Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Sony 16.4 Inch Wide Multimedia Notebook Comment

07/22/2008:
Sony Corp: has announced the availibility of a new multimedia notebook notebook. The new Vaio FW notebook, is also the first 16.4 inch laptop to hit the market and promises to enable consumers to view High Definition, Blu ray Disc, movies in a manner they are meant to be seen. The notebooks LCD is constructed with a 16:9 aspect ratio, which is standard used while shooting HD movies. The notebook will be powered by new Intel Centrino 2 technology, with more energy efficiency and performance, along with a HDMI output connector to allow users to connect the laptop to the TV for viewing watch movies on a television set. The packaged Vaio Media software is DLNA enabled and hence allows users to wirelessly stream content stored on laptop throughout their home network. Other features include multiple ports and jacks including Memory Stick media/SD card slot, three USB ports, an i.Link Ieee-1394 port, microphone and headphone jack, and a 34mm ExpressCard slot. The Vaio FW notebook is an eco-friendly product with Energy Star 4.0 compliant. The retail unit will start at $1,000 with the premium edition going upto $1,750.

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Friday, March 14, 2008

Acer Aspire 5315 Laptop Comment

03/14/2008:
Acer announced the avaliability of Acer Aspire 5315 in India. The new laptop will be priced at Rs 22,219 and is powered by Intel Celeron M550 and comes with the features like Linux operating system, built-in CrystalEye Webcam, Intel Wireless WiFi, 3D Sonic Sound System, 15.4-inches WXGA Acer CrystalBrite TFT LCD display, 120GB HDD, 1GB RAM, DVD super multi 8x double layer and ePowerManagement.

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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Sony Wins The DVD war? Comment

02/19/2008:
Has Sony finally won the much known DVD war? Today, Toshiba announced that it is dropping the high-definition DVD battle and hence will stop production of its HD DVD players and recorders. And this may signal a victory for Sony's Blu-ray format. Recently Warner Bros', WalMart, UK retailer Woolworths US chain Best Buy, and US online retailer Netflix have backed Sony's Blu-ray format and hence could have forced Toshiba into it's decision.
Blu-ray’s was backed by Sony and Philips while HD DVD was baked by Toshiba and Hitachi. This may be good news for consumers in that they have only one format to choose from, but it will also make consumers that bought the HD DVD players anger, since they will have less choice of films to watch on their player. What do you think?

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Saturday, February 16, 2008

Is a new MacBook on the way? Comment

02/16/2008:
Will Apple be annoucing a new version of the MacBook soon? Many major reseller are showing back order of more then a week on the Apple's current MacBook Pros. Does this mean that production is slow for the current MacBook or a new Apple MacBook is around the cornor. Intel has recently announced a new chip called, Penryn, which has been used by large number of PC companies.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

BigAdda Launched Comment

01/30/2008:
The demand and popularity of Social Networking is growing day by with new website promising more features and less ads. Only time will tell who will come out ahead. Recently a new social networking site, BigAdda, was launced packed with features like send friend requests on the wireless, have discussions in as many as eight different languages, plus more. Will BigAdda give a new challenge to already established social networking websites like Orkut and Facebook?

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Sunday, January 27, 2008

BSNL ties up with SOMA for WiMax Comment

01/27/2008:
BSNL (Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd) has signed US firm SOMA Networks to deploy the world’s largest mobile WiMax network in India. It's a project with both parties will benefit from the revenues, SOMA has agreed to provide the technology to BSNL. Mobile WiMax will be rolled out in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh and make avaialble wireless broadband coverage to nearly 200 million people over the next 3 years. This will make it the first deployment of mobile WiMax per the 802.16e standard.

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

Hotmail Sabeer Bhatia Launches SabSeBolo Comment

01/22/2008:
Founder of Hotmail, Sabeer Bhatia, recently announced the launch of a new service within India called SabSeBolo.com . SabSeBolo.com will be India's first free audio conferencing reservation system. In order to use the service, a user will log on to SabSebolo.com and enter your email id and password and in return will be given a permanent conference id and a pin. Then user call +91 223980 4444 and using the conference id and pin can start the conference.

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Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Apple To Rent Movies, Shows Thin Notebook Comment

01/15/2008:
Today at the annual Macworld Expo, Apple Inc's Chief Executive Steve Jobs introduced a Ultralight MacBook called MacBook Air. The MacBook Air is 0.76 inch thick at its widest point and comes with 1.6 or 1.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM, and an 80GB hard drive and just one USB port with prices to start at $1,799. He also announced that iTunes will allow users to download movies from all major studios for a charge of $3.99 for new releases and $2.99 for old titles. Once downloaded the movies can be watched on iPod/iPhone and your PC, the movies are valid for 30 days to start watching once downloaded and 24 hours after that to finish.

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Friday, January 11, 2008

Motorola Acquiring Soundbuzz Comment

01/11/2008:
Motorola will acquire Soundbuzz, Singapore based pan Asian music provider, which will add Motorola's MotoMusic service to India, South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. The MotoMusic service is currently being provided in China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Soundbuzz provides consumer ability to downloads music to mobile device using the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) digital rights management (DRM) technology. Currently Soundbuzz has extensive music libraries and through licenses from Sony BMG, EMI, Warner Music International, and Universal Music Group and many others independent record labels within Asia, USA, and Europe.

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Monday, January 07, 2008

Wikia Launched Comment

01/07/2008:
Today, marks the enterance of a new way of searching. Jimmy Wales, cofounder of online encyclopedia Wikipedia, and his team have launched Wikia to give the online community a new way to search for information. Will this new search engine hurt the established search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN and the others? Only time will tell. It will take sometime for Wikia to reach the online community and enchance Wikia. The concept behind Wikia is similar to encyclopedia Wikipedia and hence will allow the online community to help better the search engine experince and put the results best suited for a given query in front of the searcher.
Wikia has been backed by the funding from Amazon.com, venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners, Netscape Communications cofounder Marc Andreesen, LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman, and Lotus Development founder and Electronic Frontier Foundation cofounder Mitch Kapor.

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Ask.com Enables Privacy Control Comment

12/12/2007:
Ask.com announced the availibility of AskEraser, a privacy control that erases information about users' search queries within a few hours. With AskEraser enabled for a given users, all Ask.com cookies including IP address, user ID and session ID cookies and complete text of search queries are erased across the Ask.com search areas but cannot delete it from from the servers of third-party companies. But the side effect of AskEraser being enabled is that some of the Ask.com personalization options will not function.

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Friday, June 29, 2007

iPhone will launch today at 6:00PM Comment

06/29/2007:
The iPhone will launch today at 6:00PM all over the USA. The service for the phone will be exculsivly provided by AT\&T. The phone is marking the next big product from Apple after the much successful iPod. Hundreds of gadget fans have already lined up to get there hands on this new phone which mixes the regular phone with capabilities like playing music and video, Web browsing, and many more. It is priced at $499 (4GB model) and $599 (8GB), which does not include the phone plan to be provided by AT\&T from $60 to $100 a month.

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Saturday, June 16, 2007

Apple's iPhone to be launched on Friday, June 29 Comment

06/16/2007:
Apple's iPhone to be launched on Friday, June 29 at 6:00 pm Eastern time (2200 GMT). The new device from Apple promises to bring together mobile phone, camera, web browser, music and video player in a single pocket-sized personal unit. AT\&T is the sole telecoms carrier authorized to provide service for the iPhone. The iPhone will sell for $499 or $599 depending on the model.

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