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CommuniGate Systems partners with Smartworld to deliver ‘Hosted Unified Communications’ to enterprises across Middle East

CommuniGate Systems, the specialist in efficient, massively scalable Unified Communications, today announces its partnership with Smartworld, an industry specialist in secure, smart, and integrated communication solutions, to deliver Smart Hosted UC to small and medium sized enterprises across the Middle East.

How to Shorten Google Maps URLs

Due to the many parameters involved in compiling a Google map, URLs for Google Maps tend to be very long; too long in fact to add to a tweet on Twitter, or to insert anywhere that space is an issue. This article explains how to fix this easily, using an easily enabled Google Maps Labs feature known as “short URLs”.

Steps

1. Go to Google Maps Labs. The URL is: http://maps.google.com/maps?showlabs=1. A box will pop up. In the box, you will see “Short URL”.
   

2. Click on “Enable”. Click on “Save Changes”.
   

3. Check a Google map. You should be able to see a small tab “Link” in the top right hand corner.
   

4. Right click on the “Link” tab. Your URL for that map will be immediately turned into a shortened URL, the box widening out for you. Copy and use as needed.
   

Tips

• This is a useful method that clarifies for the reader where they are being sent because the description link will clearly show you “goo.gl” and “maps”.

Warnings

• Currently Google removes the embedding feature if you enable “short URLs”.

Things You’ll Need

• Internet
• Google Maps

Related wikiHows

• How to Find Your House Online with Google Maps
• How to Add Google Maps to Your Website or Blog
• How to Find Directions on the Internet Using Google Maps
• How to Use Smart Navigation on Google Maps
• How to Get Driving Directions in Google Maps

Sources and Citations

• Google Operating System, http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2010/07/shorter-google-maps-urls.html – research source
• Goo.gl, http://goo.gl/ (not yet available for wide use)

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Today at High Gear Media: Hackers in Cars, Kia Optima, and Leaf

We’ve driven the 2011 Kia Optima enough for a very Quick Drive. First Drive? We’ll save that for a future date. [MotorAuthority] Could your WiFi-connected car be vulnerable to hackers? And could you hire them to hotwire the Coke Zero machine? Just a thought. [TheCarConnection] Smart’s Fortwo is hitting a serious slump, but the Daimler division…

Smart Aviation buys two new aircraft

Egypt-based Smart Aviation has signed a $62m order with Bombardier Aerospace for two Q400 NextGen turboprop aircraft. The Cairo-based firm has also taken options on an additional three Q400 NextGen aircraft, which if converted to firm orders, would raise the order’s total value to $158m, Bombardier said.

Smart Sales Sputter, But Upcoming Products Will Broaden Appeal

Smart’s newness in the U.S. is wearing off, and demand for its only U.S. model, the Fortwo two-seater is, falling. According to Automotive News, the Smart brand will likely sell fewer than 100,000 vehicles worldwide, down from 114,000 in 2009. Citing a report from the German paper Der Spiegel, it reports that U.S. sales will likely this year be…

NovAtel Introduces SMART-MR10 GNSS Receiver/Antenna for On-Machine Environments

NovAtel Inc., an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) of precise positioning technology, today introduced the latest addition to their SMART antenna line. The SMART-MR10 is the first in a new family of GPS+GLONASS L1+L2+L-band integrated receiver and antenna products. Housed in a rugged enclosure, the SMART-MR family is designed specifically for on-machine agriculture, construction, and mining applications.

Why Intel’s Infineon Buy is a Smart Move

Intel has been on a buying binge lately. Just two weeks ago the world’s largest chip maker agreed to acquire security vendor McAfee for $7.68 billion, and today it announced plans to buy Infineon Technologies’ Wireless Solutions (WLS) division for $1.4 billion.

More Smart ForTwo Trouble: Owners Least Likely To Buy Another

As regular readers know, we’ve never been big fans of the Smart ForTwo minicar. It’s not that we dislike small two-seaters; in fact, we think they’re cool (unlike most U.S. car buyers, we should add). No, our problems with the Smart stem from its unpleasant driving quality–the slamming shifts from its automatic manual gearbox that pitch the…

Smart Car Shopping: Six Great Deals This Week

This summer, car sales have been even slower than automakers had expected, leading some of them to counter with aggressive discounts.  But, as fall approaches, we’ve seen them cut back on the deals they’re offering.  This month, many of the best options for shoppers are domestic, but even some domestic automakers have rolled back the broad price…

Prosperity without Growth

A review of Smart Growth , by Edward D. Hess.

NEC’s new ‘Smart Mobile Client’ integrates mobile devices with enterprise network and cuts mobile calling costs by 30%

NEC Unified Solutions announced the introduction of Smart Mobile Client, a new sophisticated solution for Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) that extends the functionality and capabilities of NEC communication servers to market leading smart phones.

Your Money: Can Smart Money Management Be Sexy? (The New York Times)

There are ways to broadcast your financial values and seek significant others who share your approach without coming off as a tightwad or a gold digger.

Science Weekly: Superheroes ? a warning (Guardian)

National Geographic reporter Peter Miller discusses how flocks, schools and colonies can make us better at communicating and decision-making. His new book The Smart Swarm is out now. In our new show-and-tell news section, Nell Boase, science correspondent Ian Sample and the Observer’s Robin McKie discuss why autism can’t be diagnosed with scans, what a new bone discovery says about human evolution, and whether the P=NP question has been solved. We Skype psychologist Sharon Lamb from the University of Massachusetts in Boston. She tells us why young boys are being brainwashed into thinking they can only be either a superhero or slacker. (Hint: it’s Hollywood’s fault.) Follow the podcast on our Science Weekly Twitter feed and receive updates on all breaking science news stories from Guardian Science. Email scienceweeklypodcast@gmail.com. Join our Facebook group. Listen back through our archive.Subscribe free via iTunes to ensure every episode gets delivered. (Here is the non-iTunes URL feed).Andy DuckworthAlok JhaIan SampleRobin McKieNell Boase

Smart Plant P&ID administrator

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T25: Another Gordon Murray Microcar

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Smart pill alerts heart patients about next dose

A ‘smart’ pill that texts your cellphone when your next dose is due is undergoing tests in Britain.

N.C. State Turns to Smart Data Analytics to Find Research Partners

N.C. State University has signed up IBM to help its technology transfer office speed up the process of matching university research projects with potential investors and industry partners.

Product Manager Imaging Products

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Product Manager – Imaging Products

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Smartworld launches cloud based UC services

UAE-based ICT services provider, Smartworld has launched its cloud-based Smart Hosted UC services for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the Middle East. The hosted service is a secure end-to-end solution for SMBs with a user friendly interface that allows companies to instantly implement and seamlessly integrate with existing applications and smartphones. The service provides a single secure platform for e-mail, contacts, instant messaging, calendaring, file sharing, mobility, telephony and customer support.

Ford Advances Crash Avoidance Technology

Ford researchers are advancing vehicle safety with the development of new crash avoidance systems that use wireless vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications to detect and respond to imminent collisions. Ford’s research into wireless “active safety” applications includes its vehicle-to-infrastructure Smart Intersection project. Ford is conducting cooperative vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure research with industry and government partners to increase road safety and traffic efficiency. Globally harmonized standards are needed to enable global deployment of reliable and cost-effective vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure technology.

Smartworld launches cloud-based unified communications services for businesses across Middle East

Smartworld, a next-generation ICT services provider, today announced the launch of its cloud-based Smart Hosted UC services for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the Middle East. The service is offered in two modules – standard and premium and provides a single secure platform for e-mail, contacts, instant messaging, calendaring, file sharing, mobility, telephony and 24×7 customer support; thereby allowing users to streamline information, collaborate and work anywhere and at anytime.

HTC teams up with Du for Smart Business Plan offer in UAE

HTC Corporation, a global designer of smartphones, has announced that it has tied up with telecommunications service provider Du for the new Smart Business Plan that Du has introduced for subscribers in the UAE.

Think Big, Act Smart: Reducing Uncertainty in Transformational Change

It is time to fundamentally rethink how business transformations should be carried out. The idea is to structure the change as stand-alone, self-sufficient elements, each of which can be executed wholly within a short change cycle to deliver tangible benefits by itself.

E-governance

National Institute for Smart Government (NISG), Hyderabad, in association with the information technology department of the ministry of communications and information technology and TA Pai Management Institute (TAPMI) has announced a one-year postgraduate e-Governance Programme (eGPX) for executives.

Smart Car Shopping: Big Deals On These Five Convertibles

  It may sound like some strange factoid hurtling in from a parallel universe, but ragtop shoppers, take heart: sometimes, convertibles are cheaper in summer. How can that be? We’ve seen automakers introduce convertibles in the dead of winter–when people are most receptive to the idea of a warm summer day and a topless ride. Other manufacturers…

2011 Scion iQ Coming in March, Staying a While

When the Smart-like 2011 Scion iQ shows up in dealers next year, it’s likely to give the Daimler-built two-seat city car some heartburn. The vice president of Scion, Toyota’s brand-within-a-brand, confirmed this week at the press launch of the 2011 Scion tC that the new iQ will arrive in the U.S. early next year with a Smart ForTwo-like package…

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Tricking the brain to shed weight

Being a little smart may help you lose weight! The brain can be tricked into shedding weight by eating high satiety, low-calorie foods like apples, bananas and grapes.

For instance, eating an apple before your meal can make you feel more satisfied from your food, says a Daily Mail report.

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Week in gaming: gaming mice, the Move, StarCraft whining (Ars Technica)

This has been the week of StarCraft 2, whether you’re playing the single-player game, trying to improve your online rank, or just complaining about the lack of LAN play in the forum, this is certainly the game that everyone is discussing. On the other hand we have a review of a gaming mouse that changes to fit your hand while sporting some very bold aesthetics, and we talk about Sony’s strategy of updating current games to support the Move while adding optional content in other big releases. The trick is simple: get support into games you either have or were already planning to buy, and build your collection before you have the hardware. Smart.

Here’s what people were discussing this week in the world of gaming.

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Kia Schools Us in Smart Style with 2011 Optima Interior

  The 2011 Kia Optima doesn’t arrive in showrooms until the fall, but earlier this year the South Korean automaker blitzed the 2010 New York auto show with its upcoming four-door with a showy worldwide reveal, a press release with some details on the car’s powertrains and features, and best of all, a boozy after-hours party in a nifty Meatpacking…

Girls take lead on TV but not in Hollywood films

NEW YORK – Smart, adventurous lead girl characters like Dora the Explorer and superheroine WordGirl have found time on children’s television, but Hollywood has preferred to keep princesses safe in their turrets.

Garmin Nuvi 3750, 3760T, 3790T – MyTrends Navigation – Smart GPS

I have always dreamed of a smarter GPS, better traffic understanding, better local road understanding and better “me” understanding. Garmin seems to be taking on the last one with MyTrends. The Garmin Nuvi 3700 series (3750, 3760T and 3790T) will take your favorite destinations and learn what the routes are and where you are likely headed to automatically pop up the route, the traffic (on the “T” models) and your expected time of arrival. Cool stuff. The new super thin Nuvi 3700 series (did Apple copy Nuvi’s square design for the iPhone 4?) was announced a few months ago and they packed a whole lot into a super slim form factor.

From Garmin:

“With myTrends, when you save your regular destinations in your “Favorites,” your nüvi 3790T will, over time, begin to figure out where you’re going even without your telling it! It provides time of arrival and relevant traffic information. So whether you’re driving to and from work or a regularly scheduled weekly event, your nüvi 3790T will help you get there on time.”

The MyTrends feature will start to learn regular trips of yours and understand that you are going to that weekly meeting or daily trip to work and bring up the best route with relevant information. The trick is to do this with accuracy and not automatically plan my trip to work when I am driving to the grocery store.

This learning feature is hopefully just the start of some smarter GPS capabilities. I would like to see route feedback where the GPS learns from me that my shortcuts are faster than its mass market route planning, or that the trip on the highway isn’t always the fastest because it learned from my habits. We’ll get there.

The Garmin 3700 series is now shipping at Amazon:

• Garmin Nuvi 3750 – Super Thin, 4.3-inch screen, MyTrends
• Garmin Nuvi 3760T – Adds Free Lifetime Traffic, Bluetooth
• Garmin Nuvi 3790T – Adds Voice Command and 3D Buildings Display

Now, get traffic update SMS to beat jams

Getting traffic updates through FM radio is now a thing of the past. Traffic updates are now just an SMS away. And it will be round-the-clock. Subhendu Ray reports. Smart service

Want To Eradicate Any Smart ED Worries? Just Say Tanks

Like the Nash Metropolitan 50 years ago, the 2010 Smart ForTwo generates its share of cracks, stares, and guffaws. People who drive the tiny two-seat Smart minicar just have to get used to it. And Smarts suffer their share of slights, from a rash of ‘Smart dunking’ incidents in the canals of Amsterdam to a Portugese organized-crime Smart-theft…

Smart Car Shopping: Great Car Deals This Week

If you’re going out car shopping this weekend, you should know that automakers aren’t discounting cars the way they did just a few months ago. As Toyota fought to recover its reputation amidst allegations of unintended acceleration in the spring, it launched a round of heavy discounts.  That kicked off a price war.  Historically, heavy discounts…

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If No One Notices Your Smart ForTwo, Why Not Wrap It In Plaid?

You’ve got to be at least somewhat extroverted to drive a 2010 Smart ForTwo minicar, the smallest car sold in North America. People stare at it, point at you, and often ask you variations of, “What on earth makes you want to drive that?” Now, for the most extroverted of Smart owners, there’s a new and even more noticeable option: car wraps in a…

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