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c_cbizeo779oaz | In mid-1985, three Pacific Northwest photogrammetric firms combined resources to create DAT/EM Systems International based in Anchorage, Alaska. By the spring of 1987, DAT/EM Systems International had produced its first viable digital mapping product. The first product allowed AutoCAD software to accept 3D coordinate d... | DAT/EM Systems International |
c_t7mt34rkd6gr | At the 1999 ASPRS Conference in Portland, Oregon, DAT/EM released its first all-digital stereoplotter, the Summit PC digital softcopy stereo workstation. Using the knowledge acquired from designing Summit PC, DAT/EM Systems moved forward to create its well-known 3D digital stereoplotter, Summit Evolution. In addition t... | DAT/EM Systems International |
c_5ltgxa2avkad | This capability opened DAT/EM software products to the GIS marketplace. Because DAT/EM Systems offered client solutions for both their photogrammetric and GIS needs, this increased the number of users for the Summit Evolution softcopy system worldwide. Since 1985, DAT/EM had grown from a small Alaskan company to an int... | DAT/EM Systems International |
c_aw7lkaagoztp | In mid-1986, NeXT changed its business plan to develop both computer hardware and software, rather than just workstations. Rich Page, a NeXT cofounder who formerly directed Apple Lisa's team, led a team to develop the hardware, while Mach kernel engineer Avie Tevanian led the development of NeXT's operating system, NeX... | NeXT |
c_j1y0edn7e8yn | It was also nicknamed as "the cube" due to its distinctive magnesium one-foot (30 cm) cubic case. The case was designed by Hartmut Esslinger and his team at Frog Design.In 1987, Ross Perot became NeXT's first major outside-investor. He invested $20 million for 16% of NeXT's stock after seeing a segment about NeXT on a ... | NeXT |
c_o3i156k2vg75 | In 1988, he joined the company's board of directors.NeXT and Adobe collaborated on Display PostScript (DPS), a 2D graphics engine that was released in 1987. NeXT engineers wrote an alternative windowing engine edition to take full advantage of NeXTSTEP. NeXT engineers used Display PostScript to draw on-screen graphic d... | NeXT |
c_o255txz1k13r | On October 12, 1988, the NeXT Computer received standing ovations when it was revealed at a private gala event, "NeXT Introduction – the Introduction to the NeXT Generation of Computers for Education" at the Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco, California. The following day, selected educators and software ... | NeXT |
c_ttm810aabqq8 | The luncheon speaker was Steve Jobs.The first NeXT Computers were experimented in 1989, after which NeXT sold a limited number of these devices to universities with a beta version of the NeXTSTEP operating system pre-installed. It shipped with Beta 0.9 of the operating system. Initially, the NeXT Computer targeted the ... | NeXT |
c_yrrjqygsnb2j | The computer was widely reviewed in magazines, primarily the hardware portion. When asked if he was upset that the computer's debut was delayed by several months, Jobs responded, "Late? This computer is five years ahead of its time! | NeXT |
c_dtlme3srwmgi | "The NeXT Computer was based on the 25 MHz Motorola 68030 central processing unit (CPU). The Motorola 88000 RISC chip was originally considered, but it was not available in sufficient quantities. The computer included between 8 and 64 MB of random-access memory (RAM), a 256 MB magneto-optical (MO) drive, a 40 MB (swap-... | NeXT |
c_dzi7oetdwf4d | In 1989, a typical new PC, Macintosh, or Amiga computer included a few megabytes of RAM, a 640×480 16-color or a 320x240 4,096-color display, a 10- to 20-megabyte hard drive, and few networking capabilities. It was the first computer to ship with a general-purpose DSP chip (Motorola 56001) on the motherboard. This supp... | NeXT |
c_dwncnqlf0biw | This drive technology was relatively new to the market, and the NeXT was the first computer to use it. MO drives were cheaper but much slower than hard drives, with an average seek time of 96 ms; Jobs negotiated Canon's initial price of $150 per blank MO disk so that they could sell at retail for only $50. The disk dri... | NeXT |
c_131t6wv7cwg8 | The drive's limited speed and capacity made it insufficient as the primary medium running the NeXTSTEP operating system.In 1989, NeXT struck a deal for former Compaq reseller Businessland to sell the NeXT Computer in international markets. Selling through a retailer was a major change from NeXT's original business mode... | NeXT |
c_5b1ub3hqda4j | Canon invested in NeXT with the condition of installing the NeXTSTEP environment on its own workstations, which would mean a greatly expanded market for the software. After NeXT exited the hardware business, Canon produced a line of PCs called object.station—including models 31, 41, 50, and 52—specifically designed to ... | NeXT |
c_wo877h4kxyq1 | In mid-1988, developments in the Detroit scene led to the opening of a nightclub called the Music Institute (MI), located at 1315 Broadway in downtown Detroit. The venue was secured by George Baker and Alton Miller with Darryl Wynn and Derrick May participating as Friday night DJs, and Baker and Chez Damier playing to ... | Techno music |
c_xtec0bhgzbl5 | Our careers took off right around the time we had to close, and maybe it was the best thing. I think we were peaking – we were so full of energy and we didn't know who we were or realize our potential. We had no inhibitions, no standards, we just did it. | Techno music |
c_jvpveyq4ipfi | That's why it came off so fresh and innovative, and that's why ... we got the best of the best. Though short-lived, MI was known internationally for its all-night sets, its sparse white rooms, and its juice bar stocked with "smart drinks" (the Institute never served liquor). The MI, notes Dan Sicko, along with Detroit'... | Techno music |
c_8t3pwhaxfi7x | In mid-1988, following on from the release of GST's word processor, First Word Plus, Acorn Computers announced that it had commissioned GST to port and enhance the Timeworks product for the Archimedes series. Being designed for use with RISC OS, using the anti-aliased font technology already demonstrated on the Archime... | Timeworks Publisher |
c_tmllbh70mog6 | Ultimately, Acorn would promote Impression as part of its Publishing System package. Of the other anticipated competitors, Ovation was released later in 1990, and succeeded by Ovation Pro in 1996, having been previewed in 1995, whereas Tempest was apparently never released, being absent from Clares' software catalogue.... | Timeworks Publisher |
c_5snnup6c8kdd | Developed by a freelance programmer for Clares, a pre-release version was demonstrated in late 1989, apparently requiring only 128 KB of RAM, with work underway to optimise the display routines. A price of £129.95 including VAT was announced. Initially destined for an autumn 1989 release, it was postponed to an unspeci... | Timeworks Publisher |
c_vuwnbkxqqh6j | In mid-1989, Software Bargains announced an expansion providing different levels of Plus 1 functionality, offered as a bare printed circuit board without casing and in three different variants: the basic model offered one cartridge port and was bundled with View and Viewsheet cartridges for £29.95; an extended model of... | Acorn Electron |
c_5ffql9k549sp | In mid-1991, meetings that led to the formation of the CIX were held in Reston, Virginia. The original signatories to the CIX agreement were PSINet, UUNET, and CERFnet.While testing was originally done in the Washington, DC area, commercial operations began at a PSInet facility in Santa Clara, California in the Fall of... | Commercial Internet eXchange |
c_ehdigyulvdfj | In mid-1991, the PC Emulator was eventually updated to work as a multitasking application on the RISC OS desktop, requiring 2 MB of RAM to do so, and supporting access to DOS files from the RISC OS desktop filer interface. The emulator itself permitted access to CD-ROM devices and ran MS-DOS 3.3 with a special mouse dr... | Acorn Archimedes |
c_8vgeiwi1f3rp | The product cost £99, with an upgrade costing £29 for users of previous versions. Although technically compatible with 1 MB systems, and with 2 MB of RAM considered necessary for multitasking operation, offering facilities to capture the emulated display as a bitmap or as text, 4 MB was recommended to take advantage of... | Acorn Archimedes |
c_2yoljrf0e3vo | Shortly after the introduction of the updated PC Emulator, a hardware PC compatibility solution was announced by Aleph One, offering a 20 MHz 80386SX processor and VGA display capability, effectively delivering Acorn's envisaged PC podule in updated form. A low-cost alternative to Acorn's PC Emulator called FasterPC be... | Acorn Archimedes |
c_q4ri554gme0e | In mid-1998, the South Korean company licensed the players for North American distribution to Eiger Labs, which rebranded them as the EigerMan F10 and F20. The flash-based players were available in 32 MB or 64 MB (6 or 12 songs) storage capacity and had a LCD screen to tell the user the song currently playing. The firs... | Portable multimedia player |
c_cnsxd7drbr5i | It retailed for $599 and was a commercial failure. Rio PMP300 - One of the Earliest DAPs The Rio PMP300 from Diamond Multimedia was introduced in September 1998, a few months after the MPMan, and also featured a 32 MB storage capacity. It was a success during the holiday season, with sales exceeding expectations. | Portable multimedia player |
c_tj6vue6vhzoh | Interest and investment in digital music were subsequently spurred from it. Because of the player's notoriety as the target of a major lawsuit, the Rio is erroneously assumed to be the first digital audio player. The RIAA soon filed a lawsuit alleging that the device abetted illegal copying of music, but Diamond won a ... | Portable multimedia player |
c_ezv206tlr49r | of America v. Universal City Studios, Inc. and MP3 players were ruled legal devices. Eiger Labs and Diamond went on to establish a new segment in the portable audio player market and the following year saw several new manufacturers enter this market. The player would be the start of the Rio line of players. | Portable multimedia player |
c_ekz3wqqhlgvt | In mid-19th century London, when water provision from private water companies was generally inadequate for the rapidly growing population and was often contaminated, a new law created the Metropolitan Commission of Sewers, made water filtration compulsory, and moved water intakes on the Thames above the sewage outlets.... | Drinking fountain |
c_d8czoopjuywy | In the next six years 85 fountains were built, with much of the funding coming directly from the association. The provision of drinking fountains in the United Kingdom soon became linked to the temperance movement; the same association in London drew support from temperance advocates. Many of its fountains were sited o... | Drinking fountain |
c_7rijnh21dxmf | The evangelical movement was encouraged to build fountains in churchyards to encourage the poor to see churches as supporting them. Many fountains have inscriptions such as "Jesus said whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again but whosoever drinketh of the water I shall give him shall never thirst". By 1877, ... | Drinking fountain |
c_zrzh8yalzrnt | In mid-19th-century Manchester, many important Georgian buildings were blackened by atmospheric pollution. By the 1870s the local soft red Collyhurst sandstone was deemed to be unsuitable for public buildings, and tough Pennine sandstones were preferred. The architectural competition entries were judged in part on thei... | Manchester Town Hall |
c_4z8fmm6253ct | The interior decoration was chosen with a view to providing permanent colour and cleanable surfaces. Public corridors were faced with terracotta rather than plaster, and extensive use was made of stone vaulted ceilings, tiled dados and washable mosaic floors.Waterhouse's design used a Gothic style with limited carved d... | Manchester Town Hall |
c_h2smk3bxczi1 | Waterhouse avoided using a polychrome scheme as seen in High Victorian Gothic buildings such as St Pancras railway station believing it to be impractical as Manchester's industrial atmosphere would quickly ruin the effect and decided a uniform stone exterior was the better solution. Statues of notable figures in the ci... | Manchester Town Hall |
c_6618q4ona38f | In mid-2000 the Trevithick Trust leased the "museum/mill" part of the site from the Camborne School of Mines. After major building repairs, funded by a European grant as part of the Mineral Tramways Project, the site was officially opened to the public on 28 April 2002. The Trevithick Trust ceased to exist in 2006 and ... | King Edward Mine |
c_tkqw907inbhl | In mid-2000, Sony Computer Entertainment, Toshiba Corporation, and IBM formed an alliance known as "STI" to design and manufacture the processor.The STI Design Center opened in March 2001. The Cell was designed over a period of four years, using enhanced versions of the design tools for the POWER4 processor. Over 400 e... | Power Processor Element |
c_jr5xsom6anks | During this period, IBM filed many patents pertaining to the Cell architecture, manufacturing process, and software environment. An early patent version of the Broadband Engine was shown to be a chip package comprising four "Processing Elements", which was the patent's description for what is now known as the Power Pro... | Power Processor Element |
c_6px8m6qdogbc | This chip package was supposed to run at a clock speed of 4 GHz and with 32 SPEs providing 32 gigaFLOPS each (FP8 quarter precision), the Broadband Engine was meant to have 1 teraFLOPS of raw computing power in theory. The design with 4 PPEs and 32 SPEs was never realized. Instead, Sony and IBM only manufactured a desi... | Power Processor Element |
c_k17oq8e33166 | This smaller design, the Cell Broadband Engine or Cell/BE was fabricated using a 90 nm SOI process.In March 2007, IBM announced that the 65 nm version of Cell/BE is in production at its plant (at the time, now GlobalFoundries') in East Fishkill, New York, with Bandai Namco Entertainment using the Cell/BE processor for ... | Power Processor Element |
c_nbvyxqkxd5ah | In mid-2000, Unaxis acquired a majority share in the semiconductor manufacturer Esec AG. Toward the end of that year, it sold Pilatus Flugzeugwerke AG – the last company that did not fit in with the rest of Unaxis' technology portfolio. In December 2001, Unaxis spun off Leybold Optics once again, but retained the vacuu... | OC Oerlikon |
c_5hz33i4g8fbf | A merger in March 2004 placed Esec entirely under the ownership of Unaxis. Poor performance in FY 2004 from the semiconductor division of Esec meant losses of CHF 372 million for Unaxis and a slump in its share price. | OC Oerlikon |
c_wa5tiijfuhnk | The Esec business unit was eventually sold again in April 2009. In June 2005, Unaxis' new majority shareholder, the Austrian firm Victory Industriebeteiligung AG, called an extraordinary general meeting where it replaced virtually all of the group's management team. This also saw Thomas Limberger appointed as the new U... | OC Oerlikon |
c_c3ck3fiuqudn | The new management team succeeded in reducing losses massively in 2005, and expressed a desire to abandon the abstract company name "Unaxis" and bring back a well-established company name from the past. In 2006, the Russian oligarch Viktor Vekselberg acquired a substantial share in the company. At the annual general me... | OC Oerlikon |
c_1kyotyqttq8c | In mid-2001, the Xeon brand was introduced ("Pentium" was dropped from the name). The initial variant that used the new NetBurst microarchitecture, "Foster", was slightly different from the desktop Pentium 4 ("Willamette"). It was a decent chip for workstations, but for server applications it was almost always outperfo... | Xeon Platinum |
c_4ouk1s7iu3st | At most two Foster processors could be accommodated in a symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) system built with a mainstream chipset, so a second version (Foster MP) was introduced with a 1 MB L3 cache and the Jackson Hyper-Threading capacity. This improved performance slightly, but not enough to lift it out of third place.... | Xeon Platinum |
c_1n8a13uh67dm | In mid-2002 the CFSCI was established as a non-membership 501(c)(3) corporation under non-profit law. The CFSCI Board of Directors and its staff comprise the CFSCI. (Subsequently, the CFSCI Board amended the bylaws to create a class of "at-large members," however the at-large members have no voting rights.) The CFSCI w... | California Fire Safe Council |
c_k3q2kiwsrspi | Instead, the AAG divided the state into three regions: Coast, Sierra, and Southern California, and created a seat on the Board for each region. The intention was for these representatives to have an ongoing two-way dialog with the local councils in their regions and thus allow local councils and the Board to be in comm... | California Fire Safe Council |
c_8o3fsuoj6xyd | The following people were elected as the initial Board Members: Bruce Turbeville, Chairman; Ken Blonski, Vice Chairman; Leo McElroy, Secretary; and David Horne, Treasurer. A nominating committee, a legislative review committee, a public education committee and a development committee were established. The first meeting... | California Fire Safe Council |
c_unrxcqdzqdqm | In mid-2005, SGI hired Alix Partners to advise it on returning to profitability and received a new line of credit. SGI announced it was postponing its scheduled annual December stockholders meeting until March 2006. It proposed a reverse stock split to deal with the de-listing from the New York Stock Exchange. In Janua... | Silicon Graphics workstation |
c_kve8wvizgj5d | Mr. McKenna succeeded Robert Bishop, who remained vice chairman of the board of directors. On May 8, 2006, SGI announced that it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection for itself and U.S. subsidiaries as part of a plan to reduce debt by $250 million. | Silicon Graphics workstation |
c_ni9xzpdo6ojv | Two days later, the U.S. Bankruptcy Court approved its first day motions and its use of a $70 million financing facility provided by a group of its bondholders. | Silicon Graphics workstation |
c_nq6lcnbm33cm | Foreign subsidiaries were unaffected. On September 6, 2006, SGI announced the end of development for the MIPS/IRIX line and the IRIX operating system. Production would end on December 29 and the last orders would be fulfilled by March 2007. | Silicon Graphics workstation |
c_5ewp8oqj091j | Support for these products would end after December 2013. SGI emerged from bankruptcy protection on October 17, 2006. Its stock symbol at that point, SGID.pk, was canceled, and new stock was issued on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol SGIC. | Silicon Graphics workstation |
c_hp5ksmonqxac | This new stock was distributed to the company's creditors, and the SGID common stockholders were left with worthless shares. At the end of that year, the company moved its headquarters from Mountain View to Sunnyvale. Its earlier North Shoreline headquarters is now occupied by the Computer History Museum; the newer Amp... | Silicon Graphics workstation |
c_fryf8juzn9z4 | In mid-2005, allegations of deliberate desecration of the Quran in front of Muslim prisoners at the United States military Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba fueled widespread controversy and led to ensuing Muslim riots. A U.S. military investigation confirmed four instances of Quran desecration by US personnel (two... | Quran desecration |
c_3ylcs8ce0n8q | According to CBC News, "The statement did not provide any explanation about why the detainees might have abused their own Holy books." In May 2005, a report in Newsweek, claiming that it was U.S. interrogators who desecrated the Quran at the Guantanamo Bay base, further sparking Muslim unrest. | Quran desecration |
c_xo0n2690awyj | In mid-2005, the existing contract for the operation of .net expired and five companies, including Verisign, bid for management of it. Verisign enlisted numerous IT and telecom heavyweights including Microsoft, IBM, Sun Microsystems, MCI, and others, to assert that Verisign had a perfect record operating .net. They pro... | Verisign |
c_fx4970hvfzy3 | Verisign was also aided by the fact that several of the other bidders were based outside the United States, which raised concerns in national security circles. On June 8, 2005, ICANN announced that Verisign had been approved to operate .net until 2011. More information on the .net bidding process is available at ICANN.... | Verisign |
c_4to5s1b042ew | In mid-2005, the filmmakers worked with HCI Books to expand on the film's themes in a book titled What the Bleep Do We Know! ?—Discovering the Endless Possibilities of Your Everyday Reality. HCI president Peter Vegso stated that in regard to this book, "What the Bleep is the quantum leap in the New Age world," and "by ... | What the Bleep Do We Know!? |
c_ulf0hl7i0ym2 | "On August 1, 2006 What the Bleep! Down the Rabbit Hole - Quantum Edition multi-disc DVD set was released, containing two extended versions of What the Bleep Do We Know! ?, with over 15 hours of material on three double-sided DVDs. | What the Bleep Do We Know!? |
c_gpu4a5og6uf7 | In mid-2006 Pantone, partnering with Vermont-based Fine Paints of Europe, introduced a new line of interior and exterior paints. The color palette uses Pantone's color research and trending and has more than 3,000 colors. In November 2015, Pantone partnered with Redland London to create a collection of bags inspired fr... | Pantone Color Computer Graphics |
c_3nf8fs44dzlx | In addition to custom CMYK inks, Hexachrome added orange and green inks to expand the color gamut, for better color reproduction. It was therefore also known as a CMYKOG process. Hexachrome was discontinued by Pantone in 2008 when Adobe Systems stopped supporting their HexWare plugin software. | Pantone Color Computer Graphics |
c_4p0559n84adn | In 2015 7-color printing system was developed, adding Violet in CMYKOGV, that can cover 90% of 1114 spot colors, while CMYK only about 60%. 1729 new colors were added, marked XGC (extended gamut coated), some colors do not have a number, like Process Blue XGC or Purple XGC. Base colors of OGV were new mono-pigment inks... | Pantone Color Computer Graphics |
c_7rvz9p9e2lha | Pantone Color Manager allows for users of the Adobe Creative Suite and Creative Cloud as well as other software to import the most up to date information inclusive of L*a*b* numbers as well as CMYK and sRGB representations of all the various palettes (including chromatic adaptation under default D50 or D65 with 2 degre... | Pantone Color Computer Graphics |
c_o5wu1569m5cn | In mid-2006, China and Japan were negotiating disposal of lewisite stockpile in northeastern China, left by the Japanese military during World War II. People had died over the preceding twenty years from accidental exposure to these stockpiles. | C2H2AsCl3 |
c_faelpaqt1s0w | In mid-2006, the public-private partnership fell apart, and the European Commission decided to nationalise the Galileo programme.In early 2007, the EU had yet to decide how to pay for the system and the project was said to be "in deep crisis" due to lack of more public funds. German Transport Minister Wolfgang Tiefense... | Galileo Positioning System |
c_lfcj83y0mh5a | In November 2007, it was agreed to reallocate funds from the EU's agriculture and administration budgets and to soften the tendering process in order to invite more EU companies.In April 2008, the EU transport ministers approved the Galileo Implementation Regulation. This allowed the €3.4 billion to be released from th... | Galileo Positioning System |
c_2fsy6llqasvt | It also announced that the first OS, PRS and SoL signal would be available in 2013, and the CS and SOL some time later. The €3.4 billion budget for the 2006–2013 period was considered insufficient. In 2010, the think-tank Open Europe estimated the total cost of Galileo from start to 20 years after completion at €22.2 b... | Galileo Positioning System |
c_6bp1m1i5n0l4 | Under the original estimates made in 2000, this cost would have been €7.7 billion, with €2.6 billion borne by taxpayers and the rest by private investors.In November 2009, a ground station for Galileo was inaugurated near Kourou (French Guiana). The launch of the first four in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites was plan... | Galileo Positioning System |
c_b7xxv3cb2d7k | Paul Verhoef, the satellite navigation program manager at the European Commission, indicated that this limited funding would have serious consequences commenting at one point "To give you an idea, that would mean that for three weeks in the year you will not have satellite navigation" in reference to the proposed 18-ve... | Galileo Positioning System |
c_31gr0ads7eob | An additional €1.9 billion was planned to be spent bringing the system up to the full complement of 30 satellites (27 operational + 3 active spares).In December 2010, EU ministers in Brussels voted Prague, in the Czech Republic, as the headquarters of the Galileo project.In January 2011, infrastructure costs up to 2020... | Galileo Positioning System |
c_x2t706q4ixtl | The first two Galileo In-Orbit Validation satellites were launched by Soyuz ST-B flown from Centre Spatial Guyanais on 21 October 2011, and the remaining two on 12 October 2012. As of 2017, the satellites are fully useful for precise positioning and geodesy with a limited usability in navigation.Twenty-two further sate... | Galileo Positioning System |
c_xd8p0yn4ef07 | In mid-2007, Hatena was made available in the English language. The services available on the English hatena.com site are: Hatena Haiku (a micro-blog service similar to Twitter or Jaiku. English service ended in January 2015. Japanese service also ended in March 2019). | Hatena (company) |
c_nedncik2bwy6 | There was also a site named "Hatena Haiku 2" with a layout likely designed for use with mobile devices. However, this site would never leave beta and was eventually discontinued at an unknown time. | Hatena (company) |
c_tdyrzfe0eb0r | Hatena World (a 3D interactive world similar to Second Life. Ended on June 18, 2010). Hatena Star (a blog post rating service, as well as a service for seeing the stars you've received on other services). | Hatena (company) |
c_orl90r65i404 | Hatena Message (a messaging service). Flipnote Hatena (a flipbook hosting service, similar to YouTube and DeviantArt, for Flipnote Studio users. Ended on May 31, 2013). | Hatena (company) |
c_mw6ywuts7bpp | Hatena Monolith (a service that lets users scan barcodes and post them to their collections or Twitter. Ended on July 1, 2014). Miiverse (with Nintendo Network Business & Development. | Hatena (company) |
c_d2qi2qn6iwe9 | Ended on November 7, 2017). SplatNet 2 (a Splatoon 2 companion service for the Nintendo Switch Online app). Functions for the Super Smash Bros. Ultimate videogame. SplatNet 3 (successor to SplatNet 2 for Splatoon 3). | Hatena (company) |
c_kwr35wgxjgzl | In mid-2007, SnapStream developed an enterprise product using its own namesake, for the purposes of searching, recording and monitoring television. SnapStream, the TV search engine, enables users to interface with television as a clippable, editable and linkable medium from their Mac or PC. SnapStream was a broadcast i... | SnapStream |
c_fh7rgv6hw45i | In mid-2008, SDSS-III was started. It comprised four separate surveys: | Sloan Digital Sky Survey |
c_w2tfaitd7ybu | In mid-2009 Nestlé added the Circolo series to the line. This machine, as the name suggests, sports a rounded design, with the same technical specifications of the Melody2 devices, but with a LED light in the water tank. In September 2010, the previous two series were supplemented by three more. Besides the Creativa me... | Dolce Gusto |
c_qhxp33a7409q | Other than that, it is technically identical to the Melody2 machines. Similarly, the Fontana (KP30xx) has the same underpinnings, but with a design reminiscent of a water tap (Italian Fontana). The devices work, depending on the series, with 14 or 15 bars (200 or 220 psi) pressure. | Dolce Gusto |
c_terh70l02ig0 | In mid-2009, Warner offered to replace any HD DVD Warner home video release with a Blu-ray Disc equivalent for $4.95, plus $6.95 shipping to the contiguous United States or $8.95 to Alaska, Hawaii or Puerto Rico. The deal required the HD DVD's original sleeve art to be returned to Warner as proof of purchase. The turna... | HD DVD-RAM |
c_evqft00eegml | In mid-2010, Mayer and another Stanford researcher Arvind Narayanan argued for Do Not Track in HTTP headers. They built Do Not Track prototypes for clients and servers. Working with Mozilla, they wrote the influential Internet Engineering Task Force Internet Draft of Do Not Track.Ultimately the World Wide Web Consortiu... | Jonathan Mayer |
c_qz1ney1y7i7n | Randall Rothenberg, CEO of the Interactive Advertising Bureau, called him a "Bolshevik of the Internet world" and "anathema to anybody who's trying to earn any kind of living using the digital supply chain." At one point, the Senior Director of IAB tried to get Mayer kicked out of his studies at Stanford .On July 30, 2... | Jonathan Mayer |
c_29z3bufs68bb | In mid-2010, following disagreements between KWord maintainer Thomas Zander and the other core developers, the KOffice community split into two separate communities, KOffice and Calligra. Following arbitration with the community members several applications were renamed by both communities. KOffice forked the KSpread s... | KOffice |
c_oiz0pmzt7weo | The Krita painting application, the Kexi database manager, and dedicated mobile platform GUI files were not migrated into the KOffice git repository.KOffice 2.3, released 31 December 2010, along with subsequent bugfix releases (2.3.1–2.3.3) was still a collaborative effort of both the KOffice and Calligra development t... | KOffice |
c_3guelwyaq8n6 | In mid-2010s literature, main development goals for future diesel engines are described as improvements of exhaust emissions, reduction of fuel consumption, and increase of lifespan (2014). It is said that the diesel engine, especially the diesel engine for commercial vehicles, will remain the most important vehicle po... | Diesel vehicle |
c_zs1yh3qboqoq | In mid-2011, Foxconn, a major licensee for Fuhu software, asked Fujioka for ideas to unload a surplus of Foxconn's low-end tablets. Fujioka and Fuhu CEO Jim Mitchell experimented with loading the Fooz Kids platform on the tablets, but the setup proved too unstable to be marketable. Enamored of the concept, however, Fuj... | Fooz Kids |
c_tt4jd7dfe8y5 | They called the device "Nabi", the Korean word for "butterfly".In anticipation of the upcoming holiday shopping season, Fuhu struck a deal with Toys "R" Us to be the exclusive distributor of the Nabi. The toy retailer placed an order for 10,000 units of the Nabi, which were delivered a week before Christmas and sold ou... | Fooz Kids |
c_qs3gxzts3w0w | Taking out a $10 million loan to continue operations, the company began designing the Nabi 2 for a launch ahead of the 2012 holiday season. Distributing through Walmart, Best Buy, and Target, Fuhu sold 750,000 units of the Nabi 2. The success of the Nabi 2 brought the company's sales to $117.9 million in 2012.In Septem... | Fooz Kids |
c_kg9kgxblup5j | In mid-2012, the U.S. Senate recommended zeroing out funding for the SDB II due to fielding delays with the F-35 Lightning II. With the delay in SDB II fielding, Boeing recommended an upgrade to their SDB as a temporary gap-filler to get desired performance at a fraction of the cost. Called the Laser Small Diameter Bom... | Small Diameter Bomb |
c_ojubrfbod4hi | Boeing began testing the LSDB in 2011 and successfully hit targets traveling 30–50 mph (48–80 km/h).In June 2013, Boeing was awarded a contract to develop and test the LSDB. The contract is for phase one part two engineering, integration and test, and production support and an LSDB Weapon Simulator. Boeing says the LSD... | Small Diameter Bomb |
c_24fx2kcxn2k5 | However, Boeing admits that it does not have the capability to engage targets in zero-visibility weather, as it lacks the SDB II's millimeter wave radar. The Laser SDB began fielding with the U.S. Special Operations Command in 2014. | Small Diameter Bomb |
c_0290rej34qba | In mid-2013 Apple introduced iBeacons and experts wrote about how it is designed to help the retail industry by simplifying payments and enabling on-site offers. On December 6, 2013, Apple activated iBeacons across its 254 US retail stores. McDonald's has used the devices to give special offers to consumers in its fast... | IBeacon |
c_c9gufcubqkev | Some hardware iBeacons advertise at frequencies as low as 1 Hz while others can be as high as 10 Hz. iBeacon technology is still in its infancy. One well-reported software quirk exists on 4.2 and 4.3 Android systems whereby the system's bluetooth stack crashes when presented with many iBeacons. This was reportedly fixe... | IBeacon |
c_heoi3sdhttfa | In mid-2013 Microsoft purchased a product called InRelease from InCycle Software. InRelease was fully incorporated into Team Foundation Server 2013. This capability complemented the automated build and testing processes by allowing a true continuous deployment solution. The tools were re-branded "Release Management" fo... | Visual Studio Team System |
c_wjihl8m868kf | The Release Management capabilities give teams the ability to perform a controlled, workflow (provided by Windows Workflow Foundation) driven release to development, test and production environments and provides dashboards for monitoring the progress of one or more releases. Microsoft has rebuilt Release Management for... | Visual Studio Team System |
c_gzr6ko11kfe1 | In mid-2013, Apple introduced iBeacons and experts wrote about how it is designed to help the retail industry by simplifying payments and enabling on-site offers. On December 6, 2013, Apple activated iBeacons across its 254 US retail stores. McDonald's has used the devices to give special offers to consumers in its fas... | Bluetooth Low Energy beacon |
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