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Developers experience firsthand the end-to-end architectural support, high performance, compact code, power profiling, efficient debugging and ease of use of IAR Embedded Workbench
 
IAR Systems outlined today its extensive participation in the Renesas DevCon taking place from October 22 to 25 at Hyatt Regency in Orange County, California. A long-standing partner of Renesas Electronics Corporation, IAR Systems is the only software development tools provider to support all of the Renesas processors. Top CoreMark scores are proof points that continual optimizations and fine-tuning of IAR Embedded Workbench gives Renesas developers best-in-class development tools that are low power, high performance and small footprint.
In the booth, IAR Systems will showcase the latest optimizations to be included in the upcoming version of IAR Embedded Workbench with demonstrations featuring Renesas' RH850, RX, and RL78 families. In-depth developer information to be presented in a hands-on lab and technical class will offer techniques for debugging the RX architecture and compiling applications to include maximum functionality with the smallest amount of space:
Lab session: Debugging on RX with IAR Embedded Workbench
Tuesday, Oct. 23 from 1:30pm - 3:45pm
Class session: IAR Embedded system Workbench for Renesas processors
Wednesday, Oct. 24 from 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Developers can see how tool chain optimizations, debugging capabilities and coverage of all Renesas architectures can improve productivity, particularly as additional architectures are covered.
Full session descriptions available on: http://www.iar.com/en/IAR/Seminar-and-lab-at-RenesasDevCon/.
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IAR Systems is the world's leading supplier of software tools for developing embedded systems applications. The software enables over 14,000 large and small companies to develop premium products based on 8-, 16-, and 32-bit microcontrollers, mainly in the areas of industrial automation, medical devices, consumer electronics, telecommunication, and automotive products. IAR Systems has an extensive network of partners and cooperates with the world's leading semiconductor vendors. IAR Systems Group AB is listed on NASDAQ OMX Stockholm. For more information, please visit www.iar.com
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1. 只要你提供對用戶有幫助的內容，而這些內容又可以被蜘蛛順利抓取，正常情況下，就已經解決了大部分問題。

2.我們給bold的權重比strong稍高一點，但差別很小，不用在這方面想太多。（但后來更正為權重一樣）。對兩種斜體em和i兩種標簽的權重比也完全一樣。

3.不用擔憂很多網站共享同一個IP地址，放在同一架伺服器上，對排名完全沒有影響。

4. 上百萬個網頁同時上線，不一定有問題，但絕大部分情況下這都是夠可疑的。所以他建議，你要真有這么多網頁，最好嘗試軟性逐漸發布，幾千頁幾千頁的上線，可能會好一點。

5.假如不做搜索引擎優化，用戶找不著你。

6. 內部有很多垃圾檢測工具。（Kyw的理解：別傻乎乎的用所謂的SEO軟件，有規律的作弊總能被檢查出來。）Google

7. 建議大家可以用Yahoo Site Explorer查一下網站的反向鏈接，

8.不會擔心是否符合符合W3C標準，因為40％的網頁都有編碼錯誤，搜索引擎不會因為網頁上有錯誤而拋棄40％的網站內容。

9.靜態和動態URL處理的方式是類似的，但不要在動態URL中使用太多參數，最多用兩三個。同時不要用太長的數字，因為那可能會與Session ID混淆。最好能夠用mod_rewrite進行URL改寫，把動態URL改為靜態URL。

10.根據用戶IP返回不同內容，不會被認為是隱藏網頁（cloaking）。但假如給予Google蜘蛛非凡的對待，就會被當作隱藏網頁。

11.欄目中出現要害詞不是重要，重要的是網站的確應該根據不同的話題來分成不同的目錄，形成一個樹型結構。至于目錄名用什么就無關緊要了，重要的是在不同的目錄下話題是緊密相關的。這樣在各個目錄下自然會包含要害詞。

12. 內部有專門的補充材料小組在研究和觀察，主Google蜘蛛和補充材料蜘蛛是分開的。當下一次補充材料蜘蛛來訪你的網頁的時候，假如看到了301轉向或者質量的提高，自然網頁會回到主索引庫。

13. 就Matt Cutts所知GOOGLE沒有用Google Analytics（GG提供的流量統計工具）收集數據。

14. 有各種不同的復制內容，比如說完全一樣的網頁，也有的是近乎復制的網頁，我們有很多非常復雜的邏輯來進行檢測。假如你覺得你可能有復制內容網頁的問題，那就要確保你的網頁之間全都不同。

15. 不建議下拉菜單中放入鏈接，這也不是標準的設計手法。他建議還是把鏈接放在網頁底部或網站地圖上。

16. 在Google進行算法更新的時候，或者測試新的功能的時候，都在一個數據中心先進行，確認質量達到我們的期望。完全不必要去觀察不同數據中心返回的搜索結果。

17. 假如你的網頁有差不多相同的內容，那么盡量使它們看起來不同。

18. 一般來說假如內容差不多，Google就會自行判定，然后選出一個他們認為最好的。假如你想避免復制網頁的產生，可以試著確保網站的模板非常非常不一樣。

19.以前曾經有人問gov和edu域名的鏈接是不是比普通域名的權重要高？實際上我們并不會看這個鏈接來自開放目錄，或者來自gov或edu域名，就給它非凡的對待。只是這些網站一般都有比較高的PR值，有更多的網站鏈接向他們。

20.博客和普通網站在排名算法方面沒有什么區別，除非你做的是博客搜索(blog search)。

21. 在你看到toolbar中的新PR的時候，這些數值已經被考慮在排名算法當中了。所以你可能看著新的PR值很興奮，但是它并不是導致排名結果變化的原因。所以你不會看到因為PR更新導致排名結果的變化，這些排名結果的變化，已經從上一次PR更新就開始計算了。

22.在回答一個帖子的時候曾經說過：Matt Cutts
“有補充材料現在不一定是件壞事。你的這個情況在我看來，只是缺少PR和鏈接的一個反映。你的首頁已經在我們的主數據庫中，但是你并沒有多少鏈接。所以我認為你的網站并沒有什么問題，只不過我們的索引數據庫只能選擇一部分文件，假如有更多的人鏈接到你的網站，我預期你的網頁會回到主數據庫。”

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IEI Announces ATX Server Board Supports 32nm LGA2011 Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2600 Series, with up to 8 cores, and Intel® C604 Chipset with DDR3, VGA, Dual Intel® PCIe GbE, PCIe Gen 3.0, SAS 3Gb/s , SATA 3Gb/s, SATA 2Gb/s, Intel® HD Audio and IEI's One Key Recovery Function

IMBA-C604EP Features:‧ High performance LGA2011 Intel® Xeon® processor E5-2600 series up to 8 cores processor supported
‧ Increased channels to 4 channels with 2 DIMMs, per channel with DDR3 1600/1333MHz supports up to 64GB with UDIMMs, 128GB with RDIMMs and 256GB with LRDIMMs
‧ Sever management features supports by IPMI & iKVM protocol
‧ Integrated PCI Express Gen 3 for improved bandwidth and connectivity supports up to 40 lanes at 8GT/s
‧ Intel® Matrix RAID supports 0/1/10/5 for SATA and 0/1/10 for SAS hard drive interface
‧ VGA display output driver form on-board IC via AST1300 for all Intel Xeon processor E5-2600 series
‧ IEI One Key Recovery solution allows you to create rapid OS backup and recovery

CP Electronics Australia announces the release of IEI Technology's KINO-AH611 Mini-ITX single board computers (SBCs).

Designed for scalability and cost optimisation, the new SBC series features Intel H61 Express Chipset and 2nd generation Intel Core processor, allowing one DIMM per channel of DDR3 1333MHz.

The KINO-AH611 SBCs are integrated with Intel HD Graphics technology to deliver high-performance graphics and media processing without a graphics card.

Key features of KINO-AH611 Mini-ITX single board computers:

TPM V1.2 hardware security support provided by the TPM module
Dual-channel 1333MHz DDR3 SDRAM DIMM supports up to 16GB memory
Supports LGA1155 Intel Core i7/i5/i3/ Pentium/Celeron CPU
Supports dual-channel DDR3 SDRAM up to 16GB 1333/1066MHz
Dual VGA and dual HDMI interface support dual independent display
I/O options include 2 x RS-232 ports, 1 x PS/2 keyboard connector, 1 x 6-pin wafer for KB/MS, 8 x USB 2.0 ports, and 3 x SATA 3Gb/s
IEI’s unique One Key Recovery solution enables system recovery with a single click

NATCHEZ — Two property owners in the area affected by the closure of the Sandy Creek bridge offered to front the county money and labor to get the structure open for some traffic once again.

Billy Aguillard and John Rosso, who along with Sen. Melanie Sojourner met with the Adams County Board of Supervisors Friday, made the offer.

The basis for the offer was timeliness.

Sojourner told the supervisors she had Sandy Bridge been able to find state funds that could be used in the temporary repair of the bridge, but with state funds come state red tape, she said.

That includes the acquisition of right-of-ways, environmental studies and design approvals.

“The hangup, the part that has been so frustrating to me, is now that the money has to come through the state is there are a whole lot of hoops we have to jump through,” Sojourner said.

However, if the county does the repair work itself, it can bypass many of those steps and begin right away, she said.

That’s where Rosso and Aguillard come in. Rosso offered to loan the money in the immediate future, while Aguillard — a licensed contractor — offered the labor to repair the bridge if the county provides the material.

The bridge was closed on the order of a state aid road inspector, and County Engineer Jim Marlow said the bridge will have to be inspected by state aid before it can be reopened.

During the meeting, Sojourner stepped out and made a phone call, and she said officials at the state aid office told her they could send an inspector down while the repairs to the bridge were being made to ensure that it would ultimately pass inspection.

Board Attorney Scott Slover said the county couldn’t accept the offer Friday because he wasn’t sure the state’s lending guidelines for counties would allow it. Chancery Clerk Tommy O’Beirne said he would check with the state auditor’s office to see if it would even be possible.

“If you can do that in the next day or two, the offer is on the table with the only string attached being that you start on that work in the next day or two so we can get that (bridge) open in a matter of weeks,” Rosso said.

Any fix that either the state or the locals could make on the bridge would only be temporary, Sojourner said.

In the long-term, the senator said she expects the U.S. Forest Service to take over the bridge and replace it.

In the short term, the board authorized Marlow to start the engineering and paperwork process toward getting state funding.

The Sandy Creek bridge serves as the main entrance point from Adams County into the Homochitto National Forest. Eight property owners feel the impact of the bridge closure full-time, as well as approximately 150 people with hunting camps, Aguillard said.

Because the closure of the bridge cuts off access to trash bins for those on the forest side of the river, the supervisors have arranged for Waste Management to place a bin at the county barn on Liberty Road.

In addition to a couple of mobile Pentium CPUs based on both Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge architectures that will be launched at the end of Q3 or early Q4, Intel will also launch the Pentium 997 ULV CPU, a dual-core 1.6GHz CPU with 17W TDP.

The full list of new mobile Pentium CPUs includes Sandy Bridge based 987 and B980 as well as the Ivy Bridge based 2020M and 2117U CPUs. The last but not the least is the Pentium 997 ULV, spotted by CPU-World.com. Similar to the already detailed Pentium 987, the Pentium 997 ULV is also based on Sandy Bridge architecture, has two CPU cores, 2MB of L3 cache, integrated HD graphics and does not feature any advanced technologies like Hyper-threading or Turbo Boost.

The CPU works at 1.6GHz and has a 17W TDP. The Pentium 997 ULV is clearly a budget ULV part as it will end up slower than Ivy Bridge based Intel Pentium 2117U CPU.

Some of these CPUs have already shown up in some notebook specs sheets and we will probably see more of them in the Q4.

You can check out more here.

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 Governor Lincoln D. Chafee and Senator Jack Reed joined Rhode Island Department of Transportation (RIDOT) Director Michael P. Lewis Friday to officially open the new Sakonnet River Bridge.

This vital link to Aquidneck Island carries Route 24 and connects Tiverton and Portsmouth. With the opening of the new bridge, the 18-ton weight limit, in effect since June 2008, has been removed.

The governor was also met by residents who are opposed to bridge tolls.

Although the bridge is open to traffic, work continues on the approach roads on both sides of the span. As part of this activity, the Department temporarily closed the ramp from Route 138 (Main Road) to Route 24 south for approximately two months. A signed detour is in place. RIDOT expects construction activities on the segments of Route 24 approaching the bridge to continue through Spring 2013.

“Getting to and from Aquidneck Island is now much improved for residents, businesses, and the trucking community thanks to the opening of the new Sakonnet River Bridge,” said Governor Chafee. “Sound infrastructure is a key component of economic development. With that in mind, I am pleased to say that this impressive structure has clearly been built to last.”

Cardi Corporation has been building the new bridge since its groundbreaking in April 2009. At $163.7 million, the Sakonnet River Bridge Replacement project represents the largest single construction contract in RIDOT’s history.

“The Sakonnet River Bridge is an important transportation link connecting our communities. I am pleased to have secured $15 million in federal funding to help put more than 350 people to work building this bridge and making it safer and more efficient,” said Reed, a member of the Appropriations Committee, who noted that then-Senator Chafee and former U.S. Representative Patrick Kennedy secured $7 million and $1.6 million respectively, bringing the federal contribution for the project to $23.6 million.

With next year’s project  Sandy Bridge completion and the installation of a shared-use path, RIDOT will also offer pedestrians and cyclists a reconnection to both sides of the bridge that they haven’t had in more than 50 years since the Old Stone Bridge was taken down.

“We are pleased to deliver a new bridge to the host communities of Tiverton and Portsmouth,” said RIDOT Director Lewis. “Although the project is not yet complete, we are offering an improved structure that should better withstand the test of time.”

As part of this project, RIDOT is also rehabilitating the existing Hummocks Avenue Bridge as well as creating a new single-span Evans Avenue Bridge. The Sakonnet River Bridge Replacement Project also includes the creation of a public boat ramp with a fishing pier. The boat ramp and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)-compliant fishing pier is currently under construction on Riverside Drive in Tiverton and it is slated for completion in Summer 2013.

The Sakonnet River Bridge also includes a number of decorative and architectural features. These include LED-based lighting to illuminate the bridge’s piers in the river and light posts in the center median. The bridge approaches will also include backlit, bronze plaques that will depict the Portsmouth and Tiverton town seals, as well as the Rhode Island State Seal anchor.

All construction on the new bridge should wrap up in 2013. RIDOT will also begin preparing a contract to demolish the old Sakonnet River Bridge.

 Even though Intel Corp.'s Ivy Bridge-E/EP chips will arrive only in the third quarter of next year, substantially later than a year after Sandy Bridge-E/EP, they will be more powerful than originally expected as the new chip design sports no less than twelve cores, a media report claims.

The new Ivy Bridge-E/EP design, which is set to emerge in the third quarter 2013 and to power various microprocessor products, will have physical twelve cores and 30MB level-three cache, up Sandy Bridge  significantly from eight cores and 20MB L3 cache inside Sandy Bridge-E/EP, reports VR-Zone web-site. The Ivy Bridge-E variation of the chip will be the base for high-end enthusiast-class Core Extreme processors as well as workstation-class Xeon chips, whereas the Ivy Bridge-EP will be be used for Xeon chips for dual-socket severs.

It is expected that Ivy Bridge-E central processing units will have eight or ten cores (thus will have two cores disabled) as well as high clock-speeds to provide decent performance in workstation applications as well as video games. The Ivy Bridge-EP will come with all cores enabled and therefore will feature up to twelve cores. The new chips will be made using 22nm process technology and will have up to 150W thermal design power. The new processors will retain LGA2011 packaging.

At present Intel Xeon processors "Sandy Bridge-EP" for dual-socket servers have maximum of eight cores, whereas Intel Xeon "Westmere-EX" for multi-socket servers feature up to ten cores. With the Ivy Bridge-E/EP the world's largest maker of chips will be able to offer whopping twelve cores even for mainstream servers.

Intel did not comment on the news-story.

David Perlmutter, Intel Corporation's chief product officer unveiled Intel's 4th generation processors at the Intel Developer Forum at San Francisco yesterday, which will bring about a significant power reduction over the previous generation, providing longer battery life, improved performance, and sleeker form-factors.

Laptops, convertibles, Sandy Bridge ultra books and other mobile devices are slated to be available using the low-power 22nm "Haswell" micro architecture by 2013, which will reduce platform idle power by more than 20 times over the 2nd generation Sandy Bridge cores. Operating at about 10 watts, Haswell chips will also sport improved HD graphics support, new instructions for faster encryption and performance, new hardware-based security features.

According to Intel, more than 140 different Ultrabook designs are in development, with more than 70 powered by 3rd generation Intel Core processors available today. The 22nm Haswell processor will incorporate gesture and voice interaction capabilities as well.
Intel will be releasing the company's first ever Perceptual Computing Software Development Kit, which will enable hardware and software developers to bring gesture interaction, facial and voice recognition, and augmented reality to Intel PCs and ultrabooks. A demonstration of Dragon Beta Assistant was also demoed on the XPS 13 Ultrabook, click on the video below for a quick highlights reel of yesterday's proceedings.

The new server system supports more than five petabytes of storage

Semiconductor firm AMD has launched SeaMicro SM15000 server, which will be available with AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon "Ivy Bridge"/"Sandy Bridge" processors.

The new server is built around the Freedom Fabric technology, which is designed and optimised to work with Central Processor Units (CPUs) that have both large and small cores, as well as x86 and non-x86 CPUs.

The Freedom Fabric Storage Sandy Bridge will help SeaMicro SM15000 server to connect directly to massive disk arrays, enabling a single ten rack unit system to support more than five petabytes of storage.

AMD Data Center Server Solutions group corporate vice president and general managerAndrew Feldman said: "AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server enables companies, for the first time, to share massive amounts of storage across hundreds of efficient computing nodes in an exceptionally dense form factor."

The SM15000 server is now available with Intel Xeon Processor E3-1260L ("Sandy Bridge") and in November the company releases two new versions, one supporting Intel's new "IvyBridge" processor, and the other with AMD's "Piledriver" Opteron processor.

In addition, the AMD SeaMicro fabric technology delivers a key building block for AMD's server partners to build energy efficient micro servers for their customers.

Combining the Freedom Supercompute Fabric technology with the Freedom Fabric Storage technology enables data centers to provide more than five petabytes of storage with 64 servers in a single ten rack unit SM15000 system.

AMD said the system can accomodate up to 64 compute cards, each packed with single-socket octal core 2.0/2.3/2.8 GHz AMD Opteron processor based on the "Piledriver" core.Each AMD Opteron processor can support 64 gigabytes of DRAM.

The new system will also be available with a quad core 2.5 GHz Intel Xeon Processor E3-1265Lv2 ("Ivy Bridge") for 256 2.5 GHz cores in a ten rack unit system or 1,024 cores in a standard rack. E

AMD's SeaMicro SM15000 server also contains 16 fabric extender slots, each of which can connect to three different Freedom Fabric Storage arrays with different capacities.

The SM15000 system stands ten rack units or 17.5 inches tall, provides up to ten gigabits per-second of bandwidth to each CPU and connects up to 1,408 solid state or hard drives with Freedom Fabric Storage.

In addition, it delivers up to 16 10 GbE uplinks or up to 64 1GbE uplinks and runs operating systems including Windows, Linux, Red Hat and VMware and Citrix XenServer hypervisors.

APLEX Technology Inc., a global industrial computer products solution providers, today announces its latest Mini-ITX motherboard - ASB-M8671. This newest APLEX PC-based industrial motherboard is equipped with 2nd generation Intel Core i7/i5/i3 processors.

"APLEX has been working on embedded system for ages and each of APLEX embedded products offers various platforms such as Intel Atom, Socket P Core 2 duo series and Socket 988 series. Although the ASB-M8671 is not a very new platform in the market; actually it targets the customers who are serious concerned with product reliability and quality.  Sandy Bridge For example, all solid capacitor are designed on motherboard, all of external I/O on the ASB-M8671 come with 4KV ESD protection, as well as countercurrent protection on USB port circuit design, and switching regulators for power parts circuit. In short, ASB-M8671 is ideal for wider applications such as factory automations, gaming machines, military and networking, as we know our clients are looking for solutions that deliver computing and graphics performance on a board with trusty design." Said Conrad Ai, Manager of Product Manage Division.

APLEX ASB-M8671 key features:
-Intel Socket 988B, support Intel Core i3/5/7, with Intel QM67 PCH
-24bit LVDS support
-1 X DVI-I and HDMI output
-2 X SATA2 and 2 X SATA3 connector
-APLEX designed 120 pins connector for PCIe and PCI raiser card expansion
-Wide range DC power input: 9~32V
-Wide operating temperature: -20~70 degrees C*
-Optional CFast and SIM card slot
*Depends on memory & CPU spec.

IDF 2012 The details are still a bit sketchy, but Intel is committed to get the rest of the "Ivy Bridge" family of Xeon processors out the door next year, is getting ready to roll out new Itanium and Atom processors for servers this year, and is working on future Xeon E3 and Atom processors for microservers next year, too.

So says Diane Bryant, general manager of the Data Center and Connected Systems Group, which makes chips for servers, storage arrays, and networking gear as well as controlling a number of interconnects Intel has acquired in the past year.

As in years gone by, Intel is starting at the bottom and working its way up through server form factors rather than try to get all of the Ivy Bridge Xeon variants out the door at the same time.

The Xeon E3-1200 v2 processors launched in May were the first Ivy Bridge server chips to come out. In fact, they debuted beside the "Sandy Bridge" Xeon E5-2400 processors for low-cost two-socket machines and the Xeon E5-4600 processors for four-sockets. The workhorse Xeon E5-2600 processors debuted back in March, which has been the traditional time for the two-socket server launch from for the past three years.

But don't get used to that cadence.

Intel really wanted to get the Xeon E5-2600s out the door last fall, and even managed to ship a bunch to supercomputer customers under NDA. And with the Xeon E5-2600s only just beginning to ship in volume during the early summer and Intel not under a huge performance or price/performance threat from AMD, you can bet that Chipzilla will try to sell those Xeon E5-2400, E5-2600, and E5-4600 processors as long as possible, and let that 22-nanometer process used for Ivy Bridge mature even more and thereby increase its profits – or at least maintain them relative to the very mature 32-nanometer process used to etch this generation of Sandy Bridge E5 chips.

During a presentation at Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco on Tuesday, Bryant went over the cloud, HPC, and big data markets that Intel is trying to tap into with its Xeon and Atom server chips, and gave a few details on forthcoming processors in lieu of actual server chip announcements.

However, if you were expecting the eight-core "Poulson" Itanium 9500, the twelve-core "Sandy-Bridge-EX" Xeon E7, or the dual-core "Centerton" Atom to be announced at IDF this week, you were no doubt disappointed.

In fact, there isn't going to be a Sandy Bridge-EX part, Bryant confirmed to El Reg in an interview. The development and qualification cycles for the E7 class of machines is much longer than for the two-socket boxes, and once you get this late into the year, vendors are hesitant to try to introduce a new box that would next year be superseded relatively quickly by an "Ivy Bridge-EX" chip.

"At some point, you have to  Sandy Bridge snap back and get back into the cadence," explained Bryant.

As El Reg reported back in May 2011, the Intel plan originally called for the Sandy Bridge-EP, which scales up to four sockets, and the Sandy Bridge-EX, which scales up to eight sockets – or higher with extended chipsets created by the server makers themselves, if they get around to doing it – to plunk into the Socket-R or LGA2011 socket that is one of the sockets supported by the "Romley" server platform and the "Patsburg" C600 chipset.

There was no four-socket Sandy Bridge-EP way back when, but Intel decided (and we think correctly) that a lower-cost four-socket machine based on the E5-4600 was a better option than a full-on Sandy Bridge-EX for many workloads.

The plans also originally called for the new "Brickland" platform and the Ivy Bridge-EX chips to be used in machines with two, four, or eight sockets, much as the ten-core "Westmere-EX" E7-2800, E7-4800, and E7-8800 series are today.

By the end of the month -- beginning of October at the latest -- the new eastbound Interstate 84 bridge over the Sandy River will be open for traffic, better-looking, wider, with bike and pedestrian paths.

Two years into the I-84 Sandy River Bridge project is the halfway point for Oregon Department of Transportation, which started the $92.7 million project in 2010. Ultimately, the agency will replace the I-84 bridges running both directions over the Sandy River in Troutdale, and will repair two bridges over Jordan Road, east of the river.
The investment came as the bridges showed wear and tear despite years of repairs, ODOT officials said in 2010. The pricey replacement of the two bridges should improve safety and traffic flow, officials said.

View full sizeCourtesy of the Oregon Department of Transportation
An aerial view of the bridge during Sandy Bridge construction.

Despite price tag fluctuations for environmental concerns and construction obstacles along the way, the first half of construction has wrapped on schedule. Construction widened the eastbound bridge over Jordan Road in Troutdale along with work on the Sandy River Bridge, and will open at the same time, said Jyll Smith, public information officer with ODOT.
Once eastbound traffic fully opens, work will shift to the westbound bridge; traffic will run two ways on the new eastbound bridge. Smith said construction workers will use the old eastbound detour bridge as a platform to work off of before deconstructing it. Westbound construction is scheduled to start next year, including westbound widening over Jordan Road.
A pedestrian tunnel will be finished once it reaches through the westbound side, and should be open late in 2013, Smith said. The full eastbound and westbound improvements will be finished in 2014.
The new bridge features rock facade treatments on the bridge piers, abutments and decorative pylons, per I-84 Corridor Strategy design requirements.

According to CPU World, Intel is preparing the announcement of the Pentium 2117U (dual-core, BGA1023, 1.8 GHz) as well as the Pentium 2020M (dual-core, G2, 2.4 GHz). There will also be two new Sandy Bridge processors, the Pentium 987 (dual-core, BGA1023, 1.5 GHz), as well as the Pentium B980 (dual-core, G2, 2.4 GHz). There was no information on a launch date.

On Sandy Bridge the performance side, we expect Intel's high-end desktop processors to be updated with the i7-3970X with a clock speed of 3.5 GHz (15 MB cache, 6 cores, LGA2011) to replace the 3960X as flagship processor in the fourth quarter.

Motorola Mobility's First Android-Based Home Entertainment Device Launches with WASU in China

Motorola HMC3260 "Cloud Broadband" device incorporates an 18.5-inch Android™-powered touchscreen interface for on-demand games, video and other broadband services.

BEIJING – September 12, 2012 – WASU Digital Group, one of China's leading cable and telecommunications service providers, has chosen Motorola Mobility's HMC3260 Android™-powered cloud computing device to provide a range of innovative cloud-based entertainment services to its customers.

Launched today in Beijing, the Motorola HMC3260 cloud computer uses an Android-powered, 18.5-inch LED touchscreen display to provide consumers easy access to digital TV, movies, games, web browsing, apps and other DOCSIS*-based services on demand. Motorola Mobility's first Android-powered home broadband device, the HMC3260 provides customers with a truly converged broadband and TV experience with a unique and intuitive interface.

Building on its experience in the broadband communications and mobility industries, Motorola is developing a new family of Android-powered, highly innovative devices for the broadband Touch Panel PC market. The Motorola HMC3260 – dubbed Cloud Broadband by WASU – is specially designed for service providers who deliver a variety of video, interactive broadcast, and Over-The-Top (OTT) services over hybrid fiber coax networks.

"The Motorola HMC3260 not only provides subscribers with a fast broadband connection, it also enables them to enjoy a range of cloud-based services provided by WASU, including games, high-definition television and movies, web browsing and more," said Kevin Keefe, Vice President & regional general manager of Motorola's Home Division, Asia. "The powerful touchscreen interface capitalizes on the power and flexibility of Android to enable WASU to differentiate itself from operators who only offer a pipeline for data. It is an important step toward our vision of a smart, simple, connected home."

The Cloud Broadband device enables WASU's customers to access to a host of cloud entertainment services such as an extensive library of on-demand high-definition media, games, applications and storage space. WASU chose Motorola's 'all-in-one' device for its ability to deliver innovative and compelling, combined entertainment and connectivity services. Its sleek, simple design and stunning 18.5" LED touch-screen offers WASU's customers an attractive way to consume high-definition media in the home whilst staying connected with friends and family via broadband.

Ms. Qiao Xiaoyan, Vice President, WASU Digital Group, said: "Broadband is at the core of WASU's growth strategy. The Cloud Broadband device enables subscribers to easily access and search the vast amount of video, music, and gaming content that WASU aggregates and manages for them in addition to regular cable television services. Motorola Mobility's Android-powered device creates an entertainment hub in the home, allowing our customers to manage their home entertainment via one attractive, simple-to-use interface."

The good: The iPod Nano's new home button and longer screen offer a familiar smartphone-style interface, and the added Bluetooth compatibility opens the device up to a number of wireless audio accessories.

The bad: The screen resolution is Touch Panel PC mediocre, there's no integrated headphone remote, and it still lacks the camcorder, microphone, speaker, games, calendar, contacts, notes, and alarm clock that Apple cut from the Nano last year. And let's not forget that Lightning port, which breaks compatibility with your existing iPod speakers and accessories.

The bottom line: The seventh-generation iPod Nano is an incredibly compact portable media player with gym-friendly features, but it's overshadowed by the superior value of Apple's iPod Shuffle and fourth-generation iPod Touch.
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The seventh-generation Apple iPod Nano is a fun, cute, capable MP3 player. With it, you can take virtually all of your iTunes media on the go -- your music, videos, audiobooks, podcasts, and even photos.

Priced at $149 and outfitted with 16GB of storage, the iPod Nano offers most of the amenities we've come to expect from an iPod, and strikes an interesting balance between the simplicity of the iPod Shuffle and the smartphonelike operation of the iPod Touch. Unfortunately, there's nothing balanced about the iPod Nano's price. With the 16GB iPod Touch out there for $199, and the iPod Shuffle available for just $49, the Nano's compromise between the two isn't very compelling.

The mice are supposed to make it easier to use traditional point-and-click devices in Windows 8

By Ian Paul | PC World | 10 October 12
Logitech has announced three new wireless Touch Panel PC mouse peripherals that aim to make it easier for PC fans to use traditional point-and-click devices in the touch-friendly world of Windows 8. The range of Windows 8-focused mice include the Rechargeable Touchpad T650 for users who want to replicate the tablet experience as much as possible. Logitech's Touch Mouse T620 is ideal for those who still want a traditional mouse, but want to use touch most of the time. If you aren't ready to dive into touch full time, the Zone Touch Mouse T400 is a traditional two-button mouse with a glass touch strip in the center for those situations where gestures in Windows 8 make more sense than clicking.

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Using a traditional PC loaded with Windows 8 promises to be a radically different user experience, especially when it comes to navigating the new OS. Traditional interface elements such as the Start button have been eliminated, and Microsoft has introduced new navigation features such as the right-side charms bar for accessing system features including the Control Panel and system search.

Windows 8 still allows you to use a traditional non-touch enabled mouse. But to navigate the new OS more efficiently you'll probably find it easier to use gestures for at least some situations such as scrolling through Start Screen tiles or switching between the Start Screen and the traditional desktop user interface.

If touch gestures aren't for you, then I would strongly advise you study up on at least some of the Windows 8 keyboard shortcuts. This will help you get around the OS more efficiently without having to worry about relying on Microsoft's somewhat finicky hot corners in Windows 8.

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Logitech says it aimed to replicate the touch tablet experience as much as possible with the new Rechargeable Touchpad T650. The touchpad lets you use gestures such as a three-finger swipe upward to get to the Start Screen and a three-finger swipe downward to go to the desktop. This is different than the set of gesture commands Microsoft introduced in July for PCs where three-finger swipes are used to zoom in and out. The Touchpad T650 comes loaded with a built-in battery that recharges via USB; Logitech claims the T650 will last up to one month on a full charge.

If you still want a mouse-shaped device, but are looking to use touch as much as possible, the Touch Mouse T620 offers a compromise. The peripheral turns the entire mouse surface into a touchpad and doesn't offer the traditional two-button mouse set-up. Nevertheless, the T620 still lets you use taps to navigate certain parts of Windows 8. With the T620 a one-finger tap takes you to the Start Screen and a two-finger tap takes you to the traditional desktop. You can also swipe on the right edge of the mouse for the charms menu and swipe the left side to scroll through your open apps. The T620 takes two AA batteries and Logitech promises a six-month battery life.

For anyone who just can't give up their traditional two-button mouse, Logitech has you covered with the Zone Touch Mouse T400. You can use the T400 just like any other left-right button mouse, but the T400 also has a glass touch zone instead of a center scroll wheel. You can use the touch zone for horizontal scrolling through the new Windows 8 Start Screen, or vertical scrolling in a traditional desktop app such as Internet Explorer. The T400 also has two touch-based shortcuts: pressing the front of the touch zone takes you to the Start Screen and pressing the back of the touch area lets you scroll through your open apps. Logitech says the T400 will last up to 18 months with a fresh pair of AA batteries.

Logitech has not yet announced a specific launch date for the three new peripherals other than to say they will be available in October, so look for these devices soon. The Rechargeable Touchpad T650, Touch Mouse T620, and Zone Touch Mouse T400 have suggested prices of $80, $70, and $50, respectively.

Backplane Systems Technology announces the release of Avalue's FPC-08W04 industrial fanless touch panel PCs.

An 8.9-inch WSVGA TFT touch panel PC featuring an Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz CPU, the FPC-08W04 is ideal for delivering multimedia applications on a small screen.

The long-lasting 5-wire resistive touch panel PCs have a fanless design and a 12V single power input that reduces power consumption for environment-friendly operation.

Avalue's FPC-08W04 Touch Panel PC industrial fanless touch panel PCs are built for rugged applications such as outdoors and rough terrain, in-vehicle applications, digitalised homes and POS/ kiosk terminals.

Key features of Avalue's FPC-08W04 fanless touch panel PCs:

Increased connectivity through 2 x RJ-45 (Marvell 88E8053 Gigabit) Ethernet ports, 4 x USB 2.0, and optional USB Wi-Fi capabilities
Ultra-slim design weighing in at only 1.26kg
Wall/stand/VESA mounting measuring 75mm x 75mm
Dust- and water-proof with an IP65 rating

The Microsoft Sculpt Touch Mouse is a Bluetooth-enabled computer mouse designed for Windows 8 that retails for around £35, although Microsoft sets the SRP at £49. It's compact, understated in design, and contains a modicum of touchpad control ability. But it lacks the full touchpad controls of the Microsoft Touch Mouse and the petite portability of the Wedge Touch Mouse. It's also not as nicely built or finished as those two mouses.

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Fortunately in this case compromise works well, as the Microsoft Sculpt Touch Mouse is both a good size for portability and permanent use, and a nice balance of price against quality. It's also - in my view - easier to use than the full blown Microsoft Touch Mouse, but there are a few negatives.
For one thing the Microsoft Sculpt Touch Mouse doesn't come with a Bluetooth dongle. So if your PC or laptop lacks Bluetooth (and many do) this mouse is no use to you. And as we have stated above - as well as being of much more plasticky construction that its two Touch Mouse brethren, the Sculpt Touch Mouse has only a fraction of the touch control qualities of the plain old Touch Mouse.
Sculpt Touch Mouse: Windows 8 and gesture control

No matter. For almost Touch Panel PC all desktop and laptop users of Windows 8 the Modern UI Start Menu will be only rarely encountered. For most of the time, in our experience, touch gestures are more hindrance than help. The Sculpt Touch Mouse allows you to scroll vertically and horizontally by touch, and has clearly defined left- and right-click areas. When scrolling there is a useful, clicking feedback. You can feel the scrollwheel beneath the touchpad, which gives a great feeling of control. The buttons are programmable via Microsoft's downloadable mouse button utility, although with only the traditional three-button controls we're not sure why you would wish to do this.

It's mainly constructed of shiny bluey grey plastic, with a thin grey stripe and a thicker black panel. The lettering and scroll strip are also both black. On the underside between two rubber strip feet is a battery panel. The Sculpt Touch Mouse takes two double AA batteries, which Microsoft is kind enough supply. In the centre of the battery panel can be found the power switch, and Bluetooth switch and light.
Measuring 65x95.5x33mm and weighing just 110g, the Microsoft Sculpt Touch Mouse is lightweight and small. It's about two thirds the size of the Touch Mouse, or the type of wired mouse you get free with a desktop PC. But it's comfortable to use on all types of surface: or at least it was in my extended use. Battery life is rated for up to nine months.
For more on the changes in Windows 8 and how to use them visit Windows 8 Advisor. For detailed advice on installing Windows 8, read our article: How to install Windows 8.

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The market for operator panels in industrial applications will continue to grow strongly according a new ARC Advisory Group study. This growth is driven by demand for automation in general and by increasing demand for more visualization in many applications. In 2012 and 2013 the market will see flat growth as the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and fizzling growth in China create an unfavorable investment climate.

The operator panel market has evolved from pushbuttons to CRTs to graphical operator panels, and is once again changing. Consumer electronics are driving the use of touch screens and widescreen displays and are the fastest growing segment in terms of form factor. Also, automation panels, panels that incorporate logic control as well as pure visualization, are a growing market segment.

“Automation panels have seen increasing acceptance in the market and many companies have entered this segment over the past three years. The above-average growth is driven by advantages for end users and also by the use of PC-based technology in these devices,“ according to Florian Güldner the principal author of ARC’s “Operator Panel Worldwide Outlook”.

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Demand for high-end operator panels with large screens, preferably in the wide-screen format, is growing. There are various reasons behind this development. One is the continuing price erosion for the components, especially the display unit and the CPU, where Atom, Bobcat, and ARM chips add computing power at a lower price, and with less power consumption. Next to the price erosion, ARC observes that in some cases the price stayed constant for a certain product, but features and capability increased.

Another reason is that machine builders are taking advantage of advanced functionality available in modern operator panels to increase the operability of the machine. Many use a large operator panel branded with their own faceplate and colors to lend an aura of quality and sophistication.

The last reason Touch Panel PC is end user driven. As operators evolve from simple machine controllers to take on-line manager responsibilities, operator panels are becoming gateways that not only display machine-related data, but also link to enterprise or MES/CPM systems. In addition, sophisticated panels assist with maintenance, repair, and even training, which helps improve line KPIs such as availability.

PCs – Blessing or Curse?
PC technology has been used for operator panels for many years, even if users don’t have access to an operating system. Benefits include the easy adoption of new features and functions such as wide screens, touch displays, and Ethernet connectivity.

However, panel PCs are becoming price competitive and have nearly reached the price level of operator panels. The question for users is: Why bother with the limitations of an operator panel, when a full-blown panel PC is available for the same price?

Especially in price sensitive markets, where initial purchase price is often the only criterion, panel PCs with soft logic are a potential threat to replace the conventional PLC plus panel. However, this traditional architecture still has certain benefits such as ruggedness. PLCs have developed into programmable automation controllers (PAC) and panels are now more than simple displays for machine data.

China – Hard Landing or Soft Decline?
The Chinese market has been growing strongly in recent years and has been a motor for global growth, pushing exports worldwide as the demand for machinery drove all verticals. To keep the market from overheating, the Chinese government took steps to reduce the pressure and release some of the hot air out of the housing bubble. The result was a collapse of investments in many industries, especially in those that were growing fast prior 2011 and where massive over-capacities were built up. Looking at the structural indicators for China, ARC is convinced that there is still no other way to go but up and that investment will resume in 2013 and beyond.