Archive for the ‘Mobile News’ Category

Cloud Computing Is Descending

Monday, October 27th, 2008

The IT forecasts requests widely spread clouds, in the sense that cloud computing hovers on the skyline. That was the consensus among the panelists at Cloud Summit Executive conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. Cloud computing is descending, everyone looked to agree, slowly to big organizations, more quickly to smaller ones, largely because it is financially demanding.

The definition stayed evasive. Cynics might favor Oracle . CEO Larry Ellison’s drive that cloud computing is marketing gibberish or free software guru Richard Stallman’s assertion that cloud computing is a trap.

Columbia law student and tech blogger Luis Villa, in a recent blog post, noted that there are actually four kinds of clouds: traditional applications, hosted elsewhere services affecting data that can’t (yet) be handled locally ; services that make creation of new data technically or economically viable; and services offering computing and storage, rather than data Web Services.

Far-Reaching Sony Bravia Line-Up

Monday, October 27th, 2008

In 2005, Sony has just five models introduced into the local market, now they have a far-reaching lineup comprising of 38 models sweeping 9 different series of models.

It was October 13 when the Bravia lineup was padded by some remarkable new additions to the X and W series of Bravia LCDs. 40”, 46”, 52”, and the largest full-HD screen by Sony – a full 70 inches of viewable area, as well as 40”, 46”, and 52” W-Series Bravia LCDs were all part of the launch event held at the Ayala Museum lobby in Makati Philippines.

Many attended the event, expecting one or two LCDs completing the already far-reaching Bravia line-up. Rather, we were greeted with a number of cutting-edge technologies in addition to a total of 9 new LCDs, each infused with powerful Sony technology and each having extra strengths and features to meet the need of all LCD buyers

Nokia Adds Up Fox News To Its Media Network

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Nokia annunciated it has contracted respective major U.S. publishers for its mobile publicising network. Nokia Media Network will now offer report from Fox News, A&E Network, Bio Channel, History Channel, and Hollywood Reporter to U.S. subscribers. These add-ons beef up the Nokia Media Network’s get hold of the United States, which has already been a well-performing advertising network, particularly for advertisers in the amusement, automotive, and mobile content domains.

Nokia assumed Enpocket last year and employed its analytics technology to establish the advertising network in February. The phone manufacturing giant prefer to leverage its tremendous reach to serve ads to its mobile audience.

The advertising network is barely an instance of Nokia entering other avenues beyond just fabricating cell phones.

The industry at large is in the middle of a transformation. It’s acting from a device industry to an experience industry.

Apple Litigated For Monopolizing MP3 Music Player Market

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Apple was sued in Arkansas by Luxpro Corporation, a Taiwanese electronics company, for contact blocking, attempted monopolization of the MP3 player market, unjust competition, and commercial derogation. It says that Apple has used illegal maneuvers, such squeezing Luxpro’s retail partners to stop marketing Luxpro music players, in an attack to monopolize the MP3 music player market.

Lupro demonstrated its Super Shuffle MP3 player at the CeBit trade show in Hanover, Germany. The device’s similarity to Apple’s iPod Shuffle, in terms of looks and name, moved Apple to seek an injunction against Luxpro. A German court conceded the injunction and Luxpro reacted by renaming its Super Shuffle to “Super Tangent.”

The following month, Apple engaged a third-party to purchase a Super Tangent from LuxPro” and “sneakily got two of Luxpro’s proprietary price lists. Apple then mailed menacing letters to Luxpro demanding that it withdraw its MP3 players from the market.

Big and Chunky Smarthphone

Monday, October 27th, 2008

I don’t really like big and chunky mobile phones since I have small hands. I might have the difficulty to type text messages. The Motorola VC6096 smartphone is three times the size of a Motorola Q. Can you imagine that? But this is not meant to be a mobile smarthphone. Instead, it is a vehicle fixed mount mobile phone. This is designed for transportation and logistics provider which promises to maximize driver productivity. I never imagined carrying a mobile phone this big. Maybe that’s also a reason why they made this big since it is for vehicle use. This is ideal for business purposes if there is inventory to track. This can make your business more productive and time saving. Features include: integrated GPS and HSDPA, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, SD slot, 256 internal memory and a lot more. I’m not sure if this is already out in the market and where this will be out.

Western Digital Ships Second-Generation Green Hard Drives

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

With Significantly developed Power Efficiency and operation. WD’s Best

Selling Eco-friendly WD Caviar Green Drive keeps going to be the Most

Power-Efficient, Coolest and most muted 3.5-inch Hard Drive in the

Market.

Recently announced the second-generation of an extremely popular and

environmentally friendly WD(R) Caviar(R) Green(TM) desktop hard drives,

which boast the company’s GreenPower(TM) technology to significantly

bring down power intake, compared with authoritative hard drives. The

new platform is grounded on WD’s 333 GB/platter technology with 32 MB

cache, creating contents ranging from 500 GB to 1 TB.

As a progressive leader in green depot technology, WD has built up its

eminent Green Power technology-based hard drives to greater than 10

percent of its 3.5-inch hard drive shipments in the initial twelve

months of output, making low-power technologies one of WD’s hottest

growing segments and WD Caviar Green one of the most successful new

products in the company’s late chronicle.

WD’s latest WD Caviar Green hard drives consume up to 20 percent less power

and offer a 10 percent gain in operation over the previous version

while preserving to provide the market with hard drives enabling

quieter and cooler-running desktop PCs and foreign storage devices.

All WD Caviar Green hard drives may be ordered through prime distributors

and resellers. The product costss $219.00 USD. For more information

visit  Web site at http://wdc.com/en/products

Motorola Q11 Smartphone Overpowered By Just Paltry EDGE Connection

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Doesn’t Motorola recognize that making the high-speed 3G thing is all the

madness with youngsters these days? What are they considering by

equipping the forthcoming Motorola Q11 smartphone with a meager EDGE

connection? Consider this as a bruit from an unofficial reference, but

they’re sounding out that the Q11 won’t have any UMTS or HSDPA backup,

preferring instead for just EDGE. That can’t be favorable for power

users.

Thankfully, if you want something a little speedier than EDGE, the Motorola Q11

will at least arrive with an integrated Wi-Fi radio, so you’ll be able

to browse a little more accelerated when you are in the presence of a

hotspot. When you are out on  traveling, however, you’ll slow back to

the crawl identified as EDGE. This is not an rising slope from the

Motorola Q9h in the strictest sense then, so it could be the Q11 is

confronting  somewhat different part of the industry.

There is at least one upgrade over the Q9, nevertheless, and that comes from the

3 megapixel camera. Truthfully, you probably won’t even acknowledge the deviation there.

Samsung BlackJack III Now An Epix For AT&T

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

We found out about this approaching Windows Mobile smartphone as the

Samsung BlackJack III. Then we were informed that it’s the Samsung i780

in disguise. And now, it appears that the AT&T edition is working

to be called the Samsung Epix. It’s indeed an epic since they had to

substitute the C with an X.

The specs on this approaching phone are pretty awesome and it provides something that no other BlackJack has represented or had  been able to offer in the past - a touchscreen

display. In this manner, you acquire all the rewards of a touchscreen and the advantages of a touchable QWERTY keyboard. That’s pretty cool (but the Centro already does that). Additional features include Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, UMTS/HSDPA, GPS, camera, Bluetooth, and an optical joystick. It’s not noted whether the phone will substitute the BlackJack II instantaneously or serve as a higher-end choice.

Have a bun in the oven, the Samsung Epix to sell for $199 with contract and

mail-in discount. The “Future of Business” event is scheduled for

October 23, We can guess that the phone will set up shortly after that.

Toyota Presents Safety Device With Industry-First Rear Airbags

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

It initiated with the first airbags that came out of steering wheels in an

event of a hit. It carried on with the introduction of rider side

airbags and, later on, side curtain airbags. Now, Which is the only

angle  left to protect you? Naturally, the back.

Toyota wishes to completely plunge you in airbags, it appears, because the Japanese

automaker has just ushered in the industry’s first airbag designed

specifically for rear-end collisions. Those gas-filled pillows come

gushing out of the back if you happen to find yourself in the

disastrous spot of a rear-ender. The first car to get these back end

airbags will be the Toyota iQ ultra compact microcar, which will be

commencing the safety upgrade by the end of this year.

The airbag is positioned above the iQ’s rear window and it is intended to protect passengers riding in the backseat. I’m not exactly sure how they’d carry out this

in a larger car — the iQ is very small — Can Toyota will find a way.?

Hewlett-Packard moving forward By Acquiring LeftHand Networks for $360 Million

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Hewlett-Packard will take on LeftHand Networks, a storage-solutions provider for midsize firms and distant offices, for $360 million in cash. LeftHand’s technology adds to

HP’s suite of iSCSI solutions.

HP concorded to pay for LeftHand Networks, which trades solutions to serve midsize companies and remote agencies of big corporations protect vital business concern .

Clients demand a faster, less complicated, and more efficient path to storage networking to protect crucial business data. In certain virtualized surrounds, LeftHand’s intelligent-cloning technology can trim down the quantity of disk space necessary for storage by up to 97 percent and its thin-provisioning features bring down power Relevant Products/Services expense by minimizing over-provisioning of storage.

The privately held LeftHand has more than 11,000 installations over 3,000 customers. The company renders scalable depot software on industry-standard hardware.

LeftHand also boasts innovative data-replication technology with bandwidth management and failover shelter. This makes it perfect for computer backup  and

disaster-recovery operations between distant offices and a central location.