Walked up to the age-25 years, Toshiba ‘spawn’ two flagship weapon in the ranks of the Libretto notebooks and Portege R700 w100. One of the mainstay weapon Toshiba Portege R700 itself is claimed as thin notebook Toshiba issued a thickness approximately 19 mm and only weighs approximately 1.39 kg. Portege R700 has a structure Honeycomb (honeycomb), the first in the world and technology in the Fresh Water Cooling Notebook PCs.
Although thin, performance and comfort for business notebooks with screen sizes 13 inches is quite qualified. Portege R700 ultraportabel intended for personal or professional business users with high mobility.
Call it the Fresh Water Cooling technology is none other than the cooling technology used in jet engines, the new Cooling Airflow technology, developed jointly by Intel and Toshiba, using the power of fresh air from jet engines to cool the heated components, enabling Portégé R700 use a more powerful processor voltage power, including the Intel Core I3, and Core i5 in a slimmer casing.
The operating system used in the Portege using Windows 7, this device is rich in features and ports needed by users, including a wide choice of 500GB hard drive or 512GB Solid State Drive, ultra-fast DDR3 4GB RAM. As well as a variety of connectivity options and connectors Docker station for additional docking station that supports HDMI and USB 3.0 for fast data transfer.
Portege R700 does not sacrifice battery life, this device can be used for one full working day to eight hours on a one-time charge baterai2.
Pieces of additional battery when put together will increase the battery life up to 12 hours. This new model offers more useful features to enhance portability and appeal to the businessman by combining EasyGuardToshiba technology.
Hardware and additional software to help protect it from shocks ultraportabel device, spillage and theft, with the availability of additional protection features against slamming and shock (drop and shocks3), spill-resistant keyboard, integrated Trusted Platform Module, fingerprint sensor and a number of software which continually checks the performance and functionality of critical components of hardware system and notifies users when the system needs to be corrected.
Portege R700 Specifications
- Intel Core i7, Core i5, Core I3
- Up to 4 GB of RAM DDR3 (1066 MHz)
- 2.5 “HDD up to 500 GB or 512 GB SSD
- 13.3 ‘Wide-inch HD display with LED backlighting, 1.366 x 768 pixels
- 9.5mm DVD SuperMulti Drive
- Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, WLAN (802.11 b / g / n), Gigabit Ethernet LAN
- 3x USB2.0, 1x eSATA / USB combo port with Sleep-and-Charge and, Multi-Card Reader, VGA, HDMI
- Docking connector with support of USB 3.0 and HDMI ®
- A4 tile keyboard and large multi-touch touch pad
- Toshiba’s EasyGuard Technology: Finger print sensor for authentication, TPM, HDD 3D-impact sensors, Spill-resistant keyboard, magnesium chassis
- Size: 316 x 227 x 18.3/25.7mm
- Weight: 1.39kg

Determined to leverage the domestic production of diesel fuel, Petrobras is investing in technology to transform its future refineries into units that are fully prepared not only to inject more diesel into the market, but also to produce a better quality fuel. Of the four new Petrobras projects on the drawing boards, the Northeast Refinery and the Premium Refineries have something in common — the search for solutions to produce increasingly less gasoline and more diesel fuel. For its part, the Comperj petrochemical complex will innovate by using an FCC unit that not only produces gasoline, but also by-products such as ethane and propane directly from heavy oil.

Petrobras is investing heavily in refining, based upon the forecast for a growth in consumption of domestic oil products of 3% per year through 2013. However, data released by the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) demonstrates that the prospects could be even better for diesel, whose consumption increased 7.7% between 2007 and 2008. With a 41% increase in ethanol consumption over the 2007-2008 period and the growing fleet of flex fuel vehicles, the only oil product that threatens fuel supplies in the country is diesel, which is imported today and used massively for highway cargo transportation.

“Diesel is the oil product that is growing the fastest. It is not for nothing that the Premium refineries, planned to operate in 2013, are being optimized to produce diesel,” stated Petrobras’ director of Supplies, Paulo Roberto Costa.

Among the major investments foreseen by the company, refining is where 73% of the total earmarked for the Supplies area will be concentrated. By increasing production projections for diesel in its 2009-2013 Strategic Plan, Petrobras is trying to reduce the impact of the product on Brazil’s trade balance, under the fuel import line item. In this context, technology is a fundamental tool.

“The entire world is seeking a way to produce more and better quality diesel fuel. Anyone who is able to patent this first will have a competitive advantage,” said Eduardo Guerra, general manager of Basic Engineering and Refining at Cenpes, the Petrobras Technology Center.

RNEST

One of Petrobras’ main investments is the so-called Northeast Refinery (the Abreu e Lima Refinery or RNEST). Scheduled to come on stream in 2011, the unit in a first stage would produce 200,000 bpd. However, improvements to the projects would increase the load by another 30,000 bpd, boosting capacity up to 230,000 bpd.

At RNEST, the star of the show is the Retarded Coking Unit (RAT). Normally, the refineries that produce gasoline make use of atmospheric distillation units, accompanied by vacuum distillation units and an FCC (Catalytic Cracking Unit). Because RNEST’s focus is diesel, the scheme does not require the FCCs, which make gasoline a priority. Atmospheric distillation inserts a direct load into a coke unit that has been designed by the Cenpes. The coke unit will process the atmospheric residues directly, without treatment.

“The reverse of the vacuum load process, the coke unit directly processes the atmospheric distillation load. After the coke, the load goes directly f

Workers unions from France are not pleased with the transfer of military technology to Brazil recently agreed between Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and his French counterpart Nicholas Sarkozy.

“There’s something which troubles us in this contract and is the fact that Brazil wants to have its own military air industry and that the agreement with Dassault, the French government and the Brazilian government includes the transfer of technology,” said Dominique Richard, a workers union leader from Dassault Aviation, France’s main aircraft manufacturer.

Dassault designed and builds the Rafale fighter-bomber which France is prepared to sell to Brazil.

On signing a major military hardware agreement with French president Sarkozy, Lula said he was inclined to choose the French fighter Rafale because France is prepared to transfer sensitive technology and would also allow them to be assembled in Brazil.

Brazilian Foreign Affairs minister Celso Amorim also revealed that France is prepared to authorize the sale of those aircrafts to other Latin American countries.

Meanwhile Brazil will continue to consider the French offer for the Rafale, together with Boeing’s F-18 Super Hornet and Sweden’s Saab, Gripen.

Union leader Richard told Brazilian daily Folha de S. Paulo that the agreement threatens Dassault Aviation jobs in France.

Brazilian Defense minister Nelson Jobim has repeatedly said that with French technology, Brazil plans to become the leading military hardware manufacturer in Latinamerica with the largest military-industrial complex in the region.

However from France, Dassault in an official statement denied that the military cooperation agreement reached between France and Brazil, which includes submarines and helicopters, would have a negative impact on French jobs.(by Newsroom)

(CNN) — As the “B” in BRIC (one of the world’s fastest-growing economies alongside Russia, India and China), Brazil may very well owe its force to an emerging business and technology district in the heart of Sao Paulo, centered around an upscale avenue called Luis Carlos Berrini in the neighborhood of Brooklin.
The modern buildings of Morumbi in Brooklin line the Marginal highway along the Pinheiros River.

The modern buildings of Morumbi in Brooklin line the Marginal highway along the Pinheiros River.

“There’s been a transformation from a sleepy outpost in Sao Paulo to perhaps the city’s most dynamic area in terms of new growth, new buildings and new companies,” observes Bill Hinchberger, the founding editor of Brazilmax, an online travel guide to Brazil.

Of course, this transformation didn’t happen overnight. Development began in the 1930′s, from a quaint rural outpost to a middle-class residential neighborhood of predominantly single-family, chalet-style homes of German and British expatriates, alongside a favela.

The commercial growth of Brooklin — named after the now-defunct New York trolley-car line which terminated in that neighborhood — began with the general movement of banks from Rio de Janeiro to Brazil’s biggest city near the country’s newly established (yet diplomatically dull) capital of Brasília in 1960.

In the following decades, more brands and businesses moved over from Rio to Sao Paulo, hotels took over vacant lots, and the favela was razed to make way for more office buildings.

While residential (as well as dining and nightlife) development has been slow to develop in comparison, the influx of outsiders and renewal of generations has resulted in a stimulating mix of new residents and commuters.
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“Since the development of the late 1990′s, Berrini is becoming the fourth downtown of Sao Paulo, after Centro, Paulista (a symbol of the 20th century city) and Faria Lima [in neighboring Pinheiros],” says Hinchberger, who lived in Brazil from 1986 to 2008, most of that time in Brooklin.

Today, the region around Avenida Berrini hosts a quorum of high-technology multinational firms and their executives, including AT&T, HP, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Nokia, Oracle, Philips, Samsung, Sun Microsystems, and even Coca-Cola and Pepsi.

But perhaps more telling is the shift of headquarters of Brazil’s largest and internationally renowned media conglomerate, Globo, from its traditional home in Rio to its new stronghold in Brooklin, Sao Paulo.

Other Brazilian media and IT giants such as Terra Internet and Abril have also set up shop on Avenida Berrini, with a slew of software start-ups filling in the side-streets.

So is Berrini set to be Brazil’s own up-and-coming Silicon Valley?

“I think it’s overblown to call it a Silicon Valley,” responds Hinchberger.

“Brazil has a problem in terms of IT with fairly restrictive laws on the importation of hardware, which just makes everything more expensive. The price of any computer is about twice as much as in the U.S. Even local manufacturers don’t charge cut-rate prices, because they know they can get a free ride [on the market rates].”

But if general access to hardware hinders distribution, Hinchberger agrees that software for Web and mobile development is soaring.

This should come as no surprise, given that Brazil is the world’s fifth-largest country in both area and population, and ranks fifth worldwide in number of mobile phone and Internet users.

Mobile mecca

With a population of 190 million, Brazil registered over 152 million mobile phones (of which 3.2 million 3G devices) as of February 2009, resulting in a market penetration rate of 80 percent, according to the Brazilian telecommunications portal Teleco.

Teleco also reports that Brazil’s four major carriers — Vivo, TIM, Claro and Oi — together hold 91 percent of the market.

And let us not forget, Sao Paulo is the world’s fourth-largest city, as well as Brazil’s biggest and richest megalopolis.

Among the foreign companies with their foot in the door of this exploding online and mobile market is the year-old start-up Nimbuzz — headquartered in the Netherlands, with its first overseas office in Sao Paulo — which offers a free, mobile solution for instant messaging, VoIP calling, file sending and social networking through existing platforms.

“Nimbuzz is located about five minutes from Avenida Berrini,” says Marcelo Calbucci, Nimbuzz’s Brazilian marketing analyst.

“Many direct-to-consumer companies (D2C), operators, Internet companies and general technology companies are located around Berrini, so the location has helped in meeting new opportunities and building business relationships more frequently, with companies that relate directly to Nimbuzz’s core business.”

But while some 152 million Brazilians may have a mobile handset, a staggering 80 percent of them use a pre-paid phone card, making the public’s investment in mobile services a challenge.

Nimbuzz, however, remains optimistic about evolving mentalities, as the company’s Berrini branch focuses on shifting Brazilians’ already buzzing online activity to their handheld devices.

“The online social habits of the Brazilian population match Nimbuzz features, mainly with Orkut and MSN, but with good participation also from Skype, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and others,” says Calbucci.

Just around the corner from the Nimbuzz office is Brasigo, another year-old start-up, which offers an online space for Brazilians to interact and share with each other, beginning with a user-generated question-and-answer service.

Like Nimbuzz, the company may be starting small, but unlike global models such as Yahoo! Answers, Brasigo has the advantage of being born and raised in Brooklin(by Cherise Fong, For CNN)