CloudMade Developers Launch Events

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Two developer events in San Francisco and London introduced you to CloudMade's unique services.

On this page you can find videos of all of the talks and demos featured in the events. Double-click to watch a video in fullscreen. Find out more about the applications that have been built using CloudMade’s APIs.

We hold regular developer events, talks and seminars throughout the US and Europe. Find more details about future developer events.



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ShopSavvy allows you to use your phone’s camera to scan barcodes to find the best prices for online and local items.

Mobile applications are becoming more and more powerful. More and more of us are using our smartphones to check our email, pay our bills and store private data. In more and more cases, our phones know more about us than our family and friends. Have you ever wondered who developed your favorite mobile application? What do they do with all the data they collect about you? What data do they access? Where are they from? Is their business incorporated? Do they have insurance? Are they bonded? Will they be in business tomorrow? Was this their first application? How secure is the application? Could it inadvertently expose my data to a third party?

Our goal at Big in Japan is to become a trusted source of mobile applications:

Big in Japan is a real company, run by real people from Dallas, TX.
Our team is comprised of award winning developers who live in Dallas, TX.
Big in Japan is incorporated in Delaware and insured by The Hartford.
Big in Japan is profitable and well funded.
Today our applications are used by millions of people around the world.
We connect and communicate with users through Facebook, Twitter and our blog.
Our privacy policy and terms are standard across all applications we publish.
Our commitment to consumers:

We commit to safeguard user data from unauthorized disclosure.
We commit to never reveal unique or identifying customer data to third parties.
We commit to certify all applications prior publishing them using our brand.
We commit that our applications will do no harm to you or your phone.
We commit that our backend platforms (servers and bandwidth) will be secure and reliable.

Background

Our developer programs have been designed by and for developers just like you. Our core team has been building applications for years and recently we built and distributed the award winning and popular ShopSavvy application for Android. As a result we negotiated distribution, promotion and sponsorship agreements with more than a dozen carriers, handset manufacturers and brands. Along the way we have built relationships with major agencies and brands including WPP, Omnicom and Visa. As a result of these relationships our partners began introducing us to developers who needed advice, technical assistance and business muscle to help them get their applications ready for prime time. The goal of our programs are to help developers reach more consumers and increase monetization of their applications.

Program

Our primary developer program is very simple. To start, we allow each developer to keep 100% of revenue generate through the sale of their application. While we can drive additional incremental application sales, we believe the real upside for developers is to leverage our relationships with carriers and advertisers to distribute and monetize their application. These additional revenues are split equally between the developer and Big in Japan.

Framework

Generating revenue from application requires that both consumers and advertisers trust the developer. Big in Japan’s systematic approach provides a framework that ensures this trust:

Clear and concise code of conduct and set of ethics.
Assurance of data security.
Prevention of illegal or improper collection or sale of user data.
Prevention of inadvertent exposure of user data.
Assurance of standard minimum level of application quality.
Consistent user experience.
Assurance of good technical design (e.g. battery preservation)
Dependability of backend platform (servers, bandwidth, load balancing)
Financial viability of developer (stable legal entity with which to do business)
Standardized terms and conditions as well as privacy policies.
Regular, but stable new release and update process and schedule.
Revenue Sources

The best-kept secret in the mobile application business is the fact that most revenue is completely unrelated to the sale of the actual application. Our team can help developers:

Identify advertisers and sponsors.
Negotiate of advertising revenue agreements.
Identify and negotiate alternative sources of revenue.
Identify of distribution partners (carriers and handset makers).
Negotiate of distribution agreements.
Development Assistance

It is rare that developers are experts in all aspects of business. Our team can help developers:

Trademark and copyright applications.
Patent application to protect the technology.
Provide access to scores of beta testers and additional resources.
Provide access to real world, on staff, developers with experience with Android, iPhone, RIM, Windows Mobile and other mobile platforms.

Developer Application
Interested in having Big in Japan publish your mobile application? Complete this short application and someone will contact you within 72 hours.

Solutions for Advertisers

Big in Japan publishes both internally developed applications for consumers as well as application from more than 50 independent developers from around the world. From productivity tools to games, our developers build great applications for Android, iPhone, RIM Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Palm Pre. Big in Japan has provided solutions for major brands including Visa, LEGO, TechData, The Federal Reserve, FX Network and MTV.

Mobile platforms like Android and iPhone empowers developers like no other mobile operating system, presenting consumers, brands and carriers with great applications, but also new risks. Our team has built some of the most popular Android applications and we continue innovate building credibility and trust with millions consumers and businesses. Our publishing model allows third-party developers to use our technical and business muscle to publish their mobile applications leveraging our trusted relationships with consumers, carriers and brands.

Whether you are looking to sponsor or advertise in an existing application or want a custom or private label application for your brand our team at Big in Japan can help. Regardless of your need, our goal at Big in Japan is to become a trusted source of mobile applications for advertisers and brands worldwide:

Big in Japan is a real company, run by real people from Dallas, TX.
Our team is comprised of award winning developers who live in Dallas, TX.
Big in Japan is incorporated in Delaware and insured by The Hartford.
Big in Japan is profitable and well funded.
Today our applications are used by millions of people around the world.
We connect and communicate with users through Facebook, Twitter and our blog.
Our privacy policy and terms are standard across all applications we publish.
Our commitment to advertisers:

We commit to safeguard user data from unauthorized disclosure.
We commit to never reveal unique or identifying customer data to third parties.
We commit to certify all applications prior publishing them using our brand.
We commit that our applications will do no harm to user’s phones.
We commit that our back-end platforms (servers and bandwidth) will be secure and reliable.

10 Study Skills for Non-Traditional Students

Quick Reference for When You Need Help Studying Right Now

By Deb Peterson,

Ten study skills for the adult returning to school. Make it easier to balance school, life, work by incorporating these 10 study skills.

1. Create a Study Space

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2. Ask Questions

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Asking and answering questions is one of the most effective ways of learning, whether you're studying alone or with a group, and nothing beats full participation in class for quick learning. Ask questions during class, without making a pest of yourself, of course, and answer your share of the questions posed by others.

3. Take it Step by Step

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When studying gets frustrating, take a break and be inspired by a toddler learning to walk. When you sit back down, break your task into baby steps. Step by step it's easier.

4. Take Notes on a Laptop

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Is it a good idea, or bad? There are pros and cons to taking your laptop into the classroom.

5. Listen Actively

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It's easy to take listening for granted, but many of us really don't have very good listening skills. Do you?

6. Know Your Options for Researching Papers

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Paper research is easier than ever. In addition to trusty old sources like books, the Internet has opened many new doors. Know your choices when you set out to research a paper.

7. Teach What You Learn

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Teaching what you've learned can be one of the very best ways of making sure you understand it. Teach your spouse, your child, and you'll find the chinks in your understanding. Teach your cat if he's the only one around.

8. Write Practice Tests

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Writing your own practice tests is one of the best ways to get higher grades. The extra time investment will pay off.

9. Avoid Stress

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Are you choosing stress? Did you know you have a choice? Dr. Al Siebert teaches people how to avoid stress, and the difference between stressing and straining. Avoid stressing and watch your grades improve.

10. Meditate

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Meditation is one of the great secrets in life. If you're not already someone who meditates, give yourself a gift and learn how. You'll relieve stress, study better, and wonder how you ever got along without it.

Have a tip to share? A problem to solve?

Bookshelf - The Global Achievement Gap by Tony Wagner

Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need

By Deb Peterson,
If you’ve ever questioned why students don’t seem prepared for life in the modern world, Tony Wagner has a compelling answer in his book, The Global Achievement Gap. More importantly, he has intriguing questions, and that’s his bottom line: right answers may have been okay in the old world, but knowing how to ask the right questions is the key to survival in the new, global world our students are entering. Socrates knew that eons ago. Why have we lost that critical skill, and what can we do about it?

I fully expected to scan this book for concepts that related to adult students, but I found myself hooked before I reached Chapter 1. As a former editor, I always read prefaces and introductions. Editors seem to be among the few who do. The thing is, these first writings explain the mindset of the author and clue you in to the entire point of the book. Wagner’s beginning is no exception. His book is about the loss of curiosity. Whether you’re a student, parent, teacher, administrator, or non-traditional student (likely, if you’re reading this), getting back in touch with curiosity is the key to your success.

For several decades now, Wagner has been visiting classrooms across the country unannounced to observe what’s really going on in them. He has also talked with business people wherever he encounters them, often randomly on airplanes. He asks them the same question, “What qualities do you most want in a potential new employee?” What he has learned may shock you.

Over and over, Wagner hears that the single most important skill is the ability to ask the right questions. Ellen Kumata told Wagner, “Our system of schooling promotes the idea that there are right answers, and that you get rewarded if you get the answer right. But to be comfortable with this new economy and environment, you have to understand that you live in a world where there isn’t one right answer, or if there is, it’s right only for a nanosecond.”

A hundred years ago, when there were few libraries and change was slow, Wagner explains, teaching children the three R’s, and memorization of facts, may have made sense, but in today’s ever-changing environment, where information is available instantly via the Internet and people work together globally, right answers don’t help. Multiple choice tests are teaching our students only how to choose an option, not how to solve open-ended problems. In the workplace, this is unacceptable.

Wagner outlines Seven Survival Skills for today’s students:

• Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
• Collaboration across Networks and Leading by Influence
• Agility and Adaptability
• Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
• Effective Oral and Written Communication
• Accessing and Analyzing Information
• Curiosity and Imagination

These skills are essential not only for the successful future of business, but are also imperative for citizenship. Imagine jurors with no ability to solve open-ended problems.

The Global Achievement Gap closes with real-life case studies, profiles of schools that have proven the effectiveness of combining the basics with teaching the seven survival skills. Wagner proposes new approaches to teacher certification and suggests the need for certification for administrators. He also emphasizes the need for new ways to motivate students, suggesting that the high dropout rate is a matter of “will, not skill,” that students are bored learning facts that are irrelevant to their lives or careers.

My only complaint about Wagner's book concerns the title. It makes sense after reading the book, but it didn't make me want to pick it up, and this is unfortunate because it's a book whose time has come. In fact, Wagner's questions are ones we should have started asking long ago.

Education is an issue that touches everyone. If you want to be on the leading edge of education in our new world, Tony Wagner’s The Global Achievement Gap is a good place to start. And then get busy asking questions.

About the Author

Tony Wagner is co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He consults to schools, districts, and foundations and served as Senior Advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. You can find him at www.schoolchange.org.

Goal - Reach Your Goal with a Learning Project Plan - LPP

Make setting and reaching goals easier than ever with a learning project plan.

From Ronald Gross,

This site regularly celebrates self-directed learners – adults who choose to plan, conduct, and appraise their learning themselves rather than relying on an institution.

Here’s a simple planning device – the Learning Project Plan (LPP) – that simplifies this process of defining your goals, marshaling your motivation, identifying the best resources, monitoring your progress, and appraising and documenting your learning.

Over the past decade, the LPP has been adopted by practitioners in fields as diverse as technical writing, electrical manufacturing, and hospital administration. (I’ll describe their experiences at the end of this article.)

Of course, I use it myself. If you asked me right now what I’ve been learning recently, I’d hand you my LPP. It tells what, why, where, when, and how effectively I’m learning this week.

Your LPP can be created electronically on your Personal Digital Assistant, or if you’re still a paper-and-pencil person, created on a regular sheet of copy paper folded into a 4 x 5-inch folded sheet which can be tucked into your day planner. Here’s what’s on the eight panels (front and back) of my current Learning Project Plan.

1. On the front is the Goal, with nine benefits to me and my organization listed underneath. I’m a great believer in multiple-benefit analysis. I always do my best to identify all the benefits and advantages of any learning project, rather than just the most obvious one. It strengthens motivation by drawing from different psychological sources: the utilitarian, the emotional, the imaginative, the altruistic, etc. ("What will this learning enable me to do?" "How will it feel to have mastered this subject or skill?" "What new opportunities will it open up?" "How can I share it with others?")

2. Opening this miniature booklet, the next panel covers three ways in which I’m making my learning more comfortable by using my personal learning style.This personalizes the scheme to my comfort zone.

3. Now, unfolding the paper to its full size to reveal the inside spread, there’s a mind-map of relevant opportunities, resources, people, and technology. I like to put these all down in one display, rather than divide them into separate lists, because they so often inter-relate.

   Moreover, the mind-map format invites continual additions as new possibilities present themselves. At the start of each day, for example, I open the mind map and think for a moment: “What’s coming up today that could contribute to this learning project?” Just about every time I do this, something comes to mind that I would not have thought of otherwise.

   Specifically, the LPP prompts me to tap the knowledge and experience of colleagues, to be on the qui vive for input from the media and the Internet, and to identify new sources of information and expertise.

4. Folding the sheet again to reveal the back panels, there’s an Action Plan with deadlines, and a Results panel to monitor my progress and document results.

   These results, like the goals, should be multiple. Take the time to relish what your learning has meant to you not just in terms of knowledge or mastery of skills, but in enjoyment, self-regard, opportunities, and the prospect of sharing what you are learning with others.

This miniature blueprint for learning took me about an hour to draft, then another hour or two, spread over a few days, to refine with additional ideas. Now it guides and stimulates my learning. All on one simple folded piece of paper! It’s a great way to learn – personal, powerful, and practical – and fun.

I’ve been advocating this system to associations of professionals in a variety of fields for several years. When I proposed it to the Association of Professional Directors of YMCAs in North America, for example, the members found it so attractive that the association adopted it as an alternative modality through which members could fulfill their obligation for Continuing Professional Education.

“Learning Plans are one of the most important tools our members have ever mastered,” said APD leader Jim Stooke.

Here are the advantages of this form of learning:

• It puts you in control of your learning.
• It taps energy and motivation often under-utilized in conventional instruction.
• It accommodates to your personal style, pace, schedule, and changing interests.
• It permits fine-tuning of goals, methods, and resources in the course of the learning.
• It strengthens your underlying capacity for self-directed learning in your life.

Your LPP will have a different tone and tenor, depending on your individual and organizational needs. For example, when I presented it to members of the Society for Technical Communication, whose workday is measured in nano-seconds, it was clear that some steroids were needed to kick up the pace a few notches.

So we focused on learning encounters – down-and-dirty projects to master technical skills and information on the run, including the “Hey, Joe School” (“Hey, Joe, how did you install that new interface software?”) and “Hallway Learning” in which vital information gets moved around an organization through casual encounters. (Dixon, N.M, The Hallways of Learning , Organizational Dynamics, 25(4), 23-24).

Again, when I instigated the approach with medical administrators at a conference on Quality Improvement in Hospitals, I found the conferees embroiled in the turmoil of health care in the U.S. Therefore, we formulated LPPs that strengthened the inner focus of these dedicated professionals to help them maintain their integrity amidst the roiling waters of controversy.

I hope you find the LPP, as I do, an engine, compass, and caliper for jump-starting, guiding, and appraising your learning.

Amazing Balance

From The 3G Industry Summit In Kunshan, China: 16 Demos From Chinese Mobile Startups

From The 3G Industry Summit In Kunshan, China: 16 Demos From Chinese Mobile Startups

From The 3G Industry Summit In Kunshan, China: 16 Demos From Chinese Mobile Startups

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by Serkan Toto on October 24, 2009

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3g_industry_summit_kunshan_logoEarlier this week, I was in Kunshan, China, to attend the 3G Industry Summit [CN], a four-day event that has attracted a few dozen speakers and an audience of over 200 people, making it one of the biggest of its kind in this country. The annual event is organized by the Kunshan government and Mobile 2.0 Forum, a communication platform with more than 1,500 members, almost single-handedly run by industry veteran Leo Wang.

mobile_2_0_forum_chinaThe summit reassured me of one thing: The Chinese market for mobile hardware, software and contents is big already and it’s bound to become huge in the very near future.

Just a few stats about China’s online landscape:

* world’s largest Internet population: 338 million Chinese are online (US: 220 million)
* most cell phone users in the world (710 million)
* China Mobile, the world’s biggest cell phone carrier, boasts nearly half a billion subscribers (the US as a whole has 271 million)
* China’s telecommunications industry generated $210 billion in revenues between January and July 2009 alone
* China’s mobile phone penetration rate currently stands at just 53.5% (USA: 88%), hinting at room for massive future growth

The smartphone market and 3G are still in their infancy though. Research firm BDA China says just 17.4 million smartphones were sold in China in 2008 (Nokia commands a 67% market share in this segment), with the total likely to hit 36 million units this year before growing to 56 million in 2010. The iPhone will be released in China next week. The number of China Mobile’s 3G subscribers (who use the company’s homegrown 3G standard) currently stands at just 1.33 million, but the country’s three biggest cell phone carriers (China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom) say they’re ready to invest $66 billion in China’s 3G networks over the next two years.

So the 3G Industry Summit in Kunshan probably couldn’t take place at a better time. The program also included a launch pad, which gave a total of 14 companies from China (two were from Japan) the chance to pitch their services onstage to over 200 top-level executives, VCs and entrepreneurs in the country’s mobile tech world.

Here’s a thumbnail sketch of all of these companies. The list is by no means representative of China’s mobile startup scene but should serve as a reasonably large and up-to-date cross section of the industry.

unoh_logoDemo 1:
UNOH
UNOH CEO Shintarou Yamada showed a mobile (and Japan-only) game his Tokyo-based 15-man team launched in May this year. Machitsuku is a geo-aware city-building simulation (the game’s title means “Build a city” in Japanese) with cute graphics, social elements, surprisingly deep gameplay and virtual items users have to pay for (the game itself is free). Yamada said the game will be provided to leading social networks like Mixi (background) and Mobage-town (background) soon, but I am hoping for an iPhone version.

urbian_logoDemo 2:
Urbian
Urbian develops mobile applications for enterprises, but the company also offers a slew of iPhone and Android apps for end consumers. At the summit, CEO Christopher Kahler, an Austrian based in Shanghai, demonstrated a nifty mobile learning application that will be soon launched in China, Japan, the Philippines and other territories (the China version alone will be used by 5,000 schools all over the country). The solution will be available for the iPhone, Android, Symbian and other platforms.

crossmo_logoDemo 3:
CrossMo
CrossMo intends to solve the fragmentation problem in the mobile space by offering an online data management and synchronization tool for cell phones that’s completely hardware agnostic. The service detects everything on your phone once you connect it to your PC via USB and backs up and synchronizes your ringtones, music files, address book etc. This works even after you replace your cell phone with another model.

CEO Lei Jia said 70% Chinese of consumers download contents from the web to their phone, not over the air. CrossMo looks like a very powerful tool and reminds me of DoubleTwist (concept-wise), so too bad it’s China-only.

mobimtech_logoDemo 4:
MobimTech
MobimTech CTO Yi Liang demonstrated imiChat, which seemed to be a very cool real-time video chatting solution. You can use it to video-chat from cell phone to cell phone but also from the fixed web to cell phones (voice- and text-chatting is also supported). imiChat is free and supports a number of cell phones. It uses GPRS/EDGE networks and doesn’t need to run on 3G (MobimTech actually sells this technology to 2.5G handset makers).

bokan_technologies_logoDemo 5:
BokanTech
BokanTech CEO Bo Wang presented iBokan, an iPhone app destination site that features an impressive number of hit apps. He highlighted mobile edutainment apps such as Cute Math (apparently the only app that was featured twice in the AppStore as “new and noteworthy”) and Jumbo Book (an interactive book series with 20 episodes so far). BokanTech also plans to soon release a service called Kukapp, which Wang described as “Google Analytics for iPhone and Ovi apps”.

navteq_logoDemo 6:
NavTeq China
Navteq China Director George Qie focused on how to create an ecosystem based on location-based services (LBS). His main point was that LBS can be used for many applications: navigation, social networking, games, productivity (workforce management, for example), commerce and security. Qie said this versatility is the reason why LBS can be used for the integration of applications of different nature and that the advent of 3G in China will fuel the growth of LBS developed in China.

soco_game_logoDemo 7:
SocoGame
SocoGame CEO Ye Shen said at $147 million in sales in 2008, the Chinese market for mobile games is still small but will likely balloon to almost $750 in sales by 2011, with growth expected to accelerate significantly after that year. One major difference to the West: Chinese gamers usually expect a mobile game to be free, but they’re ready to pay later for virtual items, for example, forcing developers to come up with compelling games with long-time appeal.

Shanghai-based SocoGame itself is a major player in China’s mobile gaming sector. The company produced more than 100 mobile games for a number of different markets so far, i.e. Monkey King (specifically designed for Asia) or Jewel Quest Deluxe (specifically designed for markets in North America and Europe).

leg3s_logoDemo 8:
LEG3s
LEG3s is an award-winning mobile job hunting service specifically targeted at China’s 200 million migrant workers. The service informs those people about open positions, salary levels, the current situation in the job market etc. in over 100 cities in China. LEG3s has so far attracted 3 million end users who have to pay reasonable fees and can access the service through low-end mobile phones (LEG3s is pre-installed on some of those). CEO Jason Liu expects the user base to grow to 5 million by year-end.

trustmobi_logoDemo 9:
TrustMobi
TrustMobi is a Beijing-based startup that operates in an often overlooked field: cell phone security. CEO Bing Song expects that the mobile web will grow significantly in the near future and that zombie computers might soon be joined by zombie cell phones. His company offers an integrated security solution that can handle file recovery, virus detection, firewalls for mobile emails, SMS and MMS protection, file encryption etc. for a number of different handsets. TrustMobi was responsible for mobile phone security during the Beijing Olympics last year.

apexone_logoDemo 10:
Apexone Microelectronics
I had trouble keeping up with this presentation due to the slides that were available only in Chinese and the deep technical details CEO James Gao presented on his company’s optical navigation solutions. Check out Apexone’s excellent English web site if you’re interested in this field.

playing_com_cn_logoDemo 11:
Playing.com.cn
This Tianjin-based company has so far developed over 50 smartphone games, which are being sold in more than 20 countries and regions. CEO Zhen Su demonstrated what he called a “convenience store for mobile apps”, consisting of an IM client, various games and a virtual pet simulation. The company provides an API for other game developers who can sell their content on Playing.com.cn’s web site.

mobile_trend_logoDemo 12:
MTrend Group
MTrend Group Founding Partner Mano Wang shared interesting information from a recent analysis on mobile web usage in China. Here are some findings from the mobile web user panel Wang quoted from:

* 22.6% of China Mobile users born after 1990 used the mobile web in 2009 for the first time (this is vastly different from Japan, for example, where users start much earlier).
* 63.9% of mobile gamers play between 10 and 30 minutes per day.
* 57.1% of China Mobile subscribers say they’ve already read a newspaper on a mobile device.
* 38.8% are starting to switch to non-pirated music on their cell phones. 13.2% listen to pirated music only, while 26.1% buy all the songs they store on their cell phones.
* The three hottest mobile apps among Chinese university students using China Mobile are Mobile Baidu ( China’s largest search engine), Mobile QQ (China’s No. 1 social network) and 12530 (China Mobile’s music Wap portal).

Note: MTrend is China Mobile’s main brand for data monitoring so these data points aren’t representative for all of China.

Demo 13:
Panda LLC
Tokyo-based Panda is currently preparing a 3D treasure hunting game with very cool graphics designed specifically for smartphones, i.e. the iPhone. The two demo videos Panda Director Issei Matsui showed during the presentation were pretty cool. I’ll add them here once I get my hands on them.

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Demo 14:
MotherAPP
Ex-Googler and CEO Ken Law said his Hong Kong-based company’s main mission is to solve the platform fragmentation problem in the mobile space for developers by offering three solutions: Generator lets you create native apps for the iPhone, Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry simply through using MotherApp Language (a restricted set of HTML with special markups), which sounds like a powerful solution to me. MotherBlog converts a blog or your Twitter into a native iPhone app – without any coding. The company also supports other companies in making a given mobile app compatible with all major platforms (showcases), claiming tailor-made end-to-end development takes about 9 weeks.

hozom_logoDemo 15:
Hozom
Why trying to set up yet another mobile social network when you (kind of) carried one in your pocket all along? That’s what Hozom CEO Ziyang Liu asked himself and tries to add social components to a form of network you already have in your cell phone, namely the contact list. The idea is to connect entries in your phone’s address book with services like Twitter, QQ, IM etc. in addition to integrating social gaming and geo-location elements using your friends’ contact data. Another selling point is Hozom’s slick design and elegant UI.

motech_logoDemo 16:
MoTech
MoTech offers a mobile travel assistant for the millions of foreigners visiting China every year. The app comes with a set of around 1,000 different phrases the average tourist needs to feel comfortable in China (transportation, emergency situations, shopping etc.). Choose the sentence and let your mobile phone speak it out loud in Mandarin Chinese (the app also lists points of interests and the names of restaurants). In his presentation, Motech CEO Austin Xie also touched upon the slew of other interesting products and solutions for Non-Chinese speaking people his company provides.

Tilts at Windmills » How to Navigate by the Sun

Tilts at Windmills » How to Navigate by the Sun

How to Navigate by the Sun

August 13th, 2008

For those of you interested in such things, “Yes” I will be finishing the relativity series. It’s just that the animation will take a little time, and I’ve had other priorities. Until then, however, enjoy this latest Explainer.

Now you can find out where you are even if you don’t have GPS. Learn how to find south along with your latitude and longitude using only a few household items. I should note, that in using the home-made quadrant cited, the precision of your findings will be rather low. Don’t worry, you’ll be within a few hundred miles. ;)


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The Tabletop Explainer
(Honda Pilot DIY Contest Entry)
How to Navigate by the Sun

Today if you want to know where you are, chances are you’ll use one of these, but we’re going to go ahead and focus on using the materials here and the sun to figure out due south, your latitude, and your longitude.

Our measurements of time are based on the apparent motion of the Sun, the stars, and the moon. Which means a lot of information is packed into your watch.

Take for instance the idea of noon. Before standardized time zones, noon was simply the time of day when the sun crossed an imaginary line connecting due north and due south, called a meridian.

Let’s look down on the earth from the north pole. Here in Somerville, noon occurs when the Sun is due south. In Beijing it’s the same thing.

Anyhow, at local noon in the northern hemisphere, the sun is due south, at midnight, it’s half a world away.

We could make a clock with an hour hand that went around once every 24 hours, but most hour hands go around twice a day. This means the hour hand moves half as fast as the sun appears to.

Meaning if you take your watch and point the hour hand at the sun, halfway between the hour hand and noon is due south. In the southern hemisphere it’s due north.

So the next time you need to find south, just take your watch hold it parallel to the ground, point your hour hand at the sun, and halfway between the hour hand and noon is due south. Now that’s if you’re in the northern hemisphere. Keep in mind, your watch doesn’t run local time. So if daylight savings time is in effect, you’ll have to subtract an hour, and thanks to standardized time zones, you’ll be off by a few minuets. Plus there’s the fact that the geometry of the situation means that things will be less precise around sunrise and sunset, but you get the idea.

Now how does something like this [points to sextant] help us find out where we are. Well this is a sextant, and it’s really just a super-protractor.

You look at one object, like the horizon, through the sighting scope and a half mirrored piece of glass lets you line up the reflected image of some other object like the sun, the sextant telling you the angle between the two. [fade to table of materials]

You can make a similar device called a quadrant from these materials here. It’s basically a protractor that we are going to affix a straw to as a sight and a string too, to help us find the vertical. You can print these plans out from the URL you’ll see here.

http://www.davidcolarusso.com/handouts/quadrant.pdf

A quadrant lets you measure the angle between the horizon and an object, in this case, the sun. So do not look through the sight. Instead, place an object behind the quadrant, and look for the shadow cast by the straw. When the shadow’s a circle, you’ve got the sun lined up.

Two numbers can describe every place on earth: latitude and longitude. These are measured in degrees from two imaginary lines, the prime meridian, and the equator.

All points at a certain longitude are the same amount of degrees east or west of the prime meridian, and all points at a certain latitude are the same number of degrees north or south of the equator.

We know from working with our watch that at noon here in Somerville, the sun is due south. That is, it falls on an imaginary line connecting north and south—a meridian. So let’s look at the noon-time sun.

Keep in mind, the sun is really far away. So anyone pointing at the sun will point in the same direction.

Knowing this, if the sun were directly above the equator, we could find our latitude by simply finding the angle between the sun and overhead.

That is, 90 degrees minus whatever our quadrant reads.

Unfortunately, the sun doesn’t stay directly over the equator. The earth has a tilt in its axis. So over the year the sun moves above or below the equator by roughly 23 degrees.

This is called declination, and we simply add or subtract it from our measurements.

Sailors used to produce books listing the sun’s declination for every minuet in the year, but today you can find this on the web

We know local noon is when the sun crosses the local meridian, and probably noticed that a meridian is also a line of longitude. So if you know when noon happened you already know you longitude.

All we have to do is convert our time to GMT, the local time at zero longitude. Every minuet the sun covers a quarter of a degree. So if your noon took place 5 hours and 4 minuets after noon GMT your longitude is 76 degrees west.

3 hours before GMT, 45 degrees east.

Of course, we had to find local noon first.

To do that, plot the mid-day measurements from your quadrant against your watch time. They’ll make a curve and the top of the curve is local noon.

I’m David Colarusso for the Tabletop Explainer.

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For those of you interested in such things, “Yes” I will be finishing the relativity series. It’s just that the animation will take a little time, and I’ve had other priorities. Until then, however, enjoy this latest Explainer.

Now you can find out where you are even if you don’t have GPS. Learn how to find south along with your latitude and longitude using only a few household items. I should note, that in using the home-made quadrant cited, the precision of your findings will be rather low. Don’t worry, you’ll be within a few hundred miles. ;)

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A digital certificate is a Digital ID that identifies you to others when you are sending or receiving encrypted or digitally signed ZIP files. A digital certificate provides an alternative to using a password when securing data. In order to encrypt files to send to someone else, you can either encrypt using a password, or you can use their public key. The recipient can only open the files you send if they are provided the password, or they have the digital certificate matching to the public key used for encryption. Using passwords is easy, but it is difficult to safely exchange a password, and even more difficult to remember it over time. Digital certificates provide stronger protection and eliminate difficulties associated with using a password. A digital certificate consists of a private key and a public key. Your private key is something which you hold securely and use to decrypt ZIP files or to digitally sign ZIP files for authentication purposes. Your public key is given to others that need to encrypt ZIP files that you are allowed to open.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2009 - A Prairie Home Companion

SEPTEMBER 26, 2009


This week on A Prairie Home Companion, it's our broadcast season opener, followed by the traditional street dance, and meatloaf supper. With special guests, The Sam Bush Band, Salsa Del Soul, and singer-songwriters Connie Evingson, Sarah Jarosz, and Andra Suchy. Also with us, the Royal Academy of Radio Actors; Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and Tom Keith, The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, and The News from Lake Wobegon.

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Listen to individual segments as listed below

Segment 1
00:00:00 - Logo
00:00:13 - Tishomingo Blues
00:04:21 - "I Will" - GK, Andra, band
00:05:29 - "You Asked Me To" - GK, Andra, Shoe Band
00:09:24 - The Lives of the Cowboys script
00:18:32 - "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" - Connie Evingson and band
00:20:30 - "Nobody's Dirty Business" - Pat Donohue and band
00:23:40 - GK talks with Sam Bush
00:24:26 - "Circles Around Me" - Sam Bush Band
00:27:55 - "Out on the Ocean" - Sam Bush Band
00:30:52 - Powdermilk Biscuit Break
Segment 2
00:34:34 - "Just Someone I Used to Know" - GK, Andra, band
00:37:50 - GK intros Sarah Jarosz
00:39:16 - "Song Up in Her Head" - Sarah Jarosz and Shoe Band
00:42:12 - GK talks about Sarah
00:43:42 - "Come on Up to the House" - Sarah Jarosz and Shoe Band
00:47:42 - Guy Noir script
00:59:00 - GK talks with Sam Bush
00:59:29 - "You Left Me Alone" - Sam Bush Band
01:03:00 - CC Rider- Pat Donohue, GK, Andra, Shoe band, Shai Hayo
01:09:00 - "Exactly Like You" - Guy's All-Star Shoe Band/Intermission
Segment 3
01:12:46 - Greetings
01:16:53 - GK talks with Connie Evingson
01:17:40 - "Autumn Leaves" - Connie Evingson
01:19:40 - The Rules script (with ‘Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain')
01:28:22 - GK talks more with Sarah
01:29:27 - "Edge of a Dream" - Sarah Jarosz
Segment 4
01:32:52 - The News From Lake Wobegon
Segment 5
01:45:13 - "Gettin' Back into It" - The Guy's All-Star Shoe Band
01:47:36 - GK announces street dance
01:48:27 - "Mingle" - GK and band
01:51:10 - GK intros Sam Bush Band one more time
01:51:30 - "Whisper My Name" - Sam Bush Band
01:54:25 - Credits, Salsa dancers

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A Conversation With Sergey Brin And Eric Schmidt

A Conversation With Sergey Brin And Eric Schmidt


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by Erick Schonfeld on October 7, 2009


Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt are holding an audience this morning with a roomful of journalists in New York City. They talk about the Google Books settlement, antitrust scrutiny, Android, Chrome, innovations in search and the “evil room.” Below are my live notes (I’ve bolded parts for emphasis).

Sergey Brin: We have had a number of interesting activities. A bunch of you saw the verizon announcement, android, software platform, more enhancements in terms of faster software, better software. A number of devices are coming out as a trickle, many more we expect. Google Books, a hearing today, but generally that is something I am very proud of, to make the world’s books accessible. Have written a little piece I hope comes out as an op-ed.

Eric Schmidt: It seems like Sergey has jumped the gun. We should focus mostly on search, and some of the ideas Sergey has. We are having our global sales meeting here, we brought senior sales executives. The mood was very, very positive. We told them that the worst is behind us and we are clearly seeing aspects of recovery, what is notable is we are seeing aspects of recovery not just in the US but in Europe. I thought it was going to be US first, Europe second, Asia we never saw a hit. We are increasing our hiring rate and investment rate in anticipation of a recovery.

Sergey: There are a bunch of things that have come out recently, you can now get more commercial results or less commercial results. There are other controls that are coming down the pike. I will highlight now, today you can restrict things by date, but that is based on dates mentioned in the text, cannot restrict based on the date the text was authored.

Steven Levy: You have more activity from your competitor in Redmond, rolled out a branded search engine. Historically when one competitor steps up it opens up innovation. Do you feel this increased competition will ramp up your innovation, or is it just business usual?

Sergey: I think it is healthy for the industry to have many competitors. You’ve seen search engines such as Cuil and Powerset that MSFt acquired. MSFT has made its contributions. We are working as hard as we can, but I do think having all of those competitors out there generally helps the health of that industry.

Q: Do you think Bing is something different or a rebranding?

Sergey: I don’t want to speak about our competitors

Schmidt: Better for you to judge. We like to focus on our customers. We have been criticized

Ed Baig; where do you stand with Android?

Sergey Brin: At the outset, we started to focus on Android because phones basically lacked powerful browsers and phones also lacked the ability to easily run applications. I think Android has really addressed that really well, but it has also pushed the rest of the market. I am pretty excited for the future of mobile phones because they are increasingly getting quite capable. You can write an application across five phones, we plan to push the state of the art with Android. I might be overstating it a bit, but having the software platform has freed the hardware makers from software platforms, now they are reinvigorating hardware design

Q: Enterprise market?

Sergey: definitely a market I am very excited about, born from an internal need, being able to handle many hundreds of thousands of emails. At the time that we started and launched in 04, Webmail offerings at the time [were limited] we wanted something that would work in an enterprise, and made it available to consumers, pushed things further [than our competitors].

We feel we are further ahead, for you to judge, in email capability and collaborative document editing. Sites All of those would be available to enterprises and consumers. And I think ultimately the cloud model is a better model.I think this install-less system of the cloud is better.

Stephanie Mehta: can you characterize future investments Google needs to make for medium to larger enterprise?

Ken Auletta: If the judge says why should I not be concerned about your concentration of power, what would you say to him?

Schmidt: It is an error to answer hypothetical questions from a journalist. The question you posed is not actually a question that will occur.. Book search, we thought we were doing something appropriate. We were sued by a bunch of publishers, and now it has come before a judge. We don’t want to change it unless we need to. The hearing is going on right now. My guess is in this hearing there will be a date for another hearing. Does putting the books in the hands of someone like Google who has other strategic resources a problem? It is possible for another company to do what we are doing. And the rights registry, which we would administer is something we would do for the orphan works. The scenario that is in front of us is probably the best outcome for someone who is looking for information that is not otherwise available.

Sergey: regardless of the settlement we want to make more books available online.

Q: You keep adding to Chrome and nobody seems to be paying attention. If that is one of the places where the battle is fought you seem pretty far behind.

Sergey: Perhaps that is true in media . . .

Schmidt: let me, some of your assumptions about Chrome adoption are wrong. The adoption rate of Chrome is [very strong]. We are going to do a better job of getting that message out.

Schonfeld: Steve Ballmer calls it a rounding error, is it?

Schmidt: I don’t respond to Steve Ballmer questions. Next question?

The fundamental aspect of Chrome is speed. People who go to Chrome have a hard time moving back. Two months ago we announced Chrome OS. Everything is linked together, Chrome, Chrome OS, the cloud

Sergey: There is also the security aspect. In a recent hacker competition, Chrome was the only one to escape unscathed in terms of security vulnerabilities. And more stable.

Tom Post, Forbes: Lately there seems to be a revisiting of settlements with core media where you seem to be taking a new approach. Leading question is not is Google too big and mean, rather is Google being nice? Do you have a new product out called Google Remorse?

Schmidt: In many ways we always wanted to be this Google, rather than the one we were perceived of last year. I am really proud about relationship with advertising agencies. In the media industry, the success of YouTube. We have always wanted to have these partnerships. We are learning how to do it in a way that they win too.

Sergey: People have always equated Google with the Internet, which is disrupting businesses.

Schmidt: Google is an innovator, the innovations in the internet are causing collisions. Innovation plus collisions equal opportunity. The fact that Verizon has adopted the open principles we articulated five years ago is shocking. This is Verizon. It happened over time.

AP: AP’s president said that big news sites might be willing to pay for news if they get it as an exclusive for 20 or 30 minutes. How does that sound to you?

Schmidt: We have a contract with the AP. I don’t want to talk about a proposed services where we pay more. We have to be very careful not to favor one publisher over another. We are not trying to get into the content business.

Q: What are the most attractive areas for acquisitions?

Schmidt: we turned off M&A down, we didn’t want an additional expense streams without [additional revenues] We’ve turned it back on again. One day Larry and Sergey bought what became Android, and I didn’t even know about this. They said this is really interesting. I didn’t think about that, but now think about the strategic opportunities that created.

Schonfeld: Would you make a YouTube-sized acquisition again?

The problem at buying at those levels. With a little one you can afford [to make mistakes]. Youtube and Doubleclick those will prove the best spending of money. They are harder. Any large acquisition we do will have a second review. We deal with a different world now than we did a few years ago. We bought that then MSFT has largely got out of that after their acquisition of aQuantive didn’t work out, so there.

Q: FCC?

Schmidt: I just met with the chairman, this broadband plan is what they are really focused on. We are incredibly sensitive to roll out of broadband, the number of searches we get, the revenue, without broadband there is no cloud computing.

Q: So what policy suggestions did you give him?

Schmidt: More broadband. I think we are on our way to getting a national broadband plan for America. It is one of the best things the government can be doing.

Q: Do you ever worry Google is growing too fast?

Schmidt: No.

Q: how do you manage the growth?

Schmidt [jokes}: As you can see, not very well. In technology markets, you either grow or die.

Sergey: hardware is getting incredibly capable. It used to be that most of your money in a computer went to the display. Your costs now are dominated by broadband connection. I think that is an interesting trend. Wide broadband availability, when you think about your phone, you are probably paying $40 to $50 a month for it. Your device cost is negligible compared to your access cost. I think certainly there are changes on the horizon.

Schmidt: we provide the infrastructure below what you are talking about. Think about a Kindle two to three years from now, what will it look like? Better screens, more features, and there will be many Kindles. The iPhone has proven that you can sell a phone with a subscription. The contract cost is greater than the cost of the phone. So what do you think, do those prices remain higher from AT&T and those guys, does the hardware become free?

Sergey: From a consumer point of view, I think it will be better if you end up with devices that are not locked down to a service, like Kindle is locked down to Amazon or iPhone to AT&T. I think it is better if the consumer can pick the devices and services they want.

Danny Sullivan: I can go through and fund really bad results. You seem to be rewarding a site’s authority and a site’s age. Also something Eric has said about signals, like intent to purchase from Google CheckOut. You seem to have data other people cannot get because you give away free tools. other people can tap into Google Analytics to see conversion

Schmidt: every one of these has a competitor. Google is an advertising company, we don’t have cross-subsidization

Danny: There is a closed loop in . . .

Schmidt: Well there is no closed loop, there are competitors and we make it possible for you to get out

Sergey: In analytics, we just noticed that when advertising partners start using analytics they spend more on our site because all of these stats become apparent to them. If I spend $1,000 a month more on Google, I will make X more profit. So we realized that we should make analytics

Q: When the phone companies had to deal with this, maybe the solution is that when a competitor comes into the market they have to lease Checkout data at a reasonable rate?

Schmidt: It is a false analogy. One, antitrust law does not cover it, two?, three the information we make available to consumers.

Segey: You could argue that Paypal and Amazon data is more valuable, so they should make it available first.

Q: coming back to Google book settlement,

Schmidt: In the book settlement, everyone has raised a lot of issues. The question is not whether they are interesting, but whether they have legal standing in the settlement.

Sergey: the companies that are making objections about out of print books are doing nothing for out of print books, MSFT and Amazon. I guess they scanned 15 books. These objections that Google will be the only one.

Schmidt: make an alternative proposal that solves the problem

Schonfeld: Would it be possible to extend the terms of the settlement for orphan works to other companies?

Sergey: It would be legally impossible. You are looking at this as an either/or. Does not preclude other settlements, will make legislation more likely. The companies complaining now, if they were engaged in the digitization process we were doing, digitizing 10 million books, there would be nothing stopping them from achieving the same thing.

Schmidt: the goal is to get all the books available and make sure the authors are compensated. The settlement was not a total solution, it was the best we could do.

Q: How do you plan to promote this in places that don’t have libraries?

Sergey: In respect to the settlement, it can apply to all books in all languages, but unfortunately it only affects U.S. readers which is a really sad thing. One of the great things about the U.S. is the fair use aspect. Which other countries don’t have.

Q: Why is there not a danger you will be bringing consumers into closed loop in the future?

Schmidt: there are many reasons why we will not be like MSFT. The first has to do with the culture and the founders. The other is the ease of moving out of these online services. Having taken such a strong position a a company. If we went into a room and were exposed to evil light and came out and announced evil strategies, we would be destroyed. The trust would be destroyed. Fourth, none of us want to go through the legal proceedings.

We have not yet found the evil room in our campus.

Sergey: Chrome OS, if you want to use it on your Mac, every change is available, all the source code is available.

Schmidt: Today we have zero market share in Chrome OS because it is not shipping. Imagine a scenario where we got to 80% market share with a free product, which I think is unlikely. Let’s say we go into the evil room and decide to start charging. A competitor would be able to take the code that we had and continue to offer our business model, while our new business model runs us into the ground. That is why open source provides a protection.

Peter Kafka: Will you make another stab at moving into other platforms (TV,radio)

Sergey: We are still optimistic on the TV front. Radio and print did not work out as we had hoped,. Television has a lot of similarity to Internet advertising in the sense of its much better measurability via settop boxes. You can see immediately how [many people are watching].

Schonfeld: Is PageRank long in the tooth, are links the still the best metric?

Sergey: No they are not and we decided that in 1999. We use various link algorithms, including what pagerank has evolved to, links are 1%, 100 other factors we look at. Yes,there is spam, and the web changes. We are able to do better and better, can do a much better job ranking than we could a decade ago, if we had rested on our laurels and just stayed with what was in our paper we published in 1998 we would be in pretty bad shape right now.

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A presentation about the possibilities of social media, how to use it to generate traffic and increase your online visibility.

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EDIMAX 3G Router...WDS... WLAN...AP...Access Point...

全球第一3G+11n無線網路寬頻分享器，上市！

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無線科技講座 搭起兩棟建物之間的訊號橋

無線網路設備傳輸效能越來越好，價格卻是越來越便宜，傳統上要以有線方式連結兩棟建築物之間的網路，首先就要面對高昂的布線成本，如今有了無線網路設備，空氣就是既免費又無價的訊號傳輸最佳介質，幾乎不需要額外的支出。

理論值來說，WiFi定義應用於100米的WLAN無線區域網絡內，然而在橋接傳輸技術日新月異發展之下，透過適當的點對點或中繼設定，WiFi的實測距離甚至可達數公里以上，對於不方便架設有線網路的隔壁親家(Home User)、小企業主(SOHO)、鬧區門市(Store)和臨時業務需求，Wireless 11n的無線網路產品是經濟、實在、效能最好的選擇。　


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關於建物之間架設方案的規劃，首先掌握現場環境三要件：距離(例如兩建物的棟距)、障礙(兩點直視距離的訊號屏障)、以及放置點(室內或戶外)，如此這般確認無線網路的可能性之後，再結合需求與預算做總體考量以找尋最合適的產品。需求面不外乎：傳多遠、傳多快、使用者數(傳輸量)以及安全性；無線的預算那肯定要比蜘蛛人佈網線、忍者龜挖馬路要來得精省多了。

產品規格以11n 產品優先推薦：兩點之間的選擇可以是Router或AP基地台，必要時輔以高增益型天線。建議無論是路由器或基地台產品都須能支援多種無線模式為佳，包括 AP、AP Client、Bridge、WDS及Universal Repeater mode等。

事實上，由於無線技術的進步與，許多高端應用功能都納入平常百姓買得起的一般路由器中，EDIMAX不能保證WiFi無線訊號能如烽火傳訊於萬里長城之天然屏障，但要在城市中穿越兩點一線、多點多線，共享同一網絡，這倒是能輕鬆做到的。


3G多人上網　寬頻分享器新標準

電信三雄、手機產業鏈全力推波，迎來了3G手機銷售噴量成長。EDIMAX 推出全球第一台3G + Wi-Fi 11n的無線網路寬頻分享器3G-6200n，有興趣的網友請特別關注這款新品。

3G熱賣，3G行動無線上網儼然成為新潮流，但一支3G網卡往往只能讓一個人使用，對一般家庭與小型辦公環境裡佈線困難，卻想要支持同時多人行動上網，或是在戶外要和朋友、客戶共用3G多人上網時，EDIMAX 3G-6200n無疑地是一台絕佳分享器。


3G-6200n

3G, Wi-Fi, xDSL modem，上網三合一

多功能的EDIMAX 3G-6200n，基於IEEE 802.11n標準，支援3G上網規格UMTS/HSDPA/ HSPA/ CDMA，為全球首創的3G+11n無線寬頻分享器，只要將3G或3.5G網卡接入分享器的USB埠，所有局域網內的使用者就能被允許共用3G訊號，立刻享受無線移動上網樂趣。



除了3G連網外，3G-6200n並支援乙太WAN外網埠，可接入xDSL modem或Cable modem連上Internet，向內建立有線/無線網路，使用者可以依照現場環境選擇最洽當的上網方式。當3G信號受阻無法連通時，3G-6200n的自動Failed Over功能，能夠切換至為xDSL modem接入有線寬頻，確保網路暢行。3G-6200n一機多功能，室內戶外用途統包，市售所有無線分享器，無人能出其右。



22000 Session連線數，負載能力強

3G-6200n符合最新802.11n 無線技術，傳輸速率可達 150Mbps，相較於11g提升了6倍傳輸效能及4倍覆蓋範圍。玩家相當在意的Sessions連線數達22000筆，大大提升了分享器的承載能力，有利於共用及傳輸音訊視頻文檔。

總體評比，3G-6200n的傳輸力、訊號延伸及負載能力，都具有高水準表現，難能可貴的是，經EDIMAX實驗室測試，3G-6200n採用先進節能技術，最高可省電30% (按：實際應用將因環境不同而有所差異)，符合環保節費新思維。



超越3G，高端路由功能全都配

強強聯手盡在3G-6200n：WPS加密連線按鍵、Wi-Fi on/off無線訊號硬體開關鍵、….，舉凡高端分享器的獨有功能，都成為3G-6200n的標準配備。

網路安全方面，3G-6200n支持Virtual Server及DMZ功能，可自網際網路存取局域網內部的伺服器；WEP、WPA-PSK及WPA2-PSK及Anti-Dos防火牆等無線機制，保障用戶無線上網安全；支援WMM、QoS頻寬管理及Port Trigger等眾多功能。用戶無需擔心設置問題，3G-6200n獨家的EZmax Setup Wizard安裝精靈及EZview網路管理軟體，從安裝、設定到管理，簡簡單單，快速上網。

3G加上11n，3G-6200n讓您和您的家人、同事輕鬆共用3G上網樂趣無窮！




3G-6200n Wireless 802.11n / 3G 無線網路寬頻分享器....產品型錄下載

 .採用802.11n無線傳輸技術，無線傳輸速率最高可達150Mbps
 .內建1個 10/100Mbps 傳輸WAN埠，4個10/100Mbps 傳輸LAN埠
 .內建1埠USB傳輸埠，支援UMTS/HSDPA/ HSPA/ CDMA 等3G上網服務
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RIF: It takes a lot of practice to be a champion figure skater. When do you find the time to read?

Rachael Flatt: My schedule is pretty hectic, but I do find time on weekends to read. I also read when I am traveling for skating competitions, and of course during the summer!


RIF: If you could be any book character, who would you want to be? Why?

GO: I would like to be Lucy Pevensie from The Chronicles of Narnia, as her character is very brave, creative, curious, and willing to take chances and explore the unknown. Sometimes in skating, you have to step beyond what you are comfortable with, much like Lucy does in Narnia.


RIF: You've traveled all over the world. What's the coolest place you've been?

RF: I have traveled internationally quite a bit for skating, but my favorite trip was a visit to Italy a couple of years ago. I went with my junior high class to Venice, Pisa, Vinci, Florence, and Rome. We saw Leonardo da Vinci's home, the Vatican and the Sistine Chapel, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, the Forum, the Coliseum... and the food was fabulous, too!


RIF: We hear you're a fan of Project Runway. Who is your favorite contestant and why?

RF: That is a tough question–each season of Project Runway gets better and better. From this past season, Leanne did amazing work with her "wave/ocean theme." From season four, Christian created beautiful clothing. No doubt about it–he is "fierce!" And Laura Bennett (season three) could design skating dresses...her beading is fabulous!


RIF: Do you think reading helps you to be a better ice skater? How?

RF: Reading allows me to take my mind off my daily training regimen. It also helps my ability to focus on a specific task, which is really helpful for skating.


RIF: You're in high school now. What do you want to do after you graduate?

RF: I would like to finish my amateur skating career and then go to college, as I am very interested in science. My favorite classes this year are A.P. biology and A.P. chemistry.


RIF: Have you set any New Year's resolutions?

RF: Get my braces off! I also hope to maintain my straight-A average in all my classes. I have my SAT and ACT tests coming up this spring and I hope to do well.


RIF: What advice do you have for kids who are interested in getting involved with ice skating?

RF: No matter what sport or extracurricular activity you choose, you have to have FUN. I absolutely love skating! And yes, it is hard work to train six days a week and balance my school work, but I love skating!




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