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United States Department of Defense Advanced research projects Agency (DARPA) launched the manufacture of navigation and help rescue robot planning in disaster areas. DARPA said the robot’s creative team to create “revolutionary” robot as the goal, using ordinary vehicles and machinery, and be qualified through a series of tests. By team will receive technical assistance, and $ 2 million in bonuses.

DARPA said the hope that robots can be used in terrorist attacks, industrial accidents, and natural disasters, can enter the danger zone, and assisting the evacuation to prevent further damage and endanger human.

Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi said on Tuesday that the three companies and the Japan Industrial Innovation Agency Limited (INCJ) combined to set up LCD joint venture Japan Display has officially began operations from Sunday. Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi as early as last year announced plans to set up a Japan Display. Under the agreement, Sony, Toshiba and Hitachi companies of small and medium size LCD touch panel LCD business into a new company, holds 10% shares of the joint venture and the remaining 70% shares held by the injection of us $ 2.6 billion INCJ.

Japan Display will focus on mobile and automotive markets, and will set up a research and Development Department, improving the market position. Japan local media reports, the company employs around 6,200 people, than they did a year ago three LCD Panel Business employs 1400 people less. These jobs are likely to be abolished because of overlap.

On Monday, Samsung just announced splitting LCD business, set up a Samsung monitor company (Samsung Display). The newly established company has annual revenues of about $ 20 billion, as the world’s largest display manufacturer, focusing on product development and panel display panel technology and sales.

Over the years, on a PC with a screen resolution of up to is 1024×768, according to the latest data StatCounter 1366×768 resolution has become the most commonly used settings, with about 19.28% people in the world now use this resolution, and 1024×768 relegated to second, data 18.6%.

Device size, screen size and resolution, select a lot now, 1366×768 resolution of the screen to its good compatibility and high performance access to users of all ages. Microsoft Windows 8 Metro also confirmed that the minimum work on the resolution.

Has focused on iOS iHelicopters as Terminal remote control devices of remote control toys manufacturer has introduced a new piece, this product turned out to be an angry birds of remote control helicopters. Play the iPhone famous classic game’s friends all know angry birds on the cartoon, wings are very short, so the bird with a bamboo dragonflies into a helicopter.

Works different from iHelicopters in the past, this device does not directly use the iOS device control, but through a separate remote controls, don’t know whether it applies to remote control will be introduced in the future iOS application of birds. Fly:

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Since last Thailand mechanical hard drive prices through the roof as a result of the flood, let us take a look at the latest display of data. Newegg from last October were recorded in detail in the following diagram of various types of hard disk price fluctuations. In order to maintain the consistency of the data, we are a pair of hard disk prices and statistics of the week.

Above trend data, we find that the current hard drive prices have to come down to a steady position. WD Caviar Green 3TB of Prime original $230 fall, now sells for $180. comparison of popular market the Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB is also from $160 back to $110. from these trends, hard drives have come down to an acceptable location.

OCZ announced today, in Hannover CeBIT this month on the 2012 show will come up with a variety of innovative consumer and enterprise-class solid state drive products, one of the most interesting is the use of Indilinx-Vertex 4 of the new master. OCZ acquired after Indilinx unveils new Everest master platform and related products with an extensive, but positioning in the low end of the market. This time, the OCZ Indilinx Everest 2 prepared by the second generation will turn to attack high-end solid state storage, the first product is Vertex 4, thus abandoned and now used by Vertex 3 is the “arcade” master SandForce SF-2281.

After the gradual digestion and absorption of the Indilinx technology, OCZ will increasingly use their main control chip, so as to come to rely on third-party manufacturers.

Everest 2 Vertex 4,OCZ temporarily did not give more details, saying only supports SATA 6Gbps, will bring “industry-leading performance and advanced data management, and supports all types of file size”.

For enterprise cloud computing area, OCZ Z-Drive R4 is the programme of CloudServ PCI-e solid state drive, up to 16 controllers, 16TB maximum capacity. OCZ is combined with SANRAD VXL Storage Accelerator software in the field a full programme of presentations, also works with VMware, Citrix Xen virtualization environment.

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Amazon said on Monday it agreed to us $ 775 million cash acquisition of Kiva Systems company. This deal for Amazon warehouse network to introduce more robots. Amazon said in a statement, the deal has been approved by the Kiva Systems shareholders, is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2012.

Development of Kiva robots able to move around in a warehouse, grabbing and moving shelves filled with product and shipping box. This technology can help retailers with fewer human more quickly complete the online order form.

Amazon has been used a lot in the past in their own warehouse employees. However, other e-commerce companies have been using the Kiva robots. Amazon bought the company in recent years, such as the Quidsi and Zappos.

Caris&Company sikete·dierman, an analyst of the company (Scott Tilghman), this is the way to improve the efficiency has been. Taking into account the operations of the Amazon, have their own which makes sense.

Implementation of Amazon’s main Center for online retail business is very important. However, Amazon also provides implementation services to other businesses, so that the warehouse is more important. Amazon is responsible for the global Vice President of customer performance daifu·kelake (Dave Clark), Amazon has for a long time been in the fulfilment of their centres using automated technology. Kiva’s technology directly to the product selection, packaging and loading staff, is another method of improving efficiency.

According to a report in the Nikkei, Japan Canon companies in the next four years will be extensive use of industrial robots, fighting for reduction of at least 400 billion yen (about US $ 4.84 billion) cost. Reported that, due to the strong yen and Europe’s continued economic downturn, Canon wants with the introduction of industrial robots, cost cuts of at least 400 billion yen over the next four years. The Canon is expected, due to the strength of the yen, the company’s operating profits this year will be reduced by 100 billion yen over the same period.

Canon, printer ink cartridges, in addition to plan production processes of the company outside of industrial robots, are taken into account in the production process that can be replacement of SLR camera lenses used in industrial robots.

While reducing costs at the same time, Canon hopes to continue to expand sales. By 2015, up to 5 trillion yen or more in sales, compared with sales growth 41% by December 2011.

Xinhuanet, Beijing, March 6-”3·15″ come, authorities recently issued more than on the domestic brands of GPS satellite navigation product sampling results: pass rate of less than 30%, hardware, software, and service there are more serious problems. October 2011, 54th Research Institute of China electronic technology group Corporation certification in accordance with the General specification for automotive GPS navigation system and the satellite navigation product certification regulations require, 13 leading manufacturers in China, 18 models of satellite navigation products for the quality inspection and testing, and practical sports cars in 19 regions of the country to verify.

Test results showed that only 3 manufacturers of 5 items passed the certification test, pass rate of less than 30%.

Experts said the test group, beyond the expected GPS satellite navigation product issues, particularly navigation precision problems. 18 Navigator, 17 appeared to find the destination does not exist, or to destinations with no road information search, not navigation. Some old maps Navigator also adopted 10 years ago, misleading questions seriously.

China electronic Chamber of Commerce Deputy Secretary General Lu Renbo says low industry concentration is the major cause of the high incidence of GPS navigation products. China’s large product mix, brand GPS market. This testing products, in addition to several brands of high concern on the market outside, as an independent brand with nearly half of the fault information, comprehensive collation cannot be compared. This indicates that the GPS navigation market brand is numerous, but there is no dominant brands play a leading role, resulting in the hybrid market brands, patterns of chaos.

Survey also shows that GPS navigation price difference is large, less than $ 500 minimum, maximum reach thousands of dollars. According to the consumer’s fault information, most of the low end performance problems, priced between $ 1000 to $ 2000 product, hardware failures account for relatively large.

Intel is expected to be issued at the end of April the “Ivy Bridge” processors, AMD will launch in May followed its first “Trinity” APU (accelerated processor. Intel and AMD is preparing to launch next-generation chip in the next few weeks. Intel initially expected to launch in the spring of this year the new 22-nm “Ivy Bridge” chips. However, Intel executives said at the beginning of this year, due to production problems, this chip will be postponed to June launch.

However, according to recent reports, Intel will be launched at the end of April for desktops and laptops, and the first instalment of “Ivy Bridge” core processor, and will be launched in the next few months more of this processor.

“Ivy Bridge” than current processors are expected to be provided to the user “Sandy Bridge” processor performance. However, the real increase in performance is the graphics performance and energy efficiency. In addition, the “Ivy Bridge” processor will provide the Intel 3D is the first three-gate transistor architecture chips, 50% less power consumption than current chips.

Intel executives also looks forward to the “Ivy Bridge” processors can enhance its power in the promotion.

In addition, AMD will be launched on May 15 for PC first “Trinity” accelerated processor (APU). According to some reports, AMD’s first “Trinity” accelerated processor were mixed with CPU and GPU chips, AMD new “Piledriver” based on the kernel, for laptops. This chip for desktop computers will be launched at a later date.

“Trinity” chips will replace AMD currently the “Llano” processor. AMD executives said the “Llano” is AMD’s most successful in the history of the product. New APU will be based on the “Bulldozer” core chip performance and better graphics performance. “Trinity” clock speed of the chip speed will be faster.

As with Intel, AMD executives expect the “Trinity” chip will boost efforts to promote ultra thin laptop AMD.