But this is dwarfed by the capability of a small UAS called Eturnas which MicroLink is collaborating on with Design Intelligence, a company based in Oklahoma.By treating solar power as an add on technology to an existing UAS design it is possible to achieve a 200% to 300% improvement in flight times over battery power alone, says James Grimsley, Design Intelligence's boss.
Not unaware of the criticism, all of these push companies are now offering free add-on technologies to decrease bandwidth requirements.
The new product, dubbed WhistleGPS, uses both GPS and sub-GHz cellular technology to add on-demand location monitoring to Whistle's flagship activity tracking gadget that syncs with iOS or Android devices.
At the same time, the company attacked the competing systems, suing federal air quality regulators and claiming that the add-on technology was so flawed that it failed to meet the clean-air requirements.
For the U.S. solar sector to move up from rooftop add-on technology to the scale of fossil fuel power plants, the country needs to build large plants covering hundreds of acres.
WiMax (or some other 4G technology) will, without a doubt, be the next add-on technology.
Neither would the add-on technology required to meet tough U.S. emissions standards.
The important thing here is that what Verizon is trying to do is to add on more features and technology to differentiate FiOS from the rest of the pack of paid TV services — in this case helping with search and discovery, interactivity and multiscreen services.
If the user downloads the Xmarks add-on, the technology will mark popular bookmarked sites (with an icon) in any Google, Yahoo or MSN Live searches.
With Swickis, they've taken the basic technology and added on a "do it yourself" interface to allow a much larger number of sites, particularly blogs, to also integrate search direclty into their content.
