Thursday, January 20, 2005

Village sees the light with the help of solar mirrors. For three winter months of the year, Rattenberg, a mountain village near Innsbruck, is permanently in the shadow of the Stadtberg Mountain. Inhabitants can see sunshine across the valley, but for three months they get nothing and feel depressed. (bigger image) To bring some light to the village, engineers at the Bartenbach Light Laboratory in Aldrans, Austria, plan to install up to 30 mirrors on an opposite hillside. Computer-controlled motors will tilt the mirrors so they continuously track the sun's position. Light will be bounced onto a second bank of mirrors, which in turn will illuminate the streets below. It would take a mirror 10 times the size of the village to illuminate all of it, but an array of mirrors, each up to 2m across, will be able to pick out individual streets, squares and building facades, says Zangerl. 7:11:00 PM

Rural phone service fund under siege  Paul Reynolds was in cell phone Siberia. His cell phone worked fine in Sioux Falls, S.D., where he worked. But it was useless in his tiny hometown of Parker, 25 miles southwest. 7:09:28 PM

Fearful report for IT services workers?. A new report from research firm Bullhound says "IT offshore outsourcing is here to stay." 6:50:33 PM

NAMM: Apple showcases Logic, GarageBand (MacCentral). MacCentral - Apple Computer is out in full force at the NAMM music show being held this week in Anaheim, Calif. Highlights of the company's booth -- which is modeled after a large Logic Pro box -- are its consumer-level GarageBand, intermediate Logic Express and professional Logic Pro applications. 6:49:33 PM

Journalists must reveal their sources (if Apple asks). Letters Lock up the leakers and throw away the key! 6:46:25 PM

Intel's new mobile chips equal to high-end Pentium 4. With the release of its Sonoma technology Wednesday, notebook PCs based on the most powerful version of Intel's Centrino mobile technology now perform just as well as desktop PCs with Intel's fastest Pentium 4 processors, an Intel executive said during a press briefing. 6:45:56 PM

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