Low Cost Windows Phone

While the tech community remains crazy over Windows Phone Mango, an update of which was released to manufacturers for testing two weeks ago, they now begin to speculate what is the next step of this mobile OS.
Rumors about the so-called “Windows Phone Tango,” which serves as an in-betweener for Mango and “Apollo” (Windows Phone 8), have been circulating lately. According to Mary-Jo Foley of ZDNet, her sources claim the Tango would most likely appear in lower-priced handsets–mostly by Nokia–and apparently target the Asian market “largely or even exclusively.”

Foley, meanwhile, believes that Tango will most likely be a minor release, as Microsoft saves its effort and energy for Windows Phone 8, which is said will be available by late 2012.

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Analysis: Apple going after Google in tablet spats?

Apple Inc's increasingly effective patent war against rivals like Samsung Electronics may mask its real target: arch-foe Google Inc.

The maker of the iPad and iPhone has sued three of the largest manufacturers of Google's Android-based devices -- Samsung, Motorola and HTC -- for multiple patent infringements across multiple countries, pointing out "slavish copying" of design and "look and feel."

And the courts are beginning to listen: recent success in blocking sales of Samsung's latest Galaxy tablet in most of Europe and Apple's challenges to the Korean giant in Australia reflect an aggressive effort to defend its top position in the red-hot mobile market from the runaway success of Android.

While the lawsuits don't take direct aim at the operating software -- yet -- many of the features under contention are connected to and enhanced by it. Apple CEO Steve Jobs once referred to the software as being the soul of any device when he introduced the company's iOS 5 system in June.

Brian Marshall, an analyst with Gleacher & Co, said Apple is starting to flex its patent muscle with some early success but its real battle is with the Android software. "Apple doesn't really care too much about the actual OEMs."

Apple's lead is now under siege in smartphones from Google's free Android software, already the world's most-used mobile system with 550,000 devices activated every day.

Its momentum could be hampered by successful patent infringement lawsuits against adopters like Samsung.

"The way Google gets sucked into it is through the marketplace," Ron Laurie, managing director and patent consultant at Inflexion Point Strategy, said.

Any injunction won by Apple, if enforced, could mean that Android may be forced to take out the offending feature from its software design. "That would make it less attractive and people would go elsewhere," Laurie said.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt has said rivals are responding to Android's success with lawsuits "as they cannot respond through innovations."

HIGH STAKES

At stake is a booming one-year-old market that analysts are already predicting will eclipse the decades-old PC market in a matter of years, a market that Apple fears Google's software could eventually dominate the way it now leads the smartphone arena.

The tablet market is expected to grow from under 20 million tablets last year to over 230 million in 2015.

While Apple is still the leader by far in the tablet market, research firm Informa expects tablets running Android to catch up with Apple's iPad and surpass it in 2016.

Samsung, experts say, has the best chance of attacking the iPad's commanding hold on the market. Apple's 75 percent share is expected to fall to 39 percent in 2015, when Android's will grow to 38 percent, according to Informa.

A less visible benefit of Apple waging and winning patent battles against the likes of Samsung, HTC and Motorola would be that Android may effectively no longer be free because of potential licensing costs that need to be paid to Apple.

Android's major vulnerability lies in the patent arena. Being a fairly new entrant in this market, Google hasn't built up enough intellectual property in the way Apple or Microsoft has.

"All this will end up making Android less 'free', Jean-Louis Gassee, venture capitalist and a former Apple executive, said. "But by how much? Five dollars a handset, no problem. Fifteen dollars -- then it is trouble."

Apple knows the power of licensing -- from the losing side as well. It recently forged a cross-licensing patent deal with Nokia, agreeing to make a one-time payment in hundreds of millions of dollars and pay continuing royalties.

But it is Google that had been caught off guard in the patent battle, being historically and philosophically opposed to gathering them as a defensive or offensive move. But that is changing with Google now in the hunt for key patents.

This has sparked an expensive arms race between technology giants as they try to outbid each other to stockpile on valuable patent portfolios up for grabs.

In the high-profile tussle for 6,000 wireless patents from bankrupt Nortel Networks, Google kicked off the tug-of-war with a stalking horse bid of $900 million -- far greater than anyone expected. But Apple -- allying with Microsoft, Sony and others -- swooped in to snap them up eventually for $4.5 billion, a price tag that sent shockwaves through the industry.

Google's chief lawyer, David Drummond, last week lashed out against Apple and others, accusing them of "a hostile, organized campaign against Android by Microsoft, Oracle, Apple and other companies, waged through bogus patents."

In the wake of the injunction against the Galaxy in Europe, Apple is seeking a similar ruling against Motorola's Xoom in German court. It won a preliminary ruling last month from a U.S. trade panel that HTC infringed two of Apple's patents.

But Apple is not the only one enforcing patent rights on Android mobile devices. Microsoft recently settled a suit with HTC over the Taiwanese company's Android devices. Oracle is seeking billions of dollars from Google for infringing on Java patents through its Android system.

Analysts expect Apple to continue to be the aggressor.

"It's clear that the tablet wars are going to be fought on many, many fronts," Michael Gartenberg, technology analyst with Gartner. "Clearly lots of companies are seeing opportunities here who don't plan on ceding the market to Apple, and Apple is using everything in its arsenal to defend itself."

(Reporting by Poornima Gupta; Editing by Edwin Chan, Gary Hill)

from: reuters.com

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USB or ROBOT?

In market there is no dearth for USB gadgets now here is a latest usb mecha dubbed as the Incubot voltron and nikobot. Both arrives with awesome design and simple features. Each usb mecha comes in their respective stark white boxes and are disembodied to disclose the twain gaga byte USB within.

If you are a especially observant reader, you would observe both voltron and shiroi have been staples of incubot in the ago. Two models will be launched, at this time. And all special edition USBs are available in their own Incubot item page. Are you looking for the new kids? If yes then recently USB gadgets is best that are obtainable in paint job to suit their Japanese-centric relief purpose.

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Gold USB

Here we are talking about new gadgets accessories of computer, it is available in world-wide market. The latest gold ingot usb gadget is made with gold and it is look like gold bar.

The gold usb gadget is its high end gadgets accessories for PC which is available in gold color, this wooden four gaga byte usb thumbdrive is covering with superb gold leaf. It is manufactured in Kanazzawa urban in Ishikawa Prefecture, where approx ninety-nine percent of country gold leaf manufactures occurs.
Other Features:
# Gold Ingot USB Memory
# Windows 7 / Vista / XP, Mac OS X 10.4~10.4.11/10.5~10.5.6/10.6 OS
# 4GB memory
# Material: Japanese bigleaf magnolia Gold leaf
# Dimensions: W26xH82xD11mm

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Hacker can shut down Apple MacBook battery

Forget computer viruses and worms. What's maybe the worst thing a hacker could do to your laptop? Access it remotely and shut it down -- or maybe even blow it up.

Which is why famous Apple hacker Charlie Miller wanted to do just that.

"I don't want to wake up one day and have my computer blow up," said Miller, who is an avid user of Apple products. "I want to be the one looking at that -- not the bad guys."

How would a person blow up a laptop without even coming near it? By tampering with the software that runs its battery, said Miller, who demonstrated a way to hack into an Apple laptop battery and shut it down, but fell short of actually making it explode.

Apple did not respond to a CNN request for comment.

Miller explained his hack in a presentation at the Black Hat security conference Thursday in Las Vegas. After the talk, he sat down with CNN to talk about Apple security, hacker ethics and why long passwords can be annoying.

The following is an edited transcript:

CNN: Tell me what you were able to do with Apple's laptop batteries.

It's sort of complicated, but the way batteries get charged in your laptop is there's a little chip in your battery and the computer talks to that chip to figure out what's going on. That chip will tell it how much charge it has, how much charge it needs, how much charge it should give it -- that sort of thing. What I figured out was how to change the software that runs on that chip.

When it comes from the factory, they don't want you messing with it, so they set up passwords and stuff to prevent you from doing that. There's two passwords, actually, and Apple didn't change those, so you can just find documents on the Internet that said what those were and then I could change the firmware on the chips to make it (the battery) do whatever I wanted.

So what does that allow you to do?

Well, you could make it not work anymore. You can make the battery to where the computer doesn't even know it's plugged in. ...

My goal was to see if I could make one blow. I never did that. There's lots of different protections to stop that from happening, and also I was a little scared to blow one up in my house, you know.

Why blow it up? Why was that the goal?

I approach it like, what can people do to me, right? So I don't want to wake up one day and have my computer blow up. I want to be the one looking at that -- not the bad guys.

So I found this thing where Apple didn't change their passwords. Well, now they're hopefully going to change their passwords, right? So then next time I buy a laptop from Apple I won't have to worry quite so much that someone will do something (bad).

I released a tool that you could run, if you're particularly paranoid, that would fix this problem.

Is this the first time a hack has targeted a battery?

No one that I know has ever looked at it -- or no one has ever published anything about it. You carry this thing around with you, and it has a chemistry set in it.

Other people go into a store, and they think about what to buy. I think about how to steal stuff. I don't (actually) do it -- that's just kind of how I think.

You target Apple products primarily. Tell me why you've chosen to do that?

That's a good question. I started this gig four years ago -- and so back then the Apple products were way easier to break into than, say, Windows.

Really?

Yeah, they were very far behind in security.

That goes against the common perception.

Yeah, I know. People thought they were secure when they weren't. And when I told people that, no one would believe me.

So the reason I started is it was easy. But since then, with (OS X) Lion coming out, it's caught up. Now it's not any easier anymore. I either have to find something else that's easier to work on -- or whatever.

Do you like Apple products?

Yeah, I have an iPhone in my pocket right now. That's another reason. If I use it, I want it to be secure. I don't want Steve Jobs having a commercial saying it's secure -- I want it to actually be secure. That's my job to figure out what's secure and what's not.

Currently, do you think Apple products are more secure than their counterparts?

(Apple) iOS is definitely more secure than Android. Lion is basically comparable to Windows 7. You can nitpick on those two, but they're basically both really good.

Android is lacking a couple of features that iOS has, so it's behind.

Do you have any security tips for iPhone users?

Make sure to set a passcode for it. Otherwise, if someone picks up the phone, there's nothing there. So set a passcode. It's not going to protect it forever, but at least it's some barrier for some kid that picks it up.

Don't jailbreak your phone if you care about the security of it -- because that breaks all of the security. Make sure to configure for remote "locate and wipe," so if you lose it you can either find it or blow away all of your data on it.

How long is your mobile password?

It's four digits, which Dino (fellow Apple hacker Dino Dai Zovi) showed in his talk you can break in 18 minutes. So if I don't get my phone back in 18 minutes I'm in trouble. I've tried longer ones, but it's just impractical. I couldn't stick with it.

How did you get into hacking in the very beginning?

I've been into computers and thought hacking was cool. I got my Ph.D. in math from Notre Dame and I got hired by the NSA (National Security Agency) to be a cryptographer. But when I got there, I didn't really like that, so they had a training program in computer security, so I learned the basics of my training there in an internship.

Where do you do your work?

At my house. I work out of my house. I'm a consultant. I spend half my time doing consultant work and the rest of my time doing research -- like this kind of stuff.

Where do you live?

St. Louis.

How long did it take you to do the battery hack?

It took about seven months -- it took a really long time. Most of my research projects are like two weeks, or a month or something. But this one was so far from my comfort zone, and there had been so little written about it that it really took a long time.

So basically you're giving away information about how to break things in an effort to make it more secure. Some people might be confused by that.

I mean, people think that -- like with my battery thing -- that if people didn't talk about this, no one would have ever found out about it. And that's just not the case.

No matter what we talk about here, there's always bad guys -- or guys who are trying to do this to make money -- that are just as smart as us. And there are way more of them.

All we can do is present to everyone what we know. You can't defend against something you don't know.

Do you feel paranoid using Apple products knowing how many flaws you've been able to find in them?

A little bit. But they've gotten so much better. Like the iPhone. For the first year, when the iPhone came out, it was horrible. It was awful. It had no security in it, basically -- at all. And then when the second iPhone came out it was much better. And since March it's had basically every feature a security guy would want.

It's not just me. I think it's everyone saying they want more secure devices.

Do you work with Apple?

Not exactly. I have a cordial relationship with them. I shared with them my paper on the battery stuff like three weeks before the talk. But then again, if they would have told me not to do it I would have said, "Go to hell." I don't want to be their adversary. I want to have them fix stuff -- and I want them to get better. I try to share with them.

Are they working on this battery thing?

Unfortunately, there's not a lot they can do except start again and get it right.

Have hackers ever targeted you?

If they have, I haven't caught 'em.

I'd be pretty easy to hack, I think. I don't practice the best security myself. I'm impatient. So anytime security is going to add a lot of hassle I'm not going to do it.

I'm the cobbler whose kids have no shoes or whatever. And everyone knows exactly the software I use, the hardware I have, so it probably wouldn't be that hard.

I just try to be a really nice guy so no one wants to go after me.

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Recent solar flare may disrupt your GPS

Editor's note: Amy Gahran writes about mobile tech for CNN.com. She is a San Francisco Bay Area writer and media consultant whose blog, Contentious.com, explores how people communicate in the online age.

(CNN) -- We're nearing the peak of the 11-year solar cycle, so double-check your GPS and watch where you're going.

On Thursday, the sun unleashed a massive solar flare (see video of the flare and how its effects have been moving toward Earth). Solar flares can disrupt radio communications, including devices that use Global Positioning System technology, such as cell phones, airplanes and car navigation systems.

So if you're relying on your GPS for driving directions, to find your location on your phone's mapping tool or for any other purpose, have a backup navigation system handy, such as a printed map.

Even more important, pay close attention to where you are and where you're going. Don't rely solely on your GPS to give you directions.

In 2006, research from Cornell University proved that solar flares can cause GPS devices to lose signal. This can cause these devices to temporarily misrepresent your location or otherwise malfunction.

"If you're driving to the beach using your car's navigation system, you'll be OK. If you're on a commercial airplane in zero visibility weather, maybe not," said Paul Kintner Jr., head of Cornell's GPS Laboratory. In fact, the Cornell researchers warned in 2006 that 2011 would probably see lots of GPS disruption.

In addition, solar flares can disrupt power systems.

This week, National Geographic reported: "Under the right conditions, solar storms can create extra electrical currents in Earth's magnetosphere -- the region around the planet controlled by our magnetic field. The electrical power grid is particularly vulnerable to these extra currents, which can infiltrate high-voltage transmission lines, causing transformers to overheat and possibly burn out."

Across the nation, electric utilities and grid operators are preparing to respond to such problems.

John Bogdan, director of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Space Weather Prediction Center, told The Associated Press that a number of such blasts is expected over the next three to five years -- and the biggest flares are yet to come. On a scale of one to five, he likened this week's flare to "probably a two or three."

This week's flare (called a "coronal mass ejection") registered M9.3 on the "Richter scale of flares," about the highest level in the "medium" category. Larger flares that fall into the "X" category can cause global radio blackouts, but large M-class flares also can cause radio disruptions.

This is one of a series of recent bouts of severe space weather, as the solar cycle approaches solar maximum in 2013. Other major flares came in February and June, and more may follow. A good place to follow solar activity is SpaceWeather.com.

In the meantime, keep those maps handy.

The opinions expressed in this post are solely those of Amy Gahran.

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Survey finds smartphone apps store too much personal data

An uncomfortably large percentage of mobile applications are storing sensitive user account information unencrypted on owners' smartphones, according to a new survey of 100 consumer smartphone apps.

Some 76% of the apps tested stored cleartext usernames on the devices, and 10% of the tested applications, including popular apps LinkedIn and Netflix, were found storing passwords on the phone in cleartext.

Conducted by digital security firm ViaForensics, the testing occurred over a period of over eight months and spanned multiple categories, ranging from social networking applications to mobile banking software. The firm tested apps only for iOS and Android, the market's leading mobile platforms.

User names ranked highest on the list of discoverable data. App data -- the term ViaForensics uses for private information exchanged using the applications -- came in second place, with such data recovered from 69% of tested apps.

Mint.com's iPhone and Android apps, which are used for maintaining financial account information, were found to store user transaction history and balance information on the phone.

The Android version of the Mint app stores the user's PIN on the phone unencrypted, ViaForensics found.

"We're already working on ways to make this experience better," said Jason Yiin, lead mobile engineer at Mint.com, in an interview. "At the moment, if users are highly concerned, they can log in and out of the application each time they access it on their phones."

Yiin also points out that if an intruder accesses your PIN, they won't be able to manipulate any account information or move assets between accounts. The intruder will, however, be able to see account balance and transaction history information.

In June, based on ViaForensics' early findings, Netflix promised a security update at a yet to be specified date. But LinkedIn says it is satisfied with the security of its app.

Apple's iOS-based apps scored consistently higher marks than Android apps in ViaForensics' tests. That doesn't surprise security analysts, who say Apple's Keychain security architecture for storing user credentials is stronger than Android's Account Manager.

"Right now, Apple does a better job on iOS in providing an API where app developers can use a pretty decent mechanism to protect stored information," says David Campbell, mobile security consultant at Electric Alchemy. "Currently, that doesn't exist on Android."

Google makes no bones about its platform's security.

"We dispute the claim that this data is insecurely stored on Android devices," a Google spokesman told Wired.com. "The data is not accessible by default unless the phone has been rooted to gain full privileges, which Android actively protects against and would result in similar exposure for any platform."

Earlier this year, German security researchers Jens Heider and Matthias Boll published a paper detailing how to partially circumvent keychain protections in a six-minute procedure on an IOS device.

In any case, developers too often choose not to use the operating system's security resources to begin with.

"What we have is a strong developer community who are good at coding on the whole, but not necessarily experts in security," independent security analyst Ashkan Soltani told Wired.com. "A developer writes an app, and he's just trying to get it off the ground as fast as he can."

With two lucrative emerging mobile platforms, early traction is crucial for app developers competing for space. Apple's App Store menu is closing in on a half-million applications available for download; add the Android Market to that, and you've got another 250,000 titles. App developer teams aren't always focused on security first, especially when some of them consist of a handful of engineers.

"The main thing lacking in mobile development is approaching the platform with the understanding that these are essentially small computers," Eull said. "Computers that are easily lost, and can travel through countless hands afterwards."

Even if you haven't lost your phone, downloading apps can be a crap shoot. The Android Market allows anyone to submit apps for download, with no vetting process to separate the wheat from the virus-infested chaff. That makes for lots of opportunities for malware to sneak in, a common enough occurrence for Google's patrons over the past year.

Three out of ten Android users will encounter a web-based threat on their device this year, according to recent findings from Lookout Mobile Security.

Of course, there are the issues that come with owning a smartphone at all, apps or no apps. In April, two researchers discovered an unencrypted file stored inside Apple's iOS software which stored a list of iPhone 4 owners' locations for a period of over ten months. Dubbed "Locationgate," the discovery turned into a full-blown privacy fiasco for the company.

The file -- "consolidated.db" -- compiled geolocation data from when users' smartphones came into contact with a new Wi-Fi network, or when a user accessed an app on the device that utilized GPS services. It was later revealed that Google's Android platform collected similar geographic data, though in a much more limited capacity than Apple.

Fortunately, some app makers are listening.

After ViaForensics contacted a number of the offending app's parent companies, several issued updates remedying the security concerns. Financial institutions like Bank of America, USAA and Wells Fargo -- all of which arguably have access to a user's most sensitive data -- issued quick fixes to their applications, now scoring a "pass" rating on ViaForensics' tests.

Ultimately, it's safer to take preventative measures than rely on app developers to change their ways.

Apple's MobileMe program includes a remote-wipe option, which lets you erase everything on your phone if it's lost or stolen (Mint.com's app also includes a remote-wipe option). And at the simplest of levels, installing a six-digit PIN on your device is a no-brainer.

"It's a hassle to punch in a PIN every time you want to use your phone," says Eull, "but its even more of a hassle for someone who wants to crack your device."

Though as Ivan Sze noted in an Android forum post, a lock screen PIN isn't the end-all be-all for a dedicated data thief: "Lock screen password entries aren't designed to be formidable security barriers -- it's just to make it inconvenient for regular people."

"It is entirely possible to develop secure mobile apps," said Andrew Hoog, chief investigative officer at ViaForensics. "But it takes the time, energy and resources to do it."

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Android applications from NASA

FLORIDA - NASA unveiled a new application for Android that has a lot of content and enables users 'peek' atmosphere of outer space through streaming impressions.

Following the ending era of NASA's space shuttle Atlantis returned to Earth after, NASA also issued another technology shift on the phones. Some time ago the President of the United States, Barack Obama said that NASA needs to make new breakthroughs in the technology world.

"The plane has done some work to a remarkable experiment to the lowest orbit by making the International Space Station. It is a remarkable achievement. And we are very proud of the job, but now all we need is a new technological breakthrough," said Obama at that time.

Telegraph launched on Friday (22/07/2011), NASA has now released an official application on Android Market Wednesday. This application has features like live video from NASA TV streaming and some archives of the NASA mission.

Is expected users will be integrated with social media that will be made by NASA. Within this application there are also thousands of images, video on demand and an attractive countdown clock.

Even so, this application seems more targeted to people who know a lot about space exploration rather than lovers of technology. NASA insisted that this application is an opportunity to see the beauty of a space program for users not familiar with it, as well as a source of useful information if you are an interested in this subject.

NASA applications are already available for download for free at Android Market.

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Android From Huawei

Although already one of the major players in the global telecommunications infrastructure industry, Huawei Technology is still considered a newcomer in telecommunications devices for the consumer market, in particular handset. A vendor based in Shenzhen, China is a new serious work on the mobile market since 2010.

As for the operating system, Huawei has been no plans to develop its own operating system as an alternative to the existing operating system. They chose to develop its product line with the Android operating system. What is the reason?

According to Martin Wezowski, Consumer Experience Design Center, Director of Huawei Device GUI Board, the prevailing trend of the future in industry is a handheld gadget that personalized, unique for each individual character of its users.

Martin argues, this time, the operating system Android is the operating system's most interesting because the user interface could still be further optimized.

In terms of applications, including devices that support LTE, Martin argues, there is no application would actually be a killer application or seed application. "There is a killer sets of applications, especially those related to social networking," he said.

To be sure, said Martin, in accordance with the trend of user needs, the entire application will depend on the speed of data transmission. And high-speed data transmission possible with LTE technology.

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Sony Korea, the public 'premium bio-Z' latest

Sony Korea (CEO yitoki Hiro spots, www.sony.co.kr), open six days a press conference Sony's latest flagship notebook laptop technology-intensive one-dimensional high-performance and portability, functionality and beauty at the same time considering the best premium VAIO PCs Z Series (VPCZ217GK / X) 'is presented.

VAIO Z series are released in the traditional Z-series will continue the excellent reputation of Sony's innovative technology was born as a notebook that is extremely lightweight and thin will brings new experiences that differ from existing. Sony Korea with this product will be a national leader in the premium laptop, "he said.

New VAIO Z series and 16.65mm thick with a weight of 13.1 1.165Kg type of ultra-thin notebook with a durable carbon fiber panels to apply the aluminum palm rest area, equipped with heavy duty thin but increased mobility. Moreover, even if moving for an extended period of time so that you can use your laptop battery technology strong (default is 6.5 hours, adding up to 13 hours on battery) is reflected.

This product is a second generation of Intel Core i7 (i7-2620M) and equipped with high-speed SSD and boot up time shortened to less than 15 seconds with a quick-boot feature to provide faster processing speeds.

Specifically, the VAIO Z series, depending on the situation and the need to design their own PC environment, the concept of docking station, Power Media Dog 'is marked valid. Dock power of media and external graphics, a Blu-ray Disc, and various built-in connector and the VAIO Z series and connected by fiber optic cable can handle high-speed transmission.

In addition to the surrounding environment to eliminate noise from digital noise headphones, ekseumeo technology, HD web camera, Bluetooth, and a variety of wireless communication devices, backlit keyboard, and has adopted the isolation. In addition, up to four monitors can be connected to a laptop Quad Multi-monitor data alone can perform the role of the merchant.

The typical hexagonal shape of the 'shell design Hex' VAIO Z series as a full-flat shape at the same time realize hinge nopyeoteumyeo sleek and durable is not visible when viewed from the 'hinge design keonsildeu' forward is to focus more on the screen.

VAIO Z series is scheduled for the upcoming July 22 launch domestic price ₩ 3,649,000.

Sony Korea to the domestic market fully in the next 20 days before the Sony Store jikyoungsyap (COEX, Apgujeong) and Sony's online store (www.sony.co.kr / store) for VAIO Z series through the book sales are held. A book sale during the VAIO Z series is aimed at customers who purchased a Sony Vaio leather pouch and provides benefits of two-year warranty.

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BlackBerry Playbook Present

Tablet PC products with a variety of platforms had already been present in the Indonesian market.
Though less agile with other computer tablet manufacturers, but Research in Motion, BlackBerry Smartphone manufacturers remained adamant to market a tablet PC into the Indonesian market.

Had reportedly will be named BlackPad, RIM's tablet PCs and then released using the name of the Playbook. The plan, in the ground water, the product will be released on 16 July through official outlets or via RIM's carrier partners.

Before that date, users can already make a reservation online at the official website http://id.blackberry.com/playbook/wheretobuy.

According to Hastings Singh, Director of Distribution for Asia Pacific Research in Motion, there are three versions of the BlackBerry Playbook prepared with a capacity of 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB. All three products were marketed in the price of 4.9 million, 5.9 million, and 6.9 million.

As an illustration, in the market today were already present tablet PC products that use a variety of platforms. As is known, tablet PCs are making by Apple iPad is already present in Indonesia since November 2010.

The Android-based tablet PC is already present earlier, for example Galaxy Tab outstanding since October 2010, or Dell and Acer Iconia Streak 7 A500 though also quite late, but it is already present in April and June 2011.

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New minerals for the manufacture of iPad

Rare earth minerals that are found on the seabed in the Pacific Ocean.
Japanese researchers have discovered a rare mineral. This mineral is used to make electronic products. His name is Rare earth minerals. This mineral can be used to create smartphones, tablet pc, and flat screen televisions.
Minerals can be found at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean around Hawaii, the United States. In fact, it's easily extracted minerals. These findings add to the knowledge of the function as well as minerals, yet threaten its supply.
"The content of minerals that have heavy concentrations of rare. Only by one square kilometer of content that could provide a fifth of global consumption on an annual basis (for use in electronic goods)," said Yasuhiro Kato, assistant professor of earth science at Tokyo University, was quoted as saying from The Guardian.
Findings are managed by a team led by Kato could have an impact for the production of electronic goods that require rare minerals, such as tantalum and yttrium. So far most of the mineral soil in China, which provides about 97 percent of global supply.
Recent research has found that minerals hidden in the mud in the seabed can be extracted at depths of 3500 to 6,000 meters, in 78 locations. One third of these locations, Kato said, have a wealth of rare mineral content and metal yttrium.
Kato explained that the Rare earth minerals content can be found stretches east to west Hawaii. In addition, can also be found in the east of Tahiti in Polynesia, France.
Kato estimate Rare earth minerals that contained as many as 80 to 100 billion tons. Compared with global inventories that found the U.S. Geological Survey, only 110 million tons were found, among others in China, Russia, former Soviet Union, and the United States.
The use of Rare earth minerals for the production of high-tech electronic goods, magnets, and battery causing much mineral mining activity in recent years. According to Kato, sea mud which is rich in minerals found another nadir earth, such as gadolinium, lutetium, terbium, and dysporsium.
"It is commonly used in the manufacture of flat screen televisions, as well as LED (light-emitting diode) and hydride car," said Kato.

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Q Pentax Camera Smallest and Lightest in the world

Soon we were just showing the camera Panasonic DMC GF3 small but the results are like a DSLR ever this time there's a competitor that is Pentax Pentax introduced its Q, which is the smallest and lightest camera in the world for the category of cameras with interchangeable lenses that can enter the pocket and can even grasp the palm of your hand.

Q Pentax is equipped with 12.4 megapixel CMOS image sensor 1/2.3-inch backlit capable of producing 12-bit RAW and JPG images. With small size, the Pentax Q fixed complement with 3-inch LCD screen with a resolution HVGA, Customizable Quick Dial and built-in flash pop-ups. Q Pentax camera has an ISO 125-6400, sensor-shift shake reduction for, traditional DSLR shooting modes like Program, Aperture / Shutter Priority, Metered Manual exposure control, Bokeh Filters and Smart Control Effects. This camera also includes a mechanism DRII (Dust Removal II) to help reduce the annoying dust spots from photos taken.
Although it looks like a toy camera, Pentax camera mirrorless Q has a body made from lightweight magnesium alloy scratch resistant, so it's really durable. Pentax Q also supports SD / SDHC memory card and SDXC and provides an HDMI output. Pentax Q will be available in white or black color model and sent in the Prime Standard lens (available in silver) kit.

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The first model of the world system, the Media Pad Android 3.2-owned manufacturer Huawei

In the basic version, 3.2 Android and the Android version 3.1 and has not changed much, but the Android version 3.2 for 7-inch screen is optimal.

With this design, Huawei Media Pad 7 inch screen, 10.5mm thick, with 217 pixels per inch capacitive touch screen IPS. GPS functions. 1.3 million Pre-configured elements, such as 5-megapixel camera and behind the camera. 802.11n wireless LAN and Bluetooth. Configure HDMI port. The battery of 6 hours. Using Qualcomm processor 1.2GHz clock.

Media Pad Tablet weight 390 grams, it can playback 1080p video, network support HSPA + (14.4Mbps) 3G, providing 8GB of storage space, a micro SD card slot. Preloaded with Facebook, Twitter, Golf Come and documents to the application. 10.3 Support for Flash technology. Huawei says that currently there are no plans to launch a version of Wi-Fi.

ASUS CEO said, the Media Pad flat for consumers to open a new world of entertainment, online content through a combination of cloud computing can be really accessible high-quality mobile entertainment experience.

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