dongle
建物やトンネル内などナビの電波が届かないところでも対象の位置情報がわかるNavsopと呼ばれるnavigation systemを英国のBAEが開発したとのことです。dongleはまたまたIT用語です。Wikipediaは「主にソフトウェアの不正コピー防止のために使用される装置（プロテクトドングル）のことを指すが、PS/2ポートにUSBマウスを接続する ... USBドングルの内部はICカードのようなもので、フラッシュメモリなどを擁するUSBメモリキーとは異なるものとされている。」と説明しています。またまたIT関連の用語で、ついて行けないなと感じる今日この頃です。（UG）
BAE Systems' Navsop navigation system rivals GPS
By Katia Moskvitch
Technology reporter, BBC News
The technology can determine your position even if GPS signal is not available
A new positioning system has been developed to complement or even replace current technologies such as GPS.
Made by UK defence firm BAE Systems, it relies on the same signals used by mobile phones, TVs, radios and wi-fi rather than navigation satellites.
The firm says Navsop could help find victims inside buildings during a fire and locate stolen vehicles hidden in underground car parks.
It could also be used in a war if the sat-nav system was turned off.
For now, the prototype is a big box-like piece of hardware placed in the back of one of BAE's cars, which sports a radio antenna on the roof.
But once out on the market, it will be as tiny as a GPS dongle is today - a bit bigger than a coin - says Ramsey Faragher, principal scientist at the BAE Advanced Technology Centre in Chelmsford, near London.
bourse
bourseは元々はパリの証券取引所を表すことばでしたが、この記事のように今では世界各地の証券取引の場所を指すようになりました。語源はpurse、つまり、お財布です。実はこの単語、授業の小ネタとして高校のときに先生から教わりました。今でも覚えているのというのは不思議です。懐かしのあまり書いてしまいました。（UG）
Tokyo bourse 'widens insider trading probe'
CRIME JUN. 29, 2012 - 03:40PM JST ( 1 )
TOKYO (AFP) —
Tokyo’s bourse will search the offices of dozens of brokerage houses as part of a widening crackdown on insider trading, a report said Thursday, as lawmakers eye tough new rules to curb the practice.
Japan’s biggest daily, the Yomiuri Shimbun, said the Tokyo Stock Exchange planned to inspect about 50 investment firms to help restore investor confidence after a string of scandals involving the leak of market-sensitive information.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/crime/view/tokyo-bourse-widens-insider-trading-probe
haul
井の頭公園から「脱走」したリス君たち、脱走時よりその数を増やしてご「帰還」（？）となりました。ちょっとだけ面白い話です。haulは「ひと網の漁獲高」からの比喩です。ここでは「捕獲作戦」あたりでしょうか。（UG）
Zoo that lost 30 squirrels in typhoon recaptures 38
NATIONAL JUN. 29, 2012 - 03:45PM JST ( 20 )TOKYO —
Japanese zookeepers who lost 30 squirrels after a typhoon damaged their enclosure said Thursday their recovery efforts had exceeded expectations—with 38 animals back in captivity.
The bushy-tailed rodents made a break for freedom when a tree felled by a typhoon last week cut through netting at Tokyo’s Inokashira Park Zoo.
But after days of trapping the sharp-toothed creatures, a spokeswoman for the zoo said the haul had been more successful than expected and a total of 38 had been “recaptured”.
“We still receive about four to five reports a day from witnesses,” said Eri Tsushima. “We will continue setting traps as long as people keep reporting squirrel sightings to us.”
Most of the animals were caught in the surrounding park area, and Tsushima said keepers would be checking that all of those taken into captivity had the microchips the zoo implanted into its own squirrels.
She acknowledged that the ranks of recaptured animals could have been swollen by the wild squirrels who live in the park.
“We simply don’t know yet,” she said.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/zoo-that-lost-30-squirrels-in-typhoon-recaptures-38
arch-foe
JAPAN TODAY(Jun,29,2012)から英語表現を拾います。
ようやくGoogle ChromeがiPadとiPhoneでも使えるようになるようです。
Google's Chrome browser to be available on Apple's iPad, iPhone
Google Inc’s Chrome, the world’s top Internet browser, is now available on the iPhone and iPad, as Apple Inc finally granted access to its arch-foe’s more popular Web-surfing app.
At Google’s annual I/O developer conference in San Francisco on Thursday, company executives announced the development as well as a limited launch of a cloud-computing and hosting service to take on Amazon.com’s thriving Web services arm.
Both moves underscore how Google is moving quickly to safeguard its dominant Internet presence. Launched in 2008, Google’s browser overtook Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer in May as the world’s most popular, according to analytics company StatCounter.
“No matter which device you’re using, we are working really hard across all important software platforms,” Google Senior Vice President Sundar Pichai said. “We want to make sure it’s about the user.”
今回拾うのはarch-foeです。これは接頭語のarch-（首位の、第一の、主要な）とfoe（敵、相手、敵対者）が基となっている単語と解釈できます。（『ジーニアス英和辞典』、第4版、大修館書店）私の手持ちの辞書には定義が載っていませんでしたが、英辞郎で調べてみると、「大敵、究極の敵」という意味（英辞郎 on the WEB）でした。
そしてみなさんもご存じの通り、google社はApple社に引けを取らないくらいのIT業界のリーディング企業です。そのことを考えるとここでのarch-foeはfoeという単語の第3義である「(〜の)障害」(ジーニアス英和辞典、同上)いうニュアンスを使って「（会社にとって）最大の障害」というニュアンスも表現する為にこの単語を用いたのではないでしょうか。(EnDough)
