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Coming up Samsung Galaxy S3 Sequel

- Impressive benchmarks of Galaxy S3
http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_s_iii_flexes_muscles_on_benchmarks-news-4201.php

- Wireless charging by resonance
90% charging effectiveness at 1m far.

- 8 video files playing capability at the same time

- Free 50GB dropbox space

- How much would could a woodchuck Chuck if a woodchuck?

TIZEN developer conference in May 7th.

Reportedly, few days ago Samsung was rumored its own mobile O/S, BADA, is going to be business closing stage. And at the same time the developer conference of TIZEN which is known as joint next mobile O/S among Samsung, Intel and Linux foundation will be held from Mar 7th for 3days in San Francisco.
Here is the time table of this TIZEN conference.

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Scout Drive, Navigating API in HTML5 by Telenav

Telenav (www.telenav.com) opened its navigating API, SCOUT Drive, in HTML5 in publisher and developer. Every web site and application which has mail address are able to attract customer to the place in turn-by-turn voice guided navigating with just adding one line code API in their HTML page.

http://developer.telenav.com/sdkweb/scout?app=scout#bestPractices

  

The company explains its SCOUT service like this.

Easy implementation - Enable one-click HTML5 navigation on multiple platforms from your mobile content with just one line of code.

Better, more complete user experience - Bring your location-based content to life by helping users get to where they want to go without having to download or install any applications.

Simple, convenient, and safe for your users - Unlike traditional map solutions, Scout provides voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation. No cutting and pasting from one app to another. And Scout has automatic rerouting if a turn is missed.

Coming soon! Create new revenue streams - Revenue sharing from Scout for Apps.

Also this SCOUT serves only in US, but the company says that they wants to hear any idea for another territory. http://devcommunity.telenav.com/forum/topics/can_i_use_scout_for_apps_to_drive_to_places_outside_of_the_us


[Relevant Post] http://savememory.blogspot.com/2011/12/telenav-opened-free-html5-based.html

San Jose City LED Streetlight conversion Program - Updated -

Streetlight Assessment & researching report by San Jose city

http://sanjoseca.gov/transportation/SupportFiles/greenvision/LEDStreetLightReportSummary.pdf

Conversion Program preview & introduction

http://apps1.eere.energy.gov/buildings/publications/pdfs/ssl/msslc-sw2011_stuchinski.pdf

San Jose City, California LED Streetlight conversion Plan detail.
http://sanjoseca.gov/transportation/ledstreetlight/

Implementation detail plan and schedule
http://sanjoseca.gov/transportation/SupportFiles/greenvision/StreetlightConversionLargeMap_March2012.pdf

LED streetlight technical requirements & Design guide
http://sanjoseca.gov/transportation/SupportFiles/greenvision/Public_Streetlight_Design_Guide.pdf

Full copy of Agreement for Smart LED streetlight monitoring & control system between San Jose city and SCHREDER LIGHTING LLC.
http://www.sanjoseca.gov/clerk/Agenda/20111115/20111115_0602b1con.pdf

Wanted ARM powered server processor

Do you have any information about server side processor with ARM core processor? Similar with below architecture. This kind SoC is aiming to "Big Data" processing on large-scale distribution of application, content and cloud system.

[ Calxeda's ECX-1000 ]

My network is seeking a developer who wants to attract fund. Please leave a comment with a way to reach.

Re-thinkable LG's L9 application processor for Smart TV

Apple's CPU is remarkable item to be focused whenever its brand new product launching and let geeks spill out their excitement. The most recent CPU in new iPad is named in A5X, which integrates dual ARM's cortex A9 processor and quad PowerVR's SGX543MP4 GPU processors. This quad  GPU processor structure, SGX543MP4, was known as used to be implemented in Sony Playstation Vita. Its quad GPU performance can be estimated like below;

1 core = 35M polygon / sec @200Mhz
4 cores = 133M polygon / sec @200Mhz

At this time, I reviewed LG's L9 AP's information again to compare with Apple's A5X. Surprisingly, L9 AP integrates dual ARM's cortex A9 and quad Mali 400MP GPU similarly to A5X. This performance of Mali 400MP in ARM's company site is shown as below.


1 core = 30M triangles / sec @275Mhz (in 65nm process)
[Source] http://www.arm.com/products/multimedia/mali-graphics-hardware/mali-400-mp.php

To access LG's L9 chipset brochure
http://www.arm.com/files/pdf/LG_Smart_Tv_ARM_Offices_Poster.pdf



Approximately and considering process scale there looks no dramatic performance difference between two GPUs. Then, does that means LG is closing to hand-in its own AP for smartphone beyond stationary Smart TV like Apple and Samsung?