Friday, October 16, 2009

Laptop with flexible Display

Brave German designers are not shy about experimenting with form. Of course, the day when such a concept could be put into practice, will not soon, despite the existing achievements in the field of flexible OLED-screens.

The idea is simple - there is a small tube with a wire, standard connectors and speakers.

At his literally wound rolled in a tube display, which is practically a slight movement of the hand can be easily turned into a laptop screen with a keyboard and large display.

And with great desire in the display still appears and folding legs. We all love these concepts precisely because of what they look spectacular and much promise.

Sunday, September 13, 2009

Nokia Enters Netbook Market with Booklet 3G

After months of rumor and speculation, Nokia has officially announced its entry into the netbook market with its own machine in the Nokia Booklet 3G.

Nokia has chosen the well-traveled path of many other manufacturers with specifications that equal or exceed those in other competing models with an Intel Atom processor, integrated 3G HSPA modem with A-GPS support, 10-inch glass front HD resolution display, aluminum bodyshell, HDMI port for video output and Windows XP along with a claimed 12 hour battery life.

As with other competing netbooks, Nokia will be bundling its own suite of online services with Ovi Suite which can pinpoint location in seconds with the Ovi Maps widget and built-in A-GPS.

The Nokia Booklet 3G also includes other Ovi functionality such as using Ovi Suite to sync seamlessly with a Nokia smartphone to the Booklet 3G, to the internet.

Saturday, September 12, 2009

Sony to Launch New PSP Starter Pack Next Month

Sony has revealed a new PSP Starter Pack to coincide with the launch of the PSPgo.

The new Sony PSP Starter Pack will be launched next month for $39.99 and features the 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo Mark 2 memory card and the midrange MDR-EX32LP earbuds with a 6-23,000 Hz frequency response, 3.9ft cord and three sizes of earbuds.

Both the memory card and earbuds are compatible with the PSPgo.

Friday, September 4, 2009

IKEA's Switch to Verdana Causes Stir Among Typography Geeks

You probably missed this earth-shattering news, but Ikea IKEA, the Swedish furniture and other assorted home decoration products company, has switched fonts. The company always used the Futura font for its catalogues, but the latest edition has ditched it in favour of Verdana. This has caused quite the stir among typography geeks.

Red Hat takes aim at Microsoft, VMware with virtualization, cloud strategy

Red Hat this week lined up nose-to-nose with VMware and Microsoft laying out its bid to become a top-tier provider of virtualization and cloud computing infrastructure software for both the enterprise and service providers. more

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Gmail outage caused by overloaded servers

A worldwide outage of Google's Gmail online e-mail system on Tuesday was caused by a traffic jam on its servers, according to Google's official Gmail blog.

The problem was that some recent changes designed to improve traffic flow on request routers, servers designed to direct Web queries to the appropriate Gmail server, overloaded the system after workers took some Gmail servers offline to perform routine upgrades.

The overload resulted in people around the world being unable to access Gmail for about 100 minutes, Treynor said, though he noted that IMAP/POP access and mail processing continued to work normally.

Nokia Unveils Booklet 3G Specifications, Price

Not too long ago the news got out that mobile phone company Nokia was about to enter the netbook market with its Booklet 3G. Specifications were unavailable then, but today at Nokia World '09 the company announced all the details around this slick netbook.