Among Acers newest notebooks are its highest-performing Aspire ever, with an Intel Core i7 processor and a 20 percent performance gain. – Acer, the worlds second-largest PC maker, introduced four
mobile PCs at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), covering a
range of consumer tastes. At the highest end is the Aspire AS8950G-9839
which may better stick in the memory as the highest performing
model in Acers flagship Aspire n…
Microsoft’s Jan. 5 press conference at the Consumer Electronics Show centered on the company’s announcement that the next version of Windows will support SoC (system-on-a-chip) architecture, in particular ARM-based systems from partners such as Qualcomm, Nvidia and Texas Instruments. Steven Sinofsky, president of Windows and Windows Live Division, declined to offer many details about that fabled next Windows build, but nonetheless company executives used the event to show off some up-and-coming technologies. Among those technologies: Surface 2, the next version of Microsoft’s table-size touch-screen device developed in conjunction with Samsung and due later this year. Microsoft also displayed ultralight and touch-screen-centric laptops running Windows 7. Finally, Sinofsky and company briefly demonstrated Windows running natively on laptops powered by ARM chips. Windows currently dominates the x86 platform used by traditional PCs, but the rise of mobile devices& mostly powered by ARM chip designs& has created a market the company wants to penetrate in a major way. – …
Aimed at gamers and graphics professionals, Scorpio Black drives boast data transfer speeds (buffer to host) of up to a maximum of 3Gbits/per second. – Western Digital, which released the first 3TB-capacity internal SATA hard disk drive nine weeks ago,
Jan. 5 announced that it has started shipping a new 2.5-inch, 750GB
SATA hard drive for OEMs that make high-performance laptops and portable
storage devices.
WD’s Scorpio Black drives,
speedier …
New RealSSDs are equipped for the 6G bps SATA interface, which vastly improves application loading speeds and boot-up times, even for SSDs. – Fresh off the Dec. 2 launch of its smallest-ever (25nm) flash memory chip,
Micron Technology on Jan. 5 hustled to unveil its newest solid-state
drive for laptop computers using that chip: a 512GB monster that
doubles the capacity of the company’s previous drive.
The Boise, Idaho-based company …
The 310 Series drives are about one-eighth the size of a standard Intel X25 NAND flash SSD, yet they can hold up to 80GB of data. – Intel on Dec. 29 launched a new set of mini-sized solid-state drives
for dual-drive notebooks, tablet PCs and enbedded applications that the
company claims provide performance as high as its larger SSDs.
The 310 Series drives are sized at a mere 51mm-by-30mm and 5mm thick,
about one-eighth the…
It was my last semester and exams were just round the corner. Everyone at the campus was busy studying; some in groups while some like me found it best to study alone in their room. I reached my room at about 7 in the evening after having a detailed discussion with my professor on a recent case that our class had visited in the city court, as it was a part of our field study. I felt exhausted after such a brainstorming session.
Stolen or missing laptops cost 329 companies $2.1 billion in lost data, productivity and equipment. See what you should do to minimize the hit to your corporate pocketbook. – Failing to protect laptops with a mix of technology and policy can be costly, and a new survey showed just how much.
The survey, dubbed “The Billion Dollar Lost-Laptop Study, quot; was
conducted by Intel and the Ponemon Institute and fielded
input from 329 public and private organizations. Dur…
In its 17th Annual CE Holiday Purchase Pattern Study, the CEA found that notebooks/laptops are at the top of consumers’ holiday gift wish lists, second only to peace and happiness. For those shopping for a new laptop this holiday season, Intel developed a Holiday Buyer’s Guide to highlight some of the hottest Intel® Core™ processor-powered laptops available now – some with Intel® Wireless Display for wirelessly sharing content from the laptop to an HDTV and/or Intel® WiMAX for high-speed wireless broadband on the go built right inside the laptop.
Hewlett-Packard, Acer and Lenovo all introduced lightweight mobile PCs in mid-November. HP and Acer—the top two global PC market share leaders—introduced devices for business users, while Lenovo offered consumers an “ultraportable.” From smallest to largest, the HP Mini 1103 weighs 2.78 pounds, features a 10.1-inch display, is powered by an Intel Atom N455 or N475 processor and starts at $299. The Lenovo laptop, weighing 3 pounds and featuring a 12.5-inch display, is the first of its size with an Intel Core i7 processor; pricing starts at $899. And finally Acer, offering the TravelMate 5542 notebook for on-the-go professionals, pairs a 15.6-inch widescreen display with an AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) dual-core processor and a starting price of $549. Each runs a version of Microsoft Windows 7. According to data from Gartner and IDC, enterprise and government spending on PCs met expectations during the third-quarter, but consumer spending was soft, as non-students and others able to delay purchases took a “wait-and-see” approach, curious about the promised media tablet headed to market for the holidays. While tablets arent intended to compete directly with mobile PCs, their design, features and pricing are intriguing buyers—and even influencing laptop design, as Apple noted during its October introduction of the refreshed MacBook Air. – …
Let’s face it: Our business and personal files aren’t secure at all if we carry them around in business-oriented devices that are protected only by a password. The fact is, most of us rely only on that thin level of security most of the time. It’s true that more and more netbooks and laptops are being equipped with biometric fingerprint scanners to aid in security, but even those aren’t a foolproof solution. The complete answer at this point in time is this: To protect business-critical corporate files and other data, you need to 1. deploy a combination of physical and IT security measures, 2. be able to back up the entire drive into cloud storage, and 3. have a central security administrator be able to wipe clean or completely disable the device if it’s lost, stolen or falls into the wrong hands. For this slide show, eWEEK used several sources, including market research from its own Ziff Davis Enterprise research department and information from Juniper Networks, DigitalPersona and Trellia Networks, along with a new whitepaper from Datacastle. – …
Apple CEO Steve Jobs showed off two super-skinny MacBook Air laptops at todays event, as well as OS X Lion, iLife 11 and FaceTime for Macs. The MacBooks are available now. – At Apple’s much-hyped event Oct. 20 at the company’s Cupertino, Calif., campus, CEO Steve Jobs offered attendees an early look at Mac OS X Lion, introduced updates to iLife 11 and announced that FaceTime, a capability previously only available on the iPhone 4 and iPod touch, is now available for Mac…
For cost-conscious companies in an increasingly mobile world, it often can be difficult to find a notebook computer that is easily portable, powerful enough to replace a desktop PC, and offers the kind of battery life that allows road warriors and off-site employees the freedom they need. At the same time, small businesses don’t often need the fancy entertainment-enhancing features that drive up prices they need durable, powerful and portable machines with WiFi capability, Web cameras and other features to connect them to the mobile business network. Toshiba recently introduced a line of Satellite and Portage notebooks that offer connectivity to the WiMax 4G mobile Internet, currently available in 54 cities in the United States. With that in mind, here’s a selection of 10 laptops from a host of vendors including Acer, Dell, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo that offer a compact form factor, important connectivity features like Bluetooth, HDMI and USB and, most importantly, they won’t break the budget. – …
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
SEOUL, Sept. 30, 2010 – Intel Corporation and KT today announced that they are expanding their collaboration to accelerate the adoption of WIBRO-branded services based on WiMAX technology in South Korea. Intel Capital, Intel’s global investment organization, also announced an investment of US$20 million in WIBRO Infra Co., Ltd. (WIC), a joint venture with KT, Samsung and KBIC. The Intel Capital investment will help WIC accelerate KT’s leading wireless broadband infrastructure build out.
Expanding WIBRO Coverage, Improved Customer Benefits
In addition to availability in the metropolitan areas of Seoul, Inchon and Suwon, KT will expand the WIBRO service to five new cities — Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, Daejeon and Ulsan — and the expressways of Gyeongbu, Jungbu, Honam and Yeongdong. When the new service begins on Oct. 1, subscribers will be able to enjoy KT’s “Mobile Wonderland” supported by its “3W” network consisting of 3G mobile communication (WCDMA), wireless LAN (WiFi) and high-speed wireless Internet (WIBRO).
KT is also migrating its WIBRO network onto the standard of 10MHz WiMAX channel width that will allow interoperability and roaming with WiMAX networks worldwide. Coupled with better radio planning, this migration is expected to improve the quality of service by up to two times.
By March 2011, KT is expected to be the first carrier in the world to provide nation-wide WiMAX coverage with its WIBRO service covering 82 cities in Korea, serving 85 percent of the Korean population.
Intel Embedded WiMAX Chipsets for a New WIBRO Experience
KT and Intel also have worked with major PC manufacturers to launch the first Intel® Core™ and Intel® Atom™ processor-based laptops and netbooks in Korea featuring Intel® embedded WiMAX solutions, based on the Intel® Centrino® Advanced-N + WiMAX 6250 network adapter.
Starting Oct. 1, Korean customers will be able to purchase a wide selection of Intel-based laptops and netbooks from Samsung, LG and Acer. These WiMAX-ready mobile devices allow high-speed wireless Internet access without the need for plug-in USB modems or wireless pocket routers. The devices will enable users to enjoy wireless Internet connectivity in countries and cities that have also deployed compatible WiMAX networks1.
Intel Capital’s US$20 million Investment
Intel Capital also today announced that it has invested US$20 million in WIBRO Infra Co., Ltd. The funds will be used to accelerate deployment of leading-edge wireless broadband networks in South Korea.
“Intel is committed to leading the advancement of wireless broadband adoptions throughout the world as more devices compute and connect to the Internet,” said Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital and Intel executive vice president. “Intel Capital’s investment strengthens our WiMAX efforts in Asia Pacific region, arguably the fastest growing wireless broadband area, and specifically helps KT expand their offerings in Korea.”
“We will cooperate with Intel in every way to promote the wireless Internet,” said Suk-chae Lee, CEO, KT. “Just like a seamless transportation network requiring expressways, railroads and aviation, KT will develop a 3W network with WIBRO, Wi-Fi and WCDMA technologies complementing each other to make Korea the world’s best mobile wonderland.”
“As a mobile Internet user myself, I am glad that the WIBRO service is now available in five more major cities and expressways, said Tae-Keun Hyung, a member of a standing committee, Korea Communications Commission. “With WIBRO, I expect Korea to be a leading mobile Internet country in the world.”
1 Subject to carrier roaming agreements and end-user subscription.
About KT
KT (Korea Telecom) Corporation is an IT company located in Korea which provides voice and data, fixed and mobile, communication and broadcasting services. KT is currently on the top in Korea for its total revenue (both fixed and mobile services). However, when it was spun off from the Ministry of Communications (currently Korea Communications Commission) and first established in 1981, there were only 4.5 million lines. KT increased the number to 20 million in just 12 years. Therefore, the people in Korea are now privileged to enjoy the universal and advanced telecommunication services. Moreover, KT launched Korea’s first communication satellite, “Mugunghwa (Koreasat)” contributing to make Korea become one of the advanced countries in information and communications. Recently, KT has opened a new era of smartphones in Korea, and makes every effort to create Korea, the “Mobile Wonderland” and to be a global ICT convergence leader by releasing various smart devices and providing nationwide networks, “3W networks” -Wi-Fi, WiBro and WCMA. ICT: Information, Communication, Transaction
About Intel
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The company’s Satellite notebooks boast 4G WiMax wireless connectivity; a 3D capable model is also offered. – Toshibas Digital Products Division, a division of Toshiba
America Information Systems, rolled out a range of 4G WiMax-ready
laptops, designed to give consumers broader wireless coverage. WiMax, a
telecommunications protocol that provides fixed and mobile Internet
access, is currently available i…
HP is introducing refreshed laptops for the back-to-school season, with new features baked into everything from the HP 210 Mini notebooks to the higher-end HP Envy series. More entertainment-centric features include 3D and Beats Audio sound technology, but more powerful processors and graphics will likely appeal to a broad range of consumers, students and businesspeople. HP also seems determined to enliven the look of its laptop lines, with new colors and sleeker designs. Some of this redesign is performance-related, such as the HP Pavilion dm3′s heat-dispensing architecture; but much of it simply intends to set HP apart from other manufacturers. – …
As AT&T readies for the loss of its exclusive Apple iPhone contract, it’s looking to tablets, which officials say eventually will overtake laptops. – AT amp;T isn’t yet mourning the upcoming loss of its exclusive relationship
with the Apple iPhone the expected influx of tablet devices is giving it hope.
Glenn Lurie, AT amp;T’s emerging devices president, said that tablets,
ranging in price from $300 to $1,000, will soon make laptops obsolete….
As facebook is being used by millions of people round the world, it gives a platform to the hackers for spreading virus. Facebook viruses have become major problem for people using it. This virus proliferates via facebook profile or MSN messenger.
eWEEK Labs provides guidance for selecting a mobile workstation for those high-value employees who most process compute-intensive workloads while on the road. – quot;Thick and heavy quot; mobile workstation laptop computers keep getting
thinner and lighter. And these powerhouse systems are now commonly equipped
with multicore processors and graphics cards that approach those found in
desktop systems in speed and processing power. For workloads that must…
Toshiba has introduced three new Satellite laptops for the early birds already gearing up for school. "For fashionistas," Toshiba says, there’s the ultralight Satellite T2 7200 series, which measures 1 inch thick, weighs just 3.3. pounds and offers a choice of Intel or Advanced Micro Devices processors. Multitaskers may opt for the L600 Series, which comes in four size options, all with beefy processors, high-definition displays and a Media Controller application for managing data, photo, music and video files. For those saving for textbooks, the C600 Series starts at a budget-friendly $450 and includes a 14- or 15.6-inch TruBrite widescreen display, Intel or AMD processors and DDR3 RAM. Rounding out the Toshiba announcement is the Dynadock V, a space-saving universal USB docking station that minimizes wires and clutter on a desk. If only it could do the same for the rest of a dorm room. – …
New from Toshiba are three Satellite Series of laptops the T200, L600 and C600 and a DynaDock V tower, offering a clutter-reducing way to connect any Windows laptop to numerous peripherals. – Toshiba is adding three new laptops to its back-to-school roster,
along with a docking solution for keeping things tidy and easy to grab
on the go.
How to choose? For the fashionista, says Toshiba, theres the
Satellite T200 Series ultrathin laptops in red, white or black weighing
less than fo…
