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SHIFT: GPS saving lives or encouraging risks?

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2008-01-31 19:33:12 by HASH0x8ba4118 in DVICE
Recently, two hikers were rescued off of Mt. Hood. They didn't have a GPS or personal locator, yet GPS technology saved their lives. Unable to figure out where they were in blizzard conditions, they built a snow cave to spend the night. Their cellphones didn't work because it was so cold. In a bit of unbelievable luck, they stumbled upon a...
 
Tags: gps, technology, gps technology saved, gps devices, hikers, gps location information, lost hikers, exact location, unbelievable luck
 
 
 
 
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Nissans new technologies protect the vehicle and its occupants from potential risks coming from multiple directions

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2008-08-05 06:59:54 by HASH0x8b569f8 in Fareastgizmos.com
...risks coming from multiple directions. The Side Collision Prevention technology works like this- When the driver decides to change lanes, the side-mounted sensors activates a warning if an approaching vehicle is detected in the drivers intended lane. A yaw mechanism is then activated through brake control of individual wheels, to help prevent...
 
Tags: collision prevention technology, collision prevention, vehicle, back-up collision prevention, collision, potential collision, prototype vehicle, ldp, ldp helps
 
 
 
 
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BlackBerry Storm Joint Press Release, New Images and More!

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2008-10-08 04:03:36 by James Falconer in IntoMobile
...risks and uncertainties. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements include, without limitation, possible product defects and product liability, risks related to international sales and potential foreign currency exchange fluctuations, the...
 
Tags: blackberry storm, blackberry storm offers, blackberry, blackberry storm customers, global blackberry smartphone, blackberry smartphone, vodafone, vodafone customers, blackberry goodness
 
 
 
 
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SanDisk Survey Shows Organizations at Risk from Unsecured Usb Flash Drives; Usage is More than Double Corporate IT Expectations

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2008-04-11 16:28:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
...risks of unsecured USB flash drive usage within enterprise organizations. A survey of both corporate end users and corporate IT managers, commissioned by SanDisk, revealed that IT executives are unaware of the extent to which unsecured flash drives are brought into their organizations: 77 percent of corporate end users surveyed have used...
 
Tags: usb flash, flash, personal usb flash, organizations, flash drive usage, percent, twenty-one percent, twenty-three percent, personal flash
 
 
 
 
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Cloud computing and thin clients: your time has come

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2008-02-08 14:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...risks, but "those are hacking risks as opposed to search risks," he said The U.S. government has argued in a pending court case that its authority to protect the country's border extends to looking at information stored in electronic devices such as laptops without any suspicion of a crime. In border searches, it regards a laptop the same as...
 
Tags: information possibly tied, information, information act, sensitive information, sensitive, customs, customs agents, proprietary business information, protect confidential information
 
 
 
 
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Google.org invests more than $10 million in breakthrough geothermal energy technology

2008-08-19 20:26:00 by Maximus in Just Another Mobile Phone Blog
 
...risks and uncertainties, including statements relating to our ability to develop electricity from renewable energy cheaper than from coal, the development of EGS technology, the expected supply and delivery of energy through EGS technology, our ability to produce renewable energy and the cost of EGS. Actual results may differ materially from...
 
Tags: geothermal energy, geothermal, geothermal energy resources, energy, google, renewable energy cheaper, renewable energy standard, produce renewable energy, produce
 
 
 
 
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Nick Taleb's 'The Black Swan' Rules

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2008-01-14 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...risks, it certainly helps if no one loudly proclaims that the chances of those risks materialising are far greater than negligible. By doing just that from his highly visible Black Swan parapet, Mr Taleb could be damaging many a salesmans prospects The same logic would apply to hedge funds. Many of these high-profile players enjoy nothing...
 
Tags: black swan, taleb, negative black swan, talebs, talebs ruminations, market, market participants interact, nick, book deals
 
 
 
 
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BehindTheMedspeak: Heartbeat-b-Gone? The rise of defibrillator hackers

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2008-03-13 12:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...Risks Seen Medical devices that control the human heart may need safeguards to protect against remote-control hacking that could deliver electrical shocks to patients, researchers said Millions of Americans have pacemakers, which keeps hearts beating regularly, or an implanted defibrillator, which can restart stopped hearts with an electric...
 
Tags: defibrillator, similar medical devices, medical devices, major defibrillator company, device, special device, external device, heart-device, devices
 
 
 
 
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World Economic Forum 2008

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2008-01-30 08:51:43 by GadgetManiac in GadgetManiac
...Risks 2008 report. The report forecasts the 23 top global risks likelihood with severity of economic loss. While the GR2008 report has the potential to be useful, ironically, the top collaborator on this report is listed as Citigroup, who is facing billions in writedowns due to subprime losses and is thus accused of very-poor/no risk...
 
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