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Volume 5, Issue 5
27 March 2010
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, page: 4 –4
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0520
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 5 –10
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0521
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- Author(s): P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, page: 11 –11
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0522
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The electronics business is facing low demand coupled with spasmodic bursts of orders. E&T discovers that uncertainty is causing problems in the supply chain. The semiconductor industry is entering what is likely to be a lengthy period of component shortages, with some parts already being rationed while lead times on others move further and further out. Quizzed at this month's Embedded World show, executives at leading companies such as NXP Semiconductors, Freescale Semiconductor, Microchip Technology and Renesas Technology said that even where they did not have lines 'on allocation'' the industry's term for rationing ' serious bottlenecks started to become apparent earlier this quarter. A particular concern is that the electronics business's previous and frequent experience with cycles of glut and dearth is proving to be little help as demand picks up. - Author(s): W. Dennis
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, page: 12 –12
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0523
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Willism Dennis reports from Singapore. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, page: 13 –13
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0524
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- Author(s): J.P. Conti
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 14 –15
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0500
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E&T considers some of the infrastructure deficiencies that the Chilean earthquake brought to light. When, in the early hours of 27 February the first reports emerged that a very powerful earthquake had struck Chile, seismologists, geologists, earth scientists and structural engineers all breathed a cautious sigh of relief. No matter how violent this latest tectonic movement might have been, Chile they knew wasn't Haiti. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 16 –17
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0525
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- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 18 –21
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0501
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'Mash-up' has become more commonly associated with the merging of software, in particular websites or applications built using content from more than one source to create a new service. Typical examples include Nightfeed which combines social networking sites such as Facebook with Google maps to help you find the most popular nightlife in your area; Twittervision ,which displays Twitter posts on a global map in real time; and SoupSoup, a news mash-up that complements stories from the BBC, CNN and other sources with articles from Wikipedia and pictures from Flickr. Since you don't need a degree in computer science to build a mash-up and the tools to do so are readily available, there are already thousands of such applications on the Web, covering everything from shopping to real estate. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 22 –25
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0502
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Argentine technology includes fast cars, space exploration and other achievements. For cosmic rays tracking Argentina has the Pierre Auger Observatory. The country also has the AMIGA (Auger Muons and Infill for the Ground Array), a new particle detection system. - Author(s): D. Ross
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 26 –27
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0503
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At CeBit you can see the latest do-it-all gadgets but if it's good design you want, seek out the iF awards pavilion. E&T gives a run-down of the sleekest offerings. 'Good design isn't born of marketing, it's created by designers.' That was the conclusion of the jury for this year's iF product design awards from the International Forum Design as it announced this year's 50 gold award winners on the opening day of CeBit, the annual trade show for IT and consumer electronics in Hannover earlier this month. CeBit may be hit by the recession but it's still vast. Nestling among its many halls is iF's permanent exhibition space dedicated to showcasing the world's best in industrial design. This year's jury said companies seem to have somehow lost the ability to pause and reflect among the relentless speed of development. If visitors want to see the difference between hurried, marketing-led design and more creative, human design they can just take a stroll around a few CeBit halls (PC accessories is a good example) and then compare this with what's on show in the iF pavillion. Apple usually cleans up, but this year got 'only' three of the 50 gold awards. Dirk Bartelsmeier helped us dig out some more unexpected winners. - Author(s): S. Tanase
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 28 –29
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0504
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Web 2.0 facilitates greater communication. But where consumers gather, so will the fraudsters and patterns are emerging on how fraudsters are utilising the weaknesses in social networks and Web 2.0.Towards the end of the 2000s 'Web 2.0' was the talk of the Internet. And as we enter this new decade the popularity of social networking websites such as YouTube, Friends Reunited, Twitter, Facebook, Linkedln and a whole raft of new online innovations that facilitate greater communication shows no signs of abating. - Author(s): C. Edwards and P. Dempsey
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 30 –32
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0505
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This heterogeneous mixture of soft-programmable cores with dedicated logic a mash-up of cores is likely to be the future of computation and much of chip design because traditional methods are getting too expensive. - Author(s): C. Edwards
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- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0506
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The field programmable gate array (FPGA) threatened to reshape the world of chip design. The demand for cheaper access to high-density logic is forcing programmable-logic companies to change radically the way they design their chips. - Author(s): G. Richards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, page: 36 –36
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0507
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The article presents the issue of congesting the space with artificial satellites and their vulnerability to collision with "space junks" (space debris) making them inoperable or leading to their breakdown. It also discusses the issues in tracking and control of a functioning satellite. (4 pages) - Author(s): M. Langdon
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, page: 41 –41
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0508
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High-profile forensic television shows have changed the way evidence is presented in court, discovers the author. - Author(s): S. Davies
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 42 –45
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0509
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There are a lot of small startup companies competing with the petrochemical giants in the race to develop renewable, clean and carbon-friendly alternatives to fossil fuels. And these new enterprises pack a weighty punch; they sport some of the world's leading researchers on their boards, and they are ambitious: quite simply, they want to replace today's 'big oil' with biofuels made by microbes like algae and bacteria. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, page: 46 –46
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0510
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It has long been a bone of contention that renewable energy is far from cost-effective, and that view has been borne out by a recent landmark study. A report from Parsons Brinckerhoff, 'Powering the Nation', reveals that the cheapest power would come from either nuclear generation or combined-cycle gas turbines, which come in at as little as 0.06 per kW/hr, while the cheapest estimate for offshore wind is 0.15, with tidal energy even more expensive. - Author(s): J. Hayes
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 48 –49
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0511
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The trickiest transition for any new generation of computer application is that from nascency to immaturity. For mash-up developers the potential for significant market take-up seems evident mash-up plus-points carry much force in the context of business IT yet even as the factors for success fall into place, the 'tipping point' still seems a way off. The mashup proposition holds attractions for enterprise IT, especially the potential to enable task-specific browser-based applications (relatively) quickly and cheaply, that energise existing corporate information by combining it with external data sources and other resources online. The mash-ups model is also claimed to be adept at integrating data already 'siloed' inside an organisation, and enterprise IT strategists will like the fact that mash-ups applications are scalable. But these qualities are for nothing if no standards exist to validate them. Mash-ups are not, of course, completely dissociated from industry standards. They work on standard browsers and are based on open-source software elements; this may or may not be a good thing, depending on an organisation's stance toward open-source. Some IT leaders recognise the benefits of opensource and embrace it; others think that the compatibility problems it can cause make it more trouble than it's worth. The mash-up ethos is strongly predicated on 'openness', both in respect to code accessibility and toward data ownership, but even very open-minded opensourcers may want to see standards-driven controls. The focus here centres around user demand driving better standards and this encouraging adoption. - Author(s): M. Courtney
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 50 –51
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0512
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Mash-ups are widely available for public use on the Internet, but are only just beginning to fulfil their potential in business environments. Organisations are looking at ways in which they can integrate mash-ups with existing software to display information collected from multiple data sources in order to aid business efficiency. - Author(s): M. Courtney
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 52 –53
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0513
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All these tools have one thing in common: they make it easier to do things that only programmers could do until now. Each of them has a quite different approach, which makes this a very diverse set of applications. Will these tools be a foundation for a new breed of easy-made applications that will become a strong presence on the Web in a year or two, or will they be merely toys for enthusiasts with too much time on their hands? Let's look at the players and what they have to offer. Mash-ups were harnessed by inventive Internet consumers and explorative Web developers who monkeyed around with the technology on a largely experimental basis; but businesses soon caught on to the potential of mash-ups' practicality and ease-of-use. This led software vendors to design mash-up creation tools. - Author(s): M. Wheatley
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 54 –56
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0514
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Technology strategy board and nine regional development agencies, an ambitious project known as the Next Generation Composite Wing seeks to keep the UK at the cutting edge of innovation in aircraft wing development. This article discusses on the design-for-manufacture processes in the next generation composite wing projects. - Author(s): B. Betts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 57 –59
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0515
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'Reduce, Reuse, Repair and Recycle' is a phrase for many modern companies but one Liverpool establishment has been sticking to these principles for two generations. Although the family-owned company grew in large part by working on shipping and it still does some maritime work, its workshops also refurbish the generators from Wind turbines, machinery from local car factories, food processing equipment and host of other electrical, electronic and mechanical gear. - Author(s): B. Betts
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 60 –63
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0516
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On the Internet one can get a very good idea of where your kennel is, and perhaps even work out where you go for walkies. That's because everywhere you go on the Net you leave a unique scent behind you your IP address. Every time you send an email or browse a website, there it is, and even if you are savvy enough to conceal it by routing your traffic through a proxy server, you are only as safe as your proxy is willing and able to make you. Type an IP address taken from the headers of an incoming email into geoiptool.com, for instance, and this mash-up site will pull up the relevant data and merge it with a Google map, giving you an idea of where your correspondent is based. Most services of that kind called geolocation rely on proprietary databases, but assuming you don't use a proxy,then a basic level of IP location is possible simply using the data in the Internet's domain name service (DNS) databases. - Author(s): L. Collins
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 64 –65
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0517
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Handsets are about to get much more capable, if the technology options on show at the Mobile World Congress are anything to go by. Luke Collins browses the offerings. - Author(s): C. Edwards
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 66 –67
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0518
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Companies are beginning to throw open their doors and take input from a much wider range of sources. In effect, they are mashing up the corporation by making use of skills and knowledge from anyone who cares to help. Amazon's Mechanical Turk online application provides a way to bring users into a business, bringing the old idea of doing piecework at home into the online age. The online store presents the site as "a marketplace for work" where individuals work on "human intelligence tasks". - Author(s): G. Clapperton
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 68 –71
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0519
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There used to be a great YouTube video of a very naive young American woman, who spoke with some vehemence about why various insurgents around the world were a problem. It was because they didn't have maps so nobody knew where they were. Americans had maps, she said, and that's why it's sometimes called 'Amaprica'. This fact had escaped many people and it was good of the young woman to point it out. Wittingly or otherwise, though, she'd spotted something very important. People are using maps, and they are using them in many different ways. Allied to computer technology they're becoming even more of a boost to civilisation than they were before. It is now possible for just bout any organisation to create its own bespoke map. But who wants all of this information? And isn't it potential security risk? In this paper, the author discussed this issues. - Author(s): J. Pollard
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, page: 78 –78
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0526
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The author finds that life and ecology could have been so much simpler had the world shared Henry Ford's unlikely obsession with...soya beans. - Author(s): M. Barfield
- Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, page: 79 –79
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0527
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Engineering news from the edge of feasibility. - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, p. 80 –81
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0528
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A budget-conscious phone, a Toshiba TV for a new generation of transmission standard, and something to make the popcorn - who could ask for anything more? - Source: Engineering & Technology, Volume 5, Issue 5, page: 82 –82
- DOI: 10.1049/et.2010.0529
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Jack and the twins take on Dad over the state of modern society: can young dogs teach an old engineer new tricks?
Editorial: What's up with mash-ups?
News
Analysis: Mixed signals trouble component suppliers
Asia news
News in brief
Analysis: Chile's challenges
Letters to the Editor
A sophisticated mess
Trying for Argentina
Design first
When Web 2.0 sneezes...everyone gets sick
Multicore mash-up
Time softens logic
An orbital graveyard [artificial satellite]
Forensic fact or fiction?
Superfuels from superbugs
If the price is right
Mash-up mandates
Making mash-ups
Mash-up makers [businesses tools]
Fit for purpose [design-for-manufacture]
Heavy metal [maintenance engineering]
Location location location [IP address]
You ain't seen nothin' yet [handsets]
Open-source ideas [mash up management strategy]
Mash-up maps [management map data]
The eccentric engineer
E&Tcetera
Gadgets
Jack's blog
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