Jonathan Ive the head of industrial design at Apple and the Map behind the fantastic design of the iPod and iMacs has become aCBE in the New Year Honours list.
As a republican I don’t usually have much time for this stuff.. but in this case I’ll make the exception !!
By using spacebourne atomic clocks, Europes chefs will be able to produce the perfect boiled egg.
Ok so I am joking.. but based on the reporting so far of todays successful launch of the Giove-A satelitte – I would not be surpised to find it somewhere.
Make no mistake Galileo when operational will be a technically superior system to GPS and will expand the potential uses of precise positioning hugely.
But the real story here, should be how this political endeavor will be funded? – the costs of the development and then operation of Galileo is expected to come largely from commercial operations – a market not yet established ?
Will satnav makers be willing to license chipsets to receive Galileo signals ?
Written and submitted from home, using my home 802.11 network.
No postings for a couple of days, Merry Christmas everybody !!