Acer America introduced two new PC platforms today, the TravelMate 6593 and TravelMate 6493. These new notebooks are designed to suite the professional on the go. The new TravelMate notebook series offers a robust, secure and powerful PC solution for corporate and business customers.
Plastic Logic has set out to lead a revolution establishing the plastic electronics industry using our proprietary technology in plastic electronics to create a range of products. The first product they offer is the Plastic Logic eReader and is focused on reading digital business content and better organizing the information.
Intel claimed fastest SSD with the launch SLC-based X25-E Extreme, but there’s a new kid in town proven to excel both the write and read speed of the Intel by a large margin. Folks at tweaktown has published an in-depth review of the Enterprise series Fusion-IO PCI-express based NAND flash storage; it posted an astonishing 470 MB/s reading and 353 MB/s average speed on HD Tune, about 2.5x (read) and nearly 5x (write) faster than Intel with results of 184MB/s and 73MB/s on the similar workbench. Forget Intel, Fusion is toe to toe with Seagate Cheetah 15.6k series SAS drives.
The economy has not gotten any break at all and more companies are cutting down on their overhead to stay above the water. Sony has announced it will be reducing its workforce by 16,000 workers within the next two years and to slow down their investment throttle at the same time. Sony operates 57 manufacturing plants around the world and as part of the cost cutting measure; it will also be suspending roughly ten percent of its plants. This move will save Sony about 100 billion Yen (US$1.1 billion) per year.
The ripple effect caused by US economic state, which resulted in Yen’s higher value against US, and Euro puts many Japanese goods pricing higher than it used to be. Many companies that play in the global market are on the same boat as Sony; that includes major players such as Canon, Samsung, and etc. There aren’t any sign of economy upturn yet and market confidence is not getting any better.
Sadly, this gorgeous little Pano “zero client” is not intended for the desktops of you or I, but for the endlessly-repetitive cubes of big business. The 12-cubic-inch box has no memory, operating system, drivers or moving parts, but instead funnels everything over a wired network from a virtualized server. That way it’s cheaper than deploying even a basic PC to each worker, and more environmentally sensible too: each Pano uses just 3-percent of the electricity a standard computer needs.
Well, this is pretty crafty. Jump Lab announced their EDG video player today, which is no larger than the size of a credit card. It sports a thicker body than plastic money, but can fit in your hand and was designed with the intention of being used as a promotional device.
Today Apple was ranked highest in overall customer satisfaction among business smartphone users, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2008 Business Wireless Smartphone Customer Satisfaction Study. This is the second year that the study has been measuring customer satisfaction with smartphones.
Dell have taken the Inspiron Mini 9 netbook into the paintshop and emerged with their latest business notebook, the Vostro A90. Aside from the sober styling, the specifications of the A90 netbook are exactly the same as found in the Mini 9: Intel’s 1.6GHz Atom CPU, 1GB of RAM and an 8GB SSD for storage.
Images of MSI’s upcoming Wind U120 netbook have emerged, the company’s more business-oriented version of the existing Wind U100. The U120 will use the same 10-inch LCD and Intel Atom processor as the U100, but MSI have sharpened up the design with apparently ThinkPad-inspired cues together with included integrated 3.5G WWAN.
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