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iLuv’s iPod Nano 5G Case Makes New Nanos Look Like a Real Camera

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Thursday, December 31, 2009
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iCC304olors 300x190 iLuvs iPod Nano 5G Case Makes New Nanos Look Like a Real Camera You can always depend on iLuv to make snazzy new cases for the latest Appleproducts and now they have with their latest additions for the iPod Nano 5th generation.

The cases range from hard clear plastic to soft, but irregardless, they are all super stylish and the perfect new suit for your iPod Nano.

The designs are hip and trendy and will not only make your iPod Nano pop but protect it too. Some of the designs include the icc306 city series which has different cases for New York, London, Paris and Sydney.

Another series, the icc307, is covered in retro-style record players, headphones and speakers.  There is even the icc304 case designed as a camera to enhance the newest iPod Nano feature. The new iLuv cases for iPod Nano 5th gen retail anywhere from $19.99 to $24.99 respectively.

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Intel's latest headache : Nvidia

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009
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The chip giant settled with AMD. But another rival is making noise about anticompetitive behavior.



After bumping along as low as $7 a share at the beginning of the year his stock is up near $14. Several months ago Apple (AAPL) began using his graphics chipset – a group of circuits designed to work together – across nearly its entire line of Macs, giving him a very high-profile endorsement. And in the white-hot netbook segment, his Ion processors have won raves for turning underpowered laptops into HD video machines.

Problem is, both of these acclaimed Nvidia (NVDA) products might be dead in the water.
Why? Huang blames chip giant Intel (INTC). Nvidia’s graphics chipsets, which Steve Jobs liked enough to buy by the boatload, aren’t allowed to work with Intel’s latest offering, code-named “Nehalem” – and in the computer world no Intel compatibility means no mainstream future.

Nvidia’s Ion chip is designed to work alongside the chip giant’s Atom processor, but lately it’s been priced out of the market by – you guessed it – Intel.

Feeling AMD's pain
All of this has piqued the interest of the Federal Trade Commission, which is looking into whether Intel has improperly used its power in the computer chip market to choke rivals. For those who are handicapping the chances that the FTC will bring charges, Nvidia’s gripes have recently taken on new importance: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), which had been Intel’s main critic, recently settled its antitrust complaints with Intel for a tidy sum of $1.25 billion. That leaves Nvidia to bang the anti-Intel drum.

“I’m sympathetic to what AMD had to go through over the years,” Huang says.
Intel says it’s a tough but fair competitor, and that Nvidia has caused its own problems. To wit: The two companies signed a limited patent-sharing deal five years ago, and Intel says that if Nvidia had read the fine print, it would have noticed that designs like the current Nehalem chips weren’t covered in the agreement. And the Ion dispute? Well, Intel says it just lowered prices on its Atom chipsets to stay competitive. What’s wrong with that?

Nvidia tells a different story. Executives there say they’re a victim of the same kinds of tactics that got Intel into antitrust trouble in Europe and Asia. Nvidia believes it should be authorized to make Nehalem-compatible chipsets under the 2004 agreement; it claims Intel is just getting litigious to stop a competitive threat. And with Ion, Nvidia accuses Intel of unfair pricing that locks it out of the market. Intel says Nvidia just doesn’t understand the incentives it offers customers.

(The two companies are battling in court over the chipset agreement. Intel has asked a Delaware court to clarify whether Nvidia has the right to build Nehalem chipsets, and Nvidia has countersued for breach of contract.)

The courts will ultimately decide who’s right – that is, unless Intel decides to ink a settlement with Nvidia, too. Even then, that probably won’t be the end of Intel’s legal headaches. Maybe that’s the trouble with being a giant. There’s always some kid with a slingshotgunning for you.

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Ad wars : Droid manly; iPhone girly

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Monday, December 28, 2009
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Motorola targets young men with its most testosterone-heavy TV commercial yet


Droid. Should a phone be pretty? Should it be a tiara-wearing digitally clueless beauty pageant queen? Or should it be fast? Racehorse duct-taped to a Scud missile fast. We say the latter. So we built the phone that does. Does rip through the Web like a circular saw through a ripe banana. Is it a precious porcelain figurine of a phone? In truth? No. It's not a princess. It's a robot. A phone that trades hair-do for can-do.

The new Droid commercial that debuted in prime-time Thursday night (and is pasted below the fold) opened a new front in Motorola (MOT) and Verizon's (VZ) $100 million ad campaign to take market share from Apple's (AAPL) iPhone

Earlier commercials had appealed to the fragile male ego with icons of masculinity: stealth bombers, heavyweight fighters, rock-crushing machinery.

This one goes after the competition by painting it — and its users — as effeminate.




It's a strategy as old as the schoolyard, and it seems to be working — at least on one side of the yard. A new YouGov BrandIndex survey taken Thursday shows Motorola's buzz rising relative to Apple's and Research in Motion's (RIMM) among men 18 and older. And the company seems to be on track in its stated goal of selling 1 million Droids by New Years.

It remains to be seen whether it has burned its bridges to the other half of the market in the process.

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Must-Have Mini Speakers Come in Funky Design Patterns

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Thursday, December 17, 2009
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Apple’s gadgets win adulation, but research shows the sector needs a jolt if it wants to grow :

The culprit: Widespread flaws in how they manage and invest in innovation.
If tech companies want to grow, they need to invest in breakthrough, high-impact innovations and more systematically and rigorously manage their innovation processes.

This conclusion is based on our daily interactions with clients and recent Accenture research in which we interviewed research and development decision-makers at leading consumer technology companies in North America, Europe and Asia. Collectively, the executives represent companies that generate almost two-thirds of global industry revenue.

The data revealed that innovation is a top priority for companies seeking to grow. But shortcomings in managing innovation, such as not having uniformity of command, are resulting in poor returns on innovation investments.

Accenture believes these poor returns can be turned into profitable, sustainable growth by systematically managing innovation end-to-end — with the same rigor and discipline as other major business processes. According to Accenture’s consumer technology research:

  • There is a lack of innovation pipeline management with potentially too much emphasis on incremental versus long-term, large-scale innovation. One respondent indicated that incremental, as opposed to breakthrough, innovation accounts for 60 percent of his company's pipeline. There was a wide variance among participants in how often product pipelines and portfolios were evaluated.
  • There are far too many self-centered business unit silos. These silos impede collaboration on innovation efforts that can benefit the company.  As devices, content and communication technologies converge, cross silo collaboration becomes more critical for successful, ground-breaking innovation.
  • There is an overdependence on backward-looking innovation metrics such as the number of patents, revenue realized from new products and the percentage of revenue derived from innovation initiatives versus forward-looking indicators such as sources of ideas, pipeline velocity and project risk profiles.
  • There are far too many ad hoc innovation processes, especially for larger breakthrough innovation efforts, making it difficult to deliver value. To achieve excellence and deliver value, innovation needs to be managed as a business discipline with supporting processes and tools; few companies approach innovation in a holistic and systemic way.
So what should consumer technology companies do to generate better returns on their innovation investment? Here are a few ideas:
  • Companies can reorient their innovation culture to start with the consumer, rather than the technology, and increase their tolerance for failure in the quest for breakthroughs.
  • Companies must manage innovation like other disciplines—some don’t and it’s a major mistake. Innovation must be managed with rigor in an integrated way, blending marketing, customer service, sales, research, operations, performance management and risk management.
  • Companies must design and actively manage an innovation portfolio consistent with their strategy, balancing short term incremental innovation with longer term, market moving bets.  Particularly during an economic downturn, the natural tendency of “hunkering down” and investing in short term incremental innovation only compromise a company’s competitive position for years to come.
The typical corporate response in a down economy is to cut costs. But companies cannot simply cut their way to prosperity. They must invest in growth through innovation—yes, even during tough times. Managing innovation well, in a uniform, well-structured fashion, is as important as an act of innovation itself.

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Lunar Lenders becomes more Intelligent

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Friday, December 4, 2009
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Advanced Lunar Lenders now will be able to automatically identify and navigate to a safe landing location, while detecting hazards in landing during final descent to surface. NASA is developing an advanced technology for lunar lenders that made them capable to land safely near resources located in potentially hazardous area.

Critical Sensor Technology

NASA's Langely Research Center has developed two critical sensor technologies. One is a three-dimensional active imaging device that measures topography of a landing area. The second device measures speed to help land precisely at the chosen site.

Langely Research Center has designed two special purpose light detection and ranging sensors to make these two devices. In addition to this Jet Propulsion Laboratory of NASA is developing certain algorithms to analyze the terrain based upon these lidar measurements.

These technologies have been integrated as part of Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) project of NASA. These technologies are in the phase of demonstration and testing in a series of flight tests.

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Bob Reisse is leading the team at Langley Research Center which is designing the lidar sensors and supporting the demonstration flight tests.

They have conducted two demonstration flights and Reisse says, "We were pleased that the two flight tests we've conducted so far have resulted in better than expected performance of these sensors."
Two Phases Of Demonstration Flights
First test that was carried out in May, was to The main objective of the first test, carried out in May, was to demonstrate the application of 3-D imaging technology or 'flash' lidar, for topography mapping and precision navigation.

Second demonstration in August was to of flight tests, completed in August, was to evaluate the capabilities of an emerging lidar technology developed at Langley. This lidar provides vehicle velocity vector, altitude and attitude with a very high degree of precision.


Lunar Lenders

Demonstration Test Procedures

In the recent demonstration test the velocimeter was carried aloft at Dryden Flight Research Center of NASA via helicopter which flew a total of six flights at various altitudes between targeted reference points.

During the demonstration tests, the helicopter flew over two target areas three miles (5 km) apart on the surface of Rogers Dry Lake. Repeated back-and-forth tracks were flown at altitudes incrementally increasing from about 300 feet to 6,200 feet (91m to 1,890m) above the lake bed while the lidar measured the relative speed, altitude, and attitude of the helicopter. Plywood circles placed on the lakebed served as reference targets for determining the ground "truth" measurements. The data was recorded on board and tagged with time and altitude information to allow post-flight processing.

Lidar Technology

Lidar Technology is much more advanced than today's systems for planetary navigating tasks. Preliminary tests shows that this technology is about 10 times more powerful than conventional radar-based sensors that were used in Phoenix Mars Lenders, in accuracy of velocity readings and rate of updates.

This precision range and directional velocity data are critical in navigating lunar landing vehicles to the pre-selected site and achieving autonomous, safe soft-landing.

Future of Lunar Lenders

This new technology has a potential for or aiding crew exploration vehicle rendezvous and docking, and Earth reentry landing systems. This can highly impact the design of future lunar and other planetary landing missions.

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Long-range Taser raises fears of shock and injury

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Thursday, December 3, 2009
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A new, long-range Taser weapon could be launched from standard 40-millimetre grenade launchers (Image: SGT April L. Johnson/US DoD)INCREASING the distance between yourself and a potentially dangerous assailant is always a good idea - even if your ultimate aim is to render them insensible. That appears to be the thinking behind a Pentagon project, now in its final stages, to perfect a projectile capable of delivering an electric shock to incapacitate a person tens of metres away. It will be fired from a standard 40-millimetre grenade launcher.
The projectile, being developed by Taser International under a $2.5 million contract, is known as a Human Electro-Muscular Incapacitation or HEMI device. Taser will deliver the first prototypes for testing and evaluation early next year.
Wes Burgei, a project engineer at the US Department of Defense's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Directorate (JNLWD), says the self-contained cartridges should be able to hit targets 60 metres away - more than three times the range of the existing XREP shotgun cartridge.
However, the impact force of the projectile remains a worry. "There is a known risk of severe injury from impact projectiles, either from blunt force at short ranges or from hitting a sensitive part of the body," says security researcher Neil Davison, who has recently written a book on non-lethal weapons.
Burgei, however, insists the devices are designed to deliver minimal force upon impact. "A major focus of this project is reducing the projectile's mass and mitigating the impact forces on the target through innovative projectile-nose design," he says. Various nose designs, which disperse the projectile's impact force, are now being tested.
The duration of the shock which the HEMI will deliver to its target has also raised concerns. Marksmen will need time to reach the incapacitated target, and because the weapon is designed for long-range use this could be considerable.
A JNLWD reference book from 2008 suggests incapacitation times could be as long as 3 minutes, although the projectile's range was initially planned to be much higher.
"We should be worried about undesirable effects if people are going to be subjected to bouts of prolonged incapacitation," says Steve Wright, a specialist in non-lethal weapons at Leeds Metropolitan University in the UK.
We should be worried if people are going to be subjected to bouts of prolonged incapacitation
Burgei says the duration of the shocks emitted by the projectiles has yet to be determined. "When requirements become solidified, the incapacitation time can be adjusted to meet them," he says.

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Perfect Technology : Proof of Life at Titan

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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
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In a recent invention it has been found that there is some electrical activity at TITAN, the largest moon of Saturn. After that research, it is a hot matter of discussion in scientific community, whether there is life on Saturn or not.


Titan: Moon Of Saturn

Previous Beliefs and researches

According to all previous beliefs. It is almost impossible for Life to sustain on Saturn due to its extremely low temperature that is -350 degrees Celsius.

Huygens Mission of NASA

In 2005 Huygens spacecraft was send to study the clouds on Titan. It was the first spacecraft to go there. As soon as Huygens entered in the environment of Titan, force of fast winds turned it to 30 degrees. After this accident, it was not possible for Huygens to find the electrical resonance on Saturn.

Study by Juan Antonio Morente

Prof Juan Antonio Morente of University of Granada, Spain studied data collected by Huygens and found that there are clues that there may be Natural Electrical Field on the surface of Titan. This energy is same as, which started chemical energy on Earth that ultimately lead to the starting of life.

Supported Reasons for this research


Cassini huygens spacecraft on Titan

It has been found out that the processes that started life on earth are possible at many places in Universe out of which Saturn is one. It has been confirmed that there is a big lake of hydrocarbons on Saturn. So after earth Saturn is the second place with so much liquid present openly. In these situation if lighting occurs at Saturn, then it may lead to the birth of Atoms, which are known as the starting phase of life.

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Water founded on Mars

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Monday, November 30, 2009
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Phoenix Mars Lander of NASA has recently detected snow fall from Martian Clouds. Soil experiment by this spacecraft has detected interaction between minerals on Mars Surface and liquid water. This new discovery has again raised questions on the presence of water on Mars.

Discovery By Phoenix

This discovery was possible through a large instrument place on Phoenix, which gathers knowledge about the interaction between atmosphere and surface on Mars. This instrument detected that there is snow from clouds at about 4 Kilometers (2.5 miles) above the landing site of Phoenix. However data collected, shows that the snow vaporizing before reaching the surface.

According to Jim Whiteway (Professor of New York University and Lead scientist for the Canadian-supplied Meteorological Station on Phoenix), "It I the first time that such scene is viewed on Mars". Now the scientist are looking for the possibility that snow even reaches to Mars surface.

Other Major Discoveries

Experiment by Phoenix also yielded some other results, like Clues of Calcium Carbonate on Mars surface. Calcium Carbonate is a main composition of Chalk and most important thing is that formation of Calcium Carbonate is possible in the presence of liquid water only.
Peter Smith (Phoenix Principal Investigator of the University of Arizona, Tucson.) says, ""We are still collecting data and have lots of analysis ahead, but we are making good progress on the big questions we set out for ourselves."

Key Aim of Phoenix Mission

The main aim of mission is to find the possibilities of favorable environment on Mars for survival of life. Phoenix landed on Mars surface on May 25, and it has already confirmed that there is a hard subsurface layer at its far northern site which contains water-ice.

Evidence of calcium carbonate in soil samples from trenches dug by the Phoenix robotic arm comes from two laboratory instruments called the Thermal and Evolved Gas Analyzer, or TEGA, and the wet chemistry laboratory of the Microscopy, Electrochemistry and Conductivity Analyzer, or MECA.

This discovery is a next step in confirming presence of water on Mars surface.


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Experiments by TEGA and MECA

Evidence of calcium carbonate in soil samples from mars has been found out by the high temperature carbon di-oxide release while experimenting from TEGA. This temperature at which carbon dioxide releases matches the temperature known to decompose calcium carbonate and release carbon dioxide.

The MECA evidence came from a buffering effect characteristic of calcium carbonate assessed in wet chemistry analysis of the soil. The measured concentration of calcium was exactly what would be expected for a solution buffered by calcium carbonate.


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Mission Phoenix Extended

Originally Mission Phoenix was planned for three months duration, but its timeline has been extended and it is in its fifth month right now. But now it is facing decline in solar energy and it is expected that it will stop working before the end of 2008. Now the Phoenix team I trying to activate microphone on lander before power ceases.

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Latest Apple MacBook Pro Review

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Sunday, November 29, 2009
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Apple brings the new MacBook Pro. Recently Apple launched the latest MacBook Pro which is available in three sizes; 13, 15 and 17 inch. The new MacBook Pro is said to be equipped with latest technology and precision engineering. Check out specs and features of the New MacBook Pro.


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Apple launched the latest MacBook Pro with the slogan “Innovation runs the family” (interesting). The New MacBook Pro has many startling points to discuss about. According to Apple, the New MacBook Pro is said to be carved from a single aluminum block. That surely makes it an engineering magnum opus.
With the New MacBook Pro, Apple also improved the battery timing. The latest MacBook Pro with 13 and 15 inch can last up to  7 hours and MacBook Pro with 17 inch can last up to 8 hours. The battery charging system of the New MacBook Pro has also been improved, so that they could provide a better life time.

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This time graphics are simply amazing for the New MacBook Pro. Apple truly has raised the graphics level by providing NVIDIA GeForce 9400m and NVIDIA GeForce 9600GT graphic processors for the latest MacBook Pro.
The New MacBook Pro is remarkable with display. Latest MacBook Pro offers a 60% greater color range than the previous versions of MacBook Pro. Not only this, you literally become speechless when you witness the New MacBook Pro’s glossy LED backlit wide-screen display.

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To cut the long story short, latest MacBook Pro has got everything. The default iChat allows you to be with your friends and family no matter what place or time it is. New MacBook Pro has got sufficient USB 2.0 ports so that you may connect external data devices.
Prices for 13, 15 and 17 inch are $1199, $1699 and $2499 respectively.

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3-Dimensional Computer Processor

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Saturday, November 28, 2009
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Scientist at University of Rochesterb have developed a new generation of Computer Processors. These processors are based on 3-Dimensional Circuits in contrary to 2-Dimensional Circuits of today.

This can be said as the next major advance in computer processors technology. The latest 3-D processor is running at 1.4 gigahertz in the labs of University.

PAST ATTEMPTS VS LATEST RESEARCH

In the past attempts of making 3-D chips, scientist were just making a stack of regular processors. But at University of Rochesterb it was designed and built specifically to optimize all key processing functions vertically, through multiple layers of processors, the same way ordinary chips optimize functions horizontally.

This design means that every tasks such as Synchronicity, Power Distribution, and Long-Distance Signaling are all fully functioning in three dimensions for the first time.

EBY FRIEDMAN: THE MAN BEHIND 3-D CHIPS

Eby Friedman and his students has designed this chip, which uses many of the tricks of regular processors, but also accounts for different impedances that might occur from chip to chip, different operating speeds, and different power requirements. According to Eby Friedman, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rochester and faculty director of the pro of the processor says:- "I call it a cube now, because it's not just a chip anymore. This is the way computing is going to have to be done in the future. When the chips are flush against each other, they can do things you could never do with a regular 2D chip"


3-D Chip

TODAYS INTEGRATED CHIPS AND PROBLEMS

The problem with today's technology of integrated circuits is that, beyond a limit it is impossible to pack more chips next to each other which limits the capabilities of future processors. So number of integrated circuit designers anticipate someday expanding into the third dimension, stacking transistors on top of each other.

IMPORTANCE

Vertical Expansion of chips has lots of technical difficulties and the only solution to this is to design a 3-D chip where all the layers interact like a single system. According to Friedman: Getting all three levels of the 3-D chip to act in harmony is like trying to devise a traffic control system for the entire United States-and then layering two more United States above the first and somehow getting every bit of traffic from any point on any level to its destination on any other level-while simultaneously coordinating the traffic of millions of other drivers.
Now if we replace the two United States layers to something more complicated like China and India where the driving laws and roads are quite different, and the complexity and challenge of designing a single control system to work in any chip begins to become apparent.

The 3-D Chip is essentially an entire circuit board folded up into a tiny package. With this technology the chips inside something like an iPod could be compacted to a tenth their current size with ten times the speed.

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Recording of Technology Supports for Writing Webinar is Now Available

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Supports for Writing" which we recently released. The 51 page eBook which is accessible with Adobe Acrobat Reader includes a great compilation of resources for anyone who needs to support students in the area of writing. Included in the ebook iare over 12 videos that are embedded that let you actually see how the software works. You can view the videos in full screen and get a sense first hand if you think that the program may have application for the students you are working with. During the webinar we highlighted a couple of reesources, ie. PixWriter, Livescribe Pulse Smartpen, Ginger, and NaturalReaders. You will find the eBook to be a helpful resource to have on your computer which not only includes a breakdown of features and interactive links to the publishers website.

This 51 page cutting-edge video ebook is a rich resource for information about various software and hardware tools to improve the writing process. It includes one video describing how to take advantage of this new "just in time" type of multi-media interactive learning tool and 12 integrated videos showing readers examples of how to use supports built-in to some of the highlighted products.

Cover of Technology Supports for Writing
Topics in our video e-book include:

* Software with customizable drill-and-practice exercises to improve writing
* Software to improve spelling
* Software to help stimulate written content
* Features of word processors and assistive writing technology
* Text-based word processing features
* Text- based word processors
* Picture-based talking word processors
* Stand-alone word bank program
* Dictionaries
* Graphic organizers: technology for organizing written narrative
* Technology to help with the physical aspect of writing
* Speech-to-text and voice recognition
* Initiation of the writing process
* The physical act of handwriting or typing
* Portable word processors

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IDrive Lite | Free Contacts Backup App For IPhone and Blackberry

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Sunday, November 22, 2009
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IDrive Lite is a free contacts backup application for Apple iPhone and BlackBerry. Now there is no a longer a need to worry about your contacts. IDrive Lite manages as well as supports a backup for your contacts. And most of all, its free!


Pro Softnet Corporation, the company behind the existence of IDrive Lite has surely worked on a useful tool. We often loose our contacts either by phone reset or by theft or loss of phone it self.

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IDrive Lite stores your contacts in a secure way. If your phone is reset and you loose all your data, IDrive Lite still manages to restore your contacts from another data storage space available within your phone.
In case of phone theft or loss, IDrive Lite saves and creates a backup online on idrivelite.com. You can create a free account and access your contact list at any point of time you want.

Apple iPhone and Blackberry users using IDrive Lite can access their contacts online and also can add, delete, edit and even import contact info Facebook. Not only this, they can also view the Facebook activity log via IDrive Lite online. Exciting isn’t it?

In all, the IDrive Lite offers users up to 2GB of free online backup storage space as well as unlimited storage space for a minimal amount.

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Latest Technology News and Recent Inventions

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Thursday, November 12, 2009
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Get updates from the latest technology news and recent inventions in world. Find information about latest technology trends, news, current inventions in the field of robotics, computers technology, space science, gadgets and many more. Know about various recent inventions such as, Robot with human expressions, Mystery of Black Holes, 4G Technology, 3-D Processor chips, latest phones, Operating System that will take place of Windows, Evidences of water on Mars.......and many other, that I will update regularly. This lens is my effort of presenting all such latest information here in this lens.

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Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz Processor - Technology

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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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Intel Pentium 4 2.8 GHz processor
The Intel Pentium 4 processor, Intel's most advanced, most powerful processor for desktop PCs and entry-level workstations, is based on Intel NetBurst microarchitecture. The Pentium 4 processor is designed to deliver performance across applications and usages where end-users can truly appreciate and experience the performance. These applications include Internet audio and streaming video, image processing, video content creation, speech, 3D, CAD, games, multimedia, and multi-tasking user environments. The Pentium 4 processor delivers this world-class performance for consumer enthusiasts and business professional desktop users as well as for entry-level workstation users.

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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 / 3.2 GHz processor

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 / 3.2 GHz processor
Whether it's gaming, digital photography, or video editing, today's high-impact entertainment demands breakthrough technology. Get the unrivaled multi-core performance of the Intel Core 2 Extreme processors. It's not about playing the game. It's about dominating and winning the game. Designed for extreme performance, the Intel Core 2 Extreme processors feature the whole arsenal of performance-rich technologies.

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The Intel Core 2 Duo Processors

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Intel Core 2 Duo E4600 / 2.4 GHz processor
The Intel Core 2 Duo processors are built in several of the world's most advanced, high-volume output manufacturing facilities using Intel's leading silicon process technology. The processor family is based on the revolutionary Intel Core microarchitecture, designed to provide powerful yet energy-efficient performance. With the power of dual cores, or computing engines, the processors can manage numerous tasks faster. They also can operate more smoothly when multiple applications are running, such as writing e-mails while downloading music or videos and conducting a virus scan.

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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 / 2.4 GHz Processor

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Friday, July 3, 2009
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Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 / 2.4 GHz processor
General Overview:

The Q6600 Is a fantastic new chip by Intel. It provides the end user with an extremely powerful, cheap and multi-purpose chip. At one point this chip would cost you £500 alone. Now they have cut the price down to roughly £170 making it the perfect choice for enthusiasts and gamers alike. The Q6600 has four cores each running at 2.4Ghz with 8mb L2 cache which means it can do four times the work in the same amount of time compared to a single 2.4Ghz core. The Q6600 runs on a 1066Mhz FSB (FSB is the "Front Side Bus" this tells the processor how fast to run when combined with the processor's multiplier which is different depending on which CPU you buy. Increasing the FSB will increase the speed of the processor, known as "Overclocking", there is a section

in this review on overclocking for those who are interested.)

Overclocking:
Overclocking is the art of making your PC parts run faster than they are rated by the manufacturer. For overclocking the CPU this is usually done through the BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) which can be accessed by pressing a key that is stated on screen when you first turn on your computer. It is recommended for those who are looking into overclocking to thoroughly read some guides on the internet, or you may end up frying your chip completely. (and overclocking voids warranties so you won't get a refund either.) However if you are careful and know what you are doing you can increase the performance of your pc much more than it normally operates at. The Q6600 is based on the Core 2 archetecture (aka Conroe) which is much more effective than the old Pentium 4 netburst archetecture. Due to the better efficiency you can reach extreme overclocks on the Q6600, as much as 50% overclock on air (Usually stable at around 3.2Ghz with B3 stepping or 3.4Ghz with G0 stepping. See "Steppings" for more information) and around 100% on water (You can reach speeds faster than 4Ghz with watercooling! That's 16Ghz of power in total over all four cores!)

Installation:

The installation of the Q6600 or any Socket 775 CPU (See the "Socket Type" heading for more detail on what a socket is) is fairly simple. All you need to do is lift the small lever on the side of the base that the chip sits on which will release the clamps that hold the CPu in place, then place the cpu onto the slot(Socket 775 CPU's have no pins on the bottom, they are all on the motherboard now so it's quite hard to actually bend the pins, unlike on old processors where they could easily get bent and you'd either have to carefully bend them back perfectly or buy a whole new processor.) making sure the processor is the right way round, to find which way the processor goes there is a small black tab in one corner that shows you which way it goes. All you have to do after that is place the heatsink on top of the processor (Don't forget to add thermal paste if there isn't any already on the bottom of the heatsink, it usually looks like a gray paste. Your CPU may overheat if you don't have thermal paste) and twist the four locks into place to hold the heatsink onto the motherboard. After that you're all set to go and fire up all four cores!

Steppings:
The Q6600 comes in two different steppings. Steppings are the different revisions of the chip's archetecture to further imrpove efficiency. Now about the two different steppings: the B3 stepping and the G0 stepping. What's the difference you ask? The B3 stepping has a TDP (Thermal Design Power, or how much power the CPU uses in watts) of 105w. The G0 stepping has a TDP of 95w which means lower temperatures, and obviously lower power consumption. This also means that the processor can be more easily overclocked.

Socket Type:

As explained before the Q6600 and many other chips are Socket 775 or less commonly known as Socket T. There are quite a few different sockets such as socket 478, socket AM2/AM2+ (for AMD chips.) Considering the Q6600 is Socket 775 we will focus on what that involves for now. Socket 775 is different from other sockets due to the fact it has a "Land Grid Array". What that means is the processor no longer has pins, all of the pins are spring loaded on the motherboard to make it much harder to accidently bend the pins and require a whole replacement of the CPU. (All older processors have the pins located directly on the chip.) The "775" refers to how many pins the socket has to make contact between the motherboard and the CPU. Due to Socket 775 having more pins that most other sockets it provides better power distribution to the processor, which means your system is more stable especially when overclocking.

Performance:
When using multithreaded applications (Applications that can use more than one core at the same time) the Q6600 provides extremely fast calculations, but even if the program is not multithreaded it still provides extremely fast speeds. Even better performance than those of faster pentium 4 chips due to superior archetechture which maximizes the efficiency of transferring and calculating data. The Q6600 is the perfect chip for gamers and enthusiasts alike due to it's speed, large cache, four cores and great overclocking potential. Games will run at full speed with no hitches, feel like encoding that DVD you like so much so you can watch it on your PC? No problem. The Q6600 will do that faster than almost all other CPU's. The Q6600 really is one of the best performing chips you can get.

Conclusion:

In conclusion the Q6600 has to be the best chip you could possibly buy. It's cheap, fast and provides more potential than first meets the eye for those who wish to unlock it's true power. A must have for anybody who wants the most out of their PC.

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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 / 3 GHz Processor

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Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 / 3 GHz processor
This is the processor I am using day in and day out and it is by far the best piece of hardware I have ever owned. Not only does it work perfectly and stay cool, it over-clocks like no tomorrow.

I have my little E8400 running at 4.0Ghz on air-cooling which was a lot easier to set-up than I first thought it would be. I was truly amazed at just how much juice this processor could put out without seemingly batting an eye-lid. Of course you will require some pretty good cooling to pull this off, but you can get coolers like the Arctic Freezer 7 Pro or the Xigmatek HDT for around £20 which will be much better than Intel's original cooler that comes with the retail processor package.
Other processors I have owned have complained immensely when put under the pressure I put this Intel CPU under. Some of them have died; some of them
just became unstable. The E8400 though laps the pressure up, it begs for more.

I was never a fan of Intel products; some would say I was an AMD fanboy. So when I purchased this and saw how amazing it was, my opinion changed immediately. They truly are gifted engineers to create a piece of hardware that can get me excited and happy about a product so much that I come here and write a review about it.
The only problem I had with this processor was monitoring the temperatures. It seems to say the temperatures are much higher than they are in reality. For some reason there seems to be a lot of confusion surrounding the temperature probes this chip uses. Now I never did find out if it was my processor, or the software I was using, it doesn't seem to have affected the lifespan of the processor so I am happy.

I will probably never sell this processor, even when I upgrade my computer. I will likely just hide it in a draw in some bubble wrap, so in the future I will find it and be reminded of the good old days. I have no idea where technology is heading now, but when I change this processor to a new one I am sure it will not make its way into my heart like this E8400 did.
I am using this processor with an Abit IP-35E motherboard which is considered a budget board but works superbly with this processor. I am also using a Xigmatek HDT-S1283 to cool the processor which works great too, although the size of it can be a problem in some cases.

So if you are looking for a processor and this one is in your budget, consider it. I know there are Quad Core processors and other such fancy equipment now, but if you are looking for something to love rather than something to use and abuse, the E8400 should be at the top of your list.

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Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 / 2.5 GHz Processor

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Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 / 2.5 GHz processor
We are now in 21st century and most interesting changes for this period are in computer and mobile phone industries. Life is moving very fast and there is no scope for traditional thinking. So we are getting unexpected technology now days. We have some popular brands in computer technology and they are still getting good response from overall market.
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In this category we have some good dual core processors and they are still very popular with good processing speed and low price. Sometimes ago we got Pentium4 models from Intel and they were long run processors in the line. Celeron series processors are still popular in low budget category. The time is changing very fast and multicore processors are getting
more popularity due to its performance and speed. We cant ignore latest product in dualcore category as they are mandatory for latest applications.
If we have a look on some applications like commonly use Adobe Photoshop, which is now available with CS4, it require atleast 2GHz processor with 2GB RAM. But the reallity is that we cant get such a good performance with 2GHz processor and even 2 GB RAM also.
So If we use latest versions of applications then we definitely need some fast speed and multicore processors.
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Here I am going to discuss about a budget processor from Intel and it is still getting good response with its fast speed performance and low price features. This processor, Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 GHz has some latest features which may be as per your choice, like its new 45nm technology and low poer consumption with about 65 W.
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The new technology with 45 nm is most important feature for this processor as it may be a good choice for hot climatic reasons. Due to this feature, this processor generates very less heat and the problem of computer crash due to high temperature doesn't happen with it. High temperature is a main problem in Asian countries, so this processor can be a good budget choice for these countries.
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Next important features are its fast clock speed with almost 2.5 GHz and front side bus speed of about 800 MHz. One more feature that is important is its 2 MB of L2 cache size.
Now have a look on above features and its performance. The 2,5 GHz speed is good enough for any regular applications with Windows Vista operating system of Macintosh Leopard latest version. 2 GHz and more speed processors with multicore processors are good for this purpose.
This processor also has more than 2 GHz clock speed and 2 processing cores. The next feature of front side data bus speed also require for high speed data transfer. We are getting here 800 MHz of data speed and this is s still very popular for any processor and RAM. If we have same speed RAM with 800 MHz speed than we will get best performance with this processor.
L2 cache performs well to provide smooth running speed with temporary data storage and 2 MB speed is good but not best for multicore processors. But for Windows Vista operating system, atleast 2 MB is necessary.
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Processor is a perfect solution for almost all regular applications and games, for Microsoft office, internet access; Photoshop's all versions and almost all regular games. If we have a good combination with 4 GB of DDR2 RAM with 800 MHz of speed, then we will get superb performance will almost all regular applications and some advanced versions also. It will perform extremely good with Adobe Photoshop CS3 and even with CS4, excellent performance with Autodesk AutoCad 2D application and all regular applications.
For good performance with 3D application, this processor can be a better choice if you have good graphics card installed. We cant get adequate performance even with good quad core processors also without having proper graphics card. So this processor is a good budget choice for some 3D applications also with proper combination of graphics memory. It performs an average performace with Google Sketchup and 3ds max with regular graphics memory. If we have good graphics memory like nvidia quadro then it will performs extremely good.
So have a fun with this for your routine work with high speed performerswithout putting so much of pressure on your pocket. Recommended.

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Intel Moves to Larrabee into 2010 || What a move

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Sunday, June 28, 2009
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According to a report published by c’t magazine, Intel is now aiming to launch Larrabee in a variety of flavors in 2010 and has scrapped the previous late 2009 plan. Intel’s Joseph Schultz made this comment during the opening of a visual computing research center in Saarbruecken, Germany. Spokesman Nick Knupffer confirmed the narrowed-down date, but declined to provide further comments.
Schultz also told c’t that it will be a “big challenge” to compete with Nvidia’s and AMD’s products and especially highlighted the power-efficiency achieved by AMD’s Radeon graphics cards.

Intel is very careful providing any information about its x86-based Larrabee. What we know, however, is that the device will be based on second-generation Pentium processor technology with the P54C core. The first Pentium core (P5, 800 nm, 60 and 66 MHz) was in development since 1989 and was introduced in 1993. The P54C was launched in 1994 with speeds up to 120 MHz, while the succeeding 350 nm P54CS reached 200 MHz. The 55C core (280 nm up to 233 MHz) followed in 1995 and was replaced with the Pentium II in 1997.

Larrabee is expected to come in multiple flavors with at least 8 cores at the low-end have at least 32 cores on the high-end. At a clock speed of 2 GHz, the 32-core version could be topping a theoretical maximum performance of 2 TFlops.

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