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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

HP Introduce economic Newest Server

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Hewlett-Packard (HP) introduced back ProLiant Server newest series, which was named HP ProLiant G6. This is called the server is able to bring twice the performance compared to previous generation.HP ProLiant G6 range the energy savings, virtualization, and automation. This innovation coupled with a bid komperehensif services, to re-define the economic value of the server.

HP Proliant Server G6 is available in 11 types, and divided into 3 forms of the standard include: tower (ML series), rack (DL series), and the blade platform (BL series). This is the biggest launch in the history of HP ProLiant HP.

"Now this customer need is the return of investment capital from their servers," said cin cin, iss Director, HP India in a press conference in the Mid Plaza, Intercontinental Hotel, Jakarta, Tuesday (12/05/209).In addition, HP ProLiant G6 is able to bring the best innovations in saving energy, virtualization and services easier for customers to do various things with a minimal number of devices. ProLiant servers G6 is offered with the price range USD 999 - 2105 depending on specification.

Saturday, May 2, 2009

Even 40 years, AMD Launches 40nm Desktop Graphics Card First

Posted by admin at 12:44 PM

Yesterday AMD recurring year-to-40.

As if to commemorate the age, a graphics processor ATI Radeon HD 4770 also launched a new. PThis product is aimed at the desktop PC market.ATI Radeon HD 4770 is special because it utilizes the most sophisticated manufacturing process at this time, 40 nanometer. Memory technology to its latest, which is GDDR5, which provides higher levels of data performance for a faster game, including hardware support for third-generation game-game DirectX 10.1, as Battleforge, HAWX, Stalker Clear Sky and Stormrise.

Thanks to the technology Unified Video Decoder (UVD 2.0) second-generation of AMD, users can enjoy video playback is smooth, the images are clear, colors are sharp for all HD content, including Blu-ray disc. While the support for HDMI, picture-in-picture (PIP) and technology-the latest HD audio technologies like 7.1 surround sound, users can enjoy the entertainment experience with the quality of Cinema nan impressive at home.Claimed as the best performing and most efficient electric energy in the class, this graphics processor dibandrol the price of less than U.S. $ 109. One of the MSI is already implemented.

Friday, April 17, 2009

Verizon Announces Plans for Hub Application Store

Posted by admin at 7:50 AM

Verizon plans to allow users of rival services to use Hub

Across the country, the number of people using traditional landlines for their home phone service is dwindling. Many consumers are finding in the tough economy that home phone service can be disconnected and mobile phones used exclusively.

Shedding the home phone line is something that many consumers find appealing, but the providers of landline phone service are looking for ways to halt the progression to an all-wireless society. One of the ways Verizon is looking to lure people back to using home phones is with home phones that offer some of the capabilities we associate with smartphones.

The Verizon Hub is a home phone that features an internet-connected base that offers users access to V Cast entertainment services, messaging, and email among other features. Those features are common on many mobile phones today, but are new for the home phone. The big catch for the Verizon Hub is that along with features of a smartphone, it also gets some features of smartphone plans. The device costs $199.99 and requires a 2-year contract.

Verizon has announced today that it plans to offer an application store for the Hub, much like the App Store for the iPhone. The Hub app store would open the market up for third-party developers to offer programs for the Hub expanding its usability. One example of possible application for the Hub is Internet radio.

Verizon also says that it is working to remove one of the most restrictive requirements for using the Hub -- that Hub users must be Verizon Wireless customers. Verizon's John Gravel said, "We're in the process of getting rid of that restriction. Why would you limit anyone from using this?"

The bigger issue in analyst's eyes is that the Hub is expensive -- it costs $199 to buy, there is a two-year contract, and the service costs $34.99 per month. In the economy today that sees people shedding home lines altogether to save money, increasing the cost of the landline is going to be a hard sell.

Forrester analyst Charles Golvin said, "It's a tough time to be marketing a device and service like this. The first order challenge is to explain to consumers why this is an improvement over a home phone ... why it's worth paying $35 a month on top of their broadband bill."

Many consumers can access the same services that Verizon is talking up for the Hub via devices already in the home like smartphones and computers. Simply adding these common features to a home phone seems to be of dubious value.

One significant drawback to the Hub is that customers of rival providers like AT&T and Sprint could be prevented from sending and receiving text messages between the Hub and their mobile phones. Verizon is betting that the app store for the device will be enough to draw attention back to the home phone. That is a big bet and one that Verizon is likely to lose.

The device has been on the market since February 1 and Verizon won’t offer firm information on how many have been sold. All Gravel will say is that demand is tracking with expectations.

Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Kindle Receives 5,000 More Book Titles

Posted by admin at 12:52 PM

Amazon's Kindle reader gets an infusion of book titles.

After announcing in April it replenished its supply of the Kindle eBook reader, Amazon announced the Simon & Schuster Inc. book publisher will release more than 5,000 additional titles for the popular eBook reader made by Amazon.

"This commitment from Simon & Schuster moves us closer to our vision for Kindle, which is to make any book, ever printed, in any language available in less than 60 seconds," said Amazon.com Founder & CEO Jeff Bezos.

The 5,000 additional titles will mean Kindle owners will have more than 125,000 total titles for download.

Using the device's built-in wireless ability, owners also have the ability to subscribe to select newspapers, blogs or magazines for monthly subscriptions. The EVDO connection also allows U.S. Kindle owners to purchase and download new book titles in about one minute.

Last month, Amazon announced it received a new supply of Kindles after quickly selling out during the 2007 holiday shopping season. The company has not released sales numbers of Kindle units shipped, or the number of eBooks sold through the site.

Amazon also dropped the retail price of the device from $399 down to $359.

The overall popularity of reading books in formats other than printed books remains sketchy, with a Random House/Zogby poll reporting 82 percent of readers polled claiming they prefer printed books over eBooks.

Bezos announced the retailer ran out of physical copies of "What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception," a book written by Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary. The site does have electronic copies of the book available for its customers, however.

"That's one of the great things about electronic books," Bezos said during the BookExpo America convention. "They don't go out of stock."

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Google in talks with Verizon Wireless: sources

Posted by admin at 10:01 AM

Google Inc is in active talks with number-two U.S. mobile carrier Verizon Wireless about putting Google applications on phones it offers, people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.

"There are good useful talks going on and they could result in a deal," one of the sources said.

So far talks between the Web search leader and Verizon Wireless, owned by Verizon Communications and Vodafone Group Plc, revolve around technology and potential business models such as advertising-sponsored services, one of the people said.

Verizon Communications Chief Operating Officer Denny Strigl said during an investor call on Monday that the operator talks to a lot of companies including Google, but did not elaborate.

France Telecom on Tuesday denied its mobile business, Orange, was in talks with Google to introduce handsets running its software after it was named as a potential partner in a Wall Street Journal story earlier on Tuesday.

Google shares rose 2.3 percent on Tuesday to $694.77.

The Journal reported that Google was expected in two weeks to announce advanced software and services, enabling handset makers to sell Google-powered phones by mid-2008, citing people familiar with the matter. Google declined to comment.

Google has moved rapidly in the past year to extend its reach beyond text-based, pay-per-click Web search ads into a variety of new markets, including online video, television, radio and print advertising.

Google has also expanded into enterprise software, which has traditionally been Microsoft Corp's domain.

According to the Journal, the Google-powered phones are expected to meld several of its applications, including Google Maps, YouTube and Gmail.

The ground-breaking part of the plan, according to the newspaper, is Google's aim to make the phone's software "open," right down to the operating system which controls applications and interacts with hardware.

This will grant independent software developers access to the tools they need to build phone features, the Journal said.

(Reporting by Sinead Carew, Ritsuko Ando, Michele Gershberg and Justin Grant in New York, Astrid Wendlandt in Paris)

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Oil prices head back toward highs

Posted by admin at 12:50 PM

Oil prices headed back toward record highs after an unexpected fall in US stockpiles of crude sparked supply fears ahead of the winter months.

US sweet, light crude rose $1.83 to $87.10 a barrel, while London Brent climbed $1.52 to $84.37.

US crude oil stocks fell by 5.3 million barrels last week, government data showed, when analysts had been expecting a rise in inventory.

Oil rose to a peak of $90.07 last week due to a weak dollar and supply fears.

Geopolitical tensions, with Turkish fighters flying raids along the Iraqi border on Kurdish rebel positions, have also been a factor in the oil price rally.

But prices slipped at the beginning of this week on concerns about the health of US economy and expectations of more output from Opec.

"The debate remains very much alive as to whether the oil market remains seriously under-supplied going into winter," investment bank Citigroup said.

"A move north of $95 or a move south of $80 both appear possible right now."

A weaker US dollar makes oil a more attractive investment for holders of other currencies.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Asia stock markets in early slide

Posted by admin at 12:15 PM

Several Asian stock markets, including Japan's Nikkei index, have fallen more than 3% in early trading as investors' worries about the US economy continued.

Prices on the Tokyo Stock Exchange fell 3.2% on Monday, taking the Nikkei to its lowest level since late September.

In Hong Kong, share prices fell 3.8% in the opening minutes of trade, while the Taiwan Stock Exchange lost 2.82%.

There are also fears of sharp falls on European stock markets on Monday after Friday's hefty losses on Wall Street.

The Dow Jones, the main US share index, fell 367 points on Friday, the 20th anniversary of the Black Monday stock market crash.

Most of the falls came after European markets closed, so they will have their first chance to react on Monday.

The falls were set off by concerns that the full effects of the US housing slowdown have not yet been seen.

'Pretty ugly'

It started when the building equipment firm Caterpillar cut its profit forecast, blaming the state of the economy.

"It's pretty ugly," said Bill Strazzullo, chief market strategist at Bell Curve Trading.

"A company like Caterpillar should be a poster child for global growth and benefits of the weak dollar," he said.

"It makes you question: Is global growth really that strong? Has the earnings kick from the weak dollar played itself out?"

On Black Monday, the Dow Jones fell 23%, which nowadays would mean a drop of more than 3,000 points.

"I think we're responding emotionally to the 20th anniversary of the October 1987 stock market crash," said Andy Brooks, head of trading at T Rowe Price.

"I'd like to laugh except it hurts," he added.