Martyn Williams
Senior Correspondent, IDG News Service
- Technology, Metro San Francisco
- Palo Alto. CA
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Senior correspondent at IDG News Service covering mobile tech and Silicon Valley. KJ6SDF. I run northkoreatech.org and was a 2011-12 Knight Journalism Fellow.
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RT @ReutersMariS: RT@AP: BREAKING: 80-year-old Japanese climber becomes oldest man to summit Everest, Nepalese official says.
RT @KQEDnews: BREAKING: San Francisco awarded Super Bowl L in 2016
Satellites See Storm System that Created Moore, Okla., Tornado
nasa.gov — On May 20, 2013, NASA and NOAA satellites observed the system that generated severe weather in the south central United States and spawned the Moore, Okla., tornado. On May 20, 2013, a supercell thunderstorm in central Oklahoma spawned a destructive tornado that passed just south of Oklahoma City.
@tokyorich US National Weather Service also uses radio fax for marine weather, but it's slowly dying, like shortwave radio broadcasting
@tokyorich Useful but more and more ships have Internet. It's laudable that Kyodo continues. Transmitters are in Singapore and west Japan.
@tokyorich Other countries don't have anything. PCs require satellite Internet, which is expensive kit. Shortwave is free, already on ships.
@tokyorich Here's one I received on shortwave in 2010. US also sens marine weather maps via radiofax to ships pic.twitter.com/9GMcDWoSh1
martyn_williams: @tokyorich Here's one I received ...
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@tokyorich To ships at sea! They even introduced an English service for foreign seamen on Japanese vessels. Focuses on SE Asian news
@Eric_Rasmussen Map includes 579 incidents
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