Technology

What are the main characteristics of pellet boilers?

The pellets can be used in boilers or boilers specially designed chips. Typically the pellet boilers are automated, of great simplicity of use and capable of providing a high level of comfort.

The pellet boilers are equipped with a container for the storage of the fuel located near the boiler, hence the pellets are picked up by a screw conveyor that transports them into the boiler for combustion. The burners for pellets are applied on the front of the boiler and are fed from above, the fuel burns generating a horizontal flame that is projected into the boiler.

Assisted bicycles: what they are and how they work

The bikes which adds to the propulsive action of an electric motor can provide an important contribution to sustainable mobility

The spread of cycling is an important element for sustainable mobility. The positive signals to a widespread use of bikes are multiplying in recent years in our country.

Less well known, perhaps, is that a significant contribution could be provided by the assisted bicycle (EPAC - Electric assisted pedal cycle, also known as pedelec): This is a bike whose propulsive action is added to that of a human motor. In the past it was common to use an internal combustion engine, while in recent years the engines are almost exclusively electric.

Future technologies for electronic shopping

The e-commerce is becoming increasingly popular in Italy, thanks to the economic crisis that seems to be one of the reasons that drives buyers to look for online deals. But surely there are still limits and for some it is hard to give up the security of a head touched with our hands and tried in the dressing room. But the technology of the future (not too far) promises to overcome this gap and to transform the e-shopping in a full sensory experience and realistic.

The trend is that of interactive store where the customer does not just click on the merchandise but becomes an active protagonist in a playful and engaging.

Situation of the diffusion of the cloud computing among companies for 2011

Overview of the current investment in Cloud Computing by Italian and foreign companies. Let's see what are the advantages and benefits but also the doubts of the companies and the possible risks.

It seems to be the solution of the future but at the moment there are still few, especially in Italy, companies are turning to cloud computing. It is a set of technologies that allow you to store, store and process data (via CPU or software) through the use of hardware and software resources distributed and virtualized on the Web According to many experts, these technologies pose the greatest technological evolution offered by Internet network.

How businesses can save money and increase productivity by investing in ICT

Let's see how Italian companies can improve data management and save thanks to ICT and to the spread of mobile devices with internet access.

The use of the Internet by the Italian has now been certified as a true boom: all daily use it for any purpose, personal or business it is, and what you know for sure is that, perhaps, none of us could more help it. In recent years the use of internet has grown exponentially, but it is only the beginning.

New technologies for concentrating solar

U.S. researchers have studied the shape of plants to design systems to concentrate solar energy much more efficient and less hungry for land

Rome - Looking for a new configuration to optimize the use of technologies with mirror for concentrating solar power (CSP), the MIT researchers have turned to physics first and then to the nature, simulating layout more efficient and observing how the sunflowers have the florets in the center of the flower.

The objective is to maximize the efficiency of CSP technologies, large plants of mirrors through which collect solar energy at a single point, which require a surface of the ground just as big to be installed.

Ultrafast broadband fiber optic for 30 Italian cities

500 million of the Deposits and Loans Fund will contribute to the plan of ultra-fast broadband coverage to 30 cities by 2017. Telecom is investing in infrastructure but also the government's plans are likely to overlap with those of the giant telephone.

The design for the ultra-fast broadband in Italy seems to really materialize. After the empty promises of previous governments some concern was obvious, and yet, for the first time in Italy, the Executive invests directly in the infrastructure plans of the country. It is a sign that something is changing, will be the diktat from Europe, will the digital revolution that hit Italy in the post-Berlusconi (as claimed by the NYT) the fact is that for the first time the policy meets the network , instead of trying to fight it or limit it. The news is in fact that the Deposits and Loans Fund has released a first tranche of 200 million (which will be followed by another of 300) to be invested to bring fiber to the home of 30 Italian cities by 2017 by TLC Networks. The cities are Brescia, Bergamo, Como, Monza, Turin, Genoa, Prato, Livorno, Florence, Rome, Naples and Salerno, Messina, Palermo, Catania, Reggio Calabria, Taranto, Bari, Foggia Pescara, Ancona, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Venice, Trieste, Udine, Padua, Vicenza, Verona and Milan (already covered by Metroweb). 

Strong growth of mobile payments

In times of crisis such as these is always a pleasure to note that some industry, not only suffered no damage, but even that is expanding very intensely. And 'the case of payments on the countertop. According to research by Gartner on Mobile payments will benefit from an increase of 61.9% compared to last year. In addition, by 2016, the sector will rely on a turnover of 617 billion dollars, generated by 448 million active users. A huge leap forward, if you compare these figures with those of 2011: 106 billion turnover against and 160 million active users. However, for 2012 there is a small boom: the numbers in this case speaking colonies of a turnover of 171 billion active users in the order of 212 million.

The extreme expansion of payments on furniture, however, will wink to the usual suspects. The small financial players will have little say in this boom .. To play the part of the lion, then, will be the oldest and largest 'player', well-known names in the four corners of the globe. Businesses that are able to reach every inlet capillary of the mass market thanks to their impressive economies of scale.

Strong Growth e-commerce in Italy in 2012

There are few industries that grow in the Italy of the crisis, one of these and e-commerce. Compared with a year ago, in fact active users grew 11% reaching € 10 million and it is expected a growth of electronic commerce by 18% by year-end, with a turnover of around 9.5 billion euro. Well even the data on exports which grew by 21% year on year to an amount that is expected to exceed 1.6 billion at year-end euro. These are some of the data presented at the seventh edition of the Netcomm eCommerce Forum, on the basis of studies conducted by the Observatory B2C eCommerce Netcomm-School of Management of Politecnico di Milano.

The positive figures put the e-commerce as a resource for the country and for the digital economy, not for nothing is one of the key points of the Digital immediately behind the development of broadband, for which the Government has asked also an exception to the Fiscal Compact.

Second digital terrestrial version (DVB-T2): Change by 2015

New switching to another decord: what changes and why

Change still the world of television: from 1 January 2015, in fact, all manufacturers must incorporate into their models tv tuner digital terrestrial DVB-T2 standard and, as of July 1, 2015, will no longer be sold the TV without new type of decoder.

So while some parts of Italy (especially in the center and south) have not yet completed the transition to digital television, here's a new change on the horizon. The news was announced by the Monti government and tax simplifications contained in the decree.

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