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While many of you have likely forgotten all about the retail SCV1 backseat TV tuner that Sirius announced way back in August of last year (and promised for Q4 2007), those hooked from the word go will be elated to know that they can finally get their hands on one. As of right now, Sirius partners are finally stocking (and shipping) the SCV1 Backseat TV System. The pain? $299.99 for the unit itself and $6.99 per month for TV service. In other words, an absolute bargain to maintain sanity on that upcoming 18 hour road trip.

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If you wish to enjoy music from your iPod with bigger and clearer sound, you might be looking for a special speaker system for it. Bose offers you the SoundDock Digital Music System that you can conveniently bring with you where ever you go. Bose and your iPod becomes quite a powerful combination to allow you to enjoy your favorite digital music selections with crisp and clear sound that only Bose can provide.The Bose SoundDock Portable Digital Music System runs on rechargeable lithium-ion battery that provides the power needed by the speakers. It also comes with its own power cord that can be used to plug in the system into any standard wall outlet if available. It makes use of a slimmer design and with a built-in carry handle to allow convenient portability.

Using this portable speaker system with your iPod is just as easy. All you need to do is place your iPod into the docking station and then you are all set. The docking station can be rotated in place when not in use for added protection when it is not used while on the go. It also comes equipped with an infra red remote control that allows you to control music and sound selection with easy and convenience.

By now you’ve had a chance to sample the reviews on nVIDIA’s new flagship GeForce 9800 X2 graphics card right? Good, so did you happen to see the comments from bit-tech about heat? During their testing, bit-tech encountered “a number of heat-related crashes, hard locks and instabilities” with their ASUS Striker II Formula motherboard. They claim with 100% certainty that all the issues were related to the installation of the GeForce 9800 GX2. Apparently, the heat generated by the card coupled with 9800 GX2’s air-flow restricting footprint caused the motherboard to enter an automatic self-protect mode as board components exceeded 90 degrees Celsius (190-degrees Fahrenheit) — the GPUs never exceeded a reasonable 85 degrees Celsius. A fan placed directly above the motherboard’s south bridge (responsible for HDD controller, I/O, etc) fixed the problem. Consider yourselves warned.
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Your iPod is a probably your constant companion where ever you go. But once you go home, you might just set it aside and forget about it for awhile because you think that its use is just limited when you go out doors. But this should not be so. Your portable iPod can also be made into a part of a wonderful digital music system in your own home. What you would need is a good speaker to hook it up on. That is where Bose can come in.

Bose has the SoundDock Digital Music System that will help change your handy iPod into a part of a powerful music system in your home. No longer would you need to use a CD player at home to provide you with limited music choices. With the Bose SoundDock Digital Music System, you will still be able to enjoy your favorite digital downloads on your iPod right at the comfort of your own home.

With the Bose SoundDock Digital Music System, all you need is too dock your iPod on the docking station and you will be able to enjoy your favorite iPod tunes. With Bose sound quality and with the iPod, the digital music experience can never be this good. Bose offers you to enjoy excellent sound clarity with the music that you play on your iPod.

The Bose SoundDock Digital Music System can be plugged into any standard AC wall outlet with its included power pack. It also comes equipped with a handy remote that allows you to control your music choices at a push of a button. And with a stylish design, it would fit right in to any home and even become the center of attention. With the Bose SoundDock Digital Music System, you can now make your iPod your constant home companion.

For people like you who are always on the lookout for alternative ways of listening to quality sound for their speakers, a new sound technology might be in the offing in providing you just that. A British company called Airsound has come up with a new technology in sound reproduction that would change the way that you listen to your stereo. The technology is known as Airsound stereo that makes use of loudspeakers in a novel way to produce stereo sound unlike any conventional speakers used today.The Airsound stereo technology creates uniform stereo sound within any location of a room without any axis effect like most conventional speakers. What the Airsound technology does is that it processes stereo sound through its patented amplifiers and is converted into spatial as well as into main sound signals. When produced through an Airsound designed loudspeaker unit, the sound produced can be recognized uniformly throughout the room. You can listen to the sound as crisp and clear any where in the room that you may be in. The speaker system does not produce sound with “sweet spots” just like conventional stereo.

Almost eight years ago, Europe embarked on a journey to create its own navigation satellite system. Named the Galileo positioning system, this global navigation satellite system was intended for the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA) as an alternative to the U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS). We all know that the US Military runs the current GPS network system. 

Concept building began as early as 1999 but it was four years later that proponents agreed on the first stage of the Galileo program. The main difference from the current GPS ran by the US is that Galileo is intended primarily for civilian use, unlike the current one which the U.S. military has arbitrary control over. The US has the right to limit access or shut down totally public access to the GPS system especially during times of war or when they opt to. The Galileo system will only shut down access to during extreme circumstances.

Also, the Galileo project claims to be better than the GPS in that it can provide location precision of around one meter. The US GPS system provides only a 10 meter location precision. Also, the Galileo system will be available to all users, which means both civil and military are welcome to use it.

When finished, the Galileo system will consists of 30 satellites, 27 of those would be operational while the remaining three will serve as active spares. The satellites will orbit the three circular Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) planes which is located about 24,000 km altitude above the Earth, and at an inclination of the orbital planes of 56 degrees with reference to the equatorial plane.

On December 28, 2005 the first experimental satellite was launched. The Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element test satellite or GIOVE-A was launched to test technology in orbit for the Galileo positioning system. Two more test satellites, two more GIOVE, are expected to be launched in the next two years.

GIOVE-B was supposed to be launched this year, but problems after problems have pushed the Galileo project behind schedule. This time, the reported problem was with the Russian rocket Soyuz which was the one that supposed to place GIOVE-B into orbit.

Just like any space program today, the Galileo program has been hit by rising costs. Plus, the European Union officials had to step in when private partners began squabbling with each other which caused several delays in the project. The estimated costs for the project has now reached 10 billion euro or 14 billion dollars. After the delays, the latest forecast for the system’s completion has been set to 2012.