NEC claims its new Versa S9100 laptop to be the “toughest notebook in the world”. Its top cover is specially built to withstand a massive 300Kgs per square foot of pressure. However, the keyboard itself is not water resistant, too bad for a “toughest notebook in the world”. This desktop replacement also comes equipped with a fingerprint biometric sensor and TPM security chip combo. The NEC Versa S9100 laptop retails for a hefty US$2,700 in Singapore. [UberGizmo via Laptop Blog]
Written by Joe Gadget on May 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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People have been asking for more details about the Maker's Notebook. It hasn't been officially released yet and is not yet available in the Maker Shed (our new online store), so all will be revealed after we've recovered from the most amazing Maker Faire to date.
In the meantime, here are a few more pics from the Notebook Modding Station that Becky Stern and I (and some awesome volunteers -- Hey Alex. Hey Matt!) ran in the Maker Shed at the Faire. This maker (whose name I didn't get) sat down and went to town on his book, adding a pen holder at the top, a button and string closure, a pocket in the back for his business cards, lots of stickers from the Maker's Notebook sticker sheets, and stamps from the Ink Blot Experiment line, kindly provided to us by Stampington. In the coming weeks, we'll have a webpage for the Notebook with images of other people's modded books and how-tos on adding your own pockets, closures, making your own stamps, stickers, and other add-ons.
Here are a few pages from the Reference section to give you an idea of what's included:
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Written by Gareth Branwyn on May 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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Section: Gadgets / Other, Green
Walk up to any right-minded business owner and you’re sure to be told one thing - it’s supposed to be about the green stuff. And I don’t mean the Benjamins. To get an idea of what I’m talking about, ask yourself what it would take to give your mobile device enough juice without doing Mother Nature any harm. The answer to that question might not yet be known for sure, but that question is what Devotec Industries is trying to address with its new Solar Charger. While it doesn’t have the best thought of name in the business, this little number should be able to “keep your phone juiced up twice over before needing a recharge.” It contains a built-in 1800mAh battery under a charging solar panel, and aside from that it also charges via USB cable or AC adaptor. Devotec made sure it would be compatible with the widest range of portable devices possible, and at £19.99 or about $40 USD a pop, it sure beats replacements.
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Core77 writes:
Tim Dubitsky has just prototyped "hood.e", a super-cozy solution to bringing music to your ears without blocking everything else out. The product has a great genesis: Tim originally created the design as a present for his nephew--who walks a dangerous route to school crossing busy thoroughfares--and wanted to make it safer for him by freeing up his ears from blasting earbuds that blocked out all the street noise.
It looks like these would be a simple remake, and the styling is nice. Anybody know how speakers hold up in the wash? Oh, teenage boys don't wash their hoodies? Ok, good.
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Written by Becky Stern on May 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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Good news for Verizon subscribers because they will be able to enjoy the RIM BlackBerry Niagara when it is released in May 2009. The EV-DO handset will feature QWERTY keyboard, 480 × 360 LCD display, EV-DO Rev. A support, aGPS support, a 3.2MP shooter, 4.7 OS platform, BES 5.0 support (HTML email, etc) and a Qualcomm MSM7600 processor. There is no word on pricing so far. [BoyGenius via Upcoming Cell Phones]
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The Yahoo-Microsoft deal that wasn’t: a victory for emotion and memory.
You saw it in Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang’s “OK, so now what?” post on his Yodel Anecdotal blog. And you really saw it in the comments to that post.
Yang is now being spanked throughout the blogosphere for having the temerity to say no to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Allegations of Yahoo execs high-fiving each other after the deal fell through will no doubt end up in the inevitable shareholder lawsuits.
True, the shareholders are the ones losing a lot of money as they watch the stock price sink. A thousand blog posts won’t make them believe Yang when he writes that he was trying to maximize shareholder value - his executive mandate - by hanging tough for what was believed to be $37 a share.
But he’s also blogged about keeping another group in mind during this process: customers. End users. The people whose patronage ends up paying the bills. Yahoo! isn’t doing as good a job at keeping them happy as it used to, but enough fans still exist and they want an independent, Microsoft-free Yahoo!
Yang said no simply because it was Microsoft. Call it the Anybody-But-Microsoft club’s last hurrah. Its heyday was the mid-to-late 1990s and it led to Bill Gates and Co. getting its own antitrust spanking from the Clinton Justice Department. Yang and crew are charter ABM members and they simply could not tolerate handing over the reins of the company they built to Microsoft.
Emotion - and Microsoft’s reputation - were also evident throughout the comments to Yang’s blog post. Some of the shareholder fury was of the eyeball-melting variety, but there were also these comments:
I’m glad Yahoo stuck up for itself and its users.
Jerry, ignore all the day traders and concentrate on your consumers and you know that your company will do awesome.
MSFT is increasingly irrelevant in this new internet order and it’s good to see them stew.
I am glad to see that the MS takeover failed, and hope that from these scenarios people learn to listen.
This was really a step to save the web and innovation. remember what MS did to hotmail…it took years to update the stuff (until others got ahead of it).
The blog comments section is a fascinating look at how money and mission statements divide this issue. The ones focusing on money are shareholders. The ones focusing on mission are, for the most part, users. Some of them actually have constructive suggestions on how to fix the company: focus on search, mail, Flickr, etc.
One angry commenter claims to be no fan of Microsoft but was willing to hold his nose to get $33 a share.
Microsoft may be a chastened version of its former late-’90s self, but it’s still Microsoft and institutional memory still runs deep in Silicon Valley.
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Written by Renay San Miguel on May 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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Two of the world’s top mobile product and software companies are teaming up to bring new innovations to their brands of cell phones. SAP and RIM are joining forces to offer users SAP software on the RIM BlackBerry. The first of these programs to be offered for the BlackBerry is SAP’s CRM application, which is a customer relationship program. They are hoping that the software will be available to users within a few months.
SAP’s Customer Relationship Management (SAP CRM) is an application designed especially for individuals in marketing, sales, and service industries. The application allows users to access support for customer-facing business processes. These applications allow users to focus on their strategies in relation to customer-driven growth of the industry. Customers will be pleased with these options and businesses will be pleased with the customers’ reactions.
The SAP CRM will allows salespeople to use the application along with BlackBerry’s e-mail, address book, and calendar applications. Benefits of the BlackBerry platform and SAP applications will be combined to offer users the maximum benefits for their businesses and for their customers. Business users will be able to access features that will provide them with security, manageability, and efficiency. However, these services will not be available to RIM BlackBerry users exclusively, other cell phone manufacturers will have the opportunity to access these services and features for their mobile customers as well. Perhaps in the near future, we will be seeing similar features on other mobile devices. For the moment, however, RIM BlackBerry is the only carrier of these products.
Source: zdnetasia.com; sap.com
Written by Jeanna on May 6th, 2008 with no comments.
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