Articles for the Topic: 'In the News'
Toshiba Qosmio F20 Multimedia Notebook With DVD Writer
Toshiba, Japan’s leading notebook PC manufacturer, has recently lauched its multimedia notebook, Qosmino F20, with Intel Centrino Mobile technology with an Intel Pentium M processor 750 and featuring Intel PRO/Wireless (802.11b/g) for easy wireless connectivity to the Internet.
Toshiba Qosmio F20 notebook is a four-in-one digital notebook featuring a 450NIT (2lamps) High Luminance Clear SuperView 15.4-inch wide-screen display capably of 1,280 x 800 pixels of resolution, down from G20’s 17-inch 1,440 x 900-pixel resolution. It also comes with integrated TV tuner, digital video recorder (DVR), DVD SuperMulti double layer drive, virtual surround-sound stereo speakers.
Toshiba Qosmio F20 notebook PC comes with three USB 2.0 and one FireWire port. The standard 5-in-1 card reader is able to handle most flash cards in the market. Network connectivity is handled by the ethernet port, modem and wireless card that can link with 802.11b and 802.11g routers.
Asus J206 iPod Style Music Phone
Asus, the motherboard major has introduced, J206, a mobile phone which features full portable music playback including MP3/AAC/WAV music file format support.
Asus J206 is capable of 12 hours of playback time, has 60 MB of internal memory, and a microSD slot which allows up to 2 GB memory expansion for more music on the phone.
The Asus J206 seems to be so heavily inspired by iPod design that it has the iPod click-wheel interface almost copied, right down to the icons and placement.
The sensor under the touch pad detect heat from your hand and then the phone will determine the action. This type of the design is nice since it give you all the music player control you need. Plus it enables scrolling the music playlist simply by moving hand on the touch pad.
Asus J206 is of just about same size as that of Nokia N91 music phone and has slider phone design. With USB connectivity and a headphone jack built right in. Bundled with the phone is “Music Manager”, an iTunes like music syncing program, it looks like clear substitute of expensive iPod.
Dell Announces New Inspiron 640M Notebook PC
Dell recently announced the launch of its new, lightweight, Intel Centrino Duo Mobile Technology powered Inspiron 640M notebook PC that features a 14.1-inch widescreen screen and long battery life.
The new Dell Inspiron 640M is powered by Intel Core Duo Processor T2300 (2-MB L2 cache, 1.66 GHz, 667 MHz FSB) and features 512-MB DDR2 533 MHz SDRAM, 60-GB SATA 7200 rpm hard disk drive and a 24X CDRW/DVD Combo drive.
The Core Duo processor leverages two execution cores on a single chip to help increase your PC’s ability to run multiple applications smoothly.
The Inspiron 640M comes standard with Wi-Fi for connecting to any 802.11 b/g network. Optional 85WHr 9 cell battery can give up to 8:32 hours of productive laptop uptime.
Adding the Dell Wireless 350 Bluetooth module allows attaching wireless mice, keyboards, PDAs and other Bluetooth-enabled devices without the hassle of cords and cables.
9.2 Million Indians Expected To Seek Jobs Online By 2007
According to a report by IAMAI, India’s online job seeking population grew by 71 percent from 3.8 million in 2004-05 to 6.5 million in 2005-06. The IAMAI report puts the market size of the Indian online recruitment industry at $32.9 million.
According to a study conducted by Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI), about 100 million Indians are expected to use the Internet by 2007-08 from the present 38.5 million. As a result, the number of online job seekers is expected to cross 9.2 million this year (2006-07).
IAMAI President Subho Ray suggests that there are enough reasons as well to search for a plum job on the net.
“Internet is the most immediate, convenient and comprehensive resource for employment seekers to research for jobs and careers and the online job sites apart from offering a huge data bank offer myriad of tools both job seekers and employers,” asserts IAMAI President Subho Ray.
HP Compaq Presario SR1702 IL Athlon 64 Desktop PC
Hewlett-Packard has announced its latest Compaq Presario range of advanced desktop PCs for India market, Compaq Presario SR1702 IL featuring AMD Athlon 64 processor with HyperTransport technology.
Compaq Presario SR1702 IL is equipped with a with 80 GB Ultra DMA 7200 rpm hard drive, integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200 PCI express video graphic card, combo DVD/CDRW optical drive and standard 15-inch color monitor.
Compaq claims that its Compaq Presario range of desktop PC are designed to deliver powerful digital media experience with enhanced speed and performance - be it interactive 3D gaming, digital imaging or streaming video/MP3 audio from the Internet, this multimedia powerhouse gets more done for you in the fastest and easiest way.
The new Compaq Presario SR1702 IL delivers superior performance and ultimate entertainment at a great, affordable price.
Nokia 6708 Smartphone With Stylus
Nokia has launched its latest Smartphone, Nokia 6708 targetted to business consumer that incorporates handwriting recognition. This compact mobile phone is equipped with a unique pen-based touch screen input with Chinese and English language character recognition.
Nokia 6708 is the very first candybar type design mobile phone from Nokia to have a stylus, which can be used all over the 2.66-inch, 208×320, 65k color screen and features xHTML/HTML browser.
The touch screen input enabled Nokia 6708 includes a 1.3 megapixel camera with anti-shaking, powerful voice features, a large high-resolution display and Bluetooth connectivity to support office and scores of multimedia applications all bundled in a tiny gadget weighing just about 150 grams in 116 cc space with 52 mm thickness.
The Nokia 6708 smartphone also features improved security via a Remote Lock feature which can be engaged by sending the mobile phone an SMS from any other mobile phone which locks the phone.
Wireless LAN Enabled HP Pavilion m7382IN In India
Hewlett-Packard India, in its HP Pavilion Media Center PCs series, introduced in March 2006 the new HP Pavilion m7382IN model featuring Wireless LAN (IEEE 802.11 b/g, a standard for wireless data transfer) for India market.
Being wireless LAN enabled, the HP Pavilion m7382IN PC can share a single Internet connection with other wireless enabled devices and PCs in the home and can also be connected wirelessly with home entertainment devices for digital convergence.
HP Pavilion m7382IN desktop is powered by the Intel Pentium D dual core processor and offers impressive processing speed.
According to HP, a TV-tuner card with a remote control and Creative speakers with sub-woofer, which comes with this desktop will help transform the digital experience for users, allowing them to watch movies and play songs in theatre-quality sound and will also enhance the gaming experience for avid gamers.
Gigabyte Releases W511U Notebook In India
Gigabyte Technology (India), has unveiled its new widescreen W511U notebook computer featuring Intel Pentium M Processor 740 ( Pentium 1.73 GHz speed, 2-MB cache) with 512 DDR RAM and 60-GB 5400rpm ultra DMA HDD.
The new W511U notebook PC sports 15.4″ WXGA color TFT LCD screen capable of providing 1280 x 800 resolution.
The W511U notebook PC with a weight of under 2 Kg, a slim optical drive, 512MB DDR RAM, and Intel Wireless PRO 802.11b/g with wireless network connection of up to 54Mbps, is useful for secure and efficient wireless communication anywhere.
For enhanced security and data protection the new Gigabyte W511U notebook has Kensington Security Lock, HDD password and BIOS Security (Password Security-Supervisor Password/User Password)
NEC Versa M350 / 1803 DW Laptop
NEC Computers Asia Pacific has announced its latest model, the NEC VERSA M350 / 1803 DW which provides users with a secured computing platform with unique fingerprint recognition technology and trusted platform module (TPM) security chip.
The NEC VERSA M350 is designed with advanced security features to safeguard confidential and sensitive data against cyberthreats and even theft/ loss of the notebook.
At the core of its secured and trusted computing platform is its advanced Fingerprint Recognition Technology which provides an enhanced level of security and safeguard to the system.
Nvidia Unveils Dual-GPU Card - GeForce 7950 GX2
Nvidia, the graphic card manufacturer, has launched its new dual-G71-GPUs based graphic card package, the GeForce 7950 GX2, today.
The Nvidia 7950 GX2 has two mobile GPUs (graphic processing units) which run in parallel across an internal connector, offering what Nvidia claims is the best single card performance on any graphic card package in the world.
The Nvidia 7950 GX2 is still two cards mounted together but Nvidia has had to do some tweaking in order for both to work together within this form factor.
The two chips are on two separate PCBs and are cooled by two separate coolers, much as with the 7900 GX2 Quad-SLI cards.
$100 OLPC Laptop Advances Closer To Launch
Nicholas Negroponte, cofounder of MIT’s Media Lab and head of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) nonprofit organization, said that the laptop, originally estimated to cost $100, would probably cost closer to $135 to $140 by the time it is actually launched.
The research project at the MIT Media Lab had a plan for getting $100 laptops in the hands of millions of children in the developing and underdeveloped world. India is one of the seven countries world-wide selected for the launch of the project, scheduled for April next year.
One notable feature is a hand crank for providing power in places where electricity is undependable or unavailable.
The rugged, 2-pound laptop will be able to make its price goal, Negroponte said, not only by emphasizing essentials but also by eliminating sales and marketing costs that commercial computers have.
Toshiba Launches MK2035GSS 2.5-Inch 200-GB HDD
Toshiba Storage Device Division has announced a new 2.5-inch 200GB HDD, MK2035GSS, based on Perpendicular Magnetic Recording (PMR) technology using only two hard-disk platters. Toshiba plans to start mass production of the drive in August 2006.
Toshiba’s second-generation PMR offering features the worlds highest areal density at 178.8 gigabits per square inch (277.1 Mb per square mm) and the highest-capacity drive on the market in the standard 9.5mm mobile PC format.
The new Toshiba 2.5-inch MK2035GSS HDD also boosts of data capacity that is 1.67 times more than Toshiba’s highest capacity conventional 2.5-inch drive.
HP Launches StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Data Backup Tape Drive Systems
HP has introduced its new mass storage data backup system, HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive for Indian market featuring enhanced 800 GB data media, effectively doubling the capacity of its prevailing Ultrium tape backup drives.
The HP StorageWorks Ultrium 960 Tape Drive represents HP’s third-generation of LTO tape drive technology. Positioned as the highest capacity drive in the StorageWorks family, the Ultrium 960 features an 800 GB compressed (2:1) storage capacity using new LTO 3 media.
HP claims that by doubling the capacity of current Ultrium drives, HP customers now require fewer data cartridges to meet their storage needs, significantly reducing their IT costs and increasing their ROI.
Nokia Releases Symbian Apache Web Server Source Code for Mobile Web Server
Nokia has released the complete source code of the Symbian Port of the Apache web server for mobile phones, under open source project, potentially empowering any user to create and maintain his own personal mobile websites.
Running an Apache web server on a mobile phone sounds pretty exciting and it throws open some potentially new avenues of many useful applications for this massess in view of the fact that mobile phones users outnumbers PC users.
Background
It has been possible to access the Internet using mobile phones for quite a while over various mobile phone internet access protocols like GPRS and WAP, although the role of the mobile phone handset used for internet access has remained to be strictly been that of a client.
Samsung SGH-X660 Mobile Phone For Indian Market
The Samsung SGH-X660 is a stylish, tri-band, clamshell phone that features VGA/CMOS camera with 2x digital zoom, video recording and messaging capability, Photo Caller Id, 8 Mb internal memory, MP3 & AAC ringtones and speaker phone.
SGH-X660 features a signature U-line design that spells style. It is equipped with an external mono-screen (96 x 96 pixels). Its built-in CMOS/VGA camera with 2x digital zoom has excellent quality which also allows video recording.
The convenient external screen shows the time, date, incoming or missed calls without you ever opening the phone. While the wide internal 65K colour screen within unravels clear, vivid pictures, videos, and messages.
Opening the clamshell reveals a 65K color TFT (128 x 160 pixels) screen that displays 8 lines. This screen is bright and has a better contrast over the X640 screen. Samsung SGH-X660 also offers an IrDA port for whatever little synchronization it has to offer.
