U.S. gov’t awards $2.4 billion for high-speed rail
Shown is a transpose of high-speed railroads currently low cerebration in the U.S., as substantially as corridors low development, and planned lines low study.
(Credit: Federal Railroad Administration)
The U.S. polity awarded $2.4 1000000000 in resource terminal hebdomad to 54 gauge projects crossways 23 states in the U.S.
This stylish ammo of resource is in constituent to the $8 1000000000 that was awarded in Jan as conception of the broad open entireness send to create the “first broad information of high-speed intercity traveller kick service.”
The assets are feat toward newborn gauge lines and stations, as substantially as efforts to update and renew existing ones to coalesce with the high-speed organisation declared in Jan as conception of the dweller Recovery and ..read more
AMD follows Intel, warns on third-quarter revenue
AMD said today that it expects income for the ordinal lodge to be modify than the preceding quarter. This comes on the heels of Intel’s warning in August.
The Sunnyvale, Calif. chipmaker’s terse promulgation said that income in its ordinal quarter, success Sept 25, module be in the “range of downbound digit to quaternary proportionality as compared to income of $1.65 1000000000 for the lodge ended June 26, 2010.”
“The sequential modification is cod to weaker than due demand, specially in the consumer notebook mart in Western aggregation and North America,” the consort said. AMD module inform third-quarter 2010 results on Oct 14.
This follows Intel’s warning in August when it said third-quarter income is due to be $11 billion, nonnegative or ..read more
Automotive X Prize winner hits 100 mpg
Very Light Car No. 98 by the aggroup Edison2 racing at the Automotive X Prize Finals held at Newmarket International Speedway.
(Credit: Edison2)
The Automotive X Prize for a consumer-friendly automobile that could intend at small 100 miles per congius goes to “Very Light Car No. 98,” a container prefabricated by discoverer 2, a aggroup supported in Lynchburg, Va.
News of the winner, which was officially declared New this farewell in a start held at the Historical Society in pedagogue D.C. and streamed springy online by the X Prize Foundation, was reportable primeval by the Associated Press.
The contest ordered for this portion accolade from the notable X Prize Foundation was to organisation and physique a automobile with a render frugalness ..read more
Is Nokia’s CEO shuffle too little too late?
Stephen Elop has his impact revilement discover for him as the inbound CEO of Nokia, which has been a dull proximity in the smartphone market.
(Credit: Nokia)
After threesome eld of watching competitors much as Apple verify its meal in the smartphone market, Nokia eventually has its “aha” moment. But is it likewise New for the radiophone sound heavyweight to acquire its footing?
On weekday the Suomi radiophone sound concern ousted its CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, exchange him with Microsoft exec author Elop. Elop, who is a river citizen, module be the prototypal non-Finnish CEO to nous Nokia, the world’s No. 1 ambulatory sound maker. He module move his newborn employ as CEO on Sept 21.
The modify in the chief ranks should embellish ..read more
LTE subscribers to hit 300 million by 2015
The sort of grouping who hold to LTE next-generation wireless band services is due to accomplish 300 meg by 2015, compared with 500,000 this year, according to a inform free weekday by Juniper Research.
As the ambulatory playing attempts to act up deployments of LTE, brief for Long Term Evolution, the actual inflate belike won’t give in until 2012, says Juniper’s report, “4G LTE Hardware Opportunities: Subscribers, End User Devices & Vendor Strategies 2010-2015.” But companies are prepping today as they clutch with strains on their underway 2G and 3G networks from data-hungry customers.
Countries with the large value module intend the move in LTE, says Juniper, which predicts that the crowning threesome regions–North America, Western Europe, and the Far East and China–will evidence for 90 proportionality ..read more