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  Electricity around the world: everything about plugs, sockets, voltages, converters, etc. 

  http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm

  * In Brazil there is no standard voltage. Most states use 127 V electricity (Acre, Amapá, Amazonas, Espírito Santo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Maranhão, Pará, Paraná, Rondônia, Roraima, Sergipe and Minas Gerais). ... Other – mainly northeastern – states are on 220 V (Alagoas, Brasília, Ceará, Mato Grosso, Goiás, Paraíba, Rio Grande do Norte, Santa Catarina and Tocantins). Although in most parts of the states of Bahia, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Rio Grande do Sul 127 V is used, the cities of Santos, Jequié, Jundiaí, São Bernardo do Campo, Novo Friburgo, Bagé, Caxias do Sul and Pelotas run on 220 V. The states of Pernambuco and Piauí use 220 V, except for the cities of Paulista and Teresina (127 V). ** Although the mains voltage in Japan is the same everywhere, the frequency differs from region to region. Eastern Japan uses predominantly 50 Hz (Tokyo, Kawasaki, Sapporo, Yokohoma, Sendai), whereas Western Japan prefers 60 Hz (Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, Hiroshima). *** Saudi Arabia uses 110 V in many p   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 22 October 2007, by: David Wiblin  [Report as spam]

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  TrustedReviews - Universal Mobile Phone Charger Format Agreed 

  http://www.trustedreviews.com/mobile-phones/news/2007/09/24/Universal-Mobile-Phone-Charger-Format-Agreed/p1

  Could this be the most sensible development of the year so far...? Delivering a great bitch slap of common sense today is the Open Mobile Terminal Platform - a consortium comprised of manufacturers like ... LG, Nokia, Samsung and prominent rebadgers such as Vodafone, Orange, 3 and T-Mobile - which declared a consensus on a universal mobile phone charging standard: the humble micro USB. Also given backing by the USB Implementers' Forum, the choice of micro USB (above right) is an interesting one since while most handsets opt for mini USB (above left), micro's reduced size has greater future proofing for ultra thin handsets and is still capable of supplying both power and data. On top of this there are the environmental benefits of single cable solutions and even financial rewards since money can be consolidated not having to regularly come up with new connectors (or even bundle one?), a saving which could be passed onto the consumer. On the downside, most smartphones were only just group   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 24 September 2007, by: Kris Sangani  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  mobile phones, consumer electronics, power adaptors, bs, charger , juicing, power, standards, adaptors   [More...] [Less...]

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  iMedia Connection: Asian markets are driving the 3D web 

  http://www.imediaconnection.com/content/17265.asp

  Challenges abound in the highly complex virtual world transactions where open technical standards are key if its business benefits are to be realised. Asia's virtual world platform operators are seen to ... be playing a central role here. Amid all of the excitement around the potential of virtual worlds we've seen this year, one historic analogy has become increasingly unavoidable: what Compuserve and AOL were to the 2D web of the 1990s, Second Life, There.com and other "walled-garden" virtual worlds are to the emerging 3D web of the 21st century. As we saw with the 2D web, the key to realising the business and social benefits of its three-dimensional descendant will be in establishing widely-accepted and open technical standards, a process in which Asian players are playing an emerging central role. While Linden Lab's Second Life, Makena's There.com and other contenders vie for standards dominance in North American and European markets, some Asian virtual world players are taking a proact   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 13 November 2007, by: Kim Letchford  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  digital business, web, 3d, asia, asian , markets, web 2.0, second life, standards, virtual worlds   [More...] [Less...]