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7:51 AM

Sharp 108inch.will u buy it

Posted by Faisal


Whenever we see Sharp's colossal 108in LCD TV at various trade and consumer electronics shows across the globe, we always have a little chuckle to ourselves.
For we can't help but be a little amused at the thought of all the effort Sharp's lab guys must have put in to build what's ultimately nothing more than a 'mine's bigger than yours' headline grabber, surely never destined to actually go on sale.
Big in Japan. And hereBut it seems that the last laugh here is going to belong for Sharp. For we've just been told that the 108in monster is actually now available to buy. And not just in Japan or America; you can even purchase it in dear old Blighty.
As well as its sheer mammoth expanse of screen, the Sharp 108in features a low power consumption design so that you don't need your own personal wind farm to power it; a full HD resolution; and an 'ASV' low-reflection TFT LCD monitor design reckoned to produce both high brightness AND high contrast - two rare bedfellows in the LCD world.
However, if this all sounds good to you and you happen to have a bloody great hole in a wall somewhere through which you can get the screen into your house, there's still one other smallish hurdle you might come a cropper on: the screen's price tag of £100,000.
Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?In other words, most of us would have to sell our houses to buy a Sharp 108, which would then leave us with no house to put our humungous new screen in. Oh, the bitter ironies of life.
Not surprisingly Sharp concludes its announcement on the 108in screen's commercial availability by predicting that it will probably appeal mostly to corporate entities and public display environments...

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7:38 AM

windows 7. This time it is mobile

Posted by Faisal


Good times for the WinMo fans seem to be just around the corner. After last week the release of Windows Mobile 6.5 was officially confirmed for the second half of this year it now appears that its successor isn't too far away either. In an analysts meeting held yesterday Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed that Windows Mobile 7 will be available next year.
The other good news that the meeting brought to the masses is the fact that the mobile version of Windows 7 will sport a much tighter integration with its desktop brother - whatever they mean by that.
Steve Ballmer also confirmed that Microsoft will make all they can to make up for the main disadvantage of their OS - namely the lack of user-friendliness. Finger optimization is one of the key thought in the developers' minds when designing the WinMo 7 and we should expect a whole load of new nice applications too.

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4:06 AM

Microsoft Offers $250K Reward to Catch Worm Authors

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'Conficker continues to infect a large number of computers while security experts try and figure out what to do.' -
Microsoft has created a new technology industry posse and a $250,000 reward for people who help turn over the creators of the Conficker worm.
The Conficker worm multiplied like wildfire, and spreads through a hole found in Microsoft Windows systems, though the vulnerability was patched in October. It also is able to disable anti-malware protection and will block an infected PC from visiting anti-malware vendors Web sites to receive updates.
Security experts are even more worried about the possibility the worm calls home every 24 hours to at least 250 servers each day for instructions or directed actions.
The Houston police department was forced to stop arresting people with traffic warrants because the worm spread its way through the police and city court's computer systems. Violent offenders were still arrested, but those with outstanding traffic warrants were simply issued citations instead of being arrested, Houston police officials said.
There also was a Conficker outbreak among French military computers, which led to several fighter planes being grounded until everything could be fixed.
Microsoft is working with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and PC security experts while trying to identify the worm's creators. VeriSign, NeuStar, Public Internet Registry, Global Domains International, AOL, F-Secure, George Tech, and several other organizations have joined the fight to help capture who ever created the Internet worm.
"As part of Microsoft's ongoing security efforts, we constantly look for ways to use a diverse set of tools and develop methodologies to protect our customers," Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Group G.M. George Stathakopoulos said in a statement. "By combining our expertise with the broader community we can expand the boundaries of defense to better protect people worldwide."
Security company Symantec reported that more than 2.2 million IP addresses over the past five days have been infected with two different forms of the worm, three months after it first hit the Internet. To date, it's infected at least 10 million PCs since first being introduced into the wild.

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11:34 PM

Samsung S5600 Touchscreen

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Samsung S5600 appeared on the sly at the MWC 2009 in Barcelona and somewhat escaped the attention of the crowds (and ours too).
Samsung S5600 isn't yet officially announced so the information about it is pretty limited. From what a quick glance tells us the handset will be a low-end fully touch-operated handset running on the TouchWiz UI. It will also come with 3G support, which its main competitor - the LG KP500 Cookie lacks.

It is no wonder that Samsung are entering this market segment having seen the wonders that the Cookie did for LG's sales. We are however yet to see when will the S5600 actually make it to the market and what will its exact pricing be like.

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6:24 AM

Microsoft Release Vista SP2 Release candidate

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Microsoft today released the Release Candidate (RC) build of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 Service Pack 2 (SP2). The RC features 671 hotfixes. It is available, as a standalone installer package or via Windows Update or as a slipstreamed download.
Microsoft is offering the RC version of SP2 to its testers to verify that all the fixes are indeed working and that they do not introduce new problems. It is urging its testers not to suggest new features, explaining that’s outside the scope of the current testing.
On the hardware side in Windows Vista, the RC should provides support for VIA’s new 64-bit CPU, Bluetooth v2.1 and Windows Connect Now (WCN) Wi-Fi Configuration wireless functionality, faster Wi-Fi resume times after hibernation, and most significantly the ability to record Blu-ray.
On the software/connections side, the SP2 provides faster RSS feeds in the sidebar, Windows Search 4.0, the ability to configure the maximum number of TCP connections.
The service pack is also for Windows Server 2008, and offers the Hyper-V virtualization environment as a free fully integrated feature, with one free daughter OS with Windows Server 2008 Standard, four free licenses with Windows Server 2008 Enterprise, and an unlimited number of free licenses with Windows Server 2008 Datacenter. It also improves the management options in Windows Server 2008 and fixes some licensing key problems.
In short, both for enterprise clients and for consumers, SP2 should bring a number of noteworthy improvements that will improve the Windows experience in little ways. Microsoft has yet to announce the final release date for the production version of SP2.

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6:20 AM

Microsoft preps Windows7

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Some new updates to Microsoft’s OS’s should soon be headed down the pipe.’ -
Windows 7, looking to be one of hottest products of 2009 when it debuts later this year, brings many improvements to the table over Vista. The new OS, while it shares most of its underlying code with Vista, features a richer and much faster user interface and promises better hardware support out of the gate thanks to dedicated efforts by Microsoft’s team and hardware partners. The OS will also bring key technologies like multi-touch to the table, and is shaping up to be all that Vista could have been in terms of PR and polish.
However, before the hot new OS can ship to customers, Microsoft needs to prove its systems and ready itself for the massive deployment that a Windows release entails. The critical first step of this process was to release a beta to the general public. Now, Microsoft is readying the first real test of its new update system for Windows 7.
Starting Tuesday, February 24, Microsoft has announced that they will be releasing a serious of five test updates to beta users. The updates are available through Windows Update, but will not download automatically, even if Automatic Update is enabled. Instead, Microsoft needs users to volunteer their aid, by volunteering to manually install the updates.
The updates are simply stock system files, which replace the identical system files. Thus the update is simply a dummy test and includes no bug fixes or improvements

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3:29 AM

Intel Wants to Be Cloud Computing's Silver Lining

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Intel looks covetously at the cloud computing market for its server processors.’ -
The future of large data centers may look very different from the data centers of today. In the future, the data center is expected to be cloud-based and could save companies with large server farms millions of dollars.
Intel is watching the move to cloud computing closely and wants its processors to be at the heart of the cloud computing movement. Intel says that 20 to 25% of its server processors could be dedicated to data centers using cloud computing by 2012.
Intel’s Jason Waxman said, “We expect to see, by 2012, a substantial portion of the server market will be running some version of cloud computing. Right now, as much as 14 percent of server purchases are going into some sort of cloud deployment.”
Even the largest Fortune 500 companies are expected to begin migrating to cloud computing to grab the massive cost savings that cloud computing can generate. Intel says that cloud computing can save a company 10% in power usage for a large data center equating to a savings of about $6 million in some instances. At the same time software optimization of the same servers could save an additional $20 million.
Intel isn’t alone in coveting the cloud server market though and will have competition from AMD whose server processors are very popular in virtualized applications. Intel is betting on features like its Dynamic Power Node Manager to woo large enterprises to its products for power savings, which equate into big monetary savings for the companies.
Waxman said, “The cloud has promise, but we’re trying to be pragmatic. With small to medium-sized businesses, companies are asking, ‘Do I need lots of infrastructure, or can I do software as service?’ And the enterprise is cautious. They’re thinking that now’s the time to start the evaluation and path to it, as opposed to just jumping in.”

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7:29 AM

NOKIA unveils N86

Posted by Faisal


As you probably already know, Nokia N86 leaked yesterday, but today it makes the news all official. Named Nokia N86 8MP, it's got the first 28mm wide angle lens on a mobile phone. There's also a kickstand, and the rest of the specs are pretty close to what Nokia N85 already offers.

The new Nokia N86 8MP (yeah, it doesn't get any more obvious than that) is the first 8 megapixel cameraphone to sport a wide 28mm lens. There are also other goodies such as a mechanical shutter as on the Samsung INNOV8, allegedly a new, better Carl Zeiss lens.

Unfortunately, there's only a dual LED flash on board the N85 8MP. However according to Nokia, the LED flash is a third generation one and should effectively work at distances of up to 3.5 m.
The Nokia N86 8MP is the first device with variable aperture ranging from F2.4/3.2/F4.8. That means the device does betted in low light situations thanks to the wider aperture of F2.4 and takes sharper shots in bright daylight thanks to the F4.8 aperture value.
The other goodies on board the Nokia N86 8MP include 8GB of internal memory, a microSDHC card slot, a 2.6-inch OLED screen, FM transmitter, Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity, a 3.5mm audio jack and TV out. There's also quad-band GSm and tri-band HSDPA support for a truly worldwide voice and data roaming.

The Nokia N86 8MP will start retailing in Q2 2009 with an estimated price of 375 euro, before taxes and subsidies. There goes the Nokia E75

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2:55 AM

Samsung Begins 50nm GDDR5 Mass Production

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Samsung Electronics announces that it has begun mass producing GDDR5 graphics memory using 50 nanometer node process technology. Mueez Deen, Director of Mobile and Graphics Memory Division, emphasized that introduction of GDDR5 helps to meet the growing demand for higher performance graphics memory in PCs, graphic cards and game consoles. GDDR5 is the fastest and highest performing memory in the world presently that will give outstanding gaming experience across all platforms.

Samsung’s DDR5 is designed to support a maximum data transfer speed of 7.0Gbps (gigabits per second) and will render 3D imaging with a maximum 28GB/s, which is more than 2x faster than previous fastest graphics memory bandwidth of 12.8GB/s of GDDR4.
The ultra-fast processing speed is equivalent to transferring nineteen 1.5GB DVD resolution movies in one second. It is achieved with GDDR5 operates with a free-running clock that does not require the data read/write function to be synchronized to the operations of the clock. The high image processing speed of the GDDR5 supports the latest data formats (Blu-ray and full HD).
Samsung’s GDDR5 operates at 1.35 volts (V), which represents a 20 percent reduction in power consumption compared to the 1.8V at which GDDR4 devices operate.
The GDDR5 is now available in a 32Mb x32 and 64Mb x16 device configuration. Samsung expects GDDR5 to account for over 20 percent of the total graphic memory market in 2009.

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7:57 PM

Microsoft to realese window 7 rc1

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Microsoft has confirmed that there will be no Windows 7 Beta 2, with the company's next desktop operating system (OS) moving straight from beta to a release candidate

No firm release date has been announced for Windows 7 release candidate 1 (RC1), although Microsoft is expected to launch a final version of the OS by the end of 2009.
"This is in no way an announcement of a ship date, change in plans or change in our previously described process," insisted Steven Sinofsky, the senior vice president in charge of the Windows engineering group, said Sinofsky on a company blog

"At this milestone, we will be very selective about what changes we make between the Release Candidate and the final product, and very clear in communicating them. We will act on the most critical issues," he said. "The point of the Release Candidate is to make sure everyone is ready for the release and that there is time between the Release Candidate and our release to PC makers and manufacturing."
Microsoft has hinted that as there will be no Windows 7 Beta 2, there will be no Windows 7 RC2, with the OS moving straight from RC1 to release

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