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Submission + - USA Government To Release Electronic Passport soon (xuecast.com)

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XueCast

on Wednesday January 02, 2008 @06:08PM

XueCast writes: "http://www.xuecast.com/?p=430, United States Of America's Department of State has announced that they will release the new electronic Passport cards in either April or May 2008. The cards will have computer chips in them, and these chips would be used to store informations and they could also be read wirelessly or remotely from up to 20 feet away, which could reduce the waiting time at border checkpoints. Deputy Assistant Secretary Of State For Passport Services, Ann Barrett in an interview said that : " As people are approaching a port of inspection, they can show the card to the reader, and by the time they get to the inspector, all the information will have been verified and they can be waved on through. ""

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Submission + - NYPD To Replace Motor Fleet With Electric Scooters (xuecast.com)

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XueCast

on Wednesday December 26, 2007 @08:44PM

XueCast writes: "http://www.xuecast.com/?p=411, A few days ago, New York Police Department ( NYPD ), one of the largest police force in the United States of America had announced that they are planning to make New York greener by replacing their gasoline motorcycle fleet with the super quite and energy efficient electric scooters from Vectrix. NYPD said that they will first road test four electric scooters from the Rhode Island based electric vehicle manufacturer next month, and if the road test is a success, NYPD said that they plan to order more electric scooters from Vectrix to replace their less than green motorcycle fleet."

Submission + - Samsung Announces The Fastest 64GB SSD (xuecast.com)

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XueCast

on Monday November 05, 2007 @05:36PM

XueCast writes: "his new Solid State Drive ( SSD ) from Samsung can write data at 100 MB/s and read data at 120 MB/s which can easily out perform most current SDDs in the market that can only write at 45 MB/s and read at 65 MB/s. This new SSD will come in two form factors which are : 2.5 and 3.5, and will be running on SATA II standard, and also it will only consume 50% less power than most current SSDs in the market. There is no information yet about how much this new SSD will cost to buy."

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