New CPU and Graphics update for Sony Vaio E , F and L Series

Sony has upgrades their Vaio series lines. The Sony Vaio E Series is available for 2.66Ghz Core i5 580M and 2.53Ghz Core i5 460M and also new 2 Ghz Pentium dual-core option.

The updates also available for Sony Vaio EA and EB which provide Mobility Radeon HD 5650 graphics video and 1020 pixels display. E Series also provide purple as a color choice. Sony Vaio F series is also update its video graphics for newer GeForce GT 425M which is available by this month and equipped with USB 3.0 ready to meet fast external hard drives.

The Sony Vaio L Series has options for Blu-ray and 2 TeraByte hard drive. For CPU it has 2.66Ghz Core 2 Quad S and has options of a TV tuner.
via electronista

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September 26, 2010

Studio Hybrid : unique, stylish and green desktop PC from Dell

Dell's Studio Hybrid is most unique and stylish Desktop PC yet greener PC in the market. Studio Hybrid designed in ultra compact design available in 6 interchangeable color sleeves and Bamboo to match your sense of style.

Environment friendly

Uses energy-efficient Intel^® Core^TM 2 Duo Mobile Processors, Studio Hybrid consumes about 70% less power than a typical desktop PC and comply to Energy Star 4.0 with an 87% efficient power supply. The material are also made from 95% recyclable materials and comes with a system-recycling kit and has about 75% less printed documentation by weight compared to typical desktops.

It's Portable

As the design is about 80% smaller than standard desktops, this cutie is tends to be portable

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September 6, 2008

Double-sided touch panel display prototype introduced

A double-faced touch panel display recently exhibited at Sign & Display Show 2008 , 28 - 30 Aug in Tokyo, Japan. The dual-faced display by Teraokaseiko Co Ltd was made by attaching a resistive touch panel to the both sides of a transparent inorganic EL panel. The prototype is an orange monochrome display with is 256 x 120 pixels, that can be touched at either both sides.

So what this thing is best for ? Teraokaseiko expects the dual-faced touch display will be suits for mapping software where users can touch the back side of the display to operate it without hiding a part of the map with their fingers and chance two users of gamer facing each other can play a game by using both sides of the display. Sound cool.

via techon

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September 3, 2008

Ups ... Microsoft did it again : PageUp and PageDown keys patented

Photo by bitterjug

It seems Microsoft is racing approaching 10,000 mark for their US Patent. At the other hand, Microsoft has a long story for its patents that are many argue about it , or can sometimes demonstrate or were based on earlier work carried by others or common basic self-evident idea. One example is patent on mouse wheel that can scroll up and scroll down .

And now Microsoft did it again with Page Up and Page Down keystrokes, the patent was granted on August 19 under US patent number 7,415,666 " Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments " and was applied for the patent in 2005. For your information, Page Up and Page Down buttons have been in existence since the beginning of personal computer.

The Patent abstract for this patent stated :

A method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed. In one implementation, pressing a Page Down or Page Up keyboard key/button allows a user to begin at any starting vertical location within a page, and navigate to that same location on the next or previous page. For example, if a user is viewing a page starting in a viewing area from the middle of that page and ending at the bottom, a Page Down command will cause the next page to be shown in the viewing area starting at the middle of the next page and ending at the bottom of the next page. Similar behavior occurs when there is more than one column of pages being displayed in a row.

via zdnet

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September 2, 2008

iPhone 3G will be launch on 11 July in US and Mexico

AT&T and Apple yesterday announced the iPhone 3G will be available in US on July 11. iPhone 3G, a long waited iphone with features of 3G networking is also will be available in Mexico by 11 July by América Móvil, a leading wireless service provider in Latin America.

Boasting "Twice as fast, half the price", iPhone 3G is twice as fast as the first generation iPhone with 3G networking and has built-in GPS as well as iPhone 2.0 software that includes MS Exchange ActiveSynv and hundreds of third party iphone applications.

With AT&T's powerful 3G broadband network that is covering more than 275 US metropolitan areas and 350 by this year end, Apple is continuing working with this largest wireless service provider in US.

“We’re thrilled to continue working with the largest wireless carrier
in the US to bring iPhone 3G to AT&T customers this July,iPhone 3G is a revolutionary product and we can’t
wait for customers to get their hands on it.” said Tim
Cook, Apple’s COO

“We think iPhone 3G is an amazing mobile device and our customers are
going to love using iPhone 3G to make calls, send emails and surf the
web even faster.” said Ralph de la Vega, president and CEO, AT&T Mobility

As in US, iPhone 3G is also will be available in Mexico on 11 July through América Móvil and will be available in América Móvil’s other Latin American operations,
including Argentina, Brazil, Central America, Chile, Colombia and the
Dominican Republic later this year.


via Apple.com press release

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June 11, 2008

1 Terabyte USB External hard drive from iOmega

Imagine you can stores up to 4,000,000 photos, more than 18,500 hours musics or 1,500 hours videos on an external hard drive. IOmega eGO 1 TB Desktop Hard Drive, a new 3.5 inch hard drive with USB 2.0 connectivity from iOmega has been launched. Yes, 1 TB = 1000,000,000,000 bytes. The design of this new beast is based on popular Iomega® eGo Portable Hard Drive. This new desktop hard drive is available in ruby red, midnight blue and jet black.

1TB IOmega eGO Desktop Hard Drive is including a license for EMC® Retrospect HD software (PC Only download) for automatic backups, scheduled backups or on-demand backups and is compatible with Mac OS X 10.1 or higher and with Microsoft® Windows 2000 Professional, Windows XP, and Windows Vista™.

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June 3, 2008

Gamers, this lightning fast 2000 Mhz memory is for you !

If you are a gamer who are demanding faster frame rates, faster loading times and faster task switching for best performance of your gaming pleasure these memory from Corsair is might be for you. Corsair, renowned for its high performance computer product has announced that they will launch a new 4GB DOMINATOR DDR3 memory kit that is running at 2000 Mhz at CompuTex 2008 in Taipei held on 3 - 7 June 2008.

Designed to have the highhest performing IC maximum over-clocking, DOMINATOR is equipped with Corsair's patented DHX quad-layer heat sink cooling system.

The DOMINATOR family of memory represents the ultimate in performance
technology engineering from Corsair. DOMINATOR is designed with the highest
performing IC overclocking capability and Corsair's patented DHX cooling.
DHX technology is an innovative quad-layer heat sink design that optimizes
memory performance and reliability by maximizing thermal dissipation. With
DHX Technology, heat is removed via two paths -- the leads of the BGA chips
into the PCB (conductive cooling) and the back of the BGA packages into the
custom designed extruded aluminum heat sinks (convective cooling). This
allows DOMINATOR modules to achieve industry leading overclocking
performance while remaining stable and reliable.

As for gamers who demand nothing but the best performance, Corsair provide gaming performance analysis which conclude that there are significant performance benefits with 4GB Corsair memory featuring DHX technology. Test findings demonstrate that 4GB has faster frame rates, faster loading times and faster task switching of up to eleven times.

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June 2, 2008

Play your iPhone music or iPod on your car's FM stereo with iTrip Autopilot

This is how to share your iPhone or iPod music collections with all of your family in car. iTrip AutoPilot using its FM transmitter, broadcasts the music from your iPhone or iPod to an open FM frequency on your car's FM stereo, so all members can listens your music collections through your car stereo's speakers. The built-in SmartScan technology will finds the perfect open frequencies setting for you and if your car radio is RDS-enabled, song information will displayed on your car radio display. iTrip Autopilot is also lets you charge and control your iPod easily.

iTrip Autopilot includes the following features :

• New SmartSound™ Plus that delivers clear sound under real-world conditions.
• SmarScan technology that scans the readio dial for three best frequencies and saves them to 3 programmable presets.
• RDS technology to show song information on RDS-enabled car radio display.
• New AutoPilot playback control that puts a set of iPod controls in easy reach.

The iTrip AutoPilot will coming soon to the market at US$ 99,99

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May 25, 2008

Load your camcorders with Sandisk 32GB Ultra II SDHC

Latest cameras offer more megapixels and new HD ( high definition) 'record-to-memory-card' camcorders are being introduced lately and these makes the image and video size is getting bigger, in which require higher storage media capacity for storing.

Giving customers more freedom to take pictures and videos, SanDisk corporation released its SanDisk Ultra® II with 32GB capacity. The card ofer faster read and write speeds up to 15 megabytes per second (15MB/sec) compared to previous speed of 10MB/sec.

The 32GB Ultra SDHC card is the industry-leading capacity and the highest capacity consumer flash memory card that SanDisk produces. This card give user freedom to capture thousands of images ( up to 8000 high resolution images) and hours of High Definition videos ( up to 40 hours of 640x480 15fps MPEG 4 ) in single card.

For ultra speed NAND based memory, check out iODrive


[via SanDisk press release]

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February 12, 2008