Logitech presents VX Nano notebook mouse

Logitech unveiled its new VX Nano cordless laser mouse which builds on the foundation laid down by the original VX Revolution notebook

mouse (including the MicroGear Precision Scroll Wheel), but now features a more slim and trim design low-profile design.

The mouse also now uses two AAA batteries instead of one AA battery like the VX Revolution.

The most appealing element at this mouse is the new "nano-receiver" included in the packing. Instead of sticking out at least an inch from the side of a notebook like traditional USB receivers, the nano-receiver protrudes by only 8mm. The receiver, however, still uses 2.4GHz cordless technology

instead of Bluetooth.

"More and more laptop users are abandoning the touch pad in favor of a cordless notebook mouse," said Logitech's Rory Dooley. "However, with most notebook mice, the size of the receiver forces people to plug and unplug the receiver each time they use the laptop. Because we were able to make the nano-receiver so small, it can remain plugged into the laptop at all times so on-the-go notebook users save valuable time and never have to worry about where the receiver is."

iPod Nano 4th Generation Technology

Each tuneband consists of a comfortable and flexible armband strap that can accommodate both large and small arms, a durable silicone skin that allows access to all ports on the iPod nano, and a low-tack, cut-and-peel screen protector that helps guard against smudges, moisture, and daily wear-and-tear. The silicone skin of the tuneband was specifically designed for runners and walkers fully covering the bottom corners of the iPod, securely holding it in place, yet allowing access to the USB port and headphone jack. The silicone skin also does not cover the click wheel to allow it to be used without interference.

"By using the best design features of our previous tuneband products," states Michael Banks, co-founder and CEO of Grantwood Technology, LLC, "we made this the best iPod armband for the 4th generation iPod available at a very competitive price," states Michael Banks, CEO of Grantwood Technology.

The tuneband is fully compatible with the Nike+iPod Sport Kit, allowing runners and walkers to enjoy this workout companion.

The tuneband is available in nine colour: black, clear, gray, navy blue, neon green, pink, purple, red, and teal blue. The colors (except clear) match those of the Shoe Pouch, another product from Grantwood Technology that allows runners and walkers to attach the sensor from the Nike+iPod Sport Kit to the outside of their favorite shoe.

The tuneband retails for $12.99 (USD) is available at their website. A special bundle comprised of the tuneband and Shoe Pouch is also available.

Latest Laptop Technology

There was time when having laptop costs a fortune and not many people could afford it. It was only rewarded to people at higher posts and business men. But now time has changed a lot, these notebooks with high specifications are commonly used. Many people will be found in different public spots with different brands of notebooks working with the virtue of wireless internet known as WiFi. These public spots can be local coffee shops, malls, libraries and some times even in parking lot.
Computing needs are constantly growing every second, higher processing power processors with huge ram memory is now been used in computers to meet the modern world requirements.
Mobile computers are the basic needs for every field and professions weathers its sofware engineer or electric engineer, its computer teacher or even teacher of any subject, without laptops and computers things do not seems that easy.

49...Intel® Desktop Board DP43TF

The Intel® Desktop Board DP43TF delivers new levels of performance and the next generation of PCIE* 2.0 x16 in the ATX form factor supporting Intel® Core™2 Quad and Intel® Core™2 Duo processors.

The board also offers exciting premium features such as Intel® High Definition Audio, integrated 10/100/1000 Network connection, ample USB ports and IEEE 1394a for consumers to enjoy a great digital entertainment experience.

The Intel® Desktop Board DP43TF is Microsoft Windows Vista* Premium Ready. The Intel® 4 Series Chipset fully supports the visually stunning Windows Aero* user interface with amazing transition effects and realistic animations.
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At product launch, this desktop board supports:
Support for an Intel® Core™2 Quad processor in an LGA775 socket
Support for an Intel® Core™2 Duo processor in an LGA775 socket
Support for an Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor in an LGA775 socket
Support for an Intel® Celeron® Dual-Core processor in an LGA775 socket
Support for an Intel® Celeron® processor 400 sequence in an LGA775 socket
Memory Four 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) sockets
Support for DDR2 800 or DDR2 667 MHz DIMMs
Support for up to 8 GBΣ of system memory
Chipsets Intel® P43 Express Chipset
Audio Intel® High Definition Audio subsystem in the following configuration:
6-channel (5.1) audio subsystem using the Realtek* ALC888VC audio codec
Video N/A
I/O control Legacy I/O controller for serial header, and PS/2* ports
LAN support Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mbits/sec) LAN subsystem using the Intel® 82567V Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Peripheral interfaces Up to 12 USB 2.0 ports
Six Serial ATA IDE interfaces
Two IEEE-1394a ports (1 external port, 1 internal header)
One serial port via header
One parallel ATA IDE interface with UDMA 33, ATA-66/100 support
PS/2 keyboard and mouse ports



Related productsProcessors Intel® Core™2 Quad processor
Intel® Core™2 Duo processor
Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core processor
Intel® Celeron® Dual-Core processor
Intel® Celeron® processor 400 series
Chipsets Intel® P45 Express Chipset




Σ System resources and hardware (such as PCI and PCI Express*) require physical memory address locations that can reduce available addressable system memory. This could result in a reduction of as much as 1GB or more of physical addressable memory being available to the operating system and applications, depending on the system configuration and operating system.

Key Architectural Features of AMD Phenom™ X4 Quad-Core Processors

he industry's first true Quad core x86 processor

* True quad-core designed from the ground up for better communication between cores.
o BENEFIT : Cores can communicate on die rather than on package for better performance


AMD64 with Direct Connect Architecture

* Helps improve system performance and efficiency by directly connecting the memory controller and I/O to the CPU.
* Designed to enable simultaneous 32- and 64-bit computing
* Integrated DDR2 Memory Controller
* BENEFITS :
o Increases application performance by reducing memory latency
o Scales memory bandwidth and performance to match compute needs
o HyperTransport™ Technology provides up to 16.0GB/s peak bandwidth per processor—reducing I/O bottlenecks
o Up to 33.1GB/s total delivered processor-to-system bandwidth (HyperTransport bus + memory bus)


AMD Balanced Smart Cache

* Shared L3 cache
* In addition to the 512K L2 cache per core, up to 2MB of L3 cache shared by up to 4 cores.
o BENEFIT : Shortened access times to highly accessed data for better performance.


AMD Wide Floating Point Accelerator

* 128-bit floating point unit (FPU)
* High performance (128bit internal data path) floating point unit per core.
o BENEFIT : Larger data paths for quicker floating point calculations and better performance.


HyperTransport™ technology

* One 16-bit link up to 4000MT/s
* Up to 8.0 GB/s HyperTransport™ I/O bandwidth; Up to 16.0GB/s in HyperTransport Generation 3.0 mode
* Up to 33.1GB/s total delivered processor-to-system bandwidth (HyperTransport bus + memory bus)
o BENEFIT : Quick access times to system resources for better performance.


Integrated DDR2 DRAM Controller with AMD Memory Optimizer Technology

* A high-bandwidth, low-latency integrated DDR2 memory controller
* Supports PC2-8500 (DDR2-1066); PC2-6400 (DDR2-800), PC2-5300 (DDR2-667), PC2-4200 (DDR2-533) or PC2-3200 (DDR2-400) SDRAM unbuffered DIMMs
* Support for 64-bit DDR2 SDRAM memory
* Up to 17.1GB/s memory bandwidth
o BENEFIT : Quick access to system memory for better performance.


AMD Virtualization™ (AMD-V™) With Rapid Virtualization Indexing

* Silicon feature-set enhancements designed to improve the performance, reliability, and security of existing and future virtualization environments by allowing virtualized applications with direct and rapid access to their allocated memory.
o BENEFIT : Helps virtualization software to run more securely and efficiently enabling a better experience when dealing with virtual systems


AMD Cool'n'Quiet™ 2.0 technology

* Enhanced power management features which automatically and instantaneously adjusts performance states and features based on processor performance requirements
* For quieter operation and reduced power requirements
o BENEFIT : Enables platform designs providing less heat and noise efficient performance and energy usage.


AMD CoolCore™ Technology

* Reduces processor energy consumption by turning off unused parts of the processor. For example, the memory controller can turn off the write logic when reading from memory, helping reduce system power.
* Works automatically without the need for drivers or BIOS enablement.
* Power can be switched on or off within a single clock cycle, saving energy without comprimised performance.
o BENEFIT: Helps users get more efficient performance by dynamically activating or turning off parts of the processor.


Dual Dynamic Power Management™

* Enables more granular power management capabilities to reduce processor energy consumption.
* Separate power planes for cores and memory controller, for optimum power consumption and performance, creating more opportunities for power savings within the cores and memory controller.
o BENEFIT Helps improve platform efficiency by providing on demand memory performance while still allowing for decreased system power consumption

Latest Technology

Intel Atom Processor

To connect people to the internet at any time, mobile technology is making computing accessible in the mobile phones. The Intel Atom processor is a low power processor specially designed for mobile Internet devices (MIDs). The Intel Atom processor is based on an exclusively new micro-architecture designed particularly for small devices and low power, while maintaining the Intel Core 2 Duo instruction set compatibility to which consumers are habituated with when using a standard PC and the Internet. The devise also comprises support for multiple threads for better performance and improved system responsiveness. All of this on a chip that measures less than 25 mm². These new chips, previously codenamed Silverthorne and Diamondville, will be manufactured in Intel’s 45nm process with hi-k metal gate technology. The chips have a thermal design power (TDP) specification in 0.6-2.5 watt range and scale to 1.8GHz speeds depending on customer need. By comparison, today’s mainstream mobile Core 2 Duo processors have a TDP in the 35-watt range. The Intel Centrino Atom processor technology, formerly codenamed “Menlow,” includes the Intel Atom processor, a low-power companion chip with integrated graphics, a wireless radio, and thinner and lighter designs. So now this processor will be in great demand for the convenience that will be gained from this device

Using Keypads to take snapshots

The story of technology of the modern world is essentially the story of convergence of different types of skills and equipments being rolled in to a singular unit. And pertaining to this, both the experts and users agree that there is perhaps no better example for this phenomenon that the camera phones that are currently so widely popular all across the globe. A camera phone is fundamentally a mobile phone with inbuilt accessories and technologies that will enable the user to capture still as well as moving images and store, transfer and exchange them in the form of digital data.

Though there are various patents dating back almost to five decades which can be considered relevant in the development of the camera phone technology, the CMOS active pixel image sensor which is all about ‘camera on a chip’, advanced by a team led by Dr. Eric Fossum in the early 1990s is actually the first step towards materialization of this idea. Though initially the camera phones marketed by Japanese corporate used CCD instead of CMOS sensors, the later has successfully captured the market at present. Among the advantages of CMOS technology over CCD are the scope for mass production and the low power consumption by the former. However the advent of camera phones has also given rise to a number of social issues that have currently called for execution of new regulatory laws.

Remote Desktop technology of Windows XP

Windows XP Professional is built on the proven code base of Windows 2000, which features a 32-bit computing architecture, and a fully protected memory model. This makes Windows XP Professional the most reliable version yet.

Windows XP helps protect data transmitted across a network. IP Security is an important part of providing security for virtual private networks (VPNs), which allow organizations to transmit data securely over the Internet and a firewall client that can protect small businesses from common Internet attacks. Windows XP Professional makes it significantly easier for you to remotely connect to networks, including to VPNs, over dialup connections, infrared and direct cable connections.

What is VPN?

VPN uses a technique known as tunneling to transfer data securely on the Internet to a remote access server on your workplace network. Using a VPN helps you save money by using the public Internet instead of making long-distance phone calls to connect securely with your private network.

There are two ways to create a VPN connection:

• By dialing an Internet service provider (ISP).
  
• By connecting directly to the Internet.

ConfiguringWindows XP Professional to connect to a VPN is significantly easier with the new Connection Wizard. Simply enter the VPN server name, and Windows XP Professional will automatically configure the device and add the appropriate networking services-making all the settings required to get you connected in about one minute.

What is Remote Assistance?

Remote Assistance enables a user to share control of his or her computer with someone on a network or the Internet. An administrator or friend can view the user's screen, and control the pointer and keyboard to help solve a technical problem. IT departments can build custom solutions, on top of published APIs using HTML, to tailor Remote Assistance to their needs, and the feature can be centrally enabled or disabled.

What is Remote Desktop?

Remote Desktop is based on Terminal Services technology. Using Remote Desktop, you can run applications on a remote computer running Windows XP Professional from any other client running a Microsoft Windows operating system.

Remote Desktop lets you take advantage of the flexibility provided by a distributed computing environment. A standard component of Windows XP Professional (although not included in Windows XP Home Edition), Remote Desktop lets you access your Windows XP computer from anywhere, over any connection, using any Windows-based client. Remote Desktop gives you secure access to all your applications, files, and network resources-as if you were in front of your own workstation. Any applications that you leave running at the office will be running when you connect remotely-at home, in a conference room, or on the road.

Remote Desktop works well even under low-bandwidth conditions, because all your applications are hosted on the Terminal Server. Only keyboard, mouse, and display information are transmitted over the network.

If you're an IT administrator, Remote Desktop provides you with a rapid response tool: It lets you remotely access a server running Windows 2000 Server or Whistler Server and see messages on the console, administer the computer remotely, or apply headless server control.

Remote Desktop Protocol:

The features provided by Remote Desktop are made available through the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). RDP is a presentation protocol that allows a Windows-based terminal (WBT), or other Windows-based clients, to communicate with a Windows-based Terminal Server. RDP is designed to provide remote display and input capabilities over network connections for Windows-based applications running on your Windows XP Professional desktop. RDP works across any TCP/IP connection, including a dial-up connection, local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN), DSL, or Virtual Private Network (VPN).

Remote Desktop Resource Redirection:

When you use Remote Desktop from a Windows XP-based client, or another RDP 5.1-enabled client, many of the client resources are available within the Remote Desktop connection.These resources include:

File system redirection

This makes the local file system available on the remote desktop within a terminal session. The client file system is accessible through the Remote Desktop as if it was a network-shared drive, and no network connectivity-except the Remote Desktop-is required. The client drives appear in Windows Explorer with the designation " on tsclient."

Printer redirection

This route printing jobs from the Terminal Server to a printer attached to the local computer. When the client logs on to the remote computer, the local printer is detected, and the appropriate printer driver is installed on the remote computer.

Port redirection

This enables applications running within a terminal session to have access to the serial and parallel ports on the client. Port redirection allows these ports to access and manipulate devices such as bar code readers or scanners.

Audio

You can run an audio-enabled application on your remote desktop and hear the audio output from speakers attached to the computer you're working on.

Clipboard

The Remote Desktop and the client computer share a clipboard that allows data to be interchanged.

Remote Desktop Web Connection in windows XP:

The Remote Desktop Web Connection provides a simple way to connect to your Windows XP Professional remote desktop, even when you don't have the Remote Desktop client software installed on the computer you're currently using (called the client computer). Before you can use the Remote Desktop Web Connection from home or the road, you need to set up Remote Desktop on the remote computer.

Remote Desktop Web Connection isn't installed by default in Windows XP Professional, so you'll need to add it yourself to the remote computer. And to add it, you'll also need to enable Internet Information Services (IIS) on your remote desktop.

Remote Desktop Web Connection means you can work from home or the road, and access all the data and capabilities of your office computer. Bookmark your remote desktop in Internet Explorer and you can get There are several issues to consider when managing and administering Remote Assistance in the corporate environment or large organization. You can specify an open environment where employees can receive Remote Assistance from outside the corporate firewall. Or you can restrict Remote Assistance via Group Policy and specify various levels of permissions such as only allowing Remote Assistance from within the corporate firewall.

Issues of Proxy server/Firewall:

Regardless of how you connect to a Remote Desktop server, if either your client or your server is behind a firewall or proxy server, you won't be able to connect unless you open up the necessary port, 3389, to permit the Remote Desktop Connection capability to pass through.

Here server means the computer that's actually serving up the Remote Desktop session. This could be a Windows XP Professional-based computer running Remote Desktop Services, or earlier versions of Microsoft Windows NT/2000 Server running Terminal Services, or even a Windows NT 3.5-based computer running Citrix.

One can easily open up the Remote Desktop port when you're using the Internet Connection Firewall (ICF) included in Windows XP. Heck, you don't even need to remember the port number, but if your network is running some other firewall, you'll need to work with your network administrators to sort out the details for it.

Remote Assistance:

Remote Assistance runs over the top of Terminal Services technology, which means it, needs to use the same port already used by Terminal Services: port 3389.If the person who is being helped is behind a firewall, NAT, or ICS, Remote Assistance will still function as long as the person being helped initiates the session via Windows Messenger. However, as stated above, Remote Assistance will not work in cases when the outbound traffic from port 3389 is blocked.

Using Remote Assistance in a Home Environment:

If you are using Personal Firewall or NAT in a home environment, you can use Remote Assistance without any special configurations. However, if you have a corporate-like firewall in a home environment, the same restrictions apply: you would need to open Port 3389 in order to use Remote Assistance.

Latest mobile phones- Style combined with high technology

The latest phones come up with various high tech features and astounding entertainment options like camera, music player, video playback etc. The users can facilitate all their communication and entertainment needs with these high end gadgets.

Mobile phones have surpassed their original use of just communicating, but they are now mostly used to avail the entertainment features. The latest mobile phones come to the users with various features such music players, cameras, video playback features and web browser options etc.

The latest mobile phones come to the users with various user friendly features that enable them to operate easily. These gadgets are constantly developing and they have become the most precious fashion accessory of the people. Nowadays mobile phones come to the users in various designs.It becomes hard for the consumers to select a model. However these advanced gadgets are now available in very sleek and sophisticated designs. Therefore it has now become easier for the consumers to select their handsets according to their preferences.

Nokia mobile phones is one of the most reliable brands these days. With the passage of time various brands have succeeded in creating the reliability factor. To meet the increasing demand of these gadgets in the market the mobile phone manufacturers are striving hard to develop their existing brands and are coming up with new sophisticated models. Leading mobile phone manufacturers like Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola etc have contributed a lot to cater to the needs of every segment of people.

Almost all the latest mobile phones are now regarded as mini computers as they come up with the document viewer option and also possess high quality cameras. As every latest model of mobile phone comes to the users with astounding camera features, the users do not have to carry a separate camera with them to capture the beautiful moments of their lives. Some of the latest models of handsets that are available these days are Nokia N95, Sony Ericsson w850i, Samsung Armani and Motorola Q9 etc. As the popularity of the mobile phone is growing day by day, the mobile phone manufacturers are offering their latest handsets with various offers and deals.

All the current models of cheap pay as you go mobile phones have the capability of playing polyphonic ring tones. They come to the users with advanced features that would enable them to customize the settings of their handsets to meet all their requirements. The users can also avail those handsets that can capture images and save them with a resolution of 1600x1200 pixels and above.

Everybody wants to hear their favorite music tracks while they are traveling or any time of the day when they do not have anything to do. The latest mobile phones come to meet all the requirements of the music lovers too. These handsets come with incorporated music player options that have the capability to support the popular formats such as WMA, MP3, and eAAC etc. The storage capacities of these gadgets are also astounding. The users can easily store all their important files as well as number of songs to meet all their entertainment and communication needs. The users should first know how much storage capacity he actually requires before purchasing these handsets. However the users need not have to worry as these latest gadgets also provide them the option of extending the storage capacity of their handsets.

Most of these handsets even come up with various connectivity and multimedia messaging options. The connectivity features like EDGE, Bluetooth etc come equipped with almost all the latest handsets. The USB port further facilitates the users with their work of sending and receiving their important files easily to other compatible devices. The messaging options like MMS, SMS, EMS, further enable the users to stay connected with their near and dear ones even without making any calls. Another exciting feature of these advanced gadgets is the WAP browser option. It allows the users to browse the Internet all throughout the day. This unique feature would facilitate all your official work as it would enable you to surf your preferred web pages anytime and anywhere.

New Laptop Technology

Laptop or notebook computer technology is advancing at
a blistering speed. Ferrari fast. So fast that by the time
you purchase your new laptop - it's probably already
obsolete or out of date. A sobering thought considering
the hefty prices you have to pay for a high-end laptop.

But laptop technology is changing so fast new innovations
are coming on stream as you read this article. There is a
whole new generation of notebook technology every two years
or less. Therefore, unless you buy or upgrade your laptop
each year you're falling behind what these sleek little
powerhouses can now deliver.

And unless you're already in Geek Heaven, keeping track
of all these new technologies and innovations can be
quite a chore. Figuring out the right Graphics chipset
that works best with the right CPU and the best Data buses
is a major feat. And now that everything is being
Doubled - dual core, dual graphics - it's entering
the realm where Einstein would be amused, even on a
bad hair day!

What's the ordinary laptop buyer to do?

What you really have to keep in mind are the outcomes
of all this new technology. Basically, these new
technologies have made laptops smaller, faster and more
powerful. With every new improvement the laptop is closing
the gap between its main rival - the desktop computer.

Notebook computers are now out-selling desktops for
the first time in history. Laptops are replacing the
old desktop computer, whose days may just be numbered.
It won't be long before laptops are also out-performing
them as well.

Some major computer makers are taking note of this
trend towards more powerful, smaller computers.
Even the desktop computer is morphing! Just look at
the sleek design of the new Apple iMac G5 - gone is the
bulky tower - in its place is a well designed desktop
computer that's almost a laptop!

For the ordinary computer user keeping abreast of
all these new technologies and inventions can be a
major chore if you're considering buying a laptop
in the next little while. As you approach the smiling
salesperson in your favorite tech store - here's a
few bits of new notebook technology you might want
to have in your possession so you won't look like a
complete neophyte. Hey, where technology is concerned,
we have all been there, done that.

In order for you to tech-proof your next laptop
purchase, here's a quick run down of some recent
Notebook Developments:


Sonoma Chipset

The new Sonoma Platform, Intel's next-generation Centrino
Chipset is already on the market. Members of the Sonoma
club are growing daily - Sony, IBM/Lenovo, BenQ, Dell,
Samsung, Acer, and Toshiba... another 80 or 90
'Sonoma-endowed' products will be released very shortly.

No doubt, it will become the Platform standard for many
high-end notebooks. Actually, it won't make or mean that
much difference to the ordinary Joe/Jane who just want a
notebook or laptop for web surfing, word processing and
e-mail. Notebooks with the Sonoma Platform will be just
a little bit faster and have a little better battery life.

But for Mobile Professionals and Notebook Fanatics (they
do exist)... there's a lot of good things delivered or
capable of being delivered with this new Centrino Chipset.
First, wireless connections will be easier with the integrated
tri-mode 802.11a/b/g, already dubbed by some as the
'wireless trinity'! This will make it easier to stay
connected no matter where you are.

Improved performance will be experienced because the
new Pentium M's have a 533MHz frontside bus, supported
with up to 2GB of DDR2 DRAM, Serial ATA Hard Drive, and
PCI Express, plus improved integrated graphics - including
Intel's Hi-Def Audio. All are possible with the Sonoma
Platform.

Premium mobile technologies

There’s more management shuffling at Motorola as the struggling handset maker works to regain profitability and plans to split itself in two. The handset maker has named Rob Shaddock as the new head of consumer products for the group. A former senior vice president of mobile devices, Shaddock will now oversee all handsets except those aimed at business users.

John Cipolla has been promoted to senior vice president for mid- to high-tier products; Steve Lalla, will now oversee teams focused on mass-market handsets; and Todd DeYoung, who currently heads strategy and business development for the group, will now be responsible for making sure handsets fit in with the company’s overarching strategy and are market-appropriate.

Aside from promotions, the reorganization combines hardware and software teams within each product category under one leader. The category heads will have more authority over the entire development process. The company said the latest reorganization is aimed at improving product development strategy and creating a more “predictable” time to market for new products. The new promotions should also help the group keep senior executives when the company splits in two.

The company also announced a reorganization of its sales staff, naming Bruce Brda as the head of coordinating worldwide sales. Brda previously oversaw sales for North America.

TechWeb Technology News

PalmSource Inc. on Tuesday launched the latest version of its operating system, which targets manufacturers of the increasing number of advanced cellular phones in the market.

Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 provides integrated telephony features, support for wireless technologies Wi-Fi and Bluetooth and enhancements to the user interface.

"We believe Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 optimizes our platform for the creation of cutting-edge smartphones and wireless devices that are powerful yet easy-to-use," David Nagel, president and chief executive of PalmSource, said in a statement issued from the company's developer conference in Munich, Germany.

Smartphones are advanced cellular phones that include cameras and many of the features found in handheld computers, such as calendaring and contact lists. While smartphones make up a small portion of the cellular phone market today, their share is expected to grow.

The number of cellular phones sold this year is expected to reach 620 million units, according to researcher Gartner Inc. Consumers replacing older phones with feature-rich, color-screen handsets are driving sales in mature markets, such as Western Europe and North America.

The Palm OS Cobalt 6.1 supports GSM, or Global System for Mobile Communications; and GPRS, or General Packet Radio Service, which enables continuous flows of IP data packets for such applications as Web browsing and file transfers. A GPRS application-programming interface is available to make it easier for handset makers to deliver smartphone features.

The OS also includes interruptible hot sync, automatic backup and built-in support for one-handed and five-way navigation.

PalmSource's push into the smartphone market is pivotal, given the ground its OS has lost against rival Microsoft Corp.'s Windows CE in the market for handheld computers, also called personal digital assistants.

In the first quarter of the year, Palm OS and Windows CE were tied in PDA OS shipments, with about 40 percent each. Palm OS shipments fell by 20.7 percent from the same period a year, while Windows CE continued its climb upwards. In 2000, Microsoft's OS accounted for only 11 percent of the market.

PDA shipments overall, however, have been steadily declining, as an increasing number of consumers switch to cellular phones with similar capabilities.

In other news from the PalmSource Euro DevCon, PalmSource started shipping version 3.0 of its web browser, which has been enhanced for use in smartphones with such features as page zooming, scalable fonts and squeeze-rendering, which allow users to eliminate horizontal scrolling for easier navigation.

In addition, PalmSource released the Palm OS Developer Suite 1.0 for building multimedia and wireless applications for Palm-powered devices. The tools are available at no charge through PalmSource's web site.

M-TECH Laptops Technology

M-TECH addresses all user needs through providing notebooks spanning the range from entry-level to high-end technology.
M-TECH notebooks and LCD PC systems, powered by Intel family of Intel Pentium 4 processors, are built on a customized basis so that clients can select the individual configurations they require. M-TECH systems offer stylish all-in-one design, superb performance, upgrade ability and latest computing technology.

M-TECH Corporation is based on the philosophy that the workplace PC, the home computer, and the laptop can all be replaced by a single, portable solution - the Desktop Replacement Notebook or LCD PC. M-TECH's Desktop Replacement Notebooks make conventional systems redundant by offering all the amenities of high-end computers in a portable package.

All M-TECH products are engineered for highest quality, best performance, long-term stability and serviceability.

Throughout its history, M-TECH Corporation has remained years ahead of the competition by matching current high-end desktop technology while incorporating products on the verge of reaching their zenith. The company has produced many firsts, such as manufacturing the first notebook with a 15.1-inch LCD panel and a full-size, 102-key, keyboard. Today, M-TECH is the leading manufacturer of innovative mobile computing technology.

The Latest Mobile Phone Technology

The latest mobile phone handsets provide a wide range of services and technology that allows the user to be as interactive as possible with the global community. These new mobile technologies offer the user accessibility to the worldwide web via WiFi connectivity, download and transfer large amounts of data via high speed connectivity and find a location via satellite with mobile Global Positioning Systems (GPS) devices.

Todays mobile phones have now evolved to incorporate all types of online activity, here is a little breakdown of some of the latest technology to grasp the mobile market.

WiFi Technology What is Wi-Fi? WiFi is a wireless technology brand owned by the Wi-Fi Alliance intended to improve the operating of wireless products. Common applications for Wi-Fi include Internet and VoIP phone access, gaming, and network connectivity for consumer electronics such as mobile phones, laptops, game consoles, MP3 players and PDA's. Wi-Fi also allows connectivity which enables devices to connect directly with each other. This connectivity mode is useful in consumer electronics and gaming applications. It's faster and has a greater range than Bluetooth, and is ideal for home or office connectivity. In the near future, wireless networking may become so widespread that you can access the Internet just about anywhere at any time, without using wires. The easy access of emails for business orientated individuals is also a bonus, as urgent messages can be downloaded on the go once the email settings are configured on to the WiFi enabled handset.

The mobile phones market has received a lot of attention lately as several operators across the world have launched various types of handsets which allow users to connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi, the iPhone being the ultimate example.

Mobile VoIP

A new study from a London-based research firm claims that mobile voice-over-IP will become a mainstream form of communication by the end of 2012, based on rapid growth of voice-over-3G wireless users. Disruptive Analysis said its research shows mobile VoIP will eclipse fixed-mobile convergence services that use dual-mode handsets with voice-over-WiFi capabilities.

VoIP has become popular largely because of the cost advantages to consumers over traditional telepone networks. VoIP calls can be placed across the Internet. Most Internet connections are charged using a flat fee structure. Using the Internet connection for both data traffic and voice calls can allow consumers to get rid of one monthly payment. In addition, VoIP plans do not charge a per-minute fee for long distance. For International calling, the monetary savings to the consumer from switching to VoIP technology can be enormous.

Today, Skype, TruPhone and a company called Fring already offer VoIP over 3G smartphones and 3G-enabled laptops allowing users to communicate with other VoIP users via the Internet. This service is expected to provide customers with a cheaper alternative to connecting calls via GSM in the near future.

HSDPA

High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is a 3G (third generation) mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) family, which allows networks based on Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) to have higher data transfer speeds and capacity. Current HSDPA deployments support down-link speeds of 1.8, 3.6, 7.2 and 14.4 Mbit/s. Further speed increases are planned for the near future.

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What is fourth generation (4G) mobile?

4G, an acronym for Fourth-Generation Communications System, is a term used to describe the next step in wireless communications. A 4G system will be able to provide a comprehensive IP solution where voice, data and streamed multimedia can be given to users on an "Anytime, Anywhere" basis, and at higher data rates than previous generations. There is no formal definition for what 4G is; however, there are certain objectives that are projected for 4G. These objectives include: that 4G will be a fully IP-based integrated system. This will be achieved after wired and wireless technologies converge and will be capable of providing 100 Mbit/s and 1 Gbit/s speeds both indoors and outdoors, with premium quality and high security. 4G will offer all types of services at an affordable cost.

4G is being developed to accommodate the quality of service (QoS) and rate requirements set by forthcoming applications like wireless broadband access, Multimedia Messaging Service, video chat, mobile TV, High definition TV content, DVB, minimal service like voice and data, and other streaming services for "anytime-anywhere". 4G in principle will allow high-quality smooth video transmission. It will enable fast downloading of full-length songs or music pieces in real time.

The business of 4Gmobile is predicted to be huge. By 2009, this 4Gmobile market will be over $400B. This 4Gmobile technology will dominate the wireless communications, and its converged system will replace most conventional wireless infrastructure.

What will the data rates be for 4G?

At present the download speed for mobile Internet connections range from 9.6 kbit/s for 2G cellular, up to 200 kbit/s (nominally 384 kbps) for the new Vodafone 3G service (mentioned above). However, in actual use the data rates are usually slower, especially in crowded areas, or when the network is "congested".

4G mobile data transmission rates are planned to be up to 20 megabits per second That’s about 10-20 times faster than standard ASDL services.

In terms of connection seeds, 4G will be about 200 times faster than present 2G mobile data rates, and about 10 times faster than 3G broadband mobile. 3G data rates are currently 2Mbit/sec, which is very fast compared to 2G's 9.6Kbit/sec.

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Nokia's Mobile Tv Technology Gets Semiofficial Status in Eu

BRUSSELS -(Dow Jones)- The European Commission Thursday suffered a setback in its attempts to advance Nokia Corp.'s DVB-H technology for mobile television as the single standard in Europe, after the member states' ministers concluded that it should not be a mandatory standard.

However, European Telecoms Commissioner Viviane Reding said she won enough backing to ensure it becomes the European mobile TV standard in any case.

The European telecommunication ministers said that although DVB-H had the "potential" to become the most common standard, it should be left to the market to decide which technology emerges in the end. The ministers also said that it was important for the commission to maintain "technology neutrality" for the time being.

However, the ministers welcomed the commission's plan to add the standard into its official list of standardsas a "non-mandatory standard" in order to speed up the adoption of Mobile TV - handsets offering television - in Europe.

The ministers also said that some steps could be taken to ensure both the interoperability of services and freedom of choice for users.

Reding said the inclusion of DVB-H technology in the official list in February would be enough to ensure its de facto position as the European mobile TV standard.

It means that "all 27 member states have to support and encourage" the adoption of the technology, thus avoiding market fragmentation and allowing economies of scale, the commission said.

The commission has backed the DVB-H standard as the "strongest contender" for future mobile television broadcasts, despite there being other options, partly because it is based on European technology with the support of E.U. funds.

Other technologies include Qualcomm's FLO platform, known as MediaFLO, which has gained ground in the USA, and ISDB-T technology, which is the standard in Japan and Brazil.

The global market for mobile TV could reach EUR20 billion by 2011, the commission predicts.

Naming a single standard is more common in Europe than the U.S, and is usually done to ensure interoperability across countries. However, when an industry is in its infancy, preferring one technology over another may come at a cost to innovation and consumer choice, onlookers said.

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Devicescape Makes Use of Wifi Hotspots Easier With Mobile Devices

Jukka over at the Nokia Web Server blog made me aware of an interesting new service from Devicescape which will be bundled with Nokia Nseries and Eseries phones that makes using Wifi hotspots easier in the future.

You probably know the hassle. You sit down at the airport but before you can use the local Wifi network a user name and password has to be entered on a web page to get access to the Internet. While inconvenient with a notebook it's still manageable since you have a keyboard available. With a mobile device however, typing in user names and passwords on a web page becomes a real pain.

Devicescape has an elegant solution for this. A little program, that has to be installed on the phone, checks all Wifi networks and automatically logs into those it knows. Usernames and passwords are stored on a centralized server so the user never has to type them in on the mobile device. When accessing the network from a Wifi hotspot they are downloaded automatically and entered into the web page by the program.

I was a bit puzzled at first. How can they store passwords remotely? Usually, access to the Internet is only possible once one the username and password have been entered on the web page. Devicescape uses an interesting trick to circumvent this. They piggyback their server interaction on DNS (Domain Name Server) queries which are required to resolve a URL (e.g. http://mobilesociety.typepad.com) into a numeric IP address. This works even before full access to the Internet is granted. The DNS server system has a treelike structure so a DNS query to a Devicescape URL will end up on the central Devicescape server. The server then checks the request and returns the username and password in the answer.