
Series Highlights: Just over 5/8" (16.3mm), 12.1 megapixel 4x optical zoom lens, 3.5" touch screen LCD, Intelligent Auto, Smile Shutter™, Face Detection, Optical SteadyShot™ image stabilization, 720p HD video.
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Sony is never afraid to experiment with its personal audio line, and the results sometimes can be baffling (witness the PFR-V1 Personal Field Speaker). But they can be inspiring, too: Take the 2GB Walkman NWZ-W202. This $69.99 (list) MP3 player/earphone combo sounds good, stays in place, and is easy to use. The earphones produce substantial low end, and the player features a cool preview mode, which auditions short, recognizable sections of songs so you can quickly surf your library. If you want a display, a radio, or the ability to use your own earphones, the NWZ-W202 isn't for you, but it's an elegant and inexpensive player that's ideal for the gym crowd.

With the NVIDIA GeForce 9400M integrated graphics, the new MacBook Air offers smooth video playback, a great ultraportable gaming experience, and support for the new 24-inch Apple LED Cinema Display as well as the 30-inch Apple Cinema HD Display.
With speeds up to 1.86GHz, the Intel Core 2 Duo processor in the new MacBook Air offers 50 percent more L2 cache, faster DDR3 memory, and a faster frontside bus than the previous model.
Its 13.3-inch widescreen LED-backlit display delivers vibrant images and rich colors at 1280-by-800 pixel resolution. The power-efficient LED technology also conserves battery life.
The larger drive lets you store more documents and still have room for music and photos. Choose a 120GB hard drive or a 128GB solid-state drive, which has no moving parts for enhanced durability.
The MacBook Air trackpad adopts many of the innovative Multi-Touch gestures of the Apple iPhone, so you can pinch, swipe, or rotate by simply moving your fingers.
The full-size, illuminated keyboard is perfect for staying productive on a plane or in a conference hall.






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The Samsung S8300 UltraTouch smart-phone, in its brushed metal frame, features a 7.2 cm wide AMOLED scratch resistant touch-screen, 8 mega pixel camera features with dual power LED flash and smile shot mode, a 3×4 keypad slide,
With 3G capability (HSDPA 7.2 Mbps), the Samsung S8300 UltraTouch offers high speed internet access, video telephony, video streaming and DivX video player support, and multimedia services. The phone also features GPS navigation, geo-tagging through GPS chip, 30fps VGA video recording and support for HSDPA 7.2 Mbps.
Commenting on the Samsung S8300 UltraTouch at its launch, Samsung India President and CEO Jung Soo Shin said, “We are committed to strengthening our portfolio of full-touch phones by introducing a variety of handsets to suit every lifestyle. Samsung UltraTOUCH leads this portfolio as our most iconic, high-end phone and will further enhance Samsung’s leadership in the premium full-touch market.”
According to Samsung India, the Samsung S8300 UltraTouch comes equipped with their Touch Wiz interface with support for Mobile widgets. The widgets can be pulled from the menu bar and positioned anywhere on the screen for one-click access to applications like Music Player, FM, Games, Calendar, etc. The Samsung S8300 UltraTouch comes with 80 MB of in-built memory, but it offers support for Micro SD cards up to 16GB.
The Samsung S8300 UltraTouch screen phone first appeared just before the Mobile World Congress 09. The Samsung S8300 UltraTouch screen phone is priced at Rs 27,500 in India. The phone is not officially available in the United States yet, however an Amazon seller is reportedly offering the S8300 unlocked with quadband GSM (850/900/1800/1900) for $499.95.
Sunil Dutt, Samsung Telecom Division’s Country Head, stated that “With this latest offering, we now have four touch-screen phones in the Indian market.” The phones include the i900 Omnia, F480, the Pixon, and the Samsung S8300 UltraTouch. These Samsung touch-screen phones are 3G enabled and priced between Rs. 17,790 and Rs. 32,200.
Samsung India has got into deal with Bharat Sanchar Nigam and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam to fetch their recently launched 3G services to its handsets. According to Mr. Dutt, Samsung is offering a special package offer for BSNL customers on its handsets to allow them to enjoy 3G services. He said, “The special offer on Samsung phones — F480, L700 J800 and S7330 — in BSNL circles entails free SIM card, free airtime and free data downloads for pre-paid and post-paid customers.”
New York: A federal jury has ordered US software giant Microsoft to pay 388 million dollars to Uniloc for infringing on an anti-piracy software patent held by the Singapore — and US-based company. The award was made by a jury hearing the case in a district court in the US state of Rhode Island, yesterday.
The jury ordered Redmond, Washington-based Microsoft to compensate Uniloc, which has its US headquarters in Irvine, California, for infringing on a patent for a security algorithm held by Uniloc.
The complaint against Microsoft was filed by Uniloc Singapore Private Ltd and Uniloc USA Inc in October 2003.
Uniloc had accused Microsoft of infringing on its patent in its Windows operating systems, which power most of the world’s personal computers, and in Office programs.
Microsoft said it would seek to have the verdict overturned.
“We are very disappointed in the jury verdict,” said David Bowermaster, a Microsoft spokesman.
“We believe that we do not infringe, that the patent is invalid and that this award of damages is legally and factually unsupported,” he said. “We will ask the court to overturn the verdict.”
Microsoft had previously won the case but Uniloc convinced an appeals court to overturn the judge’s ruling, arguing that the case was influenced by the testimony of an expert witness who had conflicts of interest.

The Federal Government's National Broadband Network, announced today, has been widely welcomed by ISPs and ICT industry groups.
The Federal Government has announced it will build its own 100 Mbps fibre-to-the-home broadband network, spending $43 million in conjunction with private investors over the next eight years.
Microsoft this week is preparing to update Windows Genuine Advantage (WGA) Notifications for Windows XP. The new version includes the usual updates to validation that improve WGA’s ability to detect invalid product keys and other attempts to circumvent product activation. Since Windows XP Professional is the most often counterfeited version of XP, Microsoft has focused on including the latest validation information, such as recently stolen or misused product keys, for the Professional edition. Customers who installed the last update will simply have their validation information updated without needing to go through the install process again.

Computing giant Dell has announced several new versions of its Vostro range of notebooks for small to medium sized businesses, with a focus on security, storage and performance.
The new models - the 13.3-inch Vostro 1320, the 15.4-inch Vostro 1520 and the 17-inch Vostro 1720 - come with Intel Core 2 Duo or Celeron processors and run on Windows Vista OS, but users also have the option to downgrade to Windows XP.
The laptops come with enhanced security features such as fingerprint readers and hard drive encryption with software from Wave systems.
The new models also feature solid state drive storage for improved efficiency, performance and durability.
Dell has also decided with the revamped range to preload only essential software onto the devices. A common customer complaint with laptops is that they come with extraneous bloatware – trial software that laptop manufacturers pre-load onto the devices, but which can use up valuable storage and slow the laptop down.
The 1320 starts at $569 in the US, weighs 4.1 pounds and has a 4-cell battery but no optical drive. The 1520 starts at $629 and weighs 5.38 pounds, while the 1720 starts at $649 and weighs 6.8 pounds, according to Dell. UK pricing has yet to be released, with the notebooks set to debut in Europe this week.
Dell first launched the Vostro range in 2007 to a lukewarm reception from analysts, but has steadily ramped up its activity in the SMB space since.

Microsoft has warned of a vulnerability in PowerPoint that could enable a hacker to gain remote control of a PC.
A security advisory from the company offers advice on how to guard against the exploit, and said that attacks have already been seen in the wild.
"Microsoft is investigating new reports of a vulnerability in Microsoft Office PowerPoint that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially crafted PowerPoint file. At this time, we are aware only of limited and targeted attacks that attempt to use this vulnerability."
The warning should also serve as a reminder to office workers to not blindly open attachments. The nature of the vulnerability means that an attacker would have to convince users to visit a particular web site, and then persuade them to open the specially-crafted PowerPoint file.
Microsoft reminded companies that the enabler for many such attacks is often the human element.
"The vulnerability cannot be exploited automatically through email. For an attack to be successful a user must open an attachment that is sent in an email message," the security alert said.
Microsoft hinted at the possibility of a patch, suggesting that it could be included in its regular Patch Tuesday release, or as an out of cycle release, depending on customer needs.
In the meantime Microsoft offered a few workarounds. "Do not open or save Office files that you receive from un-trusted sources, or that are received unexpectedly from trusted sources," the firm warned.

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The World's Fastest Server is hard to categorize because nothing like this has ever been done before. The short answer is that The World's Fastest server is an advanced web server built into a fully electric drag bike. The more technical answer is that The World's Fastest Server is a load balanced and virtualized web server that utilizes 2.5GHz Intel Core 2 Quad processors, 4GB of memory, 3G wireless integration, SQL Server on it's own virtual machine, data collection for bike activity such as speed and RPM and GPS integration. The chassis for the servers is a fully electric drag bike with a Netgain WarP 9 Impulse electric motor that produces approximately 70 horsepower and 116 foot pounds of torque. When the bike is in action, multiple video cameras will stream live video to the server for everyone around the world to see.
Because we can! Web hosting and Drag bikes are two things that are not usually associated with each other. A project like this requires a team of people with some very specific skills who are not normally coworkers. We have a group of individuals, that when brought together form the perfect team to build The World's Fastest Server. We have specialists in server architecture, application development, wireless networking and every other field that is required to build high end hosting. On top of that, we have a Master Bike Builder who has the skills and resources to build a world class drag bike. And don't think we brought him in as a ringer. He worked for HostMySite.com before The World's Fastest Server was even a concept and has many years of technical background as well. So again, the reason we are building The World's Fastest server is because we can. Our Executive Producer Rob Cassidy may have summed it up best. “Putting high-end server infrastructure on an electric drag bike has never been done, sounded like fun, and we have a team capable of doing it. We simply wanted to create the World’s Fastest Server.”

Intel is making a bid to become a force in smartphones. This will test its ability to compete in arguably the most important chip market outside of PCs.
The deal struck this week with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. will put the Intel architecture into the same factories that churn out chips for companies like Qualcomm and Texas Instruments, which use an alternative architecture called ARM--the choice for many small devices, cell phones, and most smartphones, including the Apple iPhone, BlackBerry Storm, and Google-based Android phones.
ARM has always been a thorn in Intel's side. So much so that Intel acquired the StrongARM architecture in 1997, turned into Intel XScale, and aimed it at handhelds (most prominently iPaq handhelds sold by Compaq and then Hewlett-Packard). Before that, StrongARM had been used in the Apple Newton (a primitive precursor to the iPhone) and other small devices.
But Intel sold the money-losing XScale business to Marvell in 2006. And so ended Intel's attempt to compete ARM to ARM in the small device space.

Security experts have long cautioned about the risk posed by the use of peer-to-peer file sharing by individuals working in corporations, warning that the practice creates holes that let malware in and sensitive data out.
Their message may be having an impact in the P2P development community.
A trade group representing peer-to-peer file sharing providers next week will publish a report that finds P2P software companies are modifying their programs in an effort to make it harder for users to inadvertently share sensitive information.
For corporate IT administrators, that shift can't come soon enough. The problem was highlighted by the recent news that avionics blueprints of President Obama's helicopter had leaked through a peer-to-peer network used by a defense contractor to an IP (Internet Protocol) address in Iran.
This isn't the first time sensitive data has trickled out via popular file sharing networks. Last summer, personal information of some 1,000 former patients of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center was believed to have been leaked via a peer-to-peer network. Sensitive health care and financial data has also been found on file sharing networks, according to studies from Dartmouth University and P2P network monitoring service provider Tiversa, which also uncovered the leaked presidential helicopter data.
Peer-to-peer use at ABN Amro and Pfizer led to the exposure of personally identifiable information of more than 20,000 consumers in 2007. And then there was the symbolic slap in the face when politicians called P2P networks a potential "national security threat" at a congressional hearing that summer.

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The HYmini is a light-weight handheld, universal charger and adapter that captures renewable wind and solar power and provides a power recharge to your iPod, mobile phone, PDA, MP3, digital camera and other five-volt devices.
Introducing the amazingly versatile Optoma Pico, the smallest projector you’ve ever seen! Its compact size and durability make it a must have for travel and on-the-spot presentations. |
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We try out five products designed to protect clients from malware, viruses, and a host of other threats
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Every computer that connects to the Internet must have some form of anti-virus protection installed. The number and type of virus threats increase every year, with new ones appearing at an alarming rate. However, threats more
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Windows Vulnerability Scanner is a standalone application that is easily a good addition to any user's portable system rescue kit. A useful security tool for Windows platforms, it scans your system for vulnerabilities that have not been addressed, their risk levels and details, and provides suggestions on rectifying th situation.
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A computer parts manufacturing industry employee with a semiconductor board in Manila. The worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s has hit the Asian semiconductor manufacturing sector hard and many chipmakers are reeling from the impact of falling global demand.
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