Toshiba to takes on Amazon, Apple

Tokyo: Toshiba has launched a dual-screened mini notebook PC that can be used as an e-book reader, adding to competition for the likes of Apple Corp's iPad and Amazon.com's Kindle.

The new gadget, which can be used like a conventional clam-style notebook PC with a software keyboard, or turned 90 degrees for use as an e-book reader, will go on sale in Japan in late August and later in Europe, the United States and other markets.

Toshiba unveiled the Libretto W100 at a lavish event in Tokyo that also marked a quarter century since it launched the world's first laptop in 1985, though its personal computer division made an 8.8 billion yen ($97 million) loss in the year to March 2010. The company expects its PC division to break even in the year to March 2011.

The new touch-screen gadget, which also faces potential competition from Sony Corp will not shake up the e-book reader market at this point, because the company has yet to draw up any agreements with content providers. But executives were keen to emphasise that the Libretto, which they expect to retail for about 120,000 yen ($1,320) in Japan, compared with $489 for the larger of Amazon's Kindle devices, or $499 for the cheapest iPad, offers more than a passive "consumption" experience.

"Apple's iPad is probably creating a new market in terms of consuming information, browsing and reading books," Masahiko Fukakushi, president and CEO of Toshiba's digital products and network unit, told reporters. "But when it comes to creation or production ... what we have been doing still has a lot of value. We want to continue to do both."

Toshiba is the world's fourth biggest notebook PC vendor after HP, Acer and Dell. Industry-wide shipments of notebook computers jumped 43 per cent in the January-March quarter, their highest year-on-year growth in eight years, according to industry tracker Gartner. Toshiba is targeting global PC shipments of 25 million units in in the year to March 2011.

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Apple Mac got Cheaper than Ever

Apple has launched a new version of its lowest-priced computer, Mac mini, with twice the graphics performance and lower power usage, starting from $699. The new Mac mini, which is 7.7 inches square by 1.4 inches, has an HDMI port and a new SD card slot to allow transfer of files from a digital camera. The new product's power consumption would be less than 10 watts when idle.

It consists of a Nvidia GeForce 320M graphics processor, a 2.4 gigahertz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 320 gigabyte (GB) hard-disk and 2GB RAM. It comes with Mac's Snow Leopard operating system.

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China invents fastest super computer

Beijing: China has developed a super computer that runs at more than one quadrillion (one thousand million million) calculations per second, making it the fastest one in the country, experts have said.

The super computer named "Xingyun", has been developed in Tianjin, and works at double the speed of "Tianhe-1", the previous fastest machine in China.

The Tianhe-1 was developed by the National University of Defence Technology in October 2009, Li Jun, president of the Dawning Information Industry , was quoted as saying by Xinhua.

"Its peak performance reaches nearly three quadrillion calculations per second, three times the peak speed of Tianhe-1," Li said.

Experts say one second of its work may take a whole day for a dual-core personal computer.

"Xingyun" is the server of "Dawning 6000", jointly developed by the company, Chinese Academy of Sciences Calculation Institution, and the South China Supercomputing Centre, for cloud computing and DNA sequencing purposes, officials said.

By the end of 2010, "Dawning 6000" will be delivered to the National Supercomputing Centre in Shenzhen in Guangdong province for use in information services in southern China, including Hong Kong and Macao.

Beijing-based Dawning Information Industry was founded in 1995 and is the country's leading company in the field of high-performance computers.

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India ranks 58th on computer usage ranking

New Delhi: People in Indian villages might be unaware of the word computer, but with increasing usage of PCs in urban areas in the last few years, India has reached 58th position in the world on e-readiness ranking for the year 2009, reports PTI.

During the question hour in Rajya Sabha (upper house of Indian Parliament), Minister of State for Information Technology Sachin Pilot said that e-readiness is the measure of the quality of country's information community technology (ICT) infrastructure and ability of its consumers, businesses and Government to use ICT for their benefit.

Describing the Government's role in increasing the digitization across the country, Minister said that Indian Government launched National Knowledge Network at an outlay of Rs.5,990 crore, to interconnect all universities, libraries, laboratories, hospitals and agricultural institutions to enable them to share data and resources over high speed information network. Also, the Government is planning to connect all village panchayats through broadband internet connection in three years.

The government has approved Rs.1,623.20 crore for state data centres (SDC) schemes besides Rs.1,649 crore for setting up 100,000 common services centres. "High mobile penetration (more than 550 million) and increasing internet penetration in the country is providing a conducive environment for moving towards a digital society," said Pilot.

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Lenovo released G455, G555 notebooks

Bangalore: Lenovo has launched the G455 and G555 notebooks based on the AMD platform. Designed for mainstream consumers, they support up to the latest AMD Turion and Athlon processors and ATI graphics. These notebooks come with Lenovo applications such as OneKey Rescue System and Energy Management.

The Lenovo G445 and G555 notebooks include 16:9 widescreen High-Definition displays. Users can enjoy rich digital content with High Definition video and DirectX 10 for running Windows 7 as advanced graphics features such as Aero Peek and Aero Flip. These notebooks boast an ergonomic keyboard designed for rigidity and support to improve typing accuracy and key responsiveness. "Our new G series notebooks and C series all-in-one desktop are designed for users who want a simple but powerful computing experience without any headaches," said Dion Weisler, Vice President, Business Operations, Lenovo.

Both the G455 and G555 come with Lenovo Energy Management 5.0 which lets users select from several energy-saving modes to help decrease energy consumption and extend battery life. Energy Management 5.0 also protects the long-term durability of the battery by preventing unnecessary recharges. These notebooks also feature OneKey Rescue System, a one-touch backup, repair and recovery tool, as well as VeriFace facial recognition, which give users a fun and interactive way to log on to the PC. The Lenovo G455 and G555 notebooks start at $449 and will be available in the U.S. beginning in March.

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Superfast quantum computing leap

Washington: A scientist has found a way of manipulating single electrons that will potentially constitute a quantum computer's processing bits or 'qubits', overcoming a very major design hurdle. Princeton University's Jason Petta has demonstrated a method that alters the properties of a lone electron without disturbing the trillions of electrons in its surroundings. The feat is likely to catalyse development of future varieties of ultra-fast computers with near-limitless capacities for data.

Petta, assistant professor of physics, has fashioned a new method of trapping one or two electrons in microscopic corrals created by applying voltages to minuscule electrodes. Petta describes how electrons trapped in these corrals form "spin qubits," quantum versions of basic computer units known as bits, who conducted the research with Art Gossard and Hong Lu, University of California-Santa Barbara.

Previous experiments used a technique in which electrons in a sample were exposed to microwave radiation.

However, because it affected all the electrons uniformly, the technique could not be used to manipulate single electrons in spin qubits. It also was slow.

Petta's method not only achieves control of single electrons, but it does so extremely rapidly-- in one-billionth of a second. "If you can take a small enough object like a single electron and isolate it well enough from external perturbations, then it will behave quantum mechanically for a long period of time," said Petta.

"All we want is for the electron to just sit there and do what we tell it to do. But the outside world is sort of poking at it, and that process... causes it to lose its quantum mechanical nature." When the electrons in Petta's experiment are in what he calls their quantum state, they are "coherent," following rules that are radically different from the world seen by the naked eye.

Living for fractions of a second in the realm of quantum physics before they are rattled by external forces, the electrons obey a unique set of physical laws that govern the behaviour of ultra-small objects. Scientists like Petta are working in a field known as quantum control which will help design quantum computers to take advantage of these characteristics to enrich their capacities in many ways, said a Princeton release.

However, long-term applications are still years away. "It's a one-day-at-a-time approach," Petta said.

These findings were published in Friday edition of Science.

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Copy your brain on computers

Thiruvananthapuram: Now, Swiss scientists and PIT Solution, a little-heard of IT startup in Technopark in Kerala will be working on the Blue Brain Project, the world's first comprehensive attempt to reverse-engineer the mammalian brain, reports Financial Express.

The $3 billion project is expected to be completed by 2018, said Brain Mind Institute of Swiss Federal Institute Director Henry Markram to Financial Express. The project is billed as an attempt to build a computerized copy of a brain - starting with a rat's brain, and then progressing to a human brain-inside one of the world's most powerful computers. It is an international project, propelled by Swiss Federal Institute, and involves several countries and ethics monitoring by UN bodies. India is yet to be part of the project.The immediate purpose is to understand brain function and dysfunction through detailed simulations. "The study of rhodent brain has given us a template to build on. This would help in unraveling human brain," says Markram. "The whole idea is that mental illness, memory and perception triggered by neurons and electric signals could be soon treated with a supercomputer that models all the 1,000,000 million synapses of brain."

The key finding is that irrespective of gender and race, human brains are basically identical. "We will be able to map the differentiations by nuancing the patterns later. The exciting part is not how different we are but how same we all are," says Markram.

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Wipro launched its 'Greenware' Desktop Models

Bangalore: Wipro Infotech has launched its eco-friendly 'Greenware' desktop range, which it says is manufactured with materials that are free from chemicals like polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and brominated flame retardants (BFRs). "In order to continue our green initiatives, we have launched this range, for the first time in India," said Anand Sankaran, Senior Vice President and Business Head, India and Middle East Business, Wipro.

"In our desktop, the PVC and BFR are replaced with alternate chemicals for which we worked with 36 overseas suppliers and it took us two years to develop these chemicals," says Ashok Tripathy, General Manager and Head, Computing Business, Wipro. According to Tripathy, the desktop is 100 percent recyclable and doesn't cause any harm to the environment, because the carcinogenic materials - PVC and BFRs - are not present.

BFRs are added to materials to slow down their rate of combustion and they have toxic properties and also have a tendency to accrue in the environment. PVC is a plastic material used widely by the electronics industry mainly as an insulator and coating for electric cables. Both PVC and BFR are not easily biodegradable and therefore pose a serious threat to the environment.

Though, the price of the desktop was not revealed, Sankaran says that there won't be much price difference when compared to the normal PCs. The company will manufacture these desktops in its manufacturing plants at Pondicherry and Kotdwar, Uttarakhand. Wipro also plans to introduce laptops to the Greenware range, in the next phase.

Sankaran says, that though there is no government regulations in India like Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) compliance, organizations should take initiatives to use such products. "From 2007, all products manufactured by us are RoHS compliant," says Sankaran. From February 2003, European Union has adopted the RoHS compliance. Through this launch, Wipro aims to influence the overall PC market to create greener products that are free from PVC and BFR.

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Computers faster than humans

Washington: Scientists have automated the measurement of a vital part of the knee in images with a software that performs much faster and just as reliably as humans who interpret the same images. "Our ambitious goal is to change the way radiology is practised," said Metin Gurcan, senior study author and assistant professor of biomedical informatics at Ohio State University (OSU). "Right now, radiologists don't have the tools to make more than crude measurements of most images. So one thing we are doing is providing those tools," Gurcan added.

Having more precise information about wear and tear on this portion of the knee - a blend of fibrous tissue and cartilage called the meniscus - could lead to its use as a biomarker in predicting who is at risk for developing osteoarthritis, researchers say.

The meniscus consists of two C-shaped disks that rest between the thigh and shin bones. It provides cushioning, evens out weight distribution and reduces friction. Under normal circumstances, radiologists use rulers to measure specific portions of an image. This new programme replaces that method with automated measurements of several magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) slices of the meniscus. These measurements can then be used to determine the total volume of the structure of the meniscus for comparison over time.

After developing the programme, the scientists found that the automated measurements were either as reliable or more reliable than human measurements of mild to moderate cases of knee degeneration. More work is needed to make the programme equally strong in measuring severely damaged knees, researchers say.

On a case-by-case basis, manual interpretation takes between seven and 20 minutes, and the computer programme completes its segmentation in two to four minutes. The scientists say the programme could be revamped to make it work even more rapidly without sacrificing accuracy, said a university release.

The study is slated for publication in Osteoarthritis and Cartilage.

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iPhones and Macintosh computers sales report

Washington: Ahead of a widely anticipated announcement of a new tablet computer Wednesday, Apple Inc. has reported another strong quarter with record sales of iPhones and Macintosh computers. The computer major said Monday net income for the quarter ended Dec 31 surged 50 percent from a year earlier to a record $3.4 billion, or $3.67 per share up from $2.26 billion, or $2.50 cents a share, in the year-ago period.

Revenue surged 32 percent to $15.68 billion from $11.9 billion. That marks the second straight quarter in which Apple posted record revenue.

"If you annualise our quarterly revenue, it's surprising that Apple is now a $50+ billion company," said Apple CEO Steve Jobs in a statement. "The new products we are planning to release this year are very strong, starting this week with a major new product that we're really excited about."

A 100 percent year-over-year rise in iPhone sales and a 33 percent increase in Mac sales also helped drive Apple's results. The company said it sold a record 8.7 million iPhones in the quarter. That's up 17.6 percent from the 7.4 million it sold in the previous quarter and double what it sold during the same quarter a year ago. Sales were partially boosted by Apple's introduction of the iPhone in China last quarter. Apple sold 3.4 million Macs in the quarter, despite the economic downturn and the fact that the lowest-priced Mac retails for $1,000.

The company lowered prices for many of its products last quarter, but still managed to grow its gross margin to 40.9 percent, up from 37.9 percent a year ago. Apple said lower component prices fueled its surprising margin growth, which beat Wall Street's consensus forecast by more than five percentage points. Peter Oppenheimer, Apple's chief financial officer, said on a conference call with investors that the company anticipates earnings of about $2.06 to $2.18 per share in the current quarter on revenue of about $11 billion to $11.4 billion. Apple is most likely looking to its much-rumoured tablet computer to become its next revolutionary product-and cash cow, CNNMoney.com said.

Apple has remained mum about the device and has not officially confirmed that it even exists. But analysts, who have been briefed on the device cited by CNNMoney.com say it will have a 10-inch screen and retail for about $800 to $1,000.

Although some analysts believe the device could revolutionize the handheld world in the same way the iPhone changed the smartphone market and the iPod changed the way we listen to music, others are sceptical that consumers will want to carry around a tablet, it said.

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AMD unveils Microsoft DirectX 11

New Delhi: AMD today introduced its lineup of next-generation DirectX 11-capable ATI Mobility Radeon Premium graphics, including ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 graphics, the highest performance graphics for notebooks in the world. The entire family of DirectX 11-capable graphics consists of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5800, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5700, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5600 and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 series graphics. This top-to-bottom family of Direct 11-capable notebook graphics introduces compelling new features including ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, bringing powerful visual gaming and computing innovation to the notebook PC. Notebooks featuring the new graphics technology are previewed at the 2010 Consumer Electronics Show.

"Six months ago AMD claimed the title of undisputed technology leader in desktop graphics, and now we also offer powerful mobile graphics processors for notebooks to go with our market leadership in that segment," said Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Products Group, AMD. "Once again, AMD changes the game both in terms of performance and experience. AMD innovations now give notebook users full DirectX 11 support, eye-opening ATI Eyefinity technology, superb HD multimedia capabilities, and ATI Stream technology designed to help optimize Windows 7 notebook performance."

The next-generation family of DirectX 11-capable ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics represents a powerful upgrade for OEMs to existing and upcoming 2009 AMD Mainstream and 2nd Generation Ultrathin notebook platforms, as well as next-generation "Danube" mainstream and "Nile" ultrathin notebook platforms scheduled to launch in the first half of 2010.

The DirectX 11-capable ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics lineup is the first and only notebook graphics technology to support DirectCompute 11, allowing users to take full advantage of Windows 7, the first compute-capable operating system. ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 series (and higher) graphics fully support both DirectX 11 and OpenGL, enabling broad application acceleration support today and tomorrow.

ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology enables super high resolution panoramic computing for notebooks, allowing mobile users to seamlessly harness up to six monitors for improved gaming, productivity, and entertainment. It provides enhanced multimedia capabilities through Unified Video Decoder 2 technology, for upscaling beyond 1080p and dual 1080p decoding of Blu-ray video and HD streams. Benefit from state-of-the-art home theatre entertainment technologies including HDMI 1.3a Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio, and advanced display quality from HDMI 1.3a Deep Color and x.v.Color for a theater-class entertainment experience.

Users can enjoy intense gaming performance, unrivalled visual quality, and an overall superior HD gaming experience on HD-capable monitors with DirectX 11 (as compared to DirectX 10.1). DirectX 11 API was developed on AMD graphics hardware and all initial DirectX 11 games were developed or continue to be developed on AMD's DirectX 11-capable hardware. The next-generation DirectX 11-capable family of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics is two generations ahead of DirectX 10.0 support found in competing mobile graphics solutions. More than 20 DirectX 11 games are currently in development, with gamers already enjoying the incredible DirectX 11 experience offered by titles such as EA Phenomic's BattleForge, GSC Gameworld's S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, and Codemasters' Colin McRae: DiRT 2.

"ASUS has worked closely with AMD for years to ensure that we're collaborating to bring the newest and most compelling notebook technologies to our customers first, and with the DirectX 11-capable family of ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics and the ASUS G73 and new N series of notebooks, we're continuing that leadership," said P.C. Wang, Corporate Vice President and General Manager, Notebook Business Unit, System Business Group, ASUS.

This new technology provides four times the performance-per-watt efficiency over the last two generations of ATI Mobility Radeon Premium graphics thanks to improved processor design and a new 40nm process. Experience dramatically lower idle power, saving battery power when the graphics processor isn't needed. Next-generation Vari-Bright technology used for optimizing notebook display brightness delivers up to 50 percent power savings over the previous generation's software based approach. Platform independent graphics switching technology helps to save power while offering efficient switching options. GDDR5 Advanced Memory Support delivers double the memory bandwidth over previous generation AMD discrete graphics.

"Today's consumers demand more of their notebooks, and to meet those changing needs, MSI continually strives to offer a wide variety of notebooks infused with leading technologies," said Sam Chern, Notebook Marketing Director, MSI. "Next-generation ATI Mobility Radeon Premium graphics are a perfect solution, introducing industry first features such as DirectX 11 gaming support that help us better address the full range of customers at affordable prices."

Notebooks with DirectX 11-capable ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5000 series graphics are scheduled to be available in the first half of 2010.

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Windows 7 at Work Place!

Bangalore: The release of Windows 7 has definitely helped in increasing the sales of the PC at work, but have failed to slow the increase in adoption of Macs at the workplace, according to a study. Apple is expected to grow at the same time, while the number of companies buying Mac desktops remains flat at about seven percent, the number of those buying MacBooks has grown by 10 percent, according to Electronista.

The ChangeWave study also reports that Dell and HP should benefit from a slight increase in corporate sales with a respective 33 percent and 18 percent companies planning to buy both desktops and notebooks from the two. Also, 93 percent of those who had tried Windows 7 were either somewhat or very satisfied with the OS, that hasn't translated into significant decisions to move up upgrades at the office. But only 19 percent plan any sort of change, and only three percent plan a "significant" change to get Windows 7 into their businesses early.

It's not known what's leading to Apple's increase, though native Exchange 2007 support in Snow Leopard may contribute to the results along with overall less expensive MacBooks and MacBook Pros from the past few months.

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Laptop for child at 100$ (4700 Indian Rupees)

Bangalore: One Laptop per Child (OLPC) has revealed the design for its latest computer aimed at connecting children in the developing world. This laptop will be available by 2012 and would cost well below $100, OLPC said. This laptop is named as XO-3 and is a slim-line touchscreen tablet PC, according to BBC.

The XO-3 will eventually replace the original XO laptop that first went into production in 2007. The new design replaces the proposed XO-2, a foldable e-book that was first shown off in 2008 but has since been scrapped by the organization. The innovative machines, which have been designed for use in remote and harsh environments, were designed for use by school children and featured a sunlight readable display and open source software.

OLPC originally aimed to sell the low-cost laptops in lots of one million to governments in developing countries for $100 each. However, the non-profit organization had difficulty getting governments to commit to bulk orders. The machines - which are able to run both Linux and Microsoft Windows - are now offered in single units and cost around $200. So far the XO has been distributed to more than 1.4 million children in 35 countries.

The high-price has not however put off all governments. Uruguay has bought a computer for every one of their school children. Walter de Brouwer, CEO of OLPC Europe said that these "saturation projects" were the future of the organisation both in the developed and the developing world. "I'm talking to three four countries in the EU at the moment," he told BBC News. "Once one says yes, the others can't say no." The organisation believes the new design will cost significantly less.

Brouwer said that due to the decreasing prices of electronic equipment, he can imagine the laptop being sold for as less as 50, 60 or 70 euros.

The concept laptop shows a touchscreen, a camera, induction charger, and a carrying ring on one of its corners. The laptop would include a chip from UK firm ARM. The XO 1.75 is set for launch in 2011. The 1.75 will merge elements of the current machines with technologies - such as a touchscreen - intended to be included in the XO-3.

OLPC recently said that the organization would just focus on promoting its concepts and educational aims, rather than manufacturing laptops. "We are not a laptop company," said Brouwer. "Manufacturing a laptop is not such a big deal. The bigger appeal for us is deploying them and integrating them with education systems to transform a society."

Nicholas Negroponte, Founder and Chairman of the group, said that he hoped that industry would now copy the design for the XO-3.

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IITians developed Android PC

Hyderabad: Using Google's Open Source operating system Andorid, six IITians and an MBA, who have formed a technology startup called Notion Ink, have designed a tablet PC which they plan to launch in market by June 2010. The Tablet PC will consist of Nvidia's yet-to-be launched Tegra processor chips and a power-saving display screen from the U.S.-based fabless developer Pixel Qi, according to Business Standard.

The product is named after the company and has a 10.1 inch touchscreen. It is powered by Nvidia's Tegra processor chip, weighs 770 grams and offers features like Bluetooth, a 3-megapixel digital camera with autofocus, video recording and 32GB data storage. The company is also working on creating digital books, songs, movies and media content for the device.

"After the evolution of desktops, laptops and notebooks, the next innovation is going to be a complete touchscreen you can write on. And, we thought we needed to take the first step. It took us a year to come up with the design, requirements and proposed technologies to make this device a reality," says Rohan Shravan, Founder and Director (creatives) of Notion Ink. The company was floated in February 2009.

"Theoretically, it can work for 25 days if one just listens to music. To be precise, it has 48 hours of standby, eight hours of high-definition video and 16 hours of Wi-Fi internet surfing usage time," claims Shravan.

For designing the device, the company collaborated with Bangalore-based National Institute of Design. "We wanted to adopt an operating system which would make our device 'talk' to any other device. And we chose Google's Android. But India doesn't have people working on Android and those who have, charge Rs. 1 lakh per resource per month (like Tata Elxsi or Sasken). So, we opted to train 46 students from the Hyderabad-based information technology institute BVR IT who are now working full time with us," he adds.

Notion Ink has filed two patents - one for the design and the other for technology - in India, Taiwan and China, which makes it easy to tie up with any original equipment manufacturer (OEM) in Taiwan. The company would adopt a complete service model, wherein the Taiwanese OEM will have 90 days to manufacture and Notion Ink, another 90 days to pay them back after selling the devices. It is targeting to sell 1.5 million units of the tablet PC in the first year of launch. The device is tentatively priced at below $400 (Rs. 18,800) in the U.S. and below $300 (Rs. 14,100) in India (with subsidy from telecom operators).

"The device will be bundled with internet services by telecom operators. Already 10 Telcos in the U.S. and four in India, which offer 3G services, have shown interest. We will be finalizing one Telco for the U.S. and one for India during the four-day Mobile World Congress, which is scheduled to be held at Barcelona, Spain, from February 15, 2010," Shravan adds.

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MSI to launch WiMAX enabled laptops

New Delhi: Micro Star International (MSI) has announced that it will be launching its WiMAX enabled laptop in Indian market by January. The entire range of MSI laptops including its U-series ultra-portable netbooks, the stylish X-slim series and the Classic series will incorporate WiMAX in the forthcoming models.

MSI anticipates a good market for its WiMAX-enabled products, once the WiMAX services go live on a commercial scale in India. As the newest generation of wireless communication, it is poised to become an ubiquitous application. The WiMAX Forum had predicted that the combined equipment and service revenues from WiMAX in India would be worth $13 billion in 2012 and capture 19 million WiMAX subscribers, or 20 percent of the world's WiMAX user base. The Forum cites commercial availability of WiMAX technologies, affordable device price-points and government support for additional spectrum auctions as proof-points for the forecasts.

MSI has invested significant R&D and funding to prepare for the implementation of the 4th generation of wireless communications. The ultra-light, power-saving X-Slim Series X340 and X600 models from MSI are the first Taiwan-based brand to receive WiMAX Forum Certification. While MSI Wind U120 is the world's first ultra-portable netbook capable of supporting WiMAX.

With a population of more than one billion and a growing economy, India is a huge market for broadband and needs rapid deployment of WiMAX service. Currently, broadband penetration in India is four million, which is one broadband connection per 300 consumers. "MSI WiMAX-enabled laptops will help in bridging the digital divide in India through the delivery of wireless broadband services anytime and anywhere with higher efficiency in a cost-effective way," said Johnny Lin, National Product, Sales and Marketing Manager, MSI India.

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Dell has launched Optiplex 780 USFF

Bangalore: Dell has launched Optiplex 780 Small Form Factor, which is the smallest system to use primarily desktop components. The computer is 9.4 by 9.4 inches and only uses a 2.5-inch hard drive, and uses desktop processors up to a 3.33GHz Core 2 Duo, according to electronista.

Besides the newer design, the Optiplex 380 has been given a low-profile update that adds a new chipset with support for more processors up to the Core 2 Quad. A base configuration starts at $624 and comes with a 2.2GHz Celeron, 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hard drive running Windows 7 and Intel GMA 4500 video but also three years of on-site help. Actual pricing remains the same at the existing $329 to $349 range depending on the choice of a desktop, mini tower or small form factor box.

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Dell bug reduces Intel CPU performance

Bangalore: There have been many reports by users of Dell Latitude E6500 and E6400 notebooks of reduced performance of their CPUs. The performance of these Intel CPUs reduces from 2.2GHz to just 1GHz. The problem is said to be triggered by any task that requires the CPU to perform intensively, including playing videos, according to Electronista.

One disgruntled owner even went on to write and publish a 59-page report (PDF) on the issue titled "Throttlegate" after being banned from the official Dell forums for discussing the problem. Administrators of the forum said this was done for revealing "non-public information."

Dell has not responded to the issue, though many owners are expecting a recall of the faulty notebook PCs.

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Google Chrome OS is faster than television

Mountain View, California: New Google software will start up a computer as fast as a television, according to Google, as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for computers that do their work on the Web. "From the time you press boot you want it to be like a TV: You turn it on and you should be on the Web using your applications," said Sundar Pichai, Vice-President of Product Management for Google's Chrome OS.

According to Pichai, those computers running Chrome OS will be able to start in less than seven seconds. Netbooks running Chrome OS will only be able to run Web applications and the user's data will automatically be stored on the Web in the so-called cloud of Internet servers, Google executives said at an event at the company's Mountain View, California headquarters on Thursday.

"It's basically a Web browsing machine," said Altimeter Group Analyst, Charlene Li. Google said that the software will initially be available by the holiday season of 2010 on low-cost netbooks that use memory chips to store data instead of slower hard drives, the current standard.

Google gave the world the first peek at its Chrome OS four months after declaring its intention of developing the PC's main software, a move that pits it directly against Microsoft and Apple. True to Google's Internet-pedigree, the Chrome OS resembles a Web browser more than it does a traditional computer operating system like Microsoft Windows, matching Google's ambition to drive people to the Web, where they can see Google ads. With Chrome, Google is seeking to challenge the dominance of Microsoft's Windows, which runs on nine out of 10 personal computers.

Google said it is giving away the software for free, similar to its Android smartphone software, with the idea that improving the Web experience will ultimately benefit its Internet search advertising business, which generated roughly $22 billion in revenue in 2008.

Google made the computer code for the Chrome OS available to outside developers on Thursday, allowing developers to tinker with the software and potentially design new applications to run alongside it. But, the company said Chrome at least initially will not be able to run on just any PC, and executives said they expected that most consumers would get the operating system when they buy a specially-designed netbook.

Google said that all data in Chrome will automatically be housed in the so-called cloud, or on external servers and also cached on the computer's internal hardware to boost performance. It also said that the Chrome applications, which are used for such everyday tasks such as word processing and email, will be Web-based.

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IBM to develop "thinking computers"

Bangalore: In their pursuit of computers that "think" like a living thing's brain, researchers from IBM say that they have simulated a cat's cerebral cortex, the thinking part of the brain, using a massive supercomputer. The computer has 147,456 processors (most modern PCs have just one or two processors) and 144 terabytes of main memory - 100,000 times as much as your computer has.

The scientists had previously simulated 40 percent of a mouse's brain in 2006, a rat's full brain in 2007, and one percent of a human's cerebral cortex this year, using progressively bigger supercomputers. The latest feat, being presented at a supercomputing conference in Portland, Oregon, does not mean the computer thinks like a cat, or that it is the progenitor of a race of robo-cats.

Dharmendra Modha, Manager of Cognitive Computing for IBM Research and Senior Author of the paper, called it a "truly unprecedented scale of simulation." The researchers created a program that told the supercomputer, which is in the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to behave how a brain is believed to behave. The computer was shown images of corporate logos, including the IBM's, and the scientists watched that different parts of the simulated brain worked together to figure out what the image was. Researchers at Stanford University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory were also part of the project.

The simulation, which runs 100 times slower than an actual cat's brain, is more about watching how thoughts are formed in the brain and how the roughly one billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses in a cat's brain work together.

Modha said that the research could lead to computers that rely less on "structured" data, such the input two plus two equals four, and can handle ambiguity better, like identifying the corporate logo even if the image is blurry. Or, such computers could incorporate senses like sight, touch and hearing into the decisions they make.

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Health tip for a computer user

For everyone who works daily on a computer. The mistakes daily mouse and keyboard usage will result in Carpal Tunnel S yndrome! Use the mouse and keyboard correctly. View below for the surgery of a patient suffering from Carpal Tunnel S yndrome followed by the
RIGHT TECHNIQUE S for usage....

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Hand Exercises for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

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