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London, UK, October 26, 2006 (XTVWorld.Com) -- weComm, a world leader in mobile data delivery, announced it has been granted a patent in the UK for techniques that increase the quality of the mobile user experience. This brings the total number of global patents and patents-pending to over 35.
This patent is part of a wider family that overcomes a major cause of poor mobile end user experiences: the fundamental unsuitability of TCP/IP to deliver data across mobile networks, even though it is the most common communications technology in use today (background is detailed below).
Using applications built with weComm's waveTM technology, mobile users can simultaneously - and in parallel - consume rich media content (including live broadcast TV), execute transactions (including stock trades), and interact with a real-time dynamic user interface, all within a single continuous session that adapts to variable mobile network conditions such as low signal coverage, switching between 3G/2.5G/2G channels and intermittent signal loss.
Voters in Grant, Comanche and Hodgeman counties will each consider ballot questions Nov. 7 to fund proposed improvements at their aging county hospitals.
The largest proposal is a $24 million project in Grant County. The projects in Comanche and Hodgeman are $4.5 million and $4.1 million, respectively. All will add new amenities and also bring the hospitals up to current fire and safety codes. Grant County At Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses, officials have developed a plan for 58,000 square feet of new space and renovation of 14,000 square feet of existing space. The new two-story building will be on land just north and west of the existing hospital in what is now a parking lot, hospital Chief Executive Officer Robert Ohlen said. When the new construction is done, a portion of the old hospital will be demolished.
The world outside Placer County's most troubled homes promises to be a friendlier one for children soon to be housed at a new Emergency Children's Shelter in North Auburn.Construction on the 12,000-square-foot school and living quarters, plus a 3,600-square-foot administrative and medical area, officially started Monday with a groundbreaking by elected officials.The shelter, built on county-owned land and with a price tag of $11.5 million, will be ready for occupancy next fall. The building will replace quarters nearby that county CEO Tom Miller and others described as "20 years past its time."The shelter provides temporary housing for children who need to be away from home because of abuse, neglect or other potentially harmful situations. About 300 children are placed in the emergency shelter yearly, Department of Health and Human Services Director Richard Burton said.Among the speakers at the groundbreaking ceremony was 23-year-old Amber Lane, a past resident of the Placer County facility and a recent California State University, Chico graduate.
Currently prohibited in Abita Springs, modular homes will soon be allowed in town. After a lengthy discussion Tuesday night, Mayor Louis Fitzmorris broke an initial 2-2 vote by the Board of Aldermen over proposed amendments, then the aldermen voted 3-1 to approve the prefabricated houses in town after specific regulations are drafted by the town Planning and Zoning Commission. Fitzmorris said the issue arose because a couple of property owners have commissioned a modular home based on their design, but it was not an allowable use under town zoning regulations. He said the prefabricated buildings might help provide more affordable homes, an issue that has emerged as a pressing need after Hurricane Katrina severely damaged much of the local housing stock.
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