Brussels funds Galileo

January 14, 2008 | Bob Snyder | Auto electronics, sat navPDFPrintE-mail

The EU approves a EUR 2.4b plan to finance the troubled Galileo satellite navigation network, intended to rival U.S.-run GPS, by redeploying unspent money for farm subsidies and competitiveness projects. So far, only 1 out of 30 planned satellites has been launched.

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Toshiba Readies Solid-State Drives

January 14, 2008 | Bob Snyder | Storage (Personal)PDFPrintE-mail
Toshiba solid stateToshiba will manufacture flash-based solid-state drives for laptops early next year, which the company says will offer faster boot times and lower power consumption than hard disk drives. The drives will initially come in three capacities: 32GB, 64GB and 128GB.  High prices for NAND flash memory have limited adoption of the drives so far, but Toshiba and other memory makers such as Samsung are expected to ramp up production, which should lower prices and spur wider use. Solid state drives are also said to be more durable than hard disks and make no noise. Go SolidState

Toshiba Readies Solid-State Drives

January 14, 2008 | Bob Snyder | Laptops & TabletsPDFPrintE-mail
Toshiba solid stateToshiba will manufacture flash-based solid-state drives for laptops early next year, which the company says will offer faster boot times and lower power consumption than hard disk drives. The drives will initially come in three capacities: 32GB, 64GB and 128GB.  High prices for NAND flash memory have limited adoption of the drives so far, but Toshiba and other memory makers such as Samsung are expected to ramp up production, which should lower prices and spur wider use. Solid state drives are also said to be more durable than hard disks and make no noise. Go SolidState

The Right Time For Tablet PCs?

January 14, 2008 | Bob Snyder | Laptops & TabletsPDFPrintE-mail

Dell LatitudeDell introduces its first-ever tablet PC, saying that businesses are ready to consider more flexible types of computers for employees. The PC maker cites 3 factors that make now the 'right time' for a Dell tablet:

1) those in their 20's now entering the workplace are used to interacting with PCs in different ways, having grown up with mobile phones, portable music players and other handheld devices.

2) Microsoft's Vista is better equipped than XP for powering a touch-screen environment like a tablet PC.

3) touch-screen technology is more mature, giving people the option of using their fingers or a stylus to manipulate data.

 

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Microsoft buys online map service

January 14, 2008 | Bob Snyder | Laptops & TabletsPDFPrintE-mail

The software giant says it will acquire MultiMap, a London-based online map service, in a bid to expand its mapping and location-based advertising services worldwide.

 

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