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Palm TX Handheld Wireless Gadget
The PDA pioneer Palm has announced release of their new Palm TX handheld PC featuring built-in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth technology and huge 320 x 480 transflective TFT touchscreen display which supports over 65,000 colors.
The new Palm TX handheld wireless gadget is ideal for browse the web and check email from anywhere - campus, or home network and places like airports, cafes, and hotels.
Palm TX handheld allows users to carry their Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents for mobile presentations and makes web pages, presentations, spreadsheets, photos, and videos come live on its large color screen that rotates from landscape to portrait mode by simple click.
The Palm TX handheld can even be used for listning MP3s music and read eBooks. It’s anything but business as usual.
Datamini Festiva MG Series Desktop
GES Technologies has unveiled its Datamini Festiva MG Series of desktop computers powered with new Dual Core Intel Pentium D processor, in India.
The Datamini Festiva MG series of desktops for indian market are powered by Intel Pentium D 805 processor with 2-MB L2 cache, 2.66 MHz FSB, and comes with CD writer and standard 38.1-cms (15 inch) color monitor.
Company claims that with the use of the new generation Intel Pentium dual core processor, the Datamini Feativa MG series of desktop PCs are so powerful that background applications and network activities which once used to hog the system and network resources and pull system’s overall performance down, has now virtually becomes non-existent.
HCL Laptop X9906 Leaptop PC With DVD Writer
HCL has recently announced the lauch of their Leaptop brand of laptop PC, the HCL laptop X9906 powered by Intel Centrino Duo Mobile technology.
The HCL laptop X9906 features Intel Core Duo Processor T2300 (2MB Cache, 1.66 GHz, 667MHz FSB) and comes with 512 MB DDR2 RAM, 60 GB SATA hard drive, dual layer DVD writer and 14-inch (35-cm) Wide XGA TFT display.
Preloaded with Geniune Microsoft Windows XP Home edition, the new HCL laptop X9906 also features Intel PRO/Wireless 3945 Wireless LAN 802.11b/g connectivity, built-in 56kbps modem and 10/100/1000 fast ethernet network card along with 4-in-1 card reader.
Philips GoGear Portable MP3 Player
Philips has recently unveiled yet another iPod nano look alike portable MP3 music player, the GoGear featuring 2-GB flash memory.
The new Philips GoGear with 2-GB flash memory (expendable) is suffiecient for storing upto 1000 standard bitrate songs or upto 5000 medium resolution pictures and it can play MP3s, WMAs, and WAV files.
The Philips GoGear also features an integrated FM radio tuner with 20 presets, ID3 tag and album art support, and direct voice/FM/line-in recording facility.
The Philip GoGear with 2-GB flash memory is likely to be available in India by Julu 2006 and is expected to be prices at about Rs. 9,000/-
HP Launch Pavilion DV2025TU Notebook PC
Hewlett Packard India, today launched, its global brand of premium HP Pavilion notebook PC, the HP Pavilion DV2025TU, featuring Intel Centrino Due Mobile Technology, and is equipped with HP’s Imprint Finish Technology.
HP claims that the new molding and imprint technique used for designing HP Pavilion DV2025TU notebook PC had been created after conducting through market research in three continents to understand personal design preferences for diverse user groups.
HP’s Imprint finish incorporates an advanced molding technique produced using Nissha Film Products.
HP Pavilion DV2025TU notebook is also the very first notebook PC to features ‘capacitive’ touch technology for accessing the audio, launch buttons, and volume controls. By just touching, tapping or swiping these backlit media launch buttons in a very similar manner as on a touch pad, user can have direct access to entertainment objects.
Download - ePrompter 2.0 Email Notification Program
ePrompter is a free email retrieval and notification program that automatically and simultaneously checks and retrieves messages from up to sixteen password protected email accounts including AOL, Email.com, Excite, Gmail, Hotmail, Juno, Lycos, Mail.com, MyWay, Netscape, POP3, Rediffmail, Switchboard, USA.net, Yahoo and hundreds of other email domains .
Once new messages have been retrieved, ePrompter notifies you which accounts have messages and how many messages are in each account.
ePrompter also gives you the ability to delete unwanted spam or suspicious looking mail - the kind that might contain viruses - without having to launch your email program or go to your web mail’s site.
ePrompter also allows you to compose, forward, and reply to your retrieved messages, without having to launch your email program, and gives you the ability to delete unwanted spam or suspicious looking mail without having to launch your e-mail program or having to go to your Web mail’s site.
Compaq Presario SR1930IL Desktop PC
Hewlett-Packard has announced on 16-May-2006 its latest Compaq Presario range of advanced desktop PCs for India market, Compaq Presario SR1930IL featuring PentiumD 820 (S) DC 2.8 GHz processor, 800 MHz front side bus.
The new Compaq Presario SR1930IL comes with 512-MB PC2-4200 DDR2 SDRAM (expandable to 2-GB) and is equipped with a 160 GB SATA 7200 rpm hard drive, integrated ATI Radeon Xpress 200 for Intel graphic processors and DVD writer.
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.
Logitech Cordless Keyboard S530 for Apple Mac Desktops
Logitech recently released their latest keyboard for Desktop Apple Mac computers. Designed specifically for your Mac, the Cordless Desktop S530 Laser includes a comfortable ultra-flat keyboard and a high-performance laser mouse.
The set consists of a sleek, ultra-flat full keyboard and a laser optical mouse with five programmable buttons. The keyboard features two unique narrow panels one either side of of it, with 15 additional keys that make it easy to launch various applications on one-click.
As compared to Apple’s might mouse, the new Logitech cordless keyboard S530 is certainly more comfortable to use as well as offering more options.
Fujitsu LifeBook P7120 Notebook PC
Fujitsu-Siemens has recently introduced their new ultra slim notebook PC, LifeBook P7120 in India. The LifeBook P7120 weighs 1.38 kgs and is equipped with Pentium M 1.2 GHz processor and a 10.6-inch widescreen XWGA display.
The LifeBook P7120 comes with many advanced features such as wireless connectivity, biometric security, long battery life, and Bluetooth support.
The LifeBook P7120 comes with fingerprint security as standard. The biometric fingerprint sensor is tied to the Trusted Platform Module (TPM), which acts as a hardware vault for passwords and encrypted keys.
In addition it also sports wireless connectivity, long battery life of up to 11.5 hours (with two batteries), and Bluetooth support.
Xerox Phaser 3117 Monochrome Laser Printer
Xerox India Ltd recently launched their most economical monochrome laser printer, ‘Phaser 3117′ in India featuring a 16 ppm printing speed, 8-MB of internal memory and USB connectivity.
The Xerox ‘Phaser 3117′ laser printer has maximum printing resolution quality of 600×600 dpi and has a 150 MHz processor with 8-MB internal memory. It has a multipurpose tray that holds up to 150 sheets. It can handle a wide range of media sizes, print posters and watermarks.
Xerox claims that it supports the diverse and complex needs of document printing, making it an ideal choice for entrepreneurs, small businesses, SOHO and personal home users.
Genius Unveils TVGo A11 And TVGo A03 TV Tuner Products
Genius, a Taiwan based leading computer peripheral manufacturer announced the launch of their new TV tuner products in India, Genius TVGo A11 and Genius TVGo A03 for desktop and notebook PCs.
Genius TVGo A11 - PCI TV Tuner Card
Genius TVGo A11 is a standard PCI TV tuner card for desktop PCs which turns PC into a colorful TV set. It allows reception of cable TV or listen to FM radio on PC.
Genius ‘TVGo A11′ supports analog TV and it comes with remote control, audio cable, AV input cable, IR receiving cable and FM cable.
Genus TVGo A11 features includes upto 16-channel preview, FM radio listening, real-time and schedule recording in MPEG-1/2/4 format. It also allows video capturing and still image capture. TVGo A11 also allows connection to VCR or Video Camera. Time shifting and schedule recording are the key features of Genius TVGo A11 and its fully compatible with Microsoft Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005.
i-mate Announces i-mate JAMin Mobile Phone
i-mate, a specialist vendor of Microsoft Windows Mobile devices, has announce the launch of their most compact Windows Mobile 5.0 based Pocket PC, the ‘i-mate JAMin’.
The new i-mate JAMin mobile phone comes in the same compact form factor as i-mate JAM but houses significant improvements including Quad-band GPRS/EDGE capability, lightning-fast Wi-Fi built in (802.11b and 802.11g), a 2.0 megapixel advanced camera, and all the latest Windows Mobile 5.0 software that includes standard packages such as Pocket Outlook, Phone, Internet Explorer, Power point, MSN Messenger and Games.
The i-mate JAMin mobile phone comes with 64MB RAM and 128MB ROM, MMC/SDIO slot.
Resembling a standard PDA, i-mate JAMin’s larger stature, compared with the size a regular cell phone, allows for a bigger touch screen of 2.8 inches diagonal, with support for 64k colors, as well as a 240×320-pixel resolution.
Seagate Unveils 10 New Data Storage Products In India
Seagate Technology has today launched 10 new hard drives and data storage solutions for the entertainment, consumer electronics and computing segments. According to company, all the new products have been designed to support the growing demand for digital content in a on-demand world.
According to Seagate, many of these new data storage products leverage Seagate’s perpendicular recording technology, include 1.8-inch, 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch hard drives with up to 750GB of capacity for consumer electronics, notebook and desktop PC and enterprise applications.
The company also introduced a 2.5-inch notebook drive that combines rotating disc and flash memory, and added Macintosh support to its next generation Mirra personal server.
Panasonic Lauches World’s Lightest LCD Projector - PT-P1SD
Panasonic Asia Pacific Pte Ltd. has announced launch of PT-P1SD LCD projector in India. Panasonic claims that the PT-P1SD is the world’s lightest and smallest LCD projector with built-in SD RAM card slot for standalone slide shows and presentations without the need of being connected to a PC.
The new Panasonic LCD projector, PT-P1SD, provides a new way to present digital still images or moving pictures taken with a digital still camera or camera mobile phone using the SD memory cards for storage.
By simply inserting such a SD memory card pre-loaded with images, pictures or movie clips into the projector’s SD card slot and the Panasonic PT-P1SD is ready to project clear, bright, beautiful images onto a huge screen without the need for a PC or laptop.
The images on the Panasonic PT-P1SD’s SD card are displayed as a list of thumbnails and users simply select the images they want to view. The PT-P1SD also features built-in slide show functions for viewing your digital photos.
$30 GSM Mobile Phone Handset launched
GSMA, a global body of GSM operators has launched world’s most economical mobile phone handset for less than Rs. 1,350 or $30 and announced their ambition to connect half of the entire world population with mobile phone by the year 2010.
GSM operators Association (GSMA) also said in an official release that this weekend, the mobile phone industry will connect the 2nd billionth GSM mobile phone user in the world.
GSM-based mobile services have also seen phenomenal growth in India, where out of the 100 million mobile subscriber base, the GSM based mobile user base is 80 million. China is the largest single GSM market in the world today with more than 370 million users and the USA has 78 million users.
