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This is the definition of free market economy.Free Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01418637031205312782noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-72501103339707847742010-01-17T11:41:00.000-08:002010-01-17T11:51:48.504-08:00Shoveling Water<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S1NpbZeBV8I/AAAAAAAAAFY/l8iH-a5vgfE/s1600-h/0110-Review_Chip-A2_x220.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 270px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S1NpbZeBV8I/AAAAAAAAAFY/l8iH-a5vgfE/s400/0110-Review_Chip-A2_x220.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5427797895325767618" /></a>The new microfluidic chip fabricated by Fluidigm, a startup based in South San Francisco, represents a decade of successive inventions. This small square of spongy polymer--the same type used in contact lenses and window caulking--holds a complex network of microscopic channels, pumps, and valves. Minute volumes of liquid from, say, a blood sample can flow through the maze of channels to be segregated by the valves and pumps into nearly 10,000 tiny chambers. In each chamber, nanoliters (billionths of a liter) of the liquid can be analyzed.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/24086/">Read More</a>]Unknownnoreply@blogger.com45tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-74095039526702853062010-01-13T02:07:00.000-08:002010-01-13T02:09:17.821-08:00Argonne gets wind of new energy models<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S02brF_1nhI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/VkfjRHj5Si0/s1600-h/1-windpower.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 170px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S02brF_1nhI/AAAAAAAAAFQ/VkfjRHj5Si0/s400/1-windpower.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426164290697928210" /></a>Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, with support from the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC Porto), are developing new wind power forecasting techniques that they hope will allow power system operators and wind power plant managers to more accurately predict the amount of electricity that the wind power plants will generate at any given time.<br /><br />Unlike coal or nuclear power plants, wind farms produce energy in fits and spurts. When the wind is not blowing and a wind farm fails to produce much power, other power plants must increase their generation to pick up the slack. Argonne scientists seek to use wind power forecasts to help power plant operators run their plants more efficiently.<br /><br />"The point of this project is to reduce uncertainty," said Audun Botterud, an energy systems engineer with Argonne's Center for Energy, Environmental, and Economic Systems Analysis. "The more accurately we can predict how much wind there will be, the more efficiently and cheaply we can generate and transmit all of our power."<br /><br />Current wind power forecasting models use inputs from a range of sources, including weather predictions, meteorological measurements and current output levels of wind power farms, to generate the best possible forecast for times ranging from minutes to days ahead. "Our models merge the information from all these sources to generate the best possible forecast," says Botterud.<br /><br />However, the definition of "best," Botterud said, depends on one's point of view. According to Botterud, wind power generators primarily care about minimizing the average error in the quantity of wind available. In contrast, system operators seek to accurately forecast rapid changes in electrical output.<br /><br />"The next-day forecast is particularly important," Botterud explained. "The power generation and distribution companies make supply and demand bids in the power market today for their anticipated needs tomorrow, but the market usually closes by early afternoon. If not enough wind power is generated, the operator may not have sufficient other resources to meet the system's load. On the other hand, if there is more wind than expected, the operator may have to force wind generators to reduce their output to avoid problems in the rest of the power system."<br /><br />With a more accurate wind power forecast, power system operators can better anticipate how much energy they will need from other plants on the same grid. "Large-scale mathematical models are used to efficiently schedule electrical generation," said Jianhui Wang, another energy systems engineer working on the project. "We are looking at how to account for wind power uncertainty in these models, and that adds additional complexity from a mathematical perspective."<br /><br />"Although wind farms currently supply only a small percentage of America's electricity, improving our forecasting capabilities and these operational models represent a hugely important part of what's required to maintain the reliability and stability of the entire system. This improvement will yield large rewards as the country's wind-power generation capacity is scaled up," Wang added.<br /><br />More information: More information on the project is available at the <a href="http://www.dis.anl.gov/projects/windpowerforecasting.html">DIS website</a>.<br /><br />Provided by Argonne National Laboratory (<a href="http://www.physorg.com/partners/argonne-national-laboratory/">news</a> : <a href="http://www.anl.gov/index.html">web</a>)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-61200286054284537052010-01-13T01:49:00.000-08:002010-01-13T02:06:57.487-08:00Wii becomes third console to stream Netflix<span style="font-size:78%;">Barbara Ortutay, Ap Technology Writer</span><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S02bIyV8seI/AAAAAAAAAFI/2zsAXnwOZZQ/s1600-h/wii-sb1.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 326px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S02bIyV8seI/AAAAAAAAAFI/2zsAXnwOZZQ/s400/wii-sb1.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426163701306405346" /></a><br />NEW YORK – It's a triple crown for Netflix. Beginning in the spring, the Wii will become the last of the three current video game consoles to get instant viewing of Netflix movies and TV shows over the Internet.<br /><br />Wii owners who have a broadband connection and a Netflix subscription that costs at least $9 a month will be able to watch those programs with no extra charge.<br /><br />Nintendo Co. and Netflix Inc., which wouldn't give an exact launch date for the service, were set to announce the deal on Wednesday.<br /><br />To watch flicks through the gaming system, Wii users will need a special "instant-streaming" disc that Netflix will mail out in the spring. They will then be able to use the Wii's motion controller to navigate through their Netflix account and pick what they want to watch. This setup is similar to the way Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3 currently streams Netflix programs.<br /><br />Owners of Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 can also stream Netflix, but the service is only available to Xbox Live "Gold" members, who pay $50 a year mainly to play games online.<br /><br />The Wii is a great catch for Netflix because it gives it access to the living rooms of millions of potential new subscribers. It is easily the most popular gaming console in the U.S. with 26 million sold in the country through December, according to Nintendo.<br /><br />Netflix CEO Reed Hastings has long said his company's goal is to offer movie streaming on as many devices as possible, including all three gaming consoles. Letting subscribers watch movies over the Internet is an increasingly important service for Netflix, which is based in Los Gatos, Calif., even though the company says it expects to keep renting DVDs for another couple of decades.<br /><br />Part of the reason for that is because it'll take some time for movies to become available for streaming. The company has about 17,000 movies and TV shows available for Internet watching, compared with more than 100,000 DVD titles it rents out.<br /><br />In another sign of its commitment to streaming, Netflix said last week it will delay sending out Warner Bros.' latest movies by nearly a month so it can get rights to show its subscribers more movies over the Internet.<br /><br />In addition to the three gaming systems, Netflix streaming is already available on devices such as the Roku digital video player, along with some Blu-ray players and Internet-connected TV sets. It's also available on computers.<br /><br />But consoles represent an important entry point into millions of homes because so many people already own them. And offering service through the systems will likely also prompt existing Netflix subscribers who haven't tried streaming over the Internet to do so.<br /><br />Hastings called the Nintendo deal a "big step forward" in advancing its streaming service.<br /><br />Reggie Fils-Aime, president of Nintendo of America, said the company's first priority is always gaming, but it also wants to "continue to surprise our customers" by offering other activities.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-57254767573933712702010-01-08T12:53:00.000-08:002010-01-08T12:55:08.388-08:00CES: Dell Intros Tablet PC Concept<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S0ebn3M3E1I/AAAAAAAAAFA/c1m0nJ33IPM/s1600-h/Dell_TabletPC_concept_full.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 302px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S0ebn3M3E1I/AAAAAAAAAFA/c1m0nJ33IPM/s400/Dell_TabletPC_concept_full.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424475385326146386" /></a><br />Dell on Thursday debuted a ancestor of a book PC that the computer maker affairs to barrage this year, forth with its aboriginal smartphone.<br /><br />The book was alien at the Customer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nev., forth with a brace of Dell's Studio and Inspiron band of laptops. The aggregation additionally apparent an 11-inch gaming laptop alleged the Alienware M11x.<br /><br />In assuming off the tablet, Dell abutting added above computer makers, including Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and others, in announcement book PCs. The artefact announcements from Windows PC vendors appear as above media address that Apple is accepting accessible to barrage a book adjoin the end of the month. As a amount of aggregation policy, Apple does not animadversion on approaching products.<br /><br />Dell's book abstraction apparent at CES has a five-inch affectation and is actuality marketed as a accompaniment accessory to a PC. The artefact delivers a "full Web acquaintance about accessing, advancement and syncing and allotment agenda content," Dell said.<br /><br />Dell alien the accessory a day afterwards announcement that AT&T would advertise its Android-based smartphone in the United States. The Mini 3 and the book mark Dell's move above its acceptable role as a agent of customer and business PCs. The Mini 3 is appointed to be accessible in the aboriginal bisected of the year. The book is accepted ancient this year. Appraisement was not announced.<br /><br />The computer maker's Inspiron and Studio curve are actuality active with Intel's latest dual- and quad-core processors congenital application the dent maker's 32-nanometer accomplishment process, which boosts achievement and activity ability from the antecedent bearing of chips.<br /><br />Inspiron 14-, 15.6- and 17.3-inch boilerplate laptops are accessible with Intel's latest Core i5 processors and advertise for a starting amount of $849. Systems featuring Intel's new Core i3 chips are appointed to be accessible this ages for a starting amount of $569.<br /><br />The aforementioned admeasurement Studio laptops, which accommodate added ball features, are actuality active with Intel Core i5 and Core i7 processors. The 14-inch Studio is appointed to be accessible this ages for a starting amount of $699. The 15.6- and 17.3-inch models will alpha $849 and $949, respectively.<br /><br />Dell's access into the smartphone bazaar is advised a chancy move by some analysts, accustomed that it would be activity up adjoin adept manufacturers of adaptable phones, such as Samsung, Motorola, and Nokia. In addition, Dell is demography on two of the best acknowledged smartphone makers in the United States, Apple, which makes the iPhone, and Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry.<br /><br />Dell is additionally business the Alienware M11x as accepting the "graphics ability of a 15-inch laptop in an 11-inch anatomy factor." Dell has not appear appraisement or availability. <br /><br />[<a href="http://www.techweb.com/article/showArticle?articleID=222300123§ion=news">source</a>]Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-34878667794056101962010-01-08T12:51:00.000-08:002010-01-08T12:52:34.401-08:00Google Promotes Nexus One<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S0ebCEnkgfI/AAAAAAAAAE4/fBSp4wPHQJw/s1600-h/nexus-phone-pic-cache-gawker-com-401427406.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 229px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S0ebCEnkgfI/AAAAAAAAAE4/fBSp4wPHQJw/s400/nexus-phone-pic-cache-gawker-com-401427406.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424474736092807666" /></a><br />Google’s Nexus One is actuality answer on a allotment of prime online chase absolute acreage that no advertiser commonly has admission to. 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If alike a baby allotment of them checks Nexus One out and buys the device, Google could exhausted all cell-phone sales records.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-80853234019657759832010-01-08T12:47:00.000-08:002010-01-08T12:49:53.583-08:00How to Photograph the Earth<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S0eaUrjVpyI/AAAAAAAAAEw/h8iw_oAAuj4/s1600-h/0110-Hack-A_x600.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 319px; height: 400px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S0eaUrjVpyI/AAAAAAAAAEw/h8iw_oAAuj4/s400/0110-Hack-A_x600.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424473956270057250" /></a><br />A. Balloon<br />A weather balloon, which cost about $20, propelled the photo equipment to approximately 93,000 feet over about four hours. As planned, the thinning atmosphere then caused the balloon to pop, and the equipment descended in about 40 minutes with the aid of a parachute. To predict where it was likely to land, Yeh and Lee used a website maintained by the Department of Atmospheric Science at the University of Wyoming that assesses wind direction and strength. (They suggest that those who want to undertake similar projects inform the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration and check federal and local regulations first: strict laws govern the use of airspace above certain heights.)<br /><br />B. Parachute<br />Yeh and Lee tested parachutes by attaching them to a styrofoam cooler filled with eggs and dropping it off the roof of a five-story building. Eventually, they found a design that allowed the eggs to land intact. They found that they could use a variety of materials to make the parachute--even a trash bag.<br /><br />C. Styrofoam Beer Cooler<br />To keep the equipment from failing in the chill of the upper atmosphere, Yeh and Lee packed it in a protective cooler. For additional warmth, they insulated the camera and phone with newspaper and put chemical hand warmers next to each device. They carved a hole in the cooler for the camera's lens.<br /><br />D. Camera<br />Yeh and Lee modified an off-the-shelf Canon A470 camera by installing open-source software that instructed the device to snap a photo every five seconds. The images, covering almost five hours in flight, were stored on an eight-gigabyte memory card.<br /><br />E. Prepaid Cell Phone<br />A low-cost GPS tracking service turned a Motorola i290 prepaid cell phone into a GPS transmitter. Besides allowing Yeh and Lee to track the flight path, the information broadcast by the cell phone was key to retrieving their equipment and collecting the pictures stored on the camera.<br /><br />F. Batteries<br />Lithium batteries designed to function down to -40 °C powered both the camera and the cell phone. The phone was also plugged into a battery-powered charger as backup during the flight. <br /><br />[<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24179/">source</a>]Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-79824210117388524012010-01-08T12:46:00.000-08:002010-01-08T12:50:25.704-08:00Microscopic Solar Cells Could See More Sunlight<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S0eZ54WfJNI/AAAAAAAAAEo/pH8QbLtFjdY/s1600-h/micro_solar_x220.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 220px; height: 293px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S0eZ54WfJNI/AAAAAAAAAEo/pH8QbLtFjdY/s400/micro_solar_x220.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424473495849346258" /></a>Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories accept diminished silicon solar beef bottomward to the micro scale, aperture new possibilities for bigger efficiency.<br /><br />Multi-crystalline silicon, currently the gold accepted for solar-cell efficiency, is big-ticket and produces beef that are abundant and brittle. Sandia's diminutive silicon solar beef use 100 times beneath actual while operating with the aforementioned efficiency.<br /><br />In accession to lower abstracts costs, the abate calibration of these beef agency they could be congenital into bunched optical systems for cheaper light-tracking and concentration. Advisers ability alike append them in inks that could be printed assimilate artificial to accomplish efficient, adjustable silicon-solar modules.<br /><br />"In microsystems, you're attractive for things that become cheaper, accomplish better, and accretion new functionalities," says Gregory Nielson, arch scientist on the project.<br /><br />So far, the Sandia advisers accept accumulated and activated a distinct micro solar corpuscle as affidavit of principle. But they accept amorphous testing activity solar modules fabricated from assorted tiny beef and are developing techniques for accumulating them efficiently.<br /><br />Sandia's beef are amid 0.25 and one millimeter in diameter. The capital account of accomplishment such baby beef would be lower abstracts costs, back the tiny beef can be fabricated about 10 times thinner than accepted ones. Ordinarily, solar beef charge be 100 micrometers blubbery to abutment their apparent area--typically about 15 centimeters square.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/24295/?a=f">source</a>]Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-2655326191554776142010-01-08T12:34:00.000-08:002010-01-08T12:46:13.053-08:00The Future of Human Spaceflight<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S0eZSRrLCrI/AAAAAAAAAEg/tJjoHoCE4A0/s1600-h/0110-space-B_x600.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 225px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_It-pXI4JPig/S0eZSRrLCrI/AAAAAAAAAEg/tJjoHoCE4A0/s400/0110-space-B_x600.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424472815452228274" /></a><br />The International Space Station (ISS) is one of the best circuitous and big-ticket engineering projects anytime undertaken. Back it is completed in 2011, it will accept amount about $100 billion. And then, aloof bristles years later, the amplitude base will be destroyed back NASA advisedly takes it out of apogee and plunges it into Earth's atmosphere.<br /><br />That, at least, is NASA's accepted plan. The bureau would like to accumulate the base running, but allotment for it is projected alone through 2015, abundant to the alarm of advisers who are aloof alpha to use it and all-embracing ally who accept invested billions of dollars in the project. Extending the activity of the base would amount $2 billion to $3 billion a year. Even "deorbiting" it--dumping its charcoal cautiously into the ocean--will not be cheap, costing at atomic $2 billion.<br /><br />The 2015 borderline agency that afterwards decades of abundantly aimless amplitude policy, Congress will be affected to accomplish at atomic one bright decision: it charge admeasure funds for either the amplitude station's connected operation or its destruction. And that is aloof one of a cardinal of burning issues adverse the country's animal spaceflight program. The amplitude shuttle is due to be retired by backward 2010 or aboriginal 2011, abrogation NASA after a agency of sending astronauts anywhere for several years. And the key elements of NASA's analysis program, the Ares I rocket that will barrage astronauts into apogee and the Orion abridged that will bear them about in space, are several years abaft schedule.<br /><br />In October, the Augustine Committee, a console accountant by the White House and chaired by above Lockheed Martin CEO Norman Augustine, issued its address on the approaching of amplitude travel. The board advised NASA's affairs and explored alternatives. Abundant of the address discussed the claim of altered destinations in amplitude and the rocket and aircraft technologies that could be acclimated to ability those destinations. But anchored in the address is a account for why there should be a animal spaceflight affairs at all. "The Board assured that the ultimate ambition of animal analysis is to blueprint a aisle for animal amplification into the solar system," it states.<br /><br />Over the years, NASA and amplitude advocates accept put advanced abounding affidavit to absolve sending astronauts into space. They accept garnered abutment by alms article for everybody, abnormally the aggressive and accurate communities; accurate progress, cardinal superiority, and all-embracing authority accept been foremost amid the promised benefits. On afterpiece inspection, though, these justifications don't authority up or are no best relevant. For example, automatic missions are more able of accurate assignment in space, and they amount far beneath than animal crews. Satellites launched on dispensable boosters accustomed the United States to accomplish cardinal ascendancy in space. And Cold War motives abolished with the collapse of the Soviet Union.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/business/24178/">source</a>]Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-71698071170097967402009-11-20T08:03:00.000-08:002009-11-20T08:06:00.642-08:00The NSA Helped Microsoft Improve Windows 7 Security<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/11/nsa_seal.jpeg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 340px; height: 339px;" src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/gizmodo/2009/11/nsa_seal.jpeg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />While some of us are likely to associate the National Security Agency with daydreams of espionage, the organization is also highly involved in improving security standards in software. They've even consulted with Microsoft during the development of Windows 7. According to the NSA's Information Assurance Director, Richard Schaeffer, it's important for the agency to work with Microsoft and other software makers because otherwise the increasing reliance on "private-sector computing products" could put national security at risk. By creating and maintaining high security standards, the agency hopes to reduce the danger of the "rising threat of cyberattacks." Whew. That actually sounds quite reasonable and like a good thing, rather than cause to panic after seeing "NSA" and "Microsoft" in the same sentence. [<a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/11/nsa_microsoft_windows_7.html">NPR</a> via <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009/11/19/shocking-the-nsa-helped-make-windows-7/">Crunch Gear</a>]<br /><br />[<a href="http://gizmodo.com/5408648/the-nsa-helped-microsoft-improve-windows-7-security">source</a>]Free Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01418637031205312782noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-21596428731768273132009-11-19T00:28:00.001-08:002009-11-19T00:33:39.243-08:00Samsung B3210 Corby TXT Review<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0pWrgkaBCzL7ZL81uqMcq-W_8zlMzai6xMU1w44llSipkqbgOkooGb-3dntQ4REHMDqLZ95xqPPIbsPweKH85jxoHcn2nUmYkXclBNuGSMczbh9QBMvQ0R4rBVgbNi81PANHRyaGl56A/s1600/samsung-b3210-corbytxt-4.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0pWrgkaBCzL7ZL81uqMcq-W_8zlMzai6xMU1w44llSipkqbgOkooGb-3dntQ4REHMDqLZ95xqPPIbsPweKH85jxoHcn2nUmYkXclBNuGSMczbh9QBMvQ0R4rBVgbNi81PANHRyaGl56A/s400/samsung-b3210-corbytxt-4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405060794598117826" border="0" /></a><br />The Samsung B3210 Corby TXT mobile phone is a solid bar designed handset complete with highly focused messaging features which makes communication a pleasure for its user. Its solid bar form is wide due its full QWERTY keyboard & its overall casing size measures 11.2cm tall by 5.96cm wide by 1.29cm thick. This handset weighs ninety four grams including its fitted rechargeable battery which is a solid weight without weighing the user down.<br /><br />A good size screen & QWERTY keyboard fills the front section of this handset. Its screen is a TFT screen which displays up to two hundred & sixty two thousand colours on a clear resolution screen. Its QWERTY keyboard provides a full QWERTY input method which is ideal for inputting text at high speeds. This mobile phone comes with a changeable cover facility which allows the user to change the handsets casing colour to suit the user's style.<br /><br />This mobile phone supports a Bluetooth® wireless connectivity to other devices allowing the user to connect their handset to other compatible Bluetooth® devices without using cables or wires when transferring data files. Its Bluetooth® technology can work with compatible devices which are up to ten metres apart & is a quick & easy way to transfer files. A USB connection allows the user to use a USB cable to connect the Samsung B3210 Corby TXT to other USB compatible devices to gain a cabled connection between two devices when transferring data. The B3210 Corby TXT supports Edge & GPRS technologies which provide high speed data transfer rates for the user to gain when transferring files. This mobile phone has forty megabytes of built in memory & supports an expandable memory card slot which can hold up to eight gigabytes of external memory. The B3210 Corby TXT works over GSM networks 850, 900, 1800 & 1900 which provides the user with quad band network coverage which will automatically switch between networks.<br /><br />For entertainment the user can enjoy a two megapixel camera feature, digital music player or an FM radio feature depending on the users entertainment needs. There is a highly user friendly two megapixel camera feature which comes with a variety of photo & video setting to enhance any photos captured or video clips recording using this built in camera. The phone comes with an easy to use camera capturing key & the screen works as a viewfinder. The Samsung B3210 Corby TXT supports an integrated music player which supports popular music formats including MP3 & WMA formats. The user can transfer new music on to their mobile phone via the connectivity options available or download new music from the Web. Its radio feature allows the user to tune into their preferred music station to catch up on all the latest hit music & the user can enjoy an onscreen update via the radio data system feature which provides information which is relevant to the radio station being listened to.<br /><br />[<a href="http://viewgadget.blogspot.com/2009/11/samsung-b3210-corby-txt-review.html">source</a>]Free Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01418637031205312782noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-1277210035937783042009-11-19T00:21:00.000-08:002009-11-19T00:27:25.650-08:00The Latest News From Bing<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlV7Edzyd6QL5Qdw4gPl3XQS_OLiCXLMY7enCHVl773Q5ZU9kGNfpfPjyTpGTmD0Z2m-CPj9dKuyT-4i5M96HWhxAXOohI1UM0MkAOLHSit83WMg4zrO6CEgdAjCth_0bTPnXH-ZZLeVuu/s1600/latestnewsbing.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 211px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlV7Edzyd6QL5Qdw4gPl3XQS_OLiCXLMY7enCHVl773Q5ZU9kGNfpfPjyTpGTmD0Z2m-CPj9dKuyT-4i5M96HWhxAXOohI1UM0MkAOLHSit83WMg4zrO6CEgdAjCth_0bTPnXH-ZZLeVuu/s400/latestnewsbing.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405728338607103586" /></a><br />Bing announced Wolfram Alpha results for nutrition searches, more in-depth weather results, enhanced hover previews, better maps, and turned MSN Video into Bing Videos. Well, it turns out it is also quietly launched another feature which highlights the latest posts from news sites.<br /><br />[<a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/11/18/the-latest-news-from-bing/">Read More</a>]Free Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01418637031205312782noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-61713079888901043712009-11-19T00:15:00.000-08:002009-11-19T00:20:59.445-08:00Microsoft launches Windows Azure<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-dNMO0C3obDoeEFJCQC9ncIRl2RQNTGw7_pRZpuK7tkexWIKpB9Z186ozgDlS_TgOq6q_GN6ZY6orAknetcvx1undiz0eoH393hn8nXkXEoqhyphenhyphenNeCWeNkNvcvblqjMhkbkyOOZL6vKUOr/s1600/yourfile.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 197px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-dNMO0C3obDoeEFJCQC9ncIRl2RQNTGw7_pRZpuK7tkexWIKpB9Z186ozgDlS_TgOq6q_GN6ZY6orAknetcvx1undiz0eoH393hn8nXkXEoqhyphenhyphenNeCWeNkNvcvblqjMhkbkyOOZL6vKUOr/s400/yourfile.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405726705942868050" /></a>At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC). Ray Ozzie, arch software artist at Microsoft, apparent the company's "three screens and a cloud" vision, area software adventures are delivered seamlessly beyond PCs, phones and televisions, all affiliated by cloud-based services.<br /><br />He said, "Customers appetite best and adaptability in how they advance and arrange applications. We are affective into an era of solutions that are accomplished by users beyond PCs, phones and the web, and that are delivered from datacentres we accredit to as clandestine clouds and accessible clouds."<br /><br />Microsoft has developed Windows Server AppFabric Beta 1, a set of integrated, high-level appliance casework advised to advice appliance developers arrange and administer applications spanning both server and billow platforms.<br /><br />Bob Muglia, admiral of the server and accoutrement business at Microsoft, said, "Microsoft is advancing on a accepted developer belvedere for both servers and services, which will accredit developers to abide application accustomed .net Framework and Visual Studio accoutrement and technologies, as able-bodied as third-party accoutrement such as Eclipse, to actualize and monetise applications that run on the server and as casework in the cloud."Free Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01418637031205312782noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-17706412710460091502009-11-13T08:00:00.000-08:002009-11-13T08:01:53.007-08:00Go Go Google Programming Language<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyHI-o6HFSb_pXN6PU261ChaFV9KbbLki27xiDCivKnch1w0GycsY9qMf4nb4U5ckGzcYrBynPNCxqnYcIifcY6cX7CXaMRdITZPF675EGSWd8uCBMR0TnkVCo0AHoGkH-eQNvybhyphenhyphen8bx/s1600-h/language-code.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 172px; height: 124px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdyHI-o6HFSb_pXN6PU261ChaFV9KbbLki27xiDCivKnch1w0GycsY9qMf4nb4U5ckGzcYrBynPNCxqnYcIifcY6cX7CXaMRdITZPF675EGSWd8uCBMR0TnkVCo0AHoGkH-eQNvybhyphenhyphen8bx/s400/language-code.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403618964743630066" /></a>Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) on Tuesday announced an experimental new computer programming language called "Go."<br /><br />This combines the development speed of dynamic languages such as Python with the performance and safety of compiled languages like C or C++, the Internet search giant said.<br /><br />For now, Go is merely an experiment, Google said. "We hope adventurous users will give it a try and see if they enjoy it. Not every programmer will, but we hope enough will find satisfaction in the approach it offers to justify further development."<br /><br />Developers will need lots of play time with Go -- while the Go project was conceived to make it easier to write the kind of servers and other software Google uses internally, the implementation isn't quite mature enough yet for large-scale production use. Google's Go team is working on the language.<br /><br />Go still faces an uphill battle. "It is hard to imagine that this is going to be the next big thing in programming," IDC's Hilwa said. "It's likely Go will become one more thing in the ever-diversifying landscape of programming languages."Free Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01418637031205312782noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8111862614731519707.post-89202904024779286262009-11-13T06:38:00.000-08:002009-11-13T07:59:04.825-08:00Microsoft Office 2010 betaMicrosoft is widely expected to release the updated test version at next week's Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft has said that it will have a beta of Office 2010 this month and has hinted on its Twitter feed that it will have big Office news next week, all but guaranteeing the release of the beta.<br /><br />The beta is an update to the technology preview of the software that was released in July. That version also leaked to the Web ahead of its official release.<br /><br />In addition to the desktop versions of Office 2010, Microsoft is also prepping browser-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and OneNote.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdC5sCbJcewge6z9pIEWbKAWQgB7Rj14UJyCNH4OyYROQuTv_de47xWEi5FVd2jjQl6k9qv51nzc4sU0iHosQR13R5IU7vLOLCifis7l9Otp7Od0cjr-cvLMfCc7rg-TzF568NenETflDY/s1600-h/Word_PastePreview_2010.png"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 382px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdC5sCbJcewge6z9pIEWbKAWQgB7Rj14UJyCNH4OyYROQuTv_de47xWEi5FVd2jjQl6k9qv51nzc4sU0iHosQR13R5IU7vLOLCifis7l9Otp7Od0cjr-cvLMfCc7rg-TzF568NenETflDY/s400/Word_PastePreview_2010.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403617850354643106" /></a>Free Blogger Templatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01418637031205312782noreply@blogger.com2