With its 10-inch screen and full-size keyboard, the Palm Foleo mobile companion connects wirelessly with your smartphone to help you do more on the go. Unfold it, press a button, and it’s ON instantly—while just one touch brings your email to the big screen. Use your Foleo to view attachments – Edit and create Word and Excel compatible docs, view PDFs, and deliver PowerPoint presentations. Type longer emails, or to get a bigger look at web pages and photos you’d normally view on your smartphone. With up to five hours of battery life.
AT&T and Research In Motion (RIM) announced the introduction of the BlackBerry Curve. AT&T will be the first wireless carrier in North America to offer the BlackBerry Curve in wireless retail and business channels beginning Thursday, May 31. Available in the U.S. exclusively from AT&T, the BlackBerry Curve can be used by AT&T customers within the broadest domestic and international coverage area for wireless data services of any U.S. carrier.
Fujitsu launches four new hard disk drives for enterprise and entry server applications.
These include three new enterprise class SAS drives designed to support mission critical server and storage systems.
The first hard disk drive in this series, the MBB2147/MBB2073, Fujitsu’s second generation SFF 10K SAS drive, offers up to 1471GB capacity at a rotational speed of 10,000RPM. This drive also has a load/unload head ramp that helps to reduce handling damage.
The next hard disk drive in this new lineup is the MBC2073/MBC2036, a 2.5″ enterprise SAS drive with 15,000PRM rotational speed offering up to 73GB(1) capacity. This drive also targets mission critical server and storage system applications.
The third enterprise class hard disk drive of the new portfolio is the MBA3300/MBA3147/MBA3073 drives, with capacity up to 300GB at rotational speed of 15,000RPM. These drives include a 16MB buffer size for SAS and 4Gbps fibre channel interface drives, and are targeted toward mission critical applications and systems where high performance and high capacity
is required.
In addition to its enterprise lineup, Fujitsu has introduced the MHW2120BK series 2.5″ SATA hard disk drives that will offer up to 120GB capacity to enable 24/7 operation for a variety of applications, including blade server, telecommunications, surveillance, industrial PC, and robotic
applications. Key features and enhancements include 24/7 operation, built-in functions to minimize the adverse effects of rotational vibration and a 3.0Gb/sec transfer rate. Offering 7200RPM speed ensures the highest possible performance available with 2.5″ SATA drives today.
Sony introduced its updated line of NHS (New Home Solutions) rack systems.
The new NHS racks support high- definition video distribution throughout the home in a pre-built rack system. The next generation NHS- 1040, NHS-2040 and NHS-3040 feature up to 13 zones of HD video distribution and a Blu-ray disc player.
The NHS-1040, NHS-2040, NHS-3040 series features include:
7.1 HDMI home theater
Twelve additional HD video zones (six additional HD video zones for NHS-1040 and NHS-2040)
Built-in support to add an HD cable or satellite receiver
An 80 GB music storage and management server
A 400-disc DVD changer with management system (NHS-2040 and NHS-3040)
AM/FM tuner
XM Satellite Radio(TM) support
Single-disc Blu-ray disc player
Three additional auxiliary inputs and
Three zone expansion
The NHS-3040, NHS-2040 and NHS-1040 will be available in 3rd quarter of 2007.
Apple launched iTunes Plus. The iTunes Plus is DRM(digital rights management) free music tracks that feature higher quality, 256 kbps AAC encoding — twice the standard bit rate.
Now you can play it on iPod and other digital music players and unlimited number of computers. For just for $1.29 per song.
Now this time gift for ladies. The Audio-technica will market 6 different pearl pastel-colored earphones in July, targeting females. The earphones will come with aluminum case for each color. It adopts playback frequency zone of 18Hz – 22kHz.
Recently, Robbie Bach – president of Microsoft’s Entertainment and Devices Division claimed that Microsoft has sold over a million Zunes. It’s only about nine month, the Zune is in the market. He further said – the Zune’s Wi-Fi could be used in the future for more than just Zune-to-Zune sharing after eventual software upgrades. Company just came out with a special edition pink Zune and a watermelon-colored Zune.
OkI Electric Industry has developed the world’s smallest wireless module for embedding in mobile phones to be used for DSRC (Dedicated Short Range Communication) inter-vehicle communication systems. This module is specifically designed to improve pedestrian safety.
The Safety Mobile Phone notifies vehicles in the surrounding area of its location and retrieves the location information of vehicles in the surrounding area that are equipped with the DSRC inter-vehicle communication system. By making it possible to reduce the occurrence of vehicle-pedestrian accidents.
