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Jensen is a company known for its budget electronics. You ve probably noticed they ve put their foot forward into the GPS market with several low cost navsystems. This article will specifically probe the NVX225 GPS and examine its design features along with its performance capabilities. Read on to find out more….
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In this conclusion to a four-part series on how Active Directory handles computers you will learn how to modify the attributes of a computer object change the default container for computers and more. This article is excerpted from chapter eight of the em Active Directory Cookbook Second Edition […]

In this conclusion to a six-part series on Apache configuration and installation you will learn how to use chroot to put Apache in jail how to prepare PHP to work in jail and more. This article is excerpted from chapter two of em Apache Security em written by […]

Origin of morphotropic phase boundaries in ferroelectrics

Nature 451, 545 (2008). doi:10.1038/nature06459

Authors: Muhtar Ahart, Maddury Somayazulu, R. E. Cohen, P. Ganesh, Przemyslaw Dera, Ho-kwang Mao, Russell J. Hemley, Yang Ren, Peter Liermann
& Zhigang Wu
A piezoelectric material is one that generates a voltage in response to a mechanical strain (and vice versa). The most useful piezoelectric materials […]

DNA-guided crystallization of colloidal nanoparticles

Nature 451, 549 (2008). doi:10.1038/nature06560

Authors: Dmytro Nykypanchuk, Mathew M. Maye, Daniel van der Lelie
& Oleg Gang
Many nanometre-sized building blocks will readily assemble into macroscopic structures. If the process is accompanied by effective control over the interactions between the blocks and all entropic effects, then the resultant structures will be ordered with […]

99% of US households in have at least one television in their home, and 47% of them have 3 or more television sets, according to CTAM. 23% currently own an HDTV and 22% of these HDTV households have 2 or more HDTV sets.

20% or more of US corporate employees said they were accessing services like YouTube, downloading and uploading video and music or even playing online games and using P2P programs like BitTorrent while at work, according to IDC.
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The Asus Eee ultraportable has achieved unexpected success and is shipping in the millions of units. Several school districts have adopted this small, low-power laptop to facilitate 1:1 initiatives, despite a higher cost than initially expected and a “something other than Windows” operating system. Their portability, durability, and price all make them attractive for schools; […]

IBM just launched a product, IBM InfoSphere Master Data Management (MDM) Server, which will purportedly interface with service oriented architecture. According to IBM, InfoSphere “offers deployment options that give customers the flexibility to use it for both entry-level MDM projects and high-volume SOA MDM systems with one platform.” Can SOA help make sense of the […]

DNA-programmable nanoparticle crystallization

Nature 451, 553 (2008). doi:10.1038/nature06508

Authors: Sung Yong Park, Abigail K. R. Lytton-Jean, Byeongdu Lee, Steven Weigand, George C. Schatz
& Chad A. Mirkin
It was first shown more than ten years ago that DNA oligonucleotides can be attached to gold nanoparticles rationally to direct the formation of larger assemblies. Since then, oligonucleotide-functionalized nanoparticles have been […]