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Quake located with webserver

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 9:06pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: satellites_sensors

SEWilco writes "All Points Blog points out that European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) researchers have found they can locate an earthquake based upon the location of people visiting the EMSC web site. A lack of Internet visitors also can be used to imply that a region has been damaged. As humans are the detectors, the method is limited to quakes which humans notice."
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Hologram Google Earth

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 5:34pm CEST by lxnyce

Tags: google

The Google Earth Blog has an article about this pretty cool interface. Be sure to head on over to their site to check out the video and the links. Here is an excerpt : "The technology comes from UbiqWindow and lets a computer screen be projected in mid-air. They have devised a touchless way to interact with the "hologram", and Google Earth is a great way to show off its capabilities. it's not a 3D projection, just 2D. But, it sure looks cool. via Google Earth Design"
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Positioning: improved, enhanced

Posted: July 1st, 2008, 4:49pm CEST by jeppedy

Tags: gps

GPS Business News reports on an upgrade to SkyHook Wireless' mobile positioning engine, XPS 2.0. "The original XPS was switching between Wi-Fi and GPS; now XPS 2.0 combines raw Wi-Fi, GPS and cell tower readings to produce a single hybrid calculation. In difficult indoor and urban environments, XPS can, for example, leverage signals from just two GPS satellites to improve Wi-Fi location accuracy by 35%+, said Skyhook. ... The addition of cell tower positioning also increases availability so that users at least get a fallback location regardless of environment." SkyHook also seems to be licensing its technology to chipset manufacturers, as reported here "CSR offers a Wi-Fi chipset and a Bluetooth/FM/software GPS chipset as well as its own eGPS software that reads cell tower signal to augment the GPS positioning." Indoors or out, I can determine my position and not miss a beat (but might miss a little accuracy...)
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