AT&T Announces Remote Monitoring Service for Small Businesses - The offering combines Internet Protocol video cameras and a range of environmental sensors, enabling owners to safeguard offices, warehouses, and retail stores via the Web. - Sensors

AT&T Announces Remote Monitoring Service for Small Businesses - The offering combines Internet Protocol video cameras and a range of environmental sensors, enabling owners to safeguard offices, warehouses, and retail stores via the Web. - Sensors: "SAN ANTONIO /BUSINESS WIRE/ -- Any small business owner will tell you that their business requires around-the-clock attention. To help small business owners easily and affordably keep tabs on their places of businesses, AT&T Inc. announced the introduction of AT&T Remote Monitor service. AT&T Remote Monitor combines Internet Protocol (IP) video cameras and a range of environmental sensor options to provide small business owners with a powerful, flexible tool kit to help them stay connected to their business locations. Owners can stay connected to offices, warehouses, and retail stores through JAVA-enabled wireless devices from AT&T or computers with a broadband connection. Small business owners can easily customize alerts and actions based on their specific needs. For example, they can program the service to send text message alerts to their wireless device from AT&T when motion is detected while it automatically turns on lights and records video of the same area. "

» Amazon’s Kindle: Can it make its technology invisible? | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com

» Amazon’s Kindle: Can it make its technology invisible? Between the Lines ZDNet.com:


"Amazon on Monday officially rolled out its Kindle e-book, which downloads books, blogs, magazines and newspapers via a wireless connection. The Kindle (view our Kindle unboxing gallery), which looks a lot less clunky in person than via pictures, features 90,000 books via the Kindle Store. New releases will cost you $9.99. The Kindle costs $399."

Today @ PC World Intel's Coming Out Party for 45nm Penryn

http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/005905.html: "Intel's top brass, including CEO Paul Ottelini, came to San Francisco's swanky Ritz Carlton hotel last evening to share the chip giant's leap to 45-nanometer with its energy-efficient Penryn. Intel calls the significant shrinkage -- and shift from silicon dioxide to hafnium to get there -- a 'breakthrough'; the biggest in 40 years. "

CPLN: Home Joule

CPLN: Home Joule:


"Re-Defining How and When We Use Energy

Your Home Joule is a state-of-the-art energy data display device that tells you how the price of electricity is changing, hour by hour. Welcome to a community making informed decisions about energy use. These decisions are cost-effective, environmentally sound, and helpful to maintaining a reliable supply of clean electricity to you and your neighbors."

A New Vision for Pervasive Computing: Moving Beyond Sense and Send - A new approach to wireless sensor networking adds local intelligence to the nodes, creating pervasive computers and enabling sensor networks that can both acquire data and initiate a

A New Vision for Pervasive Computing: Moving Beyond Sense and Send - A new approach to wireless sensor networking adds local intelligence to the nodes, creating pervasive computers and enabling sensor networks that can both acquire data and initiate a: "To achieve this vision of pervasive computing, we need a new approach to its software, infrastructure, and applications. Conventional approaches attach sensors to a wireless transceiver (called a 'node') and then process the millions of real-world data points at a central server, often located long distances away from the phenomenon of interest, a function we'll call 'sense and send.' This approach is central to the wireless sensor networks (or WSNs) industry. In this article, we describe the inherent problems with sense and send and how businesses can move beyond this paradigm. "