Nokia Booklet 3G mini laptop unveiled

Nokia has just whipped the dust sheet off the Nokia Booklet 3G. A brand new breed of portable device for Nokia, this mini laptop PC sees the company step foot on freshly cut turf, and we’re a little dumb-struck with excitement at the prospect of the experience that this bite-size Booklet promises to deliver when it arrives. Not to mention what it means bigger picture, and how this product could affect the entire mobile landscape for the better (we’ll save that for another story), but let’s not get ahead of ourselves just yet.

First, let’s get down off our tip-toes, take a deep breath, and soak up all the initial details on what the upcoming Nokia Booklet 3G mini laptop is set to deliver when it lands on laps. Read on for every shred of info currently available on this landmark new product, and get the first close-up look at the Nokia Booklet 3G mini laptop in our photo gallery.

The new Nokia Booklet 3G will be a Windows-based machine, supported by an efficient Intel Atom processor that promises the performance of a full-function PC. It’s efficiency credentials are boldly punctuated with battery life that stretches up to 12 hours (with normal daily use, of course – don’t expect a 12-hour Quake-fest off a single hit of juice). Turning our attention to mini matters of a tape-measure nature, the Nokia Booklet 3G comes toting a glass 10.1-inch HD display (it has an HDMI port for HD video out). This lives within its smart aluminium shell which measures in at just 2cm thin and tips the scales at around a kilogram to ensure it’s extremely portable.

Connecting at speed is crucial with a product of this nature, so the Booklet 3G has been designed with fast downloading and uploading front of mind – it’s 3G/HSPA ready for rapid mobile broadband anywhere-access on the move. Wi-Fi has also been wedged into it’s slim body. Plus, it supports hot-swappable SIM card functionality.

It’s talents don’t end there, with Nokia’s mini laptop PC also featuring onboard assisted-GPS with Ovi Maps neatly sat in the passenger seat. There’s a single front-facing camera nestled above the 10.1-inch HD screen for video chat, with Bluetooth and a built-in SD card reader also making appearances.

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Nokia Unveils The N97

Nokia has unveiled the Nokia N97 calling it the world's most advanced mobile computer.
Designed for Internet-savvy consumers, the Nokia N97 features a large 3.5" touch display with a full QWERTY keypad.

"From the desktop to the laptop and now to your pocket, the Nokia N97 is the most powerful, multi-sensory mobile computer in existence," said Jonas Geust, Vice President, heading Nokia Nseries. "Together with the Ovi services announced today, the Nokia N97 mobile computer adjusts to the world around us, helping stay connected to the people and things that matter most. With the Nokia N97, Nseries leads the charge in helping to transform the Internet into your Internet".

With the new concept of 'social location', the N97 with integrated A-GPS sensors and an electronic compass, intuitively understands where it is. The Nokia N97 makes it easy to update social networks automatically with real-time information, giving users the ability to update their 'status' and share their 'social location' as well as related pictures or videos.

The N97 features both physical QWERTY and virtual touch input and its 16:9 widescreen display can be fully personalized with frequently updated widgets of favorite web services and social networking sites while.

The Nokia N97 supports up to 48 GB of storage, including 32 GB of on-board memory, expandable with a 16 GB microSD card, has full support for the Nokia Music Store and features continuous playback time of up to 1.5 days. The Nokia N97 also has a 5-Megapixel camera with high-quality Carl Zeiss optics, 16:9 and DVD quality video capture, and support for services like Share on Ovi for immediate sharing over HSDPA and WLAN.

The Nokia N97 is expected to begin shipping in the first half of 2009 at an estimated retail price of EUR 550 before taxes or subsidies.



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Google Desktop : On-Screen Ruler

Description :

A ruler gadget that helps you align your on-screen elements, and measure the number of pixels between them. Double-clicking on the solid handle of the ruler rotates it by 90 degrees clockwise.






Options :

• Ruler Thickness - Thickness of the ruler in pixels. (Acceptable values are between 50 pixels and 150 pixels.

• Ruler Length - Length of the ruler in pixels. (Acceptable values are between 200 pixels and the screen width.)

• Division Size - Number of pixels between each division marking. (Acceptable values are between 10 and 100.)

• Major Marking Interval - Number of divisions between each major division marking. (Acceptable values are between 5 and 20.)

• Colour - Colour of the ruler and its markings. Select from black or white

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Google Lively is shutdown

from googleblog :

In July we launched Lively in Google Labs because we wanted users to be able to interact with their friends and express themselves online in new ways. Google has always been supportive of this kind of experimentation because we believe it's the best way to create groundbreaking products that make a difference to people's lives. But we've also always accepted that when you take these kinds of risks not every bet is going to pay off.

That's why, despite all the virtual high fives and creative rooms everyone has enjoyed in the last four and a half months, we've decided to shut Lively down at the end of the year. It has been a tough decision, but we want to ensure that we prioritize our resources and focus more on our core search, ads and apps business. Lively.com will be discontinued at the end of December, and everyone who has worked on the project will then move on to other teams.

We'd encourage all Lively users to capture your hard work by taking videos and screenshots of your rooms.

Spice up your Gmail inbox with colors and themes

Gmail fans have been building unofficial extensions to spice up their inboxes for a while, but up til now themes haven't been an integral part of Gmail. We wanted to go beyond simple color customization, so out of the 30 odd themes we're launching today, there's a shiny theme with chrome styling, another one that turns your inbox into a retro notepad, nature themes that change scenery over time, weather driven themes that can rain on your mailbox, and fun characters to keep you in good company. There's even an old school ascii theme (Terminal) which was the result of a bet between two engineers -- it's not exactly practical, but it's great for testing out your geek cred. We've also done a minor facelift to Gmail's default look to make it crisper and cleaner -- you might notice a few colors and pixels shifted around here and there.

Google Introducing the T-Mobile G1

The first Android-powered phone

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Test Your Connection Speed on speedtest.net

Speedtest.net is a broadband connection analysis tool with a huge selection of geographically dispersed testing servers. Ookla provides this service free to hundreds of thousands of people every day. If you are experiencing slowness with your Internet connection or are simply interested in testing your speed, Speedtest.net is for you. If you have a web site, please feel free to link to Speedtest.net.

Speedtest.net measures the performance of your broadband connection. At the end of each test, you are presented with the download (the speed of data from the server to your computer) and upload (the speed of sending data from your computer to the server) bandwidth speeds. The tests are performed completely within your web browser over HTTP (just like normal web browsing). If you experience any problems using Speedtest.net, please visit our Questions & Answers section for help.

The technology behind Speedtest.net is identical to that of the Ookla Speed Test which is provided to a wide variety of companies and organizations on a licensed basis. Collectively, the application is used over eight million times each month by millions of individuals worldwide. If you would like to have a Speed Test to install and run on your server, please visit our licensing site. We have a variety of options from basic to highly customized.

At Ookla we are focused on building and operating cross-platform web applications that are reliable, accurate, scalable and matched with an attractive and useful user-interface. We are currently working on additional connection diagnostic tools for specialized applications such as VoIP and future network environments where the individual may have have multiple wired and wireless connections to a variety of devices. Learn more here.

Google Notebook, Clip and collect information as you browse the web.

Use Google Notebook to save recipes, gift ideas and interesting articles you find while browsing. Get them later from any computer by visiting www.google.com/notebook

Researching an upcoming trip or purchase? Use notebooks to organize and share your work. Clip reviews and deals and then add your friends under "sharing options."

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Yahoo! Messenger for Vista (BETA)

Experience a specialized interface that harnesses the power of Windows Vista

Connect with friends free with SMS messaging and PC-to-PC calling

Get new mail alerts and customized notifications when select friends are online

Choose the amount of detail you want to see about your friends with Contact Zooming

Edit text while you write with an as-you-type spell checker

Send enhanced emoticons and monster files (up to 2GB)

Change skins for the entire IM window or individual conversations

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Nimbuzz Survey, Win a Nokia E51!

Nimbuzz is happy to announce that Nimbuzz launched a new survey with a chance for you to win a Nokia E51. Nimbuzz want to get to know YOU better. With this survey, Nimbuzz is hoping to understand what is most important to you and what features Nimbuzz should focus on next. Nimbuzz is working to create the best mobile messenger. As an incentive, 5 survey participants will be chosen at random to receive a new, shiny, gift-wrapped Nokia E51 mobile phone, for completing the 5 minute survey. So c’mon and take the survey already! :) The survey will end on the 22nd of October. Lucky winners will be contacted and mentioned on the official Nimbuzz blog in the Nimbuzzek of October 20th. Thank you in advance. Nimbuzz invite you to take Nimbuzz's survey.

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NVIDIA & Adobe: Creatively Partnered

Together, NVIDIA^® and Adobe^® are transforming the way the world engages with ideas and information through visual computing. From rich images in print, video, and film, to dynamic digital content for a variety of media, NVIDIA GPU-accelerated Adobe solutions can be enjoyed by anyone who creates and interacts with visual information.

Unleash your creativity with NVIDIA graphics solutions designed for the artistically inclined home user to the highly trained professional video and digital artist.

With built-in NVIDIA® GPU acceleration, the new Adobe® Creative Suite® 4 enables a faster, more natural way of working with images, while improving quality and productivity.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 features a variety of creative applications, including Adobe Photoshop® CS4, which automatically detect the presence of an NVIDIA Quadro® or GeForce® GPU and use the processor to speed a number of visually intensive operations.

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Nero 9 : Simply Create, Rip, Burn, Copy, Share, Back Up, Play, and Enjoy

Nero 9 is the next generation of the world’s most trusted integrated digital media and home entertainment software suite. It features new cutting-edge functionality that makes enjoying digital media content simple.

This easy-to-use yet powerful multimedia suite, gives you the freedom to create, rip, copy, burn, edit, share, and upload online. Whatever you want – music, video, photo, and data – enjoy and share with family and friends anytime, anywhere.

With easy-to-use Nero StartSmart command center, your digital life has never been more flexible, feasible, and fun.

Nero 9 Highlights:

• Fast and easy rip, burn, Autobackup, and copy functions
• Backup files to CDs, DVDs, and Blu-ray Discs*
• Create professional-looking DVD movies with integrated 3D menus
• Copy, burn, share, upload, and create music mixes like a DJ
• Convert music, photos, and DVDs to play on your iPod® and other mobile devices
• Quick photo and video upload to My Nero, YouTube™, and MySpace
• Watch, record, pause, and customize your live TV experience
• Play AVCHD and other HD formats

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Sony Ericsson launches PlayNow™ plus - unlimited music download service

24 September 2008 PlayNow™ plus to launch with Telenor in Sweden in fourth quarter this year

Lund, Sweden—September 24th 2008—Sony Ericsson today announced the launch of PlayNow™ plus, which will offer users the ultimate mobile music experience with the freedom to discover, download, play and recommend unlimited amounts of music wherever they are and whenever they like, directly over the mobile data network.

PlayNow™ plus is due to set a new standard for the unlimited music experience on a mobile with unrivalled download speeds, high-quality audio and access to the largest music catalogue of any unlimited download service. Sony Ericsson’s PlayNow™ plus music service guarantees ‘all-you-can-eat’ unlimited access to millions of music tracks.

PlayNow™ plus is very easy to use, with millions of songs available on your PC or phone at the click of a button. No need for cables, PlayNow™ plus offers simplicity and a great out of box experience with 1000 of the best selling songs already in the phone. learn more...

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Microsoft Environment : How Green is Your PC

Product Overview

Verdiem’s Edison is a free energy-monitoring application for eco-conscious consumers. You can use it to more actively control your PC’s energy consumption — and subsequently your household’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.

Feature Summary

Made for Microsoft Windows XP and Windows Vista PC users, Verdiem’s Edison enhances the operating systems’ existing power settings with increased overall energy savings and provides a consumer-friendly user interface that makes it easy to set up and manage. Endorsed by Microsoft and Climate Savers, Verdiem’s Edison enables consumers to measure, monitor, and manage their PC energy efficiency in an effort to reduce carbon emissions.

Features include:

• Scheduling. Identify work and non-work schedules to optimize power schemes based on when your PC is in use or on standby.
• Settings. Choose from among several options for power savings and settings.
• Estimated Savings Reports. Find information that shows how PC power settings correlate to money, kWh and CO2 savings.
• Intuitive User Interface. Drag easy-to-use sliding bars to choose settings and instantly see the power and monetary savings. Clearly marked tabs make the interface easy to navigate.

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Samsung announces second Armani phone called M75500 Night Effect

The M75500 is a candy bar from the stables of Sammy and Armani. This Night Effect beauty features a 2.2-inch AMOLED display screen, 3.2 megapixel camera, 120 MB internal memory, microSD card slot and supports HSDPA/GSM network. Last year Sammy partnered with Giorgio Armani but this year the glam has shifted to Emporio. The phone will be available in November this year in Europe. Although the pricing is not out you can expect to see it in the vicinity of 300 Euros or $437.

Microsoft Photosynth : View your photo in 3D space

Imagine being able to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience.

Photosynth is really two remarkable technical achievements in one product: a viewer for downloading and navigating these complex visual spaces and a "synther" for creating them in the first place. Together they make something that seems impossible quite possible: reconstructing the 3D world for sets of flat photographs. Learn more...



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AMD Infuses Corporate Brand with the Power of "Fusion"

Global “The Future is Fusion” corporate brand campaign focuses on AMD’s unique ability to ignite next-generation solutions through innovation leadership, customer collaboration and industry impact. Consumers, especially PC gaming fans, can see and experience the power of Fusion on their PC desktop via the AMD Fusion for Gaming utility beta, a freely available software download that allows gamers to experience greater performance on AMD-based PCs with a simple click of a button. Learn More...



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Google Chrome : The new browser from google

Google Chrome is a browser that combines a minimal design with sophisticated technology to make the web faster, safer, and easier.

One box for everything
Type in the address bar and get suggestions for both search and web pages.

Thumbnails of your top sites
Access your favorite pages instantly with lightning speed from any new tab.

Shortcuts for your apps
Get desktop shortcuts to launch your favorite web applications.

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Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Processors Deliver World-Record Web Performance

SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- July 28, 2008 --Demonstrating its superior ability to handle the strenuous and increasing demands placed on today’s high-traffic Web-based businesses, AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the power- and cost-efficient Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor Model 2356 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor Model 8356 now hold the top x86 web performance records for both 2P and 4P servers, as measured by the SPECweb®2005 benchmark. These records demonstrate that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors deliver the ideal platform for dynamic web-based businesses to help scale with peak loads, improve server utilization, minimize data center power consumption and deliver next generation Web 2.0 infrastructure.

“Web-based businesses, including hosted services for customers or internally facing business critical functions like CRM environments over a corporate intranet, often require more peak performance and scalability to handle heavy user traffic while balancing cost and power concerns,” said Patrick Patla, general manager, Server and Workstation Business, AMD. “These benchmark results are the latest evidence of the clear value that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors offer an Internet business – or any data center that requires the ultimate in performance, reliability and power efficiency.”

This elite Web performance capability affirms the idea that businesses no longer must invest in traditionally large, expensive, proprietary hardware. The Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor allows businesses to affordably and easily scale up a datacenter with power efficient, high-performance servers that offer enterprise-class functionality at industry-standard pricing.

With its Direct Connect Architecture, Web-based companies world-wide, including DAUM Communications, Rackspace and Strato, have benefited from Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based systems in their datacenter infrastructure.

The 2P Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based system posted a score of 30007 on an HP ProLiant DL385 G5 server featuring two power-efficient AMD Opteron processors Model 2356 running at 2.3 GHz.¹ The 4P Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based system posted a score of 43,854, which represents a roughly 2.5 percent increase in performance over the previous record. This record-breaking score was achieved with an HP ProLiant DL585 G5 server powered by four Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors Model 8356, which run at 2.3 GHz and 75W Average CPU Power (ACP).²

Additionally, the 4P results are among the first to be tested using a 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GigE) network infrastructure, showing that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors can meet the latest demands of web-based companies and emerging technology.

“Customers in massive scale out and cloud computing environments need reliable hardware with leading application performance to drive distinct business advantages,” said John Gromala, director, ProLiant product marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP. “The record-breaking benchmark results of the HP ProLiant DL 585 G5 and Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors demonstrate the outstanding performance and reliability these solutions deliver to high-traffic computing environments.”

SPECweb® 2005 is an objective and representative benchmark for measuring a system’s ability to act as a web server, simulating simultaneous user requests for standardized web transactions such as banking, e-commerce and downloading dynamic content. For more information on AMD benchmark performance results, please visit http://www.amd.com/opteronperformance.

New Product from Gigabyte : GV-N98TZL-512H

• Powered by GeForce 9800 GT GPU
• Supports PCI Express 2.0
• Microsoft DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.0 support
• Integrated with the industry's best 512MB GDDR3 memory and 256-bit memory interface
• Supports SLI and PureVideo HD technology
• Features dual DVI-I / D-sub

65nm Process Technology
Delivers higher performance through blazing clock rates.

	RoHS Compliant As a citizen of the global village, GIGABYTE exert ourselves to be a pioneer in environment care. Give the whole of Earth a promise that our products do not contain any of the restricted substances in concentrations and applications banned by the RoHS Directive, and are capable of being worked on at the higher temperatures required for lead free solder. One Earth and GIGABYTE Cares!
	Dual-link DVI Able to drive two of the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560x1600.
	CineFX 4.0 Engine Through CineFX 4.0 engine that allows developers to create unique 3D game features and effects in both game animation and high-definition video. Gamers can get plus benefit from CineFX 4.0 that streamlines the creation of complex visual effects.
	Intellisample™ 4.0 The industry’s fastest antialiasing delivers ultra-realistic visuals, with no jagged edges, at lightning-fast speeds. Visual quality is taken to new heights through a new rotated grid sampling pattern, advanced 128 Tap sample coverage, 16x anisotropic filtering, and support for transparency supersampling and multisampling.
	OpenGL 2.0® Optimizations and Support Ensure top-notch compatibility and performance for all OpenGL 2.0 application.
	Microsoft® DirectX® 10 World's first DirectX 10 GPU with full Shader Model 4.0 support delivers unparalleled levels of graphics realims and film-quality effects.
	HDCP Support High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) is a form of copy protection technology designed to prevent transmission of non-encrypted high-definition content as it travels across DVI or HDMI digital connections.
	GigaThread™ Technology Massively multi-threaded architecture supports thousands of independent simultaneous threads, providing extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.
	Quantum Effects™ Technology Advanced shader processors architected for physics computation enable a new level of physics effects to be simulated and rendered on the GPU--all while freeing the CPU to run the game engine and AI.
	PureVideo™ HD Available on HD DVDs and Blu-ray discs, high-definition movies are bringing an exciting new video experience to PC users. NVIDIA® PureVideo™ HD technology lets you enjoy cinematic-quality HD DVD and Blu-ray movies with low CPU utilization and power consumption, allowing higher quality movie playback and picture clarity. PureVideo HD technology provides a combination of powerful hardware acceleration, content security, and integration with movie players, plus all the features found in PureVideo.
	Ultra Durable 2 -Designed with Top Quality Highly Efficient Components Using high quality components on graphics cards is the key factor for having a long lasting, stable and reliable product. GIGABYTE is again setting a new standard by using Ferrite Core Chokes, Low RDS (on) MOSFET and Lower ESR Solid Capacitors, providing the stability and reliability from their high-end graphics solution. In addition, GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 2 Edition graphics cards now feature a sophisticated layout topology. This state-of-the-art power design from GIGABYTE delivers the ideal integration of thermal, electric characteristics, digital signals, power circuitry and optimum placement of components for enhanced graphics performance. Ultra Cooling - Low RDS(on) MOSFET Design Low Power Loss - Ferrite Core Choke Design Longer Life - All-Solid Capacitor Design
	Turbo Force Technology GIGABYTE's proprietary Turbo Force technology that comprises T3 technology and V-tuner2 overclocking application. T3 technology comprises a series of performance tuning process that ensure maximum stability and enhance over 10% performance.