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The honchos at VW decided that Park Assist (PA) wasn’t enough. That’s where the car parallel parks itself while you twiddle your thumbs behind the wheel, and when the Fasten Seat Belt sign is extinguished you can get out and go on about your business. The latest development from VW is called Park Assist Vision (PAV), and it will park the car for you in any kind of spot — parallel or perpendicular — and you don’t even need to be in the car.

A PAV-equipped car is ringed with cameras and ultrasonic sensors, and when you find a spot you want, you select it on a touchscreen. You place the car in “P” and get out if you have that much faith in technology not to scratch your paint. Your remote control keyfob tells the car what to do from then on, and the car parks itself, shuts down and locks itself up, as any happy android car should.

PAV is still in development, but it’s a neat idea. It could especially come in handy when trying to slip into one of those ever-shrinking “compact” parking spaces, since it’s so hard to get out of the car once you get in the space. Now if they could develop a feature that actually locates available parking spaces for you, we’d be in business.

[Source: Autocar]

Los Angeles, CA (April 8, 2008) – Online marketing solutions provider Oversee.net said today that David Subar has been appointed Chief Technology Officer for the Company.
He will be responsible for building and implementing technology that supports Oversee’s core activities in its Domain Services and Marketing Services divisions, while aligning the Company’s technology resources for further expansion.

“Technology is critical to Oversee’s success and the appointment of David to CTO fills an essential and strategic leadership role in the company,” said Lawrence Ng, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Oversee. “We’re committed to developing the best technology to serve our stakeholders—domain investors, advertisers and consumers. David will help us explore the most appropriate growth avenues to provide competitive products and services in a rapidly evolving industry.”  Subar has over 18 years of experience in software development and product management for start-ups and mature companies.

Previously, he was CIO at Interthinx, a fraud detection and risk mitigation company serving the financial services industry. He has held numerous technology leadership positions in startups for venture capitalists and was CTO at PeopleLink, an idealab! company. Subar was CEO and Founder of Interna, Ltd. and was responsible for professional services at Inference Corporation. He also was a senior consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University.  “Oversee has the potential for tremendous growth,” noted Subar. “Strong technology is a key differentiator for our business, and with Oversee’s talented team of scientists, engineers, developers and programs, I believe that we can make a significant contribution to Oversee’s success.” Subar will report to Ng and work as part of the executive team at Oversee’s Los Angeles headquarters.

About Oversee.net

Founded in 2000 by Lawrence Ng and Fred Hsu, Oversee.net is a technology-driven online marketing solutions company, with two primary divisions – Oversee Domain Services and Oversee Marketing Services (lead generation). Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Portland, Oregon and Pompano Beach, Florida, the Company has over 200 employees. Some of Oversee’s key brands include SnapNames®, Moniker™, DomainSponsor™, Low.com™ and LowFares.com™. Oversee was named to the Inc. 500 and ranked third in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 of Los Angeles and 18th in the nation. Oversee was also named “2007 Internet and New Media Company of the Year” by the Technology Council of Southern California and its CEO and Co-Founder, Lawrence Ng, was named a winner of the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award for the Greater Los Angeles program in the technology category.

To learn more, please visit http://www.oversee.net/. 

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Source: Oversee.net News Announcement submitted to DomainNews.com on April 8th, 2008

We haven’t heard too many specifics when it comes to performance of actual WiMAX rollouts (and let’s be real, we’re all kind of waiting for LTE at this point, right?), but Garth Freeman, CEO of Buzz Broadband, apparently shuttered the company’s Australian WiMAX rollout in Hervey Bay, publicly declaring that for his company and customers the technology “failed miserably”. Apparently beyond about a mile from the base station non-line of sight performance was “non-existent”, regular indoor use produced latencies as high as 1000ms even just 400m away, and the company had to scrap its network for TD-CDMA service on 1.9GHz just to make sure customers weren’t completely left in the cold. Maybe they should have checked for an errant satellite, eh mate?

source:engadget

Philips has decided to hop on the bandwagon for PMPs. The SA6185 PMP comes with a 3.5″ LCD display boasting a resolution of 320 x 240, integrated speakers, a 5-hour video playback time, MP3 and WMA support. A standard PMP but without all the hype.

Other handset released is P720 and looks somewhat like Samsung Armani model. It is second offering by Samsung that offers Dual-SIM functionality. Just like Armani phone it features 3 megapixel fixed focus camera. It uses QVGA touch sensitive display and is somehow thicker by old Armani model though it is similarly sized otherwise.