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| Galileo - A New
Navigation System |
| A new satellite
navigation system set to change the
way we travel was launched in December
2005. The UK Government is one of four
big contributors to Galileo, along with
Germany, France and Italy. To date,
the British National Space Centre and
the Department for Transport have invested
over Euro 136 million in the project.Galileo
is a joint European Space Agency (ESA)
/ European Union (EU) Trans European
Networks programme. Due to be operational
in 2010, the civil |
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system will comprise 30 satellites
and is designed not only to complement the
existing US Global Positioning System (GPS)
but also to provide additional value added
and safety critical services.
The constellation aims to bring benefits to
drivers, pilots and sailors as well as sectors
that have not used satellite navigation before,
such as air traffic control, the emergency
services and rail networks. Galileo will not
be beneficial solely to transport providers.
People with mobile phones will be able to
find out what's on at the local cinema, directions
to their nearest restaurant and much more.
The system could even be used to manage power
station networks. |
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| Rolls
Royce |
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The
name of Rolls-Royce conjures up an image
of the quintessentially British car.
However, Rolls-Royce today manufactures
engines, gas-turbine generators and
powerful marine motors. The Pentagon
is its biggest defence |
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and four-fifths of its sales are made
abroad, where it competes against General
Electric, a firm more than 10 times
its size. Rolls-Royce is now focused
on four sectors: civil, military, marine
and energy. In each of these it is among
the world's top three. |
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Eddy
Harber
Sportswear Designer |
After
more than four years of
research, testing and design,
Project Swift, Nike's elite
Apparel Innovation Team,
led by Oregon-based Innovation
Director Rick MacDonald
and London-based Senior
Designer Eddy Harber, unveiled
the Swift Spin. This highly
aerodynamic time-trial cycling
skin is made its exclusive
debut with the United States
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Service Team at the 2002 Tour
de France. These aerodynamic speed
suits created under the Project
Swift banner now stand as the
most innovative pieces of competitive
sports apparel to date. |
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: www.runningnetwork.com |
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Sir
Tim Berners Lee
Inventor of Wolrd Wide Web |
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A graduate of
Oxford University, England, Tim
now holds the 3Com Founders chair
at the Laboratory for Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence
Lab (CSAIL)at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT).
He directs the World Wide Web
Consortium, an open forum of companies
and organizations with the mission
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its full potential. With a background
of system design in real-time communications
and text processing software development,
he invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based
hypermedia initiative for global information
sharing in 1989, while working at CERN,
the European Particle Physics Laboratory.
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: www.w3.org |
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