa, Fla., all are being reassessed - at home and abroad. Can a superpower whose infrastructure is rapidly decaying to Third-World standards in many sectors and in need of a $1 trillion face-lift afford to be the free world's gendarme, spending more on defense than the rest of the world put together? F ... read more |
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Washington DC (SPX) Jul 12, 2010NASA-funded researchers monitoring Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier report that a 7 square kilometer (2.7 square mile) section of the glacier broke up on July 6 and 7. The calving front - where the ice sheet meets the ocean - retreated nearly 1.5 kilometers (a mile) in one day and is now further inland than at any time previously observed. The chunk of lost ice is roughly one-eighth t ... more  
Barcelona, Spain (SPX) Jul 09, 2010A research group from the UAB Department of Telecommunications and Systems Engineering at the School of Engineering, led by Jose Lopez Vicario and Antoni Morell, took part in the development of a new system which locates unoccupied car park spaces and guides users to the nearest one. The new network of sensors for the management of public car parks and locations, which researchers have nam ... more  
Paris, France (ESA) Jul 07, 2010A start-up company supported by ESA's Business Incubation Centre has developed a new mobile phone indoor navigation system, which will soon help the six million annual visitors find their way around at the largest exhibition centre in Paris. This navigation system, developed by Insiteo, is especially effective for large inside spaces such as exhibition grounds, because the vast, complicate ... more |
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Global Number Of Traffic Information Users To Exceed 370 Million By 2015London, UK (SPX) Jul 05, 2010 Traffic Information maintains its position as the most important feature of navigation services with the global number of traffic information users expected to grow from 57 million in 2010 to more than 370 million in 2015, according to the latest market data from ABI Research. Telematics and Navigation practice director Dominique Bonte comments: "Navigation users continue to appreciate the value of traffic information allowing calculation of the fastest routes and accurate Estimated Times of Arriv ... read more |
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