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#Ericsson Shows New Volvo Touchscreen Interface with #Spotify – #Ericsson, #Volvo
Current Volvo infotainment systems require users to twist a control knob and push multiple buttons, but Ericsson showed off a new touchscreen interface for future Volvo models. The system, displayed at the Consumer Electronics Show in an XC60 crossover, will be offered as a dealer-installed add-on and will later become standard across the Volvo lineup.
The touchscreen runs on a version of the Android operating system and connects to Ericsson’s “cloud” software through the driver’s Bluetooth-paired smartphone. Starting in May, it will be offered as a dealer-installed add-on for any Volvo with a seven-inch Sensus infotainment screen. The upgrade consists of adding an interface box in the glovebox and adding a special infrared screen overlay that makes it touch sensitive. By the end of 2013, the new touchscreen interface will become standard or optional on all new Volvos, replacing today’s button-based Sensus.
The software’s home page simply shows the time, weather conditions, and the currently playing
song. You “swipe” the screen left and right to access more apps. In addition to the car’s built-in iPod connection and CD player, Ericsson’s software features Deezer, Spotify, and TuneIn internet radio — and users can search for new artists or songs by speaking aloud. There are also various other built-in apps, and the system will link to the Parrot Asteroid app store so owners can download more features.
There are two navigation options. The Google Maps option has pinch-to-zoom functions like a smartphone, and can also display satellite images from Google Earth. The other option, iGo, looks remarkably like the current Volvo navigation system and has clear 3D-style graphics…
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//Richard
Large collection of Free #Microsoft #eBooks via @anders_keis
This is a great contribution! Thx a lot Anders Keis Hansen for providing the info to me!
A lot of ebooks provided by Microsoft Press including: SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Office 365, Office 2010, SQL Server 2012, Azure, and more.
Many of these ebooks are offered in three formats – PDF, Mobi (Kindle) and epub. Hope you find them useful & Happy Learning!
These books were originally posted by Eric Ligman, you can read the original posts from here:
1- Large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks for you, including: SharePoint, Visual Studio, Windows Phone, Windows 8, Office 365, Office 2010, SQL Server 2012, Azure, and more.
2- Another large collection of Free Microsoft eBooks and Resource Kits for you, including: SharePoint 2013, Office 2013, Office 365, Duet 2.0, Azure, Cloud, Windows Phone, Lync, Dynamics CRM, and more.
Continue reading and downloading here!
//Richard
CloudPlatform – How to build a cloud from the ground up
Citrix has done a good job at explaining what they call the Cloud Fundamentals and how to build your own cloud using their and the Citrix partner products, the architecture behind it and best practises etc.
How to build a cloud from the ground up
Get up to speed on what it takes to build a cloud for your organization through this comprehensive library of educational videos and resources from Citrix and our partners. In Cloud Fundamentals, you’ll learn more about the building blocks of a cloud architecture and best practices to ensure you’re successful. When you are ready, explore how to Extend your Cloud and learn more about value-added Citrix partner solutions that will complement and extend your cloud.
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//Richard
XenServer 6.1 Releases
“Over the past several months, literally hundreds of people have asked me the question “When will Tampa release?” I am pleased to announce that earlier today, “Tampa” officially reached GA as XenServer 6.1. Within engineering, this is officially considered a “cloud centric” release. While on the surface that would seem to indicate a lack of features for traditional server virtualization and desktop, but the reality is quite different. When you consider that a cloud runs in a datacenter, and that cloud workloads typically translate into some pretty large VM densities, all with a requirement for a high degree of workload isolation; “cloud centric” actually translates into a set of pretty stringent performance requirements. To illustrate the point, let’s consider three key features, live storage migration, network security and VM conversion.
When you look at some of the most successful clouds, you’ll quickly see that the concept of resource pools are somewhat limiting. Regardless of the size of the pool, if your cloud is successful, eventually you’re going to have more customers than can fit in your cluster or pool. During the design phase for Storage XenMotion, we accounted for this with the result being a shared nothing live storage migration solution which works equally well across all storage types and without being confined to an arbitrary resource pool concept. While designed for the cloud, it fully supports enterprise storage management requirements, and even supports live VM migration between local storage for those cases where shared storage wasn’t implemented.”
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//Richard
Don’t Let OpenStack Hype Distort Your Selection of a Cloud Management Platform in 2012
This was an interesting article, I recommend reading it! And thx Ruben for the tip!
“Recommendations:
- Do not plan the future of your data center with the assumption that OpenStack will be at its core. OpenStack may be a promising project, with many vendors eager to join its marketing bandwagon, but its future success is by no means assured. Rather than counting the number of vendors joining the project, judge OpenStack’s progress by its ability to deliver future releases on-time, with the planned features and minimal bugs and achieving mainstream adoption.
- To maximize deployment flexibility and interoperability to enable the potential for multi-vendor substitution, try to choose CMP solutions that allow the layers of the service (access management, service management, service optimization, resource management and the underlying resources), to be logically independent of one another.”
http://www.gartner.com/technology/reprints.do?id=1-1C3IGID&ct=120919&st=sb
//Richard
The IT Melting Pot! 