Hewlett Packard has uncovered some more netbooks offerings for the UK market. It is expected that HP Mini 1000 and the Compaq Mini 700 will hit the shelves soon.

The netbook market is growing even in these cash-strapped days and HP doesn’t want to leave behind just like Asus, Acer and MSI.

The Compaq Mini 700 boasts a built-in webcam, Bluetooth with optional WWAN and WLAN and it will be available in December with the price tag of £299.

It has 10.2 inches, but the really imperative specs that make it a nice choice for students or professionals are still for chase.

So far HP Mini 1000 is concerned, HP has put its brand name on it and it will be available any time during February next year and the price tag is of £399. It features as the press release calls: ‘new Mobile Internet Experience software and HP MediaStyle that allow one-stop entertainment via single interface and makes watching videos, viewing photos and listening to music quite easier.

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The old republic by RPG darlings BioWare is the new MMO being developed these days and is to be published by the behemoth, in other words, the Electronic Arts. EA had taken over BioWare for a lump some amount of $860 million in the year 2007.

To elaborate further on the game “Star Wars”, the old republic players would be able to venture around an age of 1000 years before the introduction of Darth Vader. It is the time when the Old Republic and the Sith Empire divide the entire galaxy in two different parts. In accordance to the press release, the players will be able to choose their character as a Jedi or a Sith or any other from the variety of star wars characters. Each character has its own story in the game and they determine their own path towards the lighter or the darker side of the force.

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Intel signed up its biggest ever transaction for its Brood-Proof-Laptops, according to the classmate.

Nearly 500,000 of the particularly designed institutional apparatuses are being provided from 6 to 10 year olds in Portugal.

Basically designed for the poorer countries, Intel has changed its focus in most recent months towards more grown-up market places. …read the rest of this entry»

Going rapidly from the unhealthily compulsive gossip industry nearby Steve Job’s recent health and fitness tribulations (for the record – it’s not melanoma, but it’s worse than a cold) right Apple admirers are more interested these days in the gossips nearby the next generation of laptops being generated in Cupertino.

Apple’s PR apparatus because we are familiar, thrives on gossips and a conjecture, so TechRadar finalized it was high time to attempt to find out the wheat from the mock.

Initially, Appleinsider.com recommends that there might well be a systematic move ahead of Intel, clarifying that, “people know with these strategies say an forthcoming generation of Macs, conducted by a trio of redesigned notebooks, won’t espouse the Montevina chipset pronounced as part of Intel’s Centrino 2 mobile stage prior this month.”

Such report will go on, “What’s more, those similar people put forward the chipset recruited by the new gesture of Macs might well have a slight or nothing to do with Intel by any means. (This must not be confused with the most important CPU, which would to go on from the Intel.) …read the rest of this entry»

The EU-donated WISECOM venture has developed portable cell phone poles which can be set up within minutes to give support to rescue employees in catastrophe locations.

One of the solitary systems to plummet in turmoil is commonly the cell phone networking system, and re-establishing them can help volunteers in finding the victims and rehabilitate them much faster and securing several lives.

Two systems have been manufactured using the BGAN and DVB-RCS standards. The earlier is the tiniest system, weighing almost10kg and can be taken off through an aircraft.

This retains a 300m range over the tone of voice and data, and can be originated in minutes nearly by any worker, even devoid of technical instruction.

The DVB-RCS is a huge device about 60kg, and would probably be used in the days after a catastrophe to get better communications over many kilometers. …read the rest of this entry»

A system of electronic mapping which lets a lot of different kinds of data to be layered onto a solitary representation is being used to perk up healthcare across Rwanda.

The digital maps, called Geographic Information Systems (GIS), are premeditated to bring together information from numerous databases and use it to both track and estimate eruptions of disorder.

This can then be used to support poorer countries best utilise their restricted resources. For instance, GIS is used to systematize data on ample of ailments and the accessibility of drinking water.

“Roads, power lines and buildings can be digitised; you can also save quality data about the buildings, if they are inhabited or commercial”, Max-Baber from the University of Redlands in California, who is the main person GIS project in Rwanda, expressed to BBC World Service’s Digital Planet program.

“Once you bind things down to a convinced location, you can commence to discover the spatial relationships between them.”

By putting this data on a map, interlinking can be found between things that might not be apparent from searching graphs or tables.

Information collected in Rwanda for instance shows not merely the locations of health services, but water and electricity supplies too. It also proceeds how many cases of illnesses like malaria have occurred in diverse parts of the country. …read the rest of this entry»

France’s Orange today said that it launched Musique Max a new fusion desktop and mobile music store. The service provides you music from all four major labels, plus independents with respect to certain importance of French artists.

The company proclaimed the store is centered on an unrestricted subscription but sets up an eMusic-like highest song download limit per month. Users could download more than 500 songs as part of a €12 ($19) monthly subscription but have got to be charged about 99 Euro cents per track for each and every download past that point.

The provider expected to disconnect its service from other comparable subscriptions and portable services by making downloads permanent. Songs downloaded all through the subscription period would be remained after the subscription ends, addressing moans about past services that caused to music to be unplayable as soon as the subscription ends.

Orange furthermore remarks that it did not have any of the contracts and those users could pull out the services at any time.

On the other hand, the French delivery service had as a minimum for the time being backpedal on hopes for a protection-free-music service and opts towards using locked Windows Media files. …read the rest of this entry»

Holistic Features of Myvu Crystal Video Eyewear for iPod

* The Myvu Crystal Video Eyewear for iPod is a clandestinely watch-video-design stored in an iPod or it is also called as Portable-Media-Player.
* The Crystal earpiece itself mulls over lesser than three bits. It is a little heavier than the Solo Plus, but it’s at a standstill attractive and light.
* One of Myvu’s assertions to reputation is that it makes use of optics so you can glimpse from side to side, while you would see a continuous image inside the glasses and windows in facade.
* Watching the Myvu Crystal is essentially equal to looking at that Philips TV from the bed. The new optics is surrounded by the Crystal which is consisted of witticisms, translucent and image models quite bright and precise.
* Crystal Myvu contains a 30 Pin Dock Connector Plug which formulates any of the video comprised of an iPod.
* During an epigrammatic test with a portable DVD player, Myvy crystal video quality was sufficient and quite vivid.
* Myvu is the cheapest video headset designed for the iPod and it is sleek-model with its better quality video. …read the rest of this entry»

We found this PV-GS500 at top in video quality in normal as well as in dim-light conditions. With bright and accurate color there are many other fine details about video. There are three CCD sensors for red, green and blue. Its 16:9 spacious screen looks quite impressive and it becomes much easier for user to watch whatever is shoot outdoors with its marvelous 2.7-inch wide LCD screen.

Construction wise it feels sturdy and muscular with a hard metal frame that proves better than the current lightweight plastic body that are found in many camcorders these days. Weight wise (3 pounds) it’s heavier or to be more exact the heaviest among our other tested camcorder.

There is a good selection of manual controls in this PV-GS500: The camera can be put into a complete manual mode, shutter and aperture priority can also be used with scene modes selection for automatic use. …read the rest of this entry»

A new version of Google Talk has been released by the Google that is workable on the iPod Touch as well as iPhone.It looks nice and very efficient to boot. All you need to do to use this application is to point the Safari browser to www.google.com/talk. For an easy access in future, you may want to put a bookmark.

You can also use the new chat application with your Google Apps account by pointing your Safari to https://hostedtalkget.google.com/a//talkgagdget/m. Isn’t it a great idea to put a bookmark on it? …read the rest of this entry»