Five Tech Gadgets That Will Rock 2009

(1) Chip Flicks-kiosks that download movies onto a memory card, will begin arrival in retail stores.

(2) Fast Boots-they enable quick access to basic functions, such as Web Browsing and E-Mail, Technology is launching its Hyper Space Software, which will come pre-installed on some laptops and can be installed on many others.

(3) Deep and Shallow-Panasonic, Samsung and others will display 3-D capable sets at CES while images get deepper, the sets get shallower. Sony is expected to expand its line of OLED sets, while Samsung shows off its first.

(4) Wireless Wonders-wireless electricity, is arriving in products that can charge batteries withou cables.

(5) New Old Smartphones- palm will unveil its long-awaited sotware revamp and reportedly a new handset. The upstart Google phone, will proliferate, with new models running the Android Software that will finally join the T-Mobile G1. Nokia will show off the N97, its efforts to catch up with all the touch-screen madness set loose by the iphone.

Sonya McCauley

Edge of Discover

Invention turn Cell Phone into Mobile Medical Lab. Prototype Imaging Device turns a cell phone into a mobile medical lab. Claaed Lucas, could change the way doctors treat patients in rural areas. Device analyzes bodily fluids and was developed by a UCLA professor. It could help doctors diagnose Anemia, AIDS, or Malaria by counting cells.

Sonya McCauley

Apple

Apple on Tuesday announced the release of a public beta Safari 4 browser. Apple promises a much faster browser with improved navigation and searching. Safari 4 supposedly will run Javascript commands 4.2 times faster than Safari 3. Safari's is used by 8 percent of internet surfers, trailing Internet Explorer and Firefox.

Sonya McCauley

Sony's Intelligent Auto Mode Gets Smarter

If you have had a hard time remembering to change to scene settings on your camera, soon you won't have to. Sony has announced five new Cybershot Cameras (available in April), four of which include a more advanced intelligent auto mode that basically lets you snapshot without thinking. Sony says the intelligent auto mode, available on the cyber-shot T900, T90, W290, and H20 models, will detect scene conditions then adjust settings-even in difficult lighting. Additionally, their face-recognition technology aims to capture natural skin tones and can identify when a subject's eyes are closed (no more blink shots).

Sonya McCauley

Intel, has introduced numerous processors and they have cut back on Atom processors. On Sunday, Intel introduced a new low powered Xeon processor rated 45 watts and a higher processor. The L3110 brings 6MB of Level 2 Cache Memory and it's rated at 45 watts also, and it costs $224.

Submitted by: Desjon Chambers

Micron, the company that makes memory chips, have cut 2,000 more jobs due to the decrease in demand for DRAM. This action will cut jobs mostly in the Idaho site to nearly 500 employees.

Submitted by: Desjon Chambers

Comcast OnDemand

Comcast OnDemand Goes Online
Brennon Slattery, PC World
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Comcast, the U.S.'s largest cable provider, plans to bring its OnDemand cable service to your computer by the end of 2009.
"OnDemand Online," as it is tentatively called, will function like the cable-based OnDemand service, bringing network and cable shows, movies, and various other entertainments to Comcast subscribers for no additional cost.
OnDemand Online will have to function within the perimeters of Comcast's 250GB bandwidth cap, and while that may not be a big deal to light to moderate Internet users, those moving a lot of material online could find their OnDemand service crippled.
It's a smooth move for the cable provider, as more and more television content is making it online. One might think sites like Hulu and TV.com would be a loss for a cable company, so the wise solution is to offer content only watchable by current and future paid subscribers. Expect the library to be huge, too: because of Comcast's advertising revenue and proliferation across the states, OnDemand Online will likely get many shows and movies unavailable to sites like Hulu.
Coincidentally, as Comcast enters the VOD market, Hulu has witnessed its viewership shrink due to content providers blocking it from Boxee and TV.com. Some theorize that companies like Comcast may be behind the white-out. Posted by Phyllis Wyatt

Atlantis Spotted on Google Earth?

Many people have heard of the long lost city Atlantis. However, with Google Earth's new Ocean View feature, some say they have found this fabled city. Scientists on the other hand have a different theory. After researching the Google Earth data, scientists believe that the anomaly caused in the image was caused by sonar equipment used during the capture of the ocean data. On the other hand, who knows, Google Earth just might have found of the biggest archeological finds of the 21st century.

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NanöNanu,
Pat Crowe

Getting techinal:Defining the latest sports technology advances

Tarek Tomes, as the president of ASN Technologies, a software company based in Woodbury, MN, and also an a assistant basketball coach at Tartan High School in St. Paul for the past eleven years, has a pretty good idea of what coaches are seeking in sports-related technology.

That relationship has produced the Practice Manager and XO Illustrator. Created by coaches for coaches, the basketball coaching software is cutting edge in its design and simpliflies both the teaching aspect and the technological use of the product.

"The use of technology allows coaches to organize themselves and gain efficiency," says Tomes, a former professional basketball player in Germany. "Right now, technology is relatively on the bottom end of the proverbial hockey stick. But, whether it's video editing packages or play diagramming packages, as the tools mature they will become easier to use.

"Many of the tools created by great technology people aren't really pertinent for coaches. They are too difficult to use or too time-consuming. They have to be made with an eye toward the basketball problem that the coach is trying to solve, not the technology problem."

From video and digital editing systems to software to scoreboards and video display systems to sound systems, coaches and AD's expect a smooth, glitch free procedure that is simple to operate and produces maximum results. LRS Sports Software is making great strides in productivity and performance. Its Ultima Multi-Stream video editing workstation has a new feature called multi-capturing, or quad-capturing, as the company refers to it. The technology allows the user to capture four streams of video simultaneously from one computer.

"You call do four times the work," says Ron Wojcicki, LRS Sports Software's marketing manager. "College video coordinators keep asking, 'How can I get the video and the data faster In the coaches?' Now they can".

LRS's Gamer digital video editing and game analysis system allows the user direct edit from digital and analog cameras, using a firewire cable out of the camera Straight into a hard drive connection.

This allows the user to not only capture the video to a tape, but also capture the video to a hard drive. The hard drive version is a file copy that can be reproduced.

John Barkley, director of marketing and business development for Pinnacle Systems, Team Sports makers of the popular SportsEdit digital video editing and analysis tool, knows that coaches are looking for ways to help expedite the burden of team preparation.

First, they don't want to deal with videotape anymore. Second, they want a complete set of tools that work together-a nice seamless environment in which to get through their day and complete their game plan.

"They're looking for a greater integration of tools," says Barkley. "They want to do more, better, and faster produce more streams of video in quicker time or speed up the process of getting to digital video."

Barkley used a sports technology analogy that would combine Excel, Power Point, and Word a complete Suite--in order to streamline the tasks of play drawing, game planning, and team meetings.

Barkley estimates that 30% of Pinnacle's customers are tapeless today, meaning once it's on the computer they never go hack to tape. Mow and more high school coaches are making the transition to video editing.

"I think people wig centrally to go digital," says harry Bryant, president of CoachComm Sports Electronics, which has partnered with Pinnacle in the sales of SportsEdit. "More and more are doing so because they want to. But a lot of is because they have to. There's just not enough analog equipment out there.

"If you try and lind a full size VHS camcorder, you won't succeed because basically it doesn't exist. You have to get one of the smaller formats. Schools are looking for that standard to swap tapes. It used to he VHS forever. Now schools are being forced to go digital or go another route."

As an aside. CoachComm has developed the Commando Control RF wireless remote. It uses radio frequency (RF) instead of infrared. Features include a familar button layout, built-in laser pointer, and instant replay on select models.

"With your home remote, if you point it at the TV it works fine," CoachComm's Bryant says. "But if someone walks in front of it and breaks thai infrared beam, it blocks it. All coaching remotes, up until this one, have been wired remotes, This will allow coaches to be mobile."

The beauty of a product such as SportsEdit--which is Windows compatible and runs, the gamut from football and basketball to lacrosse and hockey to soccer and volleyball is its simplicity. Even the least computer savvy coach can be up and editing within a co.pie of hours.

"You're making cut ups in two and a half hours," Barkley says. "Which is something you really can't do on videotape. It's simple and intuitive."

submitted by Steve Gentry

The Dirt Devil has came out with a USB powered vacuum cleaner called the "KWIK" that is specialized in cleaning keyboards, crumbs around a desktop, and cleans dust from game consoles.


Submitted by: Desjon Chambers

New Research from Forrester and Microsoft Shows Millions of Aging Baby Boomers Can Benefit from Accessible Technology
Cartoons and humor take the sting out of aging to help older workers learn how accessible technology can help them keep their competitive edge at work.

Submitted: Patricia McManus

3-D Ready HDTV's

The next big thing to follow high-def television: high-def television in 3D. Samsung and Mitsubishi are currently the leaders in the 3D-ready HDTV space. In 2007, technology for the first DLP 3D television was developed for displays by Texas Instruments. Samsung utilized this DLP 3D technology in its new line of 3D-Ready DLP HDTVs, "equipped with technologies that have inherent speed advantages over the digital micromirror device (DMD) to generate the left and right images required for stereoscopic viewing." Samsung's line includes Series 5 (HL67A510 model), Series 6 (HL72A650, HL61A650, and HL56A650 models), and Series 7 (HL67A750 and HL61A750 models), with prices ranging from $1,499 to $2,799. These models are ENERGY STAR compliant, and you're required to use VESA-compatible LCD shutter glasses (like the Nvidia GeForce 3D Vision) and a signal transmitter in order to view 3D movies and gaming.

For the past several years, Mitsubishi has invested in bringing 3D into the home with its 3D-ready Home Theater TVs. All of Mitsubishi's 2008-09 Home Theater TVs are 3D ready and feature thinner frames, increased brightness, and screen sizes from 57 to 73 inches.
In October 2008, Mitsubishi announced the availability of the world's first laser-powered television. The LaserVue L65-A90 ($6,700) is an energy-efficient high-def 1080p TV with laser beams that, according to the company, "provide an extensive range of rich, complex colors, along with truly distinct clarity and immersive depth of field." The LaserVue is also equipped with 3D-ready viewing capabilities.
Panasonic expects to offer a 3D-capable HD plasma by next year, while Samsung demonstrated at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) a 3D HDTV with 2D content electronically converted to 3D from a standard Blu-ray player. PC Mag.com Posted by Phyllis Wyatt

Do We Need a New Internet?

Has the internet become so unsafe that some are considering the thought of a new internet?  As the internet has aged, like any organism, it in a way has became diseased with worms, viruses, and hackers.  *Believe it or not, there is a growing belief among engineers and security experts that Internet security and privacy have become so maddeningly elusive that the only way to fix the problem is to start over.  What a new Internet might look like is still widely debated, but one alternative would, in effect, create a “gated community” where users would give up their anonymity and certain freedoms in return for safety.

NanöNanu,

Pat Crowe

For more information, go to: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/weekinreview/15markoff.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Sources: *http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/weekinreview/15markoff.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

NEWEST AUTOMOBILE COMPUTER TECHNOLIGIES


LAS VEGAS, Nevada (CNN) -- Cell phones and TVs converging with the Internet? That's so 2008. The next big tech trend may be the marriage of computer technology to your car or truck. This spring, Ford will offer a dashboard computing system on its full-size pickups and E-series vans.
This month, Hyundai is launching a system that warns motorists when they drift out of the lane they're traveling in. Another manufacturer has developed pedestrian-detection software that works with heat-seeking cameras to alert drivers when someone is in their path.
In March, Ford will release a fully functional, dashboard computer -- complete with keyboard -- geared to contractors and other business folks who want to access the Web, review documents and log inventory while on the go. In the spring, AT&T will launch an in-car entertainment service with 22 satellite TV channels.
Industry executives hope the new technological bells and whistles will put some sizzle back into stagnant vehicle sales.
"Consumers want a vehicle that's always on and always connected," said Kieran O'Sullivan, vice president at Continental Automotive Systems, which supplies parts and technology to automakers. In the near future, he said, "consumers and carmakers will be able to customize the [dashboard] instrument panel to their individual tastes the same way that people customize their mobile phones."
O'Sullivan spoke Thursday at a panel discussion at the International Consumer Electronics Show subtitled, "The Automobile's Convergence with Consumer Electronics." Panelists, including executives from Microsoft, Nokia and GM's OnStar service, agreed the industry is just beginning to tap the potential of in-car computing.
"We'll someday use this information technology in ways we can't even predict today," said Tom Phillips, general manager of Microsoft's automotive unit. "To me, we're in the infancy in terms of the amount of evolution that's going to occur."
As consumers are growing accustomed to having mobile Internet through their smart phones, more car buyers are seeking connectivity in their vehicles that will allow them to move seamlessly between their digital lives at work and home, panelists said.
Half of the new vehicles sold in the United States are now compatible with MP3 players and 80 percent can connect with wireless Bluetooth headsets, said automotive technology expert John Waraniak, who served as the panel's moderator. General Motors' OnStar service, which can remotely unlock car doors, reduce gas flow to a stolen vehicle or dial 911 if a car is involved in a crash, now has almost 6 million subscribers. Toyota said this week it plans to launch a similar driver-assist program on certain models beginning this summer.
Not to be outdone, Ford's similar Sync system, which now comes standard on many vehicles, is adding voice-activated, on-demand traffic, sports and weather reports, plus GPS-assisted navigation. In a keynote speech Thursday at CES, Ford CEO Alan Mulally said the automaker is learning to think more like an electronics company.
Ford will begin installing its Works Solutions package on its full-size pickups and E-series vans this spring. The dashboard computing system costs $1,195 plus a monthly Web access fee, has a 6-inch touch screen and runs on Windows. It will allow electricians and other contractors to create Excel spreadsheets, print invoices and even access other computers.
"Ford is truly making the office mobile," said Ford product development manager Bill Frykman while demonstrating the system Thursday to reporters in an F-150 parked in a large tent outside the Las Vegas Convention Center. "This bridges the gap between the full laptop and a smart phone."
Meanwhile, an entire hall at CES is devoted to the latest in automotive technology, from portable navigation units to rear-mounted cameras which, with the help of a dashboard screen, allow the driver to see what's immediately behind his vehicle while backing up.
Here's a quick peek at some other automotive technology on display at CES this week:
-- FLIR Systems, Inc. makes a thermal-imaging camera, an option on BMW's 6-series sedans, with a new pedestrian-detection feature. When the camera detects a heat source in the shape of a human being, the on-board computer alerts the driver by highlighting the pedestrian in yellow on the dashboard screen.
-- AT&T's CruiseCast service brings 22 satellite TV channels to your vehicle with the help of a small rooftop antenna, augmented by video-buffering technology that supposedly maintains the signal underneath overpasses and trees.
It will cost $1,299 plus a $28 monthly fee and is being pitched to parents with kids and pre-game tailgaters. "It's an extension of your living room," said Jackie Lapin, a spokeswoman for AT&T.
-- Nervous about handing the car keys to your 16-year-old? The CarChip ($119) plugs into any post-1995 model vehicle and records 300 hours of how the car has been driven, including mileage, speed, braking and acceleration.
Parents can remove the chip, download its data to a computer and use the information to verify driving agreements with their teens. Newer features even let parents set restrictions on their kids' driving.
"If you want to set it at a certain speed -- say, 'I don't want my kid going over 65 mph' -- it'll beep at them until they slow down," said Michael Copeland, sales manager for manufacturer Davis Instruments.
-- Hyundai's latest vehicles can be outfitted with a system that detects when a car is drifting across lanes, then sounds a buzzer or vibrates the wheel to alert the driver. Some Hyundai vehicles also contain ultrasonic sensors that help drivers to park by measuring the distance between a car and other objects.
In fact, the next generation of automotive technology may employ automatic steering and braking systems that relieve drivers of much of the responsibility for, well, driving.
"Maybe 15 years from now, cars will drive themselves. That's certainly a goal some companies have," said Jay James of FLIR Systems. "It's not just 'Jetsons' stuff now. It's really starting to happen."
Some 2,700 exhibitors and 130,000 attendees are in Las Vegas, Nevada, for CES, the nation's largest consumer electronics trade show. The event runs through Sunday.
The 2009 North American International Auto Show follows next week in Detroit, Michigan.

Submitted by Steve Gentry

The History of the Sewing Machine

The machine that changed the world of fashion.

Pictured above: an early manual sewing machine

The first machine in the home was the sewing machine. At the time during the 1850's it was seen to be a miracle that a machine could do such a fiddly task like sewing.

Patricia McManus

The Transision to Digital Television is Delayed Once Again.

The US Government has decided to once again delay the "Big Switch" to digital television. Originally slated for June 12 of 2008, congress moved the date to February 17. Now congress wants to pospone this "change" once again. President Obama supports this delay, saying that he shares concerns that 20 million mostly poor, elderly and rural households were not ready for the conressionally mandated switch. Digital television is superior to analog television in every fascet; including clarity, sound and siginal reception. However, not all televisions are compatibile with this new technology. For more information about the "Big Switch" to Digital Television, go to:

http://www.dtv.gov/

http://www.reuters.com/article/industryNews/idUSTRE5136YP20090205

NanöNanu,
Pat Crowe

SanDisk Leaps into Music

As SanDisk takes a leap deep into the music industry, the portable media company is betting that consumers will choose easy and intuitive over free and illegal. And, this time, big players in the recording industry are buying in from the get-go.
Technology can often disrupt and re-shape an industry. Take, for example, the 18-year-old who decimated the profitability of a $40-billion (U.S.) a year recording industry. Sean Fanning, with the release of Napster, changed music distribution forever, costing the industry $5-billion a year.
More recently, it's been Apple Inc. that has reinvented music distribution – not any one of the four major record labels. Entrenched players have traditionally had little interest in shaking up the business ecosystem they have optimized over past decades. But, if SanDisk has its way, two innovations could put the music industry on the road for another – perhaps more friendly – revolution.
In 2008, of the more than one billion mobile phones that were sold worldwide, 750 million had microSD card slots. That convinced SanDisk, one of the creators of the Security Digital (SD) card format, to develop SD micro cards as a music format.

Sandisk slotRadio
Adding weight to this gambit, hip-hop artist Akon in December, 2008, released his album Freedom on CD and slotMusic format on the same day – the first artist ever to do so. People acquire music in their youth – and cellphone penetration in the youth market is the highest of any demographic – making Akon the most played artist on cellphones in North America in 2008.
The SlotMusic album comes on a 1 gigabyte microSD card and has no digital rights management (DRM) restrictions. So not only can you play the music on your mobile – you can, using the USB adapter that comes with it, load the songs onto your computer. Phyllis Wyatt CIS-110

Meet SofiaNovember 28th, 2008 by Gabby
Trend-setting Sofia is full of ideas - the perfect friend for all of your embroidery and sewing projects.
Features
USB direct connect (Type B)
LCD Touch Screen (105 x 42 size) with touch pen
Embroidery card slot
Upper and lower thread sensors to alert when threads are broken
Touch pen (stylus)
USB cable

All these features listed resemble a very modern computer. It is amazing to see the computer technology put to use in the home sewing field. Many of the features listed could also be listed in an advertisement for a high tech personal computer. submitted: Patricia McManus

IBM unveils world's fastest supercomputer

Sequoia, built for the US department of energy, is almost 20 times more powerful than the previous record holder.

For years the world's biggest computer manufacturers have been locked in a race to see who can build the most powerful machine - regularly trading places with each other as they develop faster and more impressive systems.

But IBM today smashed the existing record as it unveiled the world's fastest supercomputer, a machine that is almost 20 times more powerful than the previous record holder.

The new system, dubbed Sequoia, will be able to achieve speeds of up to 20 Petaflops - 20 quadrillion calculations per second - the equivalent of more than 2m laptops.

Sequoia will consist of around 1.6m computer chips, giving it the ability to perform an order of magnitude faster than the 1.1 Petaflop Blue Gene/L computer, which is currently recognised as the world's most powerful.

It is being built by IBM for the US department of energy and should be installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California by 2012. The LLNC is one of the world's leading laboratories dedicated to national security, where teams of scientists work on projects linked to nuclear energy, environmental protection and economic issues.

Sequoia will be used to simulate nuclear tests and explosions, alongside a smaller machine, known as Dawn, which is currently being built.

"Both systems will be used for the ongoing safety and reliability of our nation's nuclear stockpile," IBM spokesman Ron Favali said. "Sequoia is the big one."

Supercomputer speeds are advancing rapidly as manufacturers latch on to new techniques and cheaper prices for computer chips. The first machine to break the teraflop barrier - a trillion calculations per second - was only built in 1996.

Two years ago a $59m machine from Sun Microsystems, called Constellation, attempted to take the crown of world's fastest with operating speeds of 421 teraflops, or 421tn calculations per second. Just two years later, Sequoia could be able to achieve nearly 50 times the computing power.

Costs remain high, but the latest generation of supercomputers are more powerful and less expensive than at any point in history.

"We were just talking about teraflops and the fact we just broke the petaflop barrier is pretty amazing," said Favali. "The next speed is 'exaflop' - 10 to the 18th power."

Submitted by Steve Gentry

New Server Technology

Kansas City, KS, December 04, 2008 --(PR.com)-- Advanced Clustering Technologies is pleased to announce our newest server model, the Pinnacle 1A2303. This 1U rack mount model will feature the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, built on 45nm process technology and featuring enhancements to AMD's industry-leading quad-core microprocessor technology.“In efforts to make the Pinnacle 1A2303 as energy efficient as possible, our systems include 80%+ efficient power supplies and low powered hard drives. With the shrinking of the die to accommodate the 45nm process on the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor, we look for the Pinnacle 1A2303 to be even more energy efficient, and provide outstanding performance,” stated Kyle Sheumaker, President of Advanced Clustering Technologies. The Pinnacle 1A2303 will be configured with best in class components including shock-mounted hard drives and fans and an 80%+ efficient power supply.The Pinnacle 1A2303 works well in environments requiring high memory bandwidth and low memory latency, because Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors do not rely on a shared memory bus located on the motherboard. By integrating the memory controller directly onto the processor, each core has direct access to main memory, thus reducing the latency associated with front-side bus architectures. AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture allows processors to directly connect to one another, the I/O subsystem, as well as the memory banks for better performance. The enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor also features higher processor frequencies as well as core and cache enhancements for dramatic increases in performance within the same thermal and power envelopes as the previous Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors.“We are pleased to see that Advanced Clustering is moving so quickly to the enhanced Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor. As a Platinum Reseller, they have consistently pushed to provide cutting edge equipment to HPC customers,” said John Fruehe, director, Server and Workstation Division, AMD. “By advancing AMD’s tradition of leadership in energy efficiency, outstanding performance, and investment protection, Advanced Clustering has once again delivered a leading-edge solution that will provide superior levels of performance and efficiency.”Advanced Clustering is currently the Pinnacle 1A2303.About Advanced Clustering Technologies, Inc.Formed and incorporated in 2001, Advanced Clustering Technologies is a premier provider of Apex Computing Clusters, Linux based Pinnacle servers, and Horizon workstations. With its powerful and innovative technology, Advanced Clustering provides solutions for organizations involved in all types of research including biotechnology, chemical modeling, weather forecasting, oil and gas exploration, and visual effects. Through its product lines Advanced Clustering builds some of the fastest clusters and systems in the world.Learn more about Advanced Clustering Technologies' line of products and services by calling 866-802-8222.AMD, the AMD Arrow logo, AMD Opteron, and the combinations thereof are trademarks of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Other names are for informational purposes only and maybe trademarks of their respective owners.

Submitted by Steve Gentry

ROBOT FOR SEWING WORK.

A robot for sewing work in which a simple harmonic oscillation device is fixed to the wrist part of the robot and a sewing machine is fixed to the sliding part of said simple harmonic oscillation device and positioned optionally in the three dimensional space so as to perform inching. A counterweight equal to the sewing machine in mass is provided to the simple harmonic oscillation device for preventing vibration of the sewing machine. The sewing machine is adapted to perform inching without causing inching of the whole of the robot, whereby even when a robot low in rigidity is used, sewing can be performed without generation of friction between the sewing machine and the fabric to be sewn and a robot for sewing work small in size and light in weight can be provided. Patricia McManus

First 2TB Hard Drive

Western Digital, a leading vendor of hard disk drives, has just introduced the world's first 2TB hard drive, in the form of a new environmentally-friendly WD Caviar Green hard drive. Designed as a 3.5-inch product, the world's highest-capacity hard drive takes advantage of the company's industry-leading 500GB/platter technology, offering 400GB/in2 areal density. Along with the announcement Western Digital said that the drive was already available for purchase, enabling both consumer and professional users to upgrade to the highest-capacity single-unit storage solution on the market. Phyllis Wyatt

Introducing the Newest Smart Phone from Palm

The iPhone killer has commeth at last.

Durring CES 2009, Palm unveiled the newest member of its family.
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The recipient of an unheard of three "3" Best of CES awards, the Palm Pre shows serious potential.

Notable Features Include:
On board WIFI and GPS, 3G Data Speed, 3 Megapixel Camera "With Flash" and comes with 8 Gigibites storage standard.

Feature wise, last but certinly not least would be the Web Browser. As you may already know, many smartphones come standard with an average, lack luster, poorly preforming browser. However, acording to my sources, the Palm Pre incorporates one of the most outstanding browsers currently avalible on any Smart Phone. Hense, the war against the iPhone has began.

If you are interested in learning more about the Palm Pre; try reasearching the following links.
http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/index.html
http://ces.cnet.com/8301-19167_1-10137746-100.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/08/the-palm-pre/

NanöNanu,
Pat Crowe

Welcome to Micro NanöNanu Today!

Welcome to Micro NanöNanu Today.
This blog will cover important changes in technology and how they might be used to better serve the human population as a whole.

Editors of this Blog Include:

Sonya Mccauley, Phyllis Wyatt, Aderina Fuller, Pat Crowe, Patricia McManus, Steve Gentry and Desjon Chambers