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Hiking the Hydrogen Highway

Proponents of vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells appear confident that, by the time the technology has advanced to the point of being a practical alternative to gasoline, diesel or any variety of plug-in electric vehicles, there will be an adequate hydrogen refueling infrastructure in place. I respectfully disagree. ...

EU’s eCall Telematics Project Finally Facing Good Prospects

After having languished for several years, Europe’s eCall in-vehicle manual and automatic emergency calling project aimed at saving up to 2500 lives every year finally seems to be gathering momentum, partly due to compromises made on integrating existing proprietary solutions, partly due to more member states and industry participants signing the MoU. Moreover, the...

HP Acquires 3Com: What's the Impact?

Hewlett-Packard announced that it is acquiring 3Com for approximately $2.7 billion dollars. While many seasoned IT managers began flooding Network World with comments, virtually all of them missed the point. The significance of the acquisition is not in a feature-by-feature comparison of 3Com and Cisco switches and old rehashed arguments over whether or not Cisco’s...

Hiking the Hydrogen Highway

Proponents of vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells appear confident that, by the time the technology has advanced to the point of being a practical alternative to gasoline, diesel or any variety of plug-in electric vehicles, there will be an adequate hydrogen refueling infrastructure in place. I respectfully disagree. ...

EU’s eCall Telematics Project Finally Facing Good Prospects

After having languished for several years, Europe’s eCall in-vehicle manual and automatic emergency calling project aimed at saving up to 2500 lives every year finally seems to be gathering momentum, partly due to compromises made on integrating existing proprietary solutions, partly due to more member states and industry participants signing the MoU. Moreover, the...

HP Acquires 3Com: What's the Impact?

Hewlett-Packard announced that it is acquiring 3Com for approximately $2.7 billion dollars. While many seasoned IT managers began flooding Network World with comments, virtually all of them missed the point. The significance of the acquisition is not in a feature-by-feature comparison of 3Com and Cisco switches and old rehashed arguments over whether or not Cisco’s...