A few years ago, many of us were still using those little 3.5 inch floppy disks to save our valuable information on. While these magnetic disks shielded in a flimsy plastic casing were the best and most portable option most of us had, they were far from perfect. At what always seemed to be the most inopportune time, our floppy disks would fail and/or loose our homework assignments for school, a presentation for work, or those important backups from our personal banking software. We struggled for a better way. While …

Channel your inner geek for fun and prizes by commanding your own pet developer
Ever wonder what happens behind the cubicle walls of a software developer? QNX Software Systems strips away the mystery and gives you the chance to be both master and tormentor of its virtual online software developer.
The Pocket Geek (www.thepocketgeek.com) is a Flash-based game in which you play manager to a pocket-sized coder with five days to finish the big project. To ensure that your geek successfully finishes the project, you need to keep him energized and …

The Olympus E-510 is a 10.9 mega pixel digital camera, supports CompactFlash memory and has a 14-42 mm lens. The E-510 certainly shows some pedigree having a solid metallic case where many others plump for less firm materials. The weight is noticeably even without the lens attached, but it is intelligently balanced so as not to immediately put the user at a disadvantages. The grip is comfortably large enough to allow for a decent sized hand to grip round, and the back has more then enough room to plant a …

Company Remains Focused on Championing Consumer Access to High Definition Content
TOKYO–Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has undertaken a thorough review of its overall strategy for HD DVD and has decided it will no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders. This decision has been made following recent major changes in the market. Toshiba will continue, however, to provide full product support and after-sales service for all owners of Toshiba HD DVD products.
HD DVD was developed to offer consumers access at an affordable price to high-quality, high …

“Perhaps the biggest news is that we hired Codeweavers to make Photoshop CS and CS2 work better under Wine. Photoshop is one of those applications that Desktop linux users are constantly clamoring for, and we’re happy to say they work pretty well now. Perhaps not coincidentally, apps like Flash 8 are now starting to work in Wine, too.”
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The Nokia N96 is a quad-band GSM/HSDPA smart camera phone. It is part of Nokia’s N series of smart phones. It sports a 6 megapixel camera that has 20x digital zoom. It has a 3.2 inches, 16 M colours VGA display that shows high-quality pictures. The device has support for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity. Its camera is equipped with a Carl Zeiss lens and also sports a dual LED flash. The device runs on a S60 3rd Edition operating system.
The smart phone has a dual slide open mechanism. It …

It seem that Nokia will go 1 step further when their plan to launch their next mobile phone equipped with mapping(GPS) software soon. It seem they are focusing on device with GPS capability this year.
Nokia begin to offering the beta version of Nokia Maps 2.0 a mapping software via their Nokia Beta Labs. It seem the software is important to upcoming Nokia model since they might integrating their high end model of the phone with the software. Nokia 6210 Navigator is the first phone equip with this …

BARCELONA, Spain, GSMA Mobile World Congress, February 11, 2008 — QNX Software Systems today announced it will demonstrate the QNX® Aviage® family of middleware products running on Freescale’s multimedia processors at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The demonstration will showcase networked multimedia frameworks and multimedia engines in a Flash-based human machine interface (HMI), highlighting the power of combining Freescale multimedia processors with the performance and reliability of the QNX Neutrino® realtime operating system (RTOS) and the QNX Aviage middleware family. The QNX Aviage family includes the QNX Aviage HMI …

SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif.-January 21, 2008-Strengthening its position in the growing notebook hard drive market, Seagate has announced it is currently shipping a 250GB notebook drive that delivers a compelling combination of capacity, performance and durability for mobile computing. The new Momentus® 5400.4 hard drive is part of the world’s most innovative family of notebook drives that includes the Momentus® 5400 FDE.2 hard drive, the industry’s first notebook HDD with built-in encryption and currently the most powerful security solution for mobile computing, Momentus 7200.2, a super-speedy 7200-rpm notebook drive with free-fall …

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