Looking down on the tallest structure ever built

The 828 metre Burj Khalifa skyscraper towers above downtown Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. The no doubt soon-to-be iconic image taken earlier this year by GeoEye 1, the highest resolution satellite in operation, opens the 2011 calendar of parent company GeoEye. 

With over 160 stories, the skyscraper is the tallest structure ever built, taking the title from Taipei 101 in Xinyi District, Taipei, Taiwan.

It took 6 years, 39,000 tonnes of reinforcing steel, 330,000 cubic metres of concrete and 22 million man-hours to complete. The reinforced piles of the foundations alone contain over 110,000 tonnes of concrete, buried up to 50 metres deep.

GeoEye 1 orbits 684 kilometres above the Earth's surface providing images exclusively for Google Earth and Google Maps applications.

LG Blu-ray player goes through Wi-Fi Direct certification

Less than a week ago, LG's BD690 Blu-ray disc player appeared on the certification list of products compatible with the Wi-Fi Direct standard. Thanks to the feature, the BD690 will be capable of connecting to other Wi-Fi devices such as cell phones, notebooks and computers without requiring a network or router, making a multimedia streaming box redundant. While no detailed specs are known about the Blu-ray player, it will likely support direct streaming media from their phones or computers.

Wi-Fi Direct only requires one device to support the standard in order to make the connection. Wi-Fi specs apply, such as the maximum distance of about 300 feet and the ability to transfer data at the peak speed of the fastest of the two devices. The connection is protected thanks to an automatically generated WPA2 encrypted link.

Thermal Scanner as Influenza Detector

Thermal scanner is a tool that capable to detect a high temperature of body. With this tool, the prospective passenger in a condition of fever can be detected as a symptom of disease of swine influenza, Singapore influenza, SARS, or avian influenza.

Thermal scanner automatically shows marked red on the computer screen if video camera captures a movement a fever. Officers will stop the passenger before entry to the body clean disinfects. Although these two instruments have been installed since last February at Polonia Airport, Medan, officer has not been found outside the passenger conditions in the country fever.

The same mechanisms also apply in air Port of Belawan. However, officials in Belawan using thermal scanner through ear passengers. Before the passengers came down to the dock, the entrance to check the passenger ship tools includes a fever with a temperature detector body to the ear passengers.

Head of Public Communication Center(Dephub), Bambang Supriyadi Ervan said, there are 10 airports that the body temperature scanner will be installed usually called thermal scanner: Sultan Mahmud Badaruddin II Airport, Polonia (Medan) airport, Minangkabau (Padang), Soekarno Hatta (Cengkareng), Juanda (Surabaya), Hasanuddin (Makassar), Samratulangi (Manado), Ngurah Rai (Denpasar), Sultan Syarif Kasim II (Pekanbaru) and Sepinggan (Balikpapan).

“During this time there is a thermal scanner to its only in Ngurah Rai Airport only. In two or three days ahead, this 10 airports will be installed , “said Bambang./pi2t

-source:www.sripoku.com,regional.kompas.com

Nokia N900, first Nokia’s phone with Linux inside

The Nokia N900 is a mobile Internet device and phone, from Nokia based on the Maemo platform, superseding the N810. It was launched at Nokia World on 2 September 2009 and was expected to be released on 27 September 2009 (but this date has slipped to November 2009) in the United States and 9 European countries. It runs Maemo 5 Linux as its operating system and is the first Nokia device based upon the TI OMAP3 microprocessor with ARM Cortex-A8 core. Unlike the Internet Tablets preceding it, the Nokia N900 will be the first Maemo device to include phone functionality (quad-band GSM and 3G UMTS). It functions as a 5 mega pixel camera, a portable media player, and a mobile Internet device with email and web browsing.

The N900 is being launched alongside Maemo 5, giving the device an overall more touch-friendly interface and a customizable home screen which mixes application icons with shortcuts and widgets. Maemo 5 supports Adobe Flash Player 9.4, and includes many applications designed specifically for the mobile platform such as a new touch-friendly media player.

Meanwhile Reuters said…
Nokia CEO says starts delivery of top model N900

HELSINKI, Nov 10 (Reuters) – Nokia has started deliveries of its new top-of-the-range model N900, a key product for the world’s top phone maker in its battle against rivals iPhone and Blackberry.

Nokia Chief Executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo said in a speech the company started deliveries of the phone on Tuesday.

The N900 model is Nokia’s first phone running the Linux Maemo operating system, which analysts see as a key for Nokia to regain ground in the coming years.

Nokia has kept its overall market share stable, close to 40 percent, but it has lost share among more expensive models to the likes of Apple and RIM.

High-end products are important for Nokia because the company has not only lost market share there, but its average selling prices have declined faster than the industry average.

Goldman Sachs has said it expects Nokia’s value share — a measure reflecting average prices and underlying market share — for phones costing more than $350 to decline to 13 percent this year from 33 percent just two years before.

Gamelan Used Game Soundtrack SOCOM 4

A PS3 game will be released soon this year. A war game with a SOCOM 4. SOCOM 4 is a game you can battle the city's play on the PS3.

One thing that is unique from Soundtracknya trembling. A composer Bear McCreary, who made this game soundtrack combines traditional elements and orchestra. Even more unique is that, McCrary use the Gamelan as elemental.

Gamelan is a traditional musical instrument from Java. Gamelan have unique voices and unique. This is what makes McCrary gritty and gamelan music in the soundtrack SOCOM 4. In addition to McCrary also combine Gamelan Taiko drums from Japan. Entrance

Bing Apps For Android Launched

A step that made Microsoft's controversial enough. Microsoft launches Bing Android Apps for the gadget. Why are considered controversial, as it is known as a maker with Google Android has a clear competitive. Competition from search engines, Google Apps, and bahakan Microsoft also has Windows Mobile.

Quoted from Electronista, Bing Apps is a search application that includes image search, maps, tv broadcast schedule, flight schedules and many others. These applications are quite similar to Google Apps. Apps Bing is available free on Android Market, but danger to phonecell from Verizon.

A commitment to developing Windows applications or any Android Cross Platform application. Not just for Android, Microsoft also made applications for the iPhone. Bing is a sign of the rise of Microsoft in smart phone competition. Windows Phone 7 is trying to align themselves with the iPhone and Android. MaSuk