Tag archive: Atlas

The King of Lego Geeks crown must go to physicist Sasche Mehlhase from the Niels Bohr Institute; at the very least he deserves a nomination. Mehlhase has created a detailed Lego model of the ATLAS detector, which is part of the ATLAS particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. ATLAS is one of the two general-purpose detectors at the Large Hadron Collider. The model is part of an outreach project at the Niels Bohr Institute… Read More

GPS maker TomTom has turned up the pressure in its efforts to acquire digital mapmaker Tele Atlas, saying it will increase its offer to €30 per share. The new offer represents a major increase over the €21.25 per share the company initially offered for Tele Atlas, and significantly tops the €24.50 per share bid made last week from rival Garmin. The new bid values Tele Atlas at about €2.9 billion, or about $4.2… Read More

Dutch digital mapmaker Tele Atlas has been pursued by Amsterdam-based GPS maker TomTom since mid-year: TomTom announced its intent to aquire the company in July for €21.25 per share—kind of a low-ball bid—and formally announced the offer in early October. The question was whether TeleAtlas shareholders would bite: although Tele Atlas formally endorsed the TomTom offer, Tele Atlas's shares had been consistently… Read More

Digital mapping company Tele Atlas announced today that the newly-available Pioneer AVIC Z1 in-car GPS-based navigation system on the TomTom Go 910 incorporate new phonetic data from Tele Atlas to improve the quality of speech technology used by the systems. If you've ever used an in-car GPS or similar device with speech synthesis capabilities, you've probably had a few laughs

Quote from the reviews at Digit-Life: “Maxtor extended the Atlas 10K series with the fourth line of SCSI drives and released the first line of the Atlas 15K series. The drives of this series have the spindle speed of 15,000 rpm. They are not entirely new solutions, but it's still worth testing their performance. We will compare them with Seagate's models of the latest generation.” Read the full review