Originally, only the IT guy was supposed to attend the trade show. He had a tech background and frequently doubled as a purchasing agent. However, the police sergeant had performed Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) missions in the military. The chief thought the experienced, older man could bring insight to the department’s process for acquiring an Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV)…
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Are the tablets the primary or secondary platform at work? What’s the most popular OS for business tablets? The infographic below answers these and other questions.
The hot days of summer are associated with swimming, BBQs, and other good times. However, it is no fun when your laptop overheats. Here are a couple of things to do when your computer becomes too hot to handle: Read more
The war may be over for our veterans, but for many, healing the wounds can be a life-long struggle.
The Wounded Warrior Project works to
On this Memorial Day, as we honor the fallen, let us remember the living.
AEODRS in the spotlight
All eyes in the Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) community are on the Advanced Explosive Ordnance Disposal Robot System (AEODRS) program. An important RFP for the increment-1(small robot for dismounted operations) is expected soon, and everyone wants a piece of the action if not the whole shebang itself.
Several things make AEODRS especially attractive to Defense vendors. For one thing, in a time of sequestration and other budget pressures, it is one of the few fully funded Department of Defense (DoD) UGV development programs around. Secondly, it is arguably the most important.
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This article is a second in a series. To read “Part I: It’s an iPad world, not Windows 
8’s” and the article in full, click here.
The PC is not dead; it’s just not at home
With 300 million sales this year, it may be a bit premature to mourn the passing of PCs. What the decline in PC sales really signifies, some argue, is the death of the home desktop. Take a look at these Business Insider illustrations:
Way back in the antediluvian ages of 2010, when everyone thought the “Harlem Shake” was 
something you drink, Apple introduced the iPad. Nobody, even Apple, really knew how the market would react. After all people already had smartphones, laptops, netbooks, and the old standby, the desktop PC. Did folks really want another form factor?
Turns out they did. Tablets sales took off, while PC sales stagnated. As the above chart from International Data Corp (IDC) demonstrates, the first quarter of 2013 reported a 14% drop in PC shipments, falling below 80 million units for the first time since 2009. This is the worst quarterly report since IDC began tracking PC shipments in 1994. Read more
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Like all Americans, we were horrified to learn about the bombing of the Boston Marathon. Like all Americans, we were relieved when the suspects were captured. Only recently, did we discover that AMREL technology may have played a small role in the manhunt.
On Friday, April 19th, a Honda Civic was found to be parked in Watertown, Massachusetts. The car had been abandoned by Dzohkhar Tsarnaev after he and his brother had a gunfight with the police.
The police were understandably nervous approaching the car. According to the most recent reports, the suspects had more than one homemade bomb and had even thrown them at the police during the chase. Was the car rigged to explode?
I once read a quote from a futurist that many distinctions that we currently take for
granted will be not be valid in the future. Things that seem as different as day and night will be indistinguishable. Day and night, for example. The proliferation of night vision and other sensor technologies will cause future generations to have radically different views about the level of privacy traditionally offered by the cloak of night. Another distinction that is already blurred is the one between manned and unmanned vehicles. Read full article here.
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