SAN JOSE, Calif. - October 18, 2010 - Atheros Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHR), a worldwide leader in progressive applied sciences for wireless and wired communications, at present announced a new family of hybrid dwelling networking solutions that combines the trade's hottest shopper networking applied sciences. Atheros' unique combination of Wi-Fi®, HomePlug® AV powerline and Ethernet applied sciences not only boosts network bandwidth, but also supplies unprecedented simplicity to setup and optimize protection in every residence environment. As a result, consumers will finally have an elegant solution for complete-residence network protection.

Here at CEDIA 2013, Sony has just introduced three new SXRD projectors, including two 4K models and one for the 1080p crowd. Should you must have the highest res video output, solely the brand new VPL-VW1100ES and VPL-VW600ES will do, with both tossing a DCI-approved 4,096 x 2,160 pixel depend at the nearest display floor. The VPL-VW1100ES (pictured above) updates the VPL-VW1000ES launched two years in the past and stays at the highest of Sony's projector rf systems line, bringing a bundled 4K participant for a tidy $28,000. The VPL-VW600ES arrives with similar specs to the mannequin launched in Europe final month, offering that top pixel rely with lower brightness and distinction levels in a smaller body. In consequence its $15,000 pricetag is lower too, although an option to bundle the FMP-X1 4K participant and pill controller will add an extra grand on high of that. The previous VPL-VW1000ES is getting some like to, with a "premium service activation" program that brings HDMI 2.0, the new media participant, a Sony pill and a alternative lamp.

The primary supposition behind these energy-management and monitoring programs is that seeing a more direct relationship between flicking a change and energy usage could cause people to be extra conservative of their energy use. Shoppers will even be extra inclined to find ways to improve the efficiency of present appliances or heating and air conditioning programs. On its PowerMeter Internet site, Google states that studies indicate people can save between 5 and 15 p.c on month-to-month payments simply by gaining access to their family's energy information [source: Google].

It has been some time since we final heard from CSR, but that modified earlier this week, when the corporate unveiled its new SiRFprimaII and SiRFusion platforms, alongside its SiRFstarV architecture. Based on the UK-based mostly agency, each SiRFstarV and SiRFusion are designed to supply extra correct geographic knowledge and enhanced indoor navigation capabilities across PNDs and other cell units. SiRFstarV, the logical follow-up to CSR's SiRFstarIV architecture, culls location knowledge not solely from GPS, however from Galileo, Glonass and Compass satellites, as well as a variety of radio alerts, accelerometers, gyros and compasses. All this information is fed to the user by way of the SiRFusion platform, which combines knowledge from radio techniques and sensors to offer continually updated location graphics. Collectively, each SiRFstarV and SiRFusion promise to help customers discover their method around both indoor and out of doors locales, within an accuracy range of ten to 15 meters.

However why? The water almost definitely is not cleaner -- a 2008 research by the Environmental Working Group found 38 contaminants in 10 brands of bottled water [supply: Environmental Working Group]. There are severe environmental costs, as well -- for instance, a thousand plastic bottles are thrown away every second of each day within the United States [supply: Gleick].