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Home ? Cell Phone News ? Narrate Zoosh Introduces Ultrasonic NFC for iPhone, Android

While Google prepares to get its Google Wallet mobile
payment service based on traditional near field communications technology
into New York and San Francisco markets this summer, a startup is taking a
different tack with NFC: ultrasonics.

NFC is a wireless technology that enables short-range
communications between devices, such as smartphones and a point-of-sale
(POS) terminal, equipped with special sensors. Google, the ISIS carrier mobile
payment initiative, and many others are using NFC in this fashion.?

Narrate?s Zoosh software leverages smartphones? speakers and microphones to
enable the same data communications between devices that today?s NFC provides, but with
ultrasonics frequencies that are inaudible to humans.

Narrate Co-founder and Chief Development Officer
Byron Alsberg said Zoosh uses the phone speaker as a data transmitter
to transmit inaudible data over the air to a device?s microphone as the
data receiver. Zoosh transmission are encrypted with a unique
electronic key.

It?s ostensibly an software-based acoustic baseband, with
proprietary algorithms rolled up in software to power applications. ?If
a device has MP3 playback capability, it can Zoosh,? Alsberg told eWEEK.

In nature, ultrasonics are used by frogs, dolphins and other animals
to communicate; with Zoosh, they are being used to enable secure communications in
Apple?s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhones, Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android phones, iPads and
Android tablets, as well as computers, TVs and feature phones.

This is a potentially big deal because today?s
NFC-enabled smartphones require special NFC chips. Zoosh effectively cuts
out that chip as middleman.

Google for example provides NFC capabilities in its
Android 2.3 ?Gingerbread? operating system. However, Gingerbread
smartphones such as the Samsung Nexus S 4G leverage Secure Element chip to
enable NFC and store credit card information for the Google Wallet service.

Many Android phones will be upgraded to Gingerbread this
year, but most won?t be able to enjoy the benefits of NFC because they lack those
chips. Zoosh will in fact enable these communications, cutting out that chip
and even the network connection as middlemen, Narrate CEO and Co-founder Brett
Paulson told eWEEK.

?When we look at the current technologies out there,
they have fallen short in trying to provide this device-to-device technology,?
Paulson said.

Indeed, Google and its carrier partners could well license (or buy)
Zoosh to enable mobile transactions for Gingerbread smartphones lacking
NFC chips. See how Zoosh works in this demo, which shows payment between an Android smartphone and and iPhone.

Paulson said he, Alsberg and their team are selling Zoosh in a software development kit developers
can plug into their existing applications.

This kit is sold directly to wireless carriers, which may provision
it to thousands of devices over
the air. At the retail level, most POS systems already have audio
systems in them, so retailers could install Zoosh and plug in a $30
dock that conducts NFC transactions.

Loyalty card provider SparkBase will use Zoosh to store and manage loyalty cards via smartphones in July. Other use cases for Zoosh include purchasing train
tickets, goods from vending machines, virtual currencies and checking in at the local gym. Bluetooth
headset pairing is in the works as well.

Naratte, which banked $5 million in funding from unnamed
investors, is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. and has 12 employees. The company
currently has eight patents pending.

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Article source: http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Narrate-Zoosh-Introduces-Ultrasonic-NFC-for-iPhone-Android-807492/

Source: http://thephonenerd.com/2011/06/20/narrate-zoosh-introduces-ultrasonic-nfc-for-iphone-android/

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Stradivarius Violin Sold For $16M To Aid Japan

TOKYO -- A Japanese music foundation has sold a renowned Stradivarius violin for $16 million at a London auction to raise money for tsunami disaster relief.

The nonprofit Nippon Foundation said Tuesday the proceeds from selling the nearly 300-year-old violin known as the Lady Blunt will go to relief projects in northern Japan.

The group's music affiliate owned the violin made in 1721 and hardly used. The new owner was not identified.

Foundation spokesman Hideo Fukuda said the group plans to use the proceeds to support and promote traditional arts in the region.

The March 11 earthquake and tsunami left more than 23,000 people dead or missing in northeastern Japan and destroyed hundreds of homes, offices and factories.

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APNewsBreak: Railroads threatened with lawsuit (AP)

LOS ANGELES ? An environmental group sent letters Tuesday warning two of the country's biggest rail companies to prepare for a federal lawsuit if they don't undertake measures to clean up hazardous waste their facilities emit into the air from diesel engines in 16 California rail yards.

The Natural Resources Defense Council sent letters to Union Pacific Corp. and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, saying it will file a lawsuit within 90 days under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which regulates hazardous solid waste disposal. The letter cited rail yards across California from Oakland to San Bernardino.

In what could be a precedent-setting lawsuit, the council argues that minute particles in diesel air pollution, which include lead, cadmium, nickel and other toxic elements, are solid waste. If successful, such a suit could open the door for legal action against similar air pollution sources such as ports, airports or anywhere with a lot of diesel equipment, said David Pettit, a senior attorney with the council.

"I think the reason why other people haven't tried it is on first glance you would think that the emissions are a gas and RCRA doesn't apply to gases," Pettit said. "The fallacy with that is the exhaust has two components: one is a gas and the other component is a solid and those solids will kill you if you inhale enough of them."

The railroads carry cargo throughout the country after it's imported from Asia. Millions of cargo containers on trucks and trains travel by freeway and railway through Southern California.

The rail yards have long been blamed for health problems in communities along those transit corridors. The tiny particles contained in diesel exhaust can penetrate deep into the lungs, carrying a variety of toxins that have been linked to acute bronchitis, lung disease, heart attacks and other health problems.

Exposure to the pollution is especially dangerous for children whose lungs are still developing and the elderly, whose immune systems may be compromised.

Southern California air quality regulators recently announced a major study focusing on a San Bernardino rail yard that has been found to pose the greatest health risk of any rail yard in the state. The two-year study will cost an estimated $846,000, and researchers are hoping it will determine if there is a higher asthma and fatal cancer rate in the surrounding community.

The Natural Resources Defense Council's notice of intent to sue was also sent by two environmental justice groups East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice and the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, which have been working for years on rail pollution and say little has been done.

"It is time for the rail companies to be good neighbors and right the wrongs they have imposed on California communities," said Angelo Logan, executive director for East Yard Communities

Aaron M. Hunt, a spokesman for Omaha, Neb.-based Union Pacific, and Lena Kent, a spokeswoman for Fort Worth, Texas-based BNSF, did not immediately return a call and email for comment.

The letter recommends a series of remedies for the pollution including the use of cleaner locomotives, electrifying rail lines in urban areas and reduced idling.

Environmental law experts say that while RCRA regulates solid hazardous waste, it could potentially be applied to diesel particulates.

Holly Doremus, an environmental law professor at the University of California at Berkeley, said there has been debate over what constitutes solid waste, but in this case there's no doubt the tiny toxic elements are waste. She added that typically the Clean Air Act is supposed to apply to such particulate pollution but the restrictions haven't been particularly effective.

"It's not a slam dunk either way, and I think it's very creative by the NRDC to have found this possibility," she said.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/environment/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110621/ap_on_he_me/us_train_pollution

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More than 2 million affected by China flooding

More than 2 million affected by China flooding

BEIJING (AP) ? More than 2 million people have been displaced or otherwise affected by flooding in eastern China?s Zhejiang province that is also pushing up food prices, state media reported Sunday?.

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Live - Kukushkin v Federer

Six-time Wimbledon champion Roger Federer faces Mikhail Kukushkin in Centre Court's second match of the day.

This article is from the BBC News website. ? British Broadcasting Corporation, The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

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Microsoft's Hyper-V 3.0 coming to Windows 8?

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