random[a..z]nvd IBM Doubles Down On Cloud Services With Cloudant Acquisition

Yxlr HTC Shoots For 8220;Good Enough 8221; At MWC 2014, Teases Big March 25th Reveal
The system, detailed in a new paper from DR titled Towards a Human Scale Acrobatic Robotic, has two degrees of freedom and a pendulum it uses to launch itself in the air after swinging on a rope. The relatively simple robot tuc stanley termos ks and folds, somersaulting in the air before landing on the padding below. Those aerials are executed courtesy of stanley canada a built-in laser range finder and six axis inertial measurement unit a combination gyroscope/accelerometer , which calculate its position in-flight and adjus stanley tumblers t its positioning accordingly. Stickman emulates the behavior of human performers using a very limited set of sensing and actuation capabilities, the team writes in the paper. It is able to successfully perform several different somersaulting stunts by changing initial orientation and the timing of tuck, release, and untuck. The team says it s going to continue experimenting with the robot, in an attempt to create more complex stunts down the road. No word on future plans beyond that, but fo Dqit Ticketfly Launches Fanbase, An Analytics Tool For Promoters To Identify And Reward Their Biggest Fans
An elegant iPad app is like a fine yacht. Built the right way, the app can have a sense of elegance that provides the customer with an optimal experience. The Goo stanley mugs gle+ iPad app has that beauty and usability. Flipboard provides a similar experience.聽But even more so, an iPad app moves the work experience from the desktop to the mobile arena.According to聽Wall Street & Technology, that apparently also includes retail trading, where iPads are fast replacing the desktop.聽Several companies have abandoned HTML5 for pure native app development. LinkedIn made the switch to native apps, as did聽Xero, the successful online accounting SaaS provider.聽But the move toward HTML5 with iOS wrappers is certainly growing.For the uninitiated, a hybrid is written with web technologies that run inside a native app container. For example, a hybrid iPa stanley kaufen d app would be stanley cups written in HTML5 with Javascript and CSS. Developer frameworks to build these new types of apps include聽PhoneGap聽and聽聽appMobi,聽聽now part of Inte