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Universal Receiver Tester Offers Innovative GPS Test And Simulation Capabilities
Montreal, Canada (SPX) May 29, 2008Global RF and telematics test solution provider Averna today announced that it has successfully implemented a GPS Constellation Simulator software solution for the Universal Receiver Tester (URT), the company's commercial RF test platform. The solution provides live signal emulation for up to 12 satellites, and is immediately available in pre-release form. The final release will be availab ... more Kyocera Wireless Announces Brew Support And Developer Tools For New M2M Modules 
San Diego CA (SPX) May 29, 2008Kyocera Wireless Corp., a leading global manufacturer of wireless handsets, devices and embedded machine-to-machine modules, announced the availability to early adopters of developer kits for its two new BREW-enabled modules - the Kyocera 300 and the Kyocera 1xD. The new modules allow customers to reduce cost by running tightly integrated BREW applications within the embedded module, minimizing ... more US commander senses change in China attitude following quake 
Washington (AFP) May 28, 2008A top US commander said Wednesday he sensed a change in the wind in China following a catastrophic earthquake that has prompted it to embrace outside help, even from the United States and Taiwan. "We are recognizing the obvious," said Admiral Timothy Keating, head of the US Pacific Command. "China's reaction here, in the aftermath of this earthquake, is different than China's reaction has be ... more Pakistan hails 'historic' nuclear tests 10 years on 
Islamabad (AFP) May 28, 2008Pakistan hailed the tenth anniversary of its first nuclear tests on Wednesday, saying it marked a decade of "responsibility and restraint" by the Islamic world's only atomic power. The foreign ministry issued a statement marking the anniversary of the detonations on May 28, 1998, which were carried out in response to nuclear tests by regional rival India and caused worldwide alarm. ... more Rights group urges probe over Indonesian 'mud volcano' 
Jakarta (AFP) May 28, 2008Indonesia must step up efforts to investigate serious human rights abuses surrounding the eruption of a "mud volcano" which displaced 36,000 people, the national human rights commission said Wednesday. The commission investigator said the state body had found "serious" rights violations relating to the disaster and called on the government to punish those responsible. "A serious human r ... more |
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Paris (AFP) May 28, 2008Melting of methane ice unleashed runaway global warming some 635 million years ago, according to a study released Wednesday that has implications for today's climate-change crisis. Release of the potent greenhouse-gas, at first in small amounts and then in massive volumes, brought a sudden end to the planet's longest Ice Age, its authors believe. During the "Snowball Earth" era, Earth fr ... more Limited impact on China's economy from quake: officials 
Beijing (AFP) May 28, 2008The impact of the Chinese earthquake on the nation's economy and inflation will be limited, senior policy makers said Wednesday, as jitters about the disaster haunt the financial markets. The area of southwest China's Sichuan province where the 8.0-magnitude quake struck on May 12 was not big enough to have any real impact on the national economy, Mu Hong, a senior planner, told a briefing i ... more China focuses on 'quake lake' amid aftershock trauma 
Chengdu, China (AFP) May 28, 2008China pressed on Wednesday with frantic efforts to drain water from a huge "quake lake" threatening millions of people, as survivors of this month's devastating tremor braced for more aftershocks. Rescue workers had evacuated 158,000 people in the most imminent danger from a breaching of the lake, which was created when landslides blocked a river in the May 12 earthquake that devastated huge ... more Analysis: Food crisis reaches Europe 
Berlin (UPI) May 28, 2008 The global food crisis has reached Europe: While EU countries aim to help stabilize food prices and increase aid to developing countries, dairy farmers in Germany and in several other European countries announced strikes that may render shelves empty. Have you recently checked your shopping bill? Global food prices have roughly doubled over the past three years, sparking demonstrations ... more Africa needs 'green revolution' to combat food crisis: Annan 
London (AFP) May 28, 2008Africa is in need of a "green revolution" to combat a growing food crisis on the continent, former United Nations secretary-general Kofi Annan said in a speech in London on Wednesday. Speaking at King's College London, the Ghanaian diplomat also said that more needed to be done to deal with the impact climate change would have on food supplies in Africa, and added that immediate action was n ... more |
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Dallas, Texas (AFP) May 28, 2008Oil giant ExxonMobil tried Wednesday to placate ecology-minded shareholders by promoting energy efficiency while insisting that oil and gas remain the answer to near-term global energy demand. Outlining his environmental strategy for the first time, ExxonMobil chairman and chief executive Rex Tillerson said the company was focused on "safely and reliably meeting the growing energy demand whi ... more 'Life with mining is hell': Ghanaian NGO 
Lagos (AFP) May 28, 2008A civil society group in Ghana has accused gold mining companies of killing agriculture, displacing local populations and damaging the environment, saying that life for mining communities is "hell". "For the mining communities, life with mining is hell," WACAM said in a report issued as the Ghana Chamber of Mines celebrates 80 years of mining with the slogan "Life without mining is impossibl ... more Japan says may send military aircraft to quake-hit China 
Tokyo (AFP) May 28, 2008Japan is considering sending its first military air mission to China since the end of World War II to transport aid for victims of this month's devastating earthquake, Japanese officials said Wednesday. China has asked Japan's Self-Defence Forces to fly over aid for some of the millions of people left homeless after the devastating quake, said Japan's top government spokesman, Nobutaka Machi ... more Corruption fears as world gives billions for China quake 
Beijing (AFP) May 28, 2008People around the world have reached deep into their pockets to help survivors of China's devastating earthquake, but fears are growing corruption will mean not all donations reach the millions in need. In the two weeks since the quake that rocked southwestern Sichuan province, leaving more than 87,000 people dead or missing, a staggering 34.79 billion yuan (five billion dollars) in donation ... more China's Hu calls for peace with Taiwan during historic meeting 
Beijing (AFP) May 28, 2008Chinese President Hu Jintao called for peaceful relations with Taiwan as he met the head of the island's ruling party here Wednesday in the highest-level contact since the two sides split in 1949. Putting aside decades of tensions that have made the Taiwan Strait one of the world's potential flashpoints, Hu shook hands with Kuomintang chairman Wu Poh-hsiung during a red-carpet welcome at the ... more
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