Archive for July, 2007

Portable USB oscilloscope

During development, diagnostics and repairs of electronics it is necessary to record, analyze and decode signals and signal parameters. For each of those tasks there’s a separate device, such as oscilloscope, spectrum analyzer, automatic logger, logical analyzer and logical generator. Each of them is a complex device with a huge price and non-intuitive learning curve.
I’d like to present you a new universal device called IRIS. It combines all above-listed equipment, it is portable (fits a typical pocket) and has USB connection. You can turn any Windows-powered PC (even very old one) into a serious laboratory just with plugging’ IRIS in. Nice and intuitive software gives an ability to use all IRIS features in a most efficient way.
USB oscilloscope IRIS has two separate oscilloscope channels and 16-channel logical analyzer.

Download Great 3D Screensavers

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Nokia starts global positioning service

HELSINKI - Nokia launched a service today which it said would cut the time a GPS-enabled cellphone takes to pinpoint its whereabouts, opening new opportunities for location-based online services.

Nokia hopes the service, available for users of its flagship N95 phones, will cut the startup time to one minute, from up to three minutes currently. The slowness has so far hampered takeup of cellphone navigation.

“It will be reliably under one minute in most countries,” Ralph Eric Kunz, head of Nokia’s navigation and mapping operations told Reuters in an interview.

Handset makers see GPS-based navigation as one of the next big value-adding offerings and even at this early stage.

Analysis firm Berg Insight has forecast annual shipments of handset-based personal navigation devices in Europe and the United States to reach 12 million units by 2009, compared with 1 million in 2005.

While most assisted-GPS technologies use mobile carriers cellsites to find locations faster, Nokia’s new service bypasses operator networks, using data from SIM card and new software which helps the phone to catch satellite signals.

GPS chips use satellites orbiting the earth to determine the exact position of the user. They are found in car navigation systems, which have surged in popularity in recent years, and the technology is now making the jump to mobile phones.

Nokia’s N95, with a 700-euro price tag, is not within reach of the wider market, but the Finnish firm aims to bring GPS chips to a wide array of its phones. All Nokia’s GPS phones will have the new service, Kunz said.

Nokia hopes the service will boost prices of its phones in the longer term, and increase the appeal of mobile search services.

Nokia bought into the navigation industry last year through its acquisition of German firm Gate5 and started to offer free maps and routing data in February 2007, while charging extra fees for navigation.

While a few years ago personal navigation device makers like Dutch TomTom shrugged off possible rivalry from the handset industry, they have now acknowledged the potential risk to their business.

Some advices for emigrants

We leaved your homeland some times ago. And you feel happy now. But your lovely relatives stayed in the homeland. Of course, you long for them. Sometimes you write some letters for them. But you’d like to hear their voices! And you call them. Or your relatives call you sometimes. And every month they and you get very big and long bills… And you feel upset about your money, but you’d like to hear your alliance still. What do you do then?

Of course, you can make it next. But now we recommend you stop and think. Do you want to lose your money in reality? “Of course, no!” – tell you.
There’re a state-of-the-art capability, what can help you save your money and relationships. For example, if your relative live in a Moscow, he can purchase calling card Saturn. He’ll make a call with help a IP-telephony. And now we enjoy talking with him and save a lot of money!
And you can buy canada calling card, USA calling card or anything else. It’s depending of country, where you’re living now.

But be careful when you get a calling cards. In fact many companies hide some important information from customers.
For example, some cheap calling cards allow to make cheap calls, but they have a lot of additional taxes. Some cheap phone cards promise you to help to save money, but do not carry out promises. And many of companies get you very bad quality of communication.
All in all, be careful and enjoy talking with your darling!