Microsoft moved quickly in the mobile segment, this after the giant reportedly rumored to be showing off the Windows operating system that is devoted to the tablet.
After Microsoft announced Windows Mobile 7.5 update, known as Mango, they prepare to bring the tablet version of Windows OS next week, in an event that has been prepared.
However, Microsoft is reluctant to comment on such rumors. Especially after other newspapers said, the OS for the tablet will be holding a microprocessor Tegra.
Microsoft is a competitor of Apple currently dominates the tablet PC market, selling 7.5 million iPad since its debut in April and the end of September. Market researcher Strategy Analytics predicts that Apple currently holds 95 percent of the tablet computer market.
However, tablet computers running Google’s Android operating system is expected to be the foremost leading competitor in the near future. The alliance with ARM could help Microsoft catch up on the mobile device market.
Google will serve ads television its Chrome browser for the UK market in a live broadcast the Champions League final between Manchester United and Barcelona, next morning.
Internet giant from Mountain View that will display ads for its new Chrome browser, which features a boy named “Hollie“.
These ads will accompany the lovers watch the live broadcast of football matches between the two prestigious European rulers.
This is Google‘s first television ads in the UK, considering that during this promotion is limited to print ads and billboards.
Meanwhile, ads for the U.S. market, which is titled ‘Dear Sophie‘, first aired on live television‘s most prestigious football game in the U.S. (Super Bowl), making it as one of the most expensive advertising on television.
Demonstrated several notebooks from Fujitsu LifeBook range that was launched several months ago, one of which is the Lifebook SH761.
Fujitsu Lifebook Notebooks SH761 has many excellent features, one of which is the access authentication Omnipass, which uses fingerprints to access the user login.
Features Omnipass to access it using fingerprint authentication to access the user login. In addition to the SH761. Omnipass features also exist in the Lifebook SH 561. Letter ‘S’ in the SH series Lifebook itself means ‘slim and light’.
At the top of the keyboard there are also 761 SH-detection button battery power indicator, namely Battery Indicator. The color indicator light is red, yellow and green are different, indicating differences in the rest of the available power. The keyboard on SH 761 is also water resistant, or referred to as spill-resistant keyboard.
The battery used is 6-cell 6200mAH battery Ultra high capacity. The rear of this battery also has a surface texture, which makes it more tightly to the hand grip, although the hands are sweaty.
For budling package with accessories, SH761 also includes energy saving adapter AC Adapter Unique 0-Watt. “The adapter is able to save energy even though the laptop is in standby mode.
Operational system used by the SH761 is Windows 7 with screen HD 13.3-inch SuperFine back-ligt LED 300nits, 1366 x 768 pixels.
Memory storage in the SH 761 is at 500GB, while the used memory is 4GB DDR3 1333Mhz. As for the display graphics is NVIDIA GeForce 520M GT.
Fujitsu Lifebook SH761 became available in the market since April 2011 with a price of USD2028. Colors are available for today is Shiny Black.
Research In Motion (RIM) said they had sold approximately 250 thousand tablets Playbook in the first month of launch.
Playbook, which was launched on April 19, earlier failed to give a big impact because it referred to by observers as a product of ‘intermediate‘ when compared with the iPad.
But in a note sent to clients, RBC Capital Markets, RIM could sell Playbook set of 500 thousand units by the end of this quarter. Note also said that sales have exceeded Xoom Playbook from Motorola.
The recall of more than 900 units Playbook some time ago are also said to not affect sales of these tablets.
Previously, analysts predict RIM could sell approximately 3.9 million tablets Playbook on the market which is estimated will reach 70 million units this year. But the latest projections, RIM is expected to sell approximately 500 thousand tablets in this quarter.
RIM target Playbook for their 60 million BlackBerry users, as these tablets can later be integrated with BlackBerry phones through the BlackBerry Bridge.
In addition, RIM said it will launch 3G and 4G Playbook version this year. The new version will juag will use the Android OS.
Google launched a new tool to find and compare financial products called Google Advisor.
Google Advisor is intended as a financial comparison tool, helping users to measure the number of mortgages, credit cards, savings accounts and others, by providing a list of appropriate financial instruments.
For mortgages, Google provides data such as monthly payment, payment and contact address. For credit card, Google Advisor also provides a data type of card, rewards, annual payments, and others.
Google Advisor itself also is not a search engine, but a comparison engine that has a lot of filters.
Google has long wanted to enter the field of financial sector. For example, in March last, Google bought the site from the UK BeatThatQuote price comparison for USD61, 5 million. Because of that, many say that Google’s similar to BeatThatQuote Advisor.
Analysts predict that this service was the beginning of a series of Google tools for the financial sector.
It appears that Amazon will also jump on the competition tablet PCs today, as CEO Jeff Bezos hinted that his company will participate launch tablet.
When asked about the possibility of launching tablet joined Amazon, Bezos said “wait“. But the device is meant by it more as a complement to Kinddle, rather than to replace it.
Bezos said that the popularity of e-books in tablet today as the iPad, the Kindle will not replace specially designed for e-books.
“I do not like the analogy that one product consuming other products on the market,“ said Bezos
“We are always cautious in responding to this. We will not hurry,“ he added.
Bezos also said that the tablets may be launched Amazon which will not kill the market share of Amazon’s Kindle and other devices.
Rumors warm on Amazon tablet has circulated since the last few months. Amazon Reportedly tablets will be run with Android OS Honeycomb, while the manufacturer is Foxconn which also makes the Kindle.
When the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan in March last, the doctors there use Twitter to help his patients.
The doctors through his Twitter account told to the patient where to save themselves, because the telephone network to die.
In a letter published in The Lancet, doctors and Keiichi Fukuda Yuichi Tamura said they were sending their tweets into 60 patients, by telling where to look for drugs at a nearby location. This is done by Tamura and Fukuda because they realized that the telephone network is damaged.
“Patients are our tweets are those who suffer from rare diseases and hospitals that provide the medicine is also very rare,“ said Dr. Tamura of the cardiology section at the Keio University School Of Medicine, Tokyo.
“We live to tweet to 60 patients and we’d retweet follower of his more than 100 times. Then there are some patients who can not reach hospitals because they itnggal places affected by the earthquake, then we bring the medicine directly to them through the car or helicopter, “said Tamura and Fukuda in their letter.
Short message services (SMS) and Internet social media are now often used by medical personnel around the world to be able to serve their patients with them.
Sony Ericsson to upgrade their two Android phone, the Xperia Mini and Mini Pro. So what’s the difference with the previous version?
Both phones are now equipped with Qualcomm‘s Snapdragon processor 1 GHz, with Android OS 2.3 Gingerbread. In addition, Sony was buried reality display technology with Mobile Bravia Engine and HD video recording (720p) on the display 3 inchnya.
Views advance (user interface) which has been improved also now possible to display up to 16 applications on the home screen. Both are also equipped with a 5 megapixel camera with 8x digital zoom.
Sony wants to provide a wider selection in our Xperia series for the consumer, while building the success of the previous mini-series.
This turbo-powered smartphones now have greater strength, a function that has been upgraded, the wider screen and features a unique Sony Ericsson’s premium.
Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Mini Pro and the Xperia will be available globally starting in Q3 2011.
Here are some features of the Xperia Mini:
* Reality Display with Mobile Bravia Engine
* Android phone with video recorder in the world’s smallest HD
* 16 applications at the corner of the home screen
Here are some features of the Xperia Mini Pro:
* Ergonomic QWERTY keyboard and instant messaging functions
* Video HD and Reality Display with Mobile Bravia Engine
Tablet computers is booming. This touchscreen-based gadget getting a place in the hearts of consumers. Then what is the main reason people love to wear such a iPad tablet, Galaxy Tab or Motorola Xoom?
Bureau of the leading research, Nielsen, try to examine the reasons why people use the tablet. Here are the results:
- Easy to carry anywhere (31%)
- Interface / operating system easy to use (21%)
- Startup / off fast (15%)
- Convenient use (12%)
- The compact size (12%)
- Can be used in various places (12%)
- faster performance (11%)
- Like its features such as applications or calendar (10%)
- Light weight (7%)
On the tablet sales, Nielsen found that Apple iPad tablet is still very dominant with 82% market share. Then in second place there is the Galaxy Tab very far away with only 4% market share.
Tablet computers, for some people, it also minimizes the use of other devices such as desktop computers. Some 35% of owners claimed to be rarely use the tablet computer. While 32% of consumers tablets which also have a laptop, so quite rarely use the laptop.
Secret military operation that led to U.S. soldiers in the death of Osama bin Laden was allegedly not free from interference by WikiLeaks. Whistle-blower site was touted to be the reason the U.S. is moving faster to ‘paralyze‘ the world’s number one terrorist leader.
One of the leaked information to the WikiLeaks wire indicates that the U.S. actually get a clue if it had been Osama hiding in the area of Abbottabad, Pakistan.
A document from 2008 which was released Wikileaks there is a record of the interrogation process a citizen of Libya, Abu al-Libi, who was once associated with bin Laden in Afghanistan.
When he was asked to become one of Osama‘s introduction in 2003, Libi was living in Peshawar, Pakistan. Osama asked Libi act as introductory messages between him and other colleagues in the territory of Pakistan.
In mid-2003, bin Laden moved his family to Abbottabad to later work in the area and Peshawar.
Libi was captured in Pakistan in 2005 and eventually transferred to Guantanamo. U.S. intelligence organizations the CIA claims to have watched the movements of bin Laden by investigating a network of couriers.
If Osama saw the report that was leaked on WikiLeaks, leader of Al Qaeda that would have immediately realized that the CIA nearly found a place of residence. Therefore, U.S. military secret operation was allegedly speeding before Osama realize their plans.