Technology TBC

Since the terrorist attacks on 9/11, there has been an increased demand for improved 911 emergency calling capabilities. This demand, in turn, has resulted in better cell phone GPS tracking technology. After the events of 9/11, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released orders requiring all cell phone carriers to provide the ability to trace cell phone calls to locations within 100 meters or less.

In order to conform to these requirements set by the FCC, most cell phone carriers have decided to integrate the GPS technology into their cell phone handsets. Many have opted for this move rather than overhauling the tower network.

However, the cell phone GPS tracking in most mobile phones is not like those in your handy GPS receiver which allows you to take hiking in the outdoors. Most cell phones do not even allow the user direct contact to the GPS data. There are also some units that accurate location data is only recorded if an emergency call is made or if special arrangements are made with a location-based service provider (LBS).

There is still hope for the cell phone carriers to gain the cell phone GPS tracking services. Actually, there are now fully GPS-enabled phones that can be used in conjunction with third-party location-based services. To mention just a few, these GPS-enabled phones include Nokia, Motorola, and Beneflon.

Here is an overview of these popular cell phones with GPS tracking devices:

Nokia of Finland

In recent years, Nokia announced plans to make the Xpress-On GPS optional hardware available to 5140 phone users in North America. Their Xpress-On GPS optional hardware makes it possible to use location service applications over GSM wireless networks.

Motorola

You may already know that Motorola manufactures a series of cell phone GPS tracking units for Nextel. In particular, these cell phone GPS tracking units include the Motorola i205, i305, i530, i710, i730, i733, i736 and i830 iDEN(TM). According to Motorola, the programmability of these GPS-enabled cell phones allows the developers to create applications that make the GPS data much more readily available to the user, as well as the location-based service providers.

Nextel Phones

Nextel is now offering a number of cell phone GPS tracking solutions that can be used with the aforementioned Motorola phones. One of the most notable cell phone GPS tracking solutions that have been developed by Nextel is the Mobile Locator. Affiliates of Nextel have supplied other solutions, as have Mapquest, Trimble and other third parties.

Beneflon

Beneflon has already developed two cell phone GPS tracking devices, the Track Pro and ESC. As often asserted, these solutions are high-end cell phones designed for use in professional security and personal safety applications. These also include a fully-functioning GPS which provides accurate location data to the user without assistance from the network. And, it is important to note that while these are not Internet enabled devices, they have a number of features perfectly suited for interactive communication between the user and a service center. And, perhaps what is best about Beneflon cell phone GPS tracking equipment is that Beneflon itself is a multi-band GSM wireless network phone that can be used in a number of countries around the world.

A lot of us would notice that it used to be, in marketing, we were looking to attract a big audience as we can. But right now, effective web marketing would rely on centering on the people who would be likely to acquire our merchandise or book the service at the time of peak interest.

History has informed us that through time, media fragments are placed in particular areas of interest. Remember a time where there had only been three TV stations? Now there would be multiple channels centered on interests. Do you recall a time there were only three TV stations? Now there would be multiple channels devoted to interests including cooking, pets, travel, sports, history science plus channels that serve micro-interests. In a similar sense, online content typically would show up on sites that revolve around particular areas of user interest. Internet search would also be divided into particular verticals, in spite of the omnipresence of broad search engines including Google and Bing or Yahoo. Five years past, users would place keywords into a search engine query; but now they go directly to the preferred content sites to get relevant information.

Publishers are still struggling though to keep the users on the sites, as a lot are facing an exodus to the Google toolbar. Publishers have stated that anywhere from 25% to 50% of outbound click from sites are about to have an outside search engine. Even worse, the publishers would need to pay the search providers for the clicks to get back the users. In a lot of cases, Google would monetize the publisher content in a better sense than the publisher itself.

It is a good thing new search tools have come up to aid online publishers plus marketers to connect users to the content, products plus services they want in the areas of interest. Semantic technology would be a representation of the forefront of the search experience. In place of relying on keywords, semantic search would actually have a basis on concepts, and would be more likely to comprehend the intent of the searcher.

Semantic technology would perform a better job compared to traditional search platforms for matching relevant advertisements to online content. As it is conceptual compared to literal, semantic technology would be able to match ads in a manner that would be limited by keyword algorithms.

Vertically centered semantic search would be a representation of an improvement in online experience for the site users, marketers and publishers. Users may quickly locate information on the topics plus subjects they would be passionate about without having to leave their desired sites. They are presented with ads relevant to them, compared to the ubiquitous links for mortgage refinancing plus teeth widening services. Of course, publishers would be keenly interested in manners to enhance user experience, however semantic search would make new revenue opportunities for them too.

Search result pages would come up with incremental page views, which the publisher would utilize to sell more units of display advertising inventory, plus to bring in more advertising revenue from high response semantically matched ads. Perhaps, in a more significant sense, search technology would give a way to make more engagement with users, keeping them on-site longer than surrendering these to an external search engine or a toolbar.

For online marketers, the semantic vertical search would give a lot of benefits. It would satisfy demand for more clicks, put up brand reach and ensure placement next to relevant content, making a yield of better response rates. Semantic search advertising would not be based on keywords, unlike the regular run of the mill process enhanced by KeywordSpy-so it would not need complex keyword bidding strategies and may be implemented quickly and easily.

As use of semantic technology is widely adopted, semantic search as will become a necessary part of the company’s marketing recipe. Companies which recognize and take advantage of semantic search now will be ahead of their competition, as search engine marketing continues to eveolve.

Resistive touch and capacitive touch technologies were rarely household topics of conversations but with the advent of the iPhone and the acceptance of touch screens dominating every point of sale, bank transaction as well as musical selection, its hard not to notice people talking about the inner workings and future of touch screen technology. The real future of touch belongs to capacitive touch technology.

A capacitive touch screen panel is coated with a thin indium tin oxide material that conducts continuous electrical currents across a sensor- say a touch screen of an iPhone. So it exudes a controlled electronic field in both a vertical and horizontal axis and therefore is capacitive. In order for the capacitive technology to function, it must be touched by something else that also exhibits electricity- like the human body. When a persons finger touches a capacitive screen, it sends an electric current to then form a mathematical function which signals an action.

Until recent attention was drawn to capacitive touch technology, it was considered too expensive and delicate to use in touch screen products like grocery store check out kiosks or toys. Resistive touch screens use a different, more durable technology that most of us often see and are affected by objects like a stylus pen or physical pressing onto a button which signals the resistive screen in a toy lets say. Now, thanks to the iPhone and fun products like the Microsoft coffee table with a capacitive touch screen, we could see an increase in factory production of capacitive sensors, thus reducing the cost of capacitive touch technology.

Future of Capacitive Touch
Since an overwhelming majority of Americans use a touch screen device at least once a day, its not surprising to see the value in all that capacitive touch has to offer. From car navigation touch screens to aviation, the touch screen phenomenon is far from over. Even bars in Las Vegas have touch screen technology inside them where customers are able to write on the bar, draw and play with light. Soon, patrons will be able to set their check cards onto a touch screen table and instantly pay for their meal. The digital camera created a boom for digital pictures and all accessories that went with it. Touch screens of the future will allow users to play with their digital images using a virtual scrapbook tool, enabling photos to enlarge and shrink, flip and move.

Much much more touch technology is heading our way and perhaps new touch security will come with it. Instead of anyone being able to touch your capacitive touch screen, phone or car screen, a fingerprint lock will only allow the registered user to have access. In less than 10 years, we will not only continue to talk about capacitive touch technology, we will be listening with it, wearing it and standing on it.

We use technology, in one form or another in our everyday lives, but it is the technology that man has created that is killing us. God put everything on the planet that was needed for humans to exist and he also made humans very smart, allowing us to educate ourselves far beyond what is needed in our everyday life.

God did not create our planet full of environmental toxins and yet they are a huge part of our everyday lives. Did you breathe today?? Then you were exposed to toxins. Did you drink water today?? Then you drank toxins. Our bodies were not designed to handle the toxic overload that we are exposed to.

If you don’t drink the toxic water, but instead drink sodas are you any better off?? Did you know that a can of soda can dissolve a nail within 3-4 days?? Can you imagine what sodas are doing to the inside of your body??

What about diet sodas?? Do you think that diet sodas are better for you than the regular sodas?? Did you know that the artificial sweetener, called aspartame, found in diet sodas and other foods was originally invented as an ant killer and that prolonged use can cause neurological disorders?? It’s true!! They found out that they could make more money selling aspartame as a sweetener than as an ant killer. Maybe it’s not the technology that is killing us but the old mighty dollar instead. How does that make you feel?? Your health is at risk so someone else can make more money. Then when you get a health problem, you have to spend even more money at the doctor’s office, which then might include having to take a prescription….which is more toxins added to your already toxic body.

Fluoride is added to our drinking water but too much can be toxic. Mercury is in vaccines, fluorescent light bulbs…etc. and can be toxic as well. All of the chemicals in our environment have been created by man for one reason or anther; whether it is a chemical we clean with, a chemical used to make drugs or some other type of chemical. We are surrounded in our environment with chemicals, most of which can be deadly and illness or disease related. 95% of all illness and diseases is toxin related. Now you know why I stress cleansing the whole body regularly.

A lot of people are trying to “Go Green”, which simply is an environmental friendly way of living, so we don’t further pollute and contaminate our planet that we live in. Going green products are safe for children, pets, plants….and everything in between. Going green means not having pesticides and herbicides on our vegetation.

Did you hear about the pesticide spill that happened in a lake in Florida back in 1980?? There was a huge decrease in the number of male turtles. What they found were a large number of turtles that were neither male nor female. Simply put, the reproduction organs did not form. It was found that the alligators had smaller than normal testes and penises. They also had elevated levels of estrogen and greatly reduced levels of testosterone. Can you imagine what these chemicals are doing to humans?? Think about a person that was born one sex and feels like they are suppose to be the opposite sex…have these same various types of chemicals altered their hormones?? Things that make you say, hummm….

I get that we use and need chemicals to do this, that and the other with but can’t they invent a natural concoction to do the very same job?? A toxic chemical had to be discovered and invented, so why can’t they just discover and invent a natural form to do the same job, that will have the same effect it the performance that it will do but will be environmental friendly??

Technology can be deadly and slowly it is probably killing us all. We need the world to be safe of these toxic chemicals for us all to have better health. Do your part and try to read labels and use more environmentally friendly, “Going Green” type of products both in your house, outside, around your kids and pets. We may not be able to clean the whole world up in our lifetime, but our kids are the future, let’s help make it a safer on

The railway network has always been important in Britain, not just for every day travel, but also for the transportation of good and services. Unfortunately nature and the elements can ruin even the best laid plans. Weve all seen the headlines about railway disruption whether thats the wrong type of leaf on the track or the big freeze that brings the country to its knees: we all no doubt moaned about the fact that our journey has been affected by such apparently trivial problems. But have you ever wondered how the train companies manage to keep the tracks open, or considered the sort of problems they face trying to achieve this?

Well, it isnt as simple as you might think. Its not simply a case of spraying de-icer here and there, or applying liberal quantities of weed killer over the tracks and the surrounding area. In an environmentally-conscious age, such practices are simply unacceptable: the application of any herbicide or chemical compound has to be selective in order to protect the wildlife. So how do they achieve this? They use the latest Total Drop Control (TDC) spray applicators along with GPS technology.

However there are still problems that they need to overcome. The traditional methods of using a weed killer train have worked effectively for a long time, but environmental concerns now mean that the companies have to be more careful with the application of any chemical substance in the vicinity of the track and the surrounding areas. Using too high a concentration of a chemical means the wildlife may suffer: certain weed killers have been proven to kill species like the lesser spotted newt. Using too low a concentration of weed killer simply means that the problem will re-occur. New technology ensures that the delivery of the correct concentration of herbicide in an ecologically-approved way which avoids any risk of point source pollution. The dispensing equipment is fixed to the train itself and is controlled by GPS technology: the flow of the chemical spray is linked to the speed of the train and monitored by a speed sensor. Unfortunately GPS technology has its limitations and isnt always suitable: Britains railways have lots of tunnels and many trees which can affect the accuracy of the equipment.

There is a solution however, and that is using doppler radar technology. Doppler non-contact radar speed sensors are already widely used by UK rolling stock engineers, and are valued for both their accuracy and their low cost. The new single beam and dual beam sensors provide accurate, independent speed and distance measurements in many railway environments. They are currently in use of both test tracks and the main lines.

The Doppler radar technology has been refined to give accurate speed and distance data which is free from the errors normally associated with wheel slip, GPS blank areas or surface changes. Because the non-contact radar Doppler speed sensor device is fitted independently from the train wheels it is not affected by wheel slippage. These sensors also indicate the direction-of-travel, and offer both digital pulse and/or analogue voltage outputs.