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What Are Cores And How Many Do You Need?

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Although they are often advertised as an integral part of your new laptop, not all processors are made equal. An older Intel Core i7 may be slightly less powerful than a newer Core i5. Broadly speaking, within any generation of laptops, you can start from the ground floor with the Core i3, move up to the mainstream with the Core i5, and then get some serious power with the Core i7. And, of course, within each i-number, there are different processors — the Core i5-4200U is less powerful than the i5-4310U, which is less powerful than the i5-4340M, and so on.

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There’s a bit of a dark art to telling the difference between Intel’s processor numbers — in laptops for example, you’ll see a Core i7 processor brand followed by four numbers. The first of those numbers is the generation identifier, and you should always go for the highest one you can find. At the moment, mobile processors are on the 4th generation, so keep your eye out for Core iX 4XXX products.

Beyond that, you can pick out special processors from the lineup with a single letter after those four numbers — U for a low power CPU, Y for an ultra-low power CPU, and so on. As a general rule, with a U you’re sacrificing some outright power for longer battery life, and with a Y that is doubly true. You can find a cheat sheet from Intel right here.

That’s a top-level overview, and for the most part that’s all you need to know. At least within Intel’s processor types, you can scale the i-number and the four digits and the letter to your needs — go with a lower powered Core i3 if you are just browsing the web and sending emails, a Core i5 if you want it to handle an occasional bout of photo editing, and a Core i7 for all-out video editing or serious productivity work.

There’s a technical difference between i3, i5 and i7, of course, with the higher-powered processors boasting more physical processor cores (each of which can be devoted to one computer task at a time, basically) and higher clock speeds (letting them complete those tasks faster). The four-digit-and-one-letter system is just a quick and easy way to slim down the list of devices for you to choose from.

Nvidia's GTX 980M and 970M May Finally Give Us Desktop Performance On a Laptop

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Following from the launch of its desktop-based GTX 980 and GTX 970 GPUs, Nvidia has taken the wraps off the mobile versions of the same chips. The company claims the GTX 980M and GTX 970M offer around 75 percent of the performance of its desktop chips, or twice the performance of the GTX 680M, enabling games to be played at high and ultra settings at resolutions up to 1440p.

The GTX 980M and GTX 970M are based on the Maxwell architecture, and includes full support for features such as MFAA, Dynamic Super Resolution, and VXGI, which Nvidia recently used to debunk conspiracies surrounding the moon landing. Both chips will also support DirectX 12 when it launches.

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The company claims battery life increases of up to 40 percent, without the performance hit that usually comes from playing games on battery power. There's certainly reason to be optimistic for the battery-boosting power of Nvidia's new laptop chips, with GameSpot's review of the Maxwell-based GTX 980 noting its impressive power efficiency.

The GTX 980M and GTX 970M launch today in laptops such as the Asus G751 and MSI GT72. Pricing for these laptops has not yet been announced.

Tesla unveils dual-motor autopilot Model S – new P85D has 691 hp

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At an event last night, Elon Musk finally gave us the D: A dual-motor, all-wheel-drive version of the Tesla Model S. On the top-of-the-line P85D, that second motor brings the max speed up to 155 mph and 0-60 mph down to 3.2 seconds — firmly in supercar territory. Musk also announced a new “autopilot” system for all new Tesla cars, which can automatically change lanes when you push the turn signal stalk, automatically reduce your cruise control speed when its forward-facing camera spots a new speed limit sign, and other self-driving functions. Over time, software updates will be rolled out to add more safety/driver assistant features, until eventually your Model S can drive itself.

First, the D — which stands for dual-motor. A standard Model S has a single electric motor that sits over the rear axle; the dual-motor version (which has a “D” designation at the end of the model number) has a motor that powers the front axle, too. In the case of the standard 60- and 85-kWh versions of the Model S, the second motor increases max range (by 20-30 miles) and reduces 0-60 marginally, but that’s about it. For the performance version of the Model S, though — the P85D — Tesla has added another 221 hp, bringing the total to 691 hp (221 front, 470 rear), which is capable of 0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds and a max speed of 155 mph (up from 130 mph). It’s not entirely clear where this extra power is coming from; presumably Tesla has significantly increased the size of the battery with like HP Eagle Defibrillator Battery, HP 43100A Battery, HP 43120A Battery, HP 43200A Battery, HP 43130A Battery, HP 78672 Battery, Medtronic MNMLP20 Battery, Medtronic DEFI-B M113 Battery, Medtronic M240 Battery, Primedic DM1 Battery, Primedic DM3 Battery, Primedic EC01 Battery. Range on the P85D also increases by around 10 miles, to around 275 miles.

The dual-motor system costs an extra $4,000 on the low-end models, but a full $17,000 on the P85D — but you do get “specially designed suspension” for that price, too (and the aforementioned larger battery, probably).

On the autopilot side of things, Tesla announced that all new Model S cars — produced after September 2014 — will include an array of new sensors that will allow the car’s on-board computer to perform a variety of self-driving and driver-assistance functions. There’s a forward-looking camera and radar, and 360-degree ultrasonic sensing. Early reports seem to be a bit confused about what Tesla’s autopilot actually does right now. At the very least, it seems to: perform lane-keep assist (keeps you between the white lines if you start drifting); automatically change lanes when you signal; automatically stop when there’s a stopped car in front; self-drive around gentle corners; and it can reduce your cruise control speed in accordance with speed limit signs.

Some reports suggest that the new Tesla Model S also has stop-and-go adaptive cruise control (it watches for cars slowing down in front, and then speeds back up automatically), it can automatically park, and (on private property) you can summon the car to your current location. If these features aren’t available immediately, they’ll be added later via over-the-air software updates. Presumably Tesla will keep adding autopilot/driver assistance features until we reach Musk’s “90% self-driving” threshold.

You can see many of these autopilot features in the video embedded above.

All new Tesla Model S cars will get the autopilot sensors and hardware for free. There’s no word on whether current Model S owners can get the sensors retrofitted — but I hope so.

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China reforms eye more innovative bases

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Chen Xinshu never expected a small workshop that started with only 17 people eight years ago would have developed into a leading manufacturer of high-tech medical instruments.

The company, called Zoncare, with an expected sales volume of 100 million yuan ( 16.4 million U.S. dollars) this year, sounds like a miracle for most small businesses in China, which usually find themselves in trouble due to lack of money.

"At first we had few fixed assets. No banks were willing to offer any loans to us," Chen, deputy manager of Zoncare, recalled.

Luckily, with the help of Optical Valley's association for credit ratings promotion, the company was later given a triple-A rating and offered a coRWqCo8o of 50 million yuan from a state-owned bank, according to Chen.

"It's unlikely that we would get such preferential treatment elsewhere," he said.

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With help from the loan, Zoncare has made a series of breakthroughs in medical instrument development, and its products are sold to more than 100 countries and regions.

Over the past 35 years of opening and reform, China has developed into the world's second-largest economy, but its resource-heavy development mode has yet to be changed. Restricted by the increasing cost of resources, energy and labor, the country has been under pressure to maintain its rapid economic development.

At the 18th National Congress in November 2012, the Communist Party of China (CPC) put forward a strategy for innovation-driven development, stressing the importance of scientific innovation in improving productivity and overall national strength.

On Sept. 30, members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee visited Zhongguancun and studied there, another sign that the country yearoRWqCo8onced science and technology.

Chinese president Xi Jinping, who is also general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, said on Saturday that a blueprint for comprehensive reform would be put forward at the upcoming Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee, scheduled for Nov. 9 to 12. Many people believe innovation development strategy will be a focus for the new round of reforms.

National innovative bases such as Zhongguancun in Beijing, Optical Valley in Wuhan, and Zhangjiang in Shanghai, are at the frontier in the drive for economic reform.

Zhongguancun is China's first high-tech park zone and the first national independent innovative demonstration zone. Over the past 20 years, nearly 20,000 high-tech enterprises, consisting of 1.56 million employees, have registered there, reaching total revenues of 2.5 trillion yuan last year. It has become a symbol for the country's high-tech development.

As in Zhongguancun and the Silicon Valley in the U.S., numerous high-tech talents from around the world gather and start their businesses in Optical Valley, which is home to more than 10 universities and 50 state-level research institutes.

Li Shiting, chief of the zone's scientific innovation bureau, said these enterprises, which represent the most advanced technology, are important engines for the country's economic reform. "We can't afford to lose them just becausoRWqCo8ocapital," he said.

Small and medium-sized enterprises registering in Optical Valley often have financing difficulties because of their limited fixed assets, so the zone has offered incentives of up to 20 million yuan for newly-established financial institutions in Optical Valley. If an institution is headquartered there, the subsidy will be raised to 50 million yuan.

Motivated by the preferential policies, more than 100 bank branches have been set up in Optical Valley, and they have developed more than 100 financial products for the local high-tech enterprises, such as intelligent property loans.

Chinese Premier Li Keqiang noted at the opening of the Summer Davos Forum last month that China was speeding up its implementation of a strategy of innovation-driven development, promoting technological innovation and deep integration of science and technology with the economy, and building a social environment friendly to innovation and business start-up activities.

More reforms would be made to the financial sector so that small, medium- and micro-sized enterprises could acquire loans and encourage social investment over various economic fields, he said.

Liu Min, general manager with the Hongtu Venture Capital Firm, said that apart from bank loans, high-tech enterprises in Optical Valley also need other financial services, such as equity investment and financial leasing, whicoRWqCo8ony relocated its headquarters from Shenzhen to Wuhan in 2011 to invest in high-tech enterprises.

There are about 200 venture capital firms and investment management institutions registered in Optical Valley, bringing total capital of 18.7 billion yuan.

With the help of such capital, photoelectron, biomedicine, new energy, and quality equipment manufacturing enterprises have achieved rapid development. Last year, total revenues of the valley's enterprises surged 30 percent year on year to 500 billion yuan.

"We believe more innovative bases like Zhongguancun and Optical Valley will emerge to encourage the development of innovative enterprises," Liu said.

Rebels rise up battery

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First-year coach Kevin Mielcarek couldn’t have asked much more from his Horlick High School boys volleyball team Saturday.

The Rebels advanced to the championship match of the Racine Invitational, which was held at Case and Park, before losing to Brookfield East 21-10, 21-15 in the championship match of the 32-team tournament at Park.

The Rebels (28-7 games, 13-2 matches) went 5-1 in pool play, then rolled through the championship bracket before meeting Brookfield East.

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Dalen Instenes led the Rebels with 44 kills, 10 digs and seven aces. Other leaders included Connor Walker (63 assists), Jake Sawalski (19 digs) and Jake Romano (five blocks).

Burlington finished 19th, reaching the consolation bracket semifinals. The Demons finished third in pool play, then beat Kenosha Indian Trail 25-20 and Brookfield Central 25-21 before losing to Franklin 25-19.

Josh Ketterhagen (25 kills), Jacob Drettwan (62 assists) and Zach Derosier (30 digs) led Burlington.

Case was fourth in pool play and reached the second round of the consolation bracket, beating Fond du Lac 25-22 before losing to Franklin 25-18. No statistical leaders were available.

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Kaden Myers gives Cedar Springs big plays on offense and defense

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Big plays have been common for the Cedar Springs football team this season, and senior Kaden Myers has been involved in many of those plays, not only on offense but also on the defensive side of the field.

Myers has been one of Cedar’s main playmakers on offense from his running back position, while also providing the defense with strong play at defensive back.

“Kaden is having the senior year that I expected,” said Cedar Springs coach Gus Kapolka. “Other than missing the Catholic Central game due to an injury, he has anchored our secondary and he has provided explosive plays for us on offense.”

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“Kaden is the son of our defensive coordinator, Jeff Myers, so having Kaden on the field is like having an on-the-field defensive coordinator,” Kapolka said. “He makes all the secondary calls, knows tendencies, gets other guys properly aligned, and has great instincts for the ball.”

Myers also provides the team with senior leadership.

“Kaden is someone who never is at a loss for words,” Kapolka said. “He keeps the locker room loose, but is highly respected by his teammates for his work ethic and competitiveness.”

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Abe sent senior official to Fukuda-Xi meeting in July

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Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a senior government official to a secret meeting between former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in late July, sources close to Japan-China relations said Sunday.

Shotaro Yachi, the top bureaucrat in Japan's National Security Council, accompanied Fukuda in an apparent attempt to realize the first formal meeting between Abe and Xi on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum summit to be held in Beijing in November, they said.

The two leaders have yet to hold one-on-one talks since taking office -- Abe in December 2012 and Xi the following March -- as bilateral ties have plunged to the worst level in decades due to a territorial dispute over the Japan-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, and differing perceptions of wartime history.

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In July, Fukuda and Yachi conveyed Abe's intention to work for the improvement of bilateral ties to Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

In the July meetings, China maintained that talks between Abe and Xi can only take place if Tokyo acknowledges that a dispute exists over the sovereignty of the Senkaku Islands, which China claims and calls Diaoyu, according to Japanese government sources.

Beijing also demanded that Abe promise not to visit Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japanese World War II leaders convicted as war criminals along with the country's war dead, while he serves as premier.

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Abe dispatched senior bureaucrat Yachi to Fukuda-Xi meet in Beijing

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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe sent a senior government official to a secret meeting between former Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in late July, sources close to Japan-China relations said Sunday.

Shotaro Yachi, the top bureaucrat in the National Security Council, accompanied Fukuda in an apparent attempt to realize the first formal meeting between Abe and Xi on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum summit to be held in Beijing in November, they said.

The two leaders have yet to hold one-on-one talks since taking office — Abe in December 2012 and Xi the following March — as bilateral ties have plunged to the worst level in decades due to an ongoing territorial dispute over the Japanese-controlled Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea, and differing perceptions of wartime history.

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In July, Fukuda and Yachi conveyed Abe’s intention to work for the improvement of bilateral ties to Chinese State Councilor Yang Jiechi and Foreign Minister Wang Yi.

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Test expands reach as quality concerns take hold

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While concern over the cost of test is changing attitudes to when and how it’s done, the cost of failure means that we’re now testing everything, everywhere.

We are entering the era of total test: where things remain on test through their lifecycle and not just at the end of the production line to try to avoid failures in the field. Industries such as automotive and aerospace illustrate how attitudes to test have changed. Why? The high cost of product recalls and the increasing reliance on automation for safety.Stefan Singer, automotive field applications engineer at chipmaker Freescale, says the car makers are keen to eradicate component failures: “The trend towards zero defects is a big topic in automotive: customers have moved from measuring the number of failed parts per million to parts per billion.”

This does not necessarily mean that car producers and other manufacturers have suddenly started paying more for the higher quality. “Typically automotive customers look for very cheap solutions,” says Singer.

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Chris White, product development manager of semiconductor test at National Instruments, said at NI Week: “The cost of manufacture has been declining but the cost of test has remained stubbornly flat,”

Rebeca Jimenez, vice president of worldwide test at chipmaker IDT, adds: “Our main challenge is reducing the cost of test and increasing test utilisation.”

Hafeez Najumudeen, product marketing manager for power meters and analysers at Yokogawa Europe & Africa, says: “The need to increase efficiency has taken top priority. Automation is the overall trend even for simple end-of-line tests.”

Even with automation, the tests themselves take time. How long can you afford a product to sit on a manufacturing test rig before you are ready to deem each one good or bad? One option is simply to do more in parallel, which is what companies such as Averna and IDT have done with custom rigs based on NI’s modular test hardware.

“Customers want to reduce test time by testing in parallel with multiple parts on the same station. We run as many tests as possible at the same time to reduce the cost of test and have reduced system cost by 40 per cent with this system,” Jean-Levy Beaudoin, vice president of sales at Averna, said at NI Week, pointing to a dual-device test rig built for automotive subsystem supplier Continental.

Rigs developed by IDT can test up to four chips at the same time. Because the tests do not quite take the same amount of time, IDT test director Glen Peer said the throughput gain is not quite fourfold over a single-site tester but it is providing significant cuts in test cost. Further gains, Beaudoin says, can be made by using intelligent fixtures that detect different parts and adjust the tests to suit so that equipment does not have to be duplicated and then sit idle for long periods because certain products are not coming off the line in a consistent order.

Battery Will Leverage this Smartphone

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Like many others before it, Philips has been known to be one of the top rated modern day pioneers of technology. We have seen the advent of the company in numerous avenues of technology (including medicine), and now the latest avenue to attract the company has become the smartphone market.

There are a host of smartphones in the market to choose from, so it does tend to get a bit messy whenever you go phone hunting. The basic reason here being that you are spoilt for choice. And that's only expected since the market is anyway divided into several categories in terms of specs and price ranges.

However, our job here is to introduce you to anything that you haven't heard or seen in the market, and also reveal whether it will be worth it in the long run. And the new Philips W3500 falls in that category for the time being.

We recently sat down with a review unit of the handset that Philips sent us over. And after playing with the handset for sometime, we have managed to come up with a full review for the same. This will help you further to understand more on the handset.

To be very honest, the new Philips W3500 isn't really the lightest of devices. On the contrary, it will weigh a bit in your hand. Sure smartphones these days sometimes tend to be bigger and heavier, but that's not really a trend most new-age buyers associate themselves with.

Apart from that, the handset isn't as imaginative as you may think, in terms of form factor. It looks quite ordinary with its sort of candy-bar form factor. It isn't the thinnest of handsets either with dimensions measuring in at 142 x 73.6 x 9.7 mm. Also, it weighs in at 170g.

The front of the handset still offers a polished look with the Philips branding on top at the front. There are also the usual capacitive buttons on the front. In the back, the branding name can be found once again on the upper half, just below the primary snapper.

Again, the handset isn't much different from what we see all the time and is made up of plastic. Sure you can use a more trendy word such as "polycarbonate" to describe it, but it's still plastic at the end of the day. The phone's power button has been placed at the right side of the handset while the volume rockers are at the left.

All that being said, it still isn't the most disappointing handset that's currently in the market (and we can take a few names in that regard). The handset offers a solid form and won't necessarily slip out of your hand. Somehow, we believe the phones big weight actually helps it to stay fixed in your hands.

Apart from that, the handset offers a very dated Android Jelly Bean OS that could the deciding factor for the handset in terms of sales. After all, all others in the same category are offering the new KitKat OS.

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If we look at 2014 alone, macroeconomic issues including the Russia-Ukraine crisis or Middle East tensions have certainly changed many views so far. For example, sanctions against Russia and then by Russia on Western nations have affected trade relations, indicating the possibility of hampering trade balance and then the GDP.

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China's Economy Faces Immediate Hurdles

China's economy also faces many hurdles. IHS' chief Asia economist said that China needs to convert economy from "low-cost manufacturing export-driven economy of the past three decades into a higher value-added economy, competing in more sophisticated, higher value-added exports."

A report by Fox Business argues that "A country's wealth is not based on consumer transactions occurring during a calendar year. Cheaper currency to buy cheaper goods or services doesn't equate to wealth — nor does arming consumers with more paper in their wallets." The debate gains strength amid an environment where the country is devaluing its currency.

Certain sector specific steps to stimulate growth itself hints at the sorry state of the economy. Such steps had become necessary following weakness in the property sector and a series of dismal economic reports. This includes industrial production, foreign investment and home prices

A slowdown in the property sector and problems with the country's banking system has put the brakes on China's economy. The slide in the real estate sector has also impacted the growth rate, with the economy expanding only by 6.3% in August on an annual basis. This is a grievous decline from the 7.4% increase experienced in July.

If the situation continues to deteriorate, the economy also runs the risk of missing its yearly growth target of 7.5%. The area of new property under development has fallen by 14.4% till now this year.

President Xi also needs to move China away from a tendency of using nationally owned banks to boost the economy when it veers away from its growth path. This habit has led to an excessive allocation of a large amount of resources to infrastructure and property sectors.

Recently, China Finance Minister Lou Jiwei stated that government will not "make major policy adjustments" based on any one economic indicator. Recently, a report showed that China's industrial production expanded at the slowest pace since Dec 2008. Industrial production increased by 6.9% in August year over year, less than 9% in July.

European Factors to Watch-Shares seen down on poor China data

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LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - European shares were expected to fall on Monday,with disappointing data from China raising fresh concerns about the pace of economic growth in the world's second-biggest economy.

Weekend data showed China's factory output grew at the weakest pace innearly six years in August while growth in other key sectors also cooled,increasing fears the world's second-largest economy may be at risk of a sharpslowdown unless Beijing takes fresh stimulus measures.

Chinese data came just ahead of this week's independence referendum inScotland on Sept. 18 and the U.S. Federal Reserve's policy review on Sept 16-17,making investors more nervous.

At 0629 GMT, futures for the Euro STOXX 50, Britain's FTSE 100, Germany's DAX and France's CAC with battery like Biocare HYLB-683 Battery, Biocare ECG-1210 Battery, Biocare ECG-1200 Battery, Biocare ECG-300 Battery, Biocare ECG-100 Battery, Biocare HYLB-293 Battery, Nihon Kohden BSM-2350 Battery, Nihon Kohden X062/YS-076P5 Battery, Nihon Kohden I 2300 Battery, Nihon Kohden I 2301A Battery, Nihon Kohden SB-201P Battery, Nihon Kohden X076 Battery were 0.3 to 0.5 percentlower.

"China has flapped their hands in the air to remind everyone that they arefacing an abrupt slowdown. With positive cues evaporating and uncertaintystacking up, it's only natural that risk aversion is setting in early thisweek," Jonathan Sudaria, dealer at Capital Spreads, said in a note.

Brent crude slumped to a more than two-year low under $97 per barrelfollowing the data from China, the world's top energy and metals consumer, whilecopper prices fell towards a three-month low.

Investors' focus this week will be on the U.S. Federal Reserve, which maygive clearer hints on when it will hike the cost of borrowing in the UnitedStates. As the U.S. economy picks up pace, the Fed is inching closer to raisingrates, a move that will send ripples across the globe.

The Fed meeting will conclude just a day before a tight vote in Scotland onSeptember 18 on whether to leave the United Kingdom. Until September, all pollsbut one in 2013 had shown the unionists with a comfortable lead but severalsurveys this month show the nationalists have won over hundreds of thousands of Scotland's 4 million voters.

On the mergers and acquisitions front, Dutch brewer Heineken said on Sunday it was approached by larger rival SABMiller about a potential takeover but that its controlling shareholder intended to keep the company independent.

U.S. healthcare conglomerate Danaher Corp said it will buy Nobel Biocare Holding AG in an all-cash deal valued at about $2.2 billion, including debt, to widen its market presence in the global dental industry.

Danish telecom operator TDC has agreed to acquire Norwegian cable company Get AS for around 12.5 billion Danish crowns ($2.2 billion) on a cash and debt free basis, the company said on Monday

Tesla unveils dual-motor autopilot Model S

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First, the D — which stands for dual-motor. A standard Model S has a single electric motor that sits over the rear axle; the dual-motor version (which has a “D” designation at the end of the model number) has a motor that powers the front axle, too. In the case of the standard 60- and 85-kWh versions of the Model S, the second motor increases max range (by 20-30 miles) and reduces 0-60 marginally, but that’s about it. For the performance version of the Model S, though — the P85D — Tesla has added another 221 hp, bringing the total to 691 hp (221 front, 470 rear), which is capable of 0-60 mph in 3.2 seconds and a max speed of 155 mph (up from 130 mph). It’s not entirely clear where this extra power is coming from; presumably Tesla has significantly increased the size of the battery with such as Nihon Kohden PVM-2700 Battery, Nihon Kohden PVM-2701 Battery, Nihon Kohden PVM-2703 Battery, Nihon Kohden ECG-1150 Battery, Nihon Kohden ECG-1950 Battery, Nihon Kohden ECG-9620P Battery, Nihon Kohden ECG-6951E Battery, Mindray MEC1000 Battery, Mindray MEC2000 Battery, Mindray MEC1200 Battery, Mindray PM8000 Battery, Mindray PM7000 Battery. Range on the P85D also increases by around 10 miles, to around 275 miles.

You can see many of these autopilot features in the video embedded above.

All new Tesla Model S cars will get the autopilot sensors and hardware for free. There’s no word on whether current Model S owners can get the sensors retrofitted — but I hope so.

With a 0-60 of just 3.2 seconds, the Model S P85D is one of the fastest accelerating cars in the world — and at least according to the test-driver in the video above, the fastest four-door sedan in the world. Most supercars — Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches — generally hit 0-60 in 3-3.4 seconds. The Model S’s max speed of 155 mph obviously isn’t supercar-class — and perhaps most importantly, we don’t know if the P85D handles like a supercar. Straight-line speed is great — but it’s not exactly hard to build a car that goes from 0-60 in 3 seconds. The hard bit is building a car that can get around corners at speed and won’t be thrown off balance during braking.

In any case, there’s no denying that the P85D is really fast — and all-electric, and very safe, and actually quite good value for money ($127,000 for a fully kitted out P85D isn’t bad, if you compare it to other cars with similar performance).

Personally, I’m more interested in where Tesla takes its autopilot features. With modern cars like the 2014 Mercedes S-Class and Chevrolet Impala, and now the autopilot Model S, we are clearly getting very close to having almost-self-driving cars on the road. Tesla itself has said that it will put a self-driving car on the road by 2016, and I’m sure other car makers are on a similar timeline. Very soon now, we — the insurance companies, the governmental agencies, the car makes — are going to have to work out how to responsibly deploy fully self-driving cars. It’s going to be an interesting few years....

Fujikura 70S Splicer Selected by CTTS for ECOC FTTX Zone Training Demos

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Fujikura Europe has announced that its best-selling fusion splicer, the 70S, is being used by longstanding partner CTTS in its training area at ECOC’s FTTX Zone.

CTTS is a leading recognised international centre of excellence for the provision of training in the Digital Industries sector and each year manages and organises the FTTX Zone at ECOC. Fujikura is the CTTS preferred partner for fusion splicers and has supported the company for over 21 years, recently delivering 70S splicers to train the JT Global Gigabit Field Force in Jersey.

“We have had a long and productive relationship with Fujikura and are pleased to once again be using its equipment in our demonstrations at ECOC in the FTTX Zone. We hope to see lively engagement with industry professionals at this year’s event,” said Martyn Cook with such as Fujikura BTR-08 Battery, Fujikura 11HR-4/3FAU Battery, Fujikura FSM-18R Battery, Fujikura FSM-18S Battery, Fujikura FSM-60R Battery, Fujikura FSM-60S Battery, Omron HBP-3100 Battery, Edan M8A Battery, Edan SE-300G Battery, Edan SE-300 Battery, Biocare ECG-9801 Battery, Biocare LBP144 Battery, Group Chairman CTTS.

The 70S has a rugged construction design to provide the highest reliability by resisting shock, rain and dust, allowing it to withstand a 30 inch drop test on six sides. It also features a wind protector and a tube heater which has been developed for quicker splicing cycles and to reduce the number of operational steps. The unit also includes a high-resolution LCD monitor, powerful Li-ion battery for longer operation time and built in videos for on-the-go training.

“Our flagship splicer is taking centre stage at Europe’s flagship optical conference which is great,” said Neil Bessant, Fusion Splicer Divisional Manager of Fujikura Europe. “We have designed the 70S to be ergonomic, fast and to have great durability whilst reducing splicing time to just seven seconds. I am sure visitors to the show will be impressed by the functionality of the device.”

For more information on products and services, please visit www.fujikura.co.uk. Alternatively, visit Fujikura at the ECOC Exhibition 2014 in Cannes, France between 22 – 24 September at stand 443.

Sheriff's Log

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Paraphernalia, 42800 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Report of guest who approached general manager asking if he wanted to purchase heroine. Deputies made contact with guest, male subject on felony probation. Room searched, paraphernalia found, no heroine. Two arrested.

• Psych evaluation, 41800 block of Garstin Drive, Big Bear Lake Report of a subject who took all of his medications in attempt to commit suicide. He is depressed because his girlfriend left him and he lost his dog.

Sept. 30

CPS follow up, 500 block of Barton Lane, Big Bear City. Unable to locate, bad address.

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Fraud/forged check, 40000 block of Big Bear Boulevard. Reporting party notified that the lock box where she deposited her rent check was broken into. Victim chose not to fill out form and pay fee for stop payment and her check was cashed by suspects.

Petty theft, 41000 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Report of tackle box stolen. It was left on the truck of a vehicle unattended.

Burglary, 100 block of Deer Horn Drive, Big Bear City. Report of unknown suspect who entered residence within the past week by unknown means. Missing items include TV, DVD player, pool balls, pool cues, tools and alcohol.

Possession of a controlled substance, Baldwin Lane at Spruce Avenue, Sugarloaf. Following a traffic stop, vehicle was searched and drugs were discovered. One arrest made.

Death investigation, 900 block of F Lane, Big Bear City. Report of a female with severe medical issues has passed away.

Psych evaluation, 1000 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear City. Reporting party states her daughter is threatening suicide. Made contact with the daughter who admits she is having thoughts of suicide but doesn’t know how to carry through. Contact made with Crisis Response Team and victim taken to behavioral health.

Oct. 1

CPS follow up, 300 block of Maple Lane, Big Bear City. Report of student claiming to have been assaulted by a parent. Unfounded.

Federal offense, 42000 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Reporting party was driving up Highway 18/330 at 2:30 a.m. when he sees paper flying all over the road. He stops to clean it up and discovers 24 $1 bills, all are counterfeit.

Grand theft auto, 38000 block of Waterview Drive, Big Bear Lake. Housekeeper arrives and finds door open and house ransacked. Deputies found a bike and property believed to belong to suspect. A 1955 Chrysler New Yorker vehicle stolen.

Possession of a controlled substance, Meadow Lane at Wendy Avenue, Big Bear City. Pedestrian check, subject found to have an outstanding warrant and in possession of narcotics.

Found property, Stanfield Cutoff at Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Report of a purse found at the west end of the boardwalk along Stanfield Marsh. Wallet and other items inside. Owner notified.

Found narcotics, 100 block of Maple Lane, Sugarloaf. Report of blue container containing pills found. Unknown who they belong to. Taken for destruction.

Oct. 2

CPS follow up, 300 block of Leonard, Big Bear City. Unfounded.

Death investigation, 600 block of Pine Lane, Sugarloaf. Report of a 90-year-old male who died while taking a nap.

Driving under the influence, 41400 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Report of subjects who attempted a beer run but were allegedly too drunk to steal the beer. Driver was arrested and passenger arrested on an out-of-county warrant.

Petty theft, 43000 block of Goldmine Drive, Big Bear Lake. Report of a cell phone stolen the previous week, he is tracking it. Deputies check the area where phone was tracked to, checks negative.

Burglary, 1000 block of Butte Avenue, Big Bear City. Report of an unknown suspect who entered residence through an unlocked door, stole DVD player,

Vandalism, 900 block of Peter Avenue, Big Bear City. Report of neighbor’s front windows and shutters damaged. No one is at the house.

Oct. 3

Unlawful sale of speed, 300 block of Maple Lane, Sugarloaf. Originally reported as an overdose. Found that student gave other students his ADHD medication to ingest. All juveniles checked by paramedics and are fine. Students and parent of the student who provided the medication were cited, students were suspended.

Psych intervention, 42000 block of La Placida Avenue, Big Bear Lake. Reporting party calls for help, is uncooperative, gives incorrect address. He is upset with dispatch. Subject transported to behavioral health.

Domestic battery, 39000 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Female reports that her ex-boyfriend punched her in the face. Male subject, who had been drinking, threw rocks at mobile home causing damage, he punched female victim. Male was arrested.

Oct. 4

Lost property, 500 block of West Valley Boulevard, Big Bear City. Report of gear stolen off of plane. Reporting party actually left a tool box and camera on the ground when loading the plane, sent a friend to airport to locate it later, but it was missing. Security footage doesn’t show items leaving the area.

Driving under the influence, Eureka Drive at Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Deputy stopped driver who attempted to make a left turn but was driving down the wrong side of the street. Driver arrested.

Miscellaneous incident, 40000 block of Forest Road, Big Bear Lake. Reporting party states her ex-boyfriend left with their 13-month-old daughter 12 hours ago and hasn’t returned. They had an argument and he left with the child and went to his mother’s house out of the area. Child is safe, mother told to contact civil court for custody arrangements.

Vandalism, Big Bear Boulevard at Paine Road, Big Bear Lake. Report of a campaign sign damaged.

Domestic battery, 40000 block of Village Drive, Big Bear Lake. Report of a disturbance between boyfriend-girlfriend. He tackled her and she scratched and hit him. Arrests made.

Assault with a weapon, 42000 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Report of an irate subject who started swinging his walking cane while standing in line at the shuttle stop. Hit one victim. Subject arrested.

Assault, 42000 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Mutual assault, victims declined to prosecute.

Resisting arrest, 42000 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. While deputies on scene of earlier call, were asked to assist. Guest asked to leave due to pulling on a waitress’ skirt. Uncooperative and approached deputy in an aggressive manner. Subject arrested.

Disturbance, 42000 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Related to earlier call, friends of subject who was arrested caused a disturbance at the gate.

Oct. 5

Psych evaluation, Big Bear Boulevard at Bonanza Road, Big Bear Lake. Reporting party states a male subject jumped in front of her car and jumped on the hood, seemed aggressive. She kept driving because he seemed crazy. Deputies find subject at the hospital refusing treatment. Subject overheard talking on borrowed cell phone saying he doesn’t want to live. Appears to have been drinking, suffered minor injuries.

Assault, 40000 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Two males exchanged words and punches over a spilled beer.

Vandalism, 41000 block of Big Bear Boulevard, Big Bear Lake. Report of four males entering store to purchase alcohol after 2 a.m., sale denied. Subjects upset and left, allegedly keyed clerk’s vehicle.

Illegal entry, 200 block of Rainbow Boulevard, Big Bear City. Appears subjects tried to enter cabin that was burglarized the week prior. Alarm scared them off, nothing missing.

Miscellaneous incident, 100 block of Winding Lane, Big Bear City. Father calls to report that his daughter sent him a text that she had been stabbed. Called 9-1-1 and needs help. Dad attempted to call her back, but no answer, begins tracking her phone. She may be on her way to a hospital. Deputies find dried blood in entry way of house. Phone tracked to hospital in Apple Valley. Confirmed that female victim was at hospital, walked in on her own. Scratches only, no puncture wounds. Apple Valley deputies took photos for documentation.

Petty theft, 42000 block of Juniper Drive, Big Bear Lake. Subject purchased items at an estate sale, items were left outside. When he returned to pick the items up several hours later, some of the items were missing.

CPS follow up, 41800 block of Garstin Drive, Big Bear Lake. Report of 6-year-old female with injuries, abuse suspected. Mother feels the girl’s father’s new girlfriend is abusing the child. Child said the girlfriend pushed her in playful manner and she fell off the bed. No serious injury or bruising were discovered that were consistent with abuse allegations.

Fluke 500 Series Battery Analysers simplify the testing

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Wake Up to a Vacation in the City that Never Sleeps!

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As autumn flutters into the Big Apple, out-of-town friends and friends of friends (as well as scores of readers of my travel articles) email to ask about the best places to sleep in my city that never sleeps. New York is an especially vivacious visit during the fall—with Halloween hoopla, Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, and the festively decorated drama of December. This holiday season instills extra merriment: dancing Rockettes of Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas Spectacular, ice-skating in Bryant Park, tutu-watching at George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker at New York City Ballet, and the tree lighting at Rockefeller Center—just for starters.

This year, many more travelers have requested recommendations for a “fun, hip, new-ish hotel” rather than a “beloved, tried-and-true grand classic.” (Though I do love that latter category, too!) Thankfully, New York City is experiencing a design-driven hotel boom with battery such as Black Decker PS130 Battery, Black Decker A-9252 Battery, Black Decker A9275 Battery, Black Decker PS3500 Battery, Black Decker TV250 Battery, Black Decker FS120B Battery, Black Decker BD-1204L Battery, Black Decker A12-XJ Battery, Black Decker SX5000 Battery, Black Decker A12EX Battery, Black Decker FS12PS Battery, Black Decker FSD122 Battery. So here are five fresher-on-the-scene properties that exude personality and extend pizzazz-y amenities.

And since most visitors want to applaud Broadway shows, four of these hotels are within easy walking distance of the theater district. The fifth hotel is located downtown, near the Freedom Tower and Statue of Liberty.

Expect eye-catching fun here! Art and photography fans hail The Quin hotel's visual verve. Located on West 57th Street (near Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Fifth Avenue shops, and Central Park), The Quin's vaulted lobby showcases video screens with ever-changing images of iconic celebs, as well as framed black-and-white wall prints and hefty books by famous Magnum photographers.

Before you even arrive, The Quin's personalized service shines, as you're asked pre-trip about special requests. It outfits all of its 208 guest rooms and suites with deluxe DUX beds, as well as Sferra Venetian sheets, Fresh toiletries, Nespresso machines, and Evolve controls that allow you to adjust lighting, temperature, music, and ｗｉｎｄｏｗ shades from your bedside. High-tech touché! Complimentary wifi, too.

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Designed by Perkins Eastman, The Quin is graced with textured walls, handblown glass, and a rotating collection of master paintings and prints that transform the hotel into a haven for those with an artistic spirit. Comfort throughout the building is a priority as well; the marble bathrooms with large rain shower feel luxurious. A TechnoGym fitness center and Apple-outfitted Drawing Room are state of the art yet serene.

Black+Decker 20V MAX Lithium Flex Vac Is a Mighty Mite

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When Black+Decker reached out to see if I might be interested in trying out their new 20V MAX Lithium Flex Vac, I wasn’t all that stoked about it. I’m not a big fan of handheld vacuums, and the kind of mess my household produces — highlighted by active kids and enough dog hair to assemble a new canine every week — is notorious for killing full-sized vacuum cleaners, let alone the little ones. But the high tech MAX Lithium Flex convinced me a cordless vacuum can make quick household cleanup a lot more convenient and proved especially useful on a three week trip to Cape Cod, where a vehicle continually subjected to sand and snack crumbs was in constant need of cleaning.

I’m big enough to admit that what first won me over on the 20V MAX Lithium Flex Vac was its look: it’s not your old school handheld vacuum and it has a rather futuristic appearance.

Aside from its visual appeal, it’s equipped with a 4-foot flexible hose that makes all the difference in utility. Hold the vacuum in one hand (it’s cordless and very light), and the hose means you can reach just about anything without having to crawl around, especially when the you add the attachments.

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It had the power to suck up dog fur by the handful, as well as dirt and small pebbles. There’s no agitator head and it’s not nearly as powerful as the full-sized Dyson Animal
vacuums that have become our go-to, so it’s not a surprise it didn’t perform as well on carpet. It’ll pick up a fur ball, but it’s simply not meant for large-scale deep cleaning. But on hard floors, the 20V MAX Lithium Flex Vac is perfectly capable of handling the daily mess. It quickly became a favorite of my kids because it is so light and there are no cords to deal with — they find it much easier to manoeuvre than our regular upright vacuums. A pet hair brush is also included and it worked quite well on furniture.

In terms of power, the vacuum lasts about 20 minutes on a charge. Set it back on its base station and it’s back up to full strength in a few hours.

Emptying the dust collection canister was easier than with many vacuums I’ve used. Unlock it, twist it off, hold it over the garbage and it opens with a pushbutton. Pretty simple and no-one dumped contents on the floor or got their hands dirty emptying it. When I started to notice suction power fading after a few months of use, removing the filter (another simple twist and pull) and banging the dust out restored it to full strength. That filter is also washable.

The three weeks we spent in Provincetown is where I really came to love the 20V MAX Lithium Flex Vac. We towed our trailer down and I decided to take the vacuum — it’s compact and rechargeable, so it packs easily and there are no external batteries to worry about. It was perfect for keeping the trailer tidy, including vacuuming sand out of the boys’ bed every few days. And when I tackled the truck — sand everywhere from beach visits, crumbs from snacks, wrappers and everything else kids leave behind on trips — the vacuum was not only powerful enough to get the works, but the battery lasted long enough to do it in a single go.

If you’re camping, this little guy is also excellent for catching any flying or crawling bugs that make their way into your tent or trailer — no swatting or smearing required.

If you’re looking for a lightweight, space-saving cordless vacuum to handle quick household cleanups (particularly on hard flooring) with the versatility to tackle other jobs like cleaning your vehicle, the 20V MAX Lithium Flex Vac is a very impressive little machine.

Disclosure: Black+Decker provided a 20V MAX Lithium Flex Vac for review purposes.

Nevada Site Selected for Tesla-Panasonic Battery Gigafactory

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CARSON CITY, Nevada, September 5, 2014 (ENS) – Elon Musk, chairman and CEO of electric automaker Tesla Motors, and Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval announced Thursday that Nevada has been officially selected as the site for the Tesla-Panasonic Gigafactory, a US$5 billion lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant.

“This is great news for Nevada,” said Governor Sandoval. “Tesla will build the world’s largest and most advanced battery factory in Nevada which means nearly US$100 billion in economic impact to the Silver State over the next 20 years.”

But Tesla said it was continuing to evaluate locations in four other states, raising hopes in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas.

Announcing the selection of Nevada, Governor Sandoval said, “I am grateful that Elon Musk and Tesla saw the promise in Nevada. These 21st century pioneers, fueled with innovation and desire, are emboldened by the promise of Nevada to change the world. Nevada is ready to lead.”

“I would like to recognize the leadership of Governor Sandoval and the Nevada Legislature for partnering with Tesla to bring the Gigafactory to the state,” said Musk.

“The Gigafactory is an important step in advancing the cause of sustainable transportation and will enable the mass production of compelling electric vehicles for decades to come,” said the Tesla chief. “Together with Panasonic and other partners, we look forward to realizing the full potential of this project.”

The actual siting of the Gigafactory will await a special legislative session to fulfill conditions of the company’s move.

“On behalf of the State of Nevada, I would like to acknowledge this monumental day and provide my initial support,” said Marilyn Kirkpatrick, Speaker of the Nevada State Assembly.

“This is a significant opportunity to make a major stride to improve our statewide economy,” Kirkpatrick said. “I look forward to receiving the necessary information so the Legislature can meet and take necessary action to support this major industry coming to Nevada.”

If the Nevada Legislature approves the deal, Tesla will receive a total package worth about $865 million to $1.3 billion, according to Steve Hill, executive director of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development.

Tesla will enjoy:

- 100 percent abatement of sales and use taxes for 20 years

- 100 percent abatement of real property tax, personal property tax and payroll taxes for 10 years

- Tax credits worth about $195 million over 20 years

- Nevada will purchase the right of way to USA Parkway to connect Interstate 80 south to U.S. Highway 50 east of Carson City and improve access to the site, approximately 10 miles east of Reno.

Minor revisions in state law will ensure Tesla can sell its cars through company-owned dealerships.

Tesla has promised make it a priority to hire Nevada residents, especially military veterans.

Tesla will contribute an estimated $1.9 billion in tax revenue for all levels of government, state, local and school districts over 20 years.

Tesla also will make a $37 million contribution to K-12 education, approximately $7.5 million a year for five years.

And finally, Tesla will contribute $1 million to battery research at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

The Gigafactory will produce cells, modules and packs for Tesla’s electric vehicles and for the stationary storage market. Tesla projects that the 10 million square foot Gigafactory will employ about 6,500 people by 2020.

Tesla says the plant will turn out 50 gigawatt hours in annual battery production by 2020, enough to power 500,000 Tesla cars.

The Gigafactory will be powered by wind and solar energy. It is designed as a net-zero energy building, meaning that the total amount of energy used by the building on an annual basis is roughly equal to the amount of renewable energy created on the site.

Tesla will prepare, provide and manage the Gigafactory’s land, buildings and utilities.

Panasonic will manufacture and supply cylindrical lithium-ion cells and buy the associated equipment, machinery, and other manufacturing tools.

Tesla will use the Panasonic lithium-ion battery cells to power the Model S as well as the new Model X, a performance utility vehicle that is scheduled to go into production by the end of 2014.

The Gigafactory is expected to bring down the cost of automotive lithium-ion batteries. Cost reductions will be achieved through optimized manufacturing processes driven by economies of scale that have in the past been unachievable in battery cell and pack production.

Panasonic Rides Tesla Wave to Boost Europe Battery Moves

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Panasonic Corp. (6752), the supplier of lithium-ion cells that plans to help Tesla Motors Inc. (TSLA:US) build a battery factory, said cooperation with the U.S. electric-car maker will probably boost demand from European automakers.

“The development with Tesla is catching a lot of attention in Europe,” Laurent Abadie, who heads the Japanese manufacturer’s operations in Europe, said in an interview yesterday. “It could bring some acceleration to this industry. Especially the German carmakers are trying to catch up.”

As a result, Panasonic will be able to expand its leadership in car batteries, which it already supplies to companies including Volkswagen AG, Abadie said. He declined to provide a specific forecast.

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Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. said they are committed to their electric vehicle program and denied a report they may cut battery production and buy cells from LG Chem Ltd.

Tesla, run by Elon Musk and based in Palo Alto, California, won tax breaks worth as much as $1.3 billion from Nevada in the final steps to bring the world’s largest lithium-ion factory to the state. The plant, in which Panasonic is participating, will be able to supply 500,000 cars.

Panasonic is also betting on increasing demand for optical lenses and sensors that allow cars to react to traffic situations without driver input. The market for such components is growing 10-fold every two years, Abadie said.

The technology, adapted from consumer cameras such as Panasonic’s Lumix series, will probably also find buyers in the airline industry, the executive said. Panasonic is in talks with U.S. airlines to supply face-recognition tools that help carriers identify and serve frequent travelers and other high-value customers, he said.

Products from those areas are becoming more important for the Osaka-based company as traditional stalwarts falter. Panasonic has suspended plasma panel production, trimmed smartphone and circuit board operations, and sold a stake in semiconductor factories to focus on faster-growing businesses.

Panasonic shares declined 0.8 percent in Tokyo trading today, trimming their gain this year to 6.9 percent. The company’s market value is 3.21 trillion yen ($29.9 billion).

As a result, Panasonic will be able to expand its leadership in car batteries, which it already supplies to companies including Volkswagen AG, Abadie said. He declined to provide a specific forecast.

Some of Europe’s automakers are reconsidering battery options. Daimler AG said in May it’s working on the “future positioning” of its German Li-Tec battery plant after Manager Magazin reported it plans to shutter the site and turn to LG Electronics Inc. to supply calls for an electric version of its Smart car.

Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. said they are committed to their electric vehicle program and denied a report they may cut battery production and buy cells from LG Chem Ltd.

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Panasonic shares declined 0.8 percent in Tokyo trading today, trimming their gain this year to 6.9 percent. The company’s market value is 3.21 trillion yen ($29.9 billion).

The company reiterated that it intends to make its digital camera business profitable in the fiscal year ending in March. At the Photokina fair in Cologne, Germany, the company is currently presenting new devices including the compact cameras Lumix LX100 and Lumix GM5 to boost its portfolio of small, high-end cameras.

As consumers turn to smartphones and tablets with high-resolution lenses instead of specialized devices, shipments of digital cameras have dropped by more than half over the past two years. That’s driven Panasonic to battle manufacturers including Sony Corp., Nikon Corp. and Canon Inc. for sales with more compact and advanced devices.

Big Data, Identity Authentication and Tsunami Protection

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Hitachi, Ltd., based in Tokyo, Japan, is an electronics and engineering conglomerate and the parent company of the Hitachi Group. Hitachi is involved in an incredibly diverse collection of business segments, including social infrastructure, power systems and digital media. Hitachi’s subsidiaries have been very active in recent days, including Hitachi Data Systems, which recently acquired the data protection firm Sepaton, Inc., a company from Marlborough, MA, which holds a patent portfolio related to data management. Hitachi Metals Ltd. just spent $1.3 billion on acquiring the Wisconsin-based Waupaca Foundry, Inc., the largest purchase completed by that subsidiary. The parent Hitachi company also entered into an agreement with three American universities to develop uses of radioactive with battery like HITACHI DN10DY Battery, HITACHI WR 9DM Battery, HITACHI FEB 12S Battery, HITACHI EB 1230H Battery, HITACHI EB 12 Battery, HITACHI EB12G Battery, HITACHI WH 12D Battery, HITACHI EB1414 Battery, HITACHI EB 1212S Battery, HITACHI EB 1230X Battery, HITACHI EB 1220BL Battery, HITACHI EB1412S Batterywaste material from nuclear power plants as fuel.

Many of the patent applications published recently by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and assigned to Hitachi involve various aspects of data storage and systems for data management, including a method for energy-efficient cooling of data center equipment. Hitachi is also involved in the development of automotive services, and we’ve included one patent application describing a vehicle information system that can improve pedestrian and bicyclist crossings. Other patent applications that intrigued us today include one waterproof panel for protecting a building against a tsunami influx and an identification system that can authenticate a person based on the blood vessel pattern in their finger.

Hitachi enjoys a pretty robust portfolio of intellectual properties thanks to its research and development activities, and data system innovations were again expressed in a number of patents recently issued to the corporation. A couple of the patents which we’ve shared enable better methods of backup operations for data security. We were intrigued by another two patents protecting technologies that authenticate people by analyzing the blood vessel patterns in their fingers and hands, an intriguing area of recent development for Hitachi. Finally, we wrap up with a quick look at a novel method for connecting solar battery cells without the functional shortcomings that can be created when soldering wire connections to these battery cells.

Johnson Controls shops GWS business

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Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI) said Tuesday it has hired bankers to shop its global workplace solutions unit, the diversified manufacturer's latest step in a long-running campaign to refocus around higher-margin businesses.

Milwaukee-based JCI said it has retained Bank of America Merrill Lynch to assist in the divestiture, which comes just weeks after the company announced a reorganization of the business and the departure of the unit's president. The GWS business is a provider of facilities, corporate real estate and energy management that has been part of Johnson Controls for more than twenty years, generating about $4 billion in annual sales.

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"GWS is a strong business and a leader in its market with tremendous potential to grow," Johnson Controls chairman and CEO Alex Molinaroli said in a statement. "As we've focused on it this past year to understand what is needed to win long-term, it is clear that GWS is really an exclusively service-based business and not core to our manufacturing, engineering and product-based portfolio."

The announcement continues an aggressive transformation of Johnson Controls engineered by Molinaroli. The company since the beginning of 2013 has sold down its automotive electronics business, selling a piece to Gentex Corp. (GNTX) for $700 million and the remainder to Visteon Corp. (VC) for $265 million. It also sold its auto interiors operation to a Chinese supplier for an undisclosed sum.

While shrinking automotive, Johnson Controls has used the proceeds to build its building controls and HVAC businesses, acquiring first a controlling stake in Hitachi Ltd.'s commercial air conditioning business and then earlier this year announcing a $1.6 billion purchase of Air Distribution Technologies Inc.

The company has also retained its battery business, manufacturer of both traditional lead-acid automotive batteries and advanced engineering designs for hybrid and electric vehicles. Some analysts have speculated Johnson Controls might eventually try to shed its residential air conditioning business to focus solely on industrial and large buildings, though management has dismissed that talk.

John Murphy, head of the GWS business to be divested, said he believes new ownership will provide much-needed expansion capital. One source suggested Tuesday the GWS unit would likely attract the interest of private equity.

"Our business has only just begun to realize its full potential," Murphy said. "With a new owner we will have access to the capital and resources required to continue to strengthen our business and be a formidable force in the market."

Bosch Blue launches powerful 5.0Ah battery to suit all 18V power tools

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Bosch Blue Power Tools has introduced a new range of premium lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries that will enable professional tradesmen to maximise the use of their tools.

Bosch Blue's new 18V 5.0Ah Premium delivers excellent battery power and runtime capabilities, and is the smallest and lightest 5.0Ah battery for 18 volt power tools on the market, measuring the same size as Bosch Blue 3.0Ah and 4.0Ah Li-Ion batteries and weighing just 620 grams.

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Here's how Apple keeps your iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus battery life up for hours

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Some might be wondering right now, how Apple managed to keep the battery life of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus at correct average for everyday use. Well, the company certainly didn't come up with new battery technology, just a few tricks, one of which we'll be focusing on today.

What Apple has done to achieve good battery life in the iPhone 6, is nothing impressive, as we've seen similar implementations before. Nonetheless, it goes to show that the company still favors battery life over many things, and that is great to see.

Not too long ago, Chipworks tore down the iPhone 6 to see what is inside. What the website came across was quite surprising, as it shows one of the hardware tricks Apple is using to keep battery life from depleting too quickly during a 24-hour period.

The publication found not one, but two accelerometers within the iPhone 6. Now, some might be wondering what the need for two accelerometers in a smartphone are. Well, one, which is a six-axis accelerometer chip, is created by InvenSense, and is designed for gaming, apps and other important tasks. This particular chip is a battery with such as Bosch 2607335268 Battery, Bosch BAT030 Battery, Bosch BAT299 Battery, Bosch GSA24V Battery, Bosch ART 26 Battery, Bosch BAT048 Battery, Bosch BH-984 Battery, Bosch BPT1041 Battery, Bosch EXACT 9 Battery, Bosch PSR 960 Battery, Bosch GSR 9.6V Battery, Bosch EXACT 1100 Batterydrainer, so Apple could not rely on it alone.

This is where the second accelerometer chipset comes into play. Unlike the InvenSense chip, the second chipset is three-axis, and is created by Bosch. The plan here is to use the low powered accelerometer chipset for tasks that do not require a lot of performance, and use the InvenSense chip for the high-performance tasks.

We've seen such tactics before with laptops with powerful battery hungry GPUs. The high performance GPU is designed for gaming, image and video editing tasks, while a low-end GPU kicks in for the regular everyday workload.

The integration of two accelerometers is a prime example of Apple's sophisticated engineering. Both the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus could have worked just fine with the InvenSense accelerometer chipset, but since most apps do not require such power, it would have been redundant.

The addition of the Bosch chipset reduces power consumption, but still allows the handset to stay true to the required user experience.

Black+Decker 20V MAX Lithium Flex Vac Is a Mighty Mite

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I’m big enough to admit that what first won me over on the 20V MAX Lithium Flex Vac was its look: it’s not your old school handheld vacuum and it has a rather futuristic appearance.

In terms of power, the vacuum lasts about 20 minutes on a charge. Set it back on its base station and it’s back up to full strength in a few hours.

If you’re camping, this little guy is also excellent for catching any flying or crawling bugs that make their way into your tent or trailer — no swatting or smearing required.

Disclosure: Black+Decker provided a 20V MAX Lithium Flex Vac for review purposes.

Sorry, Wall Street is closed today!

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NEW YORK - On September 22, one day after the 400,000-strong People's Climate March, another environmental justice event occurred in New York City. "Flood Wall Street," as it was called, targeted the singular place the participants saw as the heart of the problem: the financial district.

By 11 am, the group, increasing in size seemingly by the moment, began moving toward Wall Street. Carrying placards reading 'Capitalism = Climate Chaos,' some 1,000 commandeered the streets to tell the corporate beast that it must become responsible to our planet. Tight, shadowy lower-Broadway was shut down all the way to the water's edge. For the stock and hedge fund people, it must have felt particularly confining.

Quickly, street traffic was halted by the sea of bodies. Among the vehicles blocked were two sight-seeing double-decker buses, a city bus, and a truck. To a soundtrack provided by the Rude Mechanical Orchestra and varied chanting, colorful blue tarps were held aloft above huge sections of the demonstrators. One of these was stretched over the cab of a stalled truck as the driver sat motionless, looking out. Harried New Yorkers had to sit tight as the crowd swelled, blocking out the black-top. Without breaking up the proceedings, the NYPD cleared a path after an hour and let the traffic through; the tourists up on top of the bus cheered the protesters on. As soon as the vehicles were moved out, the human "flood" moved back in, securing the ground, sharing again in song and chant.

Later, in the afternoon some protestors moved into barricaded areas and the police responding intolerantly. Up until then and for most of the day, however, Flood Wall Street was peaceful and non-violent. In contrast to how things probably would have gone under Mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg, the NYPD tactic for this event was geared to making no arrests.

The crowd communicated via the Occupy Wall Street "people's mic" with multiple relays carrying the message outward. Some of the speakers were from other countries. One young man, a self-identified member of the IWW, climbed on top of a pay phone and spoke about the cause of all oppressed peoples. The police stood by close, seemingly unaware of what to do next. He held his ground but was arrested while descending from his make-shift podium.

With the majority of the demonstration happening further south, the action thinned as one walked northward up Broadway. All of the adjoining streets were closed to traffic but Wall Street had a small squadron of police guarding against any entry. Behind the barricades stood several annoyed brokers in European suits trying to get back to work after lunch. New York's finest were standing guard over the institutions of profit and no one was getting by. "Show me your ID please." Fumbling for their wallets, they did.

The irony was unique to the moment: the demonstrators were enjoying a sit-down on lower Broadway with police protection as men with $600 haircuts were being carded.

Just then, a group of visitors intent on taking selfies on the steps of the Stock Exchange were stopped too. "But, officer, I just want to see Wall Street," a blond traveler beseeched the policeman.

The cop's response was, of course, the key phrase of the entire event: "I am sorry but Wall Street is closed today."

The Street would later report that it held its own but if you looked closely, you could almost see it cringe as the echo of chanting soared through the canyons of capital.

Tesla picks Nevada for $5 bln battery plant

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Los Angeles (AFP) - US electric automaker Tesla Motors is to build the world's largest lithium-ion battery plant in Nevada, the state's governor announced, unveiling plans for the five-billion-dollar "Gigafactory."

The plant, plans for which were announced in July with Japanese electronics giant Panasonic, will bring nearly $100 billion dollars into Nevada's economy over the next 20 years, he said.

It will employ 6,500 workers directly and another 16,000 indirectly, and add some four percent to Nevada's Gross Domestic Product, Governor Brian Sandoval announced, in what he called a "historic day" for the western US state.

The deal with Tesla "will change Nevada forever and set in motion the creation of thousands of new job and stream billions of dollars into our economy," he said at a ceremony with Tesla boss Elon Musk.

"No need to say that this is a significant, historic day for all of us," he added, while noting that the deal is subject to legislative review and approval.

When completed, he said, the plant will be the "world's largest and most advanced battery with like Panasonic EY9239 Battery, Panasonic EY9086 Battery, Panasonic EY9182 Battery, Panasonic EY6780 Battery, Panasonic EY9230 Battery, Panasonic EY9226 Battery, Panasonic EY3793B Battery, Panasonic EY9227 Battery, Panasonic PA1562N Battery, Panasonic PA-1564N Battery, Panasonic NATIONAL EZ7000 Battery, Panasonic NATIONAL EZ9107 Batteryfactory."

Nevada was in competition with four other states bidding to host the factory: California, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

The state has pledged a tax incentive package worth some $1.25 billion over 20 years, according to the local Reno Gazette-Journal newspaper.

"This is a Nevada victory," said Sandoval, who did not comment on tax incentives. "We knew that this was an opportunity that we had to fight for," he added.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who represents Nevada, had announced the plans ahead of an afternoon press conference in Carson City where Sandoval announced the details.

"Most importantly for Nevada, this factory will create thousands and thousands of good-paying jobs and be so good for our economic development," Reid told a National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.

The company said in July that it had opened a site in Nevada which could host the Gigafactory but that other locations were still being evaluated.

Tesla will run operations while its Japanese partner will make battery cells destined for the plant and invest in equipment and machinery, according to a joint statement released at that time.

Japanese media previously reported that Panasonic would invest as much as 30 billion yen ($290 million) in the plant.

- An auto industry star -

While Tesla produces relatively few vehicles, it has become a star in the sector due to keen demand and a reputation for high quality.

A surge in its share price over the past year has pushed its value over $27 billion.

Tesla's Model S sells for around $75,000 but it is working on a less expensive Model X that is expected to garner wider appeal.

In July Panasonic and Tesla said the plant should drive down the cost of batteries and eventually help popularize electric vehicles. The Gigafactory will produce battery cells, modules and packs for Tesla's electric vehicles.

It should "enable a continuous reduction in the cost of long range battery packs in parallel with manufacturing at the volumes required to enable Tesla to meet its goal of advancing mass market electric vehicles," they said.

At Thursday's announcement, Sandoval paid tribute to Musk, calling him "a rare visionary who has the courage to reach beyond and to convert the unthinkable into reality."

"We are determined to be a major part of moving our country and our global economy forward," he said, adding, "Today marks a continuation of that dream led by 21st century pioneers like Elon Musk."

Panasonic Rides Tesla Wave to Boost Europe Battery Moves

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As a result, Panasonic will be able to expand its leadership in car batteries, which it already supplies to companies including Volkswagen AG, Abadie said. He declined to provide a specific forecast.

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Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. said they are committed to their electric vehicle program and denied a report they may cut battery production and buy cells from LG Chem Ltd.

Optical Lenses
Panasonic is also betting on increasing demand for optical lenses and sensors that allow cars to react to traffic situations without driver input. The market for such components is growing 10-fold every two years, Abadie said.

Panasonic shares declined 0.8 percent in Tokyo trading today, trimming their gain this year to 6.9 percent. The company’s market value is 3.21 trillion yen ($29.9 billion).

Lumix Models
The company reiterated that it intends to make its digital camera business profitable in the fiscal year ending in March. At the Photokina fair in Cologne, Germany, the company is currently presenting new devices including the compact cameras Lumix LX100 and Lumix GM5 to boost its portfolio of small, high-end cameras.

Worldwide digital camera shipments plunged to 3.5 million units in July from 5.3 million in the same month a year earlier, and from 7.7 million in July 2012, according to the Japan-based Camera and Imaging Products Association.

To contact the reporter on this story: Cornelius Rahn in Berlin at crahn2@bloomberg.net

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Crime Reports

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Arrested on a warrant for aggravated domestic assault

* Douglas W. Sheriff, 44, Liberty Valley Road. Bond: $16,500; court date not stated. Also charged with false imprisonment, interfering with an emergency call, and vandalism under $500.

* Lynnie R. Pettigrew, 30. Bond: $7,500; court date: Sept. 15.

* Clint L. Letchworth, 22. Bond: $5,000; court date: Oct. 6.

Arrested on a warrant for aggravated assault

* Janice F. Young, 65, Culleoka. Bond: $12,000; court date: Oct. 7.

Arrested and charged with domestic assault

* Corey A. Redden, 24. Bond: $2,000; court date: Oct. 6.

* Gary L. Moore, 58. Bond: $1,000; court date: Oct. 6.

Arrested and charged with driving under the influence

* Richard D. Blackwell, 49. Bond: $500; court date: Oct. 6. Also cited for failure to maintain lane and driving without a license.

Arrested and charged with violation of an order of protection

* David E. Caneer, 46. Held without bond for court on Oct. 6. Also charged with simple possession of marijuana.

Thefts and vandalism reported

* The Department of Human Services reported to the Marshall County Sheriff's Department that about $11,320 was missing from the home of an elderly Cornersville man, and his home health nurse could be responsible for the theft.

* A Lewisburg man reported he was away from home the first week of September and when he got back a number of items were missing from his house. They include an Ibanez six-string guitar with a case, a black Xbox 360, a Playstation 3, a 40-inch flatscreen TV, 30 DVD movies, a battery with like Makita BL1830 Battery, Makita LXT400 Battery, Makita BJV140 Battery, Makita BL1430 Battery, Makita TW152D Battery, Makita 1220 Battery, Makita 1050d Battery, Makita 6918d Battery, Makita uc120d Battery, Makita vr250d Battery, Makita 9120 Battery, Makita 6222D Battery, Himedia Q5II 3D Blue-ray ISO SATA Tv Boxcharger on wheels, a five-gallon water bottle, and some change. Total value of the missing property was estimated at $2,527. There were no signs of forced entry.

* A Lewisburg man reported to Marshall County Sheriff's Department someone has been taking small amounts from his bank account since May 2013, and the missing money now totals $1,078. The bank told him he would be reimbursed for the last two months, but no further back.

* A 1985 Nissan pickup truck had the windshield and door windows broken with something like a baseball bat while it was parked at the owner's home the night of Sept. 8 to 9. Cost of replacing the glass was estimated at $500.

* A picture which cost $500 was taken off the headstone of Mary F. Williams in Berea Cemetery on Sept. 8.

* An 18-by-13-inch Sentry safe was found at the side of Reese Road on Sept. 14. It came from a burglary committed in Putnam County the previous day, and has been locked up at the Sheriff's Department until detectives from that county come to get it.

* A Makita power drill and spare battery were reported missing from under the counter of a business on South Ellington Parkway on Sept. 8. No value was stated.

Served with a criminal summons for passing worthless checks at Rex's Foodland

* Tiffany Atwood, 23, Chapel Hill. Court date: Oct. 28.

Served with a criminal summons for theft of property

* Kaci C. Mclean, 24. Court date: Oct. 20.

Arrested on a warrant for theft under $500

* Shelby Jones, 21, Cornersville. Bond: $500; court date: Sept. 30.

Arrested and charged with vandalism

* Evelyn D. Bell, 63. Bond: $500; court date: Oct. 6.

Cited for criminal trespass

* Amanda C. Inman, 23. Court date: Oct. 6.

Served with a warrant at Marshall County Jail

* Jonathan D. Griggs, 25, Chapel Hill. Held without bond for the next available court dates. Charges: failure to appear and aggravated child abuse.

* Lyttle P. Hurt, 20, Heil Quaker Avenue. Court date: Sept. 23. Charge: violation of probation.

* Jacob A. Dye, 37, Silver Street. Bond: $500; court date: Sept. 23. Charge: violation of probation.

* Sean A. Johnson, 21. Bond: $500; court date: Oct. 6. Charge: violation of probation.

Cited for driving without a license

* Brittany A. Jackson, 20. Court date: Oct. 6. Also cited for inoperable tail light.

Arrested and charged with driving without a license

* Blanca A. Romero-Martinez, 20. Bond: $500; court date: Nov. 10.

Arrested on a state warrant for parole violation

* Chad D. Dalton, 36. Held without bond.

Arrested on a probation-violation warrant

* Heather R. Combs, 25, Franklin Road. Bond: $1,000; court date: Oct. 28.

* Forrest R. Hester, 33, Bell Buckle. No bond listed; court date: Sept. 10.

Turned himself in on a probation-violation warrant

* Michael Bonino, 26. Bond: $1,000; court date: Oct. 6.

Served with a criminal summons for violation of probation

* Jennifer L. Cummings, 33. Court date: Nov. 10.

Arrested on a failure-to-appear warrant

* Margaret Howland, 50, Petersburg. Bond: $2,000; court date: Oct. 14.

Cordless Impact Wrench delivers precise fastening control.

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La Mirada, CA — Makita has released a new cordless fastening solution for automotive, installation and fabrication trades with the 18V LXT® Lithium-Ion Brushless 3-Speed ½” Impact Wrench. The new XWT02M combines the extended run time of brushless motor technology with the new 18V LXT® Lithium-Ion 4.0 Ah battery, as well as 3 speed settings for unmatched performance for fastening applications with half-inch sockets.

The new XWT02M is part of Makita’s expanding 18V Lithium-Ion series, which offers 80+ tools and is the world’s largest cordless tool line-up powered by an 18V Lithium-Ion slide-style battery with such as Makita 9600 Battery, Makita 9000 Battery, Makita DA392D Battery, Makita 8400D Battery, Makita T220D Battery, Makita 7000 Battery, Makita 6010D Battery, Makita BMR100 Battery, Makita UM1000D Battery, Makita UH3000D Battery, Makita ML702 Battery, Makita DA3000D Battery. Makita 18V Lithium-Ion batteries have the fastest charge times in their categories, so they spend more time working and less time sitting on the charger.

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“The new XWT02M is the latest in Makita’s long line of expertise, innovation and leadership in cordless fastening tools,” said Mario Lopez, Makita Product Manager, Cordless Tools. “Three speeds with a reversible setting mean more control for fastening applications. And with the efficient brushless motor and the fast-charging Makita 18 volt LXT® Lithium-Ion 4.0 amp-hour battery, they’ll benefit from longer run time and increased productivity.”

The XWT02M is powered by Makita’s efficient BL™ Brushless motor, which is electronically controlled to optimize battery energy use for up to 50% longer run time per charge than similar non-brushless tools. Electronic controls efficiently use battery energy to match torque and RPM to the changing demands of the application for increased power and speed when needed. And since there are no carbon brushes, the BL™ Brushless motor runs cooler and more efficiently for longer life.

The efficient BL™ Brushless Motor with a 3-speed power selection switch gives contractors more control and convenience for a wide range of fastening tasks:

• Low setting: 0-1,600 RPM, 0-1,800 IPM, and 59 ft.lbs. of Max Torque
• Medium setting: 0-2,100 RPM, 0-2,600 IPM, and 129 ft.lbs. of Max Torque
• High setting: 0-2,800 RPM, 0-3,500 IPM and 210 ft.lbs. of Max Torque

For improved tool performance and extended battery life, the XWT02M features Star Protection Computer Controls™. Star Protection is communication technology that allows the Star Protection-equipped tool and battery to exchange data in real time and monitor conditions during use to protect against overloading, over-discharging and overheating. For increased versatility, the tool can also be powered by Makita 18V LXT® and Compact Lithium-Ion batteries with the star symbol on the battery indicating Star Protection inside.

XPT for Added Durability in Harsh Conditions
For added durability, the XWT02M features Makita Extreme Protection Technology (XPT). XPT is a protective seal inside the tool engineered for improved water resistance by channeling water and dust from the tool’s key internal components. The XPT-equipped XWT02M is engineered for improved operation in harsh jobsite conditions.

An added benefit of Makita Brushless Motor Technology is increased motor efficiency in a more compact size. The XWT02M is 5-3/4” in length and weighs only 3.8 lbs. with an ergonomic design and superior balance. Additional features include a 3-stage L.E.D. gauge that indicates battery charge level, and the built-in L.E.D. light with independent on/off switch illuminates the work area for increased visibility. Similar to all Makita impact drivers and impact wrenches, the anvil impact mechanism in the XWT02M is engineered using the best raw materials with the highest quality steel and unique heat hardening process for maximum fastening and driving power.

Big Data, Identity Authentication and Tsunami Protection

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Hitachi, Ltd., based in Tokyo, Japan, is an electronics and engineering conglomerate and the parent company of the Hitachi Group. Hitachi is involved in an incredibly diverse collection of business segments, including social infrastructure, power systems and digital media. Hitachi’s subsidiaries have been very active in recent days, including Hitachi Data Systems, which recently acquired the data protection firm Sepaton, Inc., a company from Marlborough, MA, which holds a patent portfolio related to data management. Hitachi Metals Ltd. just spent $1.3 billion on acquiring the Wisconsin-based Waupaca Foundry, Inc., the largest purchase completed by that subsidiary. The parent Hitachi company also entered into an agreement with three American universities to develop with battery such as HITACHI DN10DY Battery, HITACHI WR 9DM Battery, HITACHI FEB 12S Battery, HITACHI EB 1230H Battery, HITACHI EB 12 Battery, HITACHI EB12G Battery, HITACHI WH 12D Battery, HITACHI EB1414 Battery, HITACHI EB 1212S Battery, HITACHI EB 1230X Battery, HITACHI EB 1220BL Battery, HITACHI EB1412S Batteryuses of radioactive waste material from nuclear power plants as fuel.

Double Lid technology prevents evaporation

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Auto1, Kuwait’s leading aftermarket Company Monday evening launched its newest premium automotive battery-Hitachi SMF, at a glittering ceremony held at the Movenpick Convention Center in Shuwaikh. The high profile launch was preceded by a cake cutting ceremony attended by senior KAPICO officials and Hitachi representatives drawn from the US$93.4Billion Japanese company’s Thailand-based battery manufacturing plant along with the Japanese Ambassador to Kuwait His Excellency Toshihiro Tsujihara.

Assistant Vice President for Auto1, Hussein Fawaz who along with Tarek AlGhannam-KAPICO Board Member attending the event explained the technological features and product differentiation of Hitachi Batteries compared to other brands that are currently on the market.

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Another value added proposition of the Sealed Maintenance Free (SMF) Hitachi Battery is its expanded battery grids that have more longevity compared to the regular casting grids that erode away very quickly, thus making Hitachi automotive batteries a preferred choice for vehicles in Kuwait, especially given the extreme weather patterns prevailing in the country.

Meanwhile, MD for Hitachi Thailand, Toshinori Osumi, further alluded to the superiority of Hitachi Batteries over other brands on the market, stating that Hitachi has long had a tradition of supplying high quality products to the Kuwait market in order to firmly establish the brand as well as introduce the Shin-Kobe technology, the focus of which this time around falls on the Maintenance-Free (MF) Calcium Battery.

The good points of the battery, Osumi added, are its long life, superior quality and relatively low weight. Hitachi Battery, he stated, comes packed with more plates for high charge capacity. The battery also comes with an expanded grid with a higher anti-corrosion performance than those with casting grids. The advanced carbon technology of the new battery, enhances charge acceptance to a whopping 130%, and also boasts an anti short- circuit feature for safety.

The launch was attended by Auto1’s network of distributors and purchasing managers from all of the major Japanese, Korean, Malaysian car dealers, fleet owners as well as finance companies. Hitachi automotive batteries are now available at Auto1 outlets and their distributor network spread across the length and breadth of the country.

Hitachi Limited, headquartered in Japan with their talented team of experienced individuals on the global market, delivers innovations that answer society’s challenges. Hitachi is focusing more than ever on the Social Innovation Business, which includes infrastructure systems, information & telecommunication systems, power systems, construction machinery, automotive systems as well as healthcare and others.

For more information, please contact www. Hitachi.com

KAPICO Group Holding Co. KSCC, the umbrella organization for Auto1 and other subsidiaries, is a privately-owned international corporation with more than 40 subsidiary and joint venture companies spread across 11 countries. The corporation provides a common framework of shared services to its member companies in the following areas of Finance, Human Resources, Marketing & Corporate Communications, and Corporate Affairs. KAPICO’s diverse array of holdings span across the globe and are organized into four core businesses: Automotive, Healthcare, Lifestyle and Infrastructure.

Sailors to pilot 27-foot drone for training

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The submarine development folks at Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport in Washington state have a new toy: an unmanned drone that can dive a half mile under the waves with battery power that lasts out to 72 hours.

The unimaginatively named but versatile UUV, called the Large Training Vehicle 38 — it’s 38 inches in diameter — is a 27-foot-long full-pressure hull built at Penn State’s test lab in 2008.

NUWC-Keyport’s UUV detachment is running through some last operational checks, with LTV-38 getting ready to hit the waves soon. It’s intended for testing and training sailors on piloting underwater drones, Submarine Force Pacific said in an Aug. 28 release with battery like Dewalt DE9038 Battery, Dewalt DE9502 Battery, Dewalt DW9094 Battery, Dewalt DW9091 Battery, Dewalt DW985 Battery, Dewalt DC528 Battery, Dewalt DW906 Battery, Dewalt DC985VA Battery, Dewalt DW918 Battery, Dewalt Q129 Battery, Dewalt PS1200K Battery, Dewalt PS3500 Battery.

LTV-38 is set up to gauge environmental data — things like sea temperature, depth and salinity that can have a big impact on the Navy’s underwater sensors, said Cmdr. Brook DeWalt, SUBPAC spokesman, but LTV-38 can be set up for surveillance missions as well, he said.

The 5-ton LTV-38 is about as long as a killer whale, but much slower. Max speed is four knots. Still, acquiring it is a big deal for Keyport, said Lt. Brian Nuss, officer in charge at the UUV detachment.

“This is certainly a key milestone for Detachment UUV in that we will have a baseline training vehicle for the future of Large Displacement UUVs,” he said in the release.

The drone is capable of line-of-sight and over the horizon communication. It even has the ability to avoid underwater contacts through the use of acoustic sensors, which is a key feature. Among the foremost hazards of underwater drones is the risk of them colliding with vessels or platforms or getting ensnared in nets.

The release makes clear, however, that its contact avoidance capabilities are limited right now.

The drone, developed for Penn State’s Sea Stalker program, was originally designed as a stealthy intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance UUV. Sea Stalker was first launched from the destroyer Bainbridge in 2008.

Sea Stalker was ultimately found useless for the fleet due to power supply problems, according to the Autonomous Undersea Vehicle Applications Center, a website that tracks industry. The Sea Stalker version was powered by d-cell batteries, the same ones that power your boom-box and your nephew’s light saber.

However, DeWalt said the impressive 72-hour power supply in the LTV-38 is due to state-of-the-art lithium-ion batteries.

Alan Beam, who headed the UUV division at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency in the 1990s and curates the AUVAC website, said the LTV-38’s power supply could be affected by transit time to its target area.

“Seventy-two hours is ‘on-station’ time,” Beam said. “If you deploy it close to the ship then it can operate for a long time, but if it has to travel a long ways, it’s going to use up a lot of power getting out there. That will cut into the battery life.”

Beam said the LTV-38, like its Sea Stalker predecessor, could be configured to do just about anything you could want from an ISR platform — from sonar to surface surveillance — and can be equipped with advanced comms equipment to beam intel back.

In the release, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jon Greenert is quoted saying he envisions autonomous underwater vehicles on patrol by the end of the decade.

In May, one of the Navy’s drones was loaned to the Australian navy to search for the downed MH370 Malaysian Airlines flight.

Bluefin 21 is many times more capable than LTV-38. The 16-foot drone can dive nearly three miles beneath the water and can be used for everything from seafloor mapping and mine-hunting to ISR and anti-submarine warfare.

On the new littoral combat ships, the mine warfare package will make heavy use of drones. The Remote Minehunting System, being developed by Lockheed Martin, will have the ability to stay on station for 24 hours, looking for underwater threats and beaming back encrypted data to the mothership, keeping the LCS safely outside the minefield. It is slated to enter the service in 2017.

Drilling to the Problem

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The setting: In low-resource countries, rapid motorization in the last 10 years has led to increasing traffic accidents, which often result in bone fractures. In Uganda alone, hospitals admit 10,000 road-traffic accident patients each year. Currently, low and middle income countries (LMICs) account for 90% of the road-traffic accident trauma burden in the entire world, but only have 10% of the world’s surgical resources – their hospitals cannot afford the proper equipment to provide timely and effective care. One of the biggest factors: a low supply of surgical drills, which severely limits the ability of orthopedic surgeons to care for trauma patients with broken bones. With infection rates ranging from 10-70%, and 3-4 week delays from surgery causing long-term disabilities, this is a major area needing improvement.

Without the proper resources, many hospitals in developing countries resort to hand-powered drills: old-fashioned hand-and-crank powered devices. Imagine a team of expertly-trained doctors and nurses providing emergency medical care for a trauma patient by slowly turning a drill bit with an eggbeater. Using this, a single hole into bone can take upwards of 10 minutes to drill, and can be dangerous because of the lack of accuracy and extra push force required to carve it out.

A few hospitals have received “donated” surgical drills, but these are mostly outdated and without technical support.

“One of the hospitals where we’re working – Mulago Hospital in Uganda – received a donated cordless surgical drill that was 13 years old,” says Lawrence Buchan, cofounder of Arbutus Medical and a graduate student at the University of British Columbia (UBC). “But the company had stopped making replacement batteries with such as Dewalt PS130 Battery, Dewalt A-9275 Battery, Dewalt A9252 Battery, Dewalt CD1200 Battery, Dewalt PS3550 Battery, Dewalt DC9096 Battery, Dewalt DE9039 Battery, Dewalt DW9096 Battery, Dewalt DC390 Battery, Dewalt DW056 Battery, Dewalt DW999 Battery, Dewalt DC9091 Batteryfor it, so it was pretty much useless.”

Arbutus Medical is a UBC student spinoff company that’s now developing a cheap and effective alternative to expensive surgical drills. They want to turn everyday power drills from the hardware store into surgical devices. In the past, the biggest challenge in making this transformation has been the sterilization of the tool. Home power drills just aren’t built to be autoclaved, and the implications of infection from using non-sterilized tools are severe. So, Arbutus is thinking outside the box by creating a sterilizable cover to envelop the drill.

With help from surgeons and nurses at Mulago Hospital (Kampala, Uganda), the Arbutus team has designed a practical solution tailored specifically to the demands of low-resource settings. With ambitions to scale production in LMICs for a widespread improvement of surgical capacity, Arbutus applied for and just received a Grand Challenges Canada “Stars in Global Health” Phase I grant, and is now featured on their front page.

Medgadget had the opportunity to chat about the drill cover with Lawrence Buchan, cofounder of Arbutus Medical.

Making Smart Career Moves

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Swaroop Srinivas started Edu-Next in 2011 with Vivek Desai, his junior from NIT-Surathkal and IIM-Bangalore, to provide personalised career guidance and mentorship services. Over the years, they worked with over 10,000 students from institutions like the IIMs; SP Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai; XLRI, Jamshedpur; Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune; Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies, Mumbai, and professionals from companies like Infosys, JDA, Oracle and Bosch. Based on this experience, they started CareerCarve.com as a platform for job aspirants (both lateral and freshers) to build suitable profiles and apply for relevant jobs, thereby enabling better career choices based on the three pillars — Research, Resume and Recruitment (3R).

“We have used advanced analytics and text mining to create a very personalised, self-paced experience on the website and to recommend curated content to users based on various career-related questions they have. Once they have gone through all this content with battery such as Bosch GSB12VE Battery, Bosch GSR12VE Battery, Bosch IASR 2490 Battery, Bosch BAT011 Battery, Bosch BH1214H Battery, Bosch H1214N Battery, Bosch B2500 Battery, Bosch Skil 3500 Battery, Bosch PSR 120 Battery, Bosch BAT038 Battery, Bosch BAT040 Battery, Bosch BAT159 Battery, they will have all the information they need to make career choices,” explains Swaroop.

Based on their research, users can build a good profile, highlighting relevant experience. The resume builder helps define and refine content based on specific suggestions provided by the text mining engine. Depending on their career queries and profile, the system then recommends specific jobs that they could apply for.

The team which includes Rajagopal Sevilimedu, their investor, understands from their own experience at several multinationals that a bad judgement could lead to inefficiencies in recruitment, in the actual job, in the team and in life as well. Challenges they faced in recruitment also urged them to address the problem. The website is new and has been attracting good traction. They have been piloting it in their professional workshops and college sessions. Their future plans include increasing customer base across sectors, industries and experience levels, and building the job board on the site. Their career blog has also been received very well.

Swaroop says, “While other job portals are of a transactional nature, we have a mechanism to deeply engage with the user for a longer time using our 3R framework. We have a battery of tests vetted by forward-thinking recruiters in the industry, for users to determine readiness/fit in their areas of interest. This enables a user to decide if s/he wants to apply for a job, and if any training/skilling is needed. The efficiency of this will reflect in the long run with lower attrition rates and a more loyal workforce.”

At NIT, Swaroop and Vivek volunteered with the Society for Promotion of Indian Classical Music and Culture Amongst Youth (SPIC MACAY), which taught them about service orientation and how to delight a customer, along with stretching their limits and working under severe resource constraints. “Our professors have played a crucial role in moulding our world view. We have learnt from them perseverance and focus to achieve our goal,” states Swaroop. His advice for entrepreneurs is, “Develop a long-term mindset — if you focus on customer-centric, long-term solutions, India is capable of producing some world class companies.”

Toward the Perfect Electric Bicycle

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Imagine somewhere between 85,000 and 100,000 square feet (around 2 acres or nearly a hectare) crammed with every conceivable type of bicycle, component, and piece of cycling apparel you can think of and many more you can't even imagine: easily a million or more individual SKUs displayed by more than 1200 exhibitors.

That's Interbike. The largest cycling trade show in North America. And while I spent three days roaming the aisles, I'll admit I didn't see half of it all. I certainly never made it down to the basement 'Lab' area or up to the exercise equipment venue.

Held this year at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, the sprawling show attracts manufacturers, distributors and retailers from across the United States, Canada and beyond. And it attracted me. Cashing in some frequent flier miles with battery like Bosch GDR 90 Battery, Bosch BAT001 Battery, Bosch 35614 Battery, Bosch B2220 Battery, Bosch BAT043 Battery, Bosch BAT045 Battery, Bosch PSR1440 Battery, Bosch 3360 Battery, Bosch 32612 Battery, Bosch PSR 12VE Battery, Bosch bh-1204 Battery, Bosch GBM12VE Battery, I made my second pilgrimage to the North American bicycling show-of-shows. The last time was in 2012.

I was, of course, on a mission, of sorts. I wanted to ride - in one place - as many electric bicycles as I could to better narrow down the choice of e-bikes we want to offer at ePEDALER, our rental start-up.

Trust me when I say the job has gotten considerably harder in the last two years. The sheer number of models has increased substantially, as has the quality of the technology. Unlike my previous trip to Interbike, which was held at the Sands Convention Center, closer to the center of the famed Las Vegas Strip, the organizers of the show had created an outdoor test track on the parking lot, in the center of which, some 20 or so vendors had set up tents and easily stationed a 100+ e-bikes to ride. Additional bikes from the indoor show floor also could be rolled outside to ride.

I lost track how many different models I tried, all of them a delight to ride. But I have to say that the standout model in my mind was equipped with the Zehus Bike+ all-in-one (AIO) drive system pictured with me below on the test track. The Italian startup, based in Milan, had equipped three different bicycles with their mirror-finished motor. I first learned of their efforts some two years ago. Only now did I finally have a chance to actually try it out.

Bosch Blue launches powerful 5.0Ah battery to suit all 18V power tools

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Bosch Blue Power Tools has introduced a new range of premium lithium-ion (Li-Ion) batteries that will enable professional tradesmen to maximise the use of their tools.

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The new Li-Ion batteries deliver significant cost savings and consistency to all professional tradesmen using Bosch Blue power tools.

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Burglary reports from Akron police — Aug. 26

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Here are the burglary reports released Aug. 26 by the Akron Police Department.

Anyone with information on the cases is asked to call Akron police detectives at 330-375-2490. Anonymous tips can be made at http://ci.akron.oh.us/ASP/tip.html.

• 400 block Zahn Drive, Aug. 4 to 14, entered by unknown means. Taken: a TV, clothing, photos and keepsakes.

• 500 block Cross Street, Aug. 23 to 24, kicked in door to gain entry. Taken: $100, IPod, Ipad 5, Xbox, PS3, beats headphones, battery with like RYOBI ABP1803 Battery, RYOBI ABP1804 Battery, RYOBI BPL1820 Battery, RYOBI P100 Battery, RYOBI P2600 Battery, RYOBI P3300 Battery, RYOBI HILTI SFB 126 Battery, RYOBI HILTI SBP-12 Battery, RYOBI Milwaukee 0522-20 Battery, RYOBI Milwaukee 0622-20 Battery, RYOBI Milwaukee 6310-22 Battery, RYOBI Milwaukee PSH-18 Battery charger, batteries, misc. video games.

• 300 block Rankin Street, Aug. 23, entered unlocked window. Taken: a TV, PS3.

• 1100 block Avon Street, Aug. 23, cut screen to gain entry to open window. Taken: a TV, Ryobi cordless drill.

• 200 block Sobul Avenue, Aug. 23, entered by unknown means. Taken: PS3, video games.

• 1200 block Niagara Avenue, Aug. 22, entered with key. Taken: three jewelry boxes, jewelry.

• 800 block Jean Avenue, Aug. 20 to 22, entered by unknown means. Taken: hot water tank.

• 600 block South Seiberling Street, Aug. 19, attempted to force door. Taken: pending. Suspect named.

• Massoli’s, 157 Brittain Road, Aug. 22 to 23, broke window in door. Taken: $130.

• 1000 block South Arlington Street, Aug. 22, pushed in window AC unit. Taken: two TVs, liquor, tools.

• 800 block Brown Street, Aug. 24, forced rear door to gain entry. Taken: Xbox 360, personal papers, belongings.

September 18, 2014, at 12:33 a.m

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Half a dozen production assistants, all clad in black, scurry about the stage in the seven minutes between the end of Economics 10 and the start of Computer Science 50. Towering over the commotion and dressed simply in his signature black sweater and jeans is David J. Malan ’99, who tests his mic and toys with the many contraptions on stage. He has spent over 24 hours preparing to deliver this introductory lecture. Students file in.

The stage in Sanders Theatre is flanked by the statues of former Harvard President Josiah Quincy and early patriot leader James Otis. The two stare imposingly at Malan on the 59-ft. wide stage, and out into an auditorium that can seat over a thousand with battery like Sony LED Video Light, Sony video light, Sony Camcorder Video Light, LED Video Light Camera Camcorder Lamp for Sony DSLR , LED Video Light Camera Camcorder Lamp for Canon Nikon Sony DSLR , Camcorder Video Light for SONY Panasonic Canon Video Camera DV , LED Video Light for Canon Nikon Sony, LED Video Light for Sony Camcorder, Video Camera Light For Sony, Sony Digital LED Video Camera Light, Video Camera Light For Sony Camera, Iphone 4s Accessories.

“This. Is. CS50,” Malan proclaims, pausing between each word.

This is the phrase he has said since he began teaching the class in the fall of 2007.

A video clip of YouTube CEO Susan D. Wojcicki ’90 promises that the class will be engaging and important even for students of the humanities like herself, a history and literature concentrator who took the class as a senior, around the same time that Malan was in middle school and most computers were still in black and white.

“CS50 changed my life,” she claims to an eager audience of shoppers ready to believe it.
Over the next 53 minutes, no bell or whistle is spared in making computer science seem approachable and fun. A steel apparatus topped with lightbulbs, built by Ansel B. Duff ’15 and Dan B. Bradley ’14 over the summer, demonstrates the concept of a byte. Immediately rewarded, two students who operate it correctly are gifted with colorful lights for their rooms. In a trademark gag, Malan rips apart a phone book to show how binary search works.

If CS50 were a carnival, Malan would be its charismatic ringleader, seamlessly moving from trick to trick.

Now it’s time for the finale. In a sweeping denouement, Malan introduces LaunchPad, a music mixing device, which will be operated by course “Technologist” Colton Ogden, a slight but muscled EDM geek who wears many hats on Malan’s staff. Ogden graduated from Saddleback College in Mission Viejo, Calif. with a degree in computer science and describes himself on Twitter as a “Budding programmer/game developer, writer, gamer, musician, and person.”

The lights dim until Sanders’ Stage is pitch black. Hundreds of MacBook screens glow in the audience. A video of swirling colorful lights plays behind Ogden. Ogden, whose pale skin shimmers over the light of the controller, begins to play an original adaptation of a techno song, but no sound fills the cavernous theater.

“Quick fix, quick fix!” Malan snaps repeatedly at the production team. This hadn’t happened in the tech run-through in August.

“Quick fix, quick fix!” Aides scurry from inside the tech booth to fix the issue (a loose cord). Malan is forced to uncharacteristically pause and cede control to a question-and-answer session with the audience. There is laughter, perhaps because it is absurd that something usually so seamless has been derailed. Malan jokes about editing the technical difficulty out in post-production before the video is disseminated on the internet. Quickly fixed, Ogden is back in business while booming music closes the show, and cake will follow for all shoppers.

Three days later, minutes before the start of CS50’s annual Puzzle Day, Malan admits disappointment at the botched ending.

“I died,” Malan says. “I would have much rather gone out on a perfectly smooth note.”

Perfectionist is a word that describes Malan to a T. Having taken over the course with a middling enrollment in the low hundreds, in the past eight years Malan has brought it to a peak, with record-breaking attendance and a new energy among students for learning computer science. Despite having seemingly perfected the model for the class, each year brings new gadgets, inventions, and gimmicks.

This year’s lights and music spectacle of 889 strong (not counting the teaching staff) couldn’t feel further from private tutorials in the Barker Center or clunky lectures in dusty Sever. CS50 is exceptional for its size, its resources and the cult of personality around its charismatic leader. It is more than just a class at Harvard; it is a cultural touchstone, a lifestyle, a spectacle. This is CS50, and it’s here to stay.

Authorities seek information on second man seen with Graham

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Investigators have talked to one man and are seeking information on another man seen walking with missing University of Virginia student Hannah Graham early Saturday morning on the Downtown Mall.

One man who was seen on surveillance video following Graham as she walked east on the mall just after 1 a.m. talked to police late Wednesday.

The witness told police a second man walked up to and put his arm around Graham’s shoulder before they continued walking east. That man is described as black, in his late 20s or early 30s, about 5 feet, 11 inches tall and weighing between 250 and 285 pounds. He has a close-shaved head, a goatee and a slight potbelly He was wearing black jeans and a white T-shirt.

“He told police that he was following Ms. Graham as she looked to be somewhat physically distressed, and he wanted to make sure she got safely to wherever she was going,” said city police spokesperson Lt. Ronnie Roberts.

Between 40 and 50 searchers from the city police, the Albemarle County Sheriff’s Office and Virginia Department of Emergency Management scoured city neighborhoods Thursday. On Wednesday, officers also searched the Albemarle County location of where Morgan Harrington’s body was discovered in January 2010. Harrington disappeared in 2009 after walking away from John Paul Jones Arena.

City and university officials, along with several local businesses and individuals, also announced a $50,000 reward for any information leading to the cause of Graham’s disappearance.

Police said they are also hoping to uncover more surveillance footage from businesses. City police Capt. Gary Pleasants said many private businesses downtown either don’t have surveillance equipment or only have internal systems that don’t show the outside walkways where Graham was last seen.

There are no city cameras in the area.

The 18-year-old second-year student went missing early Saturday morning after walking from 14th Street Northwest to Preston Avenue and then onto the Downtown Mall. The mall surveillance video is the last time Graham was seen, at about 1:08 a.m., and her last communication came as a series of text messages sent from her phone just before 1:30 a.m., when the phone died.

Search teams plan to continue to look around houses, through car windows and inside of trash cans for the next few days, setting up a new search command center at the Carver Recreation Center in downtown Charlottesville, a location authorities said is more accessible for their wide search.

“We’re gearing up to sustain this search for a longer duration,” said Albemarle County Sheriff J.E. “Chip” Harding. “The anticipation is [it will go on] at least through Sunday, unless something turns up.”

On Saturday, the Department of Emergency Management plans a mass volunteer search for Graham.

Back on Grounds, university students painted Beta Bridge and rallied Thursday night to raise awareness for their missing peer. The vigil held in the McIntire Amphitheatre dubbed “Bring Hannah Home.”

“We will join to demonstrate our ongoing support for Hannah’s search and loved ones,” said a press release sent out to by the UVa Student Council. “We will join to celebrate the unyielding hope that Hannah will come back to us.”

During the event, students performed some of Graham’s favorite music, distributed her favorite candy, pink Starbusts, and friends shared their memories of Graham.

Authorities describe Graham as white, 5 feet, 11 inches tall, with a slender build, blue eyes, light brown hair and freckles. Anyone with more information is urged to contact the police tip line at (434) 295-3851.

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LED light harnessed to prevent secret snapping of photos

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Smartphone users could soon be thwarted from taking secret photos.

A team led by a Ritsumeikan University researcher has developed a novel system that uses LED lighting to disable the camera function in the ubiquitous devices.

Under the direction of Takeshi Kumaki, a lecturer on electronic and computer engineering, the team designed a system that converts LED light into optical signals. When a smartphone's built-in camera detects such signals, its photo and video-recording functions automatically shut off.

Kumaki hopes manufacturers preinstall special software in smartphones to make the system work. He said the technology has the potential to help prevent secret filming in such places as public facilities with adapter such as Digital LED RF550 Video Camera Light, Digital LED-VL003 Video Camera Light, Digital LED-160A Video Camera Light, Digital LED-187A Video Camera Light, Digital LED-VL002B Video Camera Light, Digital LED-VL001B Video Camera Light, bookstores and company offices.

The current version of the system requires a change in brightness perceptible to the human eye, and does not work properly if interfered with by sunlight or other types of bright light.

However, Kumaki expects such issues to be ironed out, saying: "We can enhance performance with software upgrades. To popularize the technology, I want to first win the support of smartphone makers and users."

Taking photos in secret has become a rising problem with the growing popularity of smartphones in Japan. Functions, such as an artificial shutter sound when photos are taken, have had a limited effect.

In 2012, smartphones were used to commit 30 percent of offenses like snapping inappropriate photos.

Kumaki and his team use an attachment that changes brightness settings for LED light so that light can be used as optical signals to control smartphones. The special software detects the signal when the smartphone camera is turned on.

Using a prototype, the team varied the brightness settings and succeeded in disabling the camera and triggering a text warning on the phone's display.

Sony on integration of products at the 2014 IBC

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Teradek, a manufacturer of professional wireless video products, today announced collaboration with Sony (NYSE: SNE) to integrate Sony's wireless camera adapter (CBK-WA100 and CBK-WA101) with Teradek's T-Rax and Slice H.264 decoders. The integration offers broadcasters a powerful point-to-point MPEG-2 solution for HD live video transmission from the field to TV stations or ENG trucks.

"We're very excited to be collaborating with Sony to create a truly versatile solution for news crews broadcasting from the field," said Nicol Verheem, CEO of Teradek. "Since Teradek products are cost effective and support almost every video transport protocol with adapter like Sony PCGA-AC16V AC adapter, Sony PCGA-AC19V1 AC adapter, Sony VGN-FW350 AC adapter, Sony VGN-NW100 AC adapter, Sony VGN-S460 AC adapter, Sony VGN-SZ390 AC adapter, Sony PCGA-AC51 AC adapter, Sony PCGA-AC71 AC adapter, Sony VGP-AC19V9 AC adapter, Sony PCGA-AC19V1 AC adapter, Sony PCGA-AC16V6 AC adapter, Sony VGP-AC19V10 AC adapter, it was an obvious choice to add support for the CBK-WA100 and WA101 to our Slice and T-Rax decoders."

The Teradek T-Rax is an enterprise rack mount solution for IP-based digital video workflows. At just 2RU, T-Rax allows users to add or remove a variety of Teradek solutions on the fly, including H.264 encoders and decoders, and software platforms such as Sputnik. The system supports any combination of up to 8 hot-swappable cards that can be tailored to your unique requirements at any time. T-Rax starts at $1 490.

"Teradek has been a recommended technical collaborator as the Teradek system is adjusted to the varied demands of modern TV broadcast," said Jin Yamashita, Senior Manager, Product Planning and Marketing Department of Content Creation Solutions Business Division at Sony. "This integration will offer fast and efficient workflow that can meet the growing demand for live streaming solutions in this market."

The CBK-WA100 and WA101 adapter connects directly to a camera and allows XAVC proxy files to be created and then saved on an SD card in the adapter. Then the adapter is able to upload the proxy content and the original high-resolution content via 3G/4G/LTE/WirelessLAN to a broadcast station, on premise server or to a cloud environment. The adapter will support the live streaming capability in early 2015.

Sony will be showcasing the new bundle at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), from 12-16 September, 2014, at the Elicium, Hall 12.

Sony full-frame 16-35mm Zeiss lens one of the company's fastest

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Unlike its rivals, in terms of new product launches, Sony is having a quieter Photokina 2014. But the company is unveiling a new E-mount lens for its mirrorless cameras: the Zeiss Vario-Tessar T* FE 16-35mm F4 ZA OSS full-frame (35mm) lens that’s designed for wide-angle photography (although we wish names for lenses were simpler and shorter). The new lens now makes up a lineup of 24 lenses and adapters for E-mount cameras. In addition, Sony has a few new accessories.

Sony says the new 16-35mm lens is ideal for its A7-series of full-frame mirrorless cameras, which includes the A7, A7R, and A7S (all Digital Trends Editors’ Choice models). Weighing 1 pound, 2.3 ounces, the lens has five aspherical lens elements, which includes one large advanced aspherical element and three ED glass elements; what this means, according to Sony, is that it “ensures outstanding corner-to-corner resolution with adapter like Sony PCG-5211 AC adapter, Sony PCG-6132 AC adapter, Sony PCG-621L AC adapter, Sony PCG-631R AC adapter, Sony PCG-812 AC adapter, Sony PCG-745 AC adapter, Sony PCG-8622 AC adapter, Sony PCG-8000 AC adapter, Sony PCG-9000 AC adapter, Sony PCG-9562 AC adapter, Sony PCG-995L AC adapter, Sony PCG-ELK AC adapter and sharpness, while reducing distortion and minimizing color aberration.” Sony engineers say this is one of the fastest zoom lenses they’ve ever made. The lens has built-in Optical Steady Shot image stabilization to help prevent blurring from shakes.

The lens is weather sealed to keep out dust and moisture. The glass has a coating that minimizes flare and ghosting, while boosting contrast, clarity, and depth with landscape shots and strongly backlit scenes, Sony says. The lens has a constant f/4 aperture to create nice background blurring with a shallow depth of field, regardless of what focal length you’re in.

The lens will roll out in November, and cost approximately $1,350.

Besides the lens, there is a new compact flash for Alpha cameras. The HVL-F32M flash is on the small side, but can be adjusted into various angles for bounce effects. The dust- and moisture-resistant flash “has a variety of advanced flash functions including ADI flash metering, high-speed sync, and Auto White Balance,” Sony says. The flash will list for about $300 this December.

For those who use their cameras to shoot video, there’s a new XLR adapter kit (XLR-K2M) that puts professional-style audio recording into the A7-series cameras, as well as the A99 DSLR, RX10 bridge camera, and VG900 camcorder. The adapter includes an ECM-XM1 shotgun mic. The kit will arrive in October for around $600. Sony says the previous version, the K1M, listed at $900 when it was announced, so it’s a $300 price drop.

Rounding out the accessories is a RMT-VP1K ($70) wireless remote that lets you handle shutter, start/stop movie recording, and zooming, and a new bag for A7-series cameras (LCS-PCS7, $160).

Teradek announces collaboration

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The Teradek T-Rax is an enterprise rack mount solution for IP-based digital video workflows. At just 2RU, T-Rax allows users to add or remove a variety of Teradek solutions on the fly, including H.264 encoders and decoders with adapter such as Sony PCG-FR150 AC adapter, Sony VGN-FZ AC adapter, Sony VGN-FS AC adapter, Sony VGN-FW518 AC adapter, Sony VGN-FW550 AC adapter, Sony VGN-Z880 AC adapter, Sony VPC-W121 AC adapter, Sony PCG-FX AC adapter, Sony PCG-R505 AC adapter, Sony PCG-Z505 AC adapter, Sony VGN-C290 AC adapter, Sony VGN-FE690 AC adapter, and software platforms such as Sputnik. The system supports any combination of up to 8 hot-swappable cards that can be tailored to your unique requirements at any time. T-Rax starts at $1 490.

Sony will be showcasing the new bundle at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), from 12-16 September, 2014, at the Elicium, Hall 12.

Anritsu Introduces Second-Generation LMR Master

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Anritsu Company introduces the S412E LMR Master handheld analyzer developed exclusively for the installation, verification, and service of P25/NXDN and LTE public safety, utility and private mobile communications systems. A lightweight, easy-to-use, battery-operated instrument, the LMR Master combines complete P25/NXDN radio test set functionality with a cable and antenna analyzer, 2-port network analyzer, spectrum analyzer, interference analyzer, and power meter, plus LTE transmitter measurement capability. The first solution that can test emerging 700 MHz narrow band and broadband digital public safety systems, the S412E significantly reduces the number of tools field technicians and engineers need, thereby saving time and money while ensuring accuracy.

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Anritsu has designed the S412E to coverage map BER, significantly simplifying coverage drive testing. P25/NXDN Tx measurements that can be made are received power, frequency error, modulation fidelity, symbol deviation, NAC and BER for 1011 Hz and 0.153 test patterns. BER estimation from voice traffic and BER/MER measurements from control channel traffic can also be performed. The S412E can accurately measure BER down to -115 dBm signal levels to help ensure successful signal transmission – even with local interference or multipath. Constellation, histogram and P25/NXDN control channel hex decodes can be displayed.

A coverage mapping feature allows up to eight hours of BER and RSSI testing to be associated with a GPS location. Coverage mapping also supports received power and BER for 1011 Hz and 0.153 test patterns, BER estimation from voice traffic, and BER/MER measurement from control channel traffic, along with GPS location and time.

FDD LTE measurement options include transmitter RF measurements to verify correct output power and low out-of-channel emissions. Modulation measurements help verify that communications meet data rate targets, even at the coverage edge. Over-the-Air measurements help verify coverage, inter-cell interference, and signal quality without taking the site off line.

The S412E utilizes the field-proven, compact, rugged design of the Anritsu Site Master(TM). A field-friendly battery can be changed in just seconds to extend measurement time. A standard transmissive color display is viewable in direct sunlight and at wide viewing angles.

Anritsu Introduces New Applications Test Solution Focused on Multi

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Anritsu Corporation is proud to announce the planned introduction of the MD8475A Signaling Tester, with capability to test a wide range of applications on the latest high-speed, multi-mode LTE devices. The MD8475A broadens Anritsu’s market-leading 2G/3G and LTE portfolio to include the widest available range of solutions, ranging from R&D to Applications Test, Conformance Test, Operator Acceptance, and Manufacturing. Anritsu will premiere the MD8475A at CTIA Wireless 2011, to be held in Orlando, FL from March 22 to 24, 2011.

The MD8475A Signaling Tester was designed by Anritsu to enable testing of applications for the newest 4G/LTE networks, and builds on existing 2G/3G capability offered by the MD8470A Applications Tester. The popular Wireless Network Simulator (WNS) graphical user interface, originally available in the MD8470A, has been enhanced in the MD8475A to include multi-mode, dual-cell capability, including handovers from 2G/3G to 4G/LTE. Since the MD8475A is a Windows-based instrument, server applications can be conveniently installed into the MD8475A to allow for easy application testing with a single-instrument solution, or external servers can be connected through Ethernet connections.

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The MD8475A is a multi-format signaling tester, with capability to test multi-mode wireless devices, including GSM/GPRS/E-GPRS, 1xRTT, 1xEV-DO, W-CDMA/HSPA, TD-SCDMA, and FDD-LTE. The highest speed commercially available (Category 3) LTE devices can be tested with the MD8475A, with downlink IP-layer throughput to 100 MB/s (including 2×2 MIMO) and uplink throughput to 50 MB/s. The MD8475A enables testing of many types of mobile device applications ranging from traditional SMS/MMS, browsing, and streaming, to advanced applications, such as augmented reality and real-time multi-player gaming. Since high data rate applications have the potential to drain an LTE device’s battery very quickly, the MD8475A enables easy testing on the affect of these applications on a device’s battery performance.

The commercial introduction and start of orders for the MD8475A is planned for Q3 2011.

Mason County teenager sentenced

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Seth Hopps will have to be on his best behavior for the next six months if he wants to avoid a stint in prison.

The 19-year-old was tried Thursday on three counts of theft under $500 and one count of theft over $500, which is a Class 3 felony. The counts all involved theft of car or tractor batteries, which Hopps told his attorney he stole to support a drug habit.

Judge Alan Tucker sentenced Hopps to four years in the Illinois Department of Corrections for the felony count and two years of probation for the misdemeanors. He stayed the D.O.C. sentence until February 2015, though, and strongly implied that if Hopps complied 100 percent with his probation in the meantime, the sentence would be vacated in February and Hobbs would be resentenced to probation.

Mason County Sheriff’s Department officers arrested the 19-year-old in January on theft charges, and he violated his probation in July by smoking marijuana.

During sentencing, State’s Attorney Roger Thompson said Hopps could not be trusted to comply with probation, referencing Hopps’ previous criminal record, including two domestic battery with like Acterna FTB-100 Battery, Acterna FTB-400 Battery, Acterna MTS-5000 Battery, Acterna MTS-5000E Battery, Acterna MTS-5100 Battery, Anritsu Lite3000(E) Battery, EXFO FTB-100 Battery, EXFO Battery, EXFO FTB-400 Battery, EXFO FTB-150 Battery, EXFO FTB-200 Battery, EXFO XW-EX002 Battery charges and an unlawful consumption of alcohol charge that were dismissed.

“This young man at 19 years old has received the benefits and the breaks of this court . . . and still goes back to smoking pot,” Thompson said. “He simply refuses to comply and follow the rules of society and follow the law.”

Thompson also said it was clear the thefts were premeditated because they occurred on four separate days.

“This wasn’t just a one-time fluke occasion,” he said.

Hopps’ attorney Denise Barr said he should be sentenced to probation instead of jail time because he was cooperative with his probation officer, even admitting that he smoked pot.
Tucker deliberated before handing down his sentence, saying Hopps’ case presented a difficult situation.

Normally the court does not sentence first-time felony offender to time in the D.O.C., Tucker said, but Hobbs’ record makes it hard to believe probation would be effective.
Tucker made it clear that this was a final chance for Hopps to get back on the straight and narrow.

“You said that you have seen the light,” he said. “I’m going to give you a chance to prove that.”

Battery Analyzers test critical battery backup systems.

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GL Communications—Network Traffic Simulation Helps Avoid The Nasty Bits

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As traffic intensity increases, network elements (including switches and transmission) can impart various impairments such as errors, excessive delay, congestion, blocking, loss, and degraded quality. Simulating traffic can be valuable to characterize the impairment as a function of traffic intensity and traffic type (e.g., Voice, Fax, Data, Video).

GL's Protocol Emulator platform MAPS™ (Message Automation and Protocol Simulation) performs signaling and traffic generation for a vast array of communication protocols covering IP, Analog, TDM, and Wireless Networks. Examples include testing legacy networks with adapter like Gateway ADP-50GB AC adapter, Gateway P6318 AC adapter, Gateway T-6829 AC adapter, Gateway T-1630 AC adapter, eMachines M5410 AC adapter, Gateway 9500 AC adapter, Gateway MX6961 AC adapter, Gateway NX860 AC adapter, Gateway S7500 AC adapter, Gateway Solo 5100 AC adapter, Gateway Tablet M1300 AC adapter, Gateway MA3 AC adapter (which use conventional signaling such as CAS, SS7, ISDN..), newer generation IP Networks (using SIP, MGCP, MEGACO, SIGTRAN, Diameter..), and Wireless Networks (using GSM, GPRS, UMTS, and LTE).

MAPS™ supports transmission, detection, and capture of various TDM and Analog traffic such as, digits, voice files, single tones, dual tones, and fax after call establishment. The volume of calls can vary from one to hundreds of calls depending on the T1 E1 or Analog platform of choice. MAPS™ series products for TDM are: MAPS™ ISDN, MAPS™ SS7, MAPS™ GSM A, and MAPS™ CAS. MAPS™ CAS includes FXO FXS, R1, MFC-R2, and other variations for analog 2wire and T1 E1—for hundreds of channels. Fax traffic over 2wire analog and T1 E1 is supported for all variations of fax, such as page size, resolution, min & max data rate, and codec type—including high speed fax such as V.34. For GSM, TRAU (Transcoder Rate Adapter Unit) traffic simulation is included with options to create, monitor, and terminate TRAU GSM traffic sessions supporting Tx / Rx of DTMF digits, files, and tones after session establishment.

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•Support for almost all industry standard codec types - G711 (mu-Law and A-Law), GSM (Full Rate), G.729a and many more. For comprehensive information on supported codecs, visit Estimating Speech Quality of Packets.
•Generation and Detection of RTP Events such as Answering Tone, Calling Tone, Special Dial Tone and other Call Progress Tones
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•Supports RTP traffic implementation over Iu-UP (Iu User Plane Interface) interface of the IuCs Network and as per ED-137B of EUROCAE standards. *Requires additional licenses.
Mobile Traffic Simulation module within MAPS™ supports user plane traffic simulation for LTE, UMTS, and GPRS networks. Mobile Traffic Simulation is supported in MAPS™ LTE S1, MAPS™ LTE eGTP-c, MAPS™ UMTS Gn Gp, MAPS™ IuPS, and MAPS™ GPRS Gb applications. It includes the following modules:

•Packet Traffic Simulation—GTP - This module is used to generate IP traffic and verify the same at the other end over GTP (GPRS Tunneling Protocol). The IP traffic can be generated as Sequence Number, Hex string, BER patterns, or playback captured Ethernet traffic (*.HDL) files. This module is supported in MAPS™ GnGp, MAPS™ LTE S1, MAPS™ LTE eGTP-c, and MAPS™ IuPS.
•Mobile Traffic Core - GTP—This module supports user plane packet transmission and reception services between any two nodes (GTP-U protocol entity) in UMTS (SGSN, GGSN, RNC) and LTE (SGW, PDNGW) networks. It allows simultaneous simulation of multiple sessions per user. Currently, it supports HTTP traffic simulation with the base requirements such as port number, server IP address, and pre-canned HTTP traffic file. Each GTP traffic is identified by a Tunnel ID with multiple HTTP connections differentiated by Connection ID. The Mobile Traffic Core - GTP module can support generation and verification of data traffic such as Email, FTP, Web (HTTP), Video, and more.This module is supported in MAPS™ GnGp, MAPS™ LTE S1, MAPS™ LTE eGTP-c and MAPS™ IuPS.
•Mobile Traffic Core - Gateway—This module allows simulation of Gateway and transfer user plane data from RNC to GGSN. It handles GTP tunnels on both direction of SGSN. It can also act as GGSN for user-plane traffic by encapsulating IP traffic over GTP. This module is supported in MAPS™ GnGp, MAPS™ LTE S1 and MAPS™ LTE eGTP-c.
•Mobile Traffic Simulation—GPRS Gb—This module allows simulation of Mobile traffic over Gb interface between BSC and SGSN. Currently, this module transmits the pre-canned HTTP file (*.txt) between BSC and SGSN nodes. It multiplexes both signaling and traffic over Gb interface. This module is supported in MAPS™ GPRS Gb.
MAPS™ supports sending and receiving SMS (Short Message Service) using the signaling channel simultaneous with other voice and data services over GSM or MAP interfaces. It has the ability to push / pull Short Messages over the network as if sent by thousands of mobile phones (Short Message Mobile Originated (SMS-MO)). MAPS™ can transmit a Short Message to a mobile phone (Short Message Mobile Terminated (SMS-MT)). The short message service testing is available on GSM, UMTS, and MAP interfaces. The SMS feature is applicable for MAPS™ GSM A over IP,and MAPS™ MAP, applications.
Traffic Simulation - CLI and Traffic Events creation using Script Editor

In addition to GUI operation, MAPS™ can also be operated through a Command Line Interface (CLI). All the GUI based functionalities can be controlled remotely. Traffic simulation on a local network as well as from a remote location is possible with the client interface. Scripting provides the ability to create ready-scripts for TDM and RTP traffic simulation.

Eyedro EBWEM1 Business Electricity Monitor

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Installing the Eyedro was relatively easy, but if you are not familiar with the workings of an electrical panel, you should have a qualified electrician handle the installation. To start, I shut down the main power to my house and then removed the electric service panel's cover. I opened the clips on two of the sensors, and clipped one to each of the two wires coming into the double pole main breaker, which allowed me to measure overall power consumption. To monitor individual circuit consumption, I added a sensor to the live wire going to the circuit breaker that feeds my office, one to the circuit for my pool pump, and one to the kitchen circuit. I plugged the cords for the main and office sensors into one sensor module and attached the pool and kitchen sensors into the second module that came with the expansion kit. The modules can be attached to a wall stud, or you can just lay them close to each other on a piece of wood, which is what I did.

Next, I connected the gateway module to my router and went to myFreeMonitor.com to set up my monitoring system with adapter such as eMachines D732 AC adapter, eMachines W4630 AC adapter, eMachines G730 AC adapter, Gateway LT3201u AC adapter, Gateway LT1000 AC adapter, Gateway NX550 AC adapter, Gateway 7300 AC adapter, Gateway MX7525 AC adapter, Gateway 4000 AC adapter, Gateway 6000 AC adapter, Gateway MT6800 AC adapter, Gateway NX500 AC adapter. As the name implies, myFreeMonitor.com is a free Web service that provides a portal to your Eyedro system. You have to create an account, which is as simple as entering your email address and a password. Once you log in, you will be asked to add devices using the System Configuration tab. You can then add the Eyedro gateway and associated sensor modules by clicking the Add Device button, selecting Eyedro from the drop-down menu, and entering the serial number located on the back of each module. The software will then add your modules to your account and create a Display Group tab that allows you to view specific sensors and modules by group. This comes in handy if you are monitoring multiple dwellings. Once the account is created and your devices are registered, your usage data is stored in the myFreeMonitor cloud and you can access it from anywhere as long as you have an Internet connection.

The myFreeMonitor portal offers numerous ways to view power consumption and provides colorful graphs that let you see how much power each circuit is using and when it is using it. Clicking the gear icon on the upper right corner of the screen allows you to enter your email address and regional information on the User page. Providing an email address allows the software to send you an alert if communication with the Eyedro is lost (which typically indicates a power outage).

The System page is where you go to add or delete devices. It also displays a list of current devices and their status (active or inactive) and a list of display groups. The Export button lets you export daily, weekly, monthly, and annual usage reports and save them in CSV format. The Rates page is where you enter your billing information, such as electricity rates per kWh, taxes, variable kWh fees, and tiered fees.

On the left side of the home page is a list of plug-ins you can use to view various usage charts. The Highlights plug-in contains an hourly graph of power usage by kWh or by cost for each sensor. You can have it show data from one sensor at a time or all sensors on the system, and you can have it display data in terms of consumption (wattage) or cost. This page also contains a real-time watt meter, minimum and maximum consumption and times, real-time daily totals, projected totals, a comparison to your daily average, a bill-to-date estimate, and a monthly bill estimate.

Taking Legacy Sensors Wireless

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As wireless becomes an increasingly popular communication method across industry, interest is growing in bringing legacy sensor devices into the wireless realm. Here’s one way to do it.

Outside of remote field operations—such as pumps and meters located around vast oil fields—the thought of using wireless devices in industry was largely a non-starter just a few years ago. But that mindset has been changing quickly as more wireless communication pathways have successfully completed testing inside the four walls of production facilities across the process and discrete manufacturing industries.

Though wireless is not always the best or even appropriate communication method for every industrial application, it is well-suited to a number of core functions ranging from applications such as temperature and pressure measurements to equipment condition monitoring and control. Now that the general aversion to use of wireless networks in industry is fading, the biggest hurdle that remains is all the installed legacy equipment that is not likely to be removed any time soon.

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As the main component in a mesh network, WirelessHART gateways act as the interface between the mesh network and the control system or asset management system. “They determine the communication path as well as when and which channel is used to communicate between the individual network devices,” Masters says. “The gateway’s main function is to ensure the best use of network resources in terms of reliability, security, and throughput.”

Pepperl+Fuchs, a supplier of WirelessHART adapters, offers these adapters with the option of being battery or externally powered. Its adapters can act as both a router in the mesh network and a power supply for connected field devices. Depending on the measurement cycles and the energy required for a field device, a measurement battery lifetime of several years is possible, according to Sabrina Weiland, product marketing manager for remote I/O and WirelessHART in Pepperl+Fuchs’ Process Automation Division.

For wireless applications with higher power requirements, Pepperl+Fuchs has developed adapters that use an electronically regulated power supply that operates in the input voltage range of 24V DC-230V AC. “These externally supplied WirelessHART adapters enable the integration of energy intensive instruments, allowing use in applications with frequent duty cycles as well as radar and ultrasonic applications,” says Weiland. “The devices receive and recognize radio signals after configuration, and autonomously build up the link to adjacent network devices. In multi-drop mode, up to four HART devices can be connected to the adapter. In case of power loss, internal energy storage ensures radio operation for at least one hour.”

Despite the ease of deploying self-configuring mesh networks such as WirelessHART, industrial networks tend to become complex—especially when it comes to determining the extent of wireless coverage in a plant. To help with the planning and installation of complex wireless networks in big plants, Pepperl+Fuchs offers the “Wireless Network Checker”, a 3D simulation software that illustrates areas with good network coverage, poor network coverage, and the locations where a repeater must be installed.

Intel's new 18-core Xeon processor sparks server blitz

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Intel launched its latest Xeon family of processors that boasts as many as 18 cores, a 3x performance boost, and support for DDR4 memory for fast application performance in a world quickly moving to software-defined architectures.

The new processor families, known as Grantley, consist of the E5-2600 v3 and E5-1600 v3 processors. Intel unleashed 32 SKUs and an additional 20 custom SKUs designed for customers and their specific workload needs.

A host of system vendors have rolled out servers with the new Intel chip - including Cisco, Dell, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, Lenovo, NEC and Oracle.

The new processor, which uses the Haswell architecture, has up to 50 percent more cores and cache compared to the previous generation processor. The new Xeon is also the first to support DDR4 memory. Intel representatives said DDR4 would provide 25 times higher performance than DDR3 with adapter like IBM thinkpaq X60 AC adapter, IBM thinkpaq Z60 AC adapter, IBM Lenovo 310 AC adapter, IBM ThinkPad E AC adapter, IBM ThinkPad 235 AC adapter, IBM 02K7096 AC adapter, IBM 93P5006 AC adapter, Lenovo 40Y7710 AC adapter, Lenovo 41R4526 AC adapter, Lenovo 45K2209 AC adapter, IBM 92P1212 AC adapter, IBM 85G6698 AC adapter at lower power consumption.

Intel already has a flagship customer under its belt in Australia, with the chip chosen for the latest upgrade to supercomputer Magnus. The machine is described as the "most advanced" scientific supercomputer in the southern hemisphere.

The Cray XC30 machine uses has over 35,000 cores and is capable of petascale processing in excess of a petaflop, which is one quadrillion floating point operations per second.

The upgrade has been described as a "significant milestone in Australia’s scientific history", with Magnus to be used across a variety of research fields, including mining, geoscience, engineering, materials science and bioinformatics.

The machine is located in the Pawsey Supercomputing Centre in Perth, which has been operating since November 2013. Access is provided by iVEC, which is a joint venture between Western Australian universities and the CSIRO.

Intel representatives said that iVEC was one of less than 100 customers and the only one in Australia given early access to the new Xeon E5 processor.

Intel gives compute, storage and networking

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The Intel Xeon E5 chip is a mainstay of enterprise servers and its latest incarnation is designed make it better suited for use in virtualised environments, while boosting performance and cutting power draw over previous generations.

The third generation processor is available in more than 22 SKUs for both single socket servers, as the 1600, and dual socket, as the 2600.

Diane Bryant, general manager of Intel's data centre group, said the processor is designed to provide a common base for compute, storage and network-oriented workloads in the datacentre.

"There is a clear value proposition to running all compute storage and networking workloads on a common architecture," she said at an event launching the processor today.

"We're moving datacentre infrastructure from static to dynamic, from manual to automated, from proprietary to open standard running on a common architecture."

Two hundreds and fifty machines, servers as well as storage and network appliances with adapter like Lenovo 3000 G450 AC adapter, Lenovo 3000 G550 AC adapter, IBM ThinkPad i2600 AC adapter, IBM ThinkPad T22 AC adapter, IBM ThinkPad i1500 AC adapter, Lenovo 3000 N500 AC adapter, Lenovo IdeaPad S10 AC adapter, Lenovo IdeaPad S9 AC adapter, Lenovo ThinkPad R60 AC adapter, ibm lenovo T60 AC adapter, IBM thinkpad R60e AC adapter, IBM ThinkPad Z61 AC adapter, which use the new Haswell-EP-based processor will be available within 60 days. These machines include new releases from large server OEMs, such as Dell and HP. As well as delivering more than 22 standard SKUs, Intel has also released 20 custom versions of the processor tailored to customer workloads.

Overall processor performance is boosted by upping the maximum number of cores to 18, while a range of features have been added to accelerate common datacentre workloads.

One of the new features in the E5 v3 is Intel Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX) 2. AVX 2 improves the chip's ability to handle certain high-performance computing, professional imaging and feature detection tasks, by adding support for fused multiply-add operations on floating point numbers. Bryant said that Linpack benchmarks demonstrated an up to 90 percent performance increase compared to systems based on the previous generation E5 processor. Software handling relevant math, codec, image processing and digital signal processing-related functions should also benefit from a widening of the processor's integer registers to 256-bits. Running certain hashing algorithms delivers a two times performance boost generation over generation, said Bryant.

Another addition is support for DDR4 memory, which offers up to 44 percent increased bandwidth and up to 50 percent power efficiency compared to DDR3 memory supported by the previous generation E5. These benchmarks were generated by Intel using two Intel Xeon E5-2699 v3 processors and 384GB of 2133 MT/s DDR 4 memory arranged in three DIMMs per channel.

Meanwhile the chip's Intel Data Direct I/O feature allows a portion of the processor cache to be allocated to directly write data to HDD or SDD, bypassing the memory, improving I/O performance and reducing demands on memory bandwidth.

Another benchmark found Cloudera's version of the distributed computing framework Hadoop, commonly used for big data storage and analytics, demonstrated 110 percent performance improvement in certain tasks by using the latest version of the E5, Bryant said.

Helping to boost power efficiency is a new feature that allows the chip to throttle the frequency of each core individually. The Per Core P-States (PCPS) feature matches the frequency of each core depending on the load on each core.

The processor also makes information about the processor utilisation, temperature, power consumption and more available through its Node Manager 3.0 firmware. These 22 data points are designed to provide detailed information to the orchestration software used to manage physical and virtual infrastructure.

Other new features are designed to deliver better and more predictable performance to virtualised infrastructures that make cloud platforms possible. The Cache QoS features provides information on the individual virtual machines that are using the cache on processor cores. This information helps infrastructure orchestration engines to optimise where virtual machines should be running, for example shifting VMs taking up large amounts of cache to less heavily utilised processors where they won't cause such a problem for neighbouring VMs.

The processor also introduces support for 40Gb Ethernet controllers, with converged LAN/SAN. To better support network function virtualisation technologies Intel has released the next version of its Data Plane Development Kit, that incorporates support for 40 Gbe and improves throughput for packet processing over previous generation processors.

Blue Turtle recognises Flexera Software's

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Flexera Software, the leading provider of software licensing, compliance and installation solutions for application has announced a new release of the FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises with On Premises availability.

FlexNet Manager Suite 2014 R2 is now available as a fully Web-enabled system for both on-premise and cloud delivery. FlexNet includes Contract Management functionality, such as payment schedules, vendor and document management capabilities, among other features.

In addition, the enhanced Web user interface demonstrates Flexera Software's commitment to flexibility and ease of use of their market leading software licence optimisation products.

The FlexNet Manager Suite includes the following key enhancements:

Web user interface: With this release, the full product functionality is now available via the WebUIUI for both on premises and cloud delivery models.

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* A minimum of two processor licences must be purchased for each physical server.
* The Standard edition licence only permits two Operating System Environments (OSEs) while the Datacenter edition allows unlimited OSEs.

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Metabox Prime Series W230SS-CTG02 gaming laptop

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Rather than offering you one or two stock configurations to choose from, Metabox has a configurator on its site that allows you to pick either a Core i5 or Core i7 CPU, from 4-16GB of RAM, and storage can be swayed from high speed (via SSD) to massive capacity (via hard drive). There are even a couple of choices for screen resolution (Full HD or 2160p), and you can opt to have the lid, palm rest and screen bezel covered in a carbon fibre tape.

All this makes the Metabox an enticing option, and not only one that's fine for gamers. While this and other Metabox units are heavily targeting the gaming market, we think it's a brand you should consider if you just want a powerful yet portable laptop for work purposes, or simply if you're a laptop enthusiast looking for some flexibility. The standard look of the unit doesn't scream 'typical gamer', but is instead a subdued grey and black, with some angles cut into the edges to give it a bit of attitude, and a bulky base so that all the fast components can do their job without overheating.

Specifically, our Metabox Prime W230SS-CTG02 arrived with an Intel Core i7-4710MQ CPU, which has four cores, Hyper-Threading, and a standard clock speed of 2.5GHz, in addition to 16GB of 1600MHz DDR3 SDRAM, an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 860M graphics adapter with like MSI Wind L1600 Ac Adapter, MSI Wind U100 Ac Adapter, LG E500 Ac Adapter, LG P300 Ac Adapter, MSI PR320 Ac Adapter, MSI EX600 Ac Adapter, MSI Wind X620 Ac Adapter, MSI A6000 Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3282U-2ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3377E-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite 4000 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite M60 Ac Adapter, and a 256GB Plextor PX-256M5Pro SSD.

It's a configuration that retails for $1539, which is competitive for a little laptop with so much power inside, and this price also includes a Full HD, IPS-based screen. What it doesn't include is dual-band Wi-Fi. The stock Wi-Fi is a single-band Realtek chip, and you will need to add an extra $20 if you want dual-band (via an Intel 7260 AC Dual Band and Bluetooth adapter).

The CPU speed was excellent in our tests, recording 19sec in the Blender 3D rendering test with all eight threads chipping in, while in the graphics department things were also zippy. 3DMark's high-end Fire Strike test recorded a mark of 3687, while Sky Diver got 11825. In Battlefield 3, we recorded an average of 58 frames per second using a Full HD resolution and 'high' graphics quality, but we had to enable vsync in order to rid the screen of visible tearing during gameplay.

It's a quicker beast than the ASUS G550J that we reviewed last month, and almost as quick as the MSI GS60 Ghost that we saw in May, though that laptop is bigger and it had a RAID 0 array by default. The performance of the Plextor SSD in the Metabox proved to be excellent, with CrystalDiskMark recording a sequential read rate of 510.8 megabytes per second (MBps) and a sequential write of 426.7MBps. It has a formatted capacity of 238GB, though options for hard drives are available if you prefer more storage to speed (we don't).

Battery life was more than acceptable during our rundown test, in which we disable power management, enable Wi-Fi, maximise screen brightness, and loop a Full HD MP4 video file. We got 4hr 44min out of it, and this can be stretched to almost eight hours with a lower brightness or a balanced power profile.

How to choose the right gaming PC

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In general, purchasing a new PC is difficult, but buying a computer designed to play high-end video games, makes things even more complicated, especially if you aren’t familiar with the somewhat complicated PC gaming landscape.

While building a PC from the ground up and choosing your own tower, graphics card, video card, operating system and various other components, is very possible and not as difficult as it was 10 years ago – most components are simply just plug-and-play – I opted to take the pre-built PC route simply just to save time. I’m not at a point in my life right now where I can spend hours tinkering with and researching the perfect PC gaming rig, although at some point I may still build my own computer.

I knew I wanted to spend approximately $900 to $1000 with adapter such as Averatec 1020 90W Ac Adapter, Averatec 5200 90W Ac Adapter, LG P300 90W Ac Adapter, LG M1 Ac Adapter, LG LW60 Ac Adapter, LG R200 Ac Adapter, LG W1 Ac Adapter, MSI M510 Ac Adapter, MSI PR620 Ac Adapter, MSI VR610 Ac Adapter, MSI X480 Ac Adapter, MSI S250 Ac Adapter dollars in order get a build that would last me at least a few years and after looking around at a few pre-built PC manufacturers, I ended up settling on Extreme PC because their prices seemed to be the most reasonable and many of the main components I was looking at seemed to be frequently on sale.

In my first story in this series, I took a close look at navigating the world of PC gaming, particular Steam and its often amazing Steam Sales, and now I’m taking a closer look at the actual gaming rig I’ve ended up getting my hands on.

Taking advice from hardcore PC gaming friends, representatives at AMD, and Extreme PC’s pricing into account, I ended up with a model I’m told will serve my PC gaming purposes for quite some time, especially if I add a few incremental upgrades over the years.

I took into account a variety of factors when deciding on my PC gaming machine’s components, mainly what kind of games I want to play on it, budget, and also ensuring I selected an affordable mid-range APU to save a few dollars. I also wanted to make sure I ended up with a 64-bit Windows operating system so I could utilize more than 4 GBs of RAM, a necessity when it comes to PC gaming.

I wasn’t looking to create an earth-shattering gaming PC, especially given my relatively low budget, but I do want a device that can play the latest games at mid to high graphical settings and so far I’m very satisfied with the computer’s performance. Games like Dirt: Showdown, Crysis 3, Tomb Raider and various other higher-end titles, all run perfectly, even on almost the maximum graphics settings.

I’m not afraid to admit I took advice from friends and experts when selecting many of these components since researching every little thing myself would defeat the time-saving purpose of buying a pre-built PC in the first place.

OCZ Launches ARC 100 Value SSD

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The release of the Vector marked as a change in OCZ's strategy. With a new CEO, OCZ's goal was to change the company's brand image from being a low-cost value brand to a higher-end, high performance and quality SSD manufacturer. For the first time, OCZ decided not to release a value version (Agility-level drive) of its Barefoot 3 platform and only focused on the higher-end market with the Vector and Vertex 4xx lineups. Almost two years later since the introduction of the Vector, OCZ is now finally comfortable with bringing the Barefoot 3 platform to the mainstream market and the ARC 100 acts as the comeback vehicle.

Similar to Vector 150 and Vertex 460, one of the main focuses in the ARC 100 is performance consistency and OCZ remains to be one of the only manufacturers that reports steady-state performance for client drives. The biggest difference to Vector 150 and Vertex 460 is in the NAND department as the ARC 100 utilizes Toshiba's second generation 19nm NAND, i.e. A19nm as Toshiba calls it. Despite the smaller process node NAND OCZ is rating the ARC 100 at the same 20GB of writes per day for three years as the Vertex 460, although the ARC 100 is slightly slower in performance and also drops bundled cloning software and 3.5" adapter with such as Toshiba PA3032U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3165U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3080U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3516U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3290U-2ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3381U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3097U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3396U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3467U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3380U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3237U-3ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3283U-1ACA Ac Adapter.

Given the smaller cell size of the A19nm NAND, OCZ is able to price the ARC 100 more aggressively. At higher capacities OCZ is able to hit the $0.50/GB mark and the ARC 100 is actually very price competitive with Crucial's MX100, which has been our favorite mainstream SSDs for the past couple of months. I am getting back from the US tomorrow and my review samples are already waiting for me at home, so you should expect to see the full review next week!

OCZ Vertex 460 240GB Review

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That last time we heard from OCZ was back before the end of 2013, when the company was in the grips of bankruptcy and nobody was sure what its future held. Fast forward to March 2014, and things are looking rather good for the formerly beleaguered company, much to everyone’s surprise. Rather than simply dissolve and fade away like we had feared, the company has been acquired by storage behemoth Toshiba, and is now operating as an independent subsidiary.

The best news is OCZ’s NAND-acquisition troubles are seemingly a thing of the past, as Toshiba is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of NAND. So, it is no surprise that the first drive we’re seeing from the new venture is essentially a reborn Vector drive, only with Toshiba NAND flash. Dubbed the Vertex 460, this “new” drive blends the company’s proprietary Barefoot 3 controller found on its high-end Vector drives with Toshiba’s with adapter like Toshiba Satellite M205 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Tecra A7 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite L505D Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite T130 Ac Adapter, Toshiba TECRA R10 Ac Adapter, Toshiba terca 8200 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite A660 Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3743U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3049U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3165U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3395U-1BRS Ac Adapter, Toshiba PA3421U-1BRS Ac Adapter19nm MLC NAND flash, so it’s ditching the Micron NAND it used previously. The result is basically a slight watering-down of its Vector 150 drive in order to make it more affordable and consumer-friendly. It also needed to bring its Barefoot 3 controller over to its mainstream line of Vertex-branded drives, so this drive accomplishes that feat, as well.

In many ways, the Vertex 460 is very similar to the company’s recent Vector 150 drive, the only difference being the Vector has a five-year warranty and has a higher overall endurance rating to reflect its use of binned NAND flash. The Vertex 460 is no slouch, though, and is rated to handle up to 20GB of NAND writes per day for three years. The drive also utilizes over-provisioning, so 12 percent of the drive is reserved for NAND management by the Barefoot 3 controller. Though you lose some capacity, you gain longer endurance and better performance, so it’s a worthwhile trade-off. The Vertex 460 also offers hardware encryption support, which is very uncommon for a mainstream drive, and though we’d never use it, it’s nice to have options. Otherwise, its specs are par for the course in that it’s a 7mm drive and is available in 120GB, 240GB, and 480GB flavors. It’s also bundled with a 3.5-inch bay adapter as well as a copy of Acronis True Image, which is appreciated.

When we strapped the Vertex to our test bench, we saw results that were consistently impressive. In every test, the Vertex 460 was very close to the fastest drives in its class, and in all scenarios it’s very close to saturating the SATA bus, so it’s not really possible for it to be any faster. It had no problem handling small queue depths of four commands in ATTO, and held its own with a 32 queue depth in Iometer, too. It was a minute slower than the Samsung 840 EVO in our Sony Vegas test, which writes a 20GB uncompressed AVI file to the drive, but also much faster than the Crucial M500 in the same test. Overall, there were no weak points whatsoever in its performance, but it is not faster than the Samsung 840 EVO, and its OCZ Toolbox software utility is extremely rudimentary compared to the Samsung app. Though the Vertex 460 is an overall very solid drive, it doesn’t exceed our expectations in any particular category. In other words, it’s a great SSD, but not quite Kick Ass

Toshiba Satellite Click 2 review

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This makes sense when you're talking about a detachable 10- or 11-inch screen, but how does it play with sizes you wouldn't normally associate with a tablet? Toshiba sent its 13.3-inch Satellite Click 2 so we could find out.

A 13.3-inch tablet will be big and heavy at best. The Click 2 is simply monstrous, weighing nearly three pounds despite being just over half an inch thick. Windows 8.1 is well suited to touchscreens, and 13.3 inches of screen allows for a big onscreen keyboard that’s pleasant to type on (if only the physical keyboard was as good).

But this is not a hold-in-your-hands-and-do-anything kind of tablet. In fact, it was a little awkward just trying to keep it propped up on my legs. It kept sliding down and wouldn’t stay where I put it.

The weight and bulk of the Click 2’s detachable display make for an awkward experience when docked with its keyboard, too. The combination results in a footprint that’s nearly as big as a 15-inch laptop, and it tips the scales at 4.6 pounds. The dock’s hinge is set a little forward from the edge to prevent tipping, but it's still back heavy and tends to flop over if you tap too hard on its screen.

The Click 2's guts are a step up from the Intel Atom-powered hybrids, but they’re still at the budget end of the spectrum. This $530 model, available only at Best Buy, packs an Intel Pentium N3530 CPU; 4GB of DDR3L/1600 memory; and a 500GB, 5400rpm hard drive. Yes, a spinning hard drive in a tablet; and yes, it slows things down. An 802.11ac adapter with like Toshiba PA3717U-1ACA Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite 1100 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite 1600 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite 1900 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite 1905 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite 3000 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite L10 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite A105 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite A110 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite A135 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite A200 Ac Adapter, Toshiba Satellite A80 Ac Adapter and Bluetooth 4.0 support round out the internals. Other configurations are available on Toshiba’s website.

The 13.3-inch screen runs a disappointingly low 1366x768 pixels. That's fine on a smaller tablet, but details look pretty blown out on a display of this size. You can easily pick out individual pixels. Viewing angles and brightness levels are good, however, and Windows scales to take advantage of the extra inches even if there aren't extra pixels.

On the outside, you'll get a full sized SD card slot, a single USB 2.0 port, and a micro HDMI port. There is also a USB 3.0 port on the keyboard dock. I find the micro HDMI port the most disappointing as there is room for a full size port on such a large machine. Why force consumers buy an extra cable?

Toshiba credits Skullcandy for its help in tuning the Click 2’s sound and you’ll find that company’s logo on the keyboard dock (DTS also contributed its tech). But the stereo speakers—located on the back of the tablet—produce disappointingly thin sound that lacks any richness or warmth.

The keyboard dock comes with Toshiba's TruType keys, which are basically the same chiclet keys you're used to. I found the keys to be oddly small with lots of space between them. While the feel is good, key presses just get lost or doubled on the way to the tablet way too often. The track pad is okay. It's big enough, but doesn't always pick up edge gestures or two finger scrolling as smoothly as I would like. I often found it easier to simply reach up and touch the screen.

Android 4.4 mini-PC packs 64-bit quad-core Atom punch

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Minix is prepping a sub-$150 mini-PC running Android 4.4 on a quad-core Intel Atom Z3735F and featuring WiFi, Bluetooth, IR, Ethernet, and USB connectivity.

Intel’s Atom Z37x5 system-on-chip, the second generation of its 22nm Z3000 (Bay-Trail-T) family, is beginning to appear in Android- and Windows-ready tablets such as the Toshiba Excite Go, as well as a “Sharks Cove” single board computer from Intel and Microsoft. Now we’re starting to see mini-PCs built on the tablet-focused SoC. Last week Zotac unveiled a tiny Zbox P1320 Pico computer that ships with Windows 8.1, and now Minix is prepping a Minix “Neo Z64″ miniPC for those who would prefer to run Android 4.4.

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Like the $199 Zotac Zbox P1320 Pico, the Minix Neo Z64 uses the Atom Z3735F, one of at least nine variants of the Atom Z37x5, such as the very similar Z3735G model used on the Sharks Cove board. The Atom Z37x5 SoCs feature improved Intel HD Graphics. In the case of the Atom Z3735F model used here, the graphics run at 311MHz, or 646MHz in burst mode.

The quad-core Atom Z3735F is further equipped with 2MB of cache, and it supports clock rates of up to 1.83GHz. According to Fudzilla, Neo Z64′s standard Atom SoC supports 1.33GHz (1.58GHz in turbo mode), although 1.83GHz is listed as the top speed on the data sheet. Intel does not list TDPs for the Bay Trail-T SoCs, but the SoC is said to burn 2.2 Watts as measured by the chipmaker’s more generous Scenario Design Power (SDP) scheme.

Like the Zotac Zbox P1320 Pico, the Minix Neo Z64 can run either Android or Windows 8.1, but it ships with only one OS: in this case, Android v4.4.4. The Atom Z3735F’s 64-bit architecture suggests the Neo Z64 should also be able to run the 64-bit compatible Android L (perhaps Android 5.0?), which is expected this fall.

The Neo Z64′s sub-$150 price includes 2GB of DDR3L RAM and 32GB of eMMC storage. More storage is potentially available via the microSD slot and the dual USB 2.0 slots. According to Fudzilla, you can blame the lack of USB 3.0 not on the Neo Z64, but rather on the underlying SoC, which lacks support for the newer USB version.

The Neo Z64 offers 802.11n WiFi and Bluetooth 4.0, as well as a 10/100 Ethernet port that is said to support WiFi hotspot sharing. It provides an HDMI 1.4 port, a 3.5mm audio jack, and an IR receiver and remote for media player duty. The system is further equipped with a DC 5V power supply with included 3A adapter. No dimensions were provided for the device, which appears to be larger than the Zotac offering.

According to Minix team-member John’s announcement of the Neo Z64 on Minix’s discussion forum, “It comes with Android 4.4.4 OS, but Windows 8.1 may also be installed (however, dual-boot is not possible). Also, the great thing about Intel is that it’s completely open source. There are none of the issues related to N.D.As associated with RockChip and Amlogic, everything developers need will be freely available. So hopefully this will make a great developers box, and I’m sure in time Ubuntu and other Linux distros will be ported to the NEO Z64.”

Lumsing PBJ-6200 Power Bank

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I charge my iPhone 5s every night -- it's pretty much a standard routine. Although people moan about the iPhone's battery life, I have no complaints. In fact my old Samsung Galaxy S III needed charging more regularly. But every so often a little extra battery boost is required, which is fine if I'm at home, but less convenient when I'm out and about (and I have no interest in being a wall hugger). This is where an external battery pack can come in handy.

Lumsing's PBJ-6200 Power Bank has already proven to be a life saver in the couple of weeks I've had it. The device is roughly the same dimensions as my phone -- 4.88x 2.64 x 0.51 inches (124 x 67 x13 mm) -- and has a 6,000mAh capacity, which is enough to charge my iPhone about three times (a Galaxy S4 twice, or an iPad mini once).

It weighs 6.49 oz/186g and offers a 1.5A microUSB port for charging (it comes with a cable for connecting to a PC or USB adapter with such as Samsung NP-N210 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-N220P Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-N310 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-NF110 Ac Adapter, Samsung NoteMaster 486S Ac Adapter, Samsung ND10 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP900X1A Ac Adapter, Samsung NP900X1B Ac Adapter, Samsung NP900X3A Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-X460 Ac Adapter, Samsung Q40 Ac Adapter, Samsung P60 Ac Adapter, but there's no wall charger included), and two USB out ports -- one 1A port and one rated at 2.1A, so it's suitable for charging all manner of devices. It's even powerful enough to charge two devices at the same time.

It's stylishly designed, with an aluminum alloy shell, and four blue LEDs on the side which indicate the charge level when you hit the silver power button. Four lit LEDs equals 100 percent charge, three and one flashing is 75-100 percent, two and one flashing is 50-75 percent, one and one flashing is 25-50 percent and one flashing is less than 10 percent.

Charging the Power Bank is just a matter of plugging it in and clicking the power button. Two LEDs flash sequentially, showing it's charging.

Available in black and orange, or silver and blue, it's priced at £50 on Amazon.co.uk (it's out of stock at Amazon.com), but is currently selling for just £14.99.

While it's difficult to get too excited about a battery pack, the PBJ-6200 Power Bank is very stylishly designed, and smartly packaged. And, it comes at a price it's hard to argue with. If you need to charge a phone or tablet when you're away from a plug socket, it offers the perfect solution.

Samsung NX mini Mirrorless Interchangeable Lens Camera Launched in India

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Samsung has officially launched its awaited NX mini camera in India, first introduced in March this year.

The South Korean smartphone maker has collaborated with Amazon India to sell its NX mini camera exclusively on the e-commerce site. The mirrorless interchangeable lens camera has been listed with two kit options. Coupled with the NX-M9mm F3.5 ED lens it is priced at Rs. 22,990, and coupled with the NX-M9-27mm F3.5-5.6 ED OIS lens it is priced at Rs. 27,490 respectively. Users will also receive a free camera bag worth Rs. 1,999 as a part of a launch offer.

Touted as the lightest and thinnest camera featuring interchangeable lenses, the Samsung NX mini features a large 1-inch 20.5-megapixel BSI CMOS sensor, and will be available in White, Pink, Mint Green, Brown, and Black. The mirrorless interchangeable lens camera comes with a leather finish over a solid metal body, and will feature support for a total of 15 interchangeable NX lenses using a special NX-M Mount Adapter with like Samsung NP-R620 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-RV720 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-Q320 Ac Adapter, Samsung NC110 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-X130 Ac Adapter, Samsung Series 5 Ac Adapter, Samsung NT-R439 Ac Adapter, Samsung NT-R440E Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-P330 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-Q330 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-RV508 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-N148P Ac Adapter.

The NX mini has a 3-inch, 320x480 pixel (460.8k dots) touchscreen that can be flipped 180 degrees. The NX mini also features a 9-mm wide angle lens that allows the user to click a 'wefie' by winking at it. Two seconds later the camera takes what the company is calling a 'wink-shot'. The Wink Shot feature lets users wink at the camera while taking a selfie or a wefie in order to take the shot. The Samsung NX mini takes a shot automatically one second after the wink is recognised.

The NX mini can shoot pictures at 6fps in the Continuous Shot mode and also has a 1/16,000 second shutter speed for fast moving scenes. The ISO range on the camera is from 160-128000.

The NX mini features extensive storage options where users can upload pictures directly to Flickr and Dropbox. Samsung has also teamed up with Dropbox to offer 2GB of free cloud storage. Users can upload up to 1TB of images to Flickr.

In addition, the NX mini also has Wi-Fi and NFC integration. The Samsung Tag & Go feature will allow the camera to pair with other NFC-enabled devices. Users can select and transfer multiple images, control the NX mini via a smartphone, use remote View Finder Pro and can also use the camera as a baby monitor when paired with a smartphone via an app. The Photo Beam feature transfers the image seen in the camera on the paired smartphone. AutoShare is another feature that automatically saves the shot captured by the camera onto the paired smartphone as the user clicks the images.

The Samsung NX mini has a body weight of 158 grams, and a slim 22.5mm design. Three types of NX mini (NX-M) lenses that were introduced alongside the camera in March, include the NX-M 9mm ultra-slim, wide-angle F3.5 ED lens that can be used to take selfies. The NX-M 9-27mm F3.5-5.6 ED OIS micro-compact zoom lens and the NX-M 17mm F1.8 OIS bokeh lens are the other two lenses.

"This shift in our strategy is created to meet the needs of our customers who are constantly looking for the best in technology. We understand the buying patterns of our consumers and are constantly strengthening our network to cater to their evolving needs. This offering through Amazon.in will enhance accessibility for the NX mini camera," stated Asim Warsi, Vice President, Mobile & IT, Samsung India.

Look a G3! (No not the plane)

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Hey there, Tech Savvy fans! As promised again, this week we're taking a look at another pretty fantastic device courtesy of our friends at Verizon Wireless - the LG G3.

It's a never ending job keeping up to date on which smartphones and devices are going to be at the top of the heap, and to add to the mix we have the LG G3 which brings some new features that we have not seen from smartphones before.

LG, headquartered in South Korea, has been around for decades and actually was at the forefront of the tech boom in the early days. Of course, when I say the early days, I mean in the last 15 years. Their TVs were very popular, known not only for their quality but also the consumer friendly price point.

In the phone and device world LG had mixed success at first. Initially they made the standard cellphones like everyone else made but they also kept up as the phones added features and became the predecessor to the smartphone. Those feature phones with adapter such as Samsung NP-RV411 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-300E Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-RV420 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-QX411 Ac Adapter, Samsung Series 3 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-RV515 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-RV520 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-RV709 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-RV711 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-Q460 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-E452 Ac Adapter, Samsung NP-E252 Ac Adapter, as they were known, were very popular as well; I owned a number of them myself. Like LG's TVs the feature phones were durable, pretty well advanced and, IMHO, LG seemed to do a better job than most at providing the features and devices that the consumers requested.

However, as the smartphones began to dominate, LG was shuffled behind some of the other brands like Apple, Samsung and Motorola. It's not that they didn't put out a competitive phone, they were just lost in the mix. Well, no more. The G3 comes out of the gate as a ready-to-use, full featured smartphone that packs enough punch to definitely be taken seriously by its competitors.

The phone is big. At 5.76 inches high and just under 3 inches wide, it's not quite as big as the Note but is larger than my DNA and many of the other smartphones out on the market right now. The G3 boasts a 5.5-inch screen, which also incorporates LG's Quad HD display, which claims four times the resolution of regular HD. It is stunning. You don't notice it out of the box with the home screen but take a couple pictures and you'll see what I mean. The G3 also has a 13MP camera which is significantly higher than the usually standard 8MP. They have also incorporated a laser auto focus which uses a laser to measure the distance to the objects in focus to make the image even more clear.

Sure, you may think that the differences are slight between 13MP and 8MP when you're viewing it on a 5.5-inch screen, and you'd be correct. However, you now need to begin taking into consideration apps like Mosaic that allow you to submit photos from your camera for print. Or when you want to send your pictures to Shutterfly to be made into a wedding album as a gift, you will be glad you had that extra resolution.

Don't forget, too, that with that awesome camera and 4 times HD, it also makes for outstanding video quality. Again, it's not so much that you need this to view it on your phone's screen, or even on your laptop, but with LG's history with TVs they understand that now people are streaming content from their phones to larger screens. Having this intense amount of resolution means that you can share your pictures and videos on a large screen TV, or projector, and you won't have pixelation or latency issues like you do when using lower quality feeds.

Like some of the other newer Android phones you can unlock the screen with a double tap. Vice versa, you can also put the display to sleep by double tapping. To expand on that with the G3, though, you can also set up a Knock Code where a customized series of taps will act as your password to unlock the screen.

A couple other interesting features of the G3. The power button and the volume rocker are located on the back of the phone, rather than the sides and/or top like many other devices. The volume rocker isn't so much a rocker on the G3 either - the power button separates the volume controls, so you actually have a series of three buttons on the back. They are indented into the back plate, and I have experience pros and cons to this set up. Because they are all located together, in a centralized location on the phone, it makes it much easier to reach all three buttons for people who don't have large hands, like me. The buttons are also very tactile; you definitely know when you are using them and they are easy to navigate even if you can't see them. One downside to this layout is that they are in a location that virtually no other phone has them so there is a significant learning curve at first. It's hard to get out of the mindset that there are no buttons on the sides of your phone.

The other downside, potentially, is that if you carry your phone in a pocket like I do there is a chance you may bump them accidentally. I didn't have too much of an issue with it - I tend to not have anything else in my pockets to bump into it - and I also can't see inside my pockets when I'm wearing my pants. However, the indents that the buttons are in make the tops of them flush with the back so LG put a lot of thought into the functionality.

Call quality and speaker quality are about what you'd expect from a top-tier smartphone. I was really impressed with the battery, a 3000mAH lithium ion behemoth that ran for hours. Even when the battery ran down when I plugged it in it recharged pretty quickly.

One major plug here for Android, and really every other phone and device other than Apple products, is that it is a huge benefit to be able to use micro-USB cables for everything. I really wish Apple would give in and adapt but I suppose why do that when you can convince millions of people that it's OK to just buy another $20 cable. Doesn't it drive you nuts when you forget your lightning adapter and everyone else only has 30 pin connectors?

The only other thing that you should be aware of is that the headphone plug is at the bottom on the G3 as well - just like the Xperia that I reviewed last week and any number of other devices that are coming out. Personally, I'm just not a fan of that idea. As I mentioned last week, it really doesn't affect me too much as I've switched to Bluetooth headphones but I just don't know why they made that switch. I do think it's more inconvenient on a tablet than smartphones but it still isn't something I'd go out of my way to find.

All in all the G3 is a solid offering from LG and it blazes on Verizon's 4G LTE. I love that LG has continued to innovate not just their software and firmware but also how their hardware makes the experience better as well.

Make sure to check out the G3 if you're looking for a new upgrade, and keep your eye on LG as they continue to produce these highly competitive featured devices.

Sơ lược lịch sử USB

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Diễn đàn triển khai USB, một nhóm các công ty chịu trách nhiệm phát triển cổng này, hoàn toàn nhận thức được vấn đề nói trên, và họ đang có kế hoạch giải quyết nó bằng mọi loại kết nọi gọi là USB Type-C. Cổng giao tiếp này được thiết kế để thay thế cho USB Type-A và Type-B vốn đang xuất hiện cực kì phổ biến trên các máy tính, điện thoại, máy tính bảng, máy ảnh và rất nhiều loại thiết bị ngoại vi khác. Cổng Type-C sẽ được xây dựng dựa trên cấu hình USB 3.1 mới với băng thông rộng hơn, tốc độ truyền tải dữ liệu nhanh hơn với độ ổn định cao hơn.

Có thể rằng trong vài năm tới, USB Type-C sẽ trở nên phổ biến và thay thế hoàn toàn mới dây nhợ mà chúng ta phải mang theo trong người. Còn ở thời điểm hiện tại, đặc tả kĩ thuật của Type-C chỉ mới vừa hoàn toàn và nhanh nhất là phải đến sang năm thì các công ty mới bắt đầu triển khai chuẩn mới lên các sản phẩm điện tử tiêu dùng. Trong lúc chờ đợi Type-C xuất hiện, chúng ta hãy cùng xem lại sự phát triển của USB qua ngần ấy năm with adapter like HP PPP012H AC Adapter, HP PPP012L AC Adapter, HP PPP018L AC Adapter, HP WE449AA AC Adapter, HP ED519AA AC Adapter, HP EX978AV AC Adapter, HP NW199AA AC Adapter, HP ED494AA AC Adapter, Compaq Presario CQ430 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario CQ630 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion G7 AC Adapter, HP Omnibook XE3B AC Adapter, cùng với đó là những tiêu chuẩn đã, đang và sẽ muốn cạnh tranh với USB.

Nếu bạn đã từng sử dụng máy tính trước thời USB xuất hiện trong các máy tính Pentium và Pentium II, chắc hẳn bạn sẽ biết đến sự cực khổ khi kết nối các thiết bị ngoại vi vào máy tính vì khi đó người ta phải xài cả tá tiêu chuẩn khác nhau.
Muốn gắn chuột? Bạn sẽ cần đến cổng PS/2 hoặc cổng Serial. Còn muốn xài bán phím? Lại là PS/2, còn không là Apple Desktop Bus hoặc DIN.
Trong khi đó, để gắn máy in hay máy scan vào PC thì bạn phải dùng cổng parallel vừa to vừa dài, ổ cứng rồi thì gắn vào PC bằng cổng SCSI (đọc là "Scơ-zi").
Chưa hết, thập niên 90 còn có những card âm thanh rời tích hợp cổng game port để kết nối với tay cầm chơi game.

Bạn có thể thấy vấn đề rắc rối xảy ra rồi đấy. Một vài cổng cần người dùng gắn thêm các card mở rộng, một vài cái thì quá to, một số thì tốn thời gian để cấu hình hoặc sửa lỗi khi gặp sự cố. Thế rồi đến cuối những năm 90, các máy tính bắt đầu được trang bị USB ở mặt sau thùng máy.

Lúc đó USB chỉ mới dừng lại ở chuẩn 1.1 và tốc độ truyền tải dữ liệu vào khoảng 12Mbps (hoặc 1,5Mbps đối với các thiết bị ngoại vi như chuột và bàn phím). Các nhà sản xuất phụ kiện không chuyển sang USB ngay lập tức, tuy nhiên dần dần bàn phím, chuột, máy tính và nhiều thứ khác bắt đầu bao gồm cổng USB như một tùy chọn, để rồi sau đó trở thành kết nối chính.

Khi USB 2.0 trở nên phổ biến hơn vào giữa những năm 2000, nó bắt đầu thay thế cho nhiều thứ hơn. Ổ lưu trữ USB là một trong những thủ phạm chính gây nên cái chết của ổ đĩa mềm (cùng những biến thể như ổ đĩa ZIP), đồng thời góp phần vào sự mờ nhạt của các phương tiện lưu trữ quang học.

Vì sao bạn lại phải mất công ghi đĩa CD, DVD để lưu dữ liệu trong khi bạn có thể làm điều đó với một chiếc bút nhớ USB với kích thước gọn hơn, nhanh hơn và linh hoạt hơn?

USB 2.0 cũng mở đường cho những phụ kiện tốc độ cao, ví dụ như adapter Wi-Fi, ổ quang rồi, cổng Ethernet mở rộng... Trước đó, những thứ này phải gắn vào bên trong máy tính chứ không thể xuất hiện như một vật gắn rời.

Vậy vì sao USB 2.0 lại có thể tạo ra một sự thúc đẩy mạnh mẽ đến như thế? Tất cả là nhờ vào tốc độ truyền dữ liệu tối đa đạt mức 480Mbps.

Thế rồi ngày càng nhiều nhà sản xuất mang kết nối này vào các máy tính, cả desktop lẫn laptop. Đối với máy tính để bàn thì việc có nhiều hơn 4 cổng USB 2.0 ở mặt sau thùng máy không còn là chuyện quá kinh ngạc, chưa kể mặt trước cũng có 2 cổng nữa để giúp người dùng thao tác thuận tiện hơn. Với laptop thì việc sở hữu 2 hoặc 3 cổng USB cũng là điều bình thường.

USB đã thật sự cất cánh nhờ vào USB 2.0, và USB 3.0 đã đưa kết nối này lên một tầm cao mới. Nhờ vào tốc độ truyền tối đa 5Gbps mà USB trở nên hữu ích hơn nữa trong các tình huống sử dụng mà mình đã đề cập ở trên. Bạn sẽ tốt ít thời gian hơn để sao lưu cả hệ thống của mình, bạn tốn ít thời gian hơn để di chuyển phim sang ổ cứng rồi, các adapter Wi-Fi 802.11ac và Gigabit Ethernet cũng không còn bị tình trạng nghẽn cổ chai. Cũng nhờ tốc độ cao mà bạn hoàn toàn có thể chạy cả một hệ điều hành lưu trên ổ đĩa rời bên ngoài, cực kì tiện dụng khi cần sửa lỗi máy hoặc khi cần xài cho việc gấp.

USB 2.0 rồi cũng được thay thế bởi USB 3.0 bởi các nhà sản xuất PC bắt đầu từ năm 2010. Hiện nay hầu hết những chiếc máy tính bán ra đều sở hữu ít nhất một cổng USB 3.0, và cũng nhờ khả năng truyền điện tốt hơn mà bạn có thể xài USB 3.0 để sạc smartphone, tablet của mình với thời gian ngắn hơn.

Đây là một trong những tính năng mà Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, HP thường nhấn mạnh đối với các sản phẩm của họ. Một số công ty thậm chí còn nghiên cứu và triển khai thành công cách sạc thiết bị ngoại vi bằng USB 3.0 mà không cần bật máy tính lên.

USB 3.0 còn nhận được sự hỗ trợ của hầu hết các công ty lớn trong lĩnh vực sản xuất chip và CPU, từ Intel cho đến AMD hay Qualcomm. Hiện chipset của Intel có thể đảm đương cùng lúc 14 cổng USB, một con số mà ít ai có thể mơ đến ở những ngày đầu chuẩn kết nối này bắt đầu xuất hiện trên thị trường.

Nói cách khác, USB vẫn đang tiếp tục được phát triển và đồng thời nhận được nhiều sự hỗ trợ từ các tên tuổi nổi tiếng trong thế giới công nghệ. Chỉ riêng đầu USB Type-A xuất hiện trên tất cả các máy tính cá nhân hiện nay đã có tuổi đời gần 20 năm. Xét về những kết nối mà cổng này đã thay thế, chúng ta có thể thấy rằng USB đóng vai trò cực kì quan trọng trong việc định hình nên thế giới IT của chúng ta ngày nay.

Tổ chức Quảng Bá USB 3.0 mới đây cũng đã thông qua đặc tả kĩ thuật hoàn chỉnh của USB Type-C, thế hệ cổng giao tiếp mới được kì vọng sẽ xuất hiện trên các thiết bị điện tử tương lai.

Phần cổng kết nối của Type-C chỉ có kích thước tương đương microUSB và nó cũng nhỏ hơn khá nhiều so với cổng USB Type A hoặc Micro B mà chúng ta đang dùng hiện nay. Một điểm quan trọng ở Type-C đó là nhờ thiết kế đối xứng mà người dùng có thể cắm cáp theo bất kì phương nào mà họ thích, không còn phải để ý mặt trên hay mặt dưới nữa. Đây cũng là cách mà Apple áp dụng cho cổng Lightning của mình.

Được phát triển dựa trên cấu hình USB 3.1 nên Type-C hỗ trợ truyền dữ liệu với tốc độ tối đa lên đến 10Gbps (1,25GB/s), gấp đôi so với USB 3.0, đồng thời cho phép truyền tải điện với công suất cao nhất là 100W.

Trong tương lai, USB Type-C sẽ thay thế không chỉ cổng USB kích thước đầy đủ mà còn thay cho cả microUSB nữa, từ đó đưa thế giới tiến đến một chuẩn USB duy nhất xuyên suốt nhiều loại thiết bị khác nhau.

Giờ thì chúng ta đã có cấu hình hoàn chỉnh cho USB Type-C, câu hỏi còn lại đó là khi nào thì các hãng sản xuất sẽ bắt đầu tích hợp nó vào những sản phẩm thương mại, và liệu có cơ quan chức năng nào bắt buộc sử dụng USB Type-C nhằm giúp loại bỏ các rắc rối mà người dùng gặp phải khi phải đem theo cả tác dây sạc và bộ sạc cho thiết bị của mình hay không. Type-C hiện đang nhận được sự hỗ trợ của nhiều công ty lớn như Intel, Microsoft, STMicroelectronics, HP, Texas Instruments...

2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe Coupe

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Since its launch in 2012, the ATS sedan has earned praise for the way it caresses corners, but its styling is by no means extroverted. The lower, wider stance of the new 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe goes a long way toward elevating its looks to match its energetic dynamics.

The ATS coupe also presents a pleasing mixture of powertrains and equipment packages via two engines, automatic and manual transmissions, rear- or all-wheel drive and four levels of trim. It's a formidable addition to the lineup that can go toe to toe with any of its German rivals.

Calling the 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe simply a two-door version of the ATS with adapter such as HP Pavilion DM3 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion DV1000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion DV4000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion DV5000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion DV6000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion DV8000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZE4900 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZT3000 AC Adapter, HP TouchSmart TX2 AC Adapter, HP DC895A AC Adapter, HP EG410AA AC Adapter, HP EH642A AC Adapter is selling it short. Although its 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder and optional 3.6-liter V6 are the same power plants available in the ATS sedan and the coupe's chassis is much the same, the sheet metal of the ATS coupe is almost all-new, with the hood and headlights essentially the only carried-over exterior parts.

Cadillac made a big effort to visually lower and widen the two-door ATS, giving it a meaty look that the sedan lacks. The 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe is 1.4 inches wider and an inch lower than the sedan and it's quite noticeable. Maybe even more striking is the 0.8-inch increase in track, the distance between the wheels on the same axle.

With fender flares sensuously stretched over that spread-out rubber, the ATS coupe instantly imparts the impression of being more hunkered down: not as drastically bullfrogged as its direct rival, the BMW 4 Series, mind you, but enough to alter its sedan sibling's taller stance.

In its most basic format (2.0-liter turbo engine and rear-wheel drive) the 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe weighs 3,411 pounds, 38 pounds heavier than the similarly configured four-door ATS.

This is notable for two reasons. First, coupes sometimes are laughably heavier than their sedan counterparts, for reasons that are suspiciously murky to those outside of automotive engineering.

More importantly, the ATS coupe is claimed to be the lightest car in the segment. For those down to the nitty-gritty of choosing between the overtly sporty cars in this segment, the ATS coupe's light weight is a virtue worth noting.

The ATS sedan's standard 2.5-liter four-cylinder base engine didn't even make the cut for two-door duty, so "base" power for the 2015 Cadillac ATS Coupe is a 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder that delivers a chesty 272 horses and 295 pound-feet of torque. The torque figure, in fact, marks a hike of 13 percent over the engine's 2014 rating (the ATS sedan gets the same upgrade).

It translates to a 0-60-mph gallop of 5.6 seconds, according to Cadillac, which is enough to top the BMW 428i by a tenth of a second. And our initial test-drives affirm the 2.0-liter's exceptional midrange shove. With either the six-speed manual or six-speed automatic, this engine's overall power is more than adequate.

You can get your very own clutch pedal only with the 2.0-liter and rear-wheel drive. Cadillac is leaving the minuscule manual-transmission, all-wheel-drive market to the Europeans.

Cadillac offers the trusty 3.6-liter V6 as the upgrade engine for the 2015 ATS Coupe, here fronting 321 hp and 275 lb-ft of torque. It, too, can drive just the coupe's rear wheels or all four wheels if you opt for the AWD system. The latter is a very flexible system that can transfer as much as 100 percent of available power to the front axle if conditions merit.

How to find your IP address

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Our step by step guide explains how to find out the IP address of your PC, iPhone, iPad or Android device.

An IP address is the number which makes a device identifiable on a network. Compters, network printers, smartphones, tablets, media streamers and all other devices on your home network have an address in the format 192.168.1.10. The first two numbers should always be the same for home networks, but the third may be different depending on your router. Some use 1, some use 2, and some use 0. The final number is the unique number of the connected device, ranging from 0 to 255.

Typically, your computer will have an IP address only if it's connected to a router. Otherwise you won't see much information when you follow the instructions below. Only computers which have been assigned a static (fixed) IP address will report an address when they're not actually connected to a network.

How to find your IP address in Windows (and how to find your router's IP address)
In the Start menu (or start screen in Windows 8) type cmd.exe and press Enter.

This will launch Command Prompt - a black window like the one below. We're using Windows 8 here, but it's basically the same in previous versions of Windows.

Make sure you click on this new Window and then type ipconfig and press Enter as below.

What you'll see is a load of information about your computer's network adapters with like HP Compaq NX6310 AC Adapter, HP DV4 AC Adapter, HP DV5 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario M2000 AC Adapter, HP Compaq NC8000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion N5400 AC Adapter, HP Compaq v2000 AC Adapter, HP Compaq NX8220 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZE4500 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZE2000 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario V6000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion DM1 AC Adapter. In the screen below you can see the IPv4 address is 192.168.3.40. This is the computer's IP address. The Default Gateway is the router to which the computer is connected, and its address is 192.168.3.1.

If you need extra details such as the network adapter's physical address (also known as the MAC address), then type 'ipconfig /all' (without the quotes) at the prompt and press Enter. The physical address of our laptop's Ethernet adaptor is F0-4D-A2-DE-41-B5:

First, tap on the Settings app, then on Wi-Fi. You will obviously need to be connected to a router or access point to have an IP address.

So, tap on the 'i' to the right of the network to which your device is connected and you will see its IP address, along with your router's IP address.

Customers being reimbursed for free

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HP has recalled over six million LS-15 AC power cords in the US and Canada over potential fire and burn risks.

HP and the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said there have been several claims for minor burns and property damage following 29 reports of the power cords overheating and melting.

Read more: Nest recalls almost half a million potentially useless Protect smoke detectors

In a statement, the commission said, "Customers should immediately stop using and unplug the recalled power cords and contact Hewlett-Packard to order a free replacement."

The cords, used with HP and Compaq branded laptops, were sold worldwide in stores and online with notebook and mini notebook laptops and other accessories between September 2010 and June 2012.

This is not the first time HP has been forced to recall products. On two separate occasions, in 2010 and 2011, it had to recall potentially dangerous laptop batteries after receiving 40 reports of incidents including skin burns and smoke inhalation.

Customers can contact HP to obtain a replacement cable either by calling 1-877-219-6676 or by visiting HP's website.

In a statement to ITProPortal, the company said, "In cooperation with various government regulatory agencies, HP has announced a worldwide voluntary recall and replacement programme for certain AC power cords used with AC adapters shipped with HP and Compaq notebook and mini notebook computers, as well as with AC adapters provided with accessories such as docking stations, sold from September 2010 through June 2012.

"Customers should validate their AC Power cord on the programme website.

"HP customers affected by this programme will be eligible to receive a replacement AC power cord for each verified, recalled AC power cord at no cost. We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused. Your safety is our top priority."

HP recalls 6M laptop cords for fire risk

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Hewlett-Packard Company is recalling about 5.6 million notebook computer AC power cords in the U.S. and another 446,700 in Canada because of possible overheating, which can pose a fire and burn hazard.

HP has received 29 reports of power cords overheating and melting or charring, resulting in two claims of minor burns and 13 claims of minor property damage.

The Hewlett-Packard LS-15 AC power cords were distributed with HP and Compaq notebook and mini notebook computers, and with AC adapter-powered accessories including docking stations.

The power cords are black and have an "LS-15" molded on the AC adapter with such as hp compaq R3000 AC Adapter, HP Compaq NX9100 AC Adapter, HP Compaq NX9110 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZV5000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZD7000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion ZX5000 AC Adapter, HP ZV5200 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario r4000 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario R4200 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario x6000 AC Adapter, HP Compaq nx9600 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion zd8000 AC Adapter end of the cord. They were manufactured in China.

The notebook and mini-notebook computers and accessories were sold with the AC power cords at computer and electronics stores, authorized dealers and online at www.hp.com from September 2010 to June 2012 for about $500 to $1500.

Those affected are advised to immediately stop using and unplug the recalled power cords and contact Hewlett-Packard to order a free replacement.

The computers can still be used on battery power.

Consumers can call Hewlett-Packard toll-free at (877) 219-6676 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday.

They can also go online at www.hp.com and select "Recalls" at the bottom of the page, then select Power Cord Recall.

Hewlett-Packard recalls 5 million power cords

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WASHINGTON -- Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) is recalling about 5.6 million notebook computer AC power cords in this country and another 446,700 in Canada because of possible overheating, which can pose a fire and burn hazard.

HP has received 29 reports of power cords overheating and melting or charring, resulting in two claims of minor burns and 13 claims of minor property damage.

The Hewlett-Packard LS-15 AC power cords were distributed with HP and Compaq notebook and mini notebook computers, and with AC adapter-powered accessories including docking stations.

The power cords are black and have an "LS-15" molded on the AC adapter with such as Compaq Presario 1600 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario 1700 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario 1800 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario 2700 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario 2900 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario 800 AC Adapter, HP Omnibook 2100 AC Adapter, HP Omnibook 4100 AC Adapter, HP Omnibook 7100 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion N3000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion N5000 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion N6000 AC Adapter end of the cord. They were manufactured in China.

Consumers are advised to immediately stop using and unplug the recalled power cords and contact Hewlett-Packard to order a free replacement. Consumers can continue using the computer on battery power.

Hewlett-Packard can be reached at 877-219-6676 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. ET Monday through Friday or online at www.hp.com and click "Recalls" at the bottom of the page for more information.

HP recalls 6 million laptop power cords over fire, burn risk

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Hewlett-Packard has recalled more than 6 million laptop power cords that could pose fire and burn hazards.

HP is recalling LS-15 AC power cords used with HP and Compaq branded laptops. The company is recalling about 5.6 million power cords in the U.S. and 446,000 units in Canada.

The cord pulls out of one end of the AC adapter. It came with laptops and accessories sold between September 2010 through June 2012, HP said on its power cord recall website.

There have been 29 reports of power cords overheating and melting, which led to claims for minor burns and property damage, HP and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said in a statement.

Customers are eligible for a replacement at no cost. The power cords are black and can be identified by the tag LS-15, which is on the AC adapter with like HP Pavilion DM4t AC Adapter, HP Pavilion DM4z AC Adapter, HP Pavilion G6 AC Adapter, HP Pavilion G4 AC Adapter, HP Envy 14 AC Adapter, HP Compaq Mini 110 AC Adapter, HP Mini 1000 AC Adapter, HP Compaq nx9010 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario 1000 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario 1200 AC Adapter, Compaq Presario 12XL AC Adapter, Compaq Presario 1400 AC Adapter.

Customers can call 1-877- 219-6676, or visit HP’s website for the replacement

Hewlett-Packard Company is recalling about 5.6 million notebook computer AC power cords in this country and another 446,700 in Canada because of possible overheating, which can pose a fire and burn hazard.

HP has received 29 reports of power cords overheating and melting or charring, resulting in two claims of minor burns and 13 claims of minor property damage.

The Hewlett-Packard LS-15 AC power cords were distributed with HP and Compaq notebook and mini notebook computers, and with AC adapter-powered accessories including docking stations.

The power cords are black and have an “LS-15” molded on the AC adapter end of the cord. They were manufactured in China.

Conceptronic permite carregar portátil no carro

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A Conceptronic anunciou a disponibilização do Universal Slim Notebook Car Adapter 90W – CNBS90CAR – um carregador portátil para notebooks, e outros dispositivos, que se liga ao isqueiro do carro.

Este adaptador universal para notebooks oferece uma solução móvel e leve para carregar a bateria do seu portátil ou usá-lo sem a bateria no carro, ou noutros veículos, ligando o dispositivo à entrada do isqueiro. O carregador 2A USB integrado permite-lhe carregar, além de notebooks, vários outros tipos de dispositivos, incluindo telemóveis, leitores MP3, iPads e outros tablets. Os requisitos da voltagem são controlados pelo carregador, e são definidos automaticamente entre 15 e 20V, num máximo de 90 watts.

O adaptador tem proteção contra sobrecargas, curtos circuitos e sobreaquecimento mantendo assim os dispositivos seguros a todos os momentos.

Preço e disponibilidade
O Universal Slim Notebook Car Adapter 90W (CNBS90CAR) está disponível a um preço recomendado de 24,90 euros.

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Emulex Gains Fibre Channel (FC) Market Share at the Gen 5 FC Market Transition .

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Company Sees Increased Demand Driven by FC Target Design Wins, Growth of Flash Storage and Upcoming Intel Server Refresh Cycle

COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--August 14, 2014-- Emulex Corporation (NYSE:ELX), a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, today announced that it has gained nearly two and a half points of overall Fibre Channel revenue market share over its nearest competitor during the second quarter of calendar 2014, according to Crehan Research's Q2 2014 Server-class Adapter and LOM market share report.

"Fibre Channel remains the dominate model for storage in the enterprise, and new workloads like SAP HANA, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and NoSQL databases are driving the use of flash and the requirement for the low-latency storage that Gen 5 (16Gb) FC delivers," said Shaun Walsh, senior vice president of marketing, Emulex. "Emulex remains committed to market leadership in FC with continued investment in optimization of new workloads, advanced flash and virtualization services, and is focused on delivering its Gen 6 (32Gb) FC technology to continue to support this market and our customers for years to come."

-- Superior Gen 5 Fibre Channel Connectivity: Emulex Gen 5 FC HBAs deliver
more than 1.2 million I/O operations per second (IOPS) on a single port1,
the highest level of Fibre Channel adapter performance available today,
and up to 6x greater IOPS per port than the previous generation, enabling
better storage performance for cloud and storage intensive applications.
Power efficiency is also improved by delivering up to 4x better IOPS per
watt of power1.

-- Higher Throughput and Lower Latency: Emulex Gen 5 FC HBAs provide twice
the throughput and up to 75 percent lower latency when compared to
current 8GFC adapters without sacrificing CPU efficiency1.

-- Increased I/O Bandwidth: Emulex Gen 5 FC HBAs support PCIe 3.0, which
provides a faster I/O bus, more PCIe lanes and increased I/O bandwidth,
enabling Emulex Gen 5 FC technology to provide optimal performance for
applications, such as virtualization and database management systems.

-- Improved Quality of Service with Emulex Gen 5 Flash Services technology:
Gen 5 Flash Services includes ExpressLane(TM), which provides Quality of
Service (QoS) capabilities for flash/solid state disk (SSD)-based storage
and Emulex CrossLink(TM), which provides in-band message passing between
server nodes, delivering optimized performance using lossless,
standards-based FC protocols.

Emulex, a leader in network connectivity, monitoring and management, provides hardware and software solutions for global networks that support enterprise, cloud, government and telecommunications. Emulex's products enable unrivaled end-to-end application visibility, optimization and acceleration. The Company's I/O connectivity offerings, including its line of ultra high-performance Ethernet and Fibre Channel-based connectivity products, have been designed into server and storage solutions from leading OEMs, including Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp and Oracle, and can be found in the data centers of nearly all of the Fortune 1000. Emulex's monitoring and management solutions, including its portfolio of network visibility and recording products, provide organizations with complete network performance management at speeds up to 100Gb Ethernet. Emulex is headquartered in Costa Mesa, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe.

Fujitsu bietet neue Server für Mittelstand

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Fujitsu stellt drei neue Modelle seiner Primergy Server-Familie vor. Laut der Fujitsu Technology Solutions GmbH sind die neuen Geräte auf die Bedürfnisse von kleinen und mittleren Unternehmen (KMU) zum Beispiel in den Bereichen Einzelhandel, Medien und Telekommunikation ausgerichtet. Hier sollen sie insbesondere in Filialen und Konzern-Niederlassungen beziehungsweise in Verkaufsumgebungen, Rechenzentren und im Backoffice zum Einsatz kommen.

Die neuen Modelle der etablierten Produktreihe bilden die x86 Cloud-, Rack- und Tower-Systeme TX 1330 M1, TX 1320 M1 und RX 1330 M1. So hebt die Münchner Herstellertochter beim Fujitsu Primergy TX1320 M1 beim horizontal wie vertikal positionierbaren Gerät die kompakten Außenmaße von 9,8 mal 39,9 mal 34 Zentimetern, den somit relativ geringen Platzbedarf und den geräuscharmen Betrieb hervor. Hauptmerkmale des Gerätemodells sind aber die integrierte Prozessorfamilie Intel Xeon E3 v3 mit bis zu vier Kernen, ECC-Speicher (Error-Correcting-Code) mit bis zu 32 Gigabyte Speicherkapazität und vier PCIe-Steckplätze (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express).

Beim Gerätemodell Primergy TX 1330 M1 betont Fujitsu ebenfalls den gleichen Prozessortyp sowie die Unterstützung durch die PCI-Karten, die hier allerdings nur als optionale Möglichkeit bestehen. Über den Adapter with like Fujitsu FMV-AC314 AC Adapter, Fujitsu FMV-AC304B AC Adapter, Fujitsu FPCAC45 AC Adapter, Fujitsu Amilo A6600 AC Adapter, Fujitsu Amilo D8820 AC Adapter, Fujitsu Amilo L7320 AC Adapter, Fujitsu Amilo V8210 AC Adapter, Fujitsu Celcius H240 AC Adapter, Fujitsu FMV-C6210 AC Adapter, Fujitsu FMV-NB80M AC Adapter, Fujitsu LifeBook 8020 AC Adapter, Fujitsu LifeBook A1010 AC Adapter für die recht teuren Controller-Karten sollen bestehende Telefonanlagen oder Überwachungssysteme auch in einem modernisierten Umfeld genutzt werden können. Die beiden Tower-Versionen rundet das Rack Primergy RX 1330 M1 ab. Der Mono-Socket-Rack-Server unterstützt Intels pGFX Server-Grafiklösung und soll damit den Verarbeitungsprozess von audiovisuellen Dateien wie Bildern, Videos und Sounddateien beschleunigen.

Nach Angaben des Herstellers sind die in Deutschland hergestellten Primergy-Server direkt bei Fujitsu und bei autorisierten Partnern erhältlich. Preise werden wegen der variierenden Konfigurationen nicht genannt. Deshalb sind bei einer externen Informationsquelle wie IT-Scope derzeit nur einzelne passende Komponenten aufgeführt.

MSI AG270 Gaming All-in-One PC Review and Ratings

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What's the classiest class of desktop PCs? We'd contend that it's big-screen (27-inch), touch-screen all-in-ones, sleek and slim designs that save desk space and reduce cable clutter with their built-in displays, speakers, and Wi-Fi Internet connections. Such machines hover right around the $2,000 mark: Lenovo's A740 is $1,799 with Core i7 power and a 1TB hard drive with 8GB cache, while Dell's XPS 27$1,798.98 at Dell is $2,248 with a higher-res (2,560x1,440) display and 2TB hard drive plus 32GB solid-state drive. And of course, though it's not a touch screen, Apple's 27-inch iMac is $1,999 with a Core i5 chip and 1TB drive.

You might not expect MSI, best known for gaming laptops, to play in this segment, but it's possibly the best value in the bunch: The $1,999 MSI AG270 (full model number AG270 2PC-006US)$2,038.98 at Amazon combines a 27-inch, 1,920x1,080 touch screen with a 2.4GHz Core i7 chip and 16GB of RAM versus its rivals' 8GB. It also teams its 1TB hard drive with not one but two 128GB SSDs in a speedy RAID 0 array.

And unlike most of its competitors, it's got game: The AG270 features Nvidia's second fastest mobile graphics adapter with such as Dell Vostro 2510 AC Adapter, Dell Studio 1745 AC Adapter, Dell Studio 1536 AC Adapter, Dell Latitude E6500 AC Adapter, Dell Precision M90 AC Adapter, Dell XPS M1710 AC Adapter, Dell 9T215 AC Adapter, Dell N5825 AC Adapter, Dell K9060 AC Adapter, Dell 9T458 AC Adapter, Dell Vostro 3500 AC Adapter, Dell RX929 AC Adapter, the 3GB GeForce GTX 870M, letting it blaze past the casual games that are fodder for all-in-ones (AIOs) with integrated or more modest discrete graphics. When we tried Tomb Raider at 1080p resolution, the MSI powered through the game's second-best (Ultra) and best (Ultimate) image quality modes at 61 and 38 frames per second, respectively. For Sleeping Dogs' High and Extreme modes, it was 65 and 34fps, respectively.

The AG270 is the successor to the MSI AG2712A%displayPrice% at %seller% we reviewed in February. We called that machine a landmark as the first game-worthy AIO, while noting that it relied on a slightly outdated third- rather than fourth-generation Intel Core CPU. The new model's Core i7-4860HQ, by contrast, is up-to-date "Haswell" silicon. (Editor's note: OK, you're right, technically "Crystal Well"—it has Iris Pro 5200 graphics—but we use the codename "Haswell" for fourth generation, so sue us.) There is one step back: The 2PC-006US configuration comes with a DVD burner instead of a Blu-ray writer.

The AG270 belongs to the slab-with-a-kickstand school of AIO design. The kickstand and the bottom inch of the base, below the speaker bar, are clear plastic. The screen bezel and back of the system are black, with bold red accents below the screen and on the sides. An MSI logo is centered below the display, with the company's Gaming Series dragon shield in the speaker bar below that. The kickstand lets you tilt the screen back some 45 degrees, but not all the way to horizontal, for more comfortable touch-screen sessions. It has no height adjustment.

An internal power supply like the Dell's or iMac's is neater, but MSI uses a bulky, laptop-style power brick halfway along the power cord. A cordless keyboard and mouse are also neater (frankly, we consider such a set virtually mandatory for all-in-ones), but the AG270 replaces the AG2712A's cordless duo with a new corded gaming keyboard and mouse that plug into the two USB 2.0 ports at the system's rear.

Oki MB760dnfax review

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The MB760dnfax is highly expandable: three additional 530-sheet trays can be installed beneath the base tray, or you can opt for a huge, 2,000-sheet feeder instead. It has a large, 9in colour LCD touchscreen, but we were disappointed to discover the optional wireless adapter costs £144 – and must be installed by an engineer.

As standard, the printer has a 100-sheet ADF, and although the MB760dnfax is only a single-side scanner, it can capture both sides of pages by pulling them back in and reversing them. Consumables consist of only a high-capacity toner cartridge and maintenance kit, which deliver pages at 1p each.

Oki's software utility installs all the required software in one go, making setup speedy. However, we had to increase the printer's sleep time via its web interface to allow the utility to discover it prior to loading the drivers.

The Oki delivers on its speed claims, printing a 50-page Word document at 48ppm with adapter such as Dell XPS M1410 AC Adapter, Dell Inspiron 2500 AC Adapter, Dell Vostro 3600 AC Adapter, Dell smartstep 250N AC Adapter, Dell Latitude LS500 AC Adapter, Dell Inspiron 2100 AC Adapter, Dell Inspiron 14z AC Adapter, Dell Latitude E6400 AC Adapter, Dell Latitude E5500 AC Adapter, Dell Precision M4300 AC Adapter, Dell Vostro 1720 AC Adapter, Dell Studio 1557 AC Adapter, or 38ppm with duplex enabled. Our 24-page DTP test document averaged 47ppm at both the 600dpi and 1,200dpi driver settings, and the time to first page was less than ten seconds in all tests.

Text output is crisp and sharp at 600dpi, and mono photos and reports show good levels of detail, with only minimal banding. A 20-page copy job using the scanner's noisy ADF returned 35ppm, although we found the colour quality for the flatbed was rather grainy, even at 600dpi.

The large colour touchscreen was easy to use for copy, scan, print and fax operations. Documents can be scanned to the internal hard disk, remote systems via SMB or FTP, email or a USB stick inserted in the front port.

However, mobile support is non-existent – not even AirPrint is on offer, and cloud printing is sparse. Although we were able to add the MB760 duplex to our Google Cloud Print account, there's nothing here to match HP's Connected or Dell's Document Hub services.

Oki's Windows software is better. Tools include a viewer for managing private fax and email address books. You can use it to download the printer's public address book, and you can also scan directly to public and password-protected private “boxes” on the printer's hard disk, and use the e-Filing web interface to manage their contents.

Another utility provides backup and restore tools, while the File Downloader picks up files scanned to a specific box and downloads them to your PC. Access to specific printer functions can be controlled from the web browser interface, and restrictions can be applied to both individual users and groups.

The MB760dnfax is well suited to offices with hefty printing demands, a keen eye on running costs and a need for speed. In price terms, it compares well with other A4 mono MFPs in this speed bracket; when you add in the fact that vendors such as Lexmark charge over £400 for an internal hard disk, the value looks even better.

Trader’s Recap : Morningstar Inc

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On July 23, 2014 Morningstar, Inc. (NASDAQ: MORN), a leading provider of independent investment research, today announced its second-quarter 2014 financial results. The company reported consolidated revenue of $189.4 million in the second quarter, an 8.0% increase from $175.4 million in the second quarter of 2013. Morningstar Inc. (NASDAQ:MORN) in last trading activity moved down -0.35% to close at $67.61. Company weekly performance is 0.18% while its quarterly performance stands at -1.64%. Morningstar Inc. (NASDAQ:MORN) is -20.82% away from its 52 week high.

QLogic Corp. (Nasdaq:QLGC), the industry leader in Fibre Channel adapters, today announced that the company gained revenue share in the Fibre Channel adapter with like Dell Precision M50 AC Adapter, Dell Latitude CP AC Adapter, Dell Inspiron 1100 AC Adapter, Dell Latitude C840 AC Adapter, Dell Precision M2400 AC Adapter, Dell XPS 1640 AC Adapter, Dell XPS 1340 AC Adapter, Dell Vostro 1200 AC Adapter, Dell Vostro 1320 AC Adapter, Dell Vostro 1510 AC Adapter, Dell Vostro 1000 AC Adapter, Dell Vostro A860 AC Adapter market in the first half of calendar year 2014, as confirmed by recent market share reports from the Dell’Oro Group1 and Crehan Research2. On a combined basis, inclusive of QLogic and the acquired Brocade adapter product lines for all periods, QLogic gained an absolute 1.4 points of market share from calendar year 2013, extending its double digit market share lead over its nearest competitor by an additional 2.6 share points. QLogic currently holds a total revenue share of 58.0 percent according to Dell’Oro Group and 57.1 percent share according to Crehan Research and is on pace to achieve its 11th consecutive year of Fibre Channel adapter market share leadership. On last trading day QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC) moved down -0.22% to close at $8.93. Its volatility for the week is 1.59% while volatility for the month is 2.41%. QLGC’s sales growth for past 5 years was -6.20% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was -17.60%. QLogic Corp. (NASDAQ:QLGC) monthly performance is -14.30%.

Lumber Liquidators Holdings (NYSE:LL) had its price target reduced by Canaccord Genuity from $84.00 to $77.00 in a research note issued to investors on Monday. On last trading day Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:LL) increased 2.07% to close at $58.63. Its volatility for the week is 2.23% while volatility for the month is 2.58%. LL’s sales growth for past 5 years was 15.70% and its EPS growth for past 5 years was 27.60%. Lumber Liquidators Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:LL) monthly performance is 5.45%.

American IndyCar driver and team owner Ed Carpenter is joining the Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (NASDAQ:ININ) Foundation for its fourth annual dinner-auction gala to raise funds for charities that foster life improvements for at-risk youth. Interactive Intelligence Group Inc. (NASDAQ:ININ) has 18.90% insider ownership while its institutional ownership stands at 82.50%. In last trading activity company’s stock closed at $42.57.

BNC Bancorp (NASDAQ:BNCN) declared a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, July 23rd. Stockholders of record on Friday, August 15th will be given a dividend of 0.05 per share on Friday, August 29th. This represents a $0.20 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.16%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, August 13th.On Tuesday shares of BNC Bancorp (NASDAQ:BNCN) closed at $17.27. Company’s sales growth for last 5 years was 14.30% and EPS growth for next 5 years is recorded as 10.00%.

Dell refreshes Precision workstation line-up with latest Intel Xeon chips

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Dell has become one of the first vendors to announce systems based on Intel's upcoming Xeon E5 v3 processors, with a new line of workstations that also debut DDR4 memory, new graphics options and hardware acceleration to support remote access for users.

Due to be available from mid-September, Dell's refreshed Precision workstation line-up will see new models based on Intel's Haswell-based Xeon processors, both the two-socket Xeon E5-2600v3 and single-socket E5-1600v3, in-tower and rack-format systems.

Although Intel has yet to officially launch these chips, one of the new capabilities they will introduce is support for DDR4 memory at speeds up to 2,133MHz.

As well as offering a performance boost of 75 percent over the previous generation, the new chips will also enable configurations of up to 1TB of memory in the case of the two-socket models, Dell said.

"The key thing is that for the first time in a very long time, the three core components are all being refreshed at the same time, not just the processors, because we're moving to DDR4 and also new graphics cards," Dell's UK sales lead for Workstations Mike Guinan told V3.

"For the customer it's great, because for the first time in a long time, you can upgrade all the key components at once to take advantage of greater performance and scalability," he added.

Dell is also changing its naming conventions with this generation of workstations, so the existing T3610, T5610 and T7610 tower systems will be superseded by the T5810, T7810 and T7910, while the existing rack-mount R7610 becomes the R7910.

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To differentiate its workstations from rivals, Dell is offering several features including a new version of Dell's Precision Optimiser tool, optional solid-state drive (SSD) caching and a built-in Teradici chip to accelerate remote access via the PC-over-IP (PCoIP) protocol.

The latter enables workstations to be centralised in a data centre rack and accessed remotely via another endpoint device, to secure key applications and data, Dell said.

"We've partnered with Teradici in the past on a remote-access solution using software, but now we're offering this via a chip embedded on the motherboard to give an optimal experience at no extra cost to the customer," Guinan said.

Meanwhile, the optional cache solution is based on Intel's Cache Acceleration Software-Workstation (Intel CAS-W) combined with a 128GB SSD that is used purely for caching purposes and is not accessible as a logical drive by the operating system.

"With CAS-W, the size of the cache ensures that you can get your entire application and associated data files inside the cache, and you can manually flag key data to ensure it is always included," said Guinan.

Dell's Precision Optimizer, meanwhile, provides profiles that are designed to configure the system for optimal performance for specific applications.

"It's a bit like having a systems engineer sat at your desk constantly fine-tuning your workstation, constantly fine-tuning the performance," Guinan explained.

This was introduced earlier this year with the Precision M2800 mobile workstation, but has now been updated with support for Autodesk, 3DS Max and Inventor, with Dell promising more in the future.

ARM Take Spotlight at Hot Chips

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Instead, the big news on that front came from Nvidia, which gave a lot more details of the new version of its K1 processor. When the company's Denver project was first announced, it sounded like this chip was going to be aimed at the high-performance computing market, but now the company seems to have focused more on things like tablets and the automotive market. The Tegra K1 will come in two versions. The first, which was announced earlier this year and is now shipping in the company's Shield tablet, has four 32-bit ARM Cortex-A15 cores plus a low-power "companion core" in the 4+1 configuration that Nvidia has been pushing in its Tegra line for several years.

The Denver version is quite different with two new proprietary 64-bit cores designed by Nvidia, and the company is really touting the performance gains that it gets. The core is seven-way superscalar (meaning that it can execute up to seven micro-ops concurrently), and has a 128KB four-way L1 instruction cache and a 64KB four-way L1 data cache. The chip combines two of these cores, along with a 2MB level 2 with adapter such as Dell Latitude x300 AC Adapter, Dell XPS M1210 AC Adapter, Dell Precision M70 AC Adapter, Dell Inspiron 1501 AC Adapter, Dell inspiron E1505 AC Adapter, Dell inspiron 6400 AC Adapter, Dell Inspiron 6000 AC Adapter, Dell XPS M2010 AC Adapter, Dell Inspiron 9400 AC Adapter, Dell Inspiron E1705 AC Adapter, Dell Inspiron 630m AC Adapter, Dell Inspiron 710m AC Adapter cache that servers both cores, as the 192 "CUDA cores" (graphics cores) it shares with the 32-bit K1. As such, it represents a big departure from the 4+1 architecture.

One big change includes what Nvidia calls "dynamic code optimization," which is designed to take frequently used ARM code and convert that into micro-code specially optimized for the processor. This is stored in 128 MB of cache memory (carved out of traditional system main memory). The goal is to give it the performance of an out-of-order execution without requiring as much power as that technique usually uses. The concept is not new – Transmeta tried it years ago with its Crusoe chip – but Nvidia says this now works notably better.

Nvidia showed several benchmarks, in which it claimed that the new chip can attain significantly higher performance than existing four- or eight-core mobile CPUs - specifically citing Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 (MSM8974), the Apple A7 (sometimes called Cyclone) used in the iPhone 5s - and even some mainstream PC processors. Nvidia said it outperformed an Atom (Bay Trail) processor and was similar to Intel's 1.4GHz dual-core Celeron (Haswell) processor. Of course, I tend to take vendor performance numbers with a grain of salt: not only do the vendors pick the benchmarks, it isn't at all clear that we're talking about the same clock speeds or the same power draw.

Meanwhile, in chips aimed more at servers, AMD talked more about its Opteron A1100, known as "Seattle," with the company saying it was currently sampling and should be available in servers around the end of this year. This chip has eight 64-bit Cortex A57 CPU cores; 4MB of L2 cache and 8MB of L3 cache; two memory channels for up to 128GB of DDR3 or DDR4 memory with error-correction; lots of integrated I/O (8 lanes each of PCIe Gen3 and 6Gbps SATA and two 10Gbps Ethernet ports); a Cortex A5 "system control processor" for secure boot; and an accelerator for speeding up encryption and decryption. It is manufactured on GlobalFoundries's 28nm process. AMD hasn't yet given details on the frequency, power, or performance of the chip, but did show a basic diagram of the chip. (above)

Applied Micro has long been claiming to have the first ARM server chip on the market, with its X-Gene 1 (known as Storm) containing 8 2.4GHZ proprietary ARMv8 cores, four DDR3 memory controllers, PCIe Gen3 and 6Gbps SATA, and 10Gbps Ethernet. This is currently in production on TSMC's 40nm process, the company says.

At Hot Chips, Applied Micro pushed its X-Gene 2 (Shadowcat) design, which will be available with eight or 16 "enhanced" cores, running at speeds of 2.4 to 2.8GHz, and adds a RoCE (RDMA over Converged Ethernet) Host Channel Adapter as an interconnect designed to enable low-latency connections among clusters of microservers. This is designed to be used in clusters, with a single server rack supporting up to 6,480 threads and 50TB of memory, all sharing a single pool of storage. The company says the X-Gene 2 will offer about 60 percent better integer performance, twice the performance on Memcache, and about 25 percent better Apache Web serving. It is manufactured on a 28nm process and is currently sampling.

Applied Micro says the X-Gene 2 fills a gap between competing microservers (Cavium ThunderX, Intel Atom C2000 "Avoton," and AMD Opteron A1100 "Seattle") and full-size Xeon servers. It gave some details on the next generation, the X-Gene 3 (Skylark), which is slated to start sampling next year. This chip will have 16 ARMv8 cores running at up to 3 GHz, and will be manufactured using 16nm FinFet technology.

Dell Venue 11 Pro 7139 (Security) review

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What happens when you put an Intel Core i5-4300Y in an 11-inch tablet like the Dell Venue 11 Pro? It gets really, really fast. Indeed, having used the previously-reviewed Atom-based version of the Venue 11 Pro, I can attest to a rather significant jump in performance.

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The Venue 11 Pro was only doable in AIO configuration for weak-eyed me with the keyboard tucked in a tray underneath my desk. Dell’s Tablet Dock does support dual display configurations, however, and it’s equipped with both HDMI (max resolution of 1920x108) and DisplayPort (max resolution of 2560x1600).

The 7139 (Security) model is a higher-end configuration priced at $1081. In addition to the aforementioned quad-core CPU and security features, it also comes with 4GB of DDR3/1600 memory and a SanDisk 128GB m.2 SSD. The tablet measures 0.6 inches thick and weighs in at 1.85 pounds sans keyboard. As tablets go, this one feels a bit thick, but I didn’t find it overly heavy. Then again, I tend to prop a tablet on my chest while lying down, or rest my elbows on the counter while I hold the tablet. Folks who hold the tablet without extra support might disagree.

The Venue 11 Pro 7139 features an 8MP rear-facing camera and a 2MP front-facing webcam. The right side is home to the power button, reset pinhole, microSD card slot (with a pinhole release), a micro-USB 2.0 port for charging the unit, and a mini-HDMI port. The lower edge of the tablet has only the docking port and auxiliary battery connection points. On the left are a full-sized USB 3.0 port, the volume control rocker, and the headset jack. The top is occupied solely by circulation vents—a Core i5 needs to breathe.

The bottom of the Venue 11 is largely given over to a pressure-fit plastic panel that pops off to reveal the 36-watt-hour battery. It also facilitates access to other components, though the only thing you can get to without further disassembly is the micro-SIM card for optional cellular broadband. The Venue 11 Pro 7139 also supports 802.11ac Wi-Fi (via an Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 7260 adapter), Bluetooth 4.0, and WiDi/Miracast (for wireless video streaming to displays that support that standard).

Our test unit came with the 1.5-pound Mobile Keyboard ($160), which also houses a supplementary 28-watt-hour battery. The significantly lighter (0.72-pound), Surface-style Slim keyboard is also available for $110, but it does not include a second battery.

The Mobile Keyboard types nicely for its size, and the keys have good bit of travel. The one-piece touchpad, however, proved idiosyncratic at registering clicks when pressed in the corners, versus the center of the click area. Swiping, cursor movement, and tapping, on the other hand, registered without a problem. Dell also shipped its $27 Active Stylus, which provides Wacom-like abilities to the unit.

Hot Chips embraces cool ARM

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Hot Chips is not the first place you would expect to hear about ARM. The annual conference, now in its 26th year, is as the name implies known for coverage of the power-hungry “big iron” behind the world’s fastest servers. ARM, by contrast, provides the technology for the tiny, low-power chips in nearly all phones and tablets.

So it was interesting to see the degree to which ARM infiltrated this year’s show, which took place earlier this week. Both keynotes were related to ARM — one from ARM CTO Mike Muller on the power constraints in everything from sensors to servers and the other from Qualcomm’s Rob Chandhok on the Internet of Things — and the two-day agenda included another five talks on ARM-based chips.

In part, this is simply a reflection of the growing importance of mobile computing. The rapid growth of smartphones and tablets has had a profound impact on all consumer and business technology. But it's also a sign that ARM with adapter like Asus P52 AC Adapter, Asus Pro50 AC Adapter, Asus U6V AC Adapter, Acer W2V AC Adapter, Asus X61 AC Adapter, Asus B50 AC Adapter, Asus UL80 AC Adapter, Asus Eee PC 900 AC Adapter, Asus Eee PC 700 AC Adapter, Asus N90 AC Adapter, Asus G71 AC Adapter, Asus F9F AC Adapter technology is “moving up the stack” and beginning to challenge x86 and other platforms in new areas such as servers, and networking and communications gear.

Perhaps the biggest ARM news at Hot Chips was Nvidia’s presentation on an upcoming version of its Tegra K1 mobile processor with a custom core known as Denver. The current 32-bit Tegra K1, which is used in the Shield tablet, Xiaomi MiPad and Acer Chromebook 13, has four Cortex A15 CPU cores. The second version will have two Denver CPU cores based on the ARMv8 64-bit instruction set. Both use the same Kepler GPU with 192 CUDA cores.

Darrell Boggs, Nvidia’s Director of CPU Architecture and Principal Architect, said the Denver-based Tegra K1 will rival the performance of an entry-level Haswell Core processor (Celeron 2955U) and easily outperform the fastest mobile chips such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 801, the Apple A7 and Intel’s Bay Trail Atoms. (I wrote a separate post on Denver with more details.)

In a related talk, Nvidia discussed how Tegra K1’s “desktop-class” graphics and dual image processors bring new capabilities to mobile devices in areas such as gaming and video processing, as well a computer vision for advanced driver assistance systems in cars. Michael Ditty, Nvidia’s Tegra Architecture Manager, showed test results suggesting the Xiaomi Mi Pad with the 2-bit Tegra K1 was 1.2 to 1.6 times better than the “fastest competitor” on mobile benchmarks.

Competitor AMD has also embraced ARM, but not for mobile. At Hot Chips, AMD provided new details on the Opteron A1100, code-named Seattle, which is currently sampling and should be available in servers including AMD’s SeaMicro line, around the end of this year. Manufactured on GlobalFoundries’ 28nm process, Seattle has eight 64-bit Cortex A57 CPU cores; 4MB of L2 cache and 8MB of L3 cache; two memory channels for up to 128GB of DDR3 or DDR4 memory with error-correction; lots of integrated I/O (8 lanes each of PCIe Gen3 and 6Gbps SATA and two 10Gbps Ethernet ports), a Cortex A5 “system control processor” for secure boot; and an accelerator for speeding up encryption and decryption.

AMD engineer Sean White said the company would offer semi-custom versions of Seattle optimized for specific customer applications — something others like Intel and IBM have been talking about as well. Unfortunately AMD did not provide any details on the Opteron A1100’s frequency, power or performance because, White said, “we’re still a short while away from the actual product launch.”

AppliedMicro claims to have beaten AMD and pretty much everyone else to the punch with the first 64-bit ARM server chip, but for now it’s somewhat academic since X-Gene has yet to notch any major, public design wins (HP kicked the tires but its ProLiant Moonshot servers still rely on AMD Opterons or Intel Atoms).

At Hot Chips, AppliedMicro for the first time provided a detailed roadmap for how it plans to boost the performance and capabilities of X-Gene. The short answer: lots more cores and a faster interconnect. Guarav Singh, AppliedMicro’s Vice President of Technical Strategy, said there are many scale-out datacenter applications better-suited for systems with thousands of efficient connected over a high-bandwidth, low-latency network including web services hosting, web searches, NoSQL databases and analytics and media serving.

The X-Gene 1 (Storm), which is currently in production, is manufactured by TSMC on a 40nm process and has eight 2.4GHz ARMv8 cores, four DDR3 memory controllers, PCIe Gen3 and 6Gbps SATA, and 10Gbps Ethernet. The X-Gene 2 (Shadowcat), which is manufactured on a more advanced 28nm process and has an enhanced core design, is currently sampling. It will be available with 8 or 16 cores, running at speeds of 2.4 to 2.8GHz. But the big change here is the addition of a RoCE Host Channel Adapter. RoCE, or RDMA over Converged Ethernet, delivers the lower latency of Infiniband’s RDMA protocol over standard Ethernet hardware and software. This is a key building block for clusters of hundreds or thousands of microservers.

AppliedMicro is targeting X-Gene 2 to fill a gap between competing microservers (Cavium ThunderX, Intel Atom C2000 “Avoton” and AMD Opteron A1100 “Seattle”), which it believes will deliver lower performance but cost less, and the Xeon E5-2600 v2, which delivers higher performance but at a higher price. (Of course, Intel also has its own Xeon E3 family to fill this gap and AMD has an ambitious roadmap for its ARM servers.) In comparison to X-Gene 1, an 8-core X-Gene 2 will deliver about 60 percent better integer performance (SPECint 2006), twice the performance on Memcached, and about 25 percent better performance on Apache Web serving, according to the company.

A single server rack (42U) X-Gene 2 servers will have up to 6,480 threads and 50TB of memory (with a peak bandwidth of 48TBps). Because of the RoCE interconnect, Singh said that the servers will be able to share a single pool of storage that appears like local storage.

The third-generation X-Gene will be the first to use 16nm 3D transistors, known as FinFETs (currently only Intel is using this type of transistor, but competing foundries plan to shift to FinFETs starting sometime next year). The X-Gene 3 (Skylark) will have 16-64 third-generation ARMv8 CPU cores running at up to 3GHz, a second-generation RoCE interconnect and a new rack interconnect. It will be sampling in 2015.

Finally, ARM and Avago gave a joint presentation on the advantages of ARM’s Cortex CPU cores and CoreLink interconnects for networking. Avago’s Axxia 5500, a line of 28nm communications processors with 16 Cortex A15 CPU cores connected with the CoreLink CCN-504, is designed for cellular base stations and other networking and communications gear. The ARM-based Axxia line was developed by LSI, which Avago acquired in May for $6.6 billion. While it’s interesting that ARM is moving into new areas, the story became even more interesting later in the week when Intel announced it plans to buy the Axxia business for $650 million.

Probably the only laptop tablet-hybrid that impresses

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The ThinkPad S1 Yoga is a very good attempt to mould an iconic laptop into a functional tablet, one that comes with our full recommendation. It’s still a bit heavy to use and operate in tablet mode only, but if you look at this primarily as an ultraportable ThinkPad with the added bonus of turning into a tablet, the experience only flatters to impress from this small perception shift. Other impressive laptops for you to check out at a similar price point are the Toshiba Portege Z30T and Acer Aspire S7.

Lenovo’s Yoga series of laptops has always been held in high regard, as far as tablet-laptop hybrids go. The ThinkPad S1 Yoga is an attempt to convince business users (and common ThinkPad fans) that these two converging product lines can actually merge like a charm, and the result is in front of your eyes.

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In terms of looks and design, the S1 Yoga is every inch a ThinkPad. It’s not a glamorous, drop-dead gorgeous looking device, but its industrial dark gray look with a matte finish all around works for the people it’s targeted at. What’s more, it’s functional design that’s both rugged and innovative. Its unique 360° hinge design is the Yoga’s crowning glory, giving the ThinkPad laptop the ability to morph into a tablet. What’s interesting to note is the fine attention to detail given to the Yoga’s overall metal exterior. For e.g., when you seamlessly tilt the screen all the way back to use the machine in tablet mode, the keyboard’s raised keys are pulled in so that they merge into the same plane of the deck. As far as expensive business laptops go we thought the Toshiba Portege Z30t was very well built, but the ThinkPad S1 Yoga easily trumps that experience. The S1 Yoga is slightly heavier at 1.6 kg, but in every other department, it shines right through and exudes great confidence in its build and design.

Just like the good old trusty ThinkPad the S1 Yoga. Of course, there's more here than meets the eye.

The ThinkPad S1 Yoga is primarily a business laptop, and to that effect it’s great, similar to ThinkPad X-series ultraportables we’ve seen in the past. But we like the enhanced changes it sports, the raised tiled keyboard and the single-slab touchpad with a nice haptic feedback. In the tablet mode, the keyboard switches off, and you interact with the device like a regular tablet. You can either touch and feel the screen with your fingers or use the smart stylus (which snugly slides into the chassis) to either write notes or point and click. Both ways work very well, due to Windows 8’s native touch-input support, on the S1 Yoga, and the stylus is especially one of the better ones we’ve used. However, using it solely as a tablet, the form factor of the ThinkPad S1 Yoga isn’t close to ideal yet, as this laptop-tablet hybrid does feel too heavy to use compared to a full-fledged 10-inch tablet that doesn’t come with some of its baggage.

The spill-resistant keyboard with island-styled raised keys is a joy to type on, not to mention the trackpoint stick addictive as ever once you get to used to it, and the palmrest is much improved in terms of response, texture and performance. The only mild disappointment here is the placement of the Function key on the bottom left corner of the keyboard, traditionally where the Control key is. It's just a question of retraining your muscle memory, something that is a bloat on the otherwise fantastic keyboard.

Its adapter brick is small. Above you can see the Ethernet and VGA attachments.

The ThinkPad S1 Yoga comes all the bells and whistles of Lenovo’s proprietary software installed on top of Windows 8 Pro 64-bit OS. Lenovo ThinkVantage is a great tool to manage the various software and services installed on the device. Attention is also paid to the video-calling capabilities on the S1 Yoga with a 720p HD webcam and dual-array mic for clearer audio recording to ensure you get good quality business calls on Skype or any other solution you use. Sure, it doesn’t have a display-sharing port and ethernet jack built into it, but attachments for the same (Gigabit Ethernet and mini-HDMI to VGA) give you a way to use these features if you really want to – perhaps during a boardroom presentation or an office environment with poor Wi-Fi strength.

In terms of pure performance, the Lenovo ThinkPad S1 Yoga provides good overall performance. It has a low-voltage CPU which can multitask with 4-5 apps at once, but can’t really set the stage on fire. The onboard GPU is capable of casual browser games, if you’re trying to kill some time on a flight, nothing more. But this machine isn’t meant for anything more in terms of raw, number-crunching performance.

Ports lining the left side of the Lenovo ThinkPad S1 Yoga hybrid

Ports lining its ride side. That red dot on extreme left is the stylus, which works nicely with the screen.

Where it does surprise is its nice screen quality and brightness, very good for watching movies and reading text (anti-glare coating works like a charm under bright lights, too). The in-built speakers are good for personal entertainment, as they’re both loud and largely distortion-free at high volume. But most importantly, the ThinkPad S1 Yoga’s battery life is among the best we’ve pegged in a business laptop, lasting over 200 minutes in our tests, and we think it should last at least over 6 hours of standard use on a single charge.

The ThinkPad S1 Yoga is a very good attempt to mould an iconic laptop into a functional tablet, one that comes with our full recommendation. It’s still a bit heavy to use and operate in tablet mode only, but if you look at this primarily as an ultraportable ThinkPad with the added bonus of turning into a Windows 8 tablet, the experience only flatters to impress from this small perception shift. Other impressive laptops for you to check out at a similar price point are the Toshiba Portege Z30T and Acer Aspire S7.

Android on a Notebook Disappionts

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The idea of running Android on a Notebook computer seems enticing. But in the case of the HP Slatebook 14, it turns out to be disappointing. HP took their popular HP Chromebook 14 hardware and jazzed it up with a cool new black and schoolbus-yellow paint scheme, better Beats Audio speakers and a higher resolution 1920×1080 full HD screen. Then they crippled the machine by slapping the ancient Android 4.3 Jelly Bean operating system on it and failed to give it enough storage or memory to satisfy the kind of power Android users that will likely want such a laptop. The result will disappoint most buyers.

The moment HP announced this interesting machine, it seemed intriguing. I really looked forward to getting one.

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My family also uses a few Android phones, which means the HP Slatebook 14 would likely fit this household as well as it would in any. The Android notebook offers compelling features for an Android user, like:

•The ability to run Android apps, which usually do more than most ChromeOS webapps
•Nice low-cost hardware
•Screen improvement over the excellent HP Chromebook 14
•Same great features from the HP Chromebook 14 like keyboard, touchpad and design
While it seemed alluring, the device doesn’t measure up to these high expectations. See the reasons why in this video review comparing it with the HP Chromebook 14

The HP Slatebook 14 comes in a great package. It sports an attractive black and yellow paint scheme. It’s a bit of a fingerprint magnet, but that’s minor. The chassis looks good and feels sturdy, just like the HP Chromebook 14. Some might call it heavy at around four pounds, but that’s not bad for a mid-sized ultra-portable.

The Slatebook 14 feels great while typing, due to a well spaced responsive keyboard. There’s a row of useful shortcuts in place of the normal function keys that we find across the top of most typical keyboards. HP also included a spacious touchpad. Out of the box it’s a bit sensitive, but users can turn sensitivity down to match their tastes. The touchpad doesn’t click as nicely as the Chromebook 14 but still works well, for a touchpad.

The 1080p touchscreen looks crisp, colorful and responded well to my touch and swiping gestures. Compared to nearly every other Chromebook, this display looks awesome. Using a 14-inch screen means there’s plenty breathing room for apps. It’s too reflective in bright or even medium light. Adjusting the screen’s angle fixes this most of the time, but might make it uncomfortable to use.

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Home computers needn't be expensive or complicated — that's the message Asus is trying to convey by launching the Chromebox — a tiny (12 cm x 12 cm) computer powered by Google's Chrome Operating System. Chrome includes all the apps you need to get started with basic work or play, communication and internet. Virus protection and multimedia features are built in too. You can use it with any existing monitor or TV and plug in any existing USB keyboard & mouse. A big bonus is the VESA mounting capability — if your monitor or TV supports this, it can be mounted discreetly behind the set for a clutter free look. The Celeron processor Chromebox is priced at Rs 21,000 while the Core i3 and Core i5 versions are priced at Rs 36,500 and Rs 58,000 respectively.

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ISunnao Introducing Brand New International Travel Adapter LE-05

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How Narendra Modi government can boost technology manufacturing

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What passes off for manufacturing is assembly operations — importing components like motherboards, memory, batteries, chipsets, plastic casing and joining them together to make products like phones and computers. For instance, India boasts of a market of 160-180 million mobile phones a year and only Videocon makes them locally, but in insignificant numbers.

Nokia's assembly unit in Chennai is staring at a shutdown. Of the 12-14 million TV set-top-boxes (STBs, which decode satellite signals) sold in India, 12-15% are made locally; the rest are imported. India does not make flat panel TVs with adapter such as Acer TravelMate 7730 AC Adapter, Acer TravelMate 8572 AC Adapter, Acer TravelMate TM5330 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 5551 AC adapter, Acer Aspire 7740 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One A150 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One A110 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One D150 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 1810TZ AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 1680 AC Adapter, Acer Extensa 5630 AC Adapter, Acer TravelMate 290 AC Adapter. Local hardware players like HCL Infosystems and Wipro have significantly scaled down manufacturing operations for desktops and laptops.

Says the head of strategy of a hardware-to-services major: "We have missed the bus. Global scale is accumulated in a few places like China, Korea and Taiwan. There's little point now in attempting to recreate a China." He adds that according to the theory of comparative advantage, some countries will do certain things well; to try and do everything may be dangerous.

"We are big in services and should focus on that. Look at Foxconn which makes Apple phones — they have a 2% margin, compared with Apple, which owns the brand and commands a 70% margin. Apple makes more money. We have to look beyond manufacturing." Besides, the services sector grew because information could be sent online and there were no blocking points. On the otherhand, making and transporting physical goods — from TVs to tablets — is far more complicated. You need inexpensive land, assured power, water, transport, cheap capital and so on.

Industry lobbies are hoping for a change once the new government takes charge at the Centre. Says Ashok Chandak, chairman, India Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA): "India has had lot of impediments in the past that made it expensive to set up plants. There's hope that things will change now."

The previous government had given an in-principal nod to two semiconductor factories to make computer chips. This in turn will help create an ecosystem of component makers (memory, glass, batteries, panels, casings), making it easier to set up a smartphone or flat TV factory in the country.

Adds Anwar Shirupurwala, executive director, Manufacturers Association of Information Technology (MAIT), the apex body of the hardware sector: "Till now manufacturing was not viable because of an inverted duty structure wherein imported gadgets were cheaper than those made locally. The government has to address this issue. Besides, make it easy to do business in India; land, water, capital should be easily accessible."

According to IESA, manufacturing could create 28 million new jobs in the next 10 years and save foreign exchange, as demand for electronics hardware gadgets is set to expand from $55 billion in 2014 to $400 billion by 2020. According to S Rajendran, chief marketing officer, Acer India, the Indian outpost of the Taiwanese computer maker, a 10% increase in mobile penetration can increase GDP by 1.5%. According to MAIT, IT penetration in India is less than 3%, but is set to increase as more households buy computers, smartphones and tablets.

Asus Chromebook C200 Review

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Years ago, Asus started the netbook craze with its Eee PC. If the netbook collecting dust in your closet has you wary about today's Chromebook mania, the Asus C200's compact size, plasticky feel, and smallish 11.6-inch screen may seem like déjà vu, and not in a good way. But if you're sold on the idea of an online productivity partner (with steadily increasing offline abilities) for everything from Google Docs to Salesforce.com, the C200 is a worthy entry that delivers long battery life and good creature comforts in a low-priced package.

And if the petite screen is your main objection, Asus has a unique solution: At this writing in mid-August 2014, vendors like Micro Center were selling the 11.6-inch Chromebook C200 and 13.3-inch Chromebook C300 for the same $249 list price. (Amazon was selling them for the same $229 discount.) We think the C200 is an eminently usable Chromebook that won't disappoint, but would suggest the C300 as more suited to extended use—and an even better buy.

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With its compact dimensions and cost-conscious (read: plastic) housing, the inoffensively styled C200 reminds us of the netbooks we were inundated with a few years back. The matte-black case has gently rounded edges with a ribbon of silver-gray accenting. The machine weighs just 2.5 pounds and measures 12 by 7.9 by 0.8 inches, making it easy to tote around.

Port selection is similar to what we see on low-cost laptops of any ilk these days. On the left side are a USB 3.0 port, a headset jack, an SD/SDHC card slot, and an HDMI port that worked flawlessly when we tired of watching a streaming movie on the small screen and opted for our 42-inch HDTV instead.

The opposite side has a USB 2.0 port and a Kensington lock slot, plus a slot for a mobile broadband SIM card not offered in the U.S. We might miss a wired Ethernet port as an alternative to the device's 802.11n Wi-Fi (which Asus promises will get a software upgrade to 802.11ac later this year), but a USB-to-Ethernet adapter would do in a pinch.

Right idea, wrong execution

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Acer tries to do Lenovo’s Yoga-series laptops one better with its Switch 10: This 2-in-1 can fold into tent, presentation and tablet modes just like those famous convertibles. But Acer’s 10-inch display can be completely detached from its keyboard dock to transform it into a true tablet.

There’s no need to fumble with a release mechanism, either. Friction catches and strong magnets hold the two components together, but the magnets are almost too powerful. They’re supposed to help guide a pair of sockets on the tablet to posts on the keyboard, but I found myself constantly needing to reseat the tablet, because the magnets seized the dock before I had an opportunity to line them up properly.

To separate the two, hold the keyboard down and give the display a strong tug. The friction catches inside the tablet sometimes take a few seconds to retract, with a disconcerting sound that had me wondering if something had come loose inside the first few times I heard it with adapter like Acer Aspire 4745 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 5251 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One 751h AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 5252 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One 532h AC Adapter, Acer Aspire 5920 AC Adapter, Acer ADP-120ZB BB AC Adapter, Acer SADP-65KB AC Adapter, Acer Aspire One ZG5 AC Adapter, Acer Aspire AS1410 AC Adapter, Acer Timeline AS4810T AC Adapter, Acer ADP-90CD BB AC Adapter. With devices that have 360-degree hinges, presentation mode leaves the keyboard facing down against your work surface, while putting it in tablet mode leaves the keyboard facing out and against your hand.

Reversing the Switch 10’s display leaves the keyboard facing up behind it in presentation mode, and flat against the back of the display in tablet mode. Tent mode is also available for those times when your work surface is limited—such as an airline tray table.

This clever design is somewhat undermined by a less-than-awesome display. I suppose a 10.1-inch, 1366x768 display is to be expected at the lower end of the tablet price range, but Acer’s panel doesn't get particularly bright. It's the only tablet I've used where I felt the need to keep the brightness cranked at all times. The tablet looks bulkier than its 0.35-inch thickness and 1.29-pound weight due to its wide, black bezel, with an outer silver frame. Front-firing speakers at the bottom (in notebook or presentation mode) or top (in tent mode) get impressively loud.

The keyboard’s keys are small, flat, and surprisingly stiff. My first keystroke failed to register until I became accustomed to its tactile response and learned how hard I needed to strike the keys. The dock is also on the light side for how heavy the tablet is. It tends to slide around the desk when you tap its display in notebook mode.

The only ports on the tablet are micro and mini versions of USB and HDMI, respectively. The tablet also supports Miracast wireless video streaming if you don't want to mess with an HDMI adapter to connect the tablet to a stand-alone display. Bluetooth and 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi round out its wireless connectivity. The included keyboard dock has a full-size USB 2.0 port, but no USB 3.0.

The rest of the Switch 10’s specs are standard for the lower end of the tablet range. Acer picked an Intel Atom Z3745 (Bay Trail-class) CPU and paired it with 2GB of DDR3/1066 memory. A 64GB eMMC drive is provided for storage, which can be supplemented by a MicroSD card. Acer also offers a less-expensive model with only 32GB of storage, but that's really pushing it for a machine running Windows 8.1.

With standard specs comes average performance. The tablet is perfectly acceptable in day-to-day usage, but my usage is not particularly demanding: Email, web browsing, YouTube and Netflix, and Office tasks all worked smoothly. The Switch 10 outperformed the Lenovo Yoga 2 11 and the HP Pavilion x360 on the PCMark 8: Office benchmark by virtue of its flash storage, not because it’s inherently more powerful.

Both of those machines have mechanical hard drives, but faster CPUs, so both of them earned a higher Laptop WorldBench scores. And that makes it doubly disappointing that the Acer’s battery died seven minutes sooner than the Lenovo’s did (the Pavilion x360’s less-than-3.5 hours of battery life, for what it’s worth, is just atrocious).

Acer C720-3404 Chromebook (Core i3) Review and Ratings

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That's the question that dogs the Acer model C720-3404, especially as it looks outwardly identical to its best-selling bargain sibling—the same gray case and black keyboard, the same 11.6-inch screen (it's not a touch screen as Acer's C720P Chromebooks are), the same Google Chrome OS that updates itself and quashes malware automatically while you explore a universe of online apps like Google Docs, Gmail, Microsoft Office Online, Pixlr, and Wunderlist.

So what's different about the 3404? It's the C720 for power users, if you can say there's such a thing as a Chromebook power user. It has twice as much memory (4GB versus 2GB). It has twice as much onboard flash storage (32GB versus 16GB), though like all Chromebooks it assumes you'll primarily be working online, with documents stored in the cloud—like others, it comes with 100GB of Google Drive storage free for two years (it's $1.99 a month after that; 1TB is $9.99 a month).

This heavyweight hardware (not literally; the Acer weighs 2.8 pounds) makes the C720-3404 the Chromebook you want if you tend to keep 20 browser tabs open, stream videos or music, crunch through king-sized spreadsheets, or do all of the above at once. It's (narrowly) the fastest Chromebook we've tested.

Against that, it's still a C720, which—as we griped in our review of the Celeron version—carries the DNA of Acer's old netbooks. That means fit and finish that, while passable, can't match classier if slower models such as HP's Chromebook 11 or Samsung's Chromebook 2. If it were a desktop, it would be a fast gaming rig, but without the immaculate build quality and cable routing we expect from boutique vendors.

Dark plastic is the 3404's main motif, starting with a slightly smudge-prone gray lid with the familiar Chrome logo in the corner and Acer logo below it. The black display bezel wraps around the sides of the lid, contrasting with the gray sides and charcoal bottom of the base. An array of cooling vents decorates the bottom; the unit does have a cooling fan, but it's quiet and only came on once or twice during our testing.

At 11.3 by 8 by 0.75 inches, the C720 is easy to slip into a briefcase or bag. On its left side, you'll find a jack for the coat-pocket-sized power adapter, an HDMI port, a USB 3.0 port, and a headphone jack. On the right are a Kensington lock slot, a USB 2.0 port, and an SD card slot.

The slot, alas, is just for temporary access to files from a digital camera or other card—SD cards stick more than halfway out of the slot instead of fitting flush, so you can't leave a card in place as permanent storage expansion lest it snag on something. The Files app, which combines access to your Google Drive, any SD cards or USB flash drives, and the 32GB of solid-state storage used for downloads, reported that the last had something over 23GB available after we performed a system reset using Chrome OS' Powerwash function.

Asus K007 Tablet with Quad Core Intel Processor and 15,000mAh Battery Hits FCC

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One of the best things about the sites like FCC (Federal Communications Commission), BluetoothSIG and other benchmark sites including AnTuTu and GFXBench is that all these sites reveal the information about the devices that passes through them to regular people via online listing. Now one of the tablets that recently went through the FCC has been unearthed by PhoneArena.

The tablet in question is Asus-built and carries a model number K007 and as per the listing it would come with a 7-inch display. To be even more precise, according to the filing, the tablet's display might come made up with IPS LCD panel which offers a resolution of 1200 by 1920 pixels with battery such as Asus A31-K56 battery, Asus A41-K56 battery, Asus A42-K56 battery, Asus A32-1025 battery, Asus A31-1025 battery, Asus Eee PC 1025 battery, Toshiba PABAS215 battery, Toshiba PA3780U-1BRS battery, Asus Eee PC 1025CE battery, Asus K56 battery, Asus S505 battery, Asus A32-K56 battery.

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Further, the leak also suggests that Asus K007 might come powered by Intel's latest 64-bit Moorefield processors, running on Atom Z3560, with a quad-core processor clocked at 1.8GHz. However, there is no information on the amount of RAM to be used in the device.

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Currently, it is not sure whether the processor can compete with Qualcomm's latest ones like the Snapdragon 801 or even Snapdragon 805. However, as far as the 7 inch tablet running on Android platform is concerned, 1.8GHz quad core SoC should be more than enough, given that it is also coupled with a 2GB of RAM.

Other specs might include a 5MP rear camera and front facing VGA shooter as well. The K007 tablet is also said to come with connectivity options like Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and GPS and the internal storage unit should be either be 16 or 32GB.

But what is quite doubtful about the tablet is the battery capacity mentioned in the FCC document. The FCC filing document shows that it is powered by 15Ah (15,000mAh), which we have never seen before in any of the tablet devices.

Since the average 7-inch tablet comes powered by mostly 3800-4500 mAh battery, it is quite doubtful to believe that K007 comes powered by a 15,000mAh battery capacity. But if it turns out to be true, the tablet will rock the Android tablet market globally.

Further, there is still no confirmation on other specs like the SIM card slot, dimensions, build, form factor or the price and availability of Asus K007.

Since the IFA 2014 tech show is fast approaching in September, you can expect the announcement of the new Asus built tablet then in Berlin.

Asus G750jz Vs Alienware 18 which is the better buy?

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The Alienware 18 has options for starting with Windows 8.1 or 8.1 Pro. If you want a different OS like Windows 7, you need to pay extra. The standard processor for it is the Intel Core i7 with 2.4 GHz, though this is upgradeable to 3.1 GHZ If you want to spend the extra money. The video card is the Geforce 880M with 8 GB of GDDR5. You get 16 GB of RAM, and the battery is an 8-cell lithium ion with 86 wHr. The machine comes with 750GB hard drive.

Alienware laptops have a sleek design that’s unique with the red or yellow lines and the back that’s split into three sections in a triangle shape. The keys glow. The price is around $2400 on average for the standard features, though any upgrades will make this go up significantly. For example, you can add a lot of extras such as Microsoft Office software, personalize nameplates, cases, keyboards, headphones and so on. The screen back has a special vent for getting rid of heat. The LED effects on the laptop are changeable, you can change power-management controls with AlienFusion software, Alienware Tactx gives you access to gaming commands and AlienTouch gives you access to touch pad sensitivity.

The Asus laptop also comes with Windows 8.1 pro with other OS options available. It also comes with the Intel i7 processor and the GTX880m video card, though it only has 4 GB of GDDR5. The laptop also has dual fans that are both intelligent and independent. The laptop also has special audio features called SonicMaster and AudioWizard that make sure the audio you experience is top of the line. The display is also virtually the same as the Alienware. The Asus has 24GB of RAM in the form of 3 8 GB sticks.

The machine comes with 256GB of solid state drive, and a 1 TB hard drive. The battery with like Asus A42-G75 battery, Asus A8F battery, Asus G75 battery, Asus A31-F9 battery, Asus A32-F9 battery, Asus F9F battery, Asus 90-NER1B2000Y battery, Asus C21-R2 battery, Asus A42-U5F battery, Asus U5F battery, Asus U6S battery, Asus 90-NPW1B3000Y battery for the Asus is slightly better at 88 wHr for the 5900 mAh Lithium Ion device.

The laptop design is sleek and thin, with the DVD track in the side which is something that doesn’t come standard with all Alienware machines. The design has a 5 degree inclination which is supposed to be ideal for viewing and working. The computer also has aluminum palm rests to keep you from getting sweaty. The keyboard is full size and it has variable backlighting to help you keyboard in the dark. The laptop costs about $2,250 or so

The Asus has better audio and more standard hard drive space. It also has significantly more RAM than the Alienware, and it costs hundreds of dollars less.

The Alienware machine has a slightly better card and more unique system features that are specific to gaming such as freely controlling system lights and having built-in macro capabilities.

Many of the other features including the battery, processor speed and so on are virtually the same for the two computers so you can’t go wrong.

Asus ROG G750JZ review

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We’ve seen a smattering of high-end gaming laptops in recent months, but Asus’ ROG G750JZ is in a class all of its own. Taking a giant-sized 17.3in display as a starting point, Asus has packed a suitably huge chassis with only the most choice of high-end laptop hardware – the G750JZ is a serious gaming laptop with a suitably serious price.

Physically, Asus’ laptop is monstrously large and foreboding. Wrought entirely from heavy, black matte plastic, the only interruption to the Asus’ all-black chassis is the white Asus logo set in the middle of its thick, hefty-feeling lid. The G750JZ’s wedge-shaped profile tapers forwards like the menacing bonnet of a supercar, and a huge pair of intake and exhaust fans hidden behind thick, plastic grilles expel hot air from its rear.

At 4.8kg, it’s arm-achingly heavy, and the brick-sized PSU with such as Asus A32-U1 battery, Asus U3Sg battery, Asus AL31-1005 battery, Asus AL32-1005 battery, Asus AP31-1008P battery, Asus F3Sr battery, Asus M50Sr battery, Asus Z53Jc battery, Asus M51Se battery, Asus A32-A8 battery, Asus 90-NF51B1000 battery, Asus Z99Sc battery catapults the device’s overall heft to a 5.4kg, but this isn’t a laptop we’d be worried to take out of the house. The build quality feels taut and rigid, and there’s barely a hint of flex or give anywhere around the Asus’ muscle-bound physique.

Rumbling inside the G750JZ is some of the most high-end core hardware we’ve seen in a laptop. There’s a 2.4GHz Core i7-4860HQ supported by 16GB DDR3 RAM and accompanied by a 1.5TB hard disk and 256GB SanDisk SSD. As we expected from such an impressive hardware array, the Asus laptop had no problem zipping through our suite of Real World Benchmarks, and it smashed its way through with a potent Overall score of 0.98.

Predictably, the G750JZ also proved itself to be a gaming powerhouse; armed with its Nvidia GeForce GTX 880M dedicated GPU equipped with 8GB of GDDR5 RAM, the demands of Full HD gaming barely saw it break a sweat. In our Crysis benchmark, with graphical detail set to its very highest setting, the Asus whipped through the benchmark at an average of 58fps. Suffice it to say, there’s plenty of power in reserve ready and waiting for the toughest gaming titles.

With that amount of heavy-duty hardware running, we were expecting to run into problems with overheating and poor battery life, but we needn’t have worried. The intake and exhaust fans do a good job of keeping the system at a manageable temperature: thrashed by stress-testing programs such as Prime95 and FurMark, the cooling system kept the CPU at 80˚C and the GPU topped at a positively 82˚C. The removable 5,900mAh battery was no underachiever, either, and with the display dimmed down to 75cd/m², the Asus lasted 7hrs 46mins in our light-use battery test.

The only disappointment in the Asus’ benchmark figures is due to its SSD. We were a little surprised at how poorly it performed in the AS SSD benchmark, with sequential read and write scores of 283MB/sec and 216MB/sec respectively. We’d expect almost double that from the best SSDs we’ve seen, and we’d expect the figure to triple in the case of Apple’s PCI Express-based SSDs. However, in real-world use the Asus’ combination of solid-state and mechanical drives works with aplomb; we timed the G750JZ performing a cold boot to the Start menu in just over six seconds. And since it’s possible to access the Asus’ pair of 2.5in drive bays by unscrewing a panel on the underside, it’s always possible to upgrade to a faster pair of drives in the future.

Dell Inspiron 11 3000 2-in-1

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Dell has decided to enter into the hybrid laptop market again with the low cost Dell Inspiron 11 3000 2-in-1 or the Inspiron 11-3147 in their specific model numbers. It takes the shape of a traditional laptop but with the display hinge being able to fold back and around that was made popular by Lenovo with its Yoga series of laptops. The system is of course the size of a laptop and not a tablet as it is over three quarters of an inch thick and weighs over three pounds. In fact, this makes it thicker and heavier than even the Apple MacBook Air 11. The result is something that is a solid laptop design and a decent occasional tablet. Overall, the build quality is very good considering the price.

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Brilliant 14" screen. From $299. Everything you need in one laptop.In terms of storage, all models will feature a 500GB hard drive standard. This provides it with a decent amount of storage similar to what most budget class laptops provide but it is a bit disappointing on the performance side. Many of the competing systems either offer a much smaller solid state drive or a solid state hybrid drive. These will offer faster booting and application loading times than the Dell. If you need additional storage, the system has three USB ports of which one is USB 3.0 for use with high speed external storage drives. There is a SD card reader for use with flash memory cards and like most compact laptops there is no optical drive.

As this is a hybrid laptop that can also function like a tablet, the display is pretty critical. The 11.6-inch display features a modest 1366x768 display resolution that is lower than most tablets but typical of a low cost laptop. It uses IPS display technology that gives it good brightness, color and viewing angles. It is fully multitouch capable and is responsive when working with Windows 8. Don't expect much in terms of graphics performance though as this uses a scaled back Intel HD Graphics built into the Celeron or Pentium processor. In essence, don't expect to do 3D gaming on it but it will be fine for most other tasks.

The keyboard design of Inspiron 11 3000 is typical of many of Dell's more recent models. It uses an isolated layout that offers some decent spacing and a good overall feel. It is nice to see most of the keys of a generous size but the placement of the tilda key results in a very small key. It offers a decent feel that isn't too soft and is reasonable accurate for its size. The trackpad is quite wide for the size of the laptop but frankly many people are probably not going to be using it in favor of the touchscreen. It does use integrated buttons rather than dedicated ones.

Dell claims that the battery life of the Inspiron 11 3000 is up to seven and a half hours with its 43 WHr battery. This is a slightly larger battery than is found in many similar systems but this battery life is likely estimated with very light usage and with a low level of brightness. I would guess that more typical usage will probably range from around six and a half to seven hours depending on the brightness.

In terms of competition for the Dell 11 3000 2-in-1 system, there are several different options. The most obvious is the new Lenovo Yoga 2 11 that was released at the same time. They have very similar level of features including the same processors, screen sizes, memory but there are differences. The Lenovo has a couple advantages including being slightly thinner at .67-inches and features a solid state hybrid drive for some additional performance. On the other hand, it does feature a smaller battery for shorter running times and also has a higher base price tag of $700 compared to the $500 for the Dell. Of course, there is always the hybrid tablet Asus Transformer Book T100 which is also below $500 but more compact at the cost of less performance and less storage space.

An attractive middle-of-the-road 14-inch laptop

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There’s no SSD option for this all-purpose, consumer-oriented laptop, but it's elegantly styled and handles the basics well.

Elegant and affordable are two words that describe Dell’s Inspiron 14 5000 series. The brushed aluminum and black minimalist styling Dell has treated this laptop with give it an air of class you don’t often see in a mid-range, all-purpose laptop. It looks more expensive than its $750 price tag, which ironically, makes every imperfection seem that much greater. Hence, less-than-spectacular and slightly frustrating are also valid descriptions.

The Inspiron 14 5000 series sport 14-inch (duh), glossy, relatively low-res 1366x768 touchscreen displays that are prone to glare and have narrow viewing angles. If you buy one, I suggest sitting directly in front of it, adjusting the screen angle, and watching better movies. Trust me on this. If the movie is good enough, you won’t be worrying about pixels. This is one of those instances when the Inspiron 14 5000’s with like such as Dell Vostro 1440 Battery, Dell Vostro 1450 Battery, Dell Vostro 1540 Battery, Dell Vostro 1550 Battery, Dell Vostro 3450 Battery, Dell Vostro 3550 Battery, Dell Vostro 3750 Battery, Dell Inspiron M5030 Battery, Dell Inspiron M5030D Battery, Dell Inspiron M5030R Battery, Dell Inspiron 6000 Battery, Dell Inspiron 6400 Battery good looks make you think it deserves better. Or at least a non-touch option to lower its price.

The Inspiron 14 5000 series starts at $600 for an Intel Core i3-4030U, 4GB of DDR3L/1600 memory, and a 500GB hard drive; ramps up to $749 for the model 5447 reviewed here (with a Core i5-4210U, 8GB of memory, and a 1TB, 5,400 rpm Western Digital WD10JPVX-75JC3T0 hard drive); and tops out at $850 with a Core-i5-4510U model with the same memory and hard drive. Sadly, there doesn’t seem to be an SSD option.

Our model weighed in at 4.65 pounds sans AC adapter; 5.4 pounds with it. It measures 13.5-inches wide, 9.75-inches deep, and 0.8-inches thick—that’s not thin-and-light territory, but it’s not so bulky that your friends will be amused at your purchase.

The 5447 has two USB 3.0 ports, a full-sized HDMI port, a headset jack, and a 10/100 ethernet port on its right-hand side; and a USB 2.0 port, media card reader, and AC jack on its left. There’s nothing in back and nothing in front apart from two speaker ports.

The lack of gigabit ethernet is disappointing, but I’m happy to report the presence of 802.11ac Wi-Fi, plus Bluetooth 4.0 and WiDi (for wireless video streaming to displays that support Intel’s technology). There’s also a 720p webcam with dual-array mics.

The Inspiron 14 5447 scooted to a respectable 58 on PCWorld’s Laptop WorldBench 9 benchmark suite, and it managed to wring 4 hours and 50 minutes out of its internally mounted 43-watt hour battery. Hands on, I could tell it had a rather slow hard drive, especially on a cold boot. But after Windows cached what it needed to, the overall experience was more than acceptable.

High bit-rate 1080p movies played super smoothly, but sound through the speakers was poor. There’s enough volume, but there’s no bass and the overall timbre is gratingly tinny. Whatever Dell did to make its Venue Pro 11 tablet so aurally pleasing should be shared with the Inspiron design team. Gaming is doable in Intel HD 4400 graphics terms, meaning you’re pretty much stuck at 1024x768 if you want anything close to 30 frames per second (the Inspiron 5447 delivered BioShock Infinite at 29 fps at that resolution, with image quality set to low).

You may have noticed the reference to an internal battery. You must remove two screws and the pressure-fit bottom panel to get at the 5447’s. These days, however, I don’t know a lot of people who carry extra batteries to swap; most folks prefer to seek an AC outlet at the appointed hour. The 5447’s run time isn’t fantastic, but it’s long enough for most scenarios.

Note that removing said bottom panel also provides easy access to the hard drive, Wi-Fi card, and memory slots. You might want to upgrade the hard drive to an SSD at some point, but 8GB is plenty of memory for most tasks.

The Inspiron 14 5000’s keyboard isn’t one of my favorites. The keys lack the long travel and snap that’s my preference. But establishing a typing rhythm was easy enough, and the perq is that you can bang away in a quiet environment without unduly disturbing your neighbors. I also found the one-piece touchpad smoothly responsive and easy to click. I do have one complaint: The touchpad isn’t clearly tactilely or visually delineated from the rest of the keyboard deck. When not paying close attention, I missed it several times.

Sony ILCE-α6000

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Like its predecessors, the ILCE-α6000 is a nice little camera with plenty of adjustable functions and a worthwhile range of upgrades and enhancements that make it better than the earlier models.

Noteworthy improvements include the updated AF system and revised menus, which are much more logical and easier to use than the NEX menus.

Although not the smallest CSC available, with the 16-50mm kit lens it will fit reasonably comfortably into a jacket pocket or purse. It's also a great little camera for street photography – although the addition of a touch screen would make it even better.

Announced on 12 February, the Sony α6000 offers the same 24-megapixel resolution as the ILCA-77 Mark II we reviewed recently but in a much more compact body. The new camera's sensor has the same gapless on-chip lens structure as the α7R and features on-chip phase-detection AF with wider coverage plus a new-generation RGB colour filter. Like its predecessors, the NEX-7 and NEX-6, the α6000 sports a built-in EVF and a tilting 3-inch monitor.

Angled view of the ILCE-α6000 with the E PZ 16-50mm f/3.5-5.6 OSS lens supplied in the standard kit. (Source: Sony)

Replacing both the NEX-7 and NEX-6, the α6000 will appeal to advanced hobbyists who want to step up from a digicam as well as experienced photographers, particularly photo enthusiasts and pro photographers who want a advanced controls and high performance in a compact 'take everywhere' camera. The table below shows the main differences between the α6000 and its predecessors.

The main advantage the α6000 has over similarly priced and specified DSLRs is its compact format. The main factor sacrificed to achieve this advantage is a reduction in battery like Nikon D90 Battery Grip, Nikon MB-B10 Battery Grip, Nikon D700 Battery Grip, Nikon D7000 Battery Grip, Nikon D3100 Battery Grip, Nikon D5100 Battery Grip, Pentax D-BG4 Battery Grip, Pentax D-BG2 Battery Grip, Sony Alpha A550 Battery Grip, Sony A350 Battery Grip, Sony A900 Battery Grip capacity although, when compared with the ILCA-77 Mark II, it's just over 100 shots (equal to about a quarter of total capacity). A typical entry-level DLSR with an optical viewfinder should support more than 500 shots/charge.

The basic design of the α6000 hasn't departed much from the earlier NEX styling. Like the NEX-6 and NEX-7, the new camera has a large and comfortable grip. While Sony doesn't state what the camera is made from, its build quality is very solid. Overall, the α6000 combines the best features of its predecessors and addresses some issues users had with the earlier models.

The front panel is almost identical to the NEX-7's, although front part of the grip where the shutter button is located steps down instead of sloping. The rear panel has the same tilting monitor as the two NEX cameras.
The NEX-7's twin dials on the top panel are repeated in the α6000, although the inner one is now a mode dial (which the earlier camera lacked). This dial carries 10 settings, among them a new Memory Recall mode that accesses three custom memory banks where users can store frequently used combinations of settings.

The second dial is a standard control dial that is used for adjusting selected functions. There are also two Custom buttons, one beside the shutter button that provides quick access to a pre-determined function (the default being focus modes) and the other on the rear panel below the arrow pad. The default for this button is the in-camera guide. It's also a delete button.

The arrow pad buttons can also be customised, bringing the total number of customisable buttons to seven. Users can choose from 43 assignable functions to satisfy their individual requirements.

Recessed into the top panel are a pop-up flash and a multi-interface shoe, which can be used for add-on flash guns. The flash is similar to the NEX models' flashes and is popped up by pressing a button just above the monitor and lowered by pressing it down.

Like the earlier NEX cameras, the α6000 has a built-in OLED EVF, which is perched up in the top left hand corner of the camera body. Its resolution is 1,440,000 dots, which is roughly half that of the NEX models. It's also about 30% smaller.

The tilting monitor is identical to the earlier cameras, with a resolution of 921,600 dots. It pulls out from the camera and can be tilted up through approximately 90 degrees for waist-level viewing and down by about 45 degrees for shooting with the camera held above the photographer's head.

Like all LCD monitors, it's essentially unreadable in bright outdoor lighting, even when the Sunny Weather mode is selected. (Fortunately, the EVF provides an alternative way to compose shots for shooting stills and movies.) Touch controls are not supported.

The arrow pad includes a control wheel plus four directional 'buttons' that access the Display, ISO, drive and exposure compensation/Photo Creativity settings. All are customisable. Just above the arrow pad is a Fn (function) button that is also programmable. Pressing it takes you to a quick menu with 12 selectable settings.

The movie button is small and located on the corner of the camera body, just to the rear of the strap loop. It's not the most convenient position, so it's as well to have a dedicated movie mode on the mode dial.

Sony has re-designed the menu system to make it more 'mature' looking and easier to access. It contains six sections, covering shooting parameters, custom settings, Wi-Fi and NFC, applications, playback and set-up functions. Some sections contain six or seven pages, while others have one or two.

The memory card shares a compartment in the base of the grip with the battery, which is recharged in the camera via a USB cable. The card slot is pushed up against the hinge of the cover, making it quite difficult to insert and remove cards if your fingers are large or your dexterity is limited.

The Creative Style and Picture Effects settings are the same as in the α7R and covered in our review of that camera.

Samsung NX3000 review

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The Samsung NX3000 is a low-cost APS-C compact system camera – for around £330 you get the body and a decent 16-50mm power zoom kit lens. This is the successor to the Samsung NX2000, and adds even more of a retro flavour to keep it in-line looks-wise with the recent Samsung NX Mini.

The 20.3-megapixel Samsung NX3000 is a compact system camera for the mobile generation, and should slot into most people’s lives like a dream. However, it’s not perfect – and not actually an NX2000 upgrade in every respect.

One of the Samsung NX3000’s key draws for the photography novice is its design. While not made of the aluminium and leather used in the old-school cameras that have inspired the look – it’s made of various kinds of textured plastic – it’s more keenly stylised than rivals like the Sony Alpha A5000.

This kind of retro styling is nothing new to Samsung’s CSCs, but the NX3000 takes it a step forward from the NX2000. The metal effect top plate and leather-style body finish that wraps around to the back of the camera give the camera a look similar to the higher-end Samsung NX300, where the NX2000 deliberately had a less showy, more ordinary design.

References to the old days of photography are just that though – references. In just about all other respects, the Samsung NX3000 is a thoroughly modern camera. It uses microSD memory cards rather than the full-size ones we’re used to, and is charged over microUSB rather than needing a separate charger.

With accessories interchangeable with those of an Android smartphone, the Samsung NX3000 is immensely convenient for those who have already bought into other areas of tech. MicroUSB charging also means you can carry around an external battery with like Nikon MB-D80 Battery Grip, Nikon D5000 Battery Grip, Nikon EL4A Battery Grip, Nikon MB-D10 Battery Grip, Nikon MB-D11 Battery Grip, Nikon MB-D31 Battery Grip, Nikon MB-D51 Battery Grip, Pentax BP-K7 Battery Grip, Pentax K10D Battery Grip, Sony VG-B50AM Battery Grip, Sony VG-B30AM Battery Grip pack rather than a second battery – extremely useful for holidays, when you might want to charge up multiple gadgets. The battery is rated for 370 shots, slightly lower than the Sony Alpha A5000, but around the same level as the Olympus PL-5.

More traditional photographers may prefer the style of the slightly chunkier Samsung NX300, though – the model up. The Samsung NX3000 only has a very slight ‘bump’ to provide extra hand grip on its front. It is just 39mm thick. There’s no inbuilt flash either, although you do get a flash module that slots into the hotshoe on the top place. There’s not a great deal of meat on these bones, which is good news for portability.

As is common to APS-C DSLRs, the lenses will often provide a lot of the bulk of your setup, but Samsung has minimised this by bundling the slimline power zoom 16-50mm kit lens with the standard NX3000 package. Other NX lenses will work with it, though.

As well as being very small for a zoom lens, the f/3.5-5.6 16-50mm glass offers optical image stabilisation and a near-silent powered zoom. This duo is a dream for those who want to shoot video – non-stabilised lenses and sticky zooms are a nightmare for the videographer.

You can’t shoot 4K video as capture maxes-out at 1080p 25p, but there’s more to video quality than simple resolution, and the Samsung NX3000 provides a versatile all-round package. Like just about every new camera in this class, NFC and Wi-Fi are aboard too, and let you hook up the NX3000 to a phone very easily using the Samsung Smart app. There’s even a dedicated Wi-Fi button on the top plate.

Back to the lens – thanks to the amount of slimming-down done in the camera body, the lens helps out by taking on some buttons you might otherwise access on the body itself. There are zoom controls, and an iFunction button. This switches between settings for ISO, white balance and exposure, giving you easier control without requiring you to use buttons on the NX3000 itself.

Most control is performed using just a few buttons on the camera’s backplate, though. There’s a d-pad that doubles as a scroll wheel and a quartet of buttons surrounding it. As with most entry-level compact system cameras, settings have to largely be controlled in the menu system rather than relying on dedicated physical controls

Some of you may be disappointed to hear the Samsung NX3000 does not have a touchscreen, which limits the ways you can interface with the camera to an extent. It’s especially noticeable when selecting focus and exposure points.

The elephant in the room – the Samsung NX2000 did have a touchscreen, and a much better display than you get here. The NX3000 has a 3-inch 460,800-dot screen where the old model has a much larger, higher-res 3.7-inch 1,152k-dot display. While the new camera offers decent colour fidelity and outdoors visibility, there’s no contest – the NX2000 is far superior.

However, the more button-led operation of the NX3000 can feel less fiddly than fully touch-operated cameras: the older model didn't have the standard rear button layout seen in the NX3000.

Even looking at the camera’s rear, there’s literal room for improvement given the amount of bezel on show. If it wasn't for cost-saving, fitting in a larger screen would have certainly been possible.

Fujifilm X-T1 Mirrorless Camera Review

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Fuji’s Wi-Fi implementation is one of the better ones on the market. It’s quick and easy to set up. Transferring images from camera to smartphone is almost instantaneous using the free Fujifilm Camera Remote app for iOS and Android. I tested the app with an iPhone 4S, but the app works for tablets, too.

Since the device can’t play a full HD video, 1080p videos are not available for transfer. If that happens, Fujifilm suggests shooting a lower-resolution video, such as 720p

In addition to transferring and sharing, you can view images stored in the camera from the smartphone and set the app to geotag your images using data from the smartphone's GPS.

Fujifilm's Camera Remote app enables full control of the camera from your smartphone. You can set shutter speed, aperture, exposure compensation, ISO, white balance and more. You can also touch-focus by tapping on the smartphone or tablet screen.

The app is quite sophisticated and is a great companion for the X-T1 when you want to shoot remotely, such as taking pictures of wildlife or other subjects where your physical presence would interfere.

Fujifilm estimates that a fully charged battery with such as Canon BG-E2N Battery Grip, Canon EOS 350D Battery Grip, Canon EOS Rebel XSi Battery Grip, Canon Eos 5D Mark II Battery Grip, Canon EOS 7D Battery Grip, Canon EOS 550D Battery Grip, Canon 60D Battery Grip, Canon EOS 1100D Battery Grip, Canon 5D Battery Grip, Nikon D60 Battery Grip, Nikon D3000 Battery Grip on the X-T1will last for about 350 shots. Naturally, using the Wi-Fi function — particularly if you send a lot of images — will cut into that time, as will video. But during normal usage, including a full day out and about shooting stills and video (with only minor wireless sharing) the X-T1’s battery held up well.

If you plan to use the wireless function on a regular basis and/or shoot a lot of video, pick up the new $250 vertical battery grip (VG-TX1) and an extra battery to double the camera’s shooting capacity.

The X-T1 is available body-only for $1,300 or with Fujifilm's XF 18-55mm (27-84mm-equivalent) zoom lens for $1,700 (both list prices). While we preferred the $600 XF 35mm, f/1.4 prime lens for its larger aperture and better sharpness, the kit lens still delivers good image quality.

With the kit lens, you have the flexibility of the zoom range and image stabilization. The latter works quite well. Even with my generally shaky hands, I was able to easily handhold the camera with the zoom fully extended down to 1/30 of a second shutter speed.

Fuji offers a good assortment of X-mount lenses including seven primes from the wide 14mm to 60mm macro. Currently six OIS (optically image stabilized) zooms are available ranging from a wide angle 10-24mm to a telephoto 50-230mm. Fujifilm recently shared its roadmap for new lenses in 2014-2015.

To complement the X-T1’s waterproof body, Fuji is introducing a few new watertight lenses this year, including the recently announced weather resistant XF 18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 R LM OIS WR, selling for $900. The lens also promises up to 5 stops of image stabilization. This means that you may be able to shoot at 1/30 of a second as steadily as if you were shooting at 1/100 second without an image-stabilized lens. Also slated for this year are the waterproof XF 16-55mm, f/2.8 R OIS WR and the XF 50-140mm, f/1.8 R OIS WR.

With the X-T1, Fuji added several new accessories, including a vertical battery grip (VG-XT1), a handgrip (M-IG-XT), protective filters, and an AC adapter (AC-9V). This expands the accessory list that already includes an M mount lens adapter, remote release (RR-90) and the MIC-ST1 stereo microphone.

Nikon D810 review of settings in field test

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We have already been treated to various reviews of the Nikon D810, and while they offered a general idea of what you were getting for your money, they were not in-depth enough to help make a rational decision. Thankfully, we have come across a Nikon D810 review of settings in what has been described as a field test.

The test can be seen in the video below, which has a running time of 9:19 and they are at Calgary to find out how much more the D810 is to the D800. We found it funny how they say the new model is 10 more than its predecessor, and so are going to show us 10 things about the camera that has changed.

One of the stand out features and had to mentioned as number one is the improved battery with such as Canon BG-E2 Battery Grip, Canon BG-E3 Battery Grip, Canon BG-E5 Battery Grip, Canon BG-E6 Battery Grip, Canon BG-E7 Battery Grip, Canon BG-E8 Battery Grip, Canon BG-E9 Battery Grip, Canon BG-E10 Battery Grip, Canon LMK-5D Battery Grip, Nikon BP-D60 Battery Grip, Nikon EN-EL9 Battery Grip life. It might be of the same size, but battery life has been improved by up to 33 percent. The design is far better thanks to a new shallower grip, making it much easier to hold all day.

The next improved feature is a lovely OLED screen, which is a nicer experience when viewing images and changing the many settings. The new processor has now made video recording on the D810 better than that of the D800 and D800E, but not by much in terms of the latter model.

It is clear that the Nikon D810 is a superior camera overall, and so we would ask that you watch the video in its entirety to learn about all the new features. However, we do know that you will still be wondering how it compares to the D800 and 5D Mark III, and so we have a comparison for you here.

If you are looking for another perspective then see how awarding winning Lucas Gilman got on with the Nikon D810. Have you purchased this new DSLR from Nikon yet, if so what are your thoughts?

Electric-Car Rollout Plans

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Save Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) agreed to spend billions of euros increasing its orders of Samsung SDI Co. batteries as the world’s largest maker of luxury cars expands its line of electric vehicles.

BMW is planning to increase its purchases of SDI battery cells for the electric i3 city car and the plug-in hybrid i8 sports car as well as for “additional hybrid models” in the coming years, the Munich-based carmaker said today in a statement. BMW assembles the cells into batteries at a facility in Dingolfing, Germany.

“The battery is a key component in every electric vehicle -- since it basically determines the range and performance capabilities of the car,” Klaus Draeger, BMW’s purchasing chief, said in the statement. “In Samsung SDI, we have chosen a supplier that offers us the best-available technology with future-oriented Korean battery with like samsung HMX-T10ON Battery, samsung BP-1030 Battery, samsung NX1000 Battery, samsung NX210 Battery, samsung NX200 Battery, samsung IA-BE210E Battery, samsung IA-BP420E Battery, samsung IA-BP210E Battery, samsung HMX-H200 Battery, samsung BP88A Battery, samsung DV200 Battery, samsung DV300 Battery expertise.”

The deal paves the way for BMW to secure supply of batteries -- the most expensive part of an electric vehicle -- as it rolls out the i8 and i3 to counter inroads by Tesla Motor Inc. (TSLA) into the luxury-car segment. For Samsung SDI, which supplies batteries to Apple Inc., the order builds on the company’s plans to expand its automotive business months after agreeing to acquire Cheil Industries Inc. for 3.5 trillion won ($3.4 billion) to add its chemicals and materials expertise.

Automobiles pass along the assembly line as production begins on the new BMW i3 battery-powered vehicle at the company's factory in Leipzig. Close

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Samsung SDI, a unit of South Korea’s Samsung Group, rose 0.6 percent to close at 173,000 won, the highest since December. The shares have gained 6.8 percent this year, while the benchmark Kospi index is little changed. BMW slipped 0.6 percent to 92.25 euros at 11:27 a.m. in Frankfurt trading.

BMW plans to add more models as part of its electric “i” sub-brand, Ian Robertson, BMW’s head of sales and marketing, said last month, as the company started deliveries of the i8.

“We spent a lot of money on this and are definitely thinking long term,” Robertson said. “There are going to be others in the BMW i lineup.”

The supply deal is worth worth “multi billions of euros,” Gyeonggi, South Korea-based Samsung SDI said in a separate statement, without giving details such as the exact value. A battery can account for as much as 40 percent of an electric vehicle’s manufacturing cost, Samsung SDI’s spokesman David Kim said by phone. BMW’s i3 starts at $41,350.

Sales of hybrids and electric vehicles are projected to grow steadily to reach 5.2 million units by 2020, or 7.3 percent of all passenger vehicles, according to a November 2010 report by J.D. Power & Associates. BMW said it sold 5,400 i3 cars in the first half of 2014 and demand for the i8 is “significantly higher” than initial production plans.

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“Expanding its supply track record will help Samsung SDI as it tries to increase its customer base,” Lee Sang Hyun, an analyst at NH Investment & Securities Co., said by phone. “The deal will help SDI have greater presence as an electric car battery maker in the U.S. and Europe.”

According to Japanese research firm B3, the global market for automotive lithium-ion batteries will increase to $21.3 billion in 2020 from $4.4 billion in 2014.

Samsung SDI has provided batteries to BMW since 2009. Its competitors include South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd. (051910), which supplies France’s Renault SA, and Panasonic Corp. (6752), which supplies batteries to Tesla. Samsung Electronics Co. (005930), the world’s biggest maker of memory chips and smartphones, owns about 20 percent of SDI, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Samsung phone catches fire under girl’s pillow

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Ariel Tolfree told KDFW she placed her Samsung Galaxy S4 under her pillow as she fell asleep. Later that night, she smelled something burning.

“I didn’t think much of it, so I went back to sleep and then I woke up again and it was more prominent,” Tolfree said.

Tolfree’s dad believes the phone overheated, causing the battery to swell and ignite a small fire.

A spokesperson for Samsung told KDFW the battery with like samsung BP-1310 Battery, samsung NX100 Battery, samsung IA-BH125C Battery, samsung HMX-R10 Battery, samsung IA-BH130LB Battery, samsung SMX-K45 Battery, samsung BP85A Battery, samsung WB210 Battery, samsung IA-BP125A Battery, samsung HMX-M20 Battery, samsung HMX-Q10 Battery, samsung HMX-T10 Battery inside the phone was a replacement unit and not an original Samsung battery.

Samsung’s “COMMON PHONE” battery warning states:

“Do not use incompatible cell phone batteries and chargers. Some websites and second-hand dealers not associated with reputable manufacturers and carriers, might be selling incompatible or even counterfeit batteries and chargers. Consumers should purchase manufacturer or carrier-recommended products and accessories. If unsure about whether a replacement battery or charger is compatible, contact the manufacturer of the battery or charger.”

A warning can also be found inside the phone’s manual which states covering the device with bedding or other material could restrict airflow and cause a fire:

“Covering the device with bedding, your body, thick clothing or any other materials that significantly affect air flow may affect the performance of the phone and poses a possible risk of fire or explosion, which could lead to serious bodily injuries or damage to property.”

“If anything, they should put a big warning on it, like a cigarette label, if that’s the case,” Thomas told KDFW.

Samsung said they take any instance of a battery fire “very seriously” and requested for the phone to be mailed to them for a full investigation. The company has offered to replace the phone, the bedding, the mattress and pillow.

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Samsung SDI deal to provide Japanese company with lithium-ion batteries

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Samsung SDI will supply its lithium-ion batteries to a Japanese company building a 1MW solar farm, with the deal expected to then go on to furnish an initial 20 solar farms with batteries.

Edison Power, based in Tokyo, provides development services for solar power plants as well as energy management systems and distribution of large-scale lithium-ion batteries. According to Korean news agency Yonhap, Samsung SDI, the lithium-ion battery division of Korean trading company Samsung, will initially supply 1MWh of batteries to a project Edison Power is building in Kagoshima Prefecture, on the southern island of Kyushu. Kagoshima has been the site of several recent high profile solar power projects, including Japan’s largest PV plant, a 70MW installation by Kyocera.

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Previous to the latest deal with Samsung SDI, in January Edison Power inaugurated its own six hectare factory to assemble and produce large capacity lithium-ion batteries in Chiba, just east of Tokyo. The plant itself has a solar system onsite, charged from a lithium-ion battery, with electricity generated directly self-consumed by the facility.

In other Samsung SDI news, the company announced last month that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with BMW to expand a supply relationship for batteries for electro-mobility. Samsung SDI will supply batteries for BMWs hybrid cars including the BMW i3, BMW i8 and others.

According to a statement by Samsung SDI regarding the BMW deal, “The most important elements of the agreement are the increase in quantities delivered over the medium term, in response to growing demand for electro-mobility, and further technological development of battery cells.”

Panasonic to Help Build Tesla Battery Plant

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Panasonic said it would invest in equipment, machinery and other tools for the plant, which Tesla has said could cost as much as $5 billion. Panasonic's statement on Thursday gave few details beyond what it said in May when the companies signed a letter of intent to join in construction of the plant.

"We haven't decided yet on the specifics of when, or how much investment we will be making," Panasonic Chief Financial Officer Hideaki Kawai said at a news conference in Tokyo. A person familiar with the matter said earlier that the company initially was planning to invest ¥20 billion to ¥30 billion, or roughly $200 million to $300 million, in the Tesla plant.

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"The dollar commitment is somewhat underwhelming," said Carter Driscoll, a clean-technology analyst with investment-banking firm MLV & Co. "But I think they are playing a little bit of cat and mouse about who is going to pay for what," he added. "That's clearly not all Panasonic is going to commit to the facility."

In a joint statement, the companies said cost savings would come from "manufacturing cells that have been optimized for electric vehicle design." The plant would reduce transportation, duty and inventory-carrying costs to lower expenses, Tesla and Panasonic said.

Tesla said in February that it expected to invest about $2 billion of its own funds and wanted partners to pay for the rest of the plant, tapping Panasonic as well as raw-material suppliers for battery components.

Yet at the end of the first quarter, Tesla only had $2.4 billion in cash. Panasonic's expected modest initial investment could indicate that Tesla will need to scale back its plans or raise more capital to take on the project.

Colin Langan, a UBS analyst who covers Tesla, said he expects the auto maker to raise more money to complete the project, though it should be able to fund some of the construction from profit the company generates in coming years. Mr. Driscoll also said Tesla will likely need to raise more money, either through convertible-debt or share sales. Earlier this year, Tesla raised $2 billion from a convertible-debt offering.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has said he is confident that building the plant will lead to a 30% reduction in battery-pack costs, while also providing his company with as many as 500,000 battery packs a year. The electric-car company has been constrained in its ability to produce vehicles by a limited number of cells coming from Panasonic, its only battery supplier.

Panasonic already has an agreement to provide two billion battery cells to Tesla through 2017, the same year that the car maker plans to open the new battery factory. The Japanese company aims to double sales at its auto division in four years, making an expanded alliance with Tesla an attractive prospect.

Still, Panasonic executives, troubled by past investments on plasma displays that later went sour, remain cautious about ramping up spending too aggressively. Panasonic says it has compiled detailed risk scenarios and multiple backup plans in case demand for Tesla cars doesn't increase as expected.

The extended negotiations over the battery plant suggest the difficulty of matching Mr. Musk's ambitions for a factory that would be the largest under one roof in the U.S.—outstripping aircraft and auto plants—with Panasonic's more cautious approach. Tesla has so far declined to use batteries from other big manufacturers, even though the company has faced capacity obstacles for more than a year.

Financing Terms Remain Unclear

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In a sign that its turnaround is taking hold, Panasonic said Thursday that operating profit rose 28% to ¥82 billion in its April-June quarter. Sales increased 1.5%, helped by strong performance in the company's housing and automotive businesses. Net profit fell 65% amid a one-time gain in the year-earlier period from a change in Panasonic's pension plan.

Mr. Kawai said Panasonic and Tesla were compiling a plan that would ensure profitability, while Panasonic would make its investments in phases that were in line with demand for Tesla vehicles. Tesla is scouting sites in Arizona, California, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas, and economic-development officials in each state are readying incentive offers that include items such as expedited building permits and cheap electricity.

Like Panasonic, other Japanese electronics companies posted solid quarterly results Thursday with battery like samsung SB-L110A Battery, samsung HMX-H106 Battery, samsung HMX-H100 Battery, samsung SMX-F30 Battery, samsung IA-BP85SW Battery, samsung VP-DX10 Battery, samsung SB-L110G Battery, samsung VM-C5000 Battery, samsung VP-D5000 Battery, samsung VP-M110 Battery, samsung VP-M2100 Battery, samsung VP-X110 Battery, benefiting from years of restructuring to reduce their exposure to consumer electronics. That shift has also helped them cope better with a fall in domestic demand from a sales-tax increase that took effect in Japan in April, raising the tax to 8% from 5%.

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Toshiba on Thursday announced new cuts in its business that makes TV sets and other visual products. It plans to halve the number of global sales sites to 12 by the first half of the fiscal year starting in April. The move will reduce the company's global workforce in that business by about 25% and is expected to cut fixed costs by ¥10 billion versus the current fiscal year, Toshiba said.

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Panasonic, Fujitsu and Toshiba all kept their full-year forecasts unchanged. Hitachi raised its net-profit outlook for the April-September period by 9% from three months ago, citing improving macroeconomic conditions in Japan.

"I think the structural environment in Japan is getting close to the U.S. and Europe, and we are finally out of deflation," said Toyoaki Nakamura, Hitachi's chief financial officer.

HTC Desire 616 dual sim

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HTC's latest smartphone fails to stand out from its fellow budget competitors. In fact, its specifications read very much like a typical entry-level smartphone.

Take the dual SIM support (it is in the name lest you miss it) and the 3G-only connectivity.

Even the 1,280 x 720-pixel IPS screen and its lack of an anti-fingerprint coating are standard for budget smartphones.

Internal storage, too, is limited at just 4GB, so you will need to supplement it with a microSD card (up to 32GB).

The phone bears some similarities to the flagship HTC One (M8), but it is wholly plastic instead of aluminium.

The dual front-facing speakers of the M8 are not found here. Overall, it is a solid but unremarkable device.

The front and the sides are matte grey, but the glossy removable back cover quickly becomes icky with fingerprints.

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Perhaps the Desire's best feature is the HTC Sense 6 interface running on top of Android 4.2 Jelly Bean. Unlike LG or Samsung, HTC has not remade the Android interface in its own image.

Instead, the top feature is BlinkFeed, which lets you view social media and news updates on the home screen, like in Live Tiles in Windows Phone.

This budget phone lacks the fancy UltraPixel camera found in the flagship M8. Its camera is not the fastest shooter I have used, but it is competent enough.

A cool bonus: Any photo and video you take automatically becomes part of a video montage, complete with a soundtrack, thanks to a feature called Video Highlights.

A MediaTek octa-core chip, popular with budget and mid-tier phone makers, powers the Desire. But having more cores does not guarantee performance. This processor may score well in performance benchmarks, but there were occasional moments of lag in games such as Angry Birds Epic.

This lag was also evident when scrolling through a webpage in Chrome.

The battery should see you through an average day at work. In Digital Life's video playback test, it lasted 6hr 38min.

At $298, the odds are against this HTC phone winning more than a sliver of the local budget smartphone pie. Both Asus and Xiaomi offer comparable and cheaper phones. Xiaomi's Redmi is hard to beat at $169. Meanwhile, the $239 Nokia Lumia 635 has 4G support.

Nokia Lumia 930 running Windows Phone 8.1

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Extra screen real estate and a great camera will please the Nokia faithful, but the curvaceous Lumia body has undergone a utilitarian makeover.

Against the likes of iOS and Android, Windows Phone is always going to struggle to shake the "also-ran" tag in the smartphone race. To be honest nothing Microsoft produces is likely to tempt Android or Apple fans to defect, or vice versa. But when you put aside the tribal rivalry and approach it with an open mind, the Nokia Lumia 930 has a lot going for it and stands as a worthy competitor.

I've looked at the Lumia 920 and Lumia 1020 in the past, so I won't cover too much old ground. Similar to Windows 8 on desktops, notebooks and tablets, Windows Phone 8 is based on live tiles – a cross between an icon and a widget. They're designed with battery like samsung L830 Battery, samsung ST10 Battery, samsung SLB-1037 Battery, samsung SLB-1137 Battery, samsung DigiMax V800 Battery, samsung SLB-1137C Battery, samsung i7 Battery, samsung i8 Battery, samsung SLB-1137D Battery, samsung NV100HD Battery, samsung i100 Battery, samsung NV40 Battery around "hubs" like People and Pictures. Alternatively you can flick right to see a full list of apps and "pin" your commonly used apps to the home screen. Microsoft has just announced that you'll soon be able to organise your apps into folders.

The Lumia 930 comes with Windows Phone 8.1 and the latest "Nokia Cyan" update, which brings a range of changes. The most obvious is the pull-down notification bar dubbed "Action Centre" – similar to the pull-down notification bars found on Android and iOS. If you are migrating from these platforms then you'll feel right at home with Action Centre, which offers notifications from apps like Outlook, Messaging and Facebook. It would be nice to see calendar appointments in there to offer a more holistic view of your digital life, but hopefully these will come with time.

Advertisement Across the top of Action Centre is fast access to commonly used features. The four slots are set to Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Flight Mode and Rotation Lock by default, but you can dip into the settings and choose from seven others.

It's not just the Windows Phone interface which has undergone a revamp. Nokia has also changed the design of the handset, moving away from the luscious curved polycarbonate Lumia body to embrace a more utilitarian aluminium design which is reminiscent of the iPhone 4 or HTC's metallic slabs.

The Lumia 930 sports a generous 5-inch display which, combined with the dead-straight aluminium sides, gives it a clunky monolithic look which is unlikely to appeal to fashionistas. It looks big and heavy, even though it's only 9.8mm thick and tips the scales at 167 grams. The dimensions are almost identical to Samsung's Galaxy S5, but the Android superphone looks far more petite.

When it comes to smartphones I prefer substance over style, but I must admit I was quite taken with the original Lumia design and I'm sorry to see it go. There's still a slightly curved colourful polycarbonate backplate on the Lumia 930, but it does little to take the edge off the harsh new design and I don't think it sits as comfortably in the hand. It would be interesting to know whether the design changes have been influenced by Microsoft's growing control over Nokia.

Thankfully the new Lumia is still blessed with a spectacular AMOLED display, offering one of the best smartphone screens on the market with rich colours, deep blacks and excellent viewing angles. The jump to 5 inches brings a 1920x1080 resolution, delivering an impressive 441 pixels per inch with a 16:9 aspect ratio. It's protected by tough Gorilla Glass 3 which does a good job of coping with outdoor glare.

Run your eye down the spec sheet and you'll find most of the mod-cons you'd expect in a flagship smartphone. There's a 2.2 GHz quad-core Qualcomm powerplant with Adreno 330 graphics, accompanied by 2GB of RAM and 32GB of onboard storage. As for connectivity there's LTE (nano-SIM) along with 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi (2.4 and 5GHz), Bluetooth 4.0, NFC and micro-USB.

There's still no support for a micro-SD card but Microsoft throws in 15GB of online storage, which goes up to 1TB for Office 365 subscribers. There's no micro-HDMI output but there is support for Miracast wireless video mirroring.

The battery should get you through the longest days, assisted by intelligent power and app management without the brutal power-saving options inflicted by some Android devices. Nokia has also reinstated support for wireless charging, which was lost on some earlier Lumias, but the charge pad is an optional extra.

As you'd expect with a Lumia, it's the camera which deserves special attention. The 20-megapixel rear camera is more modest than the 38-megapixel offering from last year's phenomenal Lumia 1020, but it still places the 930 head and shoulders above most rivals. Similar to the 1020, the 930 captures a 5-megapixel JPG and 16-megapixel lossless RAW image whenever you take a photo – creating the illusion of optical zoom when reviewing or cropping images because it can call on the extra detail from the 16-megapixel version.

At first glance the results from the 16-megapixel Samsung Galaxy S5 are on par with the Lumia 930, but once you look closer you'll see the Lumia does a better job of capturing fine detail and performs slightly better in low-light conditions. It helps that the Lumia's sensor is a fraction bigger. You'll need an eye for detail to really appreciate the difference, but such people are exactly the target market for the Lumia range.

Nvidia Shield Tablet Review

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More than that, Nvidia has created a true gaming tablet that, combined with the $60 Shield Wireless Controller, can play both Android and PC games as well as livestream the fun to Twitch. Still, when you add the slate, controller and $30 stand cover, you'll pay close to the price of a PS4 or Xbox One. Is the Shield worth the scratch?

It was love at first touch. The Shield Tablet's rear panel is swathed in a black, luxurious soft touch finish that's as nice to look at as it is to caress. A chrome-ringed 5-megapixel camera is located in the top right corner while the silver-tipped stylus rests in its plastic-lined holder at the top left corner. The glossy black Shield lettering in the center of the panel adds some nice shine and a bit of visual and textural contrast.

Turning the tablet around to the front reveals the 8-inch display surrounded by thick black bezels. Twin speakers flank the screen, and Nvidia placed another 5-MP camera in the middle of the left speaker housing.

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As sleek as the Shield tablet looks, the 13.7-ounce, 8.8 x 5.0 x 0.36-inch device is positively bulky compared to most Android tablets. This includes the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 8.4 (10.37 ounces, 8.37 s 4.94 x 0.26 inches).

In a word, the Nvidia Shield Tablet's 1920 x 1200 display is lovely. The glossy panel delivered deep, gorgeous color with impressive detail. Viewing angles were generous, washing out only after I tilted the tablet away from my face.

As I watched the 1080p trailer for the upcoming James Brown biopic "Get On Up," I was treated to scene after scene of scrumptious reds, deep blues and vibrant greens. I couldn't stop staring at the individual tassels shimmying on Brown's ruby red jacket as he sauntered toward the stage.

Despite the vividness of the trailer, the Shield Tablet's screen is only capable of rendering 80 percent of the sRGB gamut. This falls below the 90.4 percent tablet average. The Tab S 8.4 in comparison, scored 160.5 percent. The Shield had better color accuracy, as its score of 3.4 on the Delta-E test beat the 5.25 average (numbers closer to 0 are better) and the Tab S 8.4's score of 4.5.

The Shield Tablet averaged 372 lux on our brightness test, slightly higher than the 361 lux tablet average. However, that doesn't hold a candle to the Tab S 8.9 (505 lux), Fire HDX 8.9 (465 lux) and iPad mini (390 lux). We had trouble viewing the Shield's display in direct sunlight.

If you plan to play controller games on the tablet, you'll probably want to prop it up, which Nvidia makes easy with its $30 optional cover. The cover attaches to the tablet via a pair of docking ports along the bottom of the device and can be folded into a stand when it's time to start gaming. It also protects the display from scratches and dirt when closed.

What a difference a pair of front-facing speakers can make. When I listened to Pharrell's "Marilyn Munroe" on the Shield, the synthesized violin track filled the room. The singer's vocals were crisp as were the hand claps in the background. The side-mounted passive reflex bass ports delivered a surprising amount of thump, resulting in a healthy bassline.

You won't need an external speaker to hear your games or music from across the room. The tablet hit 85 decibels on our sound meter, beating the 79 dB average and the Tab S 8.4 (78 dB).

Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 vs Samsung Galaxy S5 – Battery life, Price & Specs

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As smart devices are getting better and better each day, it becomes quiet confusing which device to pick in the lot. Today we go over some features and specifications to make it a lot easier for you to figure which smart device is best suited for your needs. I’ts best to check on the current operating system and when the last update was, this helps ensure you’re picking a up to date smart device.

Design & Specifications The Galaxy S5 has quite a few design changes since its previous model, the design is very similar besides the S5 sporting a new rounded polycarbonate body, metal trimmed edges and a removable rear cover but unlike previous models, this rear cover is a more solid and higher quality plastic which makes the back of the phone feel a lot more structured. The new smartphone weights in at 145g – a minor 15g increase from the Galaxy S4 and comes at 142×72.5mm (5.6inches x 2.85 inches) which is proportionally bigger than its predecessor. Display & Battery with like samsung SB-L110A Battery, samsung SB-L160 Battery, samsung SB-L320 Battery, samsung SB-L480 Battery, samsung VP-L900 Battery, samsung SB-L110 Battery, samsung SB-L220 Battery, samsung SB-L70 Battery, samsung VP-D99 Battery, samsung SB-LSM80 Battery, samsung SB-LSM160 Battery, samsung SC-D965 Battery Life The Galaxy S5 comes with an amazing 432 ppi Super AMOLED screen, a 1920x1080px resolution and a more powerful Li-ion 2800 mAh removable battery. There hasn’t been any confirmation yet as to if Samsung are going to be supporting wireless charging with their new model. Camera & Price The front and rear camera have both received upgrades this year. The new Galaxy S5 sports a 16 mega pixel rear camera and a 2.1 mega pixel front camera. The price of this new smartphone has yet to be announced and there is only speculation on what the price could be. Please be aware that the price varies depending on where you buy it and what country you are buying it in due to local tax and shipping offsets.

Announced back in November the Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 didn’t bring as much as hype as other phones announced by Samsung from the Galaxy line, basically because of its low-rate specifications. However, the phone is perfect for anyone who is on the lookout for a cheap smartphone with Dual SIM capabilities. Design & Specifications Featuring a design that is seemingly a hybrid between the Galaxy S II and S III phones, the Samsung Galaxy Duos 2 is 121.5 x 63.1 x 10.6 mm in size and weights just below 120 grams. Although the smartphone is far from breathtaking when it comes to specifications, the Dual Core 1.2GHz processor is pretty decent when it comes to app compatibility. Display & Sound The capacitive TFT touchscreen is not as good as the one featured on the Galaxy S III, but it seems to be pretty decent when it comes to color density and brightness. The 223 ppi pixel density on the 4-inch 480×800 pixel display make the Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 a better choice than the S II, even if we exclude the Dual SIM capability of the smartphone. Battery Life When it comes to a battery life, the Samsung Galaxy S Duos 2 does surprisingly well having in mind the poor Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery featured on the device. Giving you an overall talk time of up to 8 Hours in a 3G network and 280 hours in standby mode, the battery life of the device is quite decent, but it is still problematic at times, as extensive use of the device may drain the battery for less than 3 hours. Camera The Camera of the device is 5 MP with 2592 x 1944 pixel picture capabilities. Letting you capture videos at 720p and 30 FPS, the phone camera is decent enough for anyone who uses the camera on their phone to share their life moments through social networks. The front camera is VGA and doesn’t stand out as much when it comes to quality, but gives the Samsung Galaxy S Duos II video conferencing capabilities. Overall Perfect for people with contracts to multiple mobile networks, because of it’s selling point being the Dual SIM capability, the smart device is a perfect blend between the Galaxy S II and S III models offered by Samsung. Although, the Samsung Galaxy S Duos II may not the perfect choice for people who plan on using the phone for extensive browsing, movie playback or games, it is nonetheless perfect for its price.

Drift HD Ghost-S

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Drift's Ghost-S might not be the largest action camera we've reviewed, but it sure is the heaviest. Packed inside the 2.32 by 1.29 by 4.1-inch (HWD) rubberized plastic body is 6.06 ounces of hardware. Heavier action cameras, such as this one and Kodak's PixPro SP1$229.99 at Target.com (5.4 ounces), often share features like a built-in display and waterproofing without the need for a case. The Ghost-S can go down to 9.8 feet underwater without a case (197 feet with the optional waterproof case), and at 2 inches, the display on the camera's left side is 0.5 inch bigger than the Kodak's.

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The Ghost-S's best and most differentiating feature is Drift's signature lens, which swivels up to 300 degrees by simply twisting the lens itself by hand. With the up-facing arrow to indicate the lens's upright orientation, and as long the camera is pointing in the direction you want to record, it lets you mount the camera at almost any angle while keeping a perfect orientation. By comparison, action cameras without the swiveling lens must be mounted in their upright position if you want to shoot properly oriented footage.

In the box, you'll find the camera itself, a remote, the battery, a non-waterproof connector hatch that gives easy access to the mini USB and mic out ports, a universal clip, two mount clips, a wrist strap, a mini USB cable, a microphone extension cable, and a goggle mount.

The remote, which you can strap onto your wrist using the included wrist strap, pairs easily with the Ghost-S, and you can use it to start and stop recording as well as take still, time-lapse, and burst photos. It also indicates recording status, which is useful when the camera is mounted on, say, a helmet. The two buttons are large, which makes it easy to operate the camera when wearing gloves.

Connecting the Drift to a Nexus 5 and an iPhone 5s via Wi-Fi was painless, and the well-designed app lets you remotely operate the camera and change its settings. The iOS version's video stream of what the camera is looking at was fairly immediate, but the same can't be said about the Android version; it shows a two-second lag.

The Ghost-S lets you record 1080p video at 25, 30, 50, and up to 60fps with fields of view ranging from 90, 127, and 160 degrees. Setting the camera to 960p adds the option to record at 48fps, and if you want to shoot footage that you can slow down in editing, you'll have to step down to 720p, which the Ghost-S records at the same fps as 1080p, but with additional 100 and 120fps options. For both 960p and 720p settings, you're limited to the 160-degree angle of view.

You can set the Ghost-S to record footage in Normal or High bitrate. Video quality captured by the 12-megapixel Sony CMOS sensor is quite good, but not as good as GoPro's Hero3 Black Edition$299.99 at Kellyco Detectors, or iON's Air Pro 3$306.29 at Amazon. Edges often appear interlaced and jagged at 1080p on the Normal bit rate setting, and the issues are only slightly remedied on the High bitrate setting. Kodak's PixPro SP1, which is half the price, shoots footage that's very close in quality compared with the Ghost-S, but without the interlacing and jagged edges.

The Ghost-S takes quite good pictures, and you can shoot in time-lapse mode at 0.5-, 1-, 2-, 3-, 5-, and 10-second intervals. You can also shoot in burst mode in five or 10 shots per second.

The fish-eye effect that's normally caused by wide-angle lenses isn't as noticeable as with the PixPro SP1 and iON Air Pro 3. There's no image stabilization here, either, which eliminates the kind of wobble-effect we found on footage taken with the Air Pro 3. Despite the lack of image stabilization, footage wasn't too shaky when the Ghost-S was mounted on a road bike's handlebar with very thin tires, which tend pick up every minor imperfection on the road.

For $399.99, Drift's Ghost-S is in an awkward position. On one hand, iON's Air Pro 3 shoots better quality video for $50 less, and Kodak's PixPro SP1 shoots almost as good quality video as the Ghost-S for half the price. On the other, GoPro's Hero3 BE shoots superior video quality for the same price. Unless you think you'll absolutely need Drift's clever swiveling lens, the remote, out-of-the-box waterproofing, and the 2-inch display, there's little reason why you shouldn't go for the GoPro.

Kodak PixPro SP1

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The Kodak PixPro SP1's$229.99 at Target.com yellow and black color combination may remind you of Kodak's trademark 35mm film roll. But at 2.02 by 1.55 by 3.33 (HWD), the SP1 is much larger, and it's 0.4 ounces heavier than the iON Air Pro 3, weighing in at 5.4 ounces. It's the heaviest action camera we've tested to date, and was fairly uncomfortable to wear with a bike helmet mount as it would push the front of my helmet down my forehead, edging it closer and closer towards my eyes. Despite its size, it doesn't need a waterproof case, as it is waterproof out-of-the-box down to 32 feet, and action cameras that need cases can become even bulkier than the SP1.

It feels positively solid and is designed to withstand drops from heights up to six feet. Indeed, the camera still worked after I dropped it a few times from six feet, and the screen didn't crack, but it didn't save what I was recording.

On the right side, you'll find a 1.5-inch display that's great for quickly checking and framing shots. It also lets you navigate through the settings menus using the controls on the camera's top side. They include Power, OK, Record, and Left and Right buttons that double as Menu and Play controls. The menus aren't the easiest to navigate, but action cameras are rarely intuitive. On the back is an attached, lockable door that keeps water away from the battery with such as Kodak EasyShare V530 Battery, Kodak KLIC-7003 Battery, Kodak Easyshare V1003 Battery, Kodak KLIC-7004 Battery, Kodak EasyShare V1273 Battery, Kodak EasyShare M1033 Battery, Kodak DCS-620 Battery, Kodak KLIC-7005 Battery, Kodak EasyShare C763 Battery, Kodak KLIC-7006 Battery, Kodak Easyshare M883 Zoom Battery, Kodak Easyshare M873 Battery (which is removable), a micro HDMI port, and a micro USB port. The lens is flanked by stereo microphones with a speaker directly beneath. A standard screw hole lets you attach Kodak's mounts to the bottom of the unit, and is compatible with any third-party mounts.

The mounts are quite small compared with those from other action camera manufacturers, which is a good thing for traveling and trying to keep things compact. Aside from the camera, in the box you'll find the battery pack, a standard lens cover, an underwater lens cover (that lessens water's refractive qualities), a micro USB cable, an AC adapter, and a CD-ROM-based manual.

For now, you can only purchase the SP1 bundled with an accessory pack, but a Kodak spokesperson confirmed that the company will soon sell the camera on its own for $199. The Explorer Pack bundle ($229) that came with our test unit contained two base units with screw mounts, two extended arms, curved and flat adhesive mounts, a handlebar mount, a vented helmet strap, and a regular strap for the camera. Also available is the Aqua Pack ($229), which contains similar mounts, but exchanges the bike handlebar and helmet mounts for a surfboard adhesive mount and a headband mount. If you want all the mounts and accessories, an Extreme Pack is available for $249.99.

The PixPro SP1's video quality is superior to Sony's more expensive POV Action CamBest Price at Amazon, but not quite as good as the much pricier GoPro Hero3 Black Edition, or the iON Air Pro 3. Details are clear and crisp, and the 160-degree field of view captures a good amount of the action. I did see substantial distortion around the edges that creates an exaggerated fish-eye effect, the extent of which may not be to everyone's liking.

You can choose between 1080p30, 960p50, 960p30, 720p60, 720p30, WVGA60, and WVGA120 video recording modes. That's somewhat lacking when you compare it with other action cameras we've tested, which usually include 1080p60 and can even go up to 1440p48 in the case of the GoPro Hero3 BE.

Image stabilization worked very well, and created less of a rolling jelly-like effect than the iON Air Pro 3's$306.29 at Amazon stabilizer did in my tests. During testing, I watched the camera shake considerably while it was mounted on my road bike's handlebars using the bike mount, and I was impressed by how much of the shaking was smoothed out by the SP1. For an action camera with a 14-megapixel CMOS sensor, still photo quality isn't bad, either, and you can shoot in both time-lapse and burst modes.

You can connect the SP1 to a device running either iOS or Android using the PixPro SP1 app and the camera's built-in Wi-Fi radio. Initial pairing wasn't too difficult in my tests, but rather than a dedicated button to reconnect to a mobile device, you need to go through the menu, which simply isn't as easy. Also, the distance the SP1's Wi-Fi radio transmits was shorter than other cameras we've tested (see slideshow), maxing out at about 10 feet in our admittedly crowded lab network.

I ran into some bugs with the Android version of the app. The Remote Viewfinder streamed what the camera is pointing at in decent quality and with minimal lag—save for a "Reconnecting" popup that repeatedly appeared for no reason. The Playback option supposedly displays thumbnails of your photos and videos, but crashed the app when I tried to play anything. However, everything worked fine in the iOS version.

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Those of you who have been reading my blog the last week will know that I tried to teach my camera to fly!
Although it still works, and will be great for a backup camera, it feels "clunky" and just possibly, not as sharp as it used to be.

So any excuse for a new camera!

I have seven cameras, most of them kept in a basket trunk on the landing..... my first point and shoot in pretty pink, a Canon Ixus, two more Panasonic P&S cameras, , a Panasonic Lumix FZ18, the old Lumix FZ150, the new FZ200 and finally, the top of the lot, my Canon 450D, with three different lens.

I can hear you all saying, what is it with her.. why does she need so many?

Well, to be honest, the first one I mentioned is nearly 15 years old, and digital photography has come a long way since they were first introduced to the world twenty four years ago.

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Today, the cost of photography for the professionals has become exorbitant, as they strive to get longer lenses to enable them to see further........into the celebrity's garden!

So, back to the camera that flew... I decided to spoil myself and upgrade to the new FZ200 camera, then spent all last weekend getting to grips with the zoom lens.... a massive 22-600 mm DSLR equivalent. Added to that, there is the ability to increase the zoom length by using the digital zoom, which brings it up to a whopping 1200mm.

There is no way it is a sharp, or anywhere as effective as the 1200mm lenses you can buy for DSLR cameras, but they cost tens of thousands! For instance, I found that the Canon 1200 lens, measuring 33" inches long and weighing a hefty 36lbs, actually cost £80,000, when first introduced in 2010!

I had had the camera four days when I decided it had a fault.

I was in two minds about what to do - was it a fault that might go away or might it get worse? Anyway, in the end I decided to ask for an exchange, and the new camera arrived 6:30 last night.

I was tired, and busy watching TV last evening, so other than charging up the battery, I left it until this morning to play with it. Within ten seconds of switching it on I knew it was a different camera to the one I had earlier in the week. This one focused quicker, the shutter release sounded quicker and the results are even better I feel. It was obvious the first camera had more than the scrolling LCD screen as an issue!

I took it outside and wandered around the garden, taking a few shots, just to try it out.

So come with me, down the gravel path, and let's see what there is to see in the JULY garden :)

Panasonic AJ-PX270 HD Camcorder

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Nobody seems to notice traditional HD video cameras anymore. In a large-sensor, 4K world, we are too often drawn by the hype, forgetting that there are applications where the traditional video camera is the appropriate tool.

The Panasonic AJ-PX270 is an appropriate tool for ENG, documentary, run-and-gun, corporate and event video. This is an affordable, compact, lightweight and feature-rich camera.

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And the feature set—all I can say is amazing. This is Panasonic’s first “popularly priced” handheld camera to include AVC-Intra 100 I-frame recording with resolution and frame rate as high as 1080 50/60p. And yes, this one camera is universal. Just set up for NTSC or PAL region and all 24/30/60 or 25/50 frame rates are available. To save media space, it can record AVC-Intra 50, AVC-LongG50, AVC-LongG25 and AVC-LongG12. To maintain backward compatibility, it records DVCPRO HD, DVCPRO 50 and DVCPRO 25. An optional upgrade raises the stakes to AVC-Intra 200.

With its three 1/3-inch CMOS sensors, the PX270 can record to standard P2 (one slot) or the new microP2 cards (two slots). Its 22x fixed lens has a variable servo zoom and three rings: focus, manual zoom and manual iris. One small gripe I have is that the manual iris, like many cameras in this price range, is a continuous rotation and no f-stops are indicated on the lens barrel. The viewfinder display, however, does indicate the f-stop. And speaking of displays, the top flip-out viewing screen is sharp, but, like most viewing screens, is inadequate in direct sunlight. The eyepiece viewfinder is a stunning OLED display that you simply have to see to believe.

Other Panasonic cameras have been criticized for having servo zooms that do not stop/start smoothly. This issue has been remedied in the AJ-PX270. The variable servo zoom is a little touchy, and since it is based on simply depressing the zoom rocker all or partway, it is virtually impossible to repeat a zoom. The 22x zoom f/1.6 lens is sharp and remarkably free of chromatic aberration.

Continuing its ENG layout, the PX270 has an XLR input on both the front and rear. Unlike other cameras in this price range, it features a front audio level dial, located where it would be expected. The I/O choices are extensive, with HD-SDI, USB 2.0/3.0 and HDMI.

For wired LAN use, there is an Ethernet port, and an optional Wi-Fi dongle enables wireless connections. This allows streaming a lower-res proxy file while simultaneously recording a beefier codec to cards. Metadata can be attached to all files, even to those proxy files streamed via wireless LAN or Ethernet. HD files are recorded in one of the included AVC codecs in the traditional P2-MXF file structure. Footage imports flawlessly into any NLE that supports the P2 format.

The variable frame rate features were particularly impressive, with rates in menu-selected increments from 1 to 60 fps—even in 1080p recording.

Full automatic or manual functions are selected by a two-position switch. This choice can come in very handy in fast-paced run-and-gun scenarios such as ENG.

Users have long appreciated Panasonic’s color science, and this camera follows that path. Picture profiles are familiar—with the CineGamma V and CineGamma D profiles. By the way, profiles may be modified and custom profiles loaded like any other Panasonic camera. However, the PX270 adds three film-like gammas.

Combine this with camera painting options like a VariCam and you can create video or film looks in-camera. I particularly liked the film-like gammas combined with the camera’s extended DRS (dynamic range system). It wasn’t like shooting with a digital cinema camera with 14 stops of dynamic range, but it produced very pleasing cine-like images. This is important for documentary shooters hoping to avoid a “video look.”

In the short time I had the camera for evaluation, I was pleased with Panasonic’s implementation of the CMOS sensors. Flash band compensation is built in. Aliasing seemed much less pronounced than in other CMOS cameras I own or have tested, but anyone experienced with these sensors knows that you simply have to do your best to avoid patterns or textures that will alias.

The same goes for rolling shutter—it is much less pronounced than I would have expected it to be. These features of the CMOS chips make the PX270 stand out in the field.

I was unable to test the wireless camera remote functions, and the streaming functions will be implemented in a future firmware update. However, the fact that this camera will offer such features makes it ideal in today’s fast-paced newsgathering environment.

The release of the PX270 is an opportunity for Panasonic to show that it has been listening to its users. The camera can record in Panasonic’s most powerful AVC codecs, it can be painted like a VariCam, it will eventually have wired and wireless LAN connectivity, and it just feels comfortable to hold. Images in video (Rec. 709) mode are sharp and look like video (which you might want if you’re shooting the evening news). Images in any of the CineGammas reprise Panasonic’s film looks going all the way back to the DVX100.

Don’t expect the 14-stop dynamic range from this camera that high-end single-sensor cameras can deliver. If you need 14 stops of dynamic range, wait for Panasonic’s newly announced VariCams and expect to pay a lot more than $6,000. The PX270 isn’t a digital cinema camera; it is a video camera that can deliver both video and film looks.
And indeed, in every respect, the Panasonic AJ-PX270 delivers.

It was a delight to shoot and a worthy compact yet powerful tool. Small gripes aside, Panasonic has a winner on its hands that in turn will support the success of its end users.

Nexus 4 Vs Sony Xperia Z1 – Specs & Features

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There are many choices in Android phones available today. You will be thrilled to see the features, design and ability of the smartphone devices these days. For your ease in choosing between the best smartphone brands, we have come up with the comparison of Sony Xperia Z1 and Nexus 4 by Google. Here is a full-fledge discussion of the incredible features of both the smartphones.

Z1 is the new version of the flagship smartphone launched by Sony in the year 2013, known as Sony Xperia Z. It’s a premium smartphone model for sure. Let’s talk about the same qualities of Z1 which make it a beautiful and powerful device:

It’s a 5 inches phone displays HD 1920 x 1080 resolution. To overcome the sharp edges of the smartphone, Sony has covered the smartphone with an upgraded Aluminum Chassis. And yes its dust and water resistant. It has full glass exterior which surely makes it flawless.

Sony has recently upgraded the phone to Android 4.4. 2 KitKat. It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 chipset 2.2GHz Quad core. It comes with 16 GB built-in memory and 2048 MB RAM. That’s a whole lot of storage isn’t it?

You will be amazed to learn about Sony Xperia Z1’s camera. It’s actually a 20.7 MP with a 2MP front camera. The camcorder features 1920×1080 (1080p HD) resolution. The camera features are simply amazing. You will be thrilled to capture images and make videos.

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Nexus 4 comes in 133.9 x 68.7 x 9.1 mm which is almost similar to its predecessor. The front of the phone is entirely glass but the pack is a bit glittery kind of black. Its made up of Gorilla glass, so don’t worry, the phone is really tough. The 4 inch LCD display features 768 x 1280 pixel display. The phone has got a razor sharp display.

It’s Android 4.2 Jelly Bean featuring Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro quad-core CPU processor. The built-in memory of phone is 8GB with 2GB of RAM. You can upgrade the operating system of the smartphone too.

Sadly, it has 8MP rear camera and 1.3 MP front camera. Butit’s better than the camera quality and features than other smartphone like HTC One X and Apple iPhone 5.

The phone is 3G enabled but not 4G enabled. It comes with battery capacity of 2100 mAh.

Both smartphones have amazing features and everybody would prefer to get Sony Xperia Z1 here. But if you are looking for an affordable option which of course lets you makes the most out of your money, then Google Nexus 4 is what you must go for.

Jimmy Kimmel Told People A $20 Casio Is An Apple Smartwatch

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Jimmy Kimmel proved this week that if you slap an Apple logo on something, chances are people will think it's really awesome.

He sent a crew to Hollywood Boulevard to gauge people's interest in an "Apple smartwatch."

But the "smartwatch" was nothing more than a $20 Casio watch.

In the beginning of the segment, Kimmel talks about the "iTime" patent that Apple filed in 2011 but was just published this week.

The interviewer asks people whether they like specific features on the watch.

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Another fan of the device likes that it tells the date as well as the time. He also likes that it has an alarm, is water resistant, and has a countdown timer.

"I'm pretty impressed," he says while holding the plastic Casio. "Those are all the things I would ask for in a watch."

And then some people don't need a backlight or time-telling capabilities to color them impressed.

"I just like that it has an Apple insignia on the back," says one guy.

This isn't the first time that Kimmel has pulled a similar prank on innocent passersby. Last year he tricked people into thinking the new iPhone had a scent.

Casio Exilim EX-100

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Casio's Exilim EX-100 is the lightest and thinnest of the three superzoom cameras in this shoot-out. Unlike many superzooms, it does not look like a shrunken DSLR camera.

With its compact size and self-opening lens cap, EX-100 is the most pocketable and convenient camera in its class.

Button layout is well conceived. The Mode dial, lens zoom lever and shutter release button are on top and easily accessible with your right index finger.

In addition to Aperture-Priority and Program modes, the Mode dial also has Art Shot, Intelligent Bracketing and Time-Lapse modes for quick switching of modes.

The EX-100 also has an aperture ring in front and a wheel dial at the back.

So, in Manual mode, you can quickly adjust the aperture with the ring and the shutter speed with the wheel dial.

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The grip of the EX-100 is not as pronounced and comfortable as that of the other two cameras.

Another drawback: It lacks an electronic viewfinder. This makes it difficult to compose pictures under the glare of bright sunlight.

But EX-100's secret weapon is its dual bracketing or Intelligent Bracketing function. In this mode, you can shoot nine frames using two different parameters, such as white balance and saturation, in just 1sec. This way, you can choose the right one.

Its Make-up mode is another draw. You can smoothen your subject's complexion in the photos by adjusting its intensity (from level 0 to 12) to your liking.

The camera takes about 1.2sec to power up, but shuts down slowly in around 2.7sec.

Using an SD card with a writing speed rated at 45MB per second, I shot 30 JPEG images in 0.9sec before the buffer ran out.

Autofocusing (AF) is quick and accurate in bright light. In dim conditions, it takes around 1.2sec with the help of an AF assist light.

Image quality is good, with vivid colours and smooth skin tones, especially when you boost the intensity of the Make-up mode. Details are crisp and distinct, but could be sharper.

In noise performance, it also trails. Noise artefacts show up at ISO 400. I would not recommend anything above ISO 800.

It has the shortest battery life of the three cameras, but not by much.

On a full charge, the EX-100 manages some 390 stills - 20 to 30 frames fewer than the other two.

The Casio Exilim EX-100 is the most pocketable superzoom camera in the market. It operates fast, handles well and comes with great features, such as Dual Bracketing and Make-up modes. However, its image quality is only average for the hefty price tag.

Tile Bluetooth tracking tag works great

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The Tile is a tiny plastic widget that never gets lost. In theory anyway. It talks to your iPhone via low-power Bluetooth and lets you track the Tile itself, and anything the Tile is attached to.

I’ve been using one for the last couple of weeks, and it works just fine. But so far it doesn’t seem to be much more useful than one of those keychain finders that beeps when you whistle. Why? Because to be truly useful, the Tile needs to reach a critical mass of users.

The Tile works like this: Let’s imagine you have one attached to your keys (because I do). Using low-power Bluetooth, the Tile stays in constant communication with your iPhone, periodically pinging the iPhone to let it know it’s still nearby. The iPhone remembers this, along with the location where it happened.

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The killer feature of the Tile is that it can be tracked by any iPhone with the Tile app, not just yours. If your Tile is on the move, other iPhones will pick up its signal and ping the Tile servers, which will update the position in your Tile app.

And finally, when you get close, you can use the app to tell the Tile to beep at you, letting you track it to the pocket of a jacket or the exact sofa cushion it’s hiding under.

That’s the theory anyway. In practice, you’re going to need to live in San Francisco for it to work. I’m using a test unit, which is to say the Tile hasn’t yet shipped. Which is also to say that I am probably the only person in Leipzig, Germany, using the Tile app.

But even with my own iPhone, the Tile doesn’t always work. Sometimes I get home and the app tells me my keys are still in the bar where I just had dinner, when they clearly are not. Still, the little beeper function works fine, and this last map glitch is apparently just a problem with the map on your iPhone not updating properly – the actual location is correct ion the Tile servers, and the bug should be fixed before the release.

The Tile is – like the iPhone – sealed. You can’t change the battery (I tried to get inside, and you can see the damage in some of the photos – you can’t get in there without smashing the whole thing open). The idea is that you buy a new one every year. That’s fine, especially if they come down from the current $20-per-unit price. But if you have a whole stack of Tiles (for instance, if you opted fore the $180 12-pack) then things start to get expensive. Then again, maybe you can hack it?

The problem is that you need both Bluetooth and location services enabled on your iPhone, all the time.
The other problem is that you need both Bluetooth and location services enabled on your iPhone. The location tracker blips on and off, powering up when the app is open and from time to time in the background. The Bluetooth is low-power, so it shouldn’t drain your iPhone too much, but the location seemed to drain my battery even faster than usual, to the point that I switched it off, rendering the location-tracking functions of the Tile mostly useless.
Also, the Tile remains constantly connected to the Bluetooth, which has – for me – blocked the automatic connection of other low-power Bluetooth devices. For instance, I have a speaker that usually connects to the iPhone as soon as I hit the play/pause button on the speaker. When the Tile is connected, though, I have to manually connect to the speaker in the iPhone’s Bluetooth preferences.

In the past year, we’ve seen Bluetooth trackers like the Tile bloom. At least two or three times a week I get an email about yet another tracker. Then we have lifelogging cameras and fitness trackers, one of which is already mainstream, and the other may soon go that way.

But is there any point? I can totally see the advantage of health monitoring. In fact, iWatch-type gadgets could be a big boost to human longevity (in the well-off, at least). But right now, all the other cruft is just that – cruft. You have to charge batteries (or order new units annually), you have to do something with the footage from your always-on lifelogging camera. You have to curate your GPS tracks, sync your fitness tracker and check every damn pocket of your pants twice, so you don’t wash hundreds or thousands of dollars’ worth of gear.

I love tech, and I especially love how it is seeping into every corner of life instead of sitting on the nerdy periphery. But I don’t like babysitting that tech. The only devices I regularly use that don’t need rebooting or updating or charging are my Casio calculator watch and … and that’s it. Everything else requires brain cycles for me to use. The Kindle is almost there (it pretty much never crashes or runs out of power), and of course all my home appliances just work.

This makes me wonder whether our smart devices are actually so smart. After all, these smart gadgets are the ones that require the most mollycoddling to keep them working. My watch can take a dip or a whack and it keeps on going, for 10 frikkin’ years. My kettle boils, my washing machine washes and my non-Wi-Fi-enabled light bulbs switch on and off. They take care of themselves, and in that sense they might be smarter than the “smart” gadgets I constantly have to tend.

It seems clear to me that Apple is trying to push its products in this direction, but there’s a long way left to go. The Tile is a step toward this, with its set-and-forget nature, but it’s still a novelty for nerds. And don’t get me started on pretty much all other consumer electronics, from hostile, user-hating camera UIs (hi Sony!) to Bluetooth speakers (and worse – AirPlay speakers) whose connections are as temperamental and highly strung as the musicians whose music they (eventually) play.

People are hungry for technology, but not the kind much of the tech industry is making. They’re treating us all as early-adopting geeks who are happy to spend time tapping a WPA password into their light bulbs. All we really want are devices that – like our appliances – just work.

Philips Led BeardTrimmer Series

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Just in time for the soon-to-be-over month of Movember, Philips has launched the world’s first facial hair trimmer with an integrated laser guide to help keep lines straight and even. Called the Beard Trimmer 9000 with battery such as Philips Suresign VM6 Battery, this small device has a variety of adjustable settings, and uses the laser to provide an instant, accurate, hands-off approach to avoid skewed lines.

The laser element is simple to use, projecting a single line onto one’s face for following along a straight line. If you’re hoping for a projection of multi-line patterns, you’re still out of luck, as the pattern wouldn’t hold shape given the constantly-moving nature of a handheld trimmer. The straight line is a good first step, however, and makes your morning ritual a bit more futuristic.

Despite having a small laser mounted on it (and being electric, obviously), the trimmer has a boasting right as being all-waterproof, meaning you can rinse it straight under the faucet without issue. The battery has a 60 minute charge time and 60 minute run time, and comes with accessories and whatnot, such as a beard comb and cleaning brush.

Beyond that, the Beard Trimmer 9000 has a small LED display to show how close you’re trimming, and a rolling “lock” to set the trimmer to a specific height. There’s a battery level gauge for monitoring the battery charge, and a two-year warranty. The trimmer is available now from Philips and various retailers for $99.99 USD.