Articles for the Topic: 'In the News'
Palm unveiled the Treo 700p
Palm officially unveiled the forthcoming release of the Treo 700p on Monday, four months after the release of its first Windows smart phone. The new Treo 700p would offer broadband like speed on their laptop computers by using the new smartphone as a wireless modem via USB or Bluetooth wireless technology.
The Treo 700p can connect to EV-DO (evolution data-optimized) networks, which offer download speeds between 400Kbps and 700Kbps and will be available through both Sprint and Verizon Wireless.
Adding a fast data connection to the already efficient Palm OS platform speeds email, messaging and large attachment downloads, and dramatically enhances web browsing. The speed of EvDO also allows for an enjoyable experience when streaming multimedia content, and the Treo 700p smartphone ships with Palm’s first built-in streaming application.
The Treo 700p streams mobile content, such as live TV, movie clips and audio from radio stations, as well as training videos or company communications.
Hitachi Launches 160HB Travelstar 5K160 2.5-inch Mobile Hard Drives
Hitachi has announced a new mobile hard drives based on perpendicular recording technolog. Company has today announced its new 2.5″, 5400RPM Travelstar 5K160 series hard drives.
The drive uses perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) tech and is aimed at the notebook market, but it will be used in next generation 1.8-inch drives, ready in the second half of this year.
The new Travelstar drives will be available in capacities of 40GB, 60GB, 80GB, 120GB and 160GB. The drives feature a 11ms seek time, 8MB of cache and are available with either an IDE or SATA interface.
Ricoh Introduces Caplio 500G Wide Digital Camera
Japanese camera manufacturer, Ricoh has recently introduced its newest Caplio, the 500G wide digital camera. The rugged 8-megapixel device boasts of high resistance to water, dust and shock letting photographers focus on the scene without worrying about damage.
New Ricoh Caplio 500G Wide can withstand immersion in water to a meter and can take a drop from one meter as well. The “Wide” suffix to the camera’s title refers to its 28-85mm, 3x optical zoom lens that is relatively wide when compared with most compact models’ lenses. Its 28mm wide-angle zoom lens is said to capture larger areas than the 35mm lenses of conventional digital cameras. So when there is limited space to manoeuvre and you have a large area like some building to snap, this digital camera would come handy.
Blackberry 8700g Review
Blackberry 8700g is perhaps most advanced Blackberry by T-Mobile. Whether it’s checking e-mail, making phone calls, or viewing stock prices, there is no other mobile device which can do job better than a blackberry. 
The new 8700g has combination of sophisticated styling, excellent navigation, and high-powered applications make it the favorite tool for mobile communication across the globe.
Unlike the 8700c, the new 8700g does not have the flat gray paint job that looks like it missed the creative design department. Instead you get a stunning blue or black case with a metal trim and black keypad. Priced at about $299 it’s also a ideal ‘low-priced’ mobile communication device in the market today.
Google Launches New Products
Google Inc. on 10 May 06, Wednesday has launched many new products in its ongoing duel with rivals Microsoft and Yahoo.
The company has added a new tool viz. Google Gadgets & Plug-ins to make it easier to share information through its online search engine and enabling users to download mini-applications, or “widgets,” designed to become fixtures on a computer screen.
iRiver Introduces D20 Dicple Alpha - a MP3 Player & Dictionary
iRiver recently launched iRiver D20, also called ‘Dicple’ a new portable device which is much more than just a digital music player.
Besides supporting the playback of various formats such as MP3, OGG and WMA, the slightly bulky, 370 gms device is also an e-book reader, a picture viewer, supporting GIF, BMP and JPG picture formats, an electronic organiser and a very advanced electronic dictionary.
The Dicple Alpha comes equipped with a decent sized QWERTY keyboard, a 4.3-inch colour TFT screen (a generous 4.3″ 262k color LCD TFT), a builtin FM radio, pronunciation assistant, microphone, 24 different dictionaries and a multiple memory card reader.
The idea is to have a little bit of entertainment when you are catching up on e-books or learning foreign languages. Pretty cool. It also supports a wide array of memory cards, including MMC, RS-MMC, SD and MMC-Plus.
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Acer Launched Travelmate 2423 Laptop NoteBook in India
Acer has introduced Intel Celeron M 370 based notebook viz. TravelMate 2423/2403 in Indian market at starting price of INR 29,999.
Acer TravelMate 2423WXCi is small in size measuring 33.5 L x 24 B x 3.4 H cm and lightweight at about 2.4 kg with battery.
Based on Celeron M 370 1.5 GHz CPU (1 MB L2 cache, 1.5GHz, 400 MHz FSB) it comes with 256 MB DDR2 400 RAM, 40 GB Hard drive, CD-RW / DVD Combo drive, Wireless LAN, 56K ITU V.92 modem and 14.1″ TFT WXGA (1280 x 800) screen.
Download - Opera Mini 2.0 for WAP Enabled Mobile Phones
Opera Mini is a fast and tiny Web browser, that allows you to access the full Internet on your phone. Users can surf any website such as Google, Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Hotmail on their mobile phone just like they would on a normal computer. Take all your favorite Web sites on the go with Opera Mini! This includes the vast majority of today’s WAP-enabled phones.
Instead of requiring the phone to process Web pages, it uses a remote server to pre-process the page before sending it to the phone. The new version further improves the browsing experience by enabling download of images, MP3s, etc directly to your phone.
Nokia N73 announced
Nokia unveiled the latest addition to the Nokia Nseries family, the Nokia N73, a computer phone with exquisite photography features and integrated stereo speakers with 3D sound for optimized audio pleasure.
N73 sports a stunning multimedia computer in a compact and savvy exterior with exquisite photography features and integrated stereo speakers with 3D sound for optimized audio pleasure. The N73, the latest tri-band phone from the house of Nokia has a lot of useful features:
In addition to a large 2.4 inch display, the Nokia N73 includes a 3.2 megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus and support for Internet communities like Flickr - a package ready to challenge any digital camera.
Motorola Launches MOTODEV Portal and Software Programs
Motorola has launched MOTODEV portal claiming to deliver a unified developer experience featuring a web-based program and business ecosystem. MOTODEV is designed to make it easier and more rewarding for developers around the world to innovate with Motorola, its products and technologies.
Designed to connect developers to the world of Motorola platform opportunities, company explains, its new MOTODEV portal provides access to everything one need to create and deliver innovative solutions for any of Motorola’s products.
Whether you’re creating business-driven content for iDEN handsets, games to run on a sleek new SLVR, or interactive entertainment solutions for Motorola’s Connected Home products, MOTODEV is here to support your success.
Developers familiar with Motorola’s developer programs, including Motocoder, iDEN, and Horizon, now have a single home base for accessing all the tools, documentation, and other resources you expect from your current Motorola developer program.
What’s new?
Motorola claims that its initial enhancements are aimed at giving you better access to developer information and support, including:
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Software Download - uTorrent 1.5 build 437
uTorrent is a powerful and efficient BitTorrent client for Windows.
* Multiple simultaneous downloads
* Configurable bandwidth scheduler
* Global and per-torrent speed limiting
* Quick-resumes interrupted transfers
* RSS Downloader
* Trackerless support (Mainline DHT)
Micro-Sized Yet Feature Filled
Most of the features present in other BitTorrent clients are present in µTorrent, including bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT (compatible with BitComet). Additionally, µTorrent supports the Protocol Encryption joint specification (compatible with Azureus 2.4.0.0, and now BitComet 0.63) and peer exchange.
Resource-Friendly
µTorrent was written with efficiency in mind. Unlike many torrent clients, it does not hog valuable system resources - typically using less than 6MB of memory, allowing you to use the computer as if it weren’t there at all. Additionally, the program itself is contained within a single executable less than 160 KB in size.
156KB | Windows version Windows (All) | Download | Freeware
Samsung launches world’s slimmest mobile phone
Samsung has introduced, as it claims, the world’s slimmest mobile phone, with an inbuilt MP3 player at the Sviaz ExpoComm 2006, technology show in Moscow on Wednesday.
The new wafer-thin mobile phone from Samsung, the SGH-X820, is just 6.9 mm thick and weighs only 66 grams, according to the company.
The SGH-X820 comes equipped with a 2 megapixel camera, a sophisticated MP3 player and Bluetooth.
The company claims that the Samsung `ultra-slim phone` has set a record in the mobile handset history by breaking the wall of seven-millimetre thickness for the first time in the world.
HP Launches New Notebook Computers
PC manufacturer, HP has launced seven new notebooks on May 9 expanding it’s laptop range of machines in a very big way.
Five of these systems are business laptops and the remaining two are consumer laptops showcasing new and sleek designs.
The new HP Pavilion dv2000 and the Compaq Presario V3000 will sport a new piano high-gloss finish.
HP dv2000 is a 14.1-inch widescreen computer that weighs about 5.4lbs. The dv2000 features either an Intel Core Duo processor or AMD Turion X2 dual core 64-bit processor.
‘Big Daddy’ - Google’s latest major overhaul of its algorithm
Many website owners have been baffled to realize that their websites having thousands of pages indexed in Google database for ages seems to have suddenly disappeared in last 2 months or so, with no trace - effectively erasing their entity from the web and causing untold business losses due to traffic lost.
Experts are indicating that Google’s search engine index, once a clean, lean but monstrous indexing machine, from a Webmaster’s perspective, has been really slipping badly lately.
Nokia partners with ATI to enhance multimedia
Nokia has signed a deal with graphics card specialist ATI to improve high-quality multimedia experiences on its handsets including music playback, 3D gaming, mobile TV and video.
The two companies will integrate hardware, software and tools, as well as promote open standards for multimedia to help developers create content that can be used on a range of devices.
