Archive for June, 2009

T-Mobile is launching a new Android powered handset. The new handset is set to arrive on 8th July 2009. The myTouch 3G is the second Android Powered handset to be introduced by T-Mobile. The new mobile phone will have 3.2-inch touchscreen running at a resolution of 480 x 320. The new mobile phone runs Google Android 1.5 Operating system and comes with 3.2 megapixel camera and Exchange support. It will have Wi-Fi,  quadband EDGE for global roaming and AWS 3G for high speed internet surfing.

T-Mobile myTouch seems to be a good successor to the G1 handset and will hopefully come packed with better features. The carrier-customized version of the HTC Magic that has already shipped in parts of Europe, Asia, and Canada. The T-Mobile myTouch will have the regular virtual keyboard and a larger internal memory. The Google Android Powered T-Mobile myTouch 3G is set to be available for pre-order on 8th July and will start shipping starting August this year. You will have to shell out $199 for this handset and get a minimum 2 year contract with T-Mobile.

A recent study has revealed that US teens use smart phones and internet to cheat in examinations. The study was released on Thursday and according to it, more than half of the teens surveyed for a Common Sense Media poll indulge in cheating in exams using smart phones in one way or the other. The study says that more than a third of students with mobile telephones said they had used smart phones to cheat.

Approximately 65 percent of all teens surveyed said they had heard or seen other students using mobile telephones to cheat at school. Smart phones have, no doubt, made life easier and it has enabled us to do our daily chores on time and comfortably. However, like every technology, smart phones are also being used for evil causes. “This poll shows the unintended consequence of these versatile technologies is that they’ve made cheating easier,” the study concluded. It further added, “Digital life, by its nature, is distant, hard to track, and often anonymous, which can diminish the impact of action and consequences.” Cheating tactics include storing notes on mobile telephones for reference during exams and exchanging text messages about answers while taking tests. Some students also search for answers on the internet while other send pictures of the question paper to their buddies scheduled to take the exams on the same day at a different time.

About 36 percent of students said that plagiarizing from the Internet for school assignments was not a serious offense, and a fifth of teens polled did not consider it cheating. Only about a half of the students surveyed considered mobile telephone or Internet cheating “serious offenses”.

“Perhaps because they don’t realize just how widespread cell phone use in schools is, parents aren’t clamoring for stricter cell phone policies in school,” the study surmised.

Fujitsu has finally made its entry into the netbook market. Fujitsu has launched its first netbook, the Fujitsu M2010 which looks sleek and stylish but fails to compete with the peers in terms of its battery life, keyboard, and price. The netbook comes with Microsoft Windows XP Home installed and has 1 GB of RAM as may be expected in a netbook. For a CPU, Fujitsu M2010 Netbook has a 1.6-GHz Intel Atom N270 and includes a RAM of 1GB which is upgradeable to 2 GB. It has a 160 GB HDD with 5400 RPMs. The 10.1 inch display runs at a resolution 1024×576 and looks pretty crisp. Other features include an Intel GMA 945GSE Graphics card with 128MB video memory, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR, an Ethernet port, a Headphone port, a Microphone port and a VGA port.

The Fujitsu M2010 Netbook has a 4 in 1 card reader and an ExpressCard Slot. The Netbook weighs 2.4 pounds and comes with a 1 year limited warranty. The netbook has 3 USB ports and is priced at $419.

Toshiba mini NB205 is an entry level netbook launched in US. It has the best battery time we have ever seen in a Netbook. It has got a 10-inch display which doesn’t fail to display crisp pictures. Toshiba’s mini NB205 has got 1GB RAM and comes preinstalled with Windows XP Home Edition. The netbook has beautiful chassis, a spacious keyboard and touchpad. A fully charged battery is enough for an 8.5 hour backup. Pretty impressive, huh?

The Toshiba Mini NB205 is powered by a 1.66-GHz Intel Atom N280 processor and has a 160 GB SATA hard disk running at 5,400 RPM. The 10-inch screen runs at a native resolution of 1024x600px. The Netbook has a Intel GMA 950 Graphics card having a video memory of 251 MB. It has 3 USB posts and a 3-1 card reader. The netbook weighs just 2.8 pounds and has dimensions of 10.4 x 7.6 x 1.3 inches. The Mini NB205 Netbook has a Ethernet; Headphone; Kensington Lock; Microphone and a VGA port. It costs $399.00 and is available in all leading store in US.

Are you tired of buying those extra cables for hooking up your monitor with your laptop or even worse, your laptop does not have any Video output ports. Now you won’t have to worry about all that. Samsung has announced world’s first USB monitor that can be easily hooked to your laptop or notebook. The monitor is god-send for those who have always wanted to connect their laptops with their external monitors but couldn’t so – either due to the lack of an output port or necessary cables.

The Samsung LD220 has a whooping contrast ratio of 30,000:1 and brightness of 300cd/m2. You won’t believe that it has a response time of 5ms. There is no word about the availablity or pricing of this product yet but expect it to launch in the 4th quater of 2009.

It has been quite some time ince we have seen Toshhiba, the notebook manufacturing giant, to announce or launch a new notebook. So, here is something you might like. Toshiba has just announced that it will be launching a brand new notebook in the market pretty soon. This notebook, called as the Toshiba Qosmio G50W/95JW,  will feature a Toshiba Quad Core HD dedicated video Processor and a 18.4-inch same as that of HP HDX 18T. It is powered by 2.8GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T9600 processor.

The Toshiba Qosmio G50W Notebook boasts 4GB RAM, Intel PM45 Express Chipset, a 500GB of HDD, Full HD resolution display, and an nVidia GeForce 9600M GT with 512MB of VRAM. It has got Intel ® High Definition Audio-compliant stereo system with 3 speakers (harman / kardon ® stereo speakers + built-in subwoofer), and a built-in monaural microphone. The notebook has a SD memory card slot, a SDHC memory card slot, xD-PIKUCHAKADO slot, MultiMedia Card , Memory Stick, and Memory Stick PRO support. Apart from this, it also has an ExpressCard slot. The Li-ion battery back is enough for a 3.0 hour backup.

The Toshiba Qosmio G50W Notebook will cost you about $3,145 and will be available for purchase next month.

People have to wear those ugly, geeky and disgusting Glasses to enjoy watching 3D videos. I have always hated those glasses and I am sure you have too. But worry no more, European researchers are developing a technology that enables 3DTV which does not require wearing glasses.

Soon you will be able to enjoy full 3D effects in Videos just using your naked eye. The first applications of the new technology are likely to be the fields of industry and science but there is a lot of potential in it and it will surely revolutionise the way we watch movies or play video games. With this new technology, there is no need no need for the special glasses in cinemas or having to adjust your head into specific positions to get the 3D effect, as with a holographic image. Two EU-funded projects, firstly HOLOVISION and then its successor OSIRIS have been able to perform this breakthrough. Ákos Demeter of Holografika, a partner in both projects, explains that in the first one the primary aim was to develop technologies capable of producing a very high-resolution 3D image. He said, “We basically organised projection engines in a special way and used holographic imaging film for the display screen. The combination of these, with the projection engines being driven by a cluster of nine high-end PCs, and new sophisticated software, allowed us to achieve our aims.”

A 100Mpixel Prototype, running at 25 frames a second in six colours, was produced and its resolution was increased three fold to virtually 300Mpixel by using greyscales instead of colours. This prototype is yet to be produced commercially but it was good enough for the HOLOVISION and OSIRIS projects to get them Best Exhibit Award silver prize at the ICT 2008 exhibition in Lyon.