7.5.2010 News and New Products

News and New Products

Nokia claims Apple iPad, iPhone infringe its patentsMarking the third legal action Nokia has taken against Apple since October, Nokia alleges the iPhone and iPad 3G infringe five of its patents.By Suzanne Deffree, Managing editor, news -- EDN, 5/7/2010

Nokia today filed a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin, alleging that Apple iPhone and iPad 3G products infringe five of its patents.

Nokia did not detail the patents in question, only saying they “relate to technologies for enhanced speech and data transmission, using positioning data in applications and innovations in antenna configurations that improve performance and save space, allowing smaller and more compact devices,” and that the patents are important to the company’s success.

Today’s filing follows allegations made in October 2009, in which the Finland-based company claimed the iPhone infringed 10 of its patents for GSM, UMTS, and WLAN standards. Then in December 2009, Nokia filed a complaint with the United States International Trade Commission alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers.

"Nokia has been the leading developer of many key technologies in mobile devices" said Paul Melin, general manager of patent licensing at Nokia, in a statement today. "We have taken this step to protect the results of our pioneering development and to put an end to continued unlawful use of Nokia's innovation."

According to Nokia, it has invested (40 billion Euro) over the last two decades in research and development, compiling more than 11,000 patent families.

As of press time, Apple had not released a statement on the suit

My Special Friend

Your cheerful smile
Your caressing hand
It's the really simple things
That make your life look so grand

You're a special woman
It's in your eyes
I see the truth
There is no disguise

It's your spirit
Maybe your soul
But my life without you
Would feel painfully old

You've been a true friend
I hope you stay
I would be so very empty
If you ever went away.

World's Shortest Man Meets Leggiest Woman

The Guinness Book of World Records held an event yesterday in Trafalgar Square to celebrate the release of the 2009 edition. Among the attendees were Svetlana Pankratova, world's leggiest woman (at 52"), and He Pingping, the world's shortest man (at 2' 5.37"). As you can see, the photoshoot gave He the perfect opportunity to score a worm's eye view of Svetlana's love nest. Nice He, but if I was you I would have climbed one of those legs and built a treehouse.

If the shoe fits: World's shortest man meets world's biggest shoe

The world's shortest man He Ping Ping took Tokyo by storm while visiting the city on Friday to launch the 2009 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records.

Mr Ping Ping, who was born with a form of dwarfism and is 74.1 cm tall and 7kg in weight, easily slipped into the shoe of the world's tallest man. He has been officially named by the book as the world's shortest man.

He lives in Inner Mongolia, China, and Tokyo is just one of many places around the world he has visited, including London and New York.

Surrounded by photographers at a press conference in Tokyo
He is friends with another title holder, Bao Xishun, who was once the world's tallest man at 2.36m. Mr Xishun also lives in China's Inner Mongolia.

The current title holder for world's tallest man is Leonid Stadnyk, a 37-year-old former veterinarian from the Ukraine. At 2.57m, he is taller than Mr Xishun by 0.22cm.

Friends: Mr Ping Ping meeting with Bao Xishun in 2007. Mr Xishun was once the world's tallest man

What Is Friendship?

It is an in-depth relationship combining trust, support, communication, loyalty, understanding, empathy, and intimacy.

These are certainly aspects of life that all of us crave.

Being able to trust and relax with your friend is a big part of friendship.

Remember when you were young and went with a friend to her grandma's for the week-end. It was fun but when you got home, home was wonderful. Your feeling was "I'm home. I can relax now."

That's what a friendship should be.

You go out into the world and do your best. You have your ups and downs, your problems and triumphs, your fun and tribulations. You charm and you perform.

Then you come "home" to a friend. You can relax, put up your feet; you are relieved. If you still have to be charming and/or performing, it's not a relief.

Friendship is a comfy situation like home. You get home, kick off your shoes, relax and sigh, "Ahh, home."

Being able to trust and relax with your best friend is a big part of friendship. Friendships are relationships.

Computer System Components

Input/output Controllers

Input/output controllers receive input and output requests from the central processor, and then send device-specific control signals to the device they control. They also manage the data flow to and from the device. This frees the central processor from involvment with the details of controlling each device. I/O controllers are needed only for those I/O devices that are part of the system.


Main Memory

kilobyte:	210 = 1024 bytes
megabyte:	220 = 1024 kilobytes
gigabyte:	230 = 1024 megabytes
terabyte:	240 = 1024 gigabytes

Addresses

Each byte of main storage has an address. Most modern processors use 32-bit addresses, so there are 2³² possible addresses. Think of main storage as if it were an array:

byte[0x00000000 ... 0xFFFFFFFF] mainStorage;

A main storage address is an index into memory. A 32-bit address is the address of a single byte. Thirty-two wires of the bus contain an address (there are many more bus wires for timing and control).

Virtual Memory




Cache Memory

Disk access is slow compared to RAM access. Potentially, using a combination of real memory and disk memory to implement the address space could greatly slow down program execution. However, with clever electronics and a good operating system, virtual memory is only slightly slower than physical memory.

Computer systems also have cache memory.

Contents of Memory

The memory system merely stores bit patterns. That some of these patterns represent integers, that some represent characters, and that some represent instructions (and so on) is of no concern to the electronics. How these patterns are used depends on the programs that use them.

End of the Chapter

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* The components of a computer system.
* Device controllers.
* Kilobytes, Megabytes, and Gigabytes
* Memory addresses
* Virtual memory.
* Cache memory

Guinness World Records

Most weight lost by Manuel Uribe
Manuel Uribe, who once weighed 1,235 punds, has lost more than 500 pounds, thanks to an international team of doctors led by Dr. Barry Sears, creator of the Zone Diet.
Human Body | Monterrey | Mexico




Monterrey, Mexico, Manuel Uribe, who once weighed 1,235 punds, has lost more than 500 pounds, thanks to an international team of doctors led by Dr. Barry Sears, creator of the Zone Diet. Setting a new world record for the most weight lost.

He weighed 717 pounds (324 kg) in May after losing 518 pounds (235 kg) since March 2006 on a diet of grapefruits, egg-white omelets, fish, chicken and vegetables. Uribe has also added a new goal to his weight-loss plans, he wants to be able to stand up for his wedding in the coming year.

His wish is simple to be able to stand on his own when he marries girlfriend Claudia Solis. He said: “It frustrates me a little, because it is not easy to get out. We are in love, and this year my birthday wish is to be able to stand when we get married,”

Its been four years since the couple met four years ago and now they have been together for the last two years.