Google Chrome OS Challenging Microsoft

July 8th, 2009

Search engine giant Google have a new operating system in production called Google Chrome OS, for use on home PC’s and netbooks. This is a direct challenge to the leading market operating system Microsoft. The new Google Chrome OS will initially be used on small netbooks with the aim of being used on PC’s as well. Sales of the netbooks with Google Chrome OS is said to be on sale in 2010.

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Chrome OS was a direct extension to the Google Chrome browser and was announced to be launched just months before the launch of Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7.

So what makes Google Chrome OS stand out from Microsoft Windows? Google’s engineering director Linus Upson states that “We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you on to the web in a few seconds…” He further adds on a blog written by Sundar Pichai that “the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web”, making the new Google Chrome OS a project that attempts to rethink the way operating systems operate.

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Greener Than Green Electric Cars On The Roads – Cutting Carbon Emissions

June 23rd, 2009

Ministers unveiled the range of electric cars at London’s Guildhall which is planned to be tested in 8 different cities in the UK, in a bid to decrease carbon emissions. The government have put in £25 million for the project to take off, with the Technology Strategy Board to organise a showcase of the vehicles. These are believed to be available in the next 6 to 18 months, with over 340 cars put forward for the test including some notable names such as Mitsubishi electric MiEV and the Mini E.

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Alberto Villareal Wins Prestigious Red Dot Product Design Award

June 10th, 2009

The coveted Red Dot Design Concept award for 2009 has been awarded to Mexican born designer Alberto Villareal. It was presented by Germany’s Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, which has been giving prestigious awards to product design trendsetters since 1955.

Delighted Villareal has received a great deal of exposure since winning the Red Dot prize. One of his major design achievements is the MX-LIBRIS taxi vehicle. Designed specifically for Latin American cities, this unique looking taxi is a zero pollution invention, using fuel cells for its energy source. As it does not utilise traditional, polluting combustion engine technologies, there is considerably more space within the body – ideal for those travelling with baggage or in groups of up to four.

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High Technology Manufacturing In China And Hong Kong

May 29th, 2009

Traditionally, Japan has been the home of high end technological manufacturing. But over recent years China has been expanding its manufacturing capacity so that it is comfortably the second most productive nation in the world, behind the USA – and an increasing number of China’s factories are producing high specification technological goods.

Although the current recession is leaving large swathes of China’s manufacturing capacity empty, many of the world’s most famous brands still have a large quantity of their most popular goods coming out of China. As is well documented, Chinese based factories have significantly lower overheads than many other nations.

In terms of higher end manufacturing capacity, the Chinese government got one of the crown jewels of global industry, when they took receipt of Hong Kong in 1997. Though the British clearly would have liked to keep this highly lucrative island, there was the small question of a 99 year lease which had to be honoured.

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Dragons Den Launch New Online Format To The Show

April 30th, 2009

During the last few weeks Dragons’ Den have launched a new online show for pitching new ideas. The show is a web only version with 2 new Dragons Shaf Rasul and Julie Meyer, who are both successful entrepreneurs themselves.

Each week another entrepreneur gets to pitch to the new dragons for up to a maximum of £50,000. In order for anyone to take part they have to first apply to www.bbc.co.uk/dragonsden where the BBC choose the most innovative and entertaining ideas to be pitched to the online Dragons. The BBC makes their choice after viewing the entrepreneur’s video clip of their idea which they have to submit.

The new online show is presented by Dominic Byrne, whose work has included working on Radio 1 on the Chris Moyle’s show.

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Shaf Rasul who is an investor in internet companies and property, as well as running an optical storage distributor E-Net Computers.

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Sony Motionflow Brings The Cinema To Your Living Room

April 9th, 2009

The latest LCD offering from Sony is set to be a huge hit with its 200 Hz technology enabling the viewer to sit in awe at the smooth and sharp picture quality that has never before been seen.
Conventional TVs output 50 frames per second, but Sony’s new range of Motionflow 200Hz TVs output four times as many frames per second, bringing near cinema quality into your home.

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You may have seen the new Motionflow TV ad featuring Brazilian football star, Kaka being projected via the BRAVIA-Drome – the world’s largest zoetrope.
The Sony Motionflow range also offers a 100Hz LCD TV which impresses also but it is the 200Hz model which is sure to be very popular as Sony look to take the TV market to another level yet again.
Although fairly highly priced, with the 40 inch from 1,849 to the 52 inch from 2,649, the Motionflow is well worth forking out for as it provides a crispness of viewing pleasure that will leave you glued to the screen all evening. Not advisable for families with obese children!

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Toshiba Target The YouTube Generation

March 16th, 2009

The Flip Mino was looking like being the camcorders equivalent of the iPod, yet competitors are determined to stop that from happening, and following Kodak’s impressive HD alternative to the Flip, Toshiba have thrown their hat into the ring.

toshiba camileo s10 camcorderThe Japanese giant are to release two HD camcorders in the UK in May, that retail at just 100 and 130 pounds only. Like Creative’s Vado HD, the Flip Mino HD (not yet available in the UK) and Kodak’s Z16, Toshiba’s two offerings, the P10 and S10, has some advantages over its competitors, not least the low price.

The P10 and S10 boast 5 megapixel digital photo capabilities which outstrips that of the Kodak Zi6 which only has a 2 megapixel camera. The Vado and Mino don’t carry still photo functions.

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Acer Set To Storm Smartphone Market

March 6th, 2009

A couple of weeks ago it was Barcelona, this week it is Hannover, PC specialist Acer have entered the smart phone market by unveiling at the CeBIT high tech exhibition in Germany its first entry level Windows Mobile 6.1 smart phones to be priced at the staggeringly low price of 49 euros or less.

acer smartphoneSet to be released in the final quarter of 2009, this is a sure sign that with smartphones hitting the low end of the market, they are set to take over the entire market turning it ‘smart’ and expecting current estimated levels of mobile occupancy to rise above the already impressive 15 per cent market growth.

With Acer having already stormed the laptop, notebook and PC market, with low cost, yet impressive build quality and latest technological advancements, they now look set to gain a huge segment of the smartphone market. They have set the price of its budget smartphone so low that they hope mobile phone operators will be able to offer the phone to their customers for free.

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Microsoft Leak Kumo Plans

March 5th, 2009

After years of getting slammed by Google in the search stats Microsoft are rumoured to be harbouring a secret weapon. The search market is a colossal cash pie and Google have a large slice. January’s comScore rankings showed Google’s search portion dropping half a percent however still sitting at a whopping 63% compared to Microsoft’s miniscule 8.5%.

As far as these search giants are concerned, high search volumes equate to high bank balances. The more people who use your search engine the higher you can charge for advertising and Google is the undeniable king of search. Their success was achieved by taking original ideas and making them better; more relevant search results in quicker time with less spam.

With Google looking increasing less innovative and more like a corporation exploring how it can earn more money out of what they do already, is the back door open for Microsoft to creep in with Kumo. Translating to spider [or cloud] in Japanese, Kumo is the latest effort from Microsoft to upgrade the underperforming Live Search.

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Panasonic First To Launch Blu-ray Recorder

February 28th, 2009

Panasonic are to launch the world’s first Blu-ray recorder, which will include an integrated Freesat receiver and internal hard drive.

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The Japanese giants are to release two Blu-ray recorders: The DMR-BS750 with a 250GB hard drive, and the DMR-BS850 with 500GB hard drive. SD memory card slots are an additional feature on both recorders.

The built in dual tuner will allow users to record a programme on one channel while watching another, similar of course to DVD recorders and digiboxes with hard drive recording capabilities, i.e. Sky Plus.

Since its launch in 2007, Sky+ HD offers users to record any of their HD channels, of which they are expanding all the time, but a Blu-ray recorder will offer more versatility and of course users will not have to be tied down by any subscriptions.

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