Intex New Netbooks and its Features
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Intex, the maker of mobile phones, computers, and computer peripherals, has launched its very first netbook, the thin and light N101-WC1100.
The N101-WC1100 netbook is available in two colors \'chic red\' and \'elegant black\'.
The N101-WC1100 netbook specification as follows:
Read More * 10-inch WSVGA LED backlight display. * Powered by Intel Atom N270 processor, * An Intel 82845G Graphics Controller, * 1GB DDR2 memory expandable up to 2GB, * 160GB SATA hard drive resides in it, * 1.3-mega pixel webcam, * WiFi 802.11 b/g (wireless), * Bluetooth and * 7-in-1 mini card reader.
The netbook also claims to offer up to 4 hours of battery backup.Microsoft and Yahoo Once Again Talks for Search and Ads Deal
As Microsoft enjoying relative success with the recent launch of its Bing Web site. The possible alliance itself is somewhat surprising. Top Microsoft executives are currently in Silicon Valley ironing out the short strokes, which apparently are related to deployment of technology. Neither side is commenting on the potential agreement, as they have been down this and similar roads together in the past.
Microsoft and Yahoo are in the final round of talks aimed at negotiating a deal that will include Microsoft paying several billion dollars up front to take over its search advertising business and guarantee certain payments back to Yahoo.
Although confident in Bing and the popularity it has been gaining since going live, Microsoft still is clearly far behind search titan Google (as is Yahoo). This proposed deal is not a complete Microsoft takeover as was initially being discussed earlier this year, but both companies can gain some ground in the battle by becoming allies.
Sources at both companies said that if everything works out, an announcement could be made within a week. It is probably a matter of time before they finally followed through negotiations to the end.
Read More Microsoft announces its Azure plan details and pricing
Microsoft first announced its Azure plans at last year\'s PDC and the product has been available as a free technology preview form since then. The cloud operating system isn\'t launching in final form until Microsoft\'s October Professional Developer Conference.
On a pure consumption basis, Microsoft said it will charge 12 cents per hour for computing, 15 cents per gigabyte for storage and 10 cents per 10,000 storage transactions. For network bandwidth, the software maker is charging between 10 cents and 15 cents per gigabyte. The discount plan, dubbed the development accelerator comes in two forms and offers a 15 percent to 30 percent discount off the consumption charges. It requires a six-month commitment, with overage charges billed at the regular rates. After six months, the pricing reverts to the standard Azure rates.
Microsoft also announced pricing for its SQL Azure database, charging $9.99 for the basic Web edition, including up to a 1GB relational database and $99.99 for the Business Edition, which includes up to a 10GB database.
The software maker said it would promise 99.95 percent reliability for its compute and connectivity and 99.9 percent for role instance and storage. Microsoft finds itself in a new type of business, where it competes with the likes of Amazon.com\'s Amazon Web Services and Salesforce.com\'s Force dot com.
The pricing announcement would be made at this week\'s Worldwide Partner Conference, which is taking place in New Orleans.
Read More Features of Sony Walkman E-Series video MP3 player and the B-Series music player
Features of Sony Walkman E-Series video MP3 player and the B-Series music player.
The second new launch is the E-Series Walkman, this time offering video playback alongside the audio, but still keeping a fairly small (and indeed slim at 9.3mm thick) profile. The E-Series player packs in a 2-inch QVGA LCD screen for a \'detail-packed\' view of videos, photos, album art and playlists, along with Clear Audio technology for more clarity and a more powerful bass, a 5-band equalizer.
It has Dynamic Normalizer to balance audio levels between tracks and easy file transfer via both USB dragging or iTunes. There\'s also an FM radio on-board, 30 hours of music playback from a single charge and if file formats are an issue, software to help with conversion. Price hasn\'t been confirmed as yet.
The B-Series Walkman first broke cover in Japan last month, a small and colourful thumb-like device (with matching headphones), which offers a healthy 18 hours of music playback per charge, USB drag and drop for loading up, top-notch audio quality and a Zappin\' function. You also get an FM radio and a radio recording function.
Read More Microsoft plans to release cloud-based component of Office 2010
Microsoft plans to release cloud-based component of Office 2010:
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Microsoft\'s unveiling of the free Office Web applications comes as Google and its free Web-based Google Docs offering continues to woo away once-paying Microsoft Office users. Industry analysts said Microsoft\'s free Office Web offering is a chance for the software giant to regain some of the users it lost to Google while also re-establishing its dominance in the productivity software space.
Microsoft\'s opportunity to one-up Google by offering a much better product. The full Office 2010 suite will hit the streets in the first half of next year. When Office Web goes live, it will offer stripped-down versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote in the cloud. Users will be able to access the applications directly through Microsoft\'s Windows Live portal, and they will launch directly within a browser.
Google\'s initiative is forcing Microsoft to change its business model. Google had Microsoft painted into a corner, and the only way it could respond to Google Apps and Google Docs was to offer a free application suite of its own.
And while Microsoft is taking aim at Google and reclaiming its turf, Microsoft offering free Web-based applications has some industry watchers wondering how Microsoft will make money with free software via Office Web. It\'s the age-old question of why buy the cow when the milk is free.
During the first three quarters of fiscal 2009, Microsoft\'s software division, which includes Office products, made $9.3 billion in profit from $14.3 billion in sales, with Office representing the majority of those sales.
Microsoft has said that the free version of Office 2010 via Office Web won\'t give users all of the same features and functions they would receive if they purchased the desktop-based software, which will run from about $70 to $350 depending on the version. Microsoft said Office 2010 will feature video editing in PowerPoint and image manipulation in Word, two features that the free version will not offer.
Read More Microsoft\'s unveiling of the free Office Web applications comes as Google and its free Web-based Google Docs offering continues to woo away once-paying Microsoft Office users. Industry analysts said Microsoft\'s free Office Web offering is a chance for the software giant to regain some of the users it lost to Google while also re-establishing its dominance in the productivity software space.
Microsoft\'s opportunity to one-up Google by offering a much better product. The full Office 2010 suite will hit the streets in the first half of next year. When Office Web goes live, it will offer stripped-down versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote in the cloud. Users will be able to access the applications directly through Microsoft\'s Windows Live portal, and they will launch directly within a browser.
Google\'s initiative is forcing Microsoft to change its business model. Google had Microsoft painted into a corner, and the only way it could respond to Google Apps and Google Docs was to offer a free application suite of its own.
And while Microsoft is taking aim at Google and reclaiming its turf, Microsoft offering free Web-based applications has some industry watchers wondering how Microsoft will make money with free software via Office Web. It\'s the age-old question of why buy the cow when the milk is free.
During the first three quarters of fiscal 2009, Microsoft\'s software division, which includes Office products, made $9.3 billion in profit from $14.3 billion in sales, with Office representing the majority of those sales.
Microsoft has said that the free version of Office 2010 via Office Web won\'t give users all of the same features and functions they would receive if they purchased the desktop-based software, which will run from about $70 to $350 depending on the version. Microsoft said Office 2010 will feature video editing in PowerPoint and image manipulation in Word, two features that the free version will not offer.
Google Chrome OS put into direct competition with Leading Software Gaints
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Schmidt now believes Google can withstand whatever counterpunches Microsoft might throw as the company sets out to make computers cheaper to buy and more enjoyable to use with an operating system tied to Google\'s 9-month-old browser, Chrome.
The operating system, due out in the second half of 2010, threatens to chip away at Microsoft\'s market share in the low end of the PC market the less expensive and less powerful laptops known as \"netbooks,\" which are becoming increasingly popular among consumers primarily interested in surfing the Web.
Most industry observers believe it will take years before the Chrome operating system develops into a serious challenger to Microsoft\'s Windows, which runs on more than 1 billion PCs, according to Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal. The Chrome operating system also could put Google into direct competition with Apple.
Schmidt doesn\'t see a conflict. He said he doesn\'t intend to rescue himself from Apple board discussions about computer operating systems like he does when the directors talk about Apple\'s iPhone. Schmidt leaves those talks because Google also makes a mobile operating system called Android.
Some computer makers already are considering using Android as an operating system in netbooks, but some may think Android is better suited for handheld devices. They also think elements of the Android and Chrome systems could eventually merge.
As long as the Internet market is still expanding, Schmidt said he doesn\'t view either as serious threats, because Google\'s internal studies show those who sign up for Twitter and Facebook tend to use the company\'s search engine even more. He also said Google has held discussions with Twitter on a lot of different issues, including getting better access to Twitter\'s posts so they will show up more quickly in Google\'s search results.
Although Google won\'t charge for the Chrome operating system, Schmidt said it could easily pay off by driving down the cost of computers so people can afford to buy more machines and surf the Web more often. Google wants people to spend more time online because it is the biggest seller of Internet ads which is the main source of its more than US$20 billion in annual revenue.
Pros of LG\’s Network Monitors
These Network monitors deliver uncompromised virtual workspaces for up to 11 users sharing a single host computer at less than $1000 per unit. These monitors eliminate the need for all users to have individual computes at their desks. And unlike thin clients, they do not need expensive servers that take up valuable space in the datacenter.
LG\'s Network Monitors offer substantial cost savings compared to traditional PCs and thin clients. The monitors connect to a PCI card plugged into the host PC that creates multiple virtual workspaces in conjunction with NComputing vSpace desktop virtualization software. These LG Network monitor, N42 Series directly connect up to 11 users to the same computer. These multi-computing solutions include built-in keyboard, mouse, and audio connections. This is an ideal solution for small businesses, schools, government offices, libraries and call centers that need to provide computing capabilities but must also consider costs, maintenance and environmental impact.
Read More Google to launch Chrome Operating System (OS)
Google to launch Chrome Operating System (OS):
Google said netbooks with Chrome OS could be on sale by the middle of 2010. The key aspects of Google Chrome OS will be Speed, simplicity and security.
The operating system, which will run on an open source license, was a natural extension of its Chrome browser. Google already has an operating system for mobile phones called Android which can also be used to run on netbooks. Google Chrome OS will be aimed not just at laptops but also at desktops for those who spend a lot of time on the web.
Last year Google launched the Chrome browser, which it said was designed for people who live on the web - searching for information, checking e-mail, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. It shows just how serious Google is about making the web into a foundation not just for static pages but for active applications, notably its own such as Google Docs and G-mail.
Google\'s announcement Chrome OS comes at an interesting time where Microsoft is poised to launch its new operating system Windows 7
Read More Gmail and Google Apps Finally comes Out of Beta
Google revealed many of its most popular applications Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs, and Google Talk had finally moved out of trial, or beta, phase. Gmail, has worn the beta tag for five years. The number of people who use Gmail has grown an astonishing 48 percent in the last year. By removing the beta tag from its products, Google is announcing, in its own unique way, that it\'s ready to get serious about this market.
Google\'s engineers merely looked over the products and were satisfied that our efforts on reaching our high bar for taking our products out of beta, and all the applications in the Apps suite have now met that mark.
Google Apps already enjoys a nice customer base; the search giant claims that some 1.75 million companies use its suite of enterprise software at the moment.
Read More Bing looks to Capture the Real-Time Results From Twitter
Microsoft is currently looking to make a bigger splash in the search market. Through the first nine months of 2008 the company committed more than $1.5 billion to acquiring search, or search-driven businesses including a $1.3 billion buyout of enterprise specialists Fast Search & Transfer. Redmond hopes to catch up to Google in search market share. But it\'s got its work cut out. Google presently controls about 65% of the U.S. search market, while Microsoft owns only about 8% of the market, according to ComScore. Yahoo, the number two player, held 20% of the market, as of May.
It\'s positioning Bing not just as a search site, but as a so-called decision engine. Bing includes features that allow users to book travel and engage in other e-commerce transactions with just a few clicks. However Microsoft unveiled an initial foray into integrating more real time data into our search results. Microsoft has added a feature to Bing that allows the search engine to query the Internet for so-called real time data, including postings from Twitter users. Starting with some of the more prominent and prolific Twitterers from a variety of spheres. There has been much discussion of real-time search and the premium on immediacy of data that has been created primarily by Twitter. Among the Twitterers that Bing will index at the outset are Wall Street Journal tech columnist Kara Swisher and a number of Microsoft staffers. Bing will index a few thousand Twitter users in the project\'s early days. The index includes Tweets from Al Gore, American Idol\'s Ryan Seacrest, and a number of other high-profile figures from the arts, politics, and technology
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