Female specialists of Rosatom enterprises and organizations and the nuclear power sectors of the former Soviet republics as well as students of specialized educational institutions aged 18–35 are invited to take part to the 3rd Miss-Atom beauty contest organized by Rosenergoatom.

 

The contest will be held Jan 30-Mar 7 on www.nuclear.ru.and the awarding ceremony will take place in Moscow.

More infos 

I wonder is Itsu customers & staff members as well as some British Airways air crew can also participate ?  

Source: Fuzz 

Tags: 2007, air, art, award, blog, customer, Fun, ia, im, ITU, lan, list, moscow, nomadcom.net, nuclear, organize, polonium, power, public, sco, soviet, uk, wp, www

Will Sanyo revolutionize the way we use batteries on electronic devices ? Today, by chance I found a place selling Eneloop batteries and bought few packs. 

Eneloop are Ni-MH rechargeable batteries… nothing very new till here.

The difference ? They are sold fully charged so you can buy and use them immediately.

Then once the power is gone, instead of throwing them away returning them to your preferred shop for recycling, you can simply recharge them as any Ni-MH or Cad-Ni rechargeable batteries.

En Resumé : eneloop is a combination of a rechargeable and a disposable battery.

• Ready for immediate use
• Low self-discharge
• environment friendly
• universal applications (actually available in AA & AAA size)
• higher performances (up to 4 times more powerful than Alkaline batteries)
• Recyclable package

Technical specs :

AA   : 2000 mAh (min. 1900 mAh)
AAA : 800 mAh (min. 750 mAh) 
Charging cycles : 1000
Price : 500 THB (14.25 USD for 4)
Storage Energy loss : after 6 month 10%, after a year 15%
Charging time : depending on the charger. Sanyo says 250 mins for 2 AA batteries

 

So now it's testing time, but I already like the idea of having batteries that offer advantages of both disposable and rechargeable ones.

Source : Sanyo 

Tags: 2007, ATT, batteries, blog, ces, charger, CTU, ecological, eneloop, energy, fon, Gadgets, Great Ideas, ia, im, lan, nomadcom.net, power, rechargeable, recyclable, sanyo, space, storage, wp, www

Voici en chanson de quoi donner un peu plus d'hurticaire à un certain politicien de l'Hexagone (dont l'esprit est, lui, carré) qui a un peu de mal avec le principe et le respect de la souvraineté des états.

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser.

 

Source : RSR La Soupe
Dessin : Mix&Remix paru dans l'Hebdo

 

Tags: 2007, air, blog, Coup de Gueule, evasion, fiscal, Fun, hallyday, im, johnny, lan, money, nomadcom.net, Our World, space, suisse, switzerland, tax, wp, www

On 26th of December 2006 a 7.2 strong earthquake in Southern Taiwan damaged several telecommunication submarine cables linking China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, among others, to overseas telecommunication networks, including Internet backbone. 

More than a month later, repair work is not done yet due to bad weather conditions & poor equipment. Customers, Telecom companies & media start to express their discontent."It will be a long time before Internet access is fully recovered between Asian and the US as workers are using "technologies of the 19th century to solve problems of the 21st century," Sina.com said today

According Shanghai Daily, quoting Global Marine General Manager, none of the optical fiber in 4000m deep damaged cables have been fully repaired yet. Today's report says that work should be completed by January 30th (some other sources say end of February). Currently up to 70% of traffic from mainland China has been re-routed using alternative pathways such as satellite links, which are slow, expensive and unstable compared with cable-based connections.

This remind us the loss of satellite Intelsat IS-804 in January 2005 which left 10 countries of the Pacific rim without any communication links for days, as no backup was available) and forced 8 others to switch to their backup systems. 

Such events clearly show us what happens when main overseas communications links go down and how weak, when exists, are fallback systems.

Just imagine if such disruptions were man-made in order to turn the world back to the "telegraph age"….

More about : Reuters, Shanghai Daily, Heise Online.

Tags: 2007, access, air, art, asia, blog, cable, ces, communication, connection, connections, customer, disruption, earthquake, event, february, geography, global, HP, ia, im, internet, internet access, Internet World, King, lan, map, network, nomadcom.net, online, pair, press, problems, satellite, sco, space, story, submarine, taiwan, telecom, Telecommunications, traffic, world, wp, www, XP

Bad luck for Apple, but few days after the highly publicized announcement of Apple Inc. iPhone, Cisco sues Apple Inc. for trademark infringement on using "iphone" name which are Linksys family product, available on market since 2006.

 

 

Source : engadget

 

Now what will happen with LG and their KE850 Prada phone, awarded with the "International Forum Design Product Design Award for 2007". The external look is rather similar, but it's difficult to find detailled technical specifications on the Internet.

Obviously I don't have any idea if some agreements took place between LG Electronics & Apple but the LG model really seems to be the 1st cellphone using tactile display without use of any stylus. So the similarity of the design plus the input mode made the Apple iPhone & LG KE850 very similar.

Without agreements for sure Apple Inc. will certainly be sued by LGE.

Now, the question is: do they (Apple) do it (getting sued) on purpose in order to get a maximum visibility ?

A trial, ending with a "gentlemen agreement" may not be necessarily more expensive than any advertising campaign but presence on medias (blog, news, webzine, magazine, etc.) will be lots more efficient.

Any guess ?  

Source : Mobile Portal, Engadget

 

 

 

Tags: 2007, 24, advertising, agreement, apple, award, blog, cellphone, ces, design, find, fring, HP, ia, im, International, internet, iphone, lan, LED, LG, mobile, Mobile Communications, nomadcom.net, phone, presence, public, release, satellite, sco, space, telecom, Telecommunications, touch, web, wp, www, XP

Today, following Steve Jobs presentation during Mac World 2007, all technical blogs were speaking about the long expected Apple iPhone.

Will this iPhone be so different than all others ?

Will Apple have a similar success like with iPods ?

Will it be THE new must to have gimick ?

A Quick Overview 

• 3.5 inches, 480×320 display
• Input method : multi-touch
• OS : Mac OS X "slim version"
• Storage 4 or 8 GB
• WAN : Quad-Band GSM/GPRS/EDGE
• Wifi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.0
• Built-in camera 2.0 mega pixel
• Size : 115 x 61 x 11.6mm / Weight 135 grs
• Battery :Up to 5 hours Talk / Video / Browsing – Up to 16 hours Audio playback

Pros:

• All-in-One Ipod-Camera-Phone
• Wide 3.5'' screen
• Using fingers on screen instead of stylus is rather a good idea
• Great design… as usual
• Safari browser + widgets
• Rich text email client
• Predictive input keyboard
• Hard Disk 4 or 8 GB
• Automatic display configuration change (portrait to landscape)
• Video Player
  

Cons

• Not a smartphone, impossible to add software
• No memory extension slot 
• Impossible to remove the battery (with so few autonomy is pity)
• Not UMTS nor HSPDA
• Price (499 or 599 USD for 2 year contract with the mobile network operator – USA)
• No wireless (wifi nor GPRS/EDGE) iTunes Store downloads 
• No WiFi syncing to your host machine.
• No tactile feedback when strocking keyboard 
• No MS Office, MS Exchange,  Lotus Domino support
• Only available in 2007 Q3 in USA &  2008 in Europe & Asia.

Some links that speaks about the iPhone:

• Ubergizmo
• Le Blog Gadget
• Engadget + Keynote
• Presse-Citron
• Daily Tech

Some report from guys who could briefly play with it:

• Brian Lam Gizmodo
• David Pogue New York Times

Mac World 2007 Keynote and full technical specs

Latest News
CBS News iPhone demo via Presse-Citron 

Now let's wait until the moment we will be able to play with a real one… and see if Steve Jobs was right or not when he said "Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone".

 

Tags: 2007, 2008, 802.11, apple, arc, art, asia, ATT, blog, camera, ces, configuration, design, europe, event, fon, Gadgets, gsm, hard disk, HP, ia, ict, im, iphone, ipod, ITU, keyboard, King, lan, LED, live, memory, mobile, Mobile Communications, network, new york times, nomadcom.net, nyt, pda, phone, press, screen, smartphone, space, storage, technology, telecom, Telecommunications, touch, USA, video, wifi, wireless, world, wp, www, XP

That's it, holidays are over and everyone is back to work… today oh surprise, lots of sites announce the soon release of lots of new ultra-mobile computers. 

Interesting enough is the wide selection of operating system proposed (Vista, Windows Mobile, Linux). I wonder which solution will emerge and if the most chosen one will be the most convenient one for frequent travelers.

What are your prognostics ? 

 

Sony Vaio UX

• CPU 1.3 GHz Intel Solo Core U1500
• 4.5 inch 1024×600 display
• 1 GB Ram
• 32 GB solid state disk
• Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, Firewire, CompactFlash & Memory Stick Duo slots
• Integrated 802.11 b/g
• WAN specifications unknown
• OS : Windows Vista
• Price :  3860 USD !

Source : jkOntheRun

OQO Model 02

• 1.5GHz VIA C7M ULV processor (also available with 1.2GHz)
• 60GB hard drive, shock-mounted with active drop detection (also available with 30GB)
• 1GB DDR2 SDRAM (also available with 512MB)
• Dimensions: 5.6" x 3.3" x 1.0"
• Weight: 1.0 lb
• 5 inch, 800 X 480 displayscrolling
• Embedded EV-DO WWAN (optional) for Sprint
• Integrated WiFi 802.11a/b/g
• Bluetooth® 2.0, USB 2.0
• OS : Windows Vista
• Price : from 1500 USD

Source : OQO

HTC X-7500 Athena

• CPU: Intel XScale, 624 МHz
• 5 inches, 640×480 TFT display
• 128 MB RAM 256 MB ROM
• Hard Disk: 8 GB
• Bluetooth 2.0, MiniSD slot,GPS-receiver
• Integrated cameras: main 2 Mp or 3 Mp
• WAN : GSM/GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA
• Dimensions: 133,1x97x20 mm (plus 4 mm keyboard)
• Weight: 350 g.
• O/S Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition
• Price : about 1700 USD

Source : HTC.ru 

 and there are more to follow such Nokia N800, which is apparently only equipped with 802.11 b/g 

Tags: 2007, 24, 802.11, blog, camera, ces, computer, computers, flash, Gadgets, gsm, hard disk, HP, htc, ia, im, keyboard, lan, memory, mobile, Mobile Communications, model 02, n800, nokia, nomadcom.net, oqo, phone, release, sony, space, Travel, traveler, ultra-mobile, usb, ux1xn, VGN UX1XN, vista, wifi, windows, windows vista, wp, www

Today took place a Flickr Meeting in Thailand. 10 Flickr members in Bangkok today participate to a short visit, organized by Andre, to Koh Krep were numerous photos have been taken.

Check all pics taken today on Thai Flick Meet pool or visit Flickr group page.

 

 

 

Tags: 2007, art, Bangkok, blog, community, Flickr, Flickr Meeting, im, Koh Krep, lan, New pictures, nomadcom.net, organize, photo, space, Thailand, wp, www

Interesting informations complied by "404 Brain Not Found" regarding the most radioactive story of 2006.

The polonium-210 discovered by Marie Curie in 1898 came back to newpapers frontpage  and to the cocktail list of one of London's famous hotel leading to the death of a former soviet spy who died after having ingested a very small quantity of it.

On "Los Angeles Time" article we discover that : 

• polonium-210 is deadly and undetectable until it's too late.
• a grain of salt quantity is enough to kill someone
• a gram of it may kill up to 50 million people and sicken another 50 million.
• it's a least a million time more toxic than Zyklon B
• 100 grams are produced every year, mainly by Russia

Such tragic event definitively send James Bond and his friends back to school's benches… and bad luck for us, this time it is not a fiction.  

Vodka Polonium, stirred not shaken

Source : 404 Brain Not Found

Tags: 2007, art, blog, event, fiction, HP, ia, ict, im, james bond, lan, list, london, moscow, nomadcom.net, nuclear, Our World, poison, polonium, sco, soviet, space, spy, story, uk, web, wp, www

As I'm not a big fan of Christmas & New Year parties, I took few days off, un-plugged everything and flew "ahead in time"..to year Poush 2063 of the Nepali calendar. 

These 10 "disconnected" days were spent in the Kathmandu Valley visiting ancient cities, buddhist & hindu temples while enjoying the surrounding of Himalayan summits. All pictures are available as usual in the Gallery

Happy New Year !

Tags: 2007, art, blog, christmas, cities, CTU, himalaya, HP, ict, im, kathmandu, lan, MIT, Nepal, New pictures, new year, nomadcom.net, Photography, picture, sco, space, Travel, wp