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Heol Design has extanded the temperature range for the time servers T101, T103, T104 and T116, which is now from -30°C to +70°C.
This enables to get time synchronization applications in rugged industrial and military environments, for both static and mobile applications.
Specific functions, as external event timestamp recorder, and synchronization signals generator (NTP, TOP/pps, IRIG) are also available, in order to synchronize your external equipment.

JetAir™ Technologies’ Air Knives are aerodynamically engineered and tested to produce an efficient, uniform and high velocity stream of air. JetAir’s Air Knives are designed for 24/7 use, have smooth edges and seams for easier cleaning, can be precisely adjusted without tools for faster change-overs and are custom sized for your application. JetAir has the largest selection of Air Knives within the industry to best optimize most applications.

•JetBlast™ Series (SS304, SS316 or Copolymer) Extended air reach is ideal for case and deep cavity part or can blow-off. Ideal for washdown and corrosive environments.
•JetX™ Series (SS304, SS316 or AL6061) SX™, MX™ and LX™ Models offer widest range of sizes for maximum optimization. All feature adjustable gap control and are ideal for washdown environments.
•Jet LXC™ Series (SS304, SS316 or AL 6061) Extended adjustable outlet discharges laminar non-swirling air. Ideal for coating and sheet applications for spans to 30′[10M].
•Jet LXD™ Series (SS304, SS316) Dual adjustable outlets maximize air knife coverage in a smaller more efficient design.

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JetAir™ Technologies designs and manufactures High-Speed Centrifugal Blowers, Air Knives and Drying / Blow-Off Systems. Our innovative systems feature JetAir’s High-Speed Direct Drive Technology and lead the industry in power, efficiency, reliability, smart control and compactness.

JetAir™ is much more than the sum of the parts. We work through the challenges you face and engineer smart solutions that work. Our comprehensive approach means your system operates at peak efficiency and minimized downtime. We make sure you’ll apply the right air… at the right moment… to achieve the right result. It’s this forward-thinking approach that puts you ahead.

Motorized solution for the individual sit-stand-workplace. Stepless height adjustment to customer specific stroke.
A slender designe allows to integrate the complete inline actuator into the tubes of a table leg.
Simple mounting, integrated position measuring system, single telescopic function.

As a result of the modular design it is possible to meet spezial customer requirements even for small quantities.
The actuator can be supplied with various spindle lengths and different spindle pitches.
Please take into account that depending on the spindle pitch, the system coult back-drive.

Electronic pressure controller for gases with integrated flow measurement:

The new electronic red-y smart pressure controllers combine the reliable technology our of thermal mass flow controllers with electronic pressure control.
The devices automatically control a predefined process pressure and at the same time measure and/or limit the flow rate.
On-the-fly switching between pressure control and flow control offers maximum flexibility.

1 device – 3 functions: The pressure controller combines three functions:
– Pressure controller
– Pressure controlerl with flow measurement/limitation
– Flow controller with pressure measurement

Instrument versions:
– Integrated pressure control: Accuracy:± 0.5 % of full scale, turndown ratio: 1 : 10
– Integrated back pressure control: Accuracy:± 0.5 % of full scale, turndown ratio: 1 : 5
– Pressure control with external pressure transmitters
– Pressure controller with gas mixer function

From the 1st of July 2006 all installations with potential risk of explosion (gaz and dust) should be manufactured in compliance with the ATEX directive 99 / 9 / CE.

For the past few years, celduc® relais has acquired and improved expertise in ATEX products, in particular sensors and relays for these specific applications.

celduc® relais is notified as manufacturer of ATEX products : INERIS 04ATEXQ406 and offers a wide range of ATEX sensors.

We also developed some specific products such as magnetic sensors used to detect hang up signals of guns in petrol station, position sensors used in the petrol industry, motor control module for paint mixers (presence of solvents) … Just let us know your needs !

All the technical data-sheets of the products which fulfil the requirements for explosive atmospheres ATEX ‘EX’ are available in our website

The new remote I/O system ANTARES made by BARTEC is a compact and decentralized multiple input and output unit for digital and analog data transmission as well as for the consistent connection of field devices via digital communication to the central system in an industrial plant.

The new and successful concept of ANTARES becomes manifest in a completely new casing technology. The combination of Ex d, Ex e and Ex i and a specially developed plug-in technology has been implemented in a very small space. Due to the special development concept, the system does not require an expensive explosion-proof casing for device category 2G (Ex e). For the user, this implies cost savings and a reduced engineering expenditure. All modules are hot-swap-capable, i.e. that the modules can be changed during the running operation of the current-carrying system. In addition, standard bus systems can be coupled directly to the system, no additional explosion-protected components (buffer amplifiers) are required.

By means of various bus systems (PROFIBUS-DP, ProfiNet, Ethernet IP, Modbus TCP), the system can be connected to any conventional control system and for the first time allows to use ProfiNet and Ethernet IP in the Ex area. A high-capacity power supply unit allows, for the first time, to supply power to maximally 32 modules, which implies a very high number of input/output channels. Eight different I/O modules are available: digital and analog inputs and outputs. By interconnecting two rail control units with a simple jumper, real redundancy is achieved.

The accordant ANTARES designer software allows that the system can be projected and configured with few mouse clicks due to its intuitive operability.

According to a number of reports coming out early this morning, General Motors could sign a deal to sell its Saab brand to Spyker Cars later today or sometime early this week. Bloomberg is reporting that Spyker has offered GM cash and preferred shares in a new Saab that would be worth $500 million. The report said that GM was satisfied with the offer.

Enthusiasts web site SaabsUnited says that a Spyker supercar has been delivered to Saab’s museum in Trollhattan, Sweden, in preparation for GM and Spyker’s announcement.

We’ll find out soon enough. Stay tuned.

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Thirsty? Well don’t plan on taking a sip from this Coca-Cola drink, because it’s actually a phone. The entire phone is made to the size scale of a real straw cup you would get at a fast food joint. The dial pad is on the bottom and when you want to hang up, you just put the phone down. The speaker is actually embedded on the side of the cup, near the Coca Cola logo. The telephone cord even matches in red, but the best part is that you don’t ever have to worry about spilling. And believe it or not, the Cola Straw Cup Shape Landline phone retails for just $6.64 – that is as cheap as getting this as a real drink at the movies!

Internet users in Turkey have found an interesting visualization to highlight their numbers, connect with one another, air their grievances and hopefully reach their goals using Google Maps and shared documents.

A reader wrote to us tonight saying that his fellow citizens have been “struggling with cencorship for several years just like their Chinese counterparts. Prominent websites are banned in Turkey, such as youtube, lasf.fm and google pages mostly because of political reasons.” In protest, many of them are virtually lining the streets using a shared interface, creating what is becoming a fascinating, non-violent and hopefully effective visualization.

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The “virtual protest walk,” our source said, is being staged to protest web censorship. “Thousands of Turkish users gathered on virtual Taksim Square of Istanbul to protest censorship. When prostestors achieve the target number, they will walk to Ankara, pixel by pixel, to the parliament house.”

The virtual protest uses Google Docs’ “anyone can edit” function. Each protestor is able to edit the document and put her- or himself on the map. Our source tells us that since the map can be edited by anyone, “it also becomes a social game, with people moving and editing others’ position.”

See the protest in action here. Users around the world are invited to join in and express their support for Turkish web users and their disapproval of Internet censorship. The goal for the number of protesters is apparently 1 billion; we certainly hope that this goal can be reached and that – more importantly – this seemingly simple stunt will send a strong message to governments that restrict their citizens’ web access.

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Today, Pope Benedict XVI announced that priests and church leaders should be actively using digital tools, including the social web, to communicate with laypersons, particularly young people.

The occasion was the 44th annual World Communications Day, traditionally a time for the Vatican to project an annual message for the church to its people and the rest of the world. This year’s message stood in sharp contrast to the missive he delivered in 2009, when the Holy See stated that mass media – including online information sources – acted as a “poison” that numbed morality and sensitivity. “‘It recounts, repeats and amplifies evil,” he said, “making us accustomed to horrendous acts, desensitizing us and, in some ways, poisoning us.” So, why the about-face?

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Today, the pope’s message proclaimed that “priests can rightly be expected to be present in the world of digital communications as faithful witnesses to the Gospel” through means such as “images, videos, animated features, blogs [and] websites.”

In contrast to the popular conceptions of church leaders and religious figures as being out of touch, the Holy Father urged priests to express their message not as a relic or a theory but as something “concrete, present and engaging…

“Consecrated men and women working in the media have a special responsibility for opening the door to new forms of encounter, maintaining the quality of human interaction, and showing concern for individuals and their genuine spiritual needs.”

In essence, the Catholic Church is beginning to sound like some of the clients of digital ad agencies during and after the dot-com boom. While we wouldn’t dare condense the pope’s message down to “we gotta get us some of that-there Internet,” we do feel that this call to online action is a bit late and a bit out of step with last year’s World Communications Day message.

In 2009, Pope Benedict gave an address on new technologies that was a seeming two-sided coin where the web was concerned.

While applauding the ability of “so-called cyberspace” to foster dialog between diverse and geographically distant people, the Pope continued to say that the social web trivialized the concept of friendship and might contain words and images that “are degrading of human beings, that promote hatred and intolerance, that debase the goodness and intimacy of human sexuality or that exploit the weak and vulnerable.”

None of these notes were present in this year’s message, which called for a strong pastoral presence online and positioned the social web as a tool of the ministry rather than a dangerous frontier of questionable content from which to protect laypersons.

What do you think: Should the Church be more visible online? How does the Holy See’s position effect priests and other church leaders on the ground, many of whom have taken to the web already to enhance their outreach and ministry? And why do you think the pope’s message is so encouraging about using the Internet as opposed to last year’s cautionary tale? Let us know your opinions in the comments.

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Big news for doubleTwist, the iTunes alternative that allows you to manage media for hundreds of devices, including Android phones, the Palm Pre, and BlackBerry. Tomorrow, the company will announce that it has forged a partnership with T-Mobile, which is now promoting it as the supported way to sync media to its line of Android phones. As part of the deal, T-Mobile will begin displaying doubleTwist banners in their retail stores and on T-Mobile.com. And perhaps most important, doubleTwist will come pre-installed on some Android devices, including the new Fender/Eric Clapton myTouch 3G handset.

For those that haven’t used it before, doubleTwist is a media management program that’s both visually and functionally similar to iTunes in many respects, but with one big difference: it will work with nearly any device (iTunes only plays nice with iPods and iPhones). You can drag and drop songs to playlists, sync music, photos, and video to your devices, and share your media with friends using integrated Facebook and Flickr support. In effect, doubleTwist can serve as an “iTunes for Android”. The software is impressive in its own right, but the company has also gotten quite a bit of attention because it was co-founded by DVD Jon, who serves as CTO.

This is a smart move by T-Mobile. One of the most jarring experiences when moving to an Android phone is figuring out how to sync media to the device. First, you have to manually mount the SD drive from the phone’s screen. Once that’s done, you may find yourself half-expecting iTunes to cheerily pop up to help transfer your media, but nothing happens — it’s up to you to drag and drop media from your computer to the appropriate folder on the phone. There are plenty of applications out there meant to help you do this, but it’s a poor experience for users who are trying the platform out for the first time. doubleTwist makes this much easier for new Android owners. It may not be quite as robust as iTunes, but it’s going to be good enough for most people. If this proves to be successful for T-Mobile, it wouldn’t surprise me if doubleTwist was adopted by other carriers as well.

One downside to the T-Mobile version of doubleTwist is that it’s missing one of the app’s best features: integration with Amazon’s MP3 Store. The feature, which launched in October, allows users to purchase music from directly within doubleTwist, much as you would with iTunes. doubleTwist wouldn’t comment on why T-Mobile decided to omit the feature, but the company is planning to further expand the software, so hopefully it’s in the pipeline. In any case, you can still download the fully featured version at doubleTwist.com.

Money is changing hands in the deal. Co-founder Monique Farantzos declined to comment on any specifics, but says that doubleTwist licensed its software to T-Mobile and that it’s a “significant source of revenue”. We should also note that while it was previously known that doubleTwist would come preloaded on the Fender myTouch phone, the full extent of the partnership hadn’t been announced before now.

doubleTwist isn’t the only company looking to establish itself as a viable alternative to iTunes. Earlier this month Songbird, an open-source media player/browser hybrid landed a deal with Philips to come bundled with some of its MP3 player devices.

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Joonto, the startup that runs Society.me, a platform that helps people generate buzz around their blogs using social networks like Twitter and Facebook, has raised $575,000 in a new round of equity, according to a filing with the SEC. Based in Mountain View, Calif., the company has helped organizations like Startup2Startup, the Bay Area Glass Institute and Ettractions pull together their fans and friends into a single online community.

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In our last VoIP installment, we looked at the main reasons why SIP has become a widely adopted protocol, but we left details of the protocol’s inner workings fairly vague. This article will drill down into the way the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) works, and it should serve as a good starting point for really learning SIP. If you haven’t already done so, you are encouraged to read the previous article, although it’s not a prerequisite. This introduction also covers the latest SIP extensions and changes, so it gives a complete view of the protocol’s current state, rather than just the basic, underlying RFC.

Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a VoIP signaling protocol. As its name suggests, it has everything to do with setting up sessions, which means it has the responsibility for starting a session after you dial a number (or double-click, in some cases). As such, SIP’s role also includes maintaining user registrations with a server, defining session routing, handling various error scenarios, and, of course, modifying and tearing down sessions.

We’ll present this introduction in two parts. In the first part, we’ll focus on the SIP foundation layers. These layers allow creating a network of SIP servers. In the next article, we will go through the way a phone communicates with the rest of the world using this server network, based on the same foundation layers.

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On the first day of CES, I dropped by the Qualcomm booth looking for ARM-based smartbooks to try out. As I poked and prodded the Lenovo Skylight, I pulled out my Nexus One and dropped it on top of the unit for a size reference so that we could snap picture of it. As I stood there looking at the phone laying on top of the smartbook and contemplating the fact that both of these (Android-based) devices had 1GHz, ARM-based Snapdragon processors in them, I glanced across the booth and spotted an ARM-based game console sitting right next to the ARM-based iRex Iliad e-reader. And then there was the portable media player (PMP) positioned not far away… then it really sunk in: smartphone, netbook, e-reader, PMP, game console—all popular consumer electronic categories with real computing needs and a huge audience, and all on ARM right now.

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Okay, we’re not anywhere close to 100 percent on this, but we just got a blurry screenshot of something we’re told is the Motorola MOTOSPLIT, a Snapdragon-powered Android set in the vein of the Droid with a totally wild split-horizontal sliding QWERTY keyboard. Yeah, we want one — it reminds us of the beloved Nokia 6820, although it’s much thinner. We’re told this thing is coming to AT&T in Q3, which makes sense; we’ve only pinned down three of Ma Bell’s five planned Android devices, and this would be a nice higher-end compliment to the Backflip. We’ll keep an eye out — and you let us know if you hear anything good, okay?

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When cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner talk about “TV Everywhere,” they are generally talking about a Web video portal they control themselves which gives their regular cable TV subscribers access to at least some of the same programming online. If viewership is going to shift online, they want to be the ones providing it—and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. But when Brightcove CEO Jeremy Allaire talks about TV Everywhere, he envisions more of a federated model where TV programmers make more of their shows available on their own sites to visitors who are authenticated as paying cable subscribers.

It’s a video paywall across the Web, and he wants to make it possible with a new Brightcove TV Everywhere product that allows programmers to authenticate which visitors are cable subscribers and which ones are not. So in addition to Comcast or Time Warner offering subscribers an online version of their channels, each channel (i.e., NBC, ABC, HBO, Discovery) can also offer a fuller spectrum of their TV shows and movies on their own individual Websites. Comcast could easily do Hulu one better, but all of those videos should also be available on HBO.com, NBC.com, and elsewhere. All they need is an authentication system and an online video platform, hence Brightcove’s interest in providing the video plumbing to make it all work. Allaire explains this to me via email:

There is a lot more going on in the TV Everywhere space than people realize.  It is ramping up quite fast, and it is not just Comcast but nearly every major traditional cable, telco, satellite distributor, and significant initiatives from many of the top programming companies.  It is going to unleash dramatically more content than the web has seen.

Our first foray is embracing a model that is being supported by nearly all major distribution companies—a federated model that allows programmers to publish deep online libraries of their feature programming on their own websites, and leveraging identity and authorization data/services that are managed by the MVPDs [multichannel video programming distributors], ensuring that users are indeed subscribers and are entitled to the requested programming.  We’ve built a model that fully supports this, as well as key partnerships for tech we are implementing to handle these federated identity models for online video.

TV Everywhere is more than just cable companies covering their rears, it is a major effort also being embraced by the broadcast networks themselves, who have not been able to put their full programming online, and who deeply want to preserve the dual revenue stream that drives their business today—subscriber fees and advertising. TV Everywhere holds the promise of preserving that model, unlike other mediums (newspapers, magazines) who have struggled to maintain their dual revenue stream models in the online world.

In other words, if they are going to call it TV Everywhere, it really should be everywhere. Or at least available on the sites of related TV channels.

The way this would work is that if you are HBO (to use a hypothetical example), only your programming is available on your site. Once a user is authenticated, they can watch whatever they are already paying for on their TVs. The cable companies might like it it because the value of that subscription just went up and they are giving people who are tempted to cut the cord altogether another reason to stay. The programmers might like it because they can now show videos online which they are currently contractually prohibited from showing, and they get to keep any ancillary advertising revenues they make from their high-CPM sites. And consumers? Well, most of us are already paying for cable or satellite TV anyway. If they are going to start to distribute that TV programming online, the more places it is available, the better. But those pesky paywalls are still going to be annoying, especially if you follow a link to one.

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It’s sort of funny that this is the hardest evidence we have of an Apple tablet, but here we go: mobile app analytics company Flurry is saying that it’s detected around 50 devices on Apple’s Cupertino campus that have the “characteristics” of a tablet, running a new version of the iPhone OS numbered 3.2. How? Around 200 different apps with Flurry’s tracking code were downloaded and used on these mystery devices — mostly games, followed by entertainment and media apps — and Flurry first noticed this new device in October, with numbers picking up in January. Unfortunately, Flurry hasn’t said what these mysterious tablet characteristics are, so we don’t have much to go on — and without specifics like a bigger screen size or a faster processor we’re skeptical. For all we know, this is just a new iPhone running a slightly tweaked build of OS 3.0 that supports a higher-resolution screen or something — especially looking at that 3.2 version number, when everything else we’ve heard suggests the tablet will jump to 4.0.

What’s more, 200 apps in the grand scheme of things really isn’t that many — Flurry only tracks small percentage of the 100,000 apps in the App Store. We’re not exactly willing to accept any detailed analysis based on a dataset that narrow, so let’s just say that it’s very likely that Apple’s testing new devices running a new version of the iPhone OS and leave it at that until Wednesday, shall we?

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It’s sort of funny that this is the hardest evidence we have of an Apple tablet, but here we go: mobile app analytics company Flurry is saying that it’s detected around 50 devices on Apple’s Cupertino campus that have the “characteristics” of a tablet, running a new version of the iPhone OS numbered 3.2. How? Around 200 different apps with Flurry’s tracking code were downloaded and used on these mystery devices — mostly games, followed by entertainment and media apps — and Flurry first noticed this new device in October, with numbers picking up in January. Unfortunately, Flurry hasn’t said what these mysterious tablet characteristics are, so we don’t have much to go on — and without specifics like a bigger screen size or a faster processor we’re skeptical. For all we know, this is just a new iPhone running a slightly tweaked build of OS 3.0 that supports a higher-resolution screen or something — especially looking at that 3.2 version number, when everything else we’ve heard suggests the tablet will jump to 4.0.

What’s more, 200 apps in the grand scheme of things really isn’t that many — Flurry only tracks small percentage of the 100,000 apps in the App Store. We’re not exactly willing to accept any detailed analysis based on a dataset that narrow, so let’s just say that it’s very likely that Apple’s testing new devices running a new version of the iPhone OS and leave it at that until Wednesday, shall we?

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