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Great potential applications of conductive plastic

December 12, 2000, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in 2000 for the University of Tsukuba, Japan, Professor Emeritus Hideki Shirakawa and his two counterparts in Europe and America. The purpose of their award-winning common reason is "discovered and developed conductive plastics." Has long been regarded as a plastic insulator, because of their discovery and has a kind of conductive metal. On this basis, scientists strongly conductive plastics research and development applications.

In the development of portable power, broad use conductive plastics. The pursuit of more and more compact thin mobile phone market, the traditional battery-ThinkPad R51 Battery, ThinkPad R52 Battery of heavy metals nickel and lead are also facing the dilemma of being eliminated. New listings last year, Sony MD recorder to the player, which had been used by Professor Bai Chuan development of conductive plastics batteries, achieved the first commercial applications. The United States new battery using a conductive plastic called polyaniline conductive plastics to create an electrode, a lithium electrode. The conductive plastic battery only the size of a coin, you can repeat the charge. German manufacturers also produced conductive plastics with only the general size of an ordinary postcard conductive thin flexible plastic battery provides portable power tools. And easy comparison of heavy metal pollution, the use of conductive plastics to do to protect the environment more conducive to the battery.

In the development of micro-chips, plastic chips may replace silicon chips. It is predicted that by 2004, the global plastics industry, the average chip sales will reach 10 billion U.S. dollars, plastic chips will become the next great development potential of a new generation of chips. At present, the IT industry, there are many plastic chip giant announced the establishment of specialized research institutions, such as IBM, Mitsubishi, Hitachi, Lucent, Xerox, Philips and Hoechet Company. They have developed several hundred electronic components integrated plastic chip samples, and explore the integration can be mass-produced plastic chips lower. Compared with silicon, plastic chip prices are very low and only 1% of silicon to 10%, highly competitive market, it will be the first bar code scanners and the use of the payment machine.

In the development of solar energy, plastic solar cells ready. Austrian scientists, such as the use of polystyrene plastic solar cell manufacturers to make progress, succeed in their efficiency to about 3%, and solar cells is expected to solve the problem of excessively high costs. Plastic solar cell manufacturers is the need to have semiconductor properties of plastics, scientists in Austria was used in the study of polystyrene such as hydrocarbons and the composition of pure carbon fullerene-type structure, mixed them into a thin film processing , and then up and down both sides of evaporation in the film coated with indium tin oxide or aluminum such as precious metal electrodes. As the polystyrene will be released when light electronics, and Fuller electronic structure will be absorbed, if the light bulb then the two electrodes, the electronic flow would be the beginning of LED bulbs. Traditional silicon solar cells is not only expensive, but also the production process consume a large amount of energy, so the cost of expensive, can not become a substitute for fossil fuel energy, while the plastic characteristics of the largest battery production cost is low, less energy consumption. Once the technology is mature, the production in the pipeline, the use of a very wide scope.

In the display market, Daxian Shenwei conductive plastics. A long time, the display market has been looking forward to after a power light-emitting conductive plastic, the results of scientific research in future will be very broad market. Japan's Pioneer of the results of scientific research, although not directly make use of conductive plastics, but in accordance with the principles of conductive plastics, in 1997 developed a new type of display, and began to apply to in car audio. Car dial the past does not in itself luminous, but use the back light to display images irradiation. Vanguard of such displays, a marked improvement of the switching speed of the screen with the LCD as compared to speed of nearly 1,000 times, so very clear. Japanese scientists have developed contains a computer chip hundreds of soft, organic conductive plastics, conductive plastics used to create a new flat-panel displays and electronic labels. Conductive plastics can be used for manufacture of mobile phone display mobile phones, solar cells and micro-TV.

In superconducting technology, superconducting plastics debut. Polymer as a result of carbon molecular electronic structure is not conducive to the movement, the scientists had not been able to develop it based on superconductors. However, the use of Bell Labs scientists called polythiophene of plastic, try to use a metal oxide thin aluminum and painted in its layer of polythiophene film. Scientists have discovered that the formation of the electric field in their electronic can be no wear and tear through the thin film of thiophene accumulation, indicating that Polythiophene with superconducting properties. While the super-conducting plastic has broad application prospects, but the leadership of the study that Superconducting plastic to enter the practical application, there are a lot of work to be done, they found plastic in the superconducting 4K absolute temperature superconductivity only show. At present they are looking for the same method used in the high temperature superconducting properties with the plastic.

Electromagnetic protection in the market, conductive plastics showed great superiority. The traditional use of electromagnetic shielding materials of copper, but the anti-static conductive properties of plastics to give it the same performance, and much lower manufacturing costs, less consumption of resources, facilitate the application. Therefore, it is a very good alternative to the electromagnetic shielding materials. Can be applied to computer room, television sets, computers and the pacemaker.

Development in nanotechnology, the conductive plastic material may be the best. At present, conductive plastics, one of the inventors, the U.S. physicist Professor Mark G. conductive plastics are in the process of research and application of nano-technology. Conductive material is about the traditional static and conductive fibers woven together to create nano-fibers and nano-electronic circuits. As we all know, the diameter of human hair is 50,000 nm, and Mark G. Study Group led by Professor of nano-materials are being developed polyaniline fibers just 100 nanometers in diameter, which is currently the world's most thin fibers, only the hair wire diameter of 1 / 500. If the nano-conductive fibers with the combination of nano-electronic circuits can be done to the computer is very small. The research team has successfully developed the use of ordinary plastic nano-electronic circuits, and applied for a patent, while in the Pennsylvania State University set up the development of conductive plastics company, they have developed nano-electronic circuits is very low cost, nano-electronic circuit board 1 of the cost of 1 cents.

Function in the development of storage, conductive plastics to replace electrolytic capacitors. In 1990, senior engineer of Matsushita Communications Yasuo Goto and others, to replace the use of conductive plastics used in circuit with electrolytic capacitor storage function, the successful resistance of the circuit reduced to one ten thousandth of the following, while addressing the traditional electrolytic capacitors in the liquid composition difficult issue. Can power a small resistance, but also to adapt to rapid changes in electrical signals, to that end, in the realization of small personal computers and high-speed connection, the demand for conductive plastics is increasing.

In the manufacture of robots, the potential conductive plastics. The use of micro-computer equipped with a plastic chip-controlled robots, the use of silicon than the robot is more flexible, more easily manipulated by the use of conductive plastics manufacturing muscle flexibility of the robot, by electrochemical methods to control the artificial muscle can be so that VGP-BPS2, VGP-BPS2A expansion and contraction, which almost confused as real ones for the muscles of the limbs in the manufacture of robots, it is able to command the robot to make a variety of computer action, this is a robot to create a major breakthrough in technology.

In the life sciences, conductive plastics can be made of intelligent materials. The latest research shows that, DNA can also have a conductive, therefore, the conductive plastic combined with the life sciences, you can create a man-made artificial muscles and nerves, in order to promote the growth of the DNA or modified DNA, it will be conductive plastics in the application of the most important of a trend.

Conductive plastics and many more in other areas of application, for example, the sensitivity of the use of its signal can be used to produce sensors; as a result of its ability to absorb microwaves, modulated into the aircraft and paint can also be played to avoid the effect of radar stealth; in rockets, ships, oil pipelines and sewage pipelines, it can also play a preservative function.

Electric vehicles & Lithium power battery

2009-08-07

The third generation of Honda fuel cell technology will FCX concept car assembly

Toyota in hybrid technology has been very obvious leader, its top-level Lexus LS models have begun to BTP-59A1 assemble. Has a leading position in the technology of Daimler Chrysler, BMW has no choice but to form an alliance with GM technology to deal with the offensive hybrid Toyota. Technology in hybrid Toyota Prius to keep pace with the Honda Insight failed to achieve the desired sales, recently received information that Honda intends to focus on the development of fuel cell technology.

The third generation of Honda fuel cell power systems will be assembled in five luxury FCX Concept concept car (FCX Concept Tokyo Motor Show last year, the first show), then proceeded to do a global tour of major auto show, including the end of the Los Angeles Auto Show. The third generation of Honda fuel cell technology is about to meet the requirements of commercial production as early as the beginning of the year they released the news Honda FCX fuel cell vehicles that will be in volume production within three years or four years. Honda has been in the compact car using this technology, such as the size of the same section near the Civic hatchback, still known as the five car FCX. Five FCX fuel cell vehicles in the Honda U.S. factory production, the sale of 2004, the annual sales of more than about 12 clients from a strong environmental awareness in the BTP-60A1 family and government departments. Five FCX fuel cell cars to carry out leasing operations, Honda intends to let the public and other car manufacturers for mass production feel the charm of fuel cell vehicles.

Lithium power battery research for electric vehicles to promote the development of Beijing

In recent years, with new lithium-ion secondary BTP-63D1 battery in the high-energy sports, environmental protection, safety of a breakthrough technology, lithium-based electric vehicle industry has entered a substantive stage of development. August 25, 2006 power lithium-ion battery technology and industrial development of the international forum held in Beijing, Zheng, deputy director of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission, gave a presentation in the spring of electric vehicles in Beijing and Li-ion battery industry developments.

Zheng-chun said that in addition to the global energy crisis in the background, the Beijing development of electric vehicles have two main reasons, namely, the requirements of environmental protection requirements and the Olympic Games.

According to statistics, as at the end of June this year, to maintain motor vehicles in Beijing reached 2.73 million, ranking first in China, with an average annual growth rate of 15% is expected by the end of this year will exceed three million. With the cars in the year-on-year increase in people's day-to-day trip to a great convenience BTP-73E1, but also caused environmental pollution, noise, oil tight and so on. According to the experimental units, each fuel vehicles every day of the harmful gas emissions of about 0.6 ~ 0.9kg, the atmosphere in Beijing more than 70% of hydrocarbons, more than 60% of nitrogen oxide from automobile exhaust, automobile emissions directly the total contribution rate of concentration rise. Compared with foreign countries, China's motor vehicle emissions caused by air pollution is much higher than the United States, Japan, France, automobile exhaust has become the capital of the primary sources of air pollution.

In addition, the 2008 Olympic Games to be held in Beijing, according to previous experience in successfully hosting the Olympic Games, pure electric cars have become all previous Olympic host city of the theme of Green Olympics propaganda. In 1996, the Atlanta Olympics in the United States by more than 250 electric vehicles and golf carts 15, composed of green electric bus fleet; in 2000, the Sydney Olympic Games in 400 by the composition of pure electric vehicles, green fleet; in 2004, Athens South Korea's Hyundai Group, the Olympics provided more than pure electric vehicles for the torch relay marathon and marathon pilot car. Solemn commitment to the Beijing Olympic Games will be "strictly control the vehicle exhaust and other sources of emissions of pollutants, as well as major urban areas of the daily average concentration of pollutants to ensure that in the most adverse weather conditions to achieve air quality standards required by the International Olympic Committee."

Zheng-chun said that the above reasons, Beijing has the responsibility, it is necessary to the development of electric vehicles, this is a difficult and urgent task.

According to Zheng-chun, the Beijing development of electric vehicles the basic goal is to reduce motor vehicle pollution, adjusting and improving the energy structure, the realization of economic, social and environmental sustainable development. To this end, Beijing's development of electric vehicles in three areas of the overall deployment: first, to choose public transport vehicles as electric vehicles, the main areas of application; second is to promote research and development of electric vehicles and industrialization; Third, power batteries, such as active advanced technology vehicle research and development.

Use of electric vehicles in the Olympic Games, Beijing has also made a corresponding development plan: First, 90% buses and all municipal (environmental protection and postal) for the electric vehicle car; Second, the research and development of pure electric vehicles, to improve the pollution caused by traffic; Third, the use of the Olympic Park of zero emission vehicles and ultra-low emission vehicles.

Zheng-chun said, according to the present preliminary ideas to pure electric vehicles, represented by zero-emission and ultra-low emission vehicles will directly serve the Beijing Olympics, applies to major bus lines, focusing on regional as well as sports venues. To this end, Beijing attaches great importance to electric vehicles in recent years the research, development and application of the promotion. It is understood that the "Tenth Five-Year" period, the Beijing to assume the national "863" Project of major projects for electric vehicles electric buses and fuel cell bus research and development tasks, and become identified in the National Ministry of Science and Technology 4 one model of electric vehicles . Science and Technology Commission of Beijing Olympic Games also focus on research and development of electric vehicles to use and applications, one after another in the field of science and technology funds in nearly 2 billion, through a series of major scientific and technological projects and science and technology to carry out a specific amount of work, from research and development, production, application to promote the three links in detail and meticulous arrangements.

According to reports, research and development of electric vehicles in the process, Beijing has developed a series of independent intellectual property rights and technological achievements, made more than 20 patents, the development of relevant technical norms and standards of 22 enterprises, production enterprises with independent intellectual property rights have been electrical vehicle capabilities, and Beijing R & D of electric vehicles practical level reached. Number of lines in the model run over the past year, Beijing's own R & D overall performance pure electric passenger car to reach the basic level of practical use, electric vehicles and key parts of the reliability and applicability of the basic problem has been resolved, failure mileage interval has reached the level of the traditional internal combustion engine, basically meet the needs of public transport and the use of the requirements during the Olympic Games.

Electric vehicles is the crux of the battery cycle life, safety, cost and efficiency of the application. Electric vehicles in Beijing to further refine and commercialize the process have encountered these obstacles, power battery technology performance and cost constraints of electric vehicles has become an issue of large-scale commercial application of the bottleneck.

According to Zheng-chun, currently in Beijing to develop the electric vehicle mainly localized production capacity of lead-acid batteries and lithium-ion batteries as the power, fuel cell technology is still in the phase tracking and research. In a number of bus lines through the test run and found that the use of lead-acid batteries for electric vehicles continued driving a short length, has a short life. In addition, lead-acid batteries still bulky, not the inadequacy of environmental protection. And compared to lead-acid batteries, lithium-ion power battery is a high energy density, high-voltage battery of environmental protection, is considered the future of electric vehicle battery power, one of the best choice, but a one-time high input costs. It is understood that a 400 with an electric bus at the time of the lithium-ion power batteries cost as much as several hundred thousand dollars, to reduce power lithium-ion batteries for future research costs are an important element.

Beijing attaches great importance to lithium-ion battery and key materials research and industrial production. It is understood that the "Tenth Five-Year" period, around the lithium-ion battery R & D and application of Science and Technology Commission, Beijing has spent more than 4000 million in funding for science and technology, organization and implementation of the "lithium-ion battery cathode material of lithium manganese oxide of the industrialization of technological development" , "pure electric vehicle with lithium-ion battery technology research and development industries," such as a number of major scientific and technological projects, support from the cathode material, lack of key materials such as lithium-ion batteries to a series of research activities. Through scientific research and key technology research and development, Beijing's lithium-ion battery and key materials industry has achieved breakthrough progress. In cathode materials, have been developed with independent intellectual property rights of the lithium-ion batteries key materials required for the synthesis of lithium manganese new process to resolve the international lithium manganese oxide spinel structure synthesis of the key technical challenges, as well as lithium manganese oxide charge-discharge cycle stability of the global poor technical difficulties, and achievement of the lithium manganese oxide and lithium cobalt materials industry.

However, Chun Zheng also pointed out that China's lithium-ion battery membrane material required for the full dependence on imports Canon NB-4L, Casio NP-30, higher prices, lack of material power batteries accounted for more than 30% of the cost. If the realization of China-made membrane materials, and will greatly reduce the cost of battery power. For example, the Olympic Games is now used in electric vehicles with 400 when an lithium ion battery, divide the cost of 16 million, if the realization of the domestic divide, and divide in half to save costs. At present, a number of related scientific research units are organizations, some have entered the pilot phase.

New technologies and business opportunities in the successful development of new cell engine

2009-08-07

New technologies and business opportunities in the successful development of new cell engine

Chinese Academy of Sciences Web site August 31, 2006 reports: Recently, the Chinese Academy of Sciences Fujifilm NP-40, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, the source of their new Engine Company Limited has developed a car with 45 kilowatts of fuel cell engines, and Tongji University in Shanghai, new energy automobiles Engineering Center successfully passed acceptance tests. It is reported that when the engine in a 35 ℃ ambient temperature, the rated power output of 45 kilowatts stable 40 minutes, with a total voltage of 365 volts, the engine efficiency of 44.9%.

New source of power was established in April 2001, is the first fuel-cell industry Olympus Li-12b is committed to the joint-stock enterprises. In recent years, the company's high-pressure, low car use in fuel cell motive systems, engine control systems, key components of the production process, the key raw materials, production technology, market-oriented aspects of product development, such as a bold exploration and practice, in the auxiliary system key components of membrane electric components (MEA), bipolar plates, catalysts and manufacturing processes, such as the research of key technologies to achieve significant progress. 45 kilowatts of newly developed fuel cell engines for cars in the system layout, the structure of cell stack, MEA, humidification system design and control to improve and to make bold innovations, developed in the domestic flat layout of the first 45 kilowatts of fuel cell cars engine, the layout program with easy to maintain Olympus Li-40b, and make full use of the space-saving advantages for car use.

The world's largest computer manufacturer in Japan, Dell said that Dell's brand in Japan will not be subject to recall notebook batteries affected.

Second time this week, the world's largest computer manufacturer in Japan, Dell said that Dell's brand in Japan will not be subject to recall notebook batteries affected.

Earlier this month, Dell recalled 4.1 million notebook computer batteries, this is the largest in the history of Dell's battery recall. These may be overheating and ignition of the lithium-ion battery is manufactured by Sony Corporation of Japan. In Japan there are two section of the Dell laptop battery fire phenomenon occurred. Dell (Japan), Jim Merritt, president of the media that we attach great importance to the battery recall, we encourage consumers to positive feedback.

According to IDC market research agencies to provide the data show that in April this year during the period to June, due to positive price and advertising strategy to help more than Dell Fujitsu of Japan to become the Japanese market in the NEC after the company's second-largest provider of computer . Dell (Japan), President said that under current trends, if we continue to grow market share, in one to two years it possible for us to beat the Japanese market, NEC became the first major computer providers.

President said that although the Japanese computer market is changing, but we believe that the new changes will be more conducive to the company's direct sales model of Dell. In April this year to June, the Dell software and peripherals have a higher income than the same period last year increased by 30%, strong sales of laser printers to help the Dell last year, Dell began selling in the Japanese market a laser printer, which rivals Japan Canon Inc. and Ricoh Corporation engaged in a fierce competition. Dell last month to enter Japan's office color printer market, its price of color printers only half of our competitors.

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2009-11-22

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2009-11-22

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2009-11-22

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Solar energy mobile phone appearance Guangzhou

2010-01-05

In the light inside the dark room, you can simply point the root candles charge a mobile phone and fujitsu t4220 battery. Recently, the constant light XX industrys new mobile phone sales channels on multiple TV broadcast such a film. According to its propaganda also said Cloudy can charge direct sunlight can also be charged, etc. Recently, these allegations has caused a lot of industry questioned. Stakeholders said that the current optical switching technology is still far from mobile phones can not meet their daily needs. Solar energy truly realize, however, still need to charge a long time for HSTNN-OB53.

Quality inspection departments offer free testing on-site quality of mobile phone batteries, eg: vgp-bps9s

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apanese introduction of lithium-ion battery safety plans

2010-01-05

Last summer, a sensation around the world laptop caught fire incident triggered a consumer of lithium-ion canon bg-e5 battery grip safety attention. Out of security concerns, Japans battery and the computer industry united to jointly develop a lithium-ion batteries safe use guidelines. These two industries in particular the Working Group to the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) to submit the relevant proposals.

"From last October with canon bg-e3 battery grip, we made great efforts in research lithium-ion battery safety issues. To develop safety guidelines for fire, etc. The main purpose is to eliminate the serious risks." Vice president of Fujitsu Limited MasamiYamamoto disclosed. Last fall, the Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) and the Battery(dell 6000 battery) Association of Japan (BAJ) formed a safety committee, Yamamoto served as Chairman of the Committee.

Next, the Commission plans to extend directory services, other than notebook devices such as mobile phones. "But the guidelines do not intend to clarify canon bg-e2n battery grip what happened last year a variety of overheating cause of the problem, it does not provide practical solutions in specific cases provide a solution to is the various responsibilities of the supplier." BAJ portable rechargeable dslr battery grip division, said the President KensukeNakatani , "guide was not used to address each specific problem, but to provide preventive measures."

Acetone & Graphite Epoxy Composites - fujitsu T5010 Battery

2010-01-18

Acetone content in high and low on the electrical properties of sony VGP-BPS15/S , sony VGP-BPS18 epoxy-Graphite Composites great impact. Recent Huaqiao University School of Materials Science and Engineering to study the diluent acetone. Addition on the resistivity of composite materials to design a set of experimental research. According to the China Association epoxy resin (epoxy-e.cn) experts, the experimental manipulation in the incubator temperature to reduce viscosity of epoxy resin to spread the filling instead of using the thinner, this preparation method is conducive to composite materials receive a lower resistivity and better structural performance, the success of the experiment was not only a lower resistivity and a smooth curing, the sample apparent structural inspiron 6000 battery performance are better, showing that the presence of acetone, the samples not only increases the resistivity, but also affect the structure and properties of the samples, and even difficult to cure the sample.

Heat and add diluent can make a better dispersed epoxy filler, it is because they are able to substantially reduce the viscosity of epoxy resin, according to documents can be projected E-44 Bisphenol A type epoxy resin heating up and adding acetone viscosity when it is the general situation: E-44 Bisphenol A type epoxy resin at 25 ℃ viscosity of about 25 Pa · s, the viscosity of acetone at 20 ℃ for 0.316mPa · s; 100 ℃ when the E-44 viscosity of bisphenol-type sony VGP-BPS19 , sony VGP-AC19V10 epoxy resin to about 0.1Pa · s or so; 25 ℃ when the E-44 Bisphenol A type epoxy resin viscosity should be reduced to 0.1Pa · s, is about to add 40% mass fraction of acetone; 25 ℃ below to add more acetone can the viscosity dropped to 0.1Pa · s. The viscosity of epoxy resin can be seen on the temperature sensitivity of large, small changes in temperature will cause great changes in viscosity. In the dispersed filler on the heat to reduce viscosity of epoxy instead of adding diluent is feasible.

Well-known non-reactive diluent to join, make cured epoxy resin strength and modulus decreased, but the elongation rates were rising. In the amount came from a structure and properties of the cured compound has little effect is large amount of the performance of cured material will deteriorate, while causing increased contractility and decreased adhesion is generally non-reactive diluent additive amount shall not exceed 15%. According to the China Association epoxy resin (www.epoxy-e.cn) experts, with the added amount of acetone and ethylenediamine excess amount of curing agent increased, the sample become soft, adhesiveness variation until the paste is difficult to maintain curing . This is because the thinner the presence of epoxy resin crosslinking density decrease, and the thinner their mechanical strength is weak, so when the amount of sony VGP-AC19V13 , sony VGP-AC19V19 larger thinner cured compound properties deteriorate. More than a certain amount of time and even bring down the crosslinking density of epoxy resin can not establish a curing structural system, as well as can not be cured only one batter. From the above analysis can be seen in relation to the use of thinner, epoxy filler temperature to spread on the structure and properties of epoxy composite materials is beneficial.

About thinner acetone addition on the resistivity of composite materials, with the growing amount of acetone added, the resistivity of composite materials is increasing, the amount of acetone to join when there are fewer materials, the resistivity of slower rise , while the added amount of acetone larger resistivity of the material rise faster. China Epoxy Resin Industry Association (www.epoxy-e.cn), experts say by adding acetone led to increased resistivity is due to increase in the amount of added acetone, so that composite system size increases, the graphite content is relatively lower, resulting in higher resistivity of composite system. But this can only partly explain the amount of acetone, adding the impact of the resistivity of the material can not fully sony VGP-BPL11 , sony VGP-BPL12 explain the experimental results. Because the resistivity is not with the added amount of acetone linearly increased, but when there are fewer resistivity by adding acetone increased slowly, by adding acetone increased more rapidly when the resistivity. This non-linear changes are shown the characteristics of polymer composite conductive material, the kinds of material is essentially a network of conductive pattern.

Epoxy resin, graphite, ethylene diamine, acetone as a complex system, not occurred in the epoxy curing, is a multi-phase homogeneous mixture. According to the China Association epoxy resin (www.epoxy-e.cn) experts, after the occurrence of curing reaction of epoxy resin, epoxy resin and ethylenediamine reaction to the gradual formation of a cured network, in every local area, acetone and the ring epoxy resin, ethylenediamine divisive. In the small amount of acetone, the acetone in the network and graphite epoxy curing between the small number of conductive material to cut off the network, it is a three-dimensional network conduction mode, less cut off part of the electrical conductivity of the material as a whole had little impact so resistivity to rise only slowly sony VGP-BPL13 , sony VGP-BPL14. In acetone by adding the amount is large, with the epoxy curing network separation of acetone, in all pushed to the local area around the graphite micro-chip, micro-chip formation of graphite wrapped state, so a large number of conductive network is cut off, so material resistance rates rose sharply.

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Battery pack notebook market leader

2010-02-02

Taiwan-based fujitsu lifebook T5010 Battery assembly plants in the new S & Ps new plant is located in Changshu, Jiangsu Province automatic charge-discharge test areas due to fire equipment, the new S & P estimated 8 million units per month to about 10 cells are affected. The new S & P is currently being made in customer support, September is expected to lag behind the progress of the meeting.

NB the second half of the peak season shipments, but faced with shortage of doubts about key components, and now the leading fujitsu lifebook T4220 Battery assembly plant a new plant in Changshu new & Poors also a fire, so that the battery shortage problem worse, expected that the new S & P downstream customers, including Quanta, Yan Bao, Wistron, Inventec and other OEM notebook makers will be affected.

The new S & P said the Changshu plant supply system due to the circuit at lunch time, short-circuit, resulting in automatic FPCBP155 charge-discharge test equipment, a fire district. Fortunately, the fire did not have any casualties, is already part of the Changshu plant raw materials and equipment, staff emergency back Songjiang factory production lines will be fully open 24 hours to catch up with production schedules.

Although the new S & P are now urgently vgp-bps2 dispatch Songjiang plant support can be broadly keep pace with the progress of the production and shipping, but the eight monthly production may be affected, it is estimated that 10 million units battery capacity affected. The new S & P is currently being made in customer understanding, support, and is expected to lag behind in September to fill the schedule.

The new S & P assessment, the Changshu plant losses would not exceed 100 million U.S. dollars. Because of insurance, plant, equipment and the loss of semi-finished products will be given insurance claims.

The new S & P said that in Changshu factory production lines will be partially recover within 1 week of production, normal production estimates take 6-8 weeks to restore. Currently, the new plant in Changshu Poor vgp-bps2a , vgp-bps2b , vgp-bps2c battery pack can be about 1 million per month group around the fire is expected to enable production capacity fell to 80-90 million in short-term groups.

Nominal Nanfu batteries, sold only 1 yuan money; cell marked the production date, yet to come. Recently, a salesperson posing as manufacturers of fake goods dealers, was arrested on the spot Pulandian industrial and commercial personnel in the positive with, 4200 fake Nanfu 5, 7, the battery has been seized.

The Bureau of Trade and Industry Trade and Industry Tan Pulandian by law enforcement officers in their daily inspection to the area, a shop, they found a man who is the owner selling Nanfu vgp-bps8 , vgp-bps8a , vgp-bps8b battery, Jinshou 1 yuan each. This person is also holding a work permit, declaring that the sale of factory personnel, and come up with the battery for everyone to see. Cell surface is uneven, marked the production date of August 2007, but check the date was July 30, 2007, obviously suspected of counterfeiting.

After investigation, the parties admitted that he purchased from Shenyang Nanfu cheap counterfeit batteries(vgp-bpl8 , vgp-bpl8a), hiring vehicles, along the direction of North Korea to Dalian, shops, supermarkets sell. In order to cover acts of selling counterfeits, he was still typing and Social spending has produced a fake work permits, posing as manufacturers sales staff. Industrial and commercial sector in their counterfeit batteries immediately to be seized.

Hydrogen fuel cell buses and our life

2010-02-02

July 21 to 23 days by the (Sony battery)China Renewable Energy Society of Professional Committee of Hydrogen Energy was launched, the National Federation of Industry-owned China homologous Limited Company, Shanghai-day event exhibition service company contracted 2007 China International Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Investment and Trade exhibition, Suzhou Jinlong 11 meters of the sky-blue Haig has officially unveiled the second large-scale exhibition in Shanghai, and car body H2″ word resonates with a string of lively bubbles seem to whisper to tell people: I am Oh, but pure water discharged.

Shanghai Shenli Technology Co., Ltd. Zhe Liang KLQ6118GQ Haig for hydrogen fuel cell buses to provide fuel cells. Supernatural power of the executive public relations director of Shi Tao told reporters that the initial hydrogen fuel cell(vgp-bps9 , vgp-bps9/b , vgp-bps9/s) vehicles in the bus industry should be the area of application. From the technical and economic point of view, buses have a great advantage.

Shi Tao believes that from a technical point of view, car space is small, more sensitive to the weight, power requirements higher; and passenger space inside large, can use relatively inexpensive components assembled fuel cell bus vgp-bps9a engines. From an economic point of view, the current biggest impediment to the promotion of fuel cells is cost. The domestic cost of a fuel cell car is 200 million, overseas such as Japan is more expensive, more than 10 times the equivalent of a traditional car prices, the cost of domestic fuel cell bus is Sansibaiwan yuan, and now Shanghai, the cost of an ordinary passenger is 80 million, the gap is not much. In addition, the bus can carry fifty or sixty people, in particular, are generally overloaded buses loaded 100 people, from a social welfare point of view than the person could only carry 34 cars much more efficient. At the same time, buses operating on fixed routes, dozens of vehicles line of vehicles with only a fixed 1 ~ 2 hydrogen refueling station will be able to support the operation; the car vgp-bps9a/b, if used in a taxi in the entire city running, hydrogen refueling station cloth point very difficult. Therefore, interval round-trip shuttle bus or bus operating in the early stages of the fuel cell vehicle application direction.

Shanghai Bao Industry Co., Ltd., General Manager Tsai Wen-hydrogen hold the same view. In his view, a taxi to rely on a very comprehensive network to support the hydrogenation, Jian Zhan cost too much; but buses have a fixed line, and the consumption of large quantities of hydrogen, in addition to bus exhaust emissions is much greater than a taxi to solve a exhaust emissions from vgp-bpl9 buses is equivalent to solve the dozens of cabs, environmental benefits more evident. Another application of the direction of government vehicles, such as the Shanghai World Expo is the best promotion opportunities, the Government extensive use of hydrogen fuel vehicles, it is easy to establish a citys image.

From 1998 to the present, from the 95″, 15″ and 3 research, and now the Eleventh Five-Year, Shanghai Shenli have had to bear the national 863″ hydrogen fuel cell power system technology, research projects, access to national more than 1 million financial support, on behalf of the domestic fuel cell developments. China now all in the running of the fuel cell engine provided by the divine power. In December 2005, Shanghai, Suzhou Jinlong divine hand to start the fuel cell engine of market-oriented operation. In March 2006, Suzhou Jinlong Bus Expo in Shanghai, the first time exhibited KLQ6118GQ launched Haig joint hydrogen fuel vgp-bps10 cell buses, which is the bus company first introduced a truly market-oriented products. At present, the car has been running in Suzhou and Shanghai, among ten thousand kilometers, running in good condition.

In this regard, assistant director of technology center in Suzhou Jinlong Li Jiang said: The worldwide hydrogen fuel cell technology leadership is the Ballard (Ballard Power Systems), China is the Shanghai god, close to the world advanced level. But we commercial operation of the prototype vehicle there are still difficulties, mainly the battery price is too high, and the matching technology, control technology to be further strengthened.

Supernatural power of the fuel cell engine technology route, unlike Ballard, Canada, the U.S. General Motors (GM) and other high-voltage operation technique, but run independently developed pressure fuel cell technology, the vgp-bps10/b system easier.

Professor at Tsinghua University, the International Society of hydrogen energy member of the Council, the Chinese Renewable Energy Society of Professional Committee of hydrogen Dr. Mao Zongqiang, director of the view that a joint Shanghai, Suzhou Jinlong god, Shanghai Jiaotong University announced Zheliang hydrogen fuel cell buses have greatly promoted Chinas fuel cell vehicle development, in the past imported vehicles up to 1500 million, while fuel cell buses in Suzhou Jinlong cost of 300 million, only imports 1 / 5.

However, the hydrogen fuel bus really want to market is still difficult. Shi Tao cited 4:00: First hydrogen filling station requires a certain level of popularity. Second, fuel cells, such as Suzhou Golden Dragon Bus Sansibaiwan yuan costs seem much cheaper than the imported cars, but opposed to the traditional model is still very expensive. Third, the policy level issue. He pointed to the scene A07777″ of the trade license, said: It can not Sheung vehicle operation vgp-bps10/s , vgp-bps10a , vgp-bps10a/b, as the vehicles do not pass inspection, do not give a directory Development and Reform Commission. However, when the test vehicle detection units are no corresponding testing standards, technology, security, standards of reliability and other aspects lagged seriously affected the process of industrialization. Fourth, market acceptance issues. Peoples inertia thinking that hydrogen is dangerous, which requires the concept of change. At least until now, the world has not been seen together with the fuel cell business due to leakage of hydrogen caused by security incidents. As 20 years ago that natural gas is the same as dangerous goods, and now people have to know how to operate and use it, have a variety of technical protection measures, has begun to get used to this energy source. The future hydrogen energy use was also as true.

For the hydrogen station construction sony VGP-BPS3, Shanghai Bao Industry Co., Ltd., general manager of Tsai Wen-hydrogen that because gasoline prices are gradually rising, but prices are steady decline of hydrogen, hydrogen fuel than gasoline, diesel expensive problem has begun to be resolved, the future price of hydrogen Gasoline would be cheaper. However, the prospects still unclear, the current domestic enterprises have not yet willing to invest in building a larger hydrogen refueling station, this is an application bottleneck.

BMW (China) Trading Co., Ltd. The new energy strategy, marketing manager Eibun Zheng also said: Infrastructure and standards lag is now sony VGP-BPS4 the biggest problem. If the hydrogen refueling station universal, BMW Hydrogen 7 bi-fuel cars can be put into production at any time and use.

The price of hydrogen fuel cells, Shi Tao, said: The key requirements for the drop-down support costs. In both parts of the fuel cell, fuel cell stack of the core components of the main reasons is the amount of expensive too low, such as the DuPont company The proton exchange membrane, due to not achieve full capacity production line, assembly line equipment costs must be credited to low-volume parts inside, so a single very high cost price. The other part is to capture the fuel cell system, which many small parts are a non-standard nature of non-standard parts implies the need to sony VGP-BPS5 customize a single open mold, so the cost will be high. Only standardized mass production in order to reduce costs. In addition, some alternative materials are also seeking to reduce costs on the one hand. As for the fuel cell stack of the scarce and expensive platinum catalyst, god has been the catalyst for the introduction of new alternative materials.

According to industry sources, the current domestic price of hydrogen fuel cell engine is about 1000 U.S. dollars / kW, so that 60 kilowatts of fuel cell engine costs at least 6 million. Like the god of Shanghai Tongji University, Beyond 3″ to provide hydrogen fuel cell engine, cost about 80 million to about 900 thousand yuan; and Tongji University in Shanghai launched the fourth generation of Beyond - Roewe, the cost of its fuel cell engine as high as more than 100 million yuan, the cost of this forecast, stakeholders believe that only when the volume reached 10000 on the scale sony VGP-BPS5A, only the cost of the fuel cell engine may fall to 45 million yuan. It was predicted that the United States shows that when the size reached more than 50000, the hydrogen fuel cell engine that their prices could drop to 50 U.S. dollars / kW(sony VGP-BPS11).

GM hydrogen fuel cell Industrialization

2010-02-02

GM hydrogen fuel cell- sony VGP-BPS12 vehicles will be around in 2015 and industrialization.

GM China chief technology officer, Dr. Gerd Arnold told reporters with certainty. Gerd Arnold in General is responsible for fuel cell technology development as well as China, South Koreas technical management.

Our definition of industrialization refers to the global level to achieve the 1 million level. Our goal is to formally implement the industrialization of the same files with the assembly of diesel engine vehicle prices are pretty. Gerd Arnold added that the.

This is an ambitious goal sounds incredible, because the majority sony VGP-BPS13 , sony VGP-BPS13EA , sony VGP-BPS13A/B of people are concerned, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in large-scale application is 15 years later.

However, Gerd Arnold obviously does not think so. By optimizing the design, reduce component prices, especially after the production go up dramatically reducing costs. I would expect 5 to 8 years after-market performance will be surprised.

Gerd Arnold believes that GM will be the first large-scale, mass production of hydrogen fuel cell car companies. Our products have undergone rigorous certification, design and testing, will be very strict to bring superior products to sony VGP-BPS13/S market. He said.

At present, both the fuel cell or vehicle integration technology, General Motors are located in the ranks of the worlds advanced level, they are first tier team. But the industry also has problems of implementation. Such as fuel battery life is the biggest challenge. Vehicles are usually to go through hundreds of thousands of miles of testing, durability testing will take several years, from the tests gradually discovered the problem and solve the problem, the battery life evaluation test cycle time can not be separated.

In terms of cost, the fuel cell stack to the platinum catalyst for use of this rare and expensive materials, Gerd Arnold believes that as technology develops, the capacity of the development of fuel cells is now getting low, platinum recovery block can be achieved through the oxidation reaction recycling. Related industries are also being studied catalyst alternatives, such as the use of a similar mixture of rare earth metals is relatively cheaper and so on. In addition to substitute for platinum catalysts, it now GM has embarked on studies on alternative hydrogen elements.

It is reported that over the next 30 to 50 years, the worlds fossil fuels will be depleted of hydrogen as a very promising future, a source of energy carriers from solar, nuclear, wind, water, geothermal, tidal and other forms of energy, as well as bio-fuels, natural gas and other chemical by-products recycling. In the choice between liquid hydrogen and the hydrogen gas that forms of energy, Gerd Arnold that if the carts using fuel cells, due to the impact of energy density can not be too much volume and quality, otherwise vehicles will become very cumbersome sony VGP-BPS13A/S , sony VGP-BPS13B/B. Forms of energy depends on the specific models of individual countries, such as bus, taxi, etc. The purpose of running, from the cost, economic efficiency, social acceptance, the Governments support for a comprehensive evaluation of selection and other aspects.

According to reports, the next step, on the basis of the fuel cell, GM will launch a fuel cell plus battery hybrid power system.

Internet selling fake products into a new public nuisance! Reporter learned yesterday, after Guangzhou and Shenzhen industrial and commercial sector linkage, recently, more than selling fake products in one fell swoop take away dens and storage warehouse, and seized more than 1,000 pieces of counterfeit Canon sony VGP-BPS14 , sony VGP-BPS14/B battery. Law enforcement agencies to remind consumers to buy supplies products online caution so as not deceived.

Recently, many unscrupulous counterfeiting activities, selling fake products were using the Internet sales channel low-cost, difficult to monitor the characteristics of the network published false company and product information, business platform through the network when consumers find relevant information and purchase products, those would be illegal to sell counterfeit goods. Law enforcement officers in Guangzhou Yuexiu District and Longgang District, Shenzhen, Futian District, such as counterfeiting and packaging dens uncovered a few more than 1,000 pieces of fake Canon sony VGP-BPS15 , sony VGP-BPS15/B battery products and a lot of fake labels and packaging materials such as empty boxes.

Acetone Graphite Epoxy Composites

2010-02-02

Acetone content in high and low on the electrical properties of sony VGP-BPS15/S , sony VGP-BPS18 epoxy-Graphite Composites great impact. Recent Huaqiao University School of Materials Science and Engineering to study the diluent acetone. Addition on the resistivity of composite materials to design a set of experimental research. According to the China Association epoxy resin (epoxy-e.cn) experts, the experimental manipulation in the incubator temperature to reduce viscosity of epoxy resin to spread the filling instead of using the thinner, this preparation method is conducive to composite materials receive a lower resistivity and better structural performance, the success of the experiment was not only a lower resistivity and a smooth curing, the sample apparent structural inspiron 6000 battery performance are better, showing that the presence of acetone, the samples not only increases the resistivity, but also affect the structure and properties of the samples, and even difficult to cure the sample.

Heat and add diluent can make a better dispersed epoxy filler, it is because they are able to substantially reduce the viscosity of epoxy resin, according to documents can be projected E-44 Bisphenol A type epoxy resin heating up and adding acetone viscosity when it is the general situation: E-44 Bisphenol A type epoxy resin at 25 ℃ viscosity of about 25 Pa · s, the viscosity of acetone at 20 ℃ for 0.316mPa · s; 100 ℃ when the E-44 viscosity of bisphenol-type sony VGP-BPS19 , sony VGP-AC19V10 epoxy resin to about 0.1Pa · s or so; 25 ℃ when the E-44 Bisphenol A type epoxy resin viscosity should be reduced to 0.1Pa · s, is about to add 40% mass fraction of acetone; 25 ℃ below to add more acetone can the viscosity dropped to 0.1Pa · s. The viscosity of epoxy resin can be seen on the temperature sensitivity of large, small changes in temperature will cause great changes in viscosity. In the dispersed filler on the heat to reduce viscosity of epoxy instead of adding diluent is feasible.

Well-known non-reactive diluent to join, make cured epoxy resin strength and modulus decreased, but the elongation rates were rising. In the amount came from a structure and properties of the cured compound has little effect is large amount of the performance of cured material will deteriorate, while causing increased contractility and decreased adhesion is generally non-reactive diluent additive amount shall not exceed 15%. According to the China Association epoxy resin (www.epoxy-e.cn) experts, with the added amount of acetone and ethylenediamine excess amount of curing agent increased, the sample become soft, adhesiveness variation until the paste is difficult to maintain curing . This is because the thinner the presence of epoxy resin crosslinking density decrease, and the thinner their mechanical strength is weak, so when the amount of sony VGP-AC19V13 , sony VGP-AC19V19 larger thinner cured compound properties deteriorate. More than a certain amount of time and even bring down the crosslinking density of epoxy resin can not establish a curing structural system, as well as can not be cured only one batter. From the above analysis can be seen in relation to the use of thinner, epoxy filler temperature to spread on the structure and properties of epoxy composite materials is beneficial.

Thin-film solar cells

2010-02-02

United States NanoMarkets, LC projections, 2015 thin-film sony VGP-BPL14/B , sony VGP-BPL15 solar cells use solar power generation system (TFPV: thin-film photovoltaics) market will reach 7.2 billion U.S. dollars (in English published data). The current market size of about 10 million U.S. dollars.

NanoMarkets said, TFPV high-growth market, driven by factors that the advantages of thin-film solar cells. Its advantages include: low cost, light weight, as well as the battery can be embedded in walls, roof and windows. In order to meet the growing demand for TFPV, most manufacturers are constantly increase capacity, including the U.S. First Solar, Fuji Electric, the United States Nanosolar, Sanyo Electric, the United States United Solar Ovonic, LLC, United Kingdom G24 INNOVATIONS LIMITED number of companies, including all plans to build more generating capacity in the 100MW plant.

At present, the global fuel prices, while the price of solar power generation system has been rapidly declining. This case, the solar power generation system may occupy the lions share of the energy market. NanoMarkets forecasts, TFPV the cost of solar power generation system than the original is even lower, so TFPV market will be the first in the solar power generation system on the right track. A few years ago, TFPV for less than the sony VGP-BPL15/B , sony VGP-BPL15/S share of solar power systems market, 5%, but in 2015 will grow to 35%.

TFPV is to use the printing device or Roll to Roll (roll to roll) devices made of. The use of printing devices is expected to produce TFPV its market size in 2015 will reach 30 billion U.S. dollars.

In addition, TFPV than the original solar power generation system significantly reduce the weight, you can bend, shape, can adapt to the needs of non-planar positions. Thus, TFPV embedded in the roof and walls more easily than the original product. The need to embed multi-block panels are the roof, TFPV can be without raising the roof strength. Windows, the PV panels can be realized, and sashes to use either of sony VGP-BPL18 , sony VGP-BPL19.

NanoMarkets believes that the use of organic materials, the prospects for solar power generation system is also more noticeable. The solar power system solar power systems than other more environmentally friendly. Efficiency is also rapidly increasing, and new battery efficiency and the use of inorganic materials, the product is basically the same, or even higher. NanoMarkets predicts that by 2015 the use of organic materials, solar power generation system power sony PCGA-BP1N supply will reach 500MW.

Industrialization of the gap

2010-03-04

Domestic research hybrid car has been almost 10 years of history. China is now Eleventh Five-Year 863″ energy conservation and new energy vehicles special important scientific and technological research, Chery, Changan, FAW, SAIC and Dongfeng have had to bear related topics. 28, the Eleventh Five-Year 863″ energy-saving and new energy vehicles overall project panel members nikon en-el4a , nikon en-el5, Tongji University Automotive College Zhuo-Ping Yu told reporters: In the vehicle controller, the engine electronic controller and some other key technologies, there is not yet able to mass production, quality and reliable products.

LU Jian-hui said that Cherys technical staff involved in the commission Ricardo and Bosch GmbH for the development carried out by Chery, Chery not only has the intellectual property rights of these technologies, but also learn to master the technology. We have more than 100 R & D team engaged in the research and development of hybrid cars nikon en-el7 , nikon en-el8, has developed seven years.

Chery spokesman Jin Yibo said that in the field of hybrid vehicles a number of cutting-edge technology, the need OEM parts at home and abroad supporting factories, scientific research institutions to integrate development and cooperative development, which is an effective way to fujitsu lifebook e8310 battery , fujitsu lifebook e8210 battery, fujitsu fpcbp136ap.

However, some industry sources believe that in a number of key technology areas, domestic enterprises and foreign companies, joint or entrust the development, although the ultimate access to intellectual property nikon en-el9 rights, but the enterprises own R & D capabilities have not been significantly upgraded facing a property without knowledge predicament.

Geely Automobile is responsible for hybrid projects concerned that domestic firms already have at least a hybrid electric vehicle assembly, production and test capacity requirements. Do not have the key technologies in the current industrial conditions, procurement of foreign technology and components are also normal sony PCGA-BP2S , sony PCGA-BP2SA. The question is, what technology and components with foreign companies, which by their own independent development, we need a balance. If most of the core technologies for the foreign-controlled, it will be a great problem.

Platinum Free Full Cell

2010-03-04

Development of a platinum-free Daihatsu Japanese auto companies announced alkaline fuel cell Fujitsu Lifebook T5010 Battery.

As fuel cells Alkaline twentieth century as the early fifties for space programs. The fact that the chemical properties of fuel cells in other types of fuel cells is different, fuel cells and other materials as a catalyst to react despite the use of cobalt, but platinums role more effective. First alkaline fuel cell, or base metals, precious metals or for the development of experimental use.

Nearly all car makers the feasibility of electric vehicles, as Chief Technology are exploring the use of fuel cells are proton exchange membrane fuel cell. A temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell performance failure because of poison strong after more than alkaline fuel cells fujitsu lifebook t4210 battery , fujitsu lifebook t4220 battery, fujitsu lifebook t4215 battery , fujitsu fpcbp155 , fujitsu fpcbp155ap , can tolerate, and a durability and reliability, high power, which is used for fuel cells is the car is necessary. Proton exchange membrane fuel cells use platinum as a catalyst. Not affect its Daihatsu study.

Proton exchange membrane fuel cell has already used a more stable, and with further development. Despite the commercialization of applications, as they like Platinum and more development work, they need less load, but the mainstream of future fuel cell market.

Cordless batteries to entry-level pricing

2010-03-16

Sanyo eneloop battery batteries combine the advantages of normal batteries and rechargeable batteries: they are rechargeable and have a low self-discharge. With eneloop lite they will soon be available at lower prices.

Almost every household now needs many batteries: For the Cordless phone, for remote controls, digital cameras, wireless mice and wireless keyboards and various other devices. Batteries have the advantage of being rechargeable and thus save costs and conserve the environment. However, they also have disadvantages: Typical battery discharge relatively quickly by themselves who outsources charged batteries for some time in the drawer is not much enjoy it. Therefore, batteries remain unused for many for so long in the charger until they are needed, which unfortunately unnecessary power consumption and the savings effects slowly but surely renders them null.

Cordless batteries have a significantly lower self-discharge and have even after one year 85% of their original charge. So you can be loaded easily and then stowed away somewhere. The eneloop batteries from Sanyo batteries are those batteries and they are very popular and rightly so. Now Sanyo has announced the eneloop lite series. These have a smaller capacity than the normal eneloop batteries (2000mAh instead of 950mAh to 550mAh, and the AA batteries instead of the 800mAh AAA batteries), but should be significantly cheaper. They are intended primarily for remote controls and other more modest applications, where expected battery so far only rarely, because of higher costs and the fact that the self here is usually higher than the power consumption of the devices.

In June, the eneloop battery lite will be available for the equivalent of 6,30 Euro or 5,30 Euro in Japan. When lite batteries on the market, they must however be much cheaper, because a normal 8-Pack Eneloop AA batteries for example, costs at Amazon (just 13.15 Euro plus shipping and also in Japan are the normal street price of eneloop battery low).

At noon yesterday, the Office of painting is the status of Mr. drawings suddenly heard "bang" in a sound, burned taste spread right in his hip pocket, he took out his pocket a look at the explosion is his Motorola cell phone parts melting burns the skin of the right leg. The office four colleagues have witnessed this process.

At noon yesterday the world at sea near the Metro Line 2 construction site office, the reporter saw the bombing of a bad cell phone, mobile phone parts in contact with the battery had the same burning black, the original formation of the cell surface, like the blowing of the gas to drum up the middle of the thickness of 23 millimeters from the original into about one centimeter, while the cell phone battery grooves trap put down, the edge of the battery cover has melted.

Mr. conditions and several colleagues said that five people when they sat at a table office, we all heard a cry dull exploding, "burnt taste to spread out, we all thought it was lighter exploded, and that no thought would be mobile phone. "surnamed Song, a staff said. Mr. conditions reaching into the right pocket of his trousers, was found inside that layer has been broken. At the same time felt right leg pain, cell phone batteries and some melting of the components dropped from the trouser legs, burns to his legs.

This reporter saw Mr. situation right leg has two parts of about 1 cm in diameter, the skin off. Mr. situation said that the Motorola phone he used for two years, cell phones are bought in the regular store, the battery is original.

After the incident, to contact Mr. situation of Motorola cell phone service hotline, the person said he will send staff members in a week to investigate.

Pregnant freeze in car

2010-03-16

Estenfeld - Empty tank, empty cell phone sony vgp-bps8a battery, empty wallet: A pregnant woman from Hesse had on the trip to her parents in three Hoechberg near Wuerzburg pitch. See whats on it:

It was not until she walked out of fuel and she remained in her car on the highway 19 are between Estenfeld and Würzburg. Refueling would not have been possible anyway, because the woman had no money. Shortly after she asked her friend via cell phone for help, was then also the phone battery is empty.

Because the pregnant woman nor her partner could not say at the last second that she is about ten miles from Wurzburg, gave the police after a call of a man on a quest. Two hours later, officials found the motorist shivering in her car. The police announced on Sunday Würzburg, lent the forces of the pregnant women a few bucks for a few gallons of gasoline. After the incident on Friday evening, the woman was finally able to still visit their parents.

Pitch is probably not the right word, rather, inability to master the little things of everyday life. As a father of two teenagers and a teacher I can see that many young people are less and less get to the series, but demand for more and more understanding. You will find it increasingly normal to miss important appointments, forget important documents that do not meet accepted tasks. Irresponsibility is the rule, while it falls out of fashion, such tendencies call a spade! Anyone who does that came out as old-fashioned, as old-fashioned! Hey Age, stay loose!

I think that the general provision of the prosperity drugs, such as mobile phone, navigation systems, etc. .. define as a lot has to do with it: you need not make any more precise understandings ( I am now at the XY place where art thou?) you must not organize / ( I stand here in front of the shelf, honey, look but please if there is time yogurt in the fridge )
Well, when the battery from the phone once it is empty, because you like someone who goes solely by the Navi and he drops out or he finds it no longer an ;-)

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Blessed is he who throws home BEFORE it moves off vielliecht still take a look at the route, especially if he does not know or just take a look at the fuel gauge throws and has even a sense of how far is the distance around.

Sony Ericsson X10: Ausgepackt clip of androids

2010-03-29

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Sony Ericsson provides end of March its first Android phone, the Xperia X10 out. From April, the device should then be bought in the color versions black and white. Details for the packaging and delivery will now show the product blog of Ausgepackt joint ventures in an official video.

Among the highlights of the function Xperia X10 include a 4-inch panel, a 1-GHz processor and a 8.1-megapixel camera. Even on high-speed Internet access Wi-Fi and HSDPA, the device is not waived. In addition, the phone utilizes both Android 1.6 is a vendor's own Plattfom called User Experience, which is a more efficient management of messages and provide multimedia content. An overview of the technical details of the Xperia X10 can be found already at CHIP Online at a glance. From just under 500 euros, the first bids for the Android mobile phone can be found. The producer price is 700 euros without a contract. (wh)

HTC Smart: Cheap Mobile Phone with touch-Brew MP

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HTC Smart: First phone with Brew MP-HSTNN-IB09.

The smartphone manufacturer HTC today announced at Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona announced that O2 will offer the HTC Touch screen Smart phone exclusively in Germany.

The Smart is the first phone from HTC, which is the new operating system provided by Qualcomm Brew MP. When the user interface of Android and Windows Mobile-known HTC Sense is used. The quad-band phone supports both GSM and 3G networks (HSDPA, 3.6 Mbps). Wi-Fi and a GPS receiver's smart but not by HTC.

Under the Housing tinkers a 300 MHz processor with 256 MB of RAM. On the back of the phone a 3-megapixel camera with autofocus and LED integrated light. The TFT touch screen with QVGA resolution, measures 2.8 inches. The 105 x 55 x 13 mm measuring and weighing nearly 110 mobile phone is from the second quarter exclusively at O2 have in England, Spain, Czech Republic and Germany. The price for the HTC LG is less than $ 200 are without a contract. (sg / ls)

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Asus: New Designer Eee PCs Seashell Series

2010-03-29

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During the press conference at CES 2010 on Tuesday afternoon in the "Venetian" in Las Vegas, Asus chairman Jonney Shih has also shown the new netbooks. These expectations are based on the "Pine Trail" platform, which was launched just before Christmas 2009th

The third new sensor of the day devoted to the known Netbooks Eee PC family. Together with the New York designer Karim Rashid, the Asus models Seashell series revisited and presents them in brown and pink, combined with an undulating top and bottom. The Eee PC 1008P has a size of 10.1 inches with a display resolution of 1,024 x 600 pixels visible, and is internally powered with the new Atom N450. Furthermore, the model has 1 GB DDR2 RAM and a hard drive in the size of 250 gigabytes.

Picture Gallery CES 2010: Asus Eee PC Karim Rashid Seashell Collection "(15 images-sony vgp-bps9/b)

As an OS for the Eee PC 1008P comes as expected, Windows 7 starters used. Facilities include the usual Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, a card reader and optional WiMAX and HSDPA / HSUPA. The 1.12-kg lightweight netbook will soon be available at a yet unknown price.

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Constance Researchers develop energy-efficient PC power supply for fan operation

2010-04-11

Constance Researchers develop energy-efficient PC power supply for fan operation

The power loss is not more than ten percent. Broadly used to can be saved so that in Germany, several terawatt hours. Currently, the prototypes will be prepared for a long time.

Researchers at the University of Konstanz and the Moscow Energetic Institute, have increased the energy efficiency of PC power supplies. While the industry is just trying to position the so-called 80-plus power supplies for at least 80 percent energy efficiency in the market to achieve the prototypes from Constance up to 90 percent. For the full use of new technology, the developers predict the German grid saving energy in the order of terawatt-hours.

With a dissipation of only ten percent of the power supply needed, according to the scientists no fan. Currently, the prototypes are optimized. It is planned to test the power supply 30 new generation in a computer lab of the university in continuous operation.

According Kirjuchin the new power supplies not only in the private sector but also in industry, are used. The use is not confined to PCs. In addition to reduced power supplies to the Constance less harmonic distortion than conventional models cause and thus avoid further losses of energy. Through reduced network interference will be increased also the life of other devices on the same network.

Kirjuchin Komarov and hold for the breakthrough and the "corresponding political will necessary". Only political signals could ultimately move the industry to use the new technology.

Ambient light sensor in a similar way the human eye to detect light, can be widely used for industrial lighting, consumer electronics, automotive applications. Typical applications of these sensors is the parts on / off, or through regulation to make it more convenient to use, thus saving battery power, or provide additional security. A more common application of lights and other outdoor lighting equipment, they can be automated on / off operation. In such applications, Vishay's approach is mainly: to free from harmful substances silicon phototransistor (TEMT6000X01) replace the photosensitive resistor.

In most cases, replaced with a photo-transistor photosensitive resistor value only on the resistance to change. Figure 1 shows how to replace TEMT6000X01 photosensitive resistor S1-CDS. TEMT6000X01 the photoelectric conversion factor of approximately 25% of 4mm resistor, so the same performance of the case, must be the value of resistor R1 is about to quadruple that to 8.2kΩ.

While it is still uncertain the United States, China or India, like the European Union will implement the strict regulations, but it is certain that they're headed in that direction. If the majority of today's products are designed for the global market, if the phototransistor can be quite easy to replace CdS photoconductive resistance, then the necessary requirement for application in ambient light sensor used in the phototransistor.

Dell introduces disk backup solution with deduplication

2010-04-11

Prices start at 7,500 euros - including de-duplication at Euro 8700. As a software Symantec Backup Exec is of 2010. Target group are small and medium enterprises.

Dell has introduced the PowerVault DL2100 model an integrated backup and recovery solution for small and medium enterprises. Serve as storage disks. Symantec Backup Exec software side will use 2010 as a solution for data backup and recovery with integrated de-duplication and archiving technology.

The storage system according to Dell may be taken within a few minutes in operation. Automatic Setup Disk and accelerate provisioning the backup process.

PowerVault DL2100 offers options including archiving Windows file systems and Exchange environments. Administrators can index as data retention periods and establish. Moreover, can the performance of Exchange and file servers to increase significantly by eliminating redundant data. An integration solution in the PowerVault Dell EqualLogic and Dell/EMC environments is possible, as an insert in the environment of vSphere VMware virtualization solutions.

"PowerVault DL2100 - Powered by Symantec Backup Exec 2010″ is available from around 7500 euros, including deduplication from Euro 8700.

On the Dell Power Vault 2100 Symantec Backup Exec is running in 2010 - against surcharge also with deduplication (Photo: Dell).

He Renchun Representative: Lead the import and export tax policies which need to be adjusted left

"The state of lead ingots frequent tariff adjustments, the signing of the purchase of resources and foreign long-term contracts for the domestic backbone enterprises of great influence of lead, the proposed relevant state departments to take measures to address import and export tax policy adjustments lead a legacy." Hunan Nonferrous Metals Holding Group Co., Ltd., chairman of Heren Chun said in an interview.

He said that in response to the State to encourage large-scale use of foreign resources policy, taking into account China's reserves of lead in small, less per capita, etc., some domestic key enterprises to import large quantities from abroad every year with the production of lead and zinc concentrates. In order to avoid market risks, to prevent foreign mineral prices rise every year, Zhuzhou Smelter Group Co., Ltd., Hunan Nonferrous Metals Group Co., Ltd. Shuikoushan and Henan Yuguang Gold & Lead Co., Ltd. and other domestic lead and zinc smelting companies with large foreign mining and supply enters into a 3 to 4 years of long-term contracts, and Customs. But since 2006, less than a year, the state has lead ingots on a number of tax policy changes, lead ingot export tax rebate from 13% into a 10% increase in export tariffs. Tax adjustment of lead ingots frequent magnitude of the short period of the last 10 years do not have.

Published TPC benchmark for power consumption of servers

2010-04-20

TPC-Energy is available as a 55-page PDF document. It complements existing test methods to calculations of the efficiency. It is regarded as one of the three most important purchase factors.

The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) has published a test method for power consumption of servers. TPC-Energy, measures how efficiently working server systems how much they can do with a certain amount of energy. The benchmark procedure is available as a 55-page PDF document.

TPC has developed a number of recognized benchmarks server and published on its website charts tested systems. TPC-C TPC-E and his successor, for example examine the database performance, TPC-H performance with data warehouse applications. TPC-energy supplements this process by a few additional calculations to determine a value for watts per performance, tells the benchmark group.

The TPC is actually composed of 24 members, including all the major manufacturers of servers. Two members, however, are just a merged Oracle and Sun Microsystems.

The Head of Department responsible for the efficiency test TPC Committee Mike Nikolaiev says: In recent years the number of server installations has increased exponentially throughout the world. The energy for the operation and the cooling is now one of the three most important factors in the server purchase. Buyers need an objective method to set the price, performance and energy consumption in relation to their needs and to sort by.

Asus brings 23-inch monitor with a contrast ratio of 10,000,000:1

2010-04-20

The 16:9 screen according to the manufacturer MS238H reached a brightness of 250 candelas per square meter. The maximum resolution is 1920 by 1080 pixels. The device is available immediately at a price of 249 euros.

Asus has expanded its portfolio to monitor a 23-inch widescreen with a they claim dynamic contrast ratio of 10,000,000:1. The power consumption of the 16:9 screen is MS238H by the LED-backlit by up to 45 percent lower than previous models. In addition, the producer gives to its own claims in the manufacturing to the use of mercury.

The MS238H delivers a maximum resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels. The brightness value of the unit indicates Asus 250 candelas per square meter, the response time of 2 milliseconds. The maximum viewing angle is according to the company at 170 degrees horizontally and vertically at 160 degrees.

In addition to a VGA input HDMI interface with HDCP copy protection of the video for connection to computer or game console is available. In addition, the monitor has a headphone jack. It is operated via a sensor bar at the front of the device. Instead of a stand by the tilting screen of a small black ring in position is held.

Asus provides the MS238H now for the price of 249 euros. Supplied with a network, one VGA and one DVI-HDMI cables are included. The guarantee period is three years, including on-site exchange service.

PsiXpda shows UMPC with Intel Atom CPU B

2010-05-12

Access to the Internet allows the mobile computer via WLAN (802.11b / g) or UMTS. So that the unit according to the manufacturer can use it as a mobile phone. The operating system is Windows XP. For the connection of peripherals include a USB and a mini-USB port. The UMPC is available now at a price of 499.99 pounds (559 €) are available.

A similar device Sagemcom offers with its pocketbook to Spiga. This is also an Atom Z510 processor and Windows XP equipped. It is available from November at a price of 499 € in the shop.

The portable mini-computer from PsiXpda is now available at a price of 559 € (picture: PsiXpda).

In the recently held a seminar on hydrogen fuel cell technology, the Toyota, Nissan, Honda Motor Co. representatives and a number of researchers agreed that if hydrogen fuel cell vehicles commercially viable by 2015, to determine.

March 13, the Japanese Ministry of Economy was held in Japan, "Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstration Project", the conference on the use of hydrogen fuel cell vehicle commercialization issues, auto makers agreed that "in 2015 to determine whether a business is feasible" .

Waseda University Graduate School Story Yasuhiro that the new energy automotive industry recognized the three major routes --- electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles and hybrid electric vehicles, compared with, hydrogen vehicles to achieve practical level a long way. "To the aircraft analogy, hybrids have been in the air, the electric car just took off, and fuel cell vehicles are on the runway while taxiing." Story Yasuhiro said. Improve vehicle durability, while reducing the vehicle and hydrogen infrastructure costs, the future need to address the issue.

"Evidence of hydrogen fuel cell project" Promoting Committee chairman, Keio University Graduate School of Ishida's long said that the next phase of research will focus on durability and cost of vehicles, in 2015 confirmed the technical feasibility, "then , the state and whether the industry will carry out the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles to make business decisions. "

Acer launches first netbook with Intel's platform Pine Trail B

2010-05-12

The Aspire One measures AO532h 25.8 times 18.5 times 2.5 inches and weighs 6-cell battery 1.25 kg. It will end in the United States later this month at prices from $ 299 in trade. The warranty is two years.

Acer's Aspire One was one of the first netbook series. It was launched in June 2008 to life.

For the outlook, automakers agreed. Toyota Fuel Cell Development Division Kawai Ocean Technology Minister said, "To spread the fuel cell vehicle, the production cost per vehicle needs to be reduced to the current 1 / 100 or so. Such as through new technology breakthroughs to 1 / 10, in On this basis, the second step can be further reduced with mass production effect 1 / 10. to achieve first step, that is, through technology development will cost to current 1 / 10, scheduled in 2015 is more reasonable. The second step, significantly reduce costs through mass production, it is expected to be completed in the 21st century, 20 years. "

Nissan Research Institute Fuel Cell Institute at Rice Shan Ming Yu said, and reduce costs is equally important issue is the durability. Development can be a catalyst for the promotion and commercialization of thin film materials is the focus of future technology development. "By 2015, achieve a 10-year durability of fuel cell vehicles are expected to make progress."

Honda Motor Development Centre, senior director of technology development room Takashi Moriya said, "for developers, fuel cell vehicles charm lies in its response to social demands. As for the consumers, also has a quiet nature and the driving range attractive long. While the future also need to reduce costs, improve durability, these issues will bear fruit in 2015. "

In addition, dedicated hydrogen infrastructure study of Nippon Oil and Tokyo Gas company representatives claim, to spread fuel cell vehicles, in addition to individual Shebei hydrogen infrastructure, carried out by enterprises business development, the community system also needs the support of government administration . Into early, in the case of vehicles not yet universal, not commercial infrastructure operators. This is the hydrogen fuel car one of the difficulties start.

Seagate introduces thin notebook hard drives

2010-06-02

The mass of the "Momentus Thin" series is 7 mm high dell inspiron 6400 battery. They appear with capacities of 160 and 250 GByte. The market launch is scheduled for January 2010.

Seagate has announced a new series called Hard Drive Momentus thin ". The 2.5-inch hard drives are designed primarily for use in laptops and notebooks. With a height of 7 millimeters, they fall about 25 percent thinner than conventional models in the 2.5-inch format.

The mass storage feature a SATA II interface, the theoretical transfer rates of up to 3 Gb / s possible. They appear in capacities of 160 and 250 GB and have a large 8 MB cache. Their speed is the manufacturer with 5400 dell inspiron 8600 battery revolutions per minute.

Seagate will begin in early January with the delivery of Thin Momentus hard drives to PC manufacturers, and shortly thereafter they should also regularly be available in stores. The prices, the company no information.

Under the name "Pulsar" Seagate was the beginning of December’s first Solid State Drive announced. It is intended for the server market, and appears with capacities of 50, 100 and 200 GByte. As Flash modules are single-level cells are used – the most powerful, but also the most expensive technology in the SSD segment dell inspiron 9300 battery.

With a height of 7 millimeters Seagate Momentus-Thin "is series 25 percent thinner than conventional 2.5-inch hard drives (Photo: Seagate-dell inspiron b120 battery).

University of Antwerp builds desktop supercomputer

2010-06-02

The calculator has an output of 12 teraflops dell inspiron b130 battery. It is equipped with seven Nvidia graphics cards. In addition, the device has 12 GB of RAM and four power supplies with a total output of 2850 watts.

Researchers at the Vision Lab of the University of Antwerp, have built a desktop supercomputer for less than 6000 €. The scientists named the device “Fastra II” to create three-dimensional images on a computer tomography. The supercomputer achieved with 13 GPUs to seven cards a performance of 12 teraflops dell inspiron e1405 battery.

The facilities include one of the Fastra II Asus Mainbard ‘P6T7 WAS supercomputer “with seven PCI-Express interfaces, an Intel Core i7 processor 920, and a total of 12 GB of memory. In addition, a 1 TB hard drive and four large power supplies are built with a total output of 2850 watts dell inspiron e1505 battery.

Researchers at the University of Antwerp in their use supercomputer six Nvidia GTX295 graphics cards of the type with two cores and a Nvidia GTX275, which has a GPU. Serves as the operating system CentOS 5.3 with a specially modified Linux kernel dell inspiron e1705 battery.

Last year, the scientists had presented the Fastra its first desktop supercomputer. The computer was equipped with an AMD Phenom processor, 8 gigabytes of memory and four Nvidia 9800GX2 graphics cards. He achieved an output of 4 teraflops and cost almost 4000 €.

The desktop supercomputing Fastra II met with seven Nvidia graphics cards, a performance of 12 teraflops (Image: University of Antwerp canon bp-208 battery).

Thin film solar cells information in 2008

2010-09-28

April 2008, in the Hangzhou Economic and Technological Development Zone, an unassuming little building, Long Yan Energy Technology (Hangzhou) Co., Ltd. was formally established. The total investment of $ 24,000,000 of the company to do something very advanced: cadmium telluride thin film batteries and components can be. Although their products are still in laboratory research and development stage, to be officially put into operation in 2009, but they set up the first day the company got the biggest names in venture capital money Legend Capital and Legend Capital is also a partner for this "successful" investment is very pleased.

Different low-key and Long Yan, Chint Group for investment in solar energy under constant media attention. Chint production of thin film solar cells available in late 2007 to the present capacity of 100 MW. Managing Director of Chint Solar YANGLI 2011, will reach 400 megawatts of capacity. "The market demand, short supply, the product a production line to be taken away, completely a seller's market!" YANGLI happy exception.

In fact, back in the 70s of last century, amorphous silicon thin film to be developed, but the conversion efficiency is only half of the polysilicon has not been universal. In recent years favored the growing photovoltaic industry, triggered a crisis in the supply of silicon materials. Silicon raw material prices skyrocketing, making thin-film batteries once again surfaced. In 2007, the global thin film solar cell production reached 400MW, 181MW in 2006, compared with a substantial increase of 120% market share of 8.2% from 2006 to 12%.

Corresponding to this, following the thermal solar modules, polycrystalline silicon hot, the thin film photovoltaic cells has become the new investment hot spot areas. In June 2008 the German Photovoltaic Exhibition 2008, Taiwan's annual production capacity of only 30MW of green energy, to be signed orders amounted to 200MW, annual production capacity of six times in 2008; Yutong energy production yet, also made orders for 60MW. Tianwei change plans to invest 3.2 billion yuan for the amorphous silicon thin film solar cell projects; LDK announced in Nanchang building the most technologically advanced and largest thin film solar cell projects; July 2008, Johnson & Johnson 25MW of amorphous silicon photovoltaic film solar cell production line officially put into operation; Gan announced the formation of a joint venture to share and build an annual capacity of 50MW target film amorphous silicon photovoltaic cell production line. Previously, Suntech, Vosges stake in Rio Nisshin energy, variety of shares and other companies have also announced its entry into the field of thin film batteries.

Many types of thin film solar cells, silicon thin film mainly contains type (amorphous silicon a-Si, microcrystalline silicon c-Si, the stack-type a-Si / c-Si, etc.) and the compound semiconductor (copper indium gallium selenide CIS / CIGS , cadmium telluride CdTe), and the new concept of dye-sensitized category.

Although the market share of thin film solar cells into less than one, the conversion efficiency, production yield, equipment costs and other problems to be overcome, however, a savings of thin film solar cell materials can be inexpensive glass, plastic or stainless steel substrate the manufacture of a large area of manufacturing, can be made flexible, easy to apply with the construction of exterior wall elasticity, etc., have been widely different solar industry, research institutions promising, will be the star of the next generation of solar photovoltaic products.

Amorphous silicon thin film solar cell technology to the largest number, while CdTe solar cell production growing the fastest. In 2006, the global top 15 solar cell manufacturers, only the top 13 of the First Solar is designed to produce cadmium telluride thin film solar cell business. The company is headquartered in Arizona, the current thin-film battery products in short supply, orders scheduled to after 2010; its stock in a year and a half up nearly 10 times, the United States enjoy the highest market valuation of the PV Unit.

First Solar gross margin above 50%, however, such a high gross margin due to the company mastered the core of cadmium telluride thin film technology, mostly to design their equipment, technology has developed, so the cost is much lower. From the cost breakdown also can verify this, although First Solar equipment depreciation for 5 years, compared with the other production Applied Materials AMAT U.S. 7 years shorter, but still higher than the unit cost of depreciation of amorphous silicon production line AMAT more than 20% lower than the AMAT of the laminated product line is 40% or more.

"First Solar thin film manufacturer for the global set a good benchmark, but it is not stunning, general business indicators easily able to match the." State Securities analyst Zhang Shuai said the new energy industry.

Experts believe that compared with the crystalline silicon cells, thin film cells is much greater potential for cost reduction, mainly due to thin film battery technology are advancing rapidly. According to "Photon" forecast, the average price of polysilicon components from the end of 2007 $ 3.92 / W in 2012 dropped to $ 2.08 / W, the average price of thin-film batteries from the current $ 2.65 / W down to 1.11 U.S. dollars / W, obvious advantages in comparison with crystalline silicon.

The decline in the use of cost, the industry estimates that by 2010 thin film solar cells will develop into a better production, market share will increase to about 12% -20% more than the total output of up to 1GW.

"Thin-film solar capacity may be the next to reach 20% of the entire solar industry, now only 7.6%, showing that among the space." Zhe Jiang Huarui Investment Management Limited Investment Manager Zhang Bin Description: thin film solar is to do, To improve performance, there are many physical methods, such as ion beam method of nanocrystalline silicon films this process, only a business in foreign countries are doing, there is no country. If the domestic enterprises in these methods above can be improved, will be very promising.

As Zhang Bin said, domestic enterprises are still technically there is a big gap. With crystalline silicon cells are very different, widely used in manufacturing thin-film battery technologies such as vacuum coating, more like the semiconductor industry, the technology directly affects the level of product yield, indirectly affect the profitability of the enterprise, which is from the major LCD Plant, IC manufacturers a huge difference in profitability can be seen by; Secondly, the thin film battery industry is a technology innovation and development of the industry, and some process route is not mature, therefore need to continue to improve from the technology point of view, thin film batteries manufacturers more than the crystalline silicon cells manufacturers need strong R & D and technical team.

In addition, thin-film battery technology development time is shorter, does not form a common technology and common equipment, the current large-size thin-film battery devices offers a turnkey project is mainly the U.S. Applied Materials (AMAT), Switzerland, Oerlikon, and three of Japan's ULVAC . Depreciation is one of the major cost thin film cells, based on current market price, with the capacity of battery production line of thin film crystalline silicon prices are 6-10 times, and in the supply of major raw materials, are international giants monopoly current high price and no protection.

The main raw materials, thin film batteries include glass (conductive glass and other glass), EVA, target, and gas. Thin film batteries on the conductive glass higher, the weaker the domestic manufacturers, the market mainly from Japan and the United States AFG divided NSG. With the outbreak of the domestic film production, tight supply is likely to occur in the pattern. Target current domestic supply is still dominated by international companies, Heraeus is the largest supplier in the domestic market share of over 60%. In addition, there is no domestic production of silane, and the limited expansion of major international manufacturers, in addition to the high demand for LCD and other silane supply side is still tight, prices remain high does not exclude the possibility to continue to rise.

Of course, from another perspective, the domestic enterprises if they can break through the bottleneck of these developments, the natural will have a strong competitive edge. Crystal silicon solar energy in the current situation of high prices, the thin film solar cells ushered in a good development opportunities, market demand for increasingly strong. But if the future price of silicon crystal solar sharp decline, thin film solar cell products in the market demand may be affected. Experts advise investors to be noted that the market risk.

Applied Materials solar power system to settle down

2010-10-07

Recently, California Governor Arnold - Arnold Schwarzenegger approved the 2MW solar power supply system installed in the Applied Materials campus in Sunnyvale, California. After inspection of the governor's thin film solar technology, including solar arrays after the application materials in the solar industry's work on the highly praised.

Schwarzenegger said, "Applied Materials is a successful example of the solar energy industry in California, proved that when the energy crisis comes, will be transformed into plants for Parking is feasible. This system, the panel jointly by the two California made of, give full play to the advantage of sunny California. "

Applied Materials president and CEO Mike Splinter said, "California has perhaps the best solar power plan, all thanks to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's original vision. Such as" millions of sun roof planning "(Million Solar Roofs Plan)," Global California Greenhouse Management Act "(AB32) (California Global Warming Solutions Act), have demonstrated its excellent leadership skills. Nevertheless, we still have a long way to go."

Applied Materials, solar power supply system is used by the SunPower Corporation Applied's Baccini? The battery system, over 7,000 chips from the combination of the composition of the panel, each generating capacity of up to 2MW. The solar system is expected to reduce annual emissions of 2,700 tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to 450 buses per year of carbon emissions.

After nearly 2 months of construction, street Yuandang Lakeshore renovation project recently completed. 560 solar lights in the Yuan Dan Lake 11 km of the road around the lake to form a beautiful landscape.

Last night around 6, with the darkening, the Yuan Dan Lake on the road around the lake 11 km 560 solar street light almost the same time successfully. Construction unit introduction, the street reconstruction project took nearly 2 months now from the West Lake Road to the east Lin Yue Yuan Dan Lake are installed on the road around the lake such a solar street light.

Each solar street lamp as a small generator, through the lights at the top of the flexible solar panels absorb sunlight and convert into electricity, and then save to the built-in batteries, powered by battery, do not need the extra power consumption .

These solar lights use LED light source is 8 watts, more than 50,000 hours life span of up to 15 years without changing the basic light source, and the brightness of this new type of light source is equivalent to about an ordinary 40-watt incandescent lamp, is suitable as a range of road night lighting.

Although the cost of solar street lights, compared with the normal high, but the installation of facilities in the future do not have to pay for electricity, operation and maintenance costs are lower, according to estimates generally used about 4 years to recover the cost of solar lights.

The successful development of new micro solar cells

2010-10-12

Xiaomei Jiang University of South Florida who led the study, she said, the battery is made of an organic polymer, in a to demonstrate their ability to detect chemical spills and other uses of micro-powered devices experiments, these batteries are connected together.

So far the smallest micro-solar cells as a more compact machine power | voltage regulator has successfully passed the test. Published in the American Institute of Physics (AIP) published the "Renewable and Sustainable Energy Magazine" (JRSE) the first issue of an article describes a battery composed of 20 such 1-inch-long arrays - each only about a battery standard 12 point font of lowercase letters "o" size 1 / 4.

Traditional solar cells - such as installation of the commercialization of solar cells on the roof - use a fragile layer of silicon computer chips are made using this material. In contrast, organic solar cells rely on a polymer, it has the same electrical properties of silicon, but can be dissolved and printed on flexible materials.

Jiang said: "I think these materials than traditional silicon materials have more potential, they can be sprayed any exposed surface of the sun - a uniform, a car or a house."

Jiang and her colleagues create 20 an array of miniature solar cells, for the one for the detection of dangerous chemicals and toxic micro-sensor power supply. This probe is called micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) device, which is made with carbon nanotubes, and has an ordinary battery-powered DC power supply was tested. Provide it with enough energy and access to a circuit, by measuring the chemicals into carbon nanotubes when the signal changes in these carbon nanotubes can be sensitive to detect specific chemical substances. Types of chemicals, precision signal changes can be distinguished.

The device requires a 15 volt power supply to work, while Jiang's solar arrays in their laboratory tests currently provide about half the voltage, that is, up to 7.8 volts. She said the next step is to optimize such devices, thereby increasing the voltage, then this miniature solar array and the combination of carbon nanotube chemical sensors. Jiang estimated end of the year, they will have the ability to make their next-generation solar arrays to supply this level.

Dutch giant Philips medical equipment industry, scientists have created a magical effect with smart pills.

The capsule-shaped pill was the size of only 11 × 26 mm, about the size of a button. But in this small capsule, even built-in microprocessor, battery, radio and local anesthetic bag. As long as the patient to swallow, it will be detected by the sensor level of acidity in patients with internal organs, Discovery to the lesion, and then if necessary, remedy.

On the electric car from Nissan to the pursuit of suspected

2010-10-17

Just a few years ago, Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn on Electric Vehicles skeptical. Now, he has become an important supporter of electric vehicles. Recently, the Los Angeles auto show Ghosn told the media that, by 2020, Nissan sold the car in the world, at least 10% rely entirely on battery-powered cars, not hybrids or extended range (hybrid + plug-in) electric vehicles like the new energy vehicles. He also plans to 2030, this proportion will increase to 50%.

Ghosn said Nissan electric vehicle (not including battery pack) price will be powered by internal combustion engines comparable to conventional cars. Car leasing the battery will take to provide to consumers, the use of cost no more than current fuel costs. Nissan will lease the battery means that the control battery recycling and reuse of links, also show that if the new car battery technology, consumers can trade-in time.

Earlier this year, the reporter when the Nissan got the news about people, the company has signed a preliminary agreement with the Israeli government plans to launch in 2011 of electric vehicles in Israel. In addition, Nissan also in Portugal and Denmark to implement the same project, expected to launch electric vehicles in both countries the same year. Ghosn, Nissan hopes the zero-emission vehicles to mass production in 2010.

Ghosn also said Nissan to develop electric cars need to meet other conditions, such as government support and infrastructure construction. Nissan can not control factors such as charging and battery replacement station construction and government purchase and use of electric vehicles to give consumers tax incentives.

What Ghosn devoted much enthusiasm for electric cars? It is understood that, in the case of the current economic slump, Nissan Although the budget cuts spending, but did not reduce the use of the electric vehicle research and development, and promotion costs. Ghosn said: "The development of electric vehicles is a long-term benefits of big business."

Solar cells information

2010-10-24

Shi Zhengrong energy richest man opened yesterday in Shanghai, "China International Industry Fair", said a large number of companies flocking to China's solar photovoltaic industry, the upstream polysilicon to the industry demand, price increases, but the result of homogeneous competition will be, Ten years later the price of silicon has shrunk by half. At the same time, he believed that the real competitor is the solar thermal power generation and other traditional industries, rather than escalating between the industry price war.

A recent European study has reported that by mid-century solar power will account for 30% of the entire energy supply, while the end of the century this ratio will rise to 70%. Shi pointed out that the solar energy industry is the future of energy development. Although the demand for solar energy grew by 37% within 5 years, but only a few years, China's solar companies have as many as 400-500. This pushed upstream polysilicon and other raw material prices.

Over the past 3 to 5 years, polysilicon prices have increased 165%, while in China, the price increases of up to 200%. 06 second and third quarters, China's solar cell to achieve the highest price in history, or 1 watt solar cell of 4 to 5 dollars. In the fourth quarter, there were significant signs of decline, a decrease of 5% to 10%. "Next year, this figure will fall by 5% to 10%." According to an analysis of 2016 1 watt solar cell will cost $ 2 less, the market will change significantly.

Shi believes that in order to make the end product price of the battery can continue to decline, the need for technological innovation and transformation equipment. The technological innovation is the use of thin-film battery, which is the original battery for 300 micron 2 to 3 microns or even thinner battery, saving cost, but also applicable to a wider range of industries. If the thin film silicon cells and the existing mature cells consistent with the conversion rate, or 15% or more, the future market will be driven thin-film batteries.

Windows 7 Tablets come later this year

2010-10-31

The Microsoft CEO calls Asus, Dell, Hanvon, Samsung, and Toshiba as a partner. The tablets will give him that, in many form factors and price ranges. Ballmer: "We really mean it seriously."

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer later this year a number of tablet computers with Windows 7 announced, designed to highlight Apple’s iPad competition. At the Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC) in Washington DC showed Windows vice president Tami Reller like a few models like Toshiba’s Libretto dual-display device and a tablet of the Chinese manufacturer Hanvon.

"Over the next few months, you will see a number of tablets that are running Windows 7. And I am sure you will find these computers impressive," said Ballmer. Among others, Dell, Asus, Samsung and Toshiba were working on Windows Tablet, which will be available in many sizes and price ranges, with or without keyboard. "We think it really seriously," affirmed the Microsoft CEO.

Hewlett-Packard (HP was missing) in Ballmer’s list of hardware partners. The name appeared only on a presentation slide. In April it was still called, HP plans to launch a Windows-called Slate Tablet on the market. After the company had taken over Palm, but it was only talk of a mobile device with Palm OS WebOS, to appear 2010th

In the Internet emerged, according to presentation slides for the upcoming Microsoft operating system Windows 8 also suitable for tablet computers. It should be run, among other things faster and reset without that personal data is lost.

Ballmer also spoke in Washington about the upcoming smartphone operating system Windows 7 Phone and how Microsoft will make amends to the ground on the competition. "We have a Windows Mobile missed virtually an entire generation. That made us almost cost one complete product cycle. But Windows Phone 7 has really got good reviews – even very good reviews. We will give you a number of Windows machines, which one with proudly carries home. "

On Toshiba Dual Display Tablet Libretto running Windows 7 (Picture: Toshiba laptopsbattery.us).

Cobalt Poll: prices will not fall below 30 USD

2010-11-10

July 1 Xinhua British Metal Bulletin reported, through its Co-producers, consumers and traders to do public opinion polling, no one thinks this year's average cobalt prices will be lower than 30 U.S. dollars / pound, while in the next 5 During the year no less than 10 dollars.

The voting is conducted in early June, including eight large companies, there are five companies that low-grade cobalt prices this year, an average of 41-50 dollars. There are three that the average price of 31-40 dollars.

But in the second half of the trend, there are differences in production, some people think that in July the average price of 41-45 dollars, a price of 46-50 dollars or even think. 5 individual cobalt price is expected in August 41-45 U.S. dollars / pound, 2 expected to be 46-50 dollars, a person that the 36-40 dollar / pound.

But by December, all of the cobalt price is expected from 26-55 dollars. Are two that the average price higher than the 51 dollars, two dollars is expected to 46-50, an estimated 41-45 dollars, two dollars is expected to 31-35, an estimated 26-30 dollars.

5 companies are expected in 2012, cobalt prices will be 11-20 U.S. dollars / pound, but no one thinks that the price will be lower. 2 is expected to average price of 21-30 dollars, an estimated average price was 40 dollars.

However, these projections have proven to cobalt in the next four years, prices will gradually decline. Cobalt prices, for the next year, and only two that cobalt prices will be 40-50 dollars, there are three that the average price is 31-40 dollars, three dollars that the average price of 21-30. For the price of cobalt in 2010, only one that cobalt prices will reach the highest point, half the people think that cobalt prices will be 21-30 dollars, two companies that low-grade cobalt prices average 11-20 dollars.

The company expects half of 2011, cobalt prices will be 11-20 dollars, three dollars that will be between 21-30.

Battery manufacturers: business requirements will postpone the date

2010-11-15

NB the second half of the battery module factory prices again 3Q results promising

Taiwan’s notebook computer (NB) NB battery module plant for the second half of the peak season shipments growth industry remains optimistic optimistic. Manufacturers pointed out that the first 3 quarters as customers new models NB shipment growth is expected to lead NB battery module shipments to follow growth, coupled with the battery core supply of raw materials will increase over the first half, and the supply of some of the mainland to join the ranks of the battery core will help NB battery module shipments increased with the peak effect of fermentation.

NB battery module factory at the same time, also said prices of raw materials for reaction, and the battery core prices in Q3, NB battery module will again hike prices to reflect rising costs, earnings for the 3rd quarter revenue growth will positive assistance, so the first three quarter of its growth still remains positive.

Season 2 is the electronics industry has always been the traditional low season, but the factory for battery modules for NB, but it is not short off-season look. Taiwan NB battery module before the two big new factory & P technology, Shunda Technology Q2 revenue performance, the new general revenue since Q2 Results of NT 7.026 billion yuan, 5.164 billion yuan over the same period in 2007 growth of 36.06 percent, in the first half revenue of 13.547 billion yuan, 9.57 billion yuan over the same period in 2007, growing 41.56%. Shunda since the end Q2 consolidated revenue 4.279 billion yuan, 3.382 billion yuan over the same period in 2007, growing 26.54%, in the first half consolidated revenues of 7.935 billion yuan, 5.604 billion yuan over the same period of 2007 grew 41.6%.

By the two main NB battery module factory in the first half revenue performance can be seen that the first half of the overall industry is not short off-season look, NB battery module factory problem or shortage of material due to the battery core is a seller’s market, performance of the economy less subject to the overall industry affected by changes, so the second half of season for the performance of companies is a positive optimism.

NB battery module factory said that as the cell gap is not effective in improving core supplier, now looking for lithium polymer batteries and battery core factory continental alternative to the second half of the supply will gradually increase to alleviate the shortage of battery core supply, the next half of the battery core supply gap will be minimally increased demand due to market expansion, growth for the first three quarters of a positive performance to help enable a new general, Shunda, Jia 100 Yu have that effect the second half of season fermentation quite worth the wait.

In addition to the 2008 NB shipment growth is expected to reach 3 percent, also the low prevalence of driving industry growth NB another important factor. NB battery module plant, said the second half of NB international companies launched new models, plus a number of companies to launch low-cost NB ranks, making the second half of its growth will have good performance, estimated in August, a formal step in September into the peak shipping season, when the results will have a more significant outbreak of the growth of the second half of the overall industry growth of NB cell modules will be an optimistic outlook.

Wuhan High-tech industry will help “turn around gorgeous.” Wuhan Science and Technology Bureau said yesterday, the city will strive to build eight high-tech industrial chain, promoting Wuhan “social” construction and industrial restructuring.

Solar energy industry chain – in solar research and development, by Wuhan University, “silicon-based solar cells,” and developed by Huazhong University of Science and Technology “space with high efficiency silicon solar cells”, “amorphous silicon thin film solar cell”, its technical performance has reached international advanced and leading domestic level. Jia Wei Technologies is currently producing large-scale solar energy industry, one of the Nisshin technology “urban solar lighting system” in volume sales and demonstration projects in the nation the forefront.

Electric vehicle industry chain – Wuhan in hybrid electric vehicle research and development, industrialization and Demonstration achieved obvious results. Currently, the city has invested a total of 227 electric light, line 43, bus 50, three car demonstration runs.

Fuel cell industry chain – R & D in hydrogen battery, the key support “composite proton exchange membrane” project; in the multi-fuel cell power source, multi-purpose battery products, Yintai Technology, Wuhan university R & D and industrialization progress. LED and photovoltaic components industry chain – focus on supporting high-power LED chips, LED lamps, miner’s lamp and other industrial projects.

New energy industry chain – focus on building a biogas power generation technology demonstration projects. In terms of biodiesel, has developed a swill oil and drain oil, waste oil recovery technology.

Water pollution control and water equipment industry chain – relying on the Institute of Hydrobiology, Wuhan University and other universities, and Kaidi Water Services and other key enterprises, the formation of water pollution control, water environment and water treatment equipment manufacturing industry chain. RFID (radio frequency identification) industry chain – mainly depends Huazhong University of Science and other units, and strive to break through the key RFID technology, to promote the formation of a relatively complete industrial chain.

Building energy chain – by Tuosaibosi Company, Wuhan University of Technology and other units, to promote the formation of energy-saving building integrated industrial chain.

NanoMarkets forecast: Thin film solar cell sales in 2015 to more than 20 billion U.S. dollars

According to the U.S. NanoMarkets forecasts, thin film solar generating capacity by 2015 will reach 26GW, sales of more than 20 billion U.S. dollars. The main reasons for growth, the popularity of a variety of thin film solar cells, and the crystallization of silicon than the current mainstream solar cell, low cost, easy to bend, easy to manufacture thin-film solar cells appear. The company expects solar cell power generation by 2015, more than half will come from the thin film solar cells.

Low-cost thin film solar cells, light weight and flexible floor in the creation, more and more popular in residential areas. Thin film solar cell market is expected to house the year 2015 will grow to 2.3 billion.

From the type of view, is expected to CdTe (cadmium telluride) thin film solar cell market will continue to grow sales in the market in 2015 will reach 8.7 billion U.S. dollars. CdTe semiconductor with optical absorption coefficient and the advantages of a higher band gap. In addition, the company explained that previously worried about the impact on the environment smaller.

CIS / CIGS solar cells despite high prices, manufacturing problems, but in the field of thin film solar cells still maintained a clear advantage. NanoMarkets expects the market sales by 2015, nearly 50 billion dollars.

Mini electric cars come out

2010-12-01

Reporters in Nanjing Xin Jie Kou, first entered the MTR station, I suddenly saw a group of people around the platform, squeeze over to see a pretty girl is pushing the accompanying mini-electric car to attract interest. Soon, subway stop, she gently carry her to enter the subway car. Since it is electric cars that the battery has gone wrong? Some people saw a long time, but could not find. Pointing to the main bar girls car, said: "Here." Originally it was installed inside. Can not see, only the cell phone the size of the volume. Out of the subway station, the girl free and easy to step onto the truck will be gone.

Found in the Investment Building, Zhongshan South Road, the re-launch of this car through the company, the company technical department engineer, said gold is the company's newly developed high-technology products, high strength aluminum alloy air welding, common materials strength is 7 times can load 80 kg, a charge can run more than 30 km. Ensure that the battery capacity consistent with white-collar working-class, the students travel to work needs. Carry her vehicle was a moment, stunned and mouth open Pakistan - a hand gently on carry her up!

City suffered the pain of the people traveling car expressed an unprecedented enthusiasm. Try to ride the spot required. Recanalization sales staff to explain the operation issues with enthusiasm, was also riding in a circle, with the uniform rotation control handle, light red light flash, the car turned up on smooth, feels really great.

Metalworking excited to introduce the traditional lead-acid battery electric bicycle generally in the 14-19 kg weight, heavy battery to allow more users have suffered the strain of the upper and lower floors suffered charge. Such a small pocket electric bike is a real portable means of transport. It can be folded into the subway, so you can easily shuttle between the city and can be placed in the trunk of a taxi and bus, to facilitate travel carrying purposes. And can you happen, you can gently mention stairs or the elevator, on the corner of the balcony or living room can be, do not have to worry about stolen away.

Metalworking frustrating introduction to the company in research and development process, can be said to have gone through difficulties. The first generation of products off the assembly line last year, R & D personnel in the light of the pursuit vehicle, with a disc brush motor, although the car lighter, but the electrical properties of unstable and battery power is very small, it continues the course just over 10 km . Travel far to meet the short-term needs. Although the second generation of the power increase, but the motor still does not improve, leading to practical function of product affected. R & D group of company leaders and decision of the final study: self-developed machine one brushless wheel motor. And again increasing the battery power. Brake system of the body and re-set, light open mold on the cost of millions. One-year-old, has finally successfully developed. Now in volume production market.

Traditional environmental pollution battery electric cars much, but the key solution is to upgrade the battery core technology. In China, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Haikou, Changzhou all electric vehicles were introduced road against local regulations, medium and small cities across the country will be divided into different time periods the road against traditional electric cars. Lead-acid battery electric vehicles out of the market is a foregone conclusion. Lithium was recognized green product, it does not contain any heavy metals, the production process does not use water, the production of exhaust all subject to recycling, raw materials and lithium carbon-based. Not produce solid pollution. So, pay attention to environmental protection in Western countries to encourage green energy, electric bicycles are powered by lithium. Seen in this light, traditional electric cars will be replaced by lithium micro-electric vehicles.

Reperfusion produced lithium micro-battery-driven electric vehicles using lithium, the battery does not contain such as cadmium, lead, mercury and harmful metals in the manufacture and use and give up no environmental pollution. Under the frame containing the lithium battery, battery back into the big bar, you can directly plug the charger, front wheel hub brake with brake, rear brake only to establish security and stability. With the folding pedal device for a long time people in recreational sport and static electricity is insufficient long-range riding purposes. Products through national technical supervision, strict testing quality and safety testing, quality inspection report to obtain authority. Marked reperfusion lithium micro-electric vehicles based on traditional electric cars, find the quality of the cross point, the support points led the company in Nanjing and then rose through the ranks to the high-tech enterprises, the technology has been far ahead in the international.

Green electric vehicles is considered to occupy the 21st century dominance of public transport vehicles is an indisputable fact. As a revolutionary high-performance environmentally friendly electric vehicles on behalf of progress - and then through the emergence of lithium micro car, the light effort, environmental protection, energy conservation, the characteristics of affordable, very popular among consumers, will be the city's new transportation highlights. Lithium-power micro-electric vehicles as a new industry is naturally enticing, full of hope and sunrise. In the domestic market, lithium micro-car market is in a period, in broad consumer market with unlimited number of cities, is still hard to find any sign of it. Market opportunities will be unlimited blank.

Recanalization lithium micro-car from the product launch date, several hundred times the daily volume of telephone counseling, more discerning business can not wait, have come glimpse of lithium micro-electric vehicles for hosting the Games, and on-site contract. At the same time the company introduced a number of further support through measures to ensure the correct order and sales agents throughout the rapid expansion of the market.

Following a motorcycle, after the glory of traditional electric car industry a golden opportunity, lithium micro-electric car will travel to the future of a revolutionary storm off the field.

Electronic Charger mandatory inspection

2010-12-16

According to Central News Agency reported on August 10 in Taipei, with the information and electronic technology development, external power supply, power adapter increasingly wide range of applications, in order to ensure the safe use of the Bureau of Standards Ministry of Economic Affairs plans to amend various types of power supply test, and international standards, while starting in 2010 Chargers should be included in the electronic test range facilities.

Bureau of Standards, said that at present included in the project should be applied to test the power supply there are three types of information were used in class, audio-visual commodities of the power source, and the general use of the power adapter. With advances in technology in recent years, power supply, adapter more wide range of applications, Ministry of Economic Affairs decided to support the international trend, to amend the relevant standards.

Bureau of Standards, planning to expand the power supply range of products check out, in addition to the general universal than for indoor lighting, for information, audio-visual, household appliances, power supply of goods is expected to have from 2010 into the test.

In addition, currently on the market common electronic charger, not included in the scope of inspection should be implemented, but the product types and electrical specifications and the power supply very similar to the use of security deserve attention, the Bureau of Standards decided to cf electronic power supply charger device, be forced out in the 2010 inspection.

Recently, Jiangxi Province's first solar cell production line in Xinyu City Yushui industrial base was officially put under the village. This article production line product conversion efficiency up to 16.6%, to reach the domestic advanced level, to fill the province of crystalline silicon solar cell industry production in the blank.

The project by the river Desiree Crystal Solar Technology Co., Ltd. invested 5 billion yuan organization, production capacity of 1,000 megawatts, is currently the best performance of solar cell products, best quality, manufacturing technology and equipment mature high-tech project. Since the project started this year, after six months of construction, the first production line equipment installation, etc. ready to officially put into operation. Under the current design capacity, this year will reach 100 MW of crystalline silicon solar cell module production, sales income will be 3.0 billion.

To help consumers choose the brand range of batteries suitable products, Sichuan Province, consumer protection committee recently selected cells were compared with 7 tests and publish the results yesterday. The comparative test samples, alkaline and carbon zinc batteries each 6, the battery nominal trademarks including Panasonic, never prepared, Changhong, Nanfu, Energizer, etc.. Samples from the Sheng Xiaowei field staff in retail prices for Chengdu, Chengdu, quality inspection by the hospital for testing. Sheng Xiaowei said that the purchase of this comparative test samples only responsible for and does not refer to any of the same model or different brand models.

In a test of carbon-zinc batteries, the maximum discharge time is 2.94 hours, a minimum of 2.20 hours, the unit currency (every dollar) minimum average discharge time of view, nominal production units for the last Haide Lang Battery Co., Ltd. can produce "sub-era of high-energy carbon-zinc batteries" to 6.590 hours / per row in the first. Alkaline batteries, in the capacity size, the "Duracell alkaline batteries" to 7.80 hours with the first, the cost is, "mercury-free alkaline batteries Nanfu" ranked first.

In the Comprehensive Assessment, "Preparation of high-power battery Wing" and "Matsushita Battery (blue) 7" (Nominal sample name) to units of currency (each element) the minimum average discharge time of 3.062 hours and 3.063 hours breakdown of the first and last second.

Comparison test also tested the performance of Deng leakage resistance, the results show that on the market for good quality batteries on the 7th, Duneng satisfy the national standard, but there are some problems if the shelf life of Qi Zhi marked with closing deadlines, lack of marked the year of manufacture. Sheng Xiaowei relevant responsible person said, as time changes, battery capacity is gradually decreased, hoped that the competent departments Size Criteria, Shixiaofeizhe can clearly Lejie battery production date.

Lenovo ThinkPad T61 Review, Via: laptopsbattery.us blog

2010-12-23

Important to note is that this review covers the 14.1″ widescreen version of the T61 series. As with any laptop model series, there are going to be widely varying configurations you can choose that will greatly affect system performance.

The good: Internal roll cage protects LCD; 802.11n Wi-Fi for faster wireless throughput; very small A/C adaptor adds little to overall travel weight; Intel's Active Management Technology provides remote support.

The bottom line: Lenovo's 14-inch ThinkPad T61 shaves a few millimeters off the company's more mainstream R-series laptops, but still boasts the same, solid ThinkPad DNA along with IT-friendly features by way of Intel's new Centrino Pro platform.

The ThinkPad T61 is a premium product with a durable build, it is geared towards business users or simply those willing to pay a bit more to get something that won't fall apart after 1-year of use. For somebody that travels a lot or relies on their notebook to earn a livelihood, the build and reliability factor is probably more important than having the latest and greatest components inside.

The keyboard remains the same between the T61 and T60 — meaning it's once again excellent. The only difference is that now there's more room on the keyboard side areas since the notebook body is wider, the speakers have been relocated to this extra real estate. The keyboard is spill proof and has two drain holes to make sure if you do happen to spill your morning Starbucks coffee, the liquid is carried away from sensitive components and out through the bottom of the notebook.

The hard drive is protected within the magnesium roll cage and shock mounted. Even if your T61 is dropped the included Active Protection System (APS) software will work with the on board accelerometer to detect a fall situation and end hard drive activity to prevent data loss.

The new widescreen format screen for the 14.1″ T-series is either good, bad or somewhere in between depending on your personal preference. Lenovo will try and convince you widescreen offers more screen real estate and so it's better, the reality is the guys making the LCD screens are forcing it down the throats of the PC manufacturers because it's cheaper to make widescreen LCDs.

The particular screen I got is a WXGA+ resolution (1440 x 900). It provides easy viewing and you can fit a good amount on the screen, so no complaints on that front. The screen is crisp and there are no issues with graininess. The matte finish ensures there's little to no glare in office lighting situations.

The ThinkPad T61 now uses the Intel Centrino Duo (Santa Rosa) platform. You get a faster processor front side bus (800MHz), more processor cache (4MB) and an improved integrated graphics solution in the form of the Intel X3100. If all that talk is nonsense to you, then suffice it to say the T61 offers newer and better processing components than the T60. Will this performance be perceivable in helping to run MS Word faster? No of course not, but certain processor intensive tasks such as encoding video will be faster. And even if you won't be utilizing every ounce of processing power, just knowing the processor is faster and you're on top of the game is enough to make people like myself want to buy it.

One thing that's always a concern with a new platform is battery life. Reading the first reviews that came out about the T61 sounded like gloom and doom with reports of 2 hour battery life. It seems most of the initial reviews were done using very power hungry dedicated graphics solutions and with a 4-cell battery.

I had the opportunity to test a larger 6-cell battery on an integrated graphics system, and got 3 hours and 41 minutes of battery life under what I would deem normal usage. I was using the T61 with screen brightness set to half or lower, Vista battery optimized setting, wireless off to get this number. In a torture test, I set the screen brightness to top level, put in a DVD (Stargate) and played it until the battery hit 5% and the PC went to sleep – which happened after exactly 2 hours 15 minutes. I wouldn't call that bad, it'll get you through most movies.

The downside of a 6-cell battery is that it sticks out of the back (see pics) and weighs more, but I'm always be willing to carry a bit more weight for an extra hour of battery life. A positive comment that should be made is the power adapter is nice and small, it's actually the same size as the X60 ultraportable series adapter.

The ThinkPad T-series hasn't changed too much over time, and that's a good thing, there's no use changing something that's just right. The ThinkPad keyboard is one of, if not the best, notebook keyboards out there. There's zero flex, every key feels individual, every key has great travel/feedback and the keyboard is full-size.

The T61 has a pointing stick, I love using this and find it much easier than the provided touchpad — it makes it so you can move the cursor around the screen without having to lift your hand from the keys, a much faster and easier to control style of input. But the great thing is that if the pointing stick isn't your cup of tea then you've got the touchpad as well.

The ThinkPad T61 uses the Intel 4965 wireless chip that offers 802.11 a/b/g/n wireless reception. All of your bases are covered there, and the greater range 802.11n offers is on the table if you have an 802.11n router. The range of the ThinkPad is theoretically greater now that the lid material has changed to plastic too. The antenna is run up through the lid for better reception you see, and the new lid material allows radio waves to reach the antenna more easily. I was only able to test up to 100-feet away from my NetGear WGR614 802.11g wireless router, which I despise for its bad performance and tendency to drop connections, but the T61 worked just fine with it and I never suffered a connection drop and throughput was consistently good.

Better Place electric car developed gas station

2010-12-23

The technology company Better Place has developed an innovative gas station for electric cars and in the Japanese city of Yokohama to the public. It is at the gas station for a battery exchange station which allows the rapid exchange of empty batteries, and therefore brings a high level of time savings. The battery change is to last only two minutes and was the prototype of the changing station demonstrates impressive. The battery is automatically changed and means a great deal of time in comparison to the hours of charging power to a power outlet. The changing station has been built on a simple principle. The electric vehicle is traveling on a bridge on the rails there are two sleds. The first carriage is the Swap of the empty battery charge and solve the battery holder. After the battery is moved to a charging station. The second sled at the same time supplies the electric car with a full battery.

Pitching is an area as required for a normal gas station but it is a large stock of adequate size for the charged battery and the recharging required. The concept aims Better Place to an international recognition and success of electric cars. The limited scope could be solved with comprehensive travel and recharge the current vehicles longer distances. The manufacturer has with the countries of Denmark, Israel, California and other states and regions have already agreed partnerships.

In the framework of cooperation to the charging stations are built across the country. The gas station is to purchase their electricity to recharge the batteries from renewable energy sources and therefore has solar panels on the roof. There currently is not known whether the charging system will prevail at all because that it must be accepted by car manufacturers. Up to now the only car company Renault-Nissan as a partner. The automakers hope for a development of current battery technology which the problem of limited coverage is to be solved.

The medium-sized enterprises Mennekes has worked for a year to develop a system which consists of a charging socket and charger. The system is to combine electric cars with charging stations. By charging electric vehicles can refuel not only with new energy but it is also an accounting of energy consumption. The innovative charging system has already achieved a high degree, as Chancellor Angela Merkel and the CEO of RWE and Daimler could photograph it.

In Berlin and Aachen there Mennekes supported pilot projects launched with the sophisticated innovative Ladesteckersystem. It has been submitted for standardization and will be according to the ideas of the family business into a global standard. The German and European body behind the development of charging system.

Against the Chargers from Israel and Japan have also been submitted for standardization must Mennekes now claim. According to company president Walter Mennekes to the Handelsblatt (Online edition 19.05.2009) system that is superior to the other two loading systems because the charge is four times faster. In the autumn of this year decided that Stromladesystem is to become the world standard. If the Mennekes system enforces this means for the company from the Sauerland a new multimillion dollar market as electric cars in the coming years will grow in importance.

China Solar Battery Information

2010-12-26

Returned from Spain to develop solar energy, general manager of Caijin Yao Tong Yi, said the client benefits through 2009, demand remains strong orders, orders have already more than 300 megawatts (MWp) of the output target, the current customer is still very evenly distributed around the world in 2009 the main material in the feed plant M. Setek estimates will increase, even if the solar cell contract prices may drop 5 to 10% on, but it will not affect the gross margin, which appears to interact with clients from the exhibition, amorphous silicon thin film is still demand the highest order.

Caijin Yao pointed out that the exhibition can smell the Spanish solar PV market in 2009, dynamic economy, order needs strength unabated, benefits through 2009, the output target of 240 ~ 300MWp, orders for long-term contracts are currently in the hands of over 300MWp, in Spain, the impact of subsidies to reduce cost, economy and the situation with our customers, the 2009 contract price forecast down 5 to 10%.

However, there is not a real price, mainly to observe the upstream material sources in Spain after the change in subsidies to make further Jueding; In addition, different from the different customer needs, a figure some solar cell template (BIPV) or the layout of large power customers strong customers, their profits from subsidies on the influence on the sensitivity of prices is not high, is still mainly focused on pick up will not be interrupted, so many are the old customers to increase the previously agreed order requirements volume.

Caijin Yao said that in 2008 the amorphous silicon thin film solar orders for special flourishes film can be seen from the market growth can be expected, although some believe that in 2010 only 20 gigawatts of film market, but there are a lot of the current global production capacity of the industry who are in 10 million in the expansion of a single tile, and then worried that an oversupply concerns.

The industry needs to evaluate from several points, including solar power is achieved with power costs in advance rather (Grid Parity) of the state, once reached, can imagine the explosive demand, not according to these assessments to measure the development of the next film, In addition, the thin film solar is the most likely reach Grid Parity persons, because it is not the lack of uncertain factors such as material source. Finally, many people still dare not count on the amorphous silicon film production, but film makers from the United States already output First Solar view of the fact is not necessary to worry about other film production.

Jing Xu Xiulan general manager, said Sino-US and U.S. grain in 2008 will be the message of transparency, so I do not rule out the arrangements for public and media interaction, including the American grain in 2008 in the hands of long-term contract order hold, reinvestment, etc. Japan Clean Venture 21 , and 1,2-American Crystal plans to raise factory capacity and so on, are expected in the near future for further instructions.

The building of a wall made of a special "solar wall", the light energy into electricity, the buildings do not need to re-use ordinary electricity, not only energy conservation, environmental protection, new energy Co., Ltd. Henan Argus described Dr. Zhao Yihui blueprint, one year after the will become a reality in Zhengzhou. Yesterday, the thin film solar cell project, the formal foundation in high-tech development zone.

It is understood that thin film solar technology is a method of solar power, solar photovoltaic technology is a second-generation technology. Thin film solar cell weak light is good, in the case of weak light sooner or later, power is better than crystalline silicon cells, which combined with the exterior walls, through the collection of solar radiation energy to heat water or air to produce power with the battery, constitute Wall solar power generation system. Thin film solar cell power generation in foreign countries is already a mature technology, new technology by the film surface covered with corn-like micron particles, in order to reduce reflection of sunlight and improve means of light absorption rate has greatly improved the solar cell efficiency and reduce costs.

"Around this time next year, the product can be completely off the assembly line." New Energy Co., Ltd. Henan Argus CEO Zhaoyi Hui said that the first phase investment of about 60 million U.S. dollars of the 30-megawatt thin film solar cell production line, the product will mainly exported to Europe market. The Zhengzhou will be proximity and easier, will greatly accelerate the BIPV, roofing and photovoltaic power generation systems and power station in the local popularization.

Supercapacitor industry market prospects (a)

2011-01-03

Supercapacitor energy storage device as a new, significant features and advantages, can replace traditional batteries in some areas, in the energy saving is increasingly becoming the subject today, its application has drawn increasing attention around the world.

United States, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, South Korea, France, some companies with many years of research and development and technology accumulation, is currently leading the

Domestic R & D in high-capacity supercapacitor more than 50 manufacturers, to mass production and to achieve a practical level more than 10 manufacturers only

The industrialization of the super capacitor, the United States, Japan, Russia, Switzerland, South Korea, France, some companies with many years of research and development and technology accumulation, the current leader. Such as the United States, Maxwel, Japan, Nec, Panasonic, Tokin and Russia Econd companies, these companies now occupy most of the global market. The main production enterprises abroad: the United States Maxwell company, Russia's Econd company, Elit, Japan's Elna Company, Panasonic Corporation, Nec-Tokin Corporation, South Korea's Ness companies, Korchip company, Nuintek companies.

United States, Japan, Korea and other countries have been developing high power and high specific energy than the super-capacitors. In the study of super-capacitors, are developing a lot of work in a variety of electrolytes have a higher energy than the electrode material. The material currently used in supercapacitors are carbon-based materials, metal oxides and hydrates the three materials and conductive polymer materials.

An early start in foreign research supercapacitor technology is relatively mature. They are the super-capacitors as a national key research projects and development projects, recent and proposed long-term development plans. Esma Russia is the production of inorganic hybrid supercapacitor representatives, however, Esma currently there is no scale production capacity. Moreover, Russia's Elit company, Saft France, the United States in the Cooper company, Japan's Nec and Panasonic have also invested huge capital for high-capacity supercapacitor of large-scale production.

In 2007, the global scale of the industry coin super capacitor is 10.2 billion U.S. dollars, convoluted and large industrial scale supercapacitor 34.8 billion U.S. dollars, the total size of super-capacitor industry 4.5 billion U.S. dollars, up 45%; projected 2008 global button-type industrial scale supercapacitor 15.3 billion, convoluted and large industrial scale supercapacitor 52.2 billion U.S. dollars, the total size of super-capacitor industry was 67.5 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 50%.

In recent years, as optimistic about the prospects for broad application in this area, some Chinese companies have begun to actively get involved in this industry, and already have a certain amount of technical strength and industrial capacity.

Domestic R & D in high-capacity supercapacitor more than 50 manufacturers, however, to mass production and reach a practical level more than 10 manufacturers only. Haiao Wei Technology Development Co., Ltd. on the development of the "car with super capacitors" in the technology is more advanced. Compared with foreign manufacturers products, products with similar foreign products Aowei electrical and physical properties are close to some of the performance has more than similar foreign products. Overall, the company's products have reached international advanced level of similar products.

Currently, most domestic manufacturers produce liquid double layer capacitors, it is important enterprises in Jinzhou Fu Chen, the Beijing Star set, a dozen companies on the Hai Aowei. Jinzhou Fu Chen is the largest professional manufacturer of super-capacitors, the main production type and winding button supercapacitor. Beijing set to produce Star convoluted and large capacitors.

As the capacitor has a super fast charge and discharge, environmental pollution, long cycle life, etc., have to become a new type of green energy in this century

The current demand of the Chinese market up to 21.5 million years, about 120 million watts, and every year the growth rate of about 50%

21st century, with global warming, lack of resources, countries and regions all over the world are developing new green energy sources, while the super-capacitor materials used in production is generally green. Therefore, the super-capacitor as a key development in this century one of the new storage products, is more and more countries and companies competing to develop and produce. 10 years ago, the super capacitor can only sell a few each year the number, and the price is very expensive, about $ 1 -2 USD / Farah, now, the super capacitor has been used as a standard product in large quantities supplied to the market, prices are significantly lower, on average 0.01 USD -0.02 USD / Farah.

Three-phase energy meter multi-function high-end data storage is greater than the ordinary power meter, and the traditional lithium batteries power the situation did not occur, resulting in a super-capacitor on the power meter applications.

Allegedly, the Chinese-made super capacitor has occupied 60% -70% of market share.

In addition, the country also has several other super-capacitor suppliers, such as the huge volume of new energy companies in Harbin and so on, these companies are setting up the last two years, and in their respective areas of expertise for product development or product marketing. Meanwhile, the domestic Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Henan, Shaanxi and Tianjin and other cities have also introduced policies to support the provinces and enterprises to actively enter the super-capacitor energy storage components such emerging markets such as China, Jiangxi Province, one hundred electronic components electronic letter of the company is also seeking partners to jointly carry out the production of super-capacitors.

In 2005, the total size of China's super-capacitor industry reached 3.9 billion in 2004, 57.2% of 2.48 billion yuan, of which, button supercapacitors 4000 million, convoluted and large super-capacitors is 3.5 million; 2006 Industry total size of 5.7 billion yuan, up 46.2% growth rate, which, button supercapacitor market of 9000 million, convoluted and large super-capacitors of 4.8 billion; the total size of industry in 2007 reached 860 million yuan, increasing Speed up to 50%, of which, button supercapacitor market of 1.4 billion, convoluted and large super-capacitors is 7.2 billion; the total size of 2008 is expected to reach 1.33 billion industry, the growth rate up to 55%, of which , Button-type supercapacitor market reach 210 million yuan, winding type and size of a large super-capacitors of up to 1.12 billion market.

As new companies continue to emerge, supercapacitors are also large-scale application in China is coming. Domestic suppliers are active in different ways to deal with the problems faced by large-scale application.

Improve product safety for suppliers attention. Especially in the high-power applications, a domestic company's top super-capacitors that in security issues, although the super-capacitor internal short circuit can occur, but he pointed out that as long as each is equipped with super-capacitor circuit management system, can be timely identify problems and solve the problem.

Super-capacitors in power applications to overcome the one-time issue of high input costs, domestic suppliers are also active efforts to improve their cost performance. To lead-acid batteries, for example, generally charge and discharge current 5000, but the super capacitor charge and discharge times in theory up to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of times, the actual level, the domestic manufacturers in the technology of super Hai Aowei capacitor can charge and discharge have been 20,000 times. Thus, if the super-capacitor battery service life is 4-5 times the price of its 3 times only, then it can be demonstrated to be more cost-effective competitive advantage.

Sony a (alpha) DSLR-A350 Camera Review, via digitalcamerabattery.us blog

2011-01-09

Sony plans to aggressively attack the market with a number of new DSLR SLR cameras is no secret. We had the opportunity to get their hands on the new Alfa 350 and Alfa 200’s again. Here are our first impressions of this very close family, including Sony’s interesting solution to the problem of prolonged exposure time cycle with Live View.

The Sony Alpha A350 offers new technology that makes images faster, easier and more familiar for users of digital SLR cameras for the first time. "According to the press release from Sony.

Note: Most of our findings are also applicable to the Sony Alpha DSLR-A300, also presented at the PMA and is essentially a version of 10-megapixel sensor of the Sony A350, with a lower price.

As for what Sony is promoting the main event of the Sony Alpha DSLR-A350 digital, including;

The Sony A350 features a new 14.2 megapixel sensor. There is a multiplier of 1.5 x focal length lens is used to obtain the equivalent field of view (FOV) in 35mm terms. Sony Alpha A350 SLR sweet with DT 18-70mm aperture-priority, that large JPEG, the size of 18 mm, 1 / 50 sec at f/5.6, ISO 200, WB Fluorescent central point cut from the lens.

The Alpha DSLR-A350 features a 14.2 megapixel CCD sensor, Live View, a vertical swivel screen, and like all Alpha DSLR-integrated sports anti-shake sensor offset establishments participating in the work aimed to set. It’s just the house or as a kit with the lens Sony DT 18-70mm.

Interestingly, this is not the main sensor, Live View facilities includes, but integrates a secondary sensor in the viewfinder. Sony has broken the traditional Live View systems in the setting of additional sensor in the viewfinder with a tilt mechanism that directs the light is, either through traditional eye. The advantage is not related to the conventional AF in Live View-bypass, so that the autofocus-A350 as fast as you normally would, without interruption or noise.

Making life even more useful view is that a retractable screen can be tilted vertically to allow wide-angle high or low easily. The A350’s screen can not turn the page, or turn on the face, but still a very flexible function.

Like all Alpha DSLRs, the sensor is located on the main platform for moving a mounted adjustable to compensate for camera shake. You do not see the effect on the viewer - or in Live View - but it gets to work with everyone who is going. This not only saves money, it means that you are the stabilization of the lenses that most manufacturers are not suitable as a benefit stabilization system as a standard 50 mm models.

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"Quality Heibang champion"

2011-01-09

Edible oil to replace mobile phones and phone batteries to become "quality Heibang champion"

Municipal Quality Supervision Bureau yesterday announced the "12365" Quality Complaint Reporting Centre in January and received the public to report complaints situation. Statistics show the city in January of food quality complaints, "jumping" the first, up to 244, an increase of 517.6%, growth of 7 times.

Person in charge of quality supervision departments, "12365" Complaint Reporting Centre in January 5205 a total answer the phone for customer service contact 4544, received 547 complaints, received 114 reports. Month to resolve product quality complaints 511 products related to the amount of 1.1341 million yuan for 172,000 yuan economic losses of consumers, the quality of complaints resolved was 93%.

Data show that the city's product quality complaints last month, in December last year increased by 59.9%. Sort complained top six product categories were food, office communications products, textile products, household appliances, electrical products and building materials. These six products, in addition to the sharp rise in food complaints, the complaints of other products have different degrees of decline in volume, and electrical products and building materials fell by more than 80%.

As production of media exposure the city four sesame peanut blend oil production beyond the scope of use of food additives, consumers are asked to solve the problem returns to buy food, edible oil to replace mobile phones and phone batteries to board the "Heibang" first name. Mobile phones and phone batteries, notebook computers, televisions, clothing Knitting & Textile Products sub-column "Heibang" at 2-5. It is noteworthy that, washing machines and food processing products increased by a chain-fold, respectively, quality control, a downward trend.

Fifteen to the point lanterns. Chinese New Year firecrackers has not receded on the occasion, the traditional Lantern Festival has arrived. Yesterday, on the various markets in the urban areas reporter saw a variety of lanterns are very hot.

To sell in the temple lanterns Yuhuangding Miss Guo told reporters that nowadays it is the peak sales of lanterns, many people also bought a lantern as a present gift friends and family, and some booth when passing children, "walk," and parents have to beg to buy a lantern: "price is not high, from 5 yuan to 25 per month, the public can accept, sell special fire." Guo said.

It is understood that, nowadays, the family buy the lanterns to install the battery of the most popular, convenient and secure, while candle or install a light bulb is less. This reporter saw a lantern with antique lanterns battery type, and an ox, tiger, lion and other animal-based, and the ancient myth of the Monkey King characters and robots, and so forth.

Lenovo Laptop Review Thinkpad T61, VIA lenovo-batteries.com blog

2011-01-17

If the specifications leaked a few days ago you had not been convinced of all, Lenovo has taken a step forward, giving full details of its T61 official.

The T61, supposedly the "tougher Thinkpad, cool and quiet of all time, riding a magnesium alloy casing and incorporates an improved cooling system as well as its Ultra Connect II wireless connectivity, and a lenovo thinkpad t61 battery with 15% over time thanks to the Battery Stretch control. Beyond that, you’ll find a WXGA +, a wide range of Core 2 Duo processors to choose, up to 160 GB hard drive running at 5400 RPM (or 100 GB at 7,200 rpm), NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M with 128MB memory, an optional Blu-ray drive, gigabit Ethernet jack, Bluetooth, WWAN connectivity via 802.11a/b/g/n to EV-DO or HSDPA if you wish. Not bad, eh? There is also an integrated camera, card reader and four in an XP or Vista, as you like, the choice being considered briefly if you wish to buy a launch, as it will go on sale this month at a price of 1,399 dollars (for the U.S., we have not seen the European prices.)

More: Ergonomics and successful finish, removable DVD drive two seconds, quiet, about heat stroke, quality of reception Wi-Fi, integrated keyboard tray.

Less: Talk a little short for a laptop pro austere design faithful to the tradition Thinkpad, limited viewing angle, weight and size, screen offset to the right of the center of the PC

True to the tradition of the ThinkPad, the Lenovo T61 is a professional tool in its design, its finish, its staffing software or ergonomics. Strong and powerful, he fishes with a slight lack of versatility, especially on gaming applications and entertainment in multi-tasking. A fault quickly forgiven … is above all a Thinkpad!

Lenovo introduced two new ThinkPad notebooks with 14.1 inch wide-format screens - T61 and R61. In the R series wide-format model Appeared for the first time. In the series of large format R model appeared for the first time. Those notebooks are made on the basis of Intel Centrino Pro and Intel Centrino Duo Platforms, Improved They Are Equipped with cooling systems and support with wireless network connection to connect the ultra II. Those scraps are based on Intel Centrino for and Intel Centrino Duo platform, which are equipped with improved cooling systems and a wireless network connection with support of the ultra connect II. According To Lenovo, ThinkPad T61 and R61 are the most durable, cold and quiet ThinkPad models. According to Lenovo, ThinkPad T61 and R61 are the most durable, cold and quiet ThinkPad models.

According to the evaluation of the company, the use of technology in the top cover roll cage covered laptop (check the second picture) strengthening the protection of the screen of a 25% decrease compared to previous ThinkPad models damage. Ensure Supplemental protection is activated by the system protection Impacts Which absorbs energy. Supplemental protection is ensured by the active protection system which absorbs impact energy.

Notebooks are equipped with means for wireless connection: WWAN1 (in some version ThinkPad T61), WLAN 802.11n, Gigabit Ethernet, Bluetooth and modem.

The new cooling system used inn the notebooks help reduce the temperature of 10c and noise level by three decibels compared to previous ThinkPad models.

From other special features of these new models we can observe the presence of dactyloscopic sensors, encryption of hard disks, devices for memory cards and web cameras (available on ThinkPad R61).

Lenovo introduced simultaneously with Lenovo 3000 N200 15.4-inch wide format display, WLAN 802.11n technology adapters, 10/100 Ethernet and Bluetooth. Depending on version, this notebook Can Have the Intel Integrated graphic system or discrete NVIDIA video card. Depending on the version, this notebook can have the Intel integrated graphics system or discrete NVIDIA video card.

Soos elke ThinkPad, die T.61 is ‘n notebook toegewyde professionals, roeping verraai deur sekere besonderhede, byvoorbeeld die beskerming van harde skyf ineenstort of die extractor vinnige DVD-eenheid. Sy raam is vaste magnesium en sy mors-bestand sleutelbord splat, maar versigtig wees om nie ‘n vegter. Ditto vir die gebruik, speel, is veral die mees kragtige 3D-en multimedia-programme hardloop, maar het gou vind hulle grense, in teenstelling met kantoor take.

Praat ‘n bietjie kort vir’ n laptop pro sober ontwerp Getrou aan die tradisie ThinkPad, beperkte vertoning hoek, gewig en grootte van die skerm verplaas aan die regterkant van die middel van die rekenaar

Ergonomie en suksesvol voltooi nie, verwissel DVD-speler twee sekondes, rustige, onderworpe aan hitte beroerte, die kwaliteit van die ontvangs Wi-Fi, geïntegreerde sleutelbord bak.

The ThinkPad T61 is Lenovo’s perceived as deriving high end of R61. Discover this ultra-powerful notebook.

Echoing the same hull as the ThinkPad R61, the T61 features the same look antiquated. The widescreen 14.1-inch footprint results in a fairly large: 33.5 x 23.7 x 3.5 cm. However, our test model has a standard battery of four cells and therefore shows lighter than R61 as a poster on our balance weight of 2.37 pounds.

The machine loaned by Lenovo brings together some very upscale, mostly drawn from the organ bank of the new version of the Intel Centrino platform. In honor where honor, let the processor. This is a Core 2 Duo T7700 clocked at 2.4GHz, the fastest processors at FSB 800MHz. Lenovo combines 2 GB DDR2 RAM. Based on our tests, the computing power and multimedia capabilities of this laptop immediately classify the first place. Another excellent result, the bandwidth of the memory also reached record highs. These components are accompanied with a SATA hard drive with platters rotating at 5,400 rpm a total capacity of 160 GB of storage The unit, supplemented by a DVD Super Multi Double Layer, proved both quick and silent. A shock sensor protects your data from physical damage while a fingerprint reader takes care to deny access where appropriate. The screen of 14.1 inches reaches the comfortable resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels. It has the power of a circuit NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M 128MB integrated graphics memory. This video chip provides support DirectX 10 and a minimum power consumption. The other configuration is standard with Bluetooth 2.0, Wi-Fi and the last component Intel 802.11n and Gigabit Ethernet. The number of catches is correct with three USB and Firewire even if we still regret the presence of a single video output VGA.

A powerful processor and a battery of low capacity. Two factors leading to insufficient autonomy. Our T61 has confessed his limits after 72 minutes. Certainly not enough for a business user who buys surely a high-capacity lenovo batteries. That said, with a sale price probably more than 2,200 euros, this tool seems built for durability. Confident, Lenovo awarded him a guarantee of three years.

Opel plans electric small car

2011-01-17

Now known as Opel boss Nick Reilly, one is in the house Opel significantly faster in a gradual electrification of the vehicle models to work as this as some believe. How Reilly compared to the "Handelsblatt", said one was present even in the planning phase of an all-electric small car, which was still located below the Opel Corsa.

The big difference with the upcoming Opel and GM’s Volt project and Ampera is that this small car is purely electric powered and do not like the other two representatives on the Range Extender technology, a range of more than 500 kilometers. Both Volt and Opel Ampera both have supporting combustion engines to recharge the battery, which powers the wheels via the electric motor. More specifically, it is the technology for a range Enver prolonged. It drives a combustion engine to the generator, which recharges the battery. From this battery power constantly for the propulsion of the car is used. Because the internal combustion engine can provide very long (up to the exhaustion of the fuel tank), electricity, one can master the Ampera long distances and is not dependent on charging the battery.

The electrically powered small cars to the latest information indicates that there are just like the Ampera, produced in Europe. A detailed production site have been found yet so far, will ultimately depend on the location, according to Opel's chief Reilly also on the political support of such an electric car production. Concretely Reilly talks about the expected numbers in the country and the market acceptance among the population. Possibly remains of small electric cars and not the last electric vehicle from Opel in the near future, because, Opel are already planning another electric car about half of the compact Opel Ampera, which is also based on the "range extender" technology.

27, a design capacity of 600 megawatts of silicon solar cell project in Baoding, Hebei Province Gaobeidian start, which will further boost the development of photovoltaic industry in China.

According to reports, the green light for the construction of the new solar energy project Co., Ltd., can produce 600 megawatts of silicon solar modules, and provide 5,000 jobs for the benefit of the people side. The project is funded by Baoding Yingli New Energy Resources Co., Ltd. is hosted for 2 years, responsible for technical, management, raw material procurement and product marketing efforts. As has formed a complete industrial chain of polycrystalline silicon solar cell business, the company has become the master Yingli the latest generation of high-purity silicon purification technology of photovoltaic leader.

Solar photovoltaic power generation is relatively mature technology, with safe and reliable, no noise, no pollution, etc., is the conventional power generation and other power generation methods can not reach. According to reports, the annual output of solar cells, long before 2002 hovered at about 1% of global production, since 2004, especially in the international PV market in Germany, the Japanese market driven by strong demand, China's PV industry has developed rapidly in 2006 reached more than 10% share of the world, second only to Japan, Europe, ranking third in the world. In 2010 China's output of photovoltaic products can break 1,000 MW.

University of Lecce developed low-cost electric car

2011-01-23

The Research Center of the Italian University of Lecce has developed according to a report by Focus Online (25/05/2009) with the VEUS 08, a low-cost electric car. Technically, the electric vehicle equipped aluminum panels and draws its power from the normal lead-acid batteries. Due to the low development costs will amount to the purchase price of an industrial production over 15,000 to 16,000 euros. Scientists consider that it is crucial that an electric car can recharge its batteries overnight from a standard wall outlet.

The range should be high and the electric car for everyday use are compatible. The weight of the VEUS 2008 amounted to 0.75 tons and the maximum speed of the electric car is 50 km / h combined with a range of 100 kilometers. The vehicle can accommodate two people and was equipped with twelve lead batteries.

For additional power supply to serve the photovoltaic systems were installed at several points in the VEUS 08th When braking occurs, recovery of energy in the power obtained at the curb. A simple gauge indicates how much the battery is charged. The prototype will make his first trip as part of an Eco-marathon and putting his prowess.

Two Stuttgart designers have developed an electric scooter and the Elmoto is a moped. It is a cross between a mountain bike and cross bike. The performance of the integrated electric motor is 3 hp and reaches a top speed of 45 km / h. One battery charge is sufficient for 65 km and the purchase price is expected to amount to 4,000 euros. It was developed by the designer Elmoto IPDD company and its two designers Stefan Lippert and Oliver Seme.

With a weight of only 50 kilograms, the Elmoto very light and the battery is located behind a plastic casing. The prototype is, however, with minimal changes already in the city of Balingen in series production. As a battery, a lithium-ion battery is used and the charge lasts a few hours. According to current plans this year to around 100 units sold. In 2010 the sales amount to a four-digit number. The Elmoto is intended primarily for driving in the city center and less long trips.

A federal project in collaboration with the Technical University of Ilmenau in the exploration of a modern braking systems for high-performance electric cars. The project is led by the car company, Audi AG and is funded by the state with 22 million euros. The project will be a building block with which Germany is to be a leading country in the electrical mobility. According to the plans of the Federal Government in 2020 Berets 1 million electric cars on the roads on the road.

The automakers are developing electric vehicles connected to the target to be dependent on oil. Because in a few decades, the oil reserves of the earth will be exhausted, and until then, alternative propulsion systems have been established. The biggest problem is the lack of long range, long battery charge times and purchase prices now available electric vehicles. The construction of a nationwide charging stations network is just as important as affordable purchase prices and a greater range. The performance of the batteries need to be increased and the charging time of empty batteries can be reduced. The future belongs to electric cars and in the next few years, billions are invested in their development.

FIFA 08 vs. Pro Evolution Soccer 2008: the party of the year A

2011-02-14

Each year we have a virtual party, which faces the release of FIFA and PES, in fact, if we talk in terms of football is like a Barca-Madrid, because the rivalry between fans of either game is worthy of the passion of the football.

This year both titles in their updated versions and bring new, more game modes and improvements in the technical section.

The key question in any of the platforms, is who wins. If you want to find out read on.

In any sports game, there's only match against the machine, but we find all kinds and variety of game modes, including those relating to items on the Internet. Both Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 and FIFA 08 offers variety of game modes.

Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, not too many changes and, again, are the Challenges, Display Mode, League, Cup, League Online Mode and Master Mode. The first four have little variations compared to last year and the online mode suffers from enough "lag", which surprised me. Of course, Konami has confirmed they are working on it for this to not happen. The online mode is still a "ladder", ie a competition scalable, but has yet to improve response times.

The most prominently is, as every year, Master League, Which now has more options, better AI by other teams in choosing tactics and, in general, a much greater challenge that greatly extends the game. Yes, once again, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 continues to have more limited official license and although it has expanded the number of teams and real players, is still far from FIFA.

FIFA 08 offers a huge breadth of game modes and also the best license with absolutely all the teams, players and stadiums almost twenty leagues. And on the modes of play, it's already in previous versions, as the Manager mode and display mode and also others such as Tournament Mode, which has been completely redesigned for quick access to all kinds of trophies.

However, FIFA 08 offers a new way in the series, though not entirely original, as it is inspired by "Libero Grande" by Namco, which varies slightly if the game mechanics. Under the name "Become a Star", is to carry a single outfield player Goalkeeper-less, and learn to play football in the same way as a real sportsman.

EA Sports has managed to further the player does not have the feeling of not knowing where you are, or where to register. Thanks to a simple system of icons and cameras almost perfect, you know where to stand, at what time I have to advance my position, etc. This game mode can be used offline and online through training, through a free patch from EA on Xbox Live.

The other aspect that stands out in the game is the very extensive multiplayer mode. Not only are official parties to "ranking" or quick matches. There are also interactive leagues where each week you can play the game of the day in various leagues, including Spanish.

In conclusion, andNo game modes goalscorers FIFA 08 Pro Evolution Soccer 2008. Not only for the most noticeable new feature of FIFA, Be a Star, but also by the different online modes and the annual benefit from EA Konami: the license.

This year it looks like things are almost tied between FIFA 08 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 on the football field, though not completely.

In the case of Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, I found a game that, in my opinion, wants to reach more users. Why? Basically, and depending on the difficulty level, Konami has "arcadizado" the game.

It is much easier to pass the ball and even do some tricks in the first two levels of difficulty, sometimes, if we put Cristiano Ronaldo is possible to reach the goal in a straight line and also is easier to kick, what makes the game change a lot with respect to its predecessors in this respect

In this sense, one aspect that attracted the most attention is that the game has completely changed the goalkeepers. Unlike in other Pro Evolution Soccer, goalkeeper here not for all and they do not always react to certain situations cat form, but it does so slightly more realistic, failing when you least expect either false starts or exiting moments later the ball.

Konami, on the other hand, it introduces in Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 some significant changes and some unprecedented movements. From stretch of the shirt, which is very useful as a tactical foul to one of the most hated movements in real football, discarded. Yes, this movement has been in the new Pro Evolution and leaving aside the whole issue of Fair Play, I must say that gives the game a touch of realism much higher than at other times. Yes, do it in the wrong place at the wrong time cost yellow card.

The greatest surprise, and perhaps the greatest success of Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 is the introduction of the concept weight. Now, depending on weight or height of the player, you can see better defending or attacking individual players (not the same as defending Xavi Yaya Toure of Barcelona.) This gives an excellent sense of realism

Dell Inspiron E1505 Laptop Review, @ LaptopsBattery.us Blog

2011-02-21

The E1505 is Dell Inspiron with 15.4-inch widescreen display with the impressive new Intel Core Duo CPU. A virtually identical Inspiron 6400 is through its enterprise portal. On the outside, as it replaces the Inspiron 6000 looks like, but the new hardware inside makes for impressive performance. In the traditional style of the Dell E1505 is well rounded, very personal and is available to offer a competitive price, but not all the radicals.

The Inspiron E1505 is for most of the Dell lineup white lacquer and covered with a cut to black. I’m not a fan of the painted surfaces, as they seem to be more prone to scratches and chips. The color palette is simple, but I’m not a big fan of the white trim "bumpers."

The notebook is sturdy enough to be comfortable lifting it by one corner. However, I want to create better quality products. Is comparable to Sony and others, but not in the vicinity of the solid (and expensive) IBM ThinkPad line. Like my Inspiron 9300, there is a gap in the bottom of the LCD. This region is also very hot. It is when the backlight or inverter is.

The screen is very sharp with nice saturated colors and high contrast. The performance of the E1505 He was really a surprise. There is no doubt that the Core Duo is fast. The 5400 large disk with a good performance, even if a disk of 7200 rpm would be even better and maintain a level of interest, with the fast CPU and load programs faster.The Dell E1505 is calm notable - the most time. The touchpad is slightly recessed feel so it’s hard to go wrong. The two buttons are quite cheap, but respond well. The Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g signals of good and with a variety of wireless LANs. Yes, also in Fairbanks, Alaska, have hot spots.

With the smaller option 6 cell battery and a powerful processor, I had high hopes for the life of the battery. However, the Dell lasted longer than expected. At maximum brightness, played a DVD of 2 hours and 30 minutes. Under normal light tasks, with WiFi on and almost maximum brightness, the battery lasted nearly three hours. Attenuation of the screen and open wireless expressed almost four hours of total autonomy. I had the battery in 90 minutes or less to burn, if you really tried. Game likely to burn this fast.

The optional 9-cell dell inspiron e1505 battery, which is the same physical size of the 6-cell should be approximately 50% longer to execute.

The battery charges fast for the first 80%. With about 1% per minute, you can make an important boost for an hour on a scale at the airport.

A larger battery could be used a better choice than two batteries. wear lithium ion battery, although not in use.

Dell Inspiron E1505 review portable entertainment now an Intel Core 2 Duo. Although still a poor choice for the Games of the E1505 is much stronger for other applications, including music and photo editing and video playback. The book also sheds 6.9 E1505 good enough speakers, dedicated media keys and a comfortable keyboard with stylish white trim, if you have a great choice for all consumers who do not want to get an arm and a leg to get a desktop replacement.

How to speed eMule

2011-02-21

eMule thoroughly (I): year 2053, still download the file you got in 2007 What do I do?

The big eMule, continued the path of eDonkey, multimedia world conqueror, maker of the miracle of the multiplication of files, phantom enemy of societies of authors, only a P2P client. A program that reaches six years old but is able to provide all entertainment in the form of music, movies, software, etc.

However, despite their travel on the Internet, there are still people struggling to configure it properly and take full advantage. The issue is not so complicated so we go with it.

When you install eMule will appear by default a setup wizard. Asked for a name to identify the network, if we do not either, we assign a type emule-project Below this box is the option to activate the program start with Windows and eMule to connect to the server automatically when opened. The second should enable it if we run the program, usually it is because we want to continue with our downloads.

In the next wizard window find 'the mother of the lamb' means the port assignment. eMule requires that we use to TCP and UDP are free, ie that no other program to receive information through them.

If you use a router to connect to the Internet, we open the ports on both the computer and the router, and forward the packets from first to second.

With any luck we'll get rid of this task by clicking "check ports. " But first we should close the firewall or create a rule that allows to operate in designated ports. The browser opens showing if you can access these ports from the outside.

If the test fails, nothing happens. Just do the process manually. This procedure is explained in detail in this article.

Once solved this issue, we turn to the next wizard window, the upload and download priorities. Here we will decide between two options is not entirely exclusive. Give priority to files with few sources, ie people who have little or lead to discharges with many sources.

To avoid complicating the issue, the limit to consider what we value more quickly download something that just appeared in eMule, such as a release, or get a file that has few people. If you prefer the former, the second option will disable the window.

As for the complete transfer of shares, only affects the files you share, if you're not going to add new files to the network does not complicate your life, leave it on.

In the next step, we select the networks that we will use: eD2K, eMule's own network, and Kad, another P2P network. should use both at once because we get many more sources. The option will disable secure connection as it slows access to the servers.

Finally indicate which operating system you use, select more than 16 simultaneous downloads (the box is out of date), and if we do not know what Internet connection speed we have hired, simply click OK.

At this time we are ready to start downloading, but in reality there are still a few things to tweak.

First should have installed the best servers, which are more users and files have without becoming saturated. If we want to quickly add, the best is to upload a file *. met.

We can save the config folder of eMule to load at startup, enter the address or URL where the file resides.

eMule has a lot of features, configurations and options, but what we done so far and start downloading all kinds of files, so go ahead, the search engine.

eMule uses a Boolean search engine. Learning to do well we will get better results. Addressing this issue goes far beyond the purpose of this article. In any case, those who have problems should try to find some files with Boolean operators. On the Internet we can find several how-to articles useful.

Moreover, the tab finder eMule has filters as maximum and minimum size, length, sample rate, availability, minimum duration, codec, etc. You can also directly indicate that the desired outcomes are videos, software, CD images, audio, etc.

As important as the filters matching the search method. eMule has four: Server, Global (servers) Filedonkey Kad network (web).

Using the first method only look at the server we are connected. However, the global search queries to all servers in the list individually, so it usually takes quite a bit. The Web search excludes the eD2k and Kad is usually slower than the previous. Filedonkey method opens a web page to complete the search from the default browser.

To the extent that we should control them by adding files in any way. For example, grouping them into categories such as movies, music, games and more.

Imagine for example you want to order the chapters in a number of seasons, you would simply assign each file to a tab, which corresponds to a folder so that when completed, will find it there.

One of the obsessions of the users of eMule is the download speed. Everyone wants more. There are no magic formulas but can be improved.

We must first know what we have contracted discharge capacity. Suppose you have 1 mb / sec. In such a case should be allocated among different uses, navigation, connections for transfers, downloads, eMule, etc.

Once you have decided how much we spend on eMule, will the corresponding limits on the connection tab of preferences, for example, 300 kb / s for download and 20 kb / sec for the climb. In this regard it is noteworthy that can not be rule of thumb with these figures. By having a connection 10 times we can not multiply proportionately the other data.

If you check the credit system could be put upload limit as high as possible. This method rewards with more sources to the most up. It acts as a queue of the purchase in question. When you add a file to download make a request to all users who have that file. As I have asked several people at once, we put in the queue and download touch us when no one preceding. When using credit, the first being the more you have, regardless of when it arrived. That is, we colaremos in exchange for credits. Here we get them automatically based on how much we have transferred to other users.

From this it follows easily that the credit system greatly penalizes those who shuts down the computer because they lose their jobs to the queue. So the first requirement for fast download eMule is not shutting down. It seems too obvious, but surely, is the most effective.

When a file starts downloading, eMule reserves the final space to be occupied by the file. This means that if we dropped only 1% of a hundred files of 1 GB. They shall hold 100 gigabytes, but should only use 1 GB.

No need for a degree in pure mathematics with masters in logistics to realize that when we move through the queues and start downloading, the speeds of each file will be added. Therefore, the more downloads add, the total rate will be higher.

Therefore, we must strive to have the largest possible number of files downloading at once and this requires having a large capacity hard disk. Of the blue seems absurd, but the larger hard drive, download speed of more than enjoy.

Still to review many of the features in this great little program, but we'll leave for the next article.

Design a website CMS

2011-02-28

Even those who have brought forward several web pages ask this question to a new project: What CMS should I? There is a wealth of CMS (Content Management System) and each with hundreds of peculiarities. Faced with such supply is not an easy choice.

When we have questions we often ask, which unleashed an avalanche of opinions, prejudices, anecdotes of personal experiences and topics. Especially the latter.

From here we could publish a comparison between the most popular CMS like Joomla, Wordpress, PHPNuke, etc. But it would be easy to avoid a personal contribution to the avalanche above.

There is a way to make a decision with arguments and hitting safety. The first step is to define in detail the purpose of the website and the tools we need. When this point is clear we can begin to compare.

For this, nothing more convenient than visiting cmsmatrix.org. This page lists content managers 852. It is designed to compare out any CMS. Simply select the portion of the left those of us interested. Immediately, a dialog box with the characteristics of each.

Comprehensive analysis of all aspects of each program. It offers a wealth of information grouped into ten sections: System Requirements, security, support, ease of use, performance, administration, interoperability, adaptability, application modules and business modules.

In the table we see that it crosses the data indicated that compared with the characteristic CMS. Identical responses share the same cell color. In this way it becomes really easy to find the differences.

Sometimes, without really knowing why, you put a CD or DVD to your desktop PC and it does not start automatically like it used to.

The cause is usually the installation of recording programs, often without prompting, turn off the boot of the units, or other programs.

Some people prefer to happen, that is, the boot is off, however, if you prefer on, we'll explain the best solution to recover the lost boot.

Can be done from the Windows options, but not always possible to repair it from there. So the most effective way is to use Microsoft Autoplay Repair Wizard.

Once downloaded, run it (no installation required) and Autoplay Repair Wizard readers will analyze your disk drives. Instantly shows you the status of the three policy levels: the current user, the local computer and the unit level.

To the right of each policy will have a button called Repair. Hit it where you find the problem, restart the computer and problem solved.

Canon BG-E2N Battery Grip Review, @ Digitalcamerabattery.us Blog

2011-03-07

The Canon BG-E2N Vertical Grip/Battery Holder adds a vertical shutter release, and is compatible with up to two BP-511, 511A, 512, 514 Lithium-ion battery packs, or six AA batteries with included BGM-E2 battery holder.

The Canon BG-E2N Battery Grip Replacement inbox: battery grip, charger! BG-E2N Battery Grip Replacement AC charger: Input- 100V~240V AC 50/60HZ 0.5A, Output - 12.5V DC 750mA . Product Type : Battery Grip Replacement for CANON EOS 40D/EOS 30D/BG-E2N DSLR cameras. The most attractive point is that the BG-E2N Battery Grip Replacement can use with Lithium Ion battery, which makes more shots actual in one full charge and makes it a dreaming product for professional photographers. The Canon BG-E2N Battery Grip Replacement equipped with a vertical-grip shutter button, command dial, AE lock/FE lock, and AF point selector button to enable shooting in the same fashion as a horizontal grip.

Order Canon BG-E2N Battery Grip Replacement today: Full One year waranty and 30days money back.

If you are shooting a Canon EOS 50D, Canon EOS 40D, 30D or 20D, the canon bg-e2n battery grip a revaluation account.

Personally, I shoot in the portrait and horizontal and vertical / horizontal. With the vertical grip allows me to take a much more comfortable and stable position - and gives me more control over the major goals. With BG-E2N for long sessions in a vertical position of inestimable value.

With room for two batteries, rechargeable Lithium-Ionen-BP-511/511A/512/514 Canon, Canon BG-E2N Battery Grip gives us the change in twice as many photos without a battery. It is very good with a battery.

The Canon Battery Grip BG-E2N battery in the cabin 40D/30D/20D s’ installed. The door to the original battery is easily removable and fit into BG-E2N The setting is completed by fixing the wires in the BG-E2N Camera Tripod Adapter. The BG-E2N offers his own son tripod adapter - this function is not lost.

The dslr battery grip allows the setting and the shutter to capture the same device. The only exception is that the "AF-ON" is in the new button is missing at the same time, Canon EOS 40D. The BG-E2N grip replaces the Canon BG-E2. adds substantially closing the battery compartment in the original proposal.

The only Canon BG-E2N battery grip comes back to me (except for buying) is the size and adds extra weight to the device. The BG-E2N measures 5.6 x 4.4 x 3.0 inches (142 x 112 x 76mm). Add 2 "(51mm) at the height of the camera when you are connected. It weighs 10.2 ounces (290g) without batteries.

A little comfort when you travel? Simlpy hold the handle and slide the battery compartment. Need to get a long shot, but do not want to buy extra lithium-ion batteries for these needs? Set BGM-E2 AA Battery Holder Grip for Canon BG-E2N battery and the performance of your 40D/30D/20D with 6 AA batteries.

New energy industry: copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin film of the battery industry

2011-03-07

New energy industry: copper indium gallium selenide (CIGS) thin film of the battery industry

Photovoltaic cells on the development trend of the future: We believe that the low-cost thin film coating characteristics of the battery, the conversion efficiency of rising, the future is bound to be significant growth in market share, thin film battery industry growth will continue to be higher than the industry growth rate of crystalline silicon cells. Judging from the market forecast, three major thin-film battery (amorphous / microcrystalline thin-film battery, CIGS thin-film battery, CdTe thin-film batteries), the future growth of CIGS thin film cells is most evident.

Cost of CIGS thin-film batteries. According to the assumptions we calculated that the full realization of the scale effect under conditions of CIGS thin-film batteries cost $ 1.07 / watt. If the situation in accordance with First Solar's gross margin assumptions made, the CIGS industry than the current price of 1.5 U.S. dollars / watt. Measured by the above assumptions the 10MW thin-film photovoltaic cells power plant, the initial investment cost is $ 4.2 / W, the cost of electricity USD 0.30-0.45 / kWh. If you take into account the effect of thin film battery low light, electricity costs will decline.

CIGS thin-film batteries advantages: 1) low cost thin film cells, compared to the cost of expensive silicon cell materials. 2) compared to other thin film cells, CIGS thin film is promoted by the highest conversion efficiency of the battery, the current lab can reach 19.9% conversion efficiency. 3) no light induced degradation effect. No recession is most concerned about thin film solar cell performance, single-junction amorphous silicon thin film cells decline to 25%, amorphous microcrystalline tandem thin film cells is about 10% decline. CIS thin film battery is not light-induced recession in effect, the same characteristics and the crystalline silicon cells. 4) The most appropriate application of BIPV.

CIGS thin film industry worried about the current battery may present a problem. 1) In the scarcity of raw materials. CIGS thin film cells the current global production capacity of about 300MW, the required amount of consumed In 14 tons, far below the current In the material output. Ongoing replacement of the absorbing layer of material related to research, the future technical issues will be resolved. 2) Cd pollution problems. Cd-free buffer layer technology is the focus of research and development.

Domestic A-share listed companies - Vosges shares (002,083). Vosges PV business, including shares of two subsidiaries, Vosges photovoltaic (CIGSSe cell module production business) and ZF photovoltaic (crystalline silicon cell module packaging operations.)

Vosges JST thin-film photovoltaic cells using the German technology, the first 30MW production line in 2009 is expected to begin pilot production in Q4. 30MW expected second quarter of 2010, an installed output in late 2010. Project planning 240MW, a total investment of 6.0 billion, the first phase of 60MW 1.5 billion, including investment in equipment 111.75 million euros (12 billion yuan). From a technical source, equipment situation, already have success, we wait for its product output.

ZF for crystalline silicon PV battery business production, from the Vosges and ALEO share 50% of the capital was established. The total planning 80MW, completed in three phases, a second phase of 10MW and 40MW have already started production, three 30MW2010 years to complete. Production line in Germany, Switzerland imported automation equipment, packaging components in the field of crystalline silicon cells have the world's best level of automation. Way to expand the initial underwriting market, we look forward to the future development of our own brand. Expected to produce 25MW component 09, the sales income of 500 million yuan.

Investment view: Vosges shares as the earliest in the CIGSSe film battery production enterprises, from the current equipment and technology all have for success. However, due to product not output when the volume of output, after, when the apparent effect of large-scale, thin film batteries to make profit contribution to the company when we can not yet judge.

We believe that the short term, our focus should not be thin-film batteries for the contribution to the company's performance.

The long term, the future needs of high growth PV industry is inevitable, and thin film batteries due to its own unique advantages in the field of photovoltaic proportion will be significantly enhanced. Therefore, we should be concerned about the company's long-term value. China Jianyin Investment Securities Co., Ltd.

Ihrem Mac auf Ihr iPhone innerhalb von 60 Sekunden, Stoppuhr A

2011-03-14

Haben Sie einen iPod Touch 8GB, 16GB oder 32GB, vielleicht ein 8GB oder 16GB iPhone? Im Moment habe ich in der meine Handfläche einer 80GB iPhone. Es ist ein Bluff, aber nicht so schnell … Sie sind begeistert

Auch ist es eine experimentelle Version des iPhone, aber nicht existiert heute nicht auch nur im Entferntesten in meine Hände gekommen, wegen der hohen Geheimhaltung des Apfels Cupertino. Schließlich kann in diesen Fällen immer Waschbecken die Zähne in den vielen Patente, die Apple jeden Monat Rekorde … oder beißen uns auf das Ergebnis dieses Mysterium: iGet Mobile.

iGet Mobile ist der neue Ableger der Fabrik-Anwendungen Nokahara, Vater der beliebten und iGet, Ein Dienstprogramm, das Remote-Zugriff von Mac zu Mac ermöglicht, einschließlich sicherer Dateiübertragungen über SSH, Remote Spotlight-Suche, etc. Nun, iGet Mobile ist sein jüngerer Bruder und bietet uns die Remote-Zugriff auf einem Mac aus iPod Touch / iPhone.

Daher die 80GB von meinem iPhone;) (in der Tat, mein MacBook). Obwohl die Schnittstelle iGet Mobile wurde sorgfältig entworfen, um Excel auf einem iPhone oder iPod Touch, muss auch sagen, dass operiert von einem anderen Mac oder PC, sogar von Geräten Symbian, Windows Mobile oder BlackBerry.

Das ist mein 80GB iPhone, da ich mein MacBook mit meinem WLAN-Verbindung zu treten. Funktioniert auch mit EDGE (nicht in Spanien), und es ist zu hoffen, dass, wenn die iPhone beschlossen, den endgültigen Sprung in die 3G-nehmenWill auch mit benutzt werden iGet Mobile. Wenn Sie Ihren Mac zu ergreifen, um iGet Handytasche, um Ihre Dokumente, Bilder und andere Dateien, zugreifen folgt genau unserer umfangreichen Tutorial.

Bevor Sie Ihren Mac nehmen in der Tasche, mal sehen, was die Anforderungen iGet Mobile: Mac OS X 10.5, Oder einen Leoparden gesund und munter in Ihrem Team. Das heißt, ein iPhone oder iPod Touch. Wenn nicht, verlieren Sie Ihren Gnade. Obwohl Sie mit Ihrem Mac von einem PC oder Mac anschließen kann, oder, wie ich schon sagte, von einem BlackBerry oder Symbian Handy. Von einem … "HTC Diamond, vielleicht?

Einmal heruntergeladen und installiert haben, um zum ersten Bildschirm … aber Schweigen zu bekommen, es ist alles AUS.

Fahren Sie nicht so schnell, keine Zeit. Vor dem Anschluss des Servers, lassen Sie uns Spaziergang durch die Konfigurationsoptionen iGet Mobile. Von AllgemeineSie können überprüfen automatische Aktivierung Optionen Programm-und Web-Server-Protokollierung. Dann erscheint der Name des Servers und ein paar Klassiker: Die erste ist die Favicon das geht auf Adressleiste Web-Browser und die zweite ist die Verknüpfung das zeigt die iPhone / iPod Touch in Desktop eine erstellen WebClip.

Hier in Access, Setzen Sie den Benutzernamen und das Passwort ein, um den Server aus dem iPhone / iPod Touch zu treten. iGet Mobile und garantiert eine sichere Verbindung über SSH-Verschlüsselung Daten, aber es lohnt indem Sie ein Passwort. Unten ist der Hafen. Der Standardwert ist der 55555. Wenn Ihr Mac ist hinter einem Router, müssen Sie möglicherweise offenen Port.

Nächster Halt: Netzwerk. Wenn Sie eine Dynamische IP-Wie ich, müssen Sie möglicherweise die folgenden Optionen prüfen, so dass im Falle eines Ausfalls der Verbindung und ändern Sie die IP-Adresse Ihres Mac können Sie auf den Server über die Verbindung zu bleiben Benachrichtigung über neue iGet Mobile IP schickt Ihnen per E-Mail. Allerdings, wenn Sie einen dynamischer DNS-Service wie im Falle von No-IP oder einen Domain-Namen können Sie eine feste Adresse.

Vor dem Start des Servers, haben wir eine letzte Option zu konfigurieren. Dies ist die E-Mail: SMTP-Server, Authentifizierung, etc.. Dieser Schritt ist sehr wichtig, nicht nur für die Bekanntmachung im vorherigen Punkt aber, dass iGet Mobile kommt in seine eigene beschrieben senden. In der Tat, wenn Sie an Ihren Mac anschließen von Ihrem iPhone oder iPod Touch, können Sie Abrufen eines Dokuments, ein Video oder Musik. Wenn Sie dieses richtig Abschnitt konfiguriert haben, können Sie aus dem iPhone oder iPod Touch eine bestimmte E-Mail-Adresse, um diese Datei übertragen werden soll.

Und alles ist fertig! Der Umsatz der Einstellungen und zurück zum Hauptfenster des iGet Mobile. Oben links an der Ampel Mausklick zu aktivieren iGet Mobile. Jetzt zeigt es die URL, die Sie brauchen, im nächsten Schritt. Sie können auf den Link klicken, check it out. Dann packen Sie Ihr iPhone oder iPod Touch, beginnt Safari Tippen mit dem Zeigefinger die URL wie er in Ihrem Fenster iGet Mobile erscheint, Du bist im Inneren.

Dell Inspiron 1501 Laptop Review, @ Laptopsbattery.us Blog

2011-03-21

Dell Inspiron 1501 notebook measures 14 x 10.4 x 1.4 cm and speakers on the panel vents left and right side of the chassis, large integrated touchpad scroll areas, 80 GB hard drive and offensive, not silvery white. And in 1501 weighs a little less, the absence of special CD / DVD control is a glaring omission, even in a spring cleaning of the press. If we increase or decrease the volume or skip DVD chapters, we had the software is much less intuitive controls.

ATI Mobility Radeon Xpress 1150 - 128 MB 256 MB Hyper Memory, GPU / Frequency: 400/400 MHz

Express Card, microphone, headphones, 4x USB 2.0, VGA out, Kensington Lock, LAN, modem

It was and is straight from the box and very friendly. The display has excellent color quality, everything looks clear. The speakers are great, everything seems very clear to them. Very good everything. very good speakers, very fast.

High performance and not stop once froze or not. Internet and other windows open simultaneously, and the computer will slow down at all. The screen is very bright and clear, are the ports is very good. basic computer with far more power than expected. You get a little more than what you paid.

improve their capabilities to wireless devices affordable for its basic operation. This team is definitely worth the money.

This machine has everything you need in a laptop that is used for lighting. It has a large, bright and clear. Very lively. It is very fast too. Our Internet e-mail appears immediately and without hesitation. The presentation is very easy to fix and the camera is very good too.

No reliable, always hard freezes, the system periodically close on themselves, are not really impressed by Anthlon or Vista. It is the fact that Anthlon.

With the AMD Athlon Processor could not handle more than two or three windows open at once after the problems increasingly not know if it was just the beginning Processor. It has an AMD processor, which is good and bad. The system is so funky with XP and install Windows Vista on it.

Play music files with the factory installed Windows Media Player is often interrupted without parallel processes. In built-in speakers do not use after two weeks. Disappointed that Windows XP is not available.

The Inspiron has been a little slow, but if you upgrade the store and go to a bigger hard drive to be ineffective. If you’ve tried a few programs at the same time, it freezes, use a little.

6-cell dell inspiron 1501 battery, which could get 3 hours and 25 minutes remaining. This was at half screen brightness and Wi-Fi off. More than 3.5 hours, I leave it idle was at about half the time, and half the time I rip things like a CD, run benchmarks and tested various programs. Overall, I was sufficiently impressed to get the battery life, for example. As a portable 15.4 “is probably not a ton and do not want 4 + hours battery life. However, there is an option to upgrade a battery of nine cells must be 4 + hours battery life. The 9-cell battery is flushed with the back of the laptop and not exceed. The tester is equipped with a 85 WH (7600 mAh), 9-cell lithium-ion laptop battery, which is available to provide an additional. The investment is worth it, because this battery has

Spore Tips

2011-03-21

Spore is the new creation of Will Wright, designer of the series The Sims. In this game you start with a single celled organism and evolve it will Need to sort first, then onto civilization, and finally, conquer Other Planets.

As the road is long and you May need some help, it never hurts to Have A Few Tricks to Help You Overcome All Difficulties.

To open the command console, just click Ctrl + Shift + C. Then enter the code and press ENTER to activate. To exit the console, just press ESC or click the red X.

* capturePlanetGIF This Makes code to capture animation format on the planet Where You Live in your species.

* help (command) Explain the action of Each command of the game, where (command) specifies the command.

* moreMoney Increase your money in the early stages of civilization and space conquest.

* SetTime (h, m) Change the time of day Where You will find your avatar. It Also Offers a speed multiplier for your avatar.

In October 2007 came to light OnSoftware the first article in Spanish. I honestly do not remember what it was because the premiere had previously written some fifty articles and publish them almost all at once.

We started this project because we wanted to share with you our views and our experiences in the software world more closely and carefree. A base of articles and tutorials have been able to recommend programs that really are worthwhile, to guide you in choosing applications for a specific function and teach you to handle many of them.

Taking a general look at all published, I realize that for a year we have created a blog with a different style. It’s really unorthodox, a clear reflection of its writers. Fit the humor, news, tutorials, reviews, etc.

I miss only readers say what they think of the blog and why I write this article. To give you the opportunity to read us the book or just tell us how you would like it OnSoftware, what you want and why, when and how. In short, what would you do as you ask the waiter in a restaurant.

Put a face to unknown devices

2011-03-28

After formatting the disk and reinstall your operating system, discovering that many devices are not recognized and that the missing disks drivers is a significant nuisance. Unless we fail like the computer more than a gun show, plays the part to identify unknown.

There are basically three ways to do: get the device IDs and put them in a browser, execute a recognition program or open the computer hardware for clues. This last measure is not recommended, since it is often void the manufacturer's warranty and give little fruit. The best thing is to try it without digging. But how?

The first step is to open Device Manager, tell us what is and what is missing. There are several ways to access it. The best known is go to Control Panel, double click on System and go to the Hardware tab. Another way is to enter the command devmgmt.msc, Which will open directly the Administrator. Once there, you can view a list of all devices by category. Those who could not be identified appear with a nasty yellow question: are our goal.

Los identificadores del dispositivoIf you prefer to investigate on our own, in the mysterious device properties must go to the Details tab, which will have access to a full drop-down list of parameters. We only serve two Manufacturer ID (Vendor ID, or VID VEN) and device (Device ID, or PID DEV.) Both appear under "Device Instance ID" in a single line of text that can be copied with Control + C. For example:

The first section defines the type of connection. Then appears the manufacturer identifier, a four-digit hexadecimal string – in this case 8086. As for the device, we can see that is the 10BD. But what about those two numbers?

Un resultado de PCIDatabaseThe fastest way is a Google search using the whole string or only a part. There is not always lucky, so it is best to check specific search engines such as PCIDatabase, PCI ID, IDHW or Linux-USB and their listings. Introducing one of the two numbers is likely to get find the manufacturer and model of your device.

If you do not want to mess with unpronounceable identifiers, we can always use a screening program. Some have their own databases, as Unknown Devices, Everest Ultimate or AIDA32. The first is perhaps the easiest tool to use. Just run to try to assign an identity to the component that gives us the murga. If you have an Internet connection (not always), references are required DriverMax and DriverScanWhich have the wider data bases. The first advantage is that drivers downloads are free.

Assuming that we have managed to discover the name and model of your device, visit the manufacturer's website and look for a section "Support", "Drivers" or "Downloads" will put us in the right direction to download the desired driver and end once and for all with yellow question marks.

Office: open PDF in Firefox without stress

2011-04-02

Since opening the OnSoftware officeWe have received a lot of questions, some of them very interesting. Since we can not answer them all, try to choose those that may be more useful to everyone.

We release the doctor's office via e-mail us back Alicia, about opening PDF files from Mozilla Firefox. A very common operation, however, is far from smooth and trouble free. Here we propose three solutions of different types.

Take your excellent suggestion to ask one thing that complicates my life. I spent some time with Firefox, I like very much and I take supplements, but I have with it several problems. One of them is the PDF.

Firefox is not always able to open as IE does. Occasionally goes crazy and it's as if the plugin does not work. Then I have to download to your computer and open it directly with a program.

I have the adobe plugin installed and I have firefox configured for use with the PDF. I tried also with the addition of Nitro (Download PDF) And did not get conclusive results. Sometimes works, but also stops working, so I uninstalled, I will create conflicts over Firefox options. [...] Is there anything else I can configure, upload or watch?

The integration of Acrobat with Firefox is often problematic. The first step we recommend is access the Programs menu within Firefox Options. Menu is a little known, but allows you to define in detail what to do with each file type. Once you're there, type "Acrobat" in the text field. Four results will appear, as in this screenshot:

For the four rows have to access the drop-down menu and choose "Use Adobe Reader 9.0." Thus the PDF file will always open externally. On the other hand, if you prefer Firefox to ask or save the file directly, you can choose those options. It is a versatile menu with which a viewer can choose an alternative to "Use other".

If you want to continue viewing PDF documents in your browser, version 9.0 Adobe Reader is very fast and stable. Yet you have a solid alternative. Foxit PDF Reader integrates with the browser, and is even faster and lighter. However, keep in mind that may not properly display more complex files such as forms.

There is another interesting maneuver, which involves open PDF files using web sites able to convert documents to HTML pages or images (something that makes PDF Download). With Firefox Extension Send to Google DocsYou can send a PDF file directly to Google Docs right-clicking on the link to the PDF document and choosing Open in Google Docs:

Obviously, to use Docs need a Google account. This method has one major drawback: Google Docs does not allow remote PDF files to open more than two megabytes in size. Luckily there is another page that can open PDF files online PDFMeNot, With your own extension Firefox. Remember to allow the installation of the Allow clicking on the yellow bar.

Clicking on any link to a PDF document, PDFMeNot will load in its own viewer. You can even drag this link to the bookmarks toolbar and click on a page which you want to load PDF: PDF icon appears next to each link to load it with PDFMeNot. The speed depends on the size of the document. Although PDFMeNot viewer is not as friendly as Google Docs, the documents will remain 48 hours on your server, and is a great option if you fail the standard displays.

Do you know another solution to this problem? Take advantage of the commentaries so that together we can share links, programs, and explanations. Your knowledge is welcome.

We encourage you to continue to send questions so that each month we can answer the most interesting and thus provide useful solutions.

Just try to be concise and express as clearly as possible the problem. If a question is not answered yet, do not worry, you may have it in queue ;-)

Li-ion battery power in cold and then identified the new direction of energy vehicles A.B

2011-04-11

Li-ion battery power in cold and then identified the new direction of energy vehicles A.B

It is reported that the release of a new standard for the technology phase of new energy vehicles, divided into initial stage of development, mature stage of the three different techniques. Product is the start of fuel cell vehicles, hydrogen cars engine vehicle and dimethyl ether. Development of products including lithium-ion battery powered hybrid passenger cars, commercial vehicles, as well as pure electric vehicles. Mature product is a clear path to the realization of technical principles, product technology and production technology is mature, national and industry standards basically complete, you can enter the industrial stage of the product. Lead-acid battery production hybrid passenger cars, pure electric passenger vehicles and pure electric commercial vehicles.

Duici, Li Sheng-mao that "lithium-ion powered vehicles, only the approved area, scope, duration and under the conditions of sale and use." The new regulations will significantly impact the pace of development of lithium battery car, and to a certain extent, affected car prices on the lithium battery research and development of automotive enthusiasm, is not conducive to the development of lithium batteries automotive industry.

After investigation, the reporter found, become the new darling of the nickel-metal hydride batteries, has a unique advantage.

It is, at present, only one place in Guangdong, more than 100 nickel-metal hydride batteries made by private individuals. Sensitive new energy battery manufacturing enterprises have already begun the layout of a blueprint for the future of nickel-metal hydride batteries.

Yuan and the Hong Kong Branch of the super signed last July to a joint venture agreement to establish a joint venture 50 million yuan in Hunan Branch Pa Power Battery Co., Ltd., in June this year, Corun intended acquisition of 120 million yuan in cash and Chinese Electronic Co., Changsha liability 100% stake. Plans to invest 4.8 million new sets of nickel-hydrogen batteries for automotive energy package, and a relatively large expansion of production capacity, the second phase expansion project is completed the company will have annual output of 60,000 sets of nickel-hydrogen battery vehicle capacity .

Compared with lithium, Ni-MH battery is characterized by high security, not easy to explode.

Guotai Junan Securities Research on alternative energy and Wang Zhen of the judge, with the introduction of the new access system, Ni-MH battery industry is expected to speed, and related businesses due to the current production capacity is limited, the production schedule remains to be seen, but the class of listed companies Early gains have been large, very high valuation on the stock Ni-MH battery companies will be cautious.

"In the lithium iron phosphate battery technology is not mature situations, the Ministry issued new standards for new energy vehicles access to nickel-hydrogen cell vehicles are to usher in a major development opportunity." Investment Advisor in the new energy automotive industry researcher Li Sheng-mao This told reporters. Recently, the investment adviser's "2009-2012 China Li-ion battery industry, Investment Analysis and Forecast Report," the study shows that 99% of the existing hybrid battery market share for the nickel-hydrogen battery, the representative of a Toyota commercial Prius.

But the objective point of view, Ni-MH battery, there are some "friction elbow" of the Department: refining technology is not mature enough, the cost is too high.

According to the China Electrotechnical Society of electric vehicles IPCC Technical Services Center Director Wang Tianshun, told this reporter 10 years ago, our country began to study the development of electric cars, but has been constrained by technology. Consistency is the biggest problem. Low-power battery pack can be, but as a hybrid, electric vehicle's main energy, must be made of high-power battery pack for the job the greater the power, the greater the difference.

Lenovo ThinkPad T60 Laptop Review, @ Lenovo-batteries.com Blog

2011-04-18

ThinkPad T Series has long been the preferred choice for business people has been, and Lenovo ThinkPad T60 supports the call for users who want a thin and light notebook. It remains the best of the recent T-series (like the keyboard without the weight and legendary durability) and adds advanced features such as dual-core performance, enhanced security and broadband wireless broadband.

The ThinkPad T series is considered by most to be the flagship of the laptop. enhance the quality of keyboard legend, legendary, and high-end specifications to provide an incredible machine. The new ThinkPad T60 will not disappoint in those categories. A new roll cage design strengthens the T60, an updated keyboard, EVDO wireless technology and Intel Core Duo are the backbone of this high-end machine.

Wireless: Intel PRO / Wireless 3945ABG (802.11 a / b / g), Bluetooth 2.0, Infrared

ThinkVantage shortcut button (shortcut to system support, security and diagnostics suite)

Robust and well designed case strong security features full range of network connections, including WWAN and Bluetooth within the Bay of interchangeable solid warranty and support known.

Starting price is higher than other comparable systems, the lack of a number of ports that are not essential but fairly standard, and links.

The 9 cell lenovo thinkpad t60 battery. Add a little weight on the standard 6-cell and takes, but if you need to live for approximately four hours of battery life with the Model 15 "screen size. With the T60, without Wi-Fi and the average brightness (third notch 7) drop what I 3 hours and 42 minutes of battery life with light (for writing, or stop). You can expect to find more than three hours with Wi -Fi and finishing a DVD with a 9-cell battery should not be a problem as well, except for The Lord of the Rings.

The screen size T60 14 "is much better compared with the period of battery life per cell because a smaller screen just drains less battery. I think the 6-cell battery for T60 14 "you get what the 9 - to 15 battery" - again, just an uneducated guess.

Schenker provides Hexa-core notebook from 480M to Geforce GTX GPU

2011-04-18

Schenker is the successor of the U700 XMG Hexa-core laptops QXG7 presented. It costs, depending on the configuration 2399-7240. The market launch is planned for early September.

Like its predecessor, is also a XMG U700 Intel Core i7-980X base of X58 chipset powered on. The clocked at 3.33 GHz CPU has six cores and can execute threads through Hyper-twelve. It is a desktop processor with a TDP of 130 watts, which is cooling very expensive and the size and weight make the Notebook.

Significantly upgraded Schenker has the graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX comes instead of the 285M in the new model, DirectX 11 GeForce GTX 480M solution is used, which can also be ordered in SLI configuration. The options include up to three SSDs and a maximum of 12 GB of DDR3 RAM.

XMG The U700 has two USB 3.0 and three USB 2.0 ports. Also, Firewire, HDMI (in and out) are, DVI, eSATA, Gigabit-LAN, WLAN 802.11b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1 integrated. Extensions can also be made via a Expresscard-34/54-Slot.

The optical drive is a DVD burner or Blu-ray to have. The 17.3-inch display has 1920 to 1080 times. The equipment can be attributed to the manufacturer's website to configure. A new chassis is compared to its predecessor for a higher value in the care.

The supplied lithium-ion battery has a capacity of 6800 mAh. The U700 weighs 5.8 pounds and XMG measures 41.9 times 28.6 times 5.6 to 6.1 centimeters.

The up to 7240 expensive six-core notebook Schenker XMG U700 can be equipped with up to 12 GB of RAM, three SSDs and two Nvidia GeForce GTX 480M GPUs.

Notebook GPU: NVIDIA DirectX 11 erweitert Portfolio

2011-04-25

Nvidia hat sein Portfolio von DirectX-11-GPU fur Notebooks erweitert. Die neue Serie 400, die einzige High-End-Version Datum 480.000.000 $ zur Verfugung.

415m mit dem GT, GT 420M, 425M GT, GT 435, GT und GTX 445 und GTX 470 M 460 M Architektur Nvidia bringt in fast allen Leistungsklassen. Alle neuen GPU-Architektur basiert auf Fermi und Unterstutzung Optimus Hybridtechnik. Nvidia-Chips versprechen mehr vergleichbar mit der 300-Serie, eine Leistungssteigerung von 40 Prozent.

Es ist kompatibel mit PureVideo HD und 3D-Vision-Technologie, die Schnittstelle GPGPU CUDA, PhysX Physik-Engine, Shader Model 5.0 und OpenGL 3.2. Die ersten Notebooks mit dem GeForce 400 ist Acer, Asus, Dell, Lenovo, Samsung und Toshiba auf den Markt. Andere Hersteller werden folgen.

Nvidia ist die Einfuhrung von DirectX 11 GPU fur Notebooks weit hinter seinen Rivalen ATI. Tochtergesellschaft von AMD hat Losungen implementiert Anfang dieses Jahres.

Solar mobile phone onto the market, thanks to solar cells and packaging technology integration

2011-05-03

Solar mobile phone onto the market, thanks to solar cells and packaging technology integration

Following KDDI, Softbank Mobile after, NTT DoCoMo also shows that to be listed with the solar cell phone. These phones are Sharp and development of solar cell modules. Sharp LSI package with use of packaging technology and other fields, the solar battery module thickness reduced to approximately 800um, so that it is equipped on a mobile phone possible. It can be said for the installation of solar cell technology has opened up new areas.

Mobile phones equipped with solar battery module by 10 12.5mm x 18.75mm of solar modules. 10 units in series, each unit electrode surface wire bonding, the back electrodes connected to the printed adhesive Plaster on the floor. Among them, the low-bending, high-density wire bonding technology, thin modules contributed.

Module manufacturing process, solar cell manufacturing processes before the Division as the solar systems business. The same cell line and manufacturing process of household, about 15cm square formed on the wafer 96 (12 x 8) 12.5mm x 18.75mm cell pattern.

Then, the electronic components business of this Part re-use CSP (Chip Size Package) technology, the cutting unit on the floor and in the print settings, the implementation of wire bonding, and optical devices used in a transparent resin package. CSP technology in addition to its use of low curvature of wire bonding technology, the chip also includes the thin slab and thin package printing technology, the chip contains multiple pieces of one large floor molding technology. In addition, cutting and welding equipment used for manufacturing LSI can be directly used without special improvements.

During the problem is, a variety of materials caused by the thermal expansion coefficient between the module warpage. Compared with the LSI package, due to the larger, thus warping is relatively large. While Sharp did not disclose details, but you can clear that by optimizing the process and so on, to solve the warping problem.

In the future, Sharp ready for the relentless pursuit of smaller, thinner portable products, and further realize the thin solar cell modules. This may still need help installing the power of technology. This trend echoes with the installation of the firms have also given attention to the field of solar cells. Held in June 2009 solar event "PVJapan" on, NOK reference to display a transparent flexible substrate. Through the use of packaging technology, solar cell to achieve a new evolution.

Yingli invest 60 billion to build the largest crystalline silicon solar cell project

It is understood that the total project investment of 60 billion yuan, annual output of 800 MW of crystalline silicon solar cells, put into operation in December 2010. By then, Yingli crystalline silicon solar cell production capacity of 1,400 MW projects, the sales income of 150 billion yuan, profits of 2.7 billion.

Yingli Group was established in 1987, is a new energy-based industry, international business group, the energy, technology, trade, finance, real estate and other industries. In the world including the United States, Germany and other countries, the company or factory, in China Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Tibet, Lanzhou, Guangzhou, Hainan, and other offices and factories.

Currently, Yingli has from silicon, silicon ingots, wafers, cells, components, system applications, "the world's most complete industry chain", with the lowest cost non-silicon, low silicon consumption per watt advantages of technological innovation. The construction of four 800 MW is Yingli Group in the current global financial crisis, background, contrarian, for enhancing the PV industry in China the right to speak in the international market plays an important role.

Three new thin client from Wyse Windows Embedded Standard 7

2011-05-09

Wyse Technology has three new thin clients based on Windows Embedded Standard 7 presented. This is a particularly powerful model R90L7 Wyse, Wyse X90c7 in notebook format and the compact C90LE7.

The Top model R90L7 comes with a 1.5-GHzSempron processor AMD and its graphics chip ATI 690E. It supports a maximum resolution of 2560 times 1600 resolution at 32 bit color depth and 60Hz refresh. The network connection is via Gigabit Ethernet, optional WLAN (11n) and Bluetooth 2.0. The device also comes with a DVI-I output, two PS / 2, two serial ports and six USB ports, including two on the front.

The idle power is on average 14.6 watts. The case measures 25 by 22.5 times 5.3 centimeters. This offers a comparison with the C90LE7, of 17.7 times 12 times 3.4 centimeters in size.

The technical basis of the C90LE7 is a completely different because it is based on a VIA processor with 1 GHz and the VX855 chipset. It allows an average of less than 7 watts of power consumption. are DVI and PS / 2, Gigabit Ethernet and optional Wi-Fi is also available here, but only four USB ports and a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels.

The Notebook model X90c7 finally used a third chip manufacturer, namely Intel's Atom Z520 1.33 GHz. It supports Fast Ethernet and UMTS mobile telephone, the resolution of the 11.6-inch screen is 1366 by 768 pixels. Notebook users are three USB ports and a VGA connection. There is also a slot for memory cards in four formats.

The notebook has a 5200 mAh battery that allows manufacturers, according to terms of up to 8 hours. The weight is 1.45 pounds including the battery.

The higher the risk of mobile phone battery capacity

2011-05-16

Institute of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Director of Academic Committee Professor Song Junde of Artesyn Technologies today said the phone if the simple pursuit of manufacturing high-capacity, long standby time will be a security risk to mobile phone use because of the larger mobile phone battery capacity, the danger will be higher.

Have a website today reported that Changhong's new 365 long known as a rainbow powered mobile phone standby time has been extended to 300 days. The report came out, it immediately triggered the industry questioned.

Professor Song Junde said that the current handset market exists blind comparisons of the wind, while the standby time as an important indicator of comparisons: "You stand half of publicity, I claim that can stand a month, or even months."

He pointed out that the stand-by mobile phone batteries and mobile phone battery manufacturers is a very high technical threshold of the industry, on the cell phone battery materials and manufacturing industries have a very high demand, especially for high-capacity mobile phone battery, the "poor material and behind the industry made out of mobile phone batteries, like time bombs. "

But Professor Song Junde also said that by reducing standby power on and off mobile phones and base stations other than the wireless part of the link to the practice of standby time extension is feasible, but from the user perspective, how many people really need to up the number of standby time ten mobile phone?

An anonymous mobile phone manufacturers are also to Artesyn Technologies, says that most big mobile phone operators will not be long standby time for appeal, because the majority of consumers in terms of 3-7-day standby time is acceptable , "the pursuit of brand mobile phones newer technology is more and more intelligent operation and more energetic industrial design, this also for mobile phone operators to bring high profit return."

China's first set of car battery power pack products off the assembly line in Hunan

August 5, China's first automatic car battery power pack-scale production line of products in Corun owned subsidiary of Hunan Branch Pa car battery limited liability company successfully off the assembly line. Vice Governor Vice Governor Chen attended the ceremony and delivered an important speech off the assembly line, the provincial party members of the Science and Technology Department, the provincial director Ng Seng Liang, and high-tech office responsible persons at the ceremony.

It is understood that the Hunan Branch Pa first car battery power pack product off the assembly line, is the first domestic car battery power pack product off the assembly line, marking the Section power far in the field of electric vehicle batteries to achieve breakthroughs in core technologies. At present, the product has been sent to Chery, Chang'an and many other electric vehicle manufacturers to test small quantities of road conditions to good effect.

Car battery power pack is the innovative product is not using the traditional single cell production technology, instead of using the original units within a connected battery module design and manufacturing technology, which greatly improved the battery level of integration, to the current international best advanced battery technology designed to solve the current battery power pack manufacturers are facing a major high defect rate of the key issues and has broad prospects for development.

Analysts expect touch-screen boom

2011-06-07

Analyst Craig Skinner of Ovum says rapidly increasing use of touch screen devices requires a. At the same time will increase the variety of devices. He thus confirmed earlier figures for touch screen market by Gartner , the million units sold in 2010 were assumed by 362.7.

Skinner, for example, expects more and more PCs with touchscreen – even if it benefits all types of mobile devices in its view most of touchscreens. Gartner expects 58 percent in 2013 all mobile devices come with touchscreens.

Including target groups are the Ovum and Gartner agreed. Gartner, by 2015, a touch screen quota was only 10 percent of companies. In contrast, a forecast than half of the PCs for children under 15 years with such a display be more equipped. Skinner, "A Tablet consumption device as. The designed example, required applications are always just a few clicks away. is the standard office tasks, however, document type, say, or tables fill are also a touch interface is not as efficient nor as ergonomic comfortable to perform. "

Skinner believes, however, is that many employees in offices now have more than one device on your desk – such as a PC with a keyboard for the aforementioned applications, a smart phone for calls and a tablet for sales or appointments. These devices would of course be kept in sync by a service. He saw reason to use a large market for business-specific applications, the touch-sensitive screens.

Tablets in company increase Skinner that not only the mobility but also help reduce printing costs.

Toshiba Announces Enterprise SSD with 400 GB

2011-06-14

Toshiba's Storage Device Devision has an enterprise SSD series (Solid State Disk) is presented for tiered storage systems that can accommodate up to 400 GByte capacity. The 2.5-inch models MKxx01GRZB use SLCNAND Flash with 32 nm linewidth and a 6-GBit/s-SASInterface.

The new products reach the manufacturer's instructions sequential transfer rates of 510 MByte / s read and 230 MB / s write. The read performance Toshiba is entering with 90,000 instructions per second (IOPS), Which sustained write performance of 17,000 IOPS.

In operation, the server SSDs come according to the manufacturer for an average fuel consumption of 6.5 watts. The impact resistance is specified at 1000 G, the product life cycle of five years.

Initial samples of the MKxx01GRZB Toshiba will deliver in the first quarter of 2011. There are versions with 100, 200 and 400 GB capacity are planned.

Also for the first quarter, the company has the 3.5-inch hard drives MK2001TRKB, A SAS model with 6 Gb / s, and MK2002TSKB announced with 3-GBit/s-SATA-Interface. They are designed for continuous use in the business sector and provide error correction code (ECC) And Rotational Vibration technology for optimal performance in vibration-prone, RAID arrays and rack systems with multiple drives. They offer up to 2 GB of memory.

Creative puzzles: you draw the solution

2011-06-22

The drawing is a form of universal expression. We draw the squiggles on paper to help organize concepts shape our emotions and describe the world around us. But even as an activity for relaxing and entertaining, never think that what you draw may come to life.

Breaking an unwritten law under which the game contains a world already built, some titles have been drawing the analogy of computers. Instead of jumping from one platform to another, for example, it is drawn, rather than using existing objects, these are created. And if you need a bridge is built ipso facto. Impossible? For nothing.

One of the first games of this type was the veteran The Incredible Machine, In which various objects could be assembled to build a bizarre machine that solve a particular problem, how to explode a balloon or dunk a ball. But the objects could not be created, but came given in advance.

In 2004, in collaboration with the MITMicrosoft released the technology Paper Magic, Through which the drawings were converted into two-dimensional objects subject to the laws of physics. Demonstration videos were seen around the world, but Magic Paper was still not a game.

Designed for the Tablet PC platform, Microsoft Physics Illustrator can be compiled to normal following a team simple instructionsBut spot color graphics and the lack of an objective end up bored. Needed something more fun and pleasing to the eye.

Four years later appeared Crayon Physics, An independent game created by Petri purhase in which they could draw objects - such as boxes or bridges - to make a red ball collect stars. A delicious finish chart seemed to be drawing with crayons on a sheet of paper.

The universe of Crayon Physics is two dimensional and is governed by fundamental physical laws, like gravity or inertia. To intercept the desired star is to draw support, harness the energy potential of falling objects or use axes to build pendulous knockers.

Crayon Physics Deluxe is an evolved version of Crayon Physics, with more levels (seventy), a more careful design and a scenario editor. The essence of Crayon Physics Deluxe is still the same, but what was only a limited demonstrator has become a full and fun.

Since drawing an object is not patentable, it soon emerged Physics Numpthy, An open source alternative created by Thomas Perl. As in the case of the first Crayon Physics, Numpty Physics is a working prototype but incomplete.

More interesting is Phun, Which takes the original idea of Magic Paper from MIT to create an advanced learning environment and fun. In Phun you can create not only solid but also fluid springs and strings. The physics engine is more realistic than Crayon Physics.

A similar approach, but with a radically different embodiment, it adopts Mightier, Where instead of drawing objects have to set the stage on a real paper, show it through a webcam and play the level to see if our map is appropriate. To understand how Mightier is best seen on video:

Draw simple objects that follow the laws of physics is fun, granted. But building bridges and structures is a further step (more or less like going from Basic to Lego Technic). The classic game of engineering is Bridge Builder, First published in 2000. Drawing a grid point by point, the bridge you build must support no less than the passage of a train.

Armadillo Run is even more advanced, a sort of The Incredible Machine-dimensional and much more detailed physics. As in real engineering, the choice of materials is essential to build structures that are effective in Armadillo Run. Join inadequate parts results in a crash inevitable.

However, simple formulas are those that are most successful, taking the idea of building structures in a hostile environment and attaching it to an argument similar to Lemmings, Kyle Gabler and Ron Caramel created World of Goo, A game in which balls of sticky substance must cooperate to reach a drain. It was preceded by a prototype Tower of Goo, Which is included in World of Goo as bonus level.

How about you? Do you like this type of game or you prefer the typical shooters lifetime?

We tried PES 2010

2011-06-30

Cheats Since we had the opportunity to try an earlier version of what will be Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, the truth is that he has left us impressed, as it look good.

First I must say that the menus are not the same. A first step for change and are now much more dynamic and fast, leaving aside the menus are more typical of normal applications and not games.

The system for choosing tactics have also changed and now we can quickly choose and develop tactical moves much more tactical than in previous Pro Evolution Soccer.

Already in the football field and choosing Real Madrid and FC Barcelona, one must recognize that the presentation of players is excellent. And is that the players are easily recognizable and offers a striking resemblance to the players they represent. The grass also has improved and no longer looks like a cardboard mat.

During the game we tested in more than one occasion changes in tactics and in this first version, the performance was correct, something that seems better than in the previous game.

Most surprising of Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 is the ball. No longer looks like a rubber ball, but depends on the shot, the effect and, most importantly, weather effects, as in all times they have direct influence on the ball. Thus, while the ball runs dry in a way, when it rains, the ball moves slower and heavier looks that makes the whole game much more realistic.

In summary, Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 promises to be much more spectacular than its previous versions and, most importantly, is much better finish.

You can read the full article and learn more about Pro Evolution Soccer 2010 on Cheats.

BYD electric vehicle battery base is completed

2011-07-12

August 24 reported last week, BYD Auto says its electric car battery production bases have been built in Huizhou, Guangdong. This base will take the core technology of BYD electric vehicle battery production --- Iron task for BYD mass production of electric vehicles to provide adequate capacity.

BYD BYD Huizhou Industrial Park is the production base in the country one of the nine major business scope covers mobile phone parts and components, rechargeable batteries, three major areas of auto parts, total investment of nearly 50 billion yuan. One phase of the project covers an area of about 51 million square meters, began in October 2007 put into operation, has been basically completed; II project covers an area of 810,000 square meters, in September 2008 under construction.

Last December, BYD launched a dual-mode electric vehicle F3DM, it is equipped with a self-developed iron batteries BYD. The battery has a high density, small size, light weight, capacity, security and stability and other characteristics, and because the use of iron battery, F3DM get rid of the dependence of charging stations, more conducive to commercial promotion.

Currently, BYD battery market share in the global nickel market share of around 60%, with pricing power, lithium battery holds 30% share, ranking second in the world while the iron is BYD, the battery is the development of new electric energy.

Listen to music according to your mood

2011-09-02

Each moment is different and every situation requires a specific music. It is clear that regardless of the tastes of each one, there are more cheerful songs, faster, slower and more relaxing.

Compared to other programs and services with larger repertoires, Steremood, Musicovery PlaylistNow.fm and choose music according to your mood. No need to choose a singer, a group or genre, are you sad? Calls sad music . It's that simple.

Stereomood has a very clear and intuitive interface with which you can find music in two ways. The first and quickest is to click on the labels that are floating in the cloud. Choosing any word Stereomood create a list of songs.

A potential drawback is that the labels are in English, but that you already have Google Translator , right? The second way to find songs is to write how you feel. Are you depressed because your dog died? You happy because the sun came out after two weeks of rain? Tell your friend Stereomood and he will make to help with lists as close as possible to what you asked.

There are three options: to express your mood, look and music for specific situations or simply search your entire library of songs.

It is the most direct and easiest of the three we have chosen. It seeks to be as simple as possible and all you presents for this is a phrase you have to complete: I am ... (Estoy. ..) . From there the freedom is yours to write what you go through your head, tired of working, partying, blue ...

PlaylistNow.fm analyzes the mood or situation you have written and look for playlists that can adapt to what you're looking for. The results are not mathematicians and choice is debatable, but the idea, at least, is original.

The most original of the three in terms of its operation is undoubtedly Musicovery. Once you open the page, and notice that it looks very different from the others but also very easy to use.

In Musicovery have to move a small circle inside a rectangle in which emotions are four words: Energetic, Relax, Positive and Dark . The idea is that, depending on where you place the circle, the music selection will be more or less happy, slow, fast, etc.

The list creation does not end there because you can limit your search to music from a certain era or also filter by genre. No need not even write.

As a downside, the sound quality leaves much to be desired Musicovery although it is likely that this will be addressed in future.

As the saying goes, no accounting for taste is nothing written. Thus it is difficult for any of these programs is entirely satisfactory: it is possible that a song may seem to you the joy of gardening to your cousin seems depressing. In any case, it is interesting initiatives that will surely continue to evolve.

We leave you with a link to a sample music list. The user created a Playlist.fm after thinking something like, songs I want to read my favorite blog ... Marching!

HTC EVO 4G Review

2011-10-31

On bottom, you will find the Micro-USB and HDMI ports. There's also a kickstand on the back that lets you prop the phone up on a desk.

The HTC EVO 4G, launching from Sprint today, is the first WiMax-enabled phone available to U.S. consumers. It has a 4.3-inch display, a 1 GHz Snapdragon processor, 8 megapixel camera and 1.3 megapixel forward-facing secondary camera, and 3G/4G mobile hotspot capability, all running on Android OS 2.1.

Make no mistake, the EVO 4G is big. It isn't bulky by any means, but it is just a bit taller than an iPhone, and definitely wider. It is very thin, which means that it is still comfortable to hold in the hand.

Even though this device is relatively large, it isn't too heavy. The feel is solid, with no flaps or access doors on the sides.

The overall design is quite sleek and modern. The "buttons" under the display are touch sensitive, so the front of the device is unbroken. Almost everything is black, with a few silver elements on the speaker grille and branding logos, plus red accents around the camera lens and kickstand on the back of the device.

That kickstand deserves special mention; the EVO 4G is the first phone I have encountered that has one. It works very well in landscape mode, and makes watching video on the device much more pleasant and enjoyable.

Unfortunately the kickstand doesn't quite work in portrait mode. The phone can be balanced on the stand in portrait mode, but it is somewhat unstable and if you touch the display the phone will likely tip over.

The 4.3-inch WVGA touchscreen on the EVO 4G is absolutely gorgeous. That is due in part to the significantly larger display on this device as compared to other mobile phones.

Colors are rich and vibrant, and everything just looks good, whether you're doing text-heavy tasks like checking your email and surfing the Web or looking at photos and watching videos. This isn't an AMOLED display, but the EVO 4G doesn't really seem to need it.

As far as the touchscreen is concerned, I did find it to be a little "twitchy" and it seemed at times to be too responsive, if that makes any sense. Sometimes I would accidentally get my fingers too close to the Messages or Voicemail icons when holding the phone and launch applications I didn't mean to. It could be that I'm not used to the phone yet, having only had it for the past few days, or it could be due to the fact that there is less of a border around this screen than on some other phones and I need to adjust my grip.

The EVO 4G does not have a physical keyboard, instead relying upon a virtual keyboard that you "type" on with your finger. I found the virtual keyboard to be much easier to use on the EVO than on other devices I've used recently because it is bigger, thanks to the 4.3-inch screen. That means I'm much less likely to tap in the wrong place.

Since everything is spread out a bit more, I also didn't find the word completion utility as distracting and frustrating as usual. That tends to be one of the first things I turn off when I try out a new device, but the extra screen real estate on the EVO 4G helps to solve that problem.

The headphone jack is on the top of the phone, as is the power button. The rather long and narrow volume buttons are on the top right side. The charge/sync port and the HDMI video-out port are on the bottom of the phone.

The lens for the forward-facing camera is just to the right of the speaker centered above the display, and right above and between the letters "p" and "r" in the Sprint logo.

On the back of the EVO 4G you will find the camera lens and dual led flash on the top, with the kickstand near the bottom of the device.

The battery compartment cover is relatively easy to remove if necessary. The microSD card slot is underneath the battery. An 8 GB card comes with the phone; cards up to 32 GB in capacity are supported.

Call quality test results are mixed; some of my callers praised the voice quality, one caller said that I sounded somewhat muffled, and a fellow smartphone reviewer gave the EVO 4G a "C" rating. Indoors results were more favorable, of course, with reports outside that there were some issues with background noise and hissing. I was not in a particularly noisy or windy environment, so I'm not exactly sure what caused the problem.

I was quite pleased with the call quality on my end; whether I was calling a landline phone or another mobile phone, everything came through loud and clear. I didn't hear any background noise, and I also didn't have any trouble hearing my callers.

The EVO 4G is the first smartphone released in the U.S. with WiMAX, which theoretically gives it peak downlink speeds of up to 12 Mbps, and an average downlink speed of 2-4 Mbps. In my tests, surfing the Web was at least as fast as a Wi-Fi connection. More on this later.

The Sprint Mobile Hotspot utility is one of the highlights of this smartphone, allowing you to share the WiMAX connection with up to eight other devices; I tested it this morning and had no trouble at all connecting my iPad. I was able to send and receive email and surf the Web with no issues at all, and I was also able to receive voice calls while I was using the EVO 4G as a portable hotspot. The connection also automatically switched from 4G to 3G when I went inside my office, where I am unable to get 4G coverage.

This is where the EVO 4G really shines - there's so much to do, it can actually be hard to decide: there's mobile video, games, a fully featured music player, and web browsing at blazing fast speeds.

If social networking is your game, Peep is a really nice Twitter client, and fun to use. Facebook is also included, but if you're looking for a more streamlined experience you should try FriendStream, which unifies the status updates and photos from multiple social networking services to make connecting with friends even easier. And the included Qik application makes it easy to capture video and share it with friends privately or through Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube.

If mobile gaming is your thing, the included Teeter game is a good start. It offers marble madness or labyrinth style gameplay, and the tilt controls work very well. The graphics are smooth, and the game provides a nice introduction to the possibilities that are available in the Android Market.

The music player is very nice, and the external speaker is quite surprising--it puts out very loud, very clear sound. It should be all you need when you travel, though headphones will definitely provide a richer sound. Unprotected AAC and MP3 file playback are supported. The fact that a CD spine and clear "CD case" edges are added to the cover art is a nice retro touch. There is also an FM radio app included with the phone, though you must plug in a wired headset in order to use it, as there is no internal antenna on the EVO 4G.

This is a potential area of concern, due mainly to the camera and the 4G wireless. I've only had the phone for two days so far, and each day I have been warned after four to five hours that I had reached only 15% charge and needed to plug the phone in. This may not be a problem with more normal usage patterns, as I took a great many photographs, made lots of calls, surfed the Web heavily, and watched both YouTube and Sprint TV.

More time with the device is needed to make a firm judgment, but I suspect that a more typical pattern of using the phone throughout the day and then plugging it in to recharge at night will be sufficient for most users.

It is also possible to turn off the 4G wireless if necessary, in order to conserve battery power during emergency situations.

Dell Inspiron 15R Review

2011-11-07

The newly designed Inspiron 15R is the latest 15.6-inch desktop-replacement notebook from Dell. Equipped with the Intel Core i3 or i5 processors and Intel GMA HD graphics, this budget-friendly system is aimed at the masses(dell inspiron 1425 battery , dell inspiron 1440 battery). In this review we take an in-depth look at this new system and see how it performs.

The newly redesigned Inspiron 15R(dell inspiron 1470 battery , dell inspiron 1526 battery) offers a much cleaner and sleeker look and feel compared to past models. Similar to the Adamo-series, the layout has a hinge-forward design with the screen positioned just slightly in front of the back edge of the chassis. This has the added benefit of moving the screen closer to the keyboard and bringing the action to you. The outside appearance of the new 15R is very stylish, with a faux-brushed metal screen cover. The look gives the appearance of metal, although with an easier to clean painted surface. This look it also shared inside the notebook, with the palmrest and keyboard trim.

Build quality is great with a strong chassis and very durable feeling plastic(dell inspiron 1545 battery , dell inspiron 1564 battery , dell inspiron 1570 battery). Even with its large footprint, the thin chassis resist flex and doesn't creak when you lift it up from the corners. The keyboard and palmrest both have more than adequate support, and don't sag under strong pressure. The screen cover has moderate protection for the LCD, with only strong pressure to the back of the panel causing ripples. The screen has no problem staying put with two strong hinges that get the display into position and hold it without any wiggle.

Users looking to upgrade the RAM inside the Dell Inspiron 15R will find the process quite easy. There is only one access panel on the bottom of the notebook. With a few Phillips head screws removed, you can add or repalce to the system memory. Unfortunately, getting access to the hard drive requires a complete disassembly of the notebook(dell inspiron 1750 battery , dell inspiron 1764 battery) chassis.

For a budget 15-inch desktop-replacement the Inspiron 15R offers plenty of inputs. We counted three USB 2.0 ports, one eSATA/USB connection, HDMI and VGA-out , audio jacks, and Ethernet. It also featured a SDHC-card reader, but an ExpressCard slot was missing.

One feature Dell offers as an option on the Inspiron 15R(dell inspiron e1405 battery , dell inspiron e1505 battery) is Intel Wi-Di (Wireless Display) that transmits 720P resolution video through wireless HDMI over a long distance to a receiver box that attaches to your HDTV. This technology is great for enjoying movies without needing to trip over wires draped across a living room. The downside is this technology requires a 2-3 second buffer, making it impossible to use for a second monitor where you need to actively control items on the screen. Browsing the web is very difficult when your mouse cursor is trailing a couple seconds behind. For watching a movie, its not a problem since you start it up and go hands-off.

The Intel Wi-Di option adds $100 to the price of the Inspiron 15R(dell inspiron e1705 battery). In theory this is a great value, although at the time of this writing Dell only offers this on the highest configuration of the 15R. Our $599 model cannot currently be configured with Wi-Di on the Dell website.

The keyboard on the Inspiron 15R(dell inspiron m5030 battery , dell inspiron m5110 battery) is a cross between a Chilet and standard keyboard. The tops of each key are flat with sharp edges, but instead of an inner-bezel they broaden out to meet the sides of other keys. This design is comfortable to type on, although it lacks some of the cupping that is nice to have to center your fingers over each key as you type. The layout is full-size with a condensed numberpad, which doesn't feel in any way cramped with the large width of this laptop. The only complaint I have with this keyboard are the directional keys, which are micro-sized for a keyboard of this size. They are roughly equal in size to the function keys on the top row. I am guessing it was done this way to maximize the size of the palmrest and get users to use the numberpad for direction keys.

The touchpad is a spacious Synaptics model, which thankfully doesn't incorporate buttons below the touch-sensitive surface. The response times of the touchpad were excellent, exhibiting no lag whatsoever in our testing(dell inspiron n3010 battery , dell inspiron n4010 battery). The surface texture was a light matte finish that was easy to glide over with a dry or slightly damp fingertip. The touchpad supported multitouch gestures which worked well and with the external buttons, didn't interfere with normal operation of the cursor. The touchpad buttons offered shallow feedback, but they did have slightly more travel than other short-throw buttons. When pressed they emitted a very soft click that didn't make your presence known in a medium to large-sized room.

The 15R as the name implies offers a 15.6-inch display. The panel comes in 1366x768 resolution only, with a glossy or glare-type surface. We didn't find the reflections or glare to be as bad as all-glass style panels, but it was still greater than matte finishes(dell inspiron n7110 battery , dell vostro 1720 battery , dell vostro 3500 battery). For a budget system the screen rates slightly above average with a strong backlight, measuring a peak of 218nit with our Gossen Mavo-Monitor light meter. The brightness was a bit low for outdoor viewing, but worked quite well under bright office lighting. Screen contrast was also measured as being 136:1 with an average darkness of 1.45nit and minimal backlight bleed around the edges. Color quality was good, although maybe not as vivid as more recent multimedia-oriented systems. Vertical viewing angles were good to about 15-20 degrees before colors started to sharply invert. Horizontal viewing angles were better, staying true to about 60 degrees off-center before reflections started to overpower the panel.

The speakers on the Inspiron 15R are located along the leading edge of the palmrest facing downward. In their optimal position with the notebook placed on a flat desk the speakers filled a small room with music. Audio quality was about average for a consumer notebook(dell vostro 3750 battery) of this size. Because the speakers were located on the bottom part of the notebook, if you had the notebook in your lap, it was pretty easy to accidentally block one or both of the grills with your pants and partially block the sound coming out.

System performance on the Dell Inspiron 15R was great thanks to the Intel Core i3 and i5 processor selection, as well as Intel GMA HD graphics. While our configuration was more budget oriented, Dell does offer a dedicated graphics option with the ATI Radeon HD550v with 1GB of VRAM. On compatible systems this option adds $100 to the purchase price(dell vostro a860 battery , dell xps l501x battery).

The Inspiron15R laptop received a score of 99 on the Worldbench 6 benchmark - for comparisons sake, that would be 2 points more than what the Lenovo IdeaPad Z570 scored. This Dell laptop should be able to cope with carrying out your daily tasks and performing most multiple processor and memory intensive tasks without any issues - save for gaming(dell latitude e6500 battery). During synthetic testing, the laptop's hard disk recorded an average read speed of 72.5 MB/s and recorded a PC Mark Vantage score of 5547.

Given that the laptop has the integrated Intel HD graphics, playing contemporary games shouldn't really be considered as a viable option on this laptop. This is not a downside in any way as the laptop was never intended for such a purpose, and if you were indeed looking for a more moderately priced machine to play games on, you would be better off looking at other options - such as the Lenovo IdeaPad Z570. Having said that, you just might be able to get away with playing some of the retro games, run at appropriate settings, on this Inspiron 15R laptop(dell latitude e6320 battery , dell latitude e6520 battery).

Watching both 720p and 1080p HD videos was a comfortable experience. The sound output from the built in speakers, is appropriately loud for a small to medium sized room, although higher frequency sounds do tend to sound quite screechy. Listening through headphones would be the best option.

Throughout our testing, the Inspiron laptop did a good job of keeping itself cool, which is a positive aspect for any laptop. However when used for an extended period of time or when running some intensive tasks, you do notice that the mid-to-top left section of the laptop's base, that is next to the exhaust, heats up slightly and becomes quite warm to the touch. Moreover, the laptop was barely audible during operation, which is another positive to take from this laptop.

The laptop's six-cell dell inspiron 15r battery lasted for 1 hour 32 minutes through one of our battery tests, at high performance mode, and having the wireless internet mode enabled - this result is pretty much the norm we have come to expect of mainstream laptops. Having said that, you should be able to extract around 4 plus hours out of the laptop's (dell battery) for doing lighter every-day work such as browsing the web and listening to music.

The 15R handled itself pretty well in our tests, even though it was a base configuration. The newer Intel Core i3 370M processor and Intel HD graphics can handle anything the average user would want to do, outside of 3D intensive gaming. For watching 720P and 1080P movies, the system rendered them flawlessly without breaking a sweat. This worked very well when using the supplied Intel Wi-Di adapter, to wirelessly stream HD videos to an HDTV. Office productivity applications were no problem for the 15R(dell xps l702x battery), so for the average college user this notebook would be an excellent choice.

The Inspiron 15R handled its heat output pretty well, but it did get warmer in some areas compared to the larger 17R. Under the stress of constant benchmarks, the only hot spot that formed was an area on the bottom of the chassis that measured 93 degrees Fahrenheit. The highest temperature on the top was only 89 degrees Fahrenheit. Under normal conditions the notebook(dell xps m1330 battery , dell xps m1530 battery , dell xps m1730 battery) was fairly tame in its heat output, cycling the fan on occasionally, but at a very slow speed. Noise output even under the worst conditions was still at whisper levels though.

The Dell Inspiron 15R comes standard with a 48Wh 6-cell battery, which worked surprisingly well in our tests(dell latitude d430 battery , dell latitude d520 battery). An optional 9-cell 90WH battery is also offered with some configurations if you needed extended runtime. In our tests with the screen brightness reduced to 70%, wireless active and refreshing a webpage ever 60 seconds, and Windows set to the Balanced profile, the Inspiron 15R stayed on for 3 hours and 43 minutes. While the number was fairly decent for a budget notebook, we were surprised the time was identical to what we saw on the larger Inspiron 17R.

The 15.6-inch glossy screen does a good job of displaying text and video. The viewing angles are decent - two people, sitting within comfortable distance of each other, should be able to watch the screen without having to see the darkish hue appear over the particular picture/video. The screen can be titled backwards to an angle of approx 120 degrees(dell studio 1537 battery).

The Dell Inspiron 15R features a Second Generation Intel Core i3 2310 processor (2.1GHz), 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 500 GB (5400 RPM) HDD, and Intel HD graphics.

The left side of the laptop chassis features, one Ethernet port, one VGA port, an HDMI port, one USB 2.0 port and headphone and microphone jacks(dell studio 1737 battery). On the right hand side you would find an optical drive and 2 USB 2.0 ports. At the front of the chassis, you would find a multi-card reader - positioned to its left, you would find the four LED indicators. It also features Wi-Fi 802.11b/g/ n and Bluetooth 3.0 wireless connectivity.

The laptop comes pre-installed with Windows 7 Home Premium service pack 1. Among the Dell software included on this unit are the Dell DataSafe local backup, Dell(dell studio 1749 battery) DataSafe online, Dell Stage - includes MusicStage, PhotoStage and VideoStage, Dell Support Centre and PC Checkup and Dell webcam Central which allows you to add some interesting effects to your photos.

Among the other pre-installed software are McAfee Security Centre trial edition, Roxio Creator Starter Edition, and Skype.

The entire base is a single cover slot(laptop battery), and the entire base will have to taken off - we tried to remove it, but to no avail - to look at the Inspiron laptop's innards. Consequently, in case you are thinking of upgrading this unit, that task is better left to Dell, and is not an activity that I would encourage regular users to engage in.

The Inspiron 15R is a budget-friendly 15.6-inch notebook(dell latitude d531 battery , dell latitude d630 battery , dell latitude d631 battery) based around the latest Intel platform. With a base configuration including the Intel Core i3 370M processor, 4GB of RAM, and Intel GMA HD graphics, the 15R easily outperforms budget and midrange notebooks of yesteryear. For the average user, this machine is more than capable for pretty much all activities except gaming. Even when it came to decoding HD movies, the 15R handled it with ease. The 15R deserves a spot on your shopping list if you are looking for a new notebook.

Sony VAIO YB Review

2011-11-07

The team at Sony has completely reinvented the VAIO Y notebook with some help from AMD. The new Sony VAIO Y (technically called the "VAIO YB") is Sony's first laptop to feature the new AMD E-350 processor and graphics. This 11-inch laptop(laptop battery) is more expensive than a typical netbook but offers significantly better performance. Take a look at what we have to say about this mighty mini.

AMD E-350 with AMD Radeon HD 6310 Graphics (dual-core CPU at 1.6 GHz and dual DX-11 SIMDs at 500 MHz)

The new VAIO Y is a radical departure from last year's 13-inch Sony VAIO Y. I'm a little unsure why Sony(sony vgp-bpl2 battery , sony vgp-bpl9 battery) doesn't just call this the "VAIO YB" on the official SonyStyle website, but despite the confusion over the model name this looks like another attractive Sony notebook. In terms of the overall size and shape, the VAIO YB has more in common with the VAIO W netbook than last year's VAIO Y. In truth, the new VAIO Y was designed to replace the Atom-based netbooks in Sony's lineup, and thankfully the VAIO YB has more to offer than those low-performance netbooks.

Build quality is on par with most 11-inch laptops(sony vgp-bpl11 battery , sony vgp-bpl12 battery) we've tested like the HPPavilion dm1z and the Acer Aspire 1830T. The plastics are thin yet firm; offering a combination of everyday durability and light weight. Although I wouldn't recommend playing a game of frisbee with this laptop, the plastics used in the chassis are probably strong enough to survivie a year or two of constant travel inside a school backpack. The plastic screen lid provides bends under significant pressure but you really have to press hard to create ripples on the screen. The lid also comes in your choice of silver or pink at the time of this writing. The best description I can give for the paint finish is "metallic matte" since it's shiny but doesn't show off fingerprints like a typical glossy notebook.

The bottom of the notebook(sony vgp-bpl13 battery , sony vgp-bpl14 battery) features a single access panel secured by three screws. Behind that panel you'll find the RAM and hard drive in case you want to make any upgrades. Granted, most consumers who purchase a $550 laptop like this will probably be content with the 4GB of standard memory and the 500GB hard drive. Still, it's nice to know that Sony made it reasonably easy to replace the RAM and hard drive if you want to do that.

Port selection on the VAIO Y is pretty standard for an 11-inch ultraportable notebook(sony vgp-bpl15 battery , sony vgp-bpl23 battery). You get three USB 2.0 ports, HDMI-out, VGA, Gigabit LAN, a microphone jack and a headphone jack. It also features a SDHC-card slot and Memory Stick slot for loading images off your camera while traveling. I'm a little sad to see there isn't a USB 3.0 port on this notebook (particularly since it costs $550. We're starting to see USB 3.0 on more consumer notebooks and there simply isn't a good excuse for not including it here.

The 11.6-inch LED-backlit screen on the VAIO YB is predominantly similar to the glossy screens found on most 11-inch notebooks(sony vgp-bps2a battery , sony vgp-bps2a/s battery) and netbook alternatives. The 1366 x 768 resolution is fine for browsing the web, editing photos, or even watching 720p HD movies. Color and contrast are average and the screen doesn't get as bright as the one on the HP Pavilion dm1z. We recorded a real-world contrast ratio of 198:1 in our lab and a maximum screen brightness of 201 nits; that's bright enough for indoor use under almost any artificial lights but you might have trouble viewing this screen outdoors under bright sunlight. If you tilt the screen forward or back, the colors start to look dim or very washed out. Horizontal viewing angles were better; staying visible until roughly 70 degrees.

The onboard speakers are located on the bottom on the notebook next to the left and right front corners. These speakers sound decent for a pair of small stereo speakers but the audio output sounds muffled if you're using this as a laptop(sony vgp-bps2b battery , sony vgp-bps2c battery). I was able to easily obstruct the speakers against my jeans which resulted in seriously muted sound. In short, music and movie lovers would be better off using a nice pair of headphones or connecting the notebook to a stereo through its HDMI-out port.

Although the VAIO YB has a similar footprint to other 11-inch laptops(sony vgp-bps2c/s battery , sony vgp-bps8 battery), the keyboard on this notebook feels small and cramped. The individual keys on this Chiclet-style keyboard are smaller than the keys on many other 11-inch notebooks and that translates into the occasional typo if you aren't prepared for the tiny keys. The keys themselves have a nearly perfect amount of feedback with quiet, cushioned clicks. The keyboard support structure is firm with no obvious flex or "bounce" under heavy typing pressure.

The touchpad on the new VAIO Y is a Synaptics model with good sensitivity, minimal lag and separate left and right touchpad buttons. I feel the need to mention that separate buttons since so many companies are using buttonless touchpads on 11-inch laptops(sony vgp-bps9 battery , sony vgp-bps9/b battery)... most of which aren't particularly good.

My only complaint about the touchpad on the VAIO YB is that Sony could have made it larger if they pushed the keyboard up closer to the hinge and made more room beneath the keyboard for a bigger touchpad. The touchpad isn't "uncomfortably small" but I would have enjoyed using this laptop more if the touchpad was larger(sony vgp-bps9/s battery , sony vgp-bps9a/b battery).

Despite having the same model name as last year's VAIO Y, the new Sony VAIO Y (YB) is more of a direct replacement for the Sony VAIO W netbook(sony vgp-bps9a/s battery). The YB offers significantly better performance than a netbook that uses the Intel Atom processor.

The secret to that performance boost is AMD's new Fusion technology. The AMD "Zacate" E-350 accelerated processing unit (APU) combines a dual-core CPU with a 1.6 GHz clock speed with a Radeon graphics processing unit (GPU) on a single processor die. This not only allows Sony to pack more processing power into a smaller notebook(sony vgp-bps13 battery , sony vgp-bps13a/b battery), but it means the VAIO YB offers significantly more video and graphics horsepower than any netbook with an Intel Atom processor.

Although the new Sony VAIO Y isn't designed specifically for gaming, some people reading this review will be happy to know that you can play games like Left 4 Dead 2 or Mass Effect 2 on this little laptop(sony vgp-bps13a/q battery , sony vgp-bps13a/s battery). Frame rates aren't particularly impressive in graphics-intense games like this (average frame rates between 16 and 23 fps), but both games are "playable" if you just want to have some fun on the road.

The VAIO YB delivers roughly the same performance as the similarly equipped HP Pavilion dm1z and the Lenovo ThinkPad X120e, but the Sony produced a slightly lower 3DMark score when we tested the graphics performance. Still, it would be hard for the average consumer to notice the performance difference between this laptop(sony vgp-bps13b/b battery , sony vgp-bps13b/q battery) and the 11-inch MacBook Air which costs roughly twice as much.

One performance area you might notice is the 500GB, 5400 rpm hard drive. The Sony's hard drive is slightly faster than the 7200 rpm hard drive found inside the HP Pavilion dm1z, but doesn't deliver blazing speed. The hard drive is fast enough to quickly load most applications like Adobe Photoshop or Microsoft Office but it doesn't deliver the same snappiness as the SSD found in the 11-inch MacBook Air(sony vgp-bps13b/s battery , sony vgp-bps13/b battery).

The VAIO YB benefits from the low-wattage AMD E-350 APU in terms of heat output as well as overall performance. The exterior temperature of the notebook barely increased after 30 minutes of serious activity. The bottom of the notebook(sony vgp-bps13/q battery , sony vgp-bps13/s battery) barely reached a temperature of 91 degrees Fahrenheit. Under normal conditions at or near idle, the same spots were about 5-6 degrees cooler. The system fan works harder in this notebook when the graphics are being stressed, but it's similar to the fan volume we heard from the HP Pavilion dm1z and Acer Aspire 1830T -- it shouldn't be too annoying for most people in a typical school or office environment.

At the time of this writing the SonyStyle website claims that the new VAIO Y notebook delivers up to 6 hours of battery life with the standard battery. This is far more realistic than some of the battery(sony vgp-bps14/b battery , sony vgp-bps14/s battery) life claims we've seen from various manufacturers over the years, but we still had to put this notebook through our own tests.

In our tests with the screen brightness set to 70%, wireless active while refreshing a website on regular 60-second intervals, and Windows 7 set to the Balanced profile, the Sony VAIO YB continued running for 4 hours and 32 minutes. That is significantly less than the battery(sony vgp-bps15/b battery , sony vgp-bps15/s battery) life of the HP Pavilion dm1z or the Lenovo ThinkPad X120e which both have virtually identical configurations.

The lower battery life of the VAIO YB probably has to do with the fact this laptop uses a 38Wh battery compared to the 50+Wh batteries on the HP and Lenovo notebooks. I'm reasonably sure you can extend the battery(sony vgp-bps20 battery , sony vgp-bps20/b battery) life past the 5-hour mark if you lower the screen brightness and aren't actively loading pages every 60 seconds, but I don't see how the new Sony VAIO Y can deliver "6 hours" of battery life as described on the SonyStyle website.

At the end of the day the new Sony VAIO Y is a good netbook alternative that struggles a little bit among the variety of similarly-equipped 11-inch laptops(sony vgp-bps20/s battery , sony vgp-bps21a/b battery). The new AMD E-350 processor and graphics are fantastic, but we're going to see a lot of small notebooks using this hardware in 2011 and that makes it tough for manufacturers to convince people to buy their product.

The VAIO YB doesn't provide as much battery power as other laptops using the E-350 APU and it costs roughly $50-$100 more depending on the configuration. That's a VERY tough sale in a market with so much competition. Sure, the new Sony VAIO Y is a good laptop(sony vgp-bps21/s battery , sony vgp-bps23 battery), but I suspect many potential customers won't get past the price.

Apple MacBook Air 13.3-Inch Review

2011-11-07

Apple's(apple laptop battery) Thinnest Design Yet - This is what I'm most excited about.

13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with a 1440 x 900-pixel resolution

1.86 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 6 MB on-chip shared L2 cache and 1066 MHz frontside bus.

NVIDIA GeForce 320M graphics processor (with 256 MB of DDR3 SDRAM shared with main memory) for an outstanding everyday graphics experience.

Wi-Fi wireless networking (based on 802.11n specification; 802.11a/b/g compatible)

Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (Enhanced Data Rate) for connecting with peripherals such as keyboards, mice and cell phones

Mini DisplayPort output port with support for DVI, VGA, dual-link DVI, and HDMI (requires adapters, sold separately)

Built-in stereo speakers along with omnidirectional microphone, headphone minijack

Multi-Touch trackpad for precise cursor control; supports inertial scrolling, pinch, rotate, swipe, three-finger swipe, four-finger swipe, tap, double-tap, and drag capabilities

There comes a time when that giant, corporate-issued laptop stops fitting into your lifestyle. When dragging around a Kensington roller case just won't do. When you start to hear the siren lilt of something thinner, lighter, and maybe a bit more alluring. For years the MacBook Air(apple ibook g4 power adapter , apple macbook pro power adapter) has been that svelte temptress hollering your name, but it's always been a bit too slow -- all show and no go. It didn't have the power and the longevity to make it a serious contender for your serious affections.

No more. With its latest refresh, Apple has taken what was once a manilla-clad curiosity and turned it into a legitimate machine, not just a sultry looker. Good thing, too, because the death of the plastic-clad MacBook(apple powerbook g4 power adapter , apple macbook pro charger) means the Air is now Apple's entry-level portable. Weary traveler looking for a laptop that will lighten your load and, it must be said, your wallet too? This might just be it.

The outside of this 2011 refresh of the MacBook Air is virtually indistinguishable from that which came before it. Yes, that means compromises(apple powerbook g4 charger , apple macbook pro 17 inch battery). On the 13-inch model you'll still have to make do with but one USB port on the left and one on the right, but now that latter one is flanked by a Thunderbolt connector, Apple's implementation of Intel's Light Peak standard. This 10Gb/sec interconnect has become standard fare on all new machines coming out of Cupertino, a fact that should help to accelerate the so-far tardy uptake in support from accessory manufacturers.

The 11-inch model is likewise emblazoned, but sadly has still not been granted an SD reader, something restricted to the bigger 13. On the left you'll find a 3.5mm headphone jack, the MagSafe power connector and... nothing else(apple macbook pro 15 inch battery , apple macbook pro 13 inch battery). All other ports have been deemed unnecessary by Apple's designers and therefore relegated to myriad USB adapters for things like Ethernet -- though if you start relying on those you'll likely need to start packing a USB hub as well.

Like before, the omission of these ports leaves the Air free to pinch down to a delicious taper beneath the keyboard, thin enough to make for a decent cleaver when no proper blade can be found -- or when you just can't be bothered to find one. Even on the fat end it measures a mere(apple macbook pro battery , apple 13 inch macbook air battery).68-inches (17mm) thick. Or thin, rather.

So what has changed? The touchpad, surprisingly. It's still big and glassy and situated in the middle of the full-sized palm rest like on the chunkier Pro. Now, though, it's subtly quieter, with a more refined sound and feel as you click away. The previous generation almost feels hollow and has an annoying resonance that's been banished.

The keyboard above, too, has a better feel. Keys are more springy than before, more solid and responsive than the somewhat loose, flappy ones on the last generation(apple powerbook g4 12 inch battery , apple powerbook g4 15 inch titanium battery). But the biggest change here is what's lurking beneath the keys: a backlight. Yes, you'll now be able to do things like adjust volume, change track, and hit that damned & character in the dark. And, thanks to the ambient light sensor hidden in the bezel, you won't have to worry about those keys blinding you in bed.

Step inside the case and you'll find the most important changes here: new Intel Core i5 and i7 ULV processors. The backlit keyboard is nice, and the addition of Thunderbolt could be a boon in 12 months or so, but its the new selection of processors that really turn the Air into a serious machine, as you'll see when we talk benchmarks in a bit(apple powerbook g4 15 inch aluminum battery , apple powerbook g4 17 inch battery).

On the memory front, 4GB of DDR3 memory is found on all but the base 11-inch model, which gets by with half that. SSDs are standard across the board, starting at 64GB for the 11 and going up to 256GB for the top-shelf 13-inch. Intel HD 3000 graphics power the lot and stock processors include 1.6GHz and 1.7GHz Core i5's, though a 1.8GHz Core i7 is available.

When it comes to displays nothing has changed: the 13-inch model features a 1440 x 900 glossy, LED-backlit panel while the 11 still does 1366 x 768. We spent our time testing the 13-incher and, as before, it continues to impress when it comes to contrast, brightness, and viewing angles, which are plenty wide enough to enable two-person, coach-class viewing of that latest episode of Top Gear(apple powerbook g4 battery , apple powerbook g3 battery , apple ibook g4 battery). Contrast is helped by the glossy sheen here -- and no, you still can't option out a matte unit.

We still found its resolution to be more than adequate for most tasks but just a bit limiting for anyone working on photos or doing anything where pixels really count. Honestly, that wasn't much of a concern before thanks to the lack of power, but now...

When it comes time to actually use the thing, when the Air isn't just dead weight in your bag that you want as little of as possible, how does it actually perform? This is when the previous models faltered, and this is where the new Air excels(apple ibook g4 12 battery , apple ibook g4 14 battery , apple ibook g3 battery).

When last we tested an Air, the 13-inch model with a 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo processor scored a 2,717 on the GeekBench benchmark. This new 13, configured with the default 1.7GHz Core i5 and paired with 4GB of DDR3 and a 128GB SSD, nearly doubled that: 5,373. No, that won't threaten the full-bore 15-inch MacBook Pro for sheer speed, but double the performance in nine months is a welcome improvement, living up to Apple's 2x promises here, and from what we've seen elsewhere the 11-inch lives up to its 2.5x promises as well(apple powerbook g3 12 inch battery , apple A1039 battery).

We also threw Windows 7 on there, Boot Camp making it easy, and ran through a further suite of benchmarks to see how it fares there. PCMark Vantage clocked in at 9,484, actually higher than the 15-inch Pro's 8,041 when we tested it, though the Air's 3DMark 06 score was considerably lower thanks to the limited graphics prowess here, just 4,223. So, it's still no gaming rig, but it is the sort of machine you wouldn't think twice about trying to do some serious business on.

Now, as we all know benchmarks(apple A1045 battery , apple A1057 battery , apple A1061 battery) only tell a part of the story, but we're happy to report that the numbers really do fall in line with our impressions here. This machine boots to a Lion login screen in a snappy 15 seconds, apps load quickly, batch photo jobs finish much more promptly, and overall in our time with this machine we did a lot less waiting and a lot more working. But, just like before, be prepared to listen to the thing's internal cooling fan register its complaints whenever utilization rates start climbing.

Despite that, we had no issues with battery life(apple A1078 battery , apple A1079 battery). On our standard rundown test, where we'll loop a video until the machine calls it quits, the new Air clocked in at just over five and a half hours. That's well more than the Lenovo X1 recently managed on the same test and actually about an hour more than last year's model managed when we dusted it off and ran it through the same wringer. Even running Windows the Air managed 4:12 on the same rundown test, on par with the Samsung Series 9.

In standard usage, surfing and typing and Facebooking and such, you should be able to do much better. The Air routinely beat our expectations -- and its own estimates -- for battery life(apple A1106 battery , apple A1148 battery , apple A1175 battery). The seven hours Apple advertises for the 13 (five for the 11) is well within reach if you're not doing anything too taxing. And of course that's a good thing, because you won't be replacing the battery here without a screwdriver.

The 2011 MacBook Air addresses nearly every concern anyone could lob at its predecessor. It's still light on ports, the missing SD slot on the 11-inch model is a drag, and no, it isn't cheap, but this machine is fast, efficient, and not to be underestimated(apple A1185 battery , apple A1189 battery). It's a supermodel with a law degree from Columbia, a hunky motorcycle racer who looks good in leathers yet is also a concert pianist -- whatever your passion it won't disappoint, all while making a lot more room in your bag. More room for what? Well, your life, for starters.

The good: The new 11-inch Apple(apple A1245 battery , apple A1278 battery) MacBook Air is dramatically faster than last year's version, has a backlit keyboard, and comes with a high-speed Thunderbolt I/O port.

The bad: The entry-level Air still has the same limited fixed flash storage and RAM as last year's version, which most people will want to upgrade from--and there's still no SD card slot, Ethernet port, or 3G wireless option.

The bottom line: This year's 11-inch MacBook Air improves on last year's model in several significant ways and is by far the fastest ultraportable you're likely to find, though some users will consider the limited flash storage space to be a hindrance.

Last October, Apple's 11-inch MacBook Air debuted(apple A1280 battery , apple A1281 battery). The tiny, slim ultraportable was the smallest laptop Apple had ever made. Its combination of size and power earned it a four-star review, with caveats: it had a last-generation Core 2 Duo processor, lacked a backlit keyboard, and omitted an SD card slot. We're glad to find the newly released, back-to-school-timed 2011 MacBook Air update fixes two of our three complaints.

Both 11- and 13-inch MacBook Airs have been updated with new, faster second-gen Core i5 processors. The new Air also, finally, has a backlit keyboard. There are more bonuses, too: Mac OS X Lion, Apple's brand-new operating system update, comes preinstalled. A Thunderbolt I/O port for high-speed data transfer and HD audio/video has been added.

Unfortunately, there's still no SD card slot, and memory and storage configurations remain both fixed and limited: the configuration still only has 2GB of RAM and 64GB of flash storage, which many will consider inadequate. We recommend the configuration, which has 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage.

Perhaps the biggest change to the MacBook Air is how it's being sold(apple M8244G battery , apple M8403 battery , apple MA561 battery). Now that the white MacBook no longer exists, Apple has made the MacBook Air the entry-level laptop for everybody (everybody with a grand to drop on a laptop, at least). The 11-inch MacBook Air is the most affordable MacBook in Apple's stable.

The 2011 11-inch Air is, undeniably, an improvement over the fall 2010 version. Is it a MacBook for everyone, though? Not yet, unless you can live with the Air's still comparatively limited storage space. For a more full-size laptop with even better battery life, many might be tempted to get the 13-inch MacBook Air or even the more full-featured 13-inch MacBook Pro(Macbook Pro battery). But, for sheer portability and performance, nothing can beat the 11-inch Air.

Youtube (even in HTML5)? The fan spins at 6200 rpm. Flicking through pictures? 6200 rpm. A video? 6200 rpm. A game? 6200 rpm.

I "reset the SMC". The Apple "solve all" trick that of course solves nothing. Found a script that decreses the max fan speed - but then it's start to get HOT. Found a small freeware controlling the speed of the fan in a better way - but not preventing it to raise to 6200 rpm.

I know, I know, I may have got a bad one, right? But hey, I owned a MBA in 2009 and I had to sell it for the exact same reason - plus it was overheating like crazy.

Here's the question I have for Apple: Why the hell does your Macbook Air (including the 11"!), have a better screen than the 13" MBP? You just refreshed the MBP line and still gave the 13" a 1280x800 display, even though the Macbook Air already had 1366x768! Now the air has 1440x900! Are you guys dumb, or just trolling your customers?

"I've got it! Give the MacBook Pro(laptop batteries) a better GPU and CPU, but a WORSE display! Brilliant!"

You're not comparing laptops of the same class. Try comparing this to the Samsung Series 9, Sony Vaio Z, Acer Ultrabook, Asus UX21 in price and then let me know how "expensive" the MBA is compared to the competition.

I'll admit the specs you get aren't impressive compared to another laptop with the same price range, but come on, please compare Apples to Apples, not Apples to Oranges.

Lenovo ThinkPad T420 Review

2011-11-07

Bottom line, the ThinkPad T420(lenovo t420 battery) is an excellent choice for business, home, and student use.

Intel Core i5-2520M dual-core processor (2.5GHz, up to 3.2GHz Turbo Boost, 3MB cache, 35W TDP)

Automatically switchable to integrated Intel HD graphics via Nvidia Optimus graphics-switching technology

Our review unit has a few options, most notably the high-resolution 900p screen, slightly faster Core i5-2520M dual-core processor, a dedicated Nvidia graphics card, 500GB 7200RPM hard drive, and the beefy 9-cell battery. Overall this configuration is more than powerful enough for office productivity and is a good value.

The hard drive in our test sample of the T420 is a fast Hitachi Travelstar model which greatly helps performance - the hard drive/storage system is the slowest part of any modern computer. To that end, the main reason that other business notebooks(lenovo thinkpad t61 battery , lenovo thinkpad t60 battery) such as the Dell Latitude E6420 ATG and HP EliteBook 8560p produced significantly higher PCMark scores is because those review units each came equipped with a faster solid state drive (SSD) ... which is also an option on the T420.

The 14-inch ThinkPad T420 business notebook has an excellent screen, keyboard, and battery life. We explain why this "business rugged" notebook is a great choice for hard-working customers.

Lenovo's Thinkpad T series notebooks have long been the gold standard for mainstream business systems because of their strong performance, superior build quality, and best-in-class keyboards. With the 14-inch ThinkPad T420, Lenovo has made a couple of changes, switching the screen to the now-standard 16:9 aspect ratio and giving it the latest Intel 2nd Generation Core series CPU. Is the T420, $1,179 as configured, the business notebook(lenovo thinkpad t400 battery , lenovo thinkpad t410 battery) to beat?

Change comes slowly to the venerable ThinkPad T series, but when it does, it's usually worth waiting for. The Lenovo ThinkPad T420-the bread and butter of the ThinkPad line-may look the same as the T410 it replaces, but important changes under the hood make this system even better. You get improved performance, thanks to Intel's Sandy Bridge CPU platform, stellar battery life, enhanced Lenovo utilities, and unique videoconferencing abilities. Those changes are all on top of the already-excellent ThinkPad T architecture.

For business users in search of a 14-inch laptop to flog as a daily workhorse, there's a lot to recommend in the ThinkPad T420. And while the $1,264 for our tested configuration certainly isn't cheap when compared against consumer machines with similar base components, you get your money's worth in other ways. We should note that if you configure this particular system on Lenovo's site, you'll see it has an "original" price of a whopping $2,005, with the much lower price presented "after discounts." Lenovo(lenovo thinkpad t420 battery , lenovo thinkpad t420s battery) assures us, however, that the price for this particular model will not exceed $1,264. This is a common practice among notebook manufacturers, and the higher price was never an actual price for the system.

Base models of the ThinkPad T420 start at prices much lower than our test unit, at "original" prices of around $1,300 and "after discount" prices below $800. With these cheaper models, though, you miss out on a lot of performance and business-focused features. With the entry-point ThinkPad T420 model, you get a 2.3GHz Core i3-2350M processor, a lower-resolution screen (1,366x768), integrated graphics, no fingerprint reader, a smaller hard drive (320GB), a smaller battery, and no Bluetooth. Lenovo leaves the Webcam in by default, but if you're really watching your pennies, you can save $30 there and go without.

For a real business PC workhorse, though-one that balances weight, screen size, performance, premium security features, and price exceptionally well-the test configuration we looked at, or one close to it, is where the real value lies in this line.

With the ThinkPad T420, the name has changed(lenovo thinkpad t510s battery , lenovo thinkpad t520 battery), but the design remains the same: It's the same squared-off, matte-black ThinkPad chassis you'd expect. We understand that you don't mess with a classic, but we can't help but steal furtive glances at the more au courant laser-etched metal chassis of the HP Envy 14 and others, and wonder what a ThinkPad might achieve given an extreme makeover.

What the ThinkPad T420 lacks in curb appeal is more than compensated for in the internal design. That basic-black chassis is mostly made out of a magnesium alloy for added strength with minimal weight. As with other T-series ThinkPads before it, the T420 features Lenovo's roll cage: an internal carbon-fiber skeleton that protects the components within from flex. The T420 has also passed eight U.S. military testing specifications ("Mil-Spec," for short), including those for humidity extremes (up to 98 percent), low/high temperature, sand resistance, high-altitude operation, vibration, and mechanical shock. And as before, the keyboard is spill-resistant, with drainage holes on the bottom of the chassis to quickly route spills-up to 4 ounces of fluid, according to Lenovo-out of the machine.

At 4.8 pounds and 1.2 inches thick, the ThinkPad T420 is on the bulky side for a machine at this weight(lenovo thinkpad x60 battery , lenovo thinkpad x61 battery), but it's still easy to tote around the office and zip into a laptop bag for travel. That said, if you need a 14-inch-screened machine for frequent road trips, you might want to pay the premium for the lighter (3.9-pound) and thinner (0.9-inch-thick) ThinkPad T420s.

While the ThinkPad T420 looks nearly identical to the T410 it replaces, it is not a carbon copy. With the T420, Lenovo has moved to an imperceptibly smaller 14-inch screen, versus the 14.1-inch LCD on the older model. The new panel has an aspect ratio of 16-to-9 (versus 16-to-10 for the 14.1-inch panel), which means the screen resolution matches common HD-resolution specifications, at the expense of a bit of vertical height.

The edges of the machine contain a good selection of ports. VGA and DisplayPort connectors, for exporting the onscreen image to an external display, are on the laptop's left edge, accompanied by a USB 2.0 port and an Ethernet jack. The right edge houses a headset jack, another USB 2.0 port, an eSATA/USB combo port for connecting external high-speed drives, a memory-card reader, and an ExpressCard/34 slot for popping in expansion devices(lenovo thinkpad x300 battery , lenovo thinkpad w420 battery).

The right edge is also home to a modular-device swappable bay (an "UltraBay," in Lenovo-speak). Most of the time, this bay will hold your laptop's optical drive, but it can also accept a second hard drive or battery. These swap-in accessories are added-cost options.

Hiding around back is a FireWire connector and a third USB 2.0 port. This USB port is the "always on" type, which you can use for charging smartphones and other USB-connected devices when the laptop is off or in sleep mode. Note that the ThinkPad T420 lacks the faster USB 3.0 ports that are becoming common on high-end notebooks. Also, if you need to connect to an external display via HDMI (many HDTVs rely on these, for example), you'll need to use a DisplayPort-to-HDMI adapter.

The T420 has a solid array of input and output ports(lenovo thinkpad l412 battery , lenovo thinkpad sl500 battery). It's also worth noting the T420 has a docking station port on its underside - Lenovo sells several different models, all offering plug-and-play compatibility and connections to many more ports. This functionality is a feature of a true business notebook; lower-end "business" notebooks do not have them, nor do consumer models. All picture descriptions are left to right.

With mainstream notebooks having moved to 15.6-inch screens and ultraportables largely sporting 13.3-inch ones, the ThinkPad T420 is one of the few laptops left to use the once-ubiquitous 14-inch variety. (That said, back in the day, 14-inch panels were typically 4-to-3 panels, not wide-screens). Our test unit came with Lenovo's high-res version of this panel, which costs extra and sports a 1,600x900 native resolution.

At this resolution, the 14-inch screen makes efficient use of its spread by letting you have a couple of application windows open side-by-side. That's handy for multitasking, but default text at that resolution is tiny-crisp, but tiny. To work more comfortably, we used Windows' DPI Scaling function to increase text size and set our browser and application zoom levels to 150 percent. For the over-40 crowd (and those configuring their own machines - lenovo thinkpad sl510 battery , lenovo thinkpad w510 battery), Lenovo offers a 1,366x768 panel on some configurations. Think carefully about which you choose if your eyes will mind.

The panel has an anti-glare coating that effectively eliminates annoying glare and reflections without sacrificing image clarity. Also, the panel is LED-backlit and very bright. (Lenovo rates it at 230 nits.) Colors in photos and Windows apps looked terrific throughout our testing, and the panel did a good job with video, delivering smooth playback with no motion blur. The screen's viewing angle is very wide in Windows apps, letting you use the ThinkPad T420 to present to a small group around a conference table. When watching video, though, the viewing sweet spot is decidedly narrower.

On the audio front, the ThinkPad T420's stereo speakers deliver better audio quality than most business laptops. We noted enough volume for presenting to a small group. That said, music playback had the tinny quality typical of most notebooks(lenovo thinkpad w701 battery , lenovo 3000 n200 battery). There's not much you can do to enhance it without plugging in external speakers; the ThinkPad T420, oddly, does not include the audio-enhancing Dolby Home Theatre technology found on the ThinkPad T420s.

The keyboard is the same generation that debuted in 2009 with the ThinkPad T410. That redesign introduced tighter spacing between the keys (one nice benefit of that: it keeps the crumbs out) while maintaining the full-size 19mm key pitch. That said, to our fingers, the keyboard on our particular T420 felt different than those on past T-series laptops. The key plunge (the distance of the keys' up/down travel) was still spot on, but the audible and tactile feedback seemed a bit off; it just wasn't the same crisp "click" and weighty key feel we've grown accustomed to. A Lenovo product manager assured us there have been no changes, so we'll chalk it up to manufacturing differences from one lot to the next.

To illuminate the keyboard in darkened rooms, the ThinkPad T420 has a handy white LED positioned above the screen. Hit Function+PgUp, and the keyboard is bathed in a soft white light. Novel when it debuted a decade or so ago, the ThinkLight seems a little quaint in this era of backlit keyboards, which deliver illumination that's more even(lenovo 3000 y510 battery , lenovo ideapad u450 battery). But we found ourselves reaching for the ThinkLight key combination plenty nonetheless.

For mousing, the ThinkPad T420 comes with both a touch pad and Lenovo's signature pointing stick. The TrackPoint stick is still the best of its kind, delivering precise control over cursor movements and large mouse buttons for effortless left/right clicks. Those oversize mouse buttons, however, steal precious room from the touch pad. The pad's pebbled surface makes for friction-free movement, but the 3x1.75-inch surface is tight. On the plus side, the slender mouse buttons for the pad are on the edge of the chassis, which makes them easy to locate without looking. We also appreciate the dedicated volume and mute keys above the Function-key row, as well as the unique-to-ThinkPad (as far as we've seen) microphone mute button.

That microphone mute is just one of several features that make the ThinkPad T420 a good videoconferencing platform. The dual digital mics capture better audio than your typical single-mic arrangement, while the bundled Lenovo Communication Utility offers two microphone settings. The first, Private Chat, focuses the mic pickup in front of the laptop and suppresses background noise, so your party can hear your voice over the din of, say, an airport waiting area(lenovo ideapad y530 battery , lenovo ideapad y560 battery). The second, Conference Call mode, opens the audio capture field to a full 360 degrees around the machine, which is ideal for a group of participants around a table. In our trials, with the microphone setting on "one voice," the voice of the speaker directly facing the screen was pronounced, while noise off to the side was much diminished. With the utility set to multiple voices, we were able to walk around the laptop in a complete circle, and at all points the voice pickup was nearly the same.

The Lenovo Communications Utility also includes an option to suppress keystroke noise during a VoIP call, but in our Skyping we noticed only a slight difference with this activated. And speaking of Skype, it's the only preloaded way to make use of the Webcam; we would prefer a dedicated utility to grab stills and video. And while Lenovo touts the camera's 720p resolution, that sounds more impressive than it is. The resolution is 1,280x720-less than a full megapixel (0.92, to be exact), when 2-megapixel cameras are now the norm. Sure enough, the image was a bit grainy, with the low resolution lending a "soft focus" effect. On the plus side, it captures video at a full 30 frames per second, so the image stream showed no jerkiness.

One unexpected surprise for a business portable was the inclusion, in our test model, of a discrete graphics processor (GPU) and Nvidia's Optimus technology. When graphics horsepower is not needed, the integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics engine (it's part of the CPU, actually) handles the graphics processing, which helps extend battery life(lenovo thinkpad x60 tablet pc battery , lenovo thinkpad x61 tablet pc battery). For more demanding tasks, Optimus tells the Nvidia NVS 4200M GPU to kick in.

Another plus: The ThinkPad T420 includes Lenovo's Enhanced Experience 2.0 features, which work with the Windows 7 operating system to speed up such tasks as booting up, resuming from sleep/hibernate mode, and reconnecting to Wi-Fi networks. On the security front, the T420 includes a fingerprint reader, as well as Trusted Platform Module (TPM) circuitry and utilities. TPM solutions allow a company's IT department to manage log-ins and passwords, communications access, platform integrity, and drive encryption.

As for other features, the ThinkPad T420 we tested came with a DVD burner, but organizations worried about casual data theft can opt for a read-only DVD-ROM drive. There is no Blu-ray option for the UltraBay, which is a shame, since the high-res screen makes the ThinkPad T420 an ideal personal movie player for those long business flights(Lenovo 42T4651 , Lenovo 40y7659 Charger , Lenovo Adapter).

As with other ThinkPad models, hard drive options are plentiful. Our configuration came with a 500GB 7,200rpm drive, the sweet spot for laptops right now. Other configurations and configure-to-order versions can be had with a 160GB, 250GB, or 320GB hard drive instead, or one of three solid-state drives (80GB, 128GB, 160GB) that deliver the peace of mind of impact-resistance. If you do opt for a traditional spinning drive, there's still a line of defense against shock, by way of Lenovo's active-protection technology. With this, an accelerometer senses bumps or falls, signaling the drive to park the read/write heads to protect against data loss.

On the wireless front, our configuration included Bluetooth and the Intel Centrino Advanced-N+ WiMAX chipset, which delivers 802.11a/g/n Wi-Fi connectivity plus WiMAX wireless-broadband support for use on the growing number of wide-area wireless LANs (WLANs). There is plenty of flexibility here(FRU 92P1141 , Lenovo 42T4235 , Lenovo 42T4545), though-corporations can choose among four other WLAN chipsets, if they prefer. Also, for connect-nearly-anywhere wireless, the T420 machines support the optional Gobi 3000 Sierra Wireless EV-DO/HSPA WWAN Minicard, or Ericsson's HSPA+ WWAN Minicard, each a $125 option. If there's a way to wirelessly connect, you can probably manage it from the T420 with careful configuring.

The classic, spill-resistant keyboard on the ThinkPad T420 features 7 rows with a full range of keys, even rarely used ones such as scroll lock and pause. Enlarged Esc and Delete keys make it easy to perform these frequent functions. The combination of strong tactile feedback and a smile-shaped key surface allowed us to achieve an 86 word-per-minute score with a 1-percent error rate on the Ten Thumbs Typing Tutor test, well above our 80 wpm average. However, the typing experience on the 13-inch ThinkPad X1 remains the industry's best because of that notebook's soft-touch palm rest and even more responsive keys.

Like other ThinkPads, the T420 has both a TrackPoint pointing stick and a touchpad. We're huge fans of the TrackPoint because it provides the most accurate way to navigate around the desktop short of using a mouse, and it allows you to move the pointer without lifting your fingers off of the home row. If you don't like pointing sticks, the 3 x 1.75-inch textured touchpad provides accurate navigation around the desktop, and its two discrete mouse buttons provide just the right amount of feedback. However, multitouch gestures such as pinch-to-zoom are not smooth at all(40Y6797 , 40Y6799 , FRU 92P1089 , FRU 92P1137).

Like the design, the T420 has a keyboard ... pretty much like ThinkPads have always had - a great one. Although Lenovo is controversially introducing "Chiclet" or "island" style keyboards on some more consumer-esque ThinkPad(40Y6795) lines, the T-series stays true to form with a standard keyboard (maybe it should be called an "old school" keyboard since apparently "keyboard" isn't sufficient anymore).

Tactile feedback - what it feels like to press the keys - starts with the key travel, or the distance between pressed and not pressed positions. The T420's keys have precisely the right amount of travel to allow time for your finger muscles to realize a key is fully depressed; this is essential for fast and accurate typing. Additionally the spring mechanism (it's not actually a spring, but a scissor switch/rubber dome, but that's for another article) pops the keys back up immediately yet is stiff enough to let you rest your fingers on the keys.

I could talk about the keyboard all day but will restrain myself to two more points. First, the layout of the keyboard is fantastic; it has the [Fx] keys at the top separated into groups of four as they should be and the home/end/pgup/pgdn/delete keys separated into cluster. Lastly, the keyboard is quiet and subdued for use in meetings and classrooms alike - no clacking or clicking, just a nice low octave sound.

The T420 has an "UltraNav" solution which consists of the touchpad and the red rubber trackpoint in the center of the keyboard(Lenovo Ideapad Y560 battery , Lenovo Ideapad Y710 battery , Lenovo Ideapad Y730 battery). The touchpad sports an anti-glare textured surface which is actually a bit too bumpy for my tastes, coming from a smooth touchpad. On the plus side, the rougher surface makes it highly accurate. The trackpoint is the best in the business, responsive and with an excellent dome shape. I prefer using this since it's not necessary to remove hands from the keyboard while doing so. Finally, the buttons are quiet and have enough depth to provide solid feedback. They are easy to find by feel.

Overall there are not enough good things I can say about the input devices, they are the gold standard. If you want to buy a notebook with a good keyboard/touchpad and can't see it in person, a ThinkPad might be your best bet.

The ThinkPad T420 stayed pleasantly cool throughout our testing. After streaming video for 15 minutes, the touchpad measured a frigid 82 degrees, the keyboard an icy 81 degrees, and the bottom a cool 87 degrees Fahrenheit. We consider temperatures below 95 degrees comfortable.

There is a single fan exhausting air out the back left corner of the chassis. At idle it's nearly silent; under load it develops a slight whine but remains quiet enough to be ignored (even in a quiet office). It's nice that the fan is located towards the rear; this way it won't blow hot air on left-handers. The notebook itself remains cool all over even during intense benchmarking sessions.

The 230-nit, 14.1-inch matte display provided sharp images and plenty of desktop real estate thanks to its optional 1600 x 900 panel. When we watched a 1080p QuickTime trailer for the movie Point Blank, images were sharp and motion smooth with viewing angles solid up to 45 degrees to the left or right. However, when we streamed a 720p Flash episode of Fringe from Fox.com, the edges of objects seemed a little pixelated, perhaps because the screen had a higher resolution than the video. We highly recommend the 1600 x 900 panel, a $50 option, because it shows a lot more of your favorite web pages and documents without forcing you to scroll.

While not as high fidelity as audio-focused consumer notebooks such as the Dell XPS and the HP Envy series, the Lenovo ThinkPad T420 provides surprisingly good music playback. Whether we were playing Kool and the Gang's jazz-oriented "Summer Madness," the bass-heavy "Between the Sheets" by the Isley Brothers, or Motley Crue's guitar-laden "Looks that Kill," sound was accurate and loud enough to fill a medium-sized room(Lenovo Ideapad Y330 battery , Lenovo IdeaPad Y430 battery , Lenovo Ideapad Y450 battery). We could even make out a solid separation of sound between the speakers, which sit on either side of the keyboard.

The T420 features a 14-inch screen with an anti-glare coating. It is available in two resolutions: 720p (1366x768) and 900p (1600x900); ours has the latter and it's a good thing it does, otherwise I would complain. A 1600x900 screen has almost 30% more space compared to 1366x768 - that means less scrolling since more lines of text can be shown at once (or more detail in a high-resolution picture). It also makes it possible to use two windows side-by-side.

The screen has 15 levels of brightness and ample contrast; the infamous Command Prompt window looks black with barely a hint of gray. Viewing angles are typical for a TN-type panel like this one; fine horizontally but with significant color distortion vertically. Nearly all notebooks come with TN-type panels. The anti-glare screen coating is more evidence this notebook is designed for productivity - it's not a mirror like a glossy display and thus does not have annoying reflections. It is easy to clean as a bonus.

As with other laptops based on Intel's Sandy Bridge architecture, the ThinkPad T420 delivers plenty of performance for productivity and multimedia applications. Our unit came with a 2.5GHz Intel Core i5-2520M processor-the midlevel mobile CPU in a line that includes a Core i3 CPU at the low end, three Core i5 chips in the middle, and a smoking Core i7 quad-core processor at the top end. We had 4GB of 1,333MHz DDR3 RAM in our test machine, and the T420 platform supports up to 8GB.

The ThinkPad T420 delivered a very good score of 8,058 on the 64-bit version of PCMark Vantage, which measures overall system performance. That score edges out the 7,779 we saw from the ThinkPad T420s earlier this year, and it's well ahead of the 6,900 or so that is the average in the thin-and-light laptop class. Likewise, in our 64-bit Cinebench 10 test, which stresses all CPU cores to gauge raw processing potential, the T420 scored a very impressive 10,391-a bit behind the 10,823 we saw from the ThinkPad T420s, but still nearly 2,500 points ahead of the average for this class of laptop.

The ThinkPad T420 also was a strong performer on our media-file-crunching tests. It converted the 11 standard test tracks on our custom iTunes Conversion Test in 3 minutes flat; again, that's a little behind what we saw from the ThinkPad T420s (2:47), but still near the front of the pack(Lenovo IdeaPad S12 battery , Lenovo Ideapad U110 battery , Lenovo Ideapad U330 battery , Lenovo Ideapad U350 battery , Lenovo Ideapad U350W battery). The story was similar on our Windows Media Encoder test, in which we encode a standard 3-minute-and-15-second video clip: The T420 took just 3 minutes and 18 seconds to perform the test task, versus 3:08 for the ThinkPad T420s and the 5:01 average for the class.

These numbers mean you get fast processor performance overall, which is what you'll likely need most as a business user. You should have no problem running multiple applications at once, as well as crunching through large Excel spreadsheets with formulas, converting files to different formats in large batches, and browsing the Web with lots of tabs open at once.

Thanks to the dedicated GPU, the ThinkPad T420 proved to be better at 3D chores than most business portables. At 1,024x768 resolution on 3DMark06, which measures DirectX 9 (DX9) graphics performance, the T420 scored 6,061. That's almost 2,000 points better than the 4,079 we saw from the T420s, which employs integrated graphics. But while we welcome the dedicated GPU and Optimus technology, the Nvidia NVS 4200M GPU shouldn't be confused with the company's gaming-oriented GeForce chips. For example, on our demanding Just Cause 2 test, which measures DirectX 10 gaming performance, the T420 delivered a disappointing 15.3 frames per second at 1,366x768 resolution. That essentially doubles the rate we saw from the ThinkPad T420s, but it's still unplayable, at that not even at the native resolution of the laptop(Lenovo IdeaPad S9 battery , Lenovo IdeaPad S9E battery , Lenovo IdeaPad S10 battery , Lenovo IdeaPad S10E battery , Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3T battery). Overall, consider 3D acceleration in the T420 good for daily Windows chores and low-impact DX9 3D gaming, but not more demanding DX10 games.

More impressive was the battery life we saw from the ThinkPad T420's nine-cell battery. (Lenovo included this in our test configuration, a $50 upsell from the standard six-cell battery.) On our DVD Battery-Rundown Test, in which we set the screen brightness to 50 percent and watch a DVD movie (using the onboard optical drive) until the machine shuts down, the machine ran for 7 hours and 32 minutes on a full charge. Lenovo rates the battery for nine hours of life under more typical usage scenarios, and based on our experience, we'd say that's a conservative estimate. By comparison, the average laptop in this class lasted only 3:38 on this test, and the ThinkPad T420s lasted 3:39 with its six-cell battery.

Our T420 has the optional 9-cell battery with a whopping 94Wh rating. I measured 10 hours on the dot, from 100% to 0% on our standard battery rundown test (Windows 7 Balanced power profile, 70% screen brightness, wireless on and refreshing a web page every one minute). This makes the T420 one of the longest-lasting notebooks out there, even compared to netbooks. Realistically expect a range between 8 and 10 hours for everyday usage, possibly longer if you have a Solid State Drive (SSD) and turn the screen brightness down to a minimum.

The Lenovo ThinkPad T420 is a well-engineered 14" business notebook(Lenovo Ideapad B460 battery , Lenovo IdeaPad G460 battery , Lenovo IdeaPad G560 battery). It has the hallmark ThinkPad qualities including great build quality and a superior keyboard. I liked almost everything about it. The anti-glare screen prevents reflections and with a 1600x900 resolution, provides a lot of working space. The keyboard has a highly functional layout and the trackpoint and touchpad are easy to use. All this functionality can be taken to the road thanks to the 10 hours of battery from the optional 9-cell.

Other pros of the notebook include a good selection of input/output ports, dedicated volume control buttons, a docking station port, and a swappable modular bay (ours was occupied by a DVD burner).

Complaints? Yes - the speakers are lackluster, the design might not appeal to people looking for something noticeable, and ... that's it. Oh, it's a bit thick and heavy for a 14" model, but Lenovo also offers the T420s model which is thinner.

As with other ThinkPad models, business customers can specify the Windows operating system that comes preloaded on their machines, ranging from Windows Vista (the Home Basic or Business editions) through to the 64-bit Windows 7 Professional that was on our test unit. Also, enterprise customers can specify Windows XP Professional or Windows 7 Ultimate through special bid.

Whichever OS you choose, you get Lenovo's own excellent software tools, accessible via the blue ThinkVantage button. In this suite, you'll find applets for rescue and recovery, managing connections, a password manager, system health and diagnostic tools, a communication utility to assist with Web conferencing, and more. We especially like Lenovo's Access Connections utility, which eases the tweaking and enabling/disabling of your Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, and (if present) wireless-broadband connections.

The price of our ThinkPad T420 includes a typical one-year warranty, with 24/7 tech support and onsite service. As with other business portables, a wide range of warranty upgrades and insurance/protection plans is available.

For past ThinkPad T-series owners looking to return to the fold, as well as current owners looking for a newer model, the new ThinkPad T420 is an easy decision. In the model we looked at, it delivers cracking performance, and even some 3D abilities, in a time-tested platform. For business buyers and demanding consumers who want a no-nonsense workhorse they can carry, it doesn't get much better.

Development of battery leasing

2011-12-28

Vehicle is entering a new energy policy to support the full stage. Yesterday, General Motors in Shanghai at the "electrification - the future driving force," Forum, China Electric Power Research Institute Director of the Institute superconducting electrical power and new materials to the well-off, deputy director of the Institute revealed that China is stepping up efforts to support new energy vehicles, has 10 City 1000 energy-saving and new energy vehicle demonstration pilot cities from 20 to 25.

Meanwhile, for the high cost of new energy automotive batteries, car prices far higher than traditional issue, Tongji University Automotive College, the National Fuel Cell Vehicle and Power Engineering Technology Research Center Zhuoping said, China is encouraging the development of large-scale battery leasing business.

LG Chem CEO Tyre said that despite the declining cost of lithium batteries, the cost per watt to less than $ 200 from receiving $ 25, but the battery cost is still too high proportion of total vehicle cost, This reduces the cost of new energy vehicles and affect consumer buying. According to statistics, in the new energy vehicles, battery costs of up to 70%, labor costs accounted for only about 10%.

High cost of the battery current, and promote new energy vehicle development, financial subsidies are essential. GM China President and Managing Director Kevin Wale said, "compared with any country in the world, China's new energy vehicles for support and subsidies are quite leading."

When asked about the "new energy vehicles over how to solve your" issue, Tongji University Automotive College, the National Fuel Cell Vehicle and Power Engineering Technology Research Center, an innovative model Zhuoping throw.

Zhuoping that our country is to encourage large-scale battery lease, taking into account the mode of transfer payments or installments, reducing the use of new energy vehicles cost. If you consider the cost of the late charge, the cost of new energy vehicles will be far higher than traditional vehicles.

Zhuoping detailed example that if the car battery can be charged 1000 times, then according to statistics, usually 10 degrees for each charge can run 100 kilometers, charge 1000 can run 100,000 km, Shanghai, charging the cost of electricity only when the low to 3,000 yuan. The displacement of 6-7 liters of gasoline cars, running 100,000 km of fuel costs $ 40,000. Therefore, taking into account the tens of thousands of new energy vehicles to purchase subsidies, and the battery lease or hire purchase, then the cost of new energy vehicles will be far higher than traditional internal combustion engine vehicles.

Zhuoping said, "five" will become China's large-scale electric vehicle development period. Ministry of Industry, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Science, Development and Reform Commission have introduced support measures. Accordance with the development plan, by 2015, China's automotive battery modules, electric vehicles will reach hundreds of million.

Reporters learned that, in fact, the battery has started leasing in the country. Ankai been in the country to test the water battery leasing model.

Beginning last year, Ankai in Hefei, Dalian, Shanghai, implementation of the "rent to buy" pure electric car battery leasing model. To a price of 200 million pure electric vehicle, for example, remove the battery price is 120 million, minus the state financial subsidies to 50 million users simply take $ 700,000, which has the traditional bus almost the same price.

It is understood that battery leasing can reduce the threshold for the use of new energy vehicles, vehicle prices will fall significantly. At the same time, consumers can avoid the short battery life and post-maintenance issues.

Lease to develop the battery in the same time, National Grid is actively responding to increasing new energy vehicle charging stations.

To well-off that charge to address the new energy vehicles and other ancillary issues. End of this year, National Grid will be built in 27 provinces and 75 charging stations charging more than 6,000 piles; 2011 to 2016, will build 400 electric vehicle charging stations, electric vehicle charging network formed; 2016-2020 years, will build 10,000 electric car charging stations, carry out a comprehensive charging piles supporting the building, built full electric car charging network.

Jiaxing electronic information industry performance "eye-catching" the fastest growing battery manufacturing by the financial crisis, a large dependence on foreign information industry last year by a huge impact. However, the city recently released report shows that half of the information industry, the first half of this year, Jiaxing information industry to life.

January to June, the electronic information industry continued upward trend, doubling economic efficiency, the software industry to accelerate revenue growth, the overall recovery of the rise onto the channel. Growth rate of the indicators are much faster than the city average level of industrial enterprises above designated size.

January to June, the city's electronic information industry (387) completed a total industrial output value of 20.526 billion yuan, up 75.55% over last year; industrial sales output value of 19.824 billion yuan, an increase of 81.62%; export delivery value of 8.369 billion yuan , an increase of 50.38%; complete the main business income of 19.758 billion yuan, up 80.99%; total profit of 1.62 billion yuan. Software revenue total of 445 million yuan, an increase of 67.30%.

Rapid expansion of industrial scale is the development of the first half of the city's information industry is a major feature. January to June, the city-scale electronic information industry output grew 75.55%, representing the city's total industrial output value of 9.55%, to become an important pillar of the city's industrial development industry.

In 28 manufacturing, industrial output value of over $ 2 billion have information chemical manufacturing, battery manufacturing, micro-motors and other electrical manufacturing, wire and cable manufacturing, electronic components and component manufacturing 5 industries. Among them, the information the largest chemical manufacturing, industrial output value of over 3.6 billion yuan; battery manufacturing industry grew the fastest, up 259.73 percent, mainly due to solar cell materials and component products to expand production capacity, international market rebound .

Municipal Development and Reform Commission responsible person that the information industry during the first half of this year's economic data increased considerably, because of low base last year. Therefore, the current overall economic growth should be viewed as the resumption of growth. In addition, in the first half of the city's information industry growth rate high, but the growth rate in June slowed down compared to May, taking into account the base of the second half of last year was gradually picked up the second half of the information industry growth than on slow half year is expected to complete the information industry, industrial output value 400 billion yuan.

Current industrial restructuring has achieved initial success, significantly improved economic efficiency. January to June, the scale of electronic information industry realized main business income of 19.758 billion yuan, an increase of 80.99%. Main business profit margin of 8.20%, higher than the same period in 2008, 3.6 percentage points.

At present, some enterprises orders also good, but cost pressures, labor, materials costs, the export ratio is high, price subject to exchange a greater impact because export products to foreign currency denominated, down, or if the foreign exchange revaluation, ultimately, the RMB revenue less. This year the euro, the European market-oriented enterprises to greater losses. Part of the business in July, August, orders have been significantly better than the second quarter, market conditions in September is not clear.

Municipal Development and Reform Commission responsible person that the information industry, export-oriented high, closely linked with the international market, the international repercussions of the financial crisis, many uncertainties still exist, market volatility that may arise at any time. Therefore, any one factor over the expected changes are likely to adversely affect the development of information industry.

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Car battery

2011-12-28

In today's hot new energy vehicles, lithium-powered vehicles as one of the four cathode materials for lithium iron phosphate, has become a hot concept.

Since the beginning of this year, the lithium iron phosphate technology patent battle to upgrade the report has proclaimed. Several large multinational companies from Europe and America called lithium iron phosphate has the core technology patents, they played the patent battle. Moreover, more recent media reports, Phostech company from Canada and China battery manufacturer negotiations, and that "entry fee" $ 10 million to produce 1 ton of lithium iron phosphate demanding pay $ 2,500.

Patent battle seems to have given the technology by adding a more mysterious aura. However, it seems that the community of lithium iron phosphate has high hopes prematurely, the experts pointed out that the lithium iron phosphate power battery electric vehicle is not an effective solution.

"Do not iron phosphate lithium battery electric vehicles in the role of exaggerated." State 973 plans electric vehicle energy storage project's chief scientist, Professor Ma Zifeng Shanghai Jiaotong University, said, "the academic point of view, lithium iron phosphate does not may be the next major new energy automobile battery present lithium-ion battery cathode material, there are four, lithium iron phosphate, lithium cobalt oxide, lithium manganese oxide and ternary materials from a single cell voltage of view, than cobalt lithium iron phosphate lithium and other materials are much lower energy density lithium iron phosphate is low, the battery system large volume, large-scale use may not be appropriate, need to do more technical demonstration. many companies rush to war on our lithium iron phosphate project, likely to be foreign companies loophole. "

In recent years, new energy automobile market is vigorously developed. Data show that by 2012, China will create 500,000 new energy automobile production capacity to 20,000 yuan battery bicycle use (considering the hybrid and pure electric vehicles), the average level of estimates, the domestic automotive battery market could reach 10 billion yuan, equivalent to the current lithium battery market grew 100%. 2020, new energy vehicles driven global automotive battery market demand will exceed 200 billion yuan. It is undeniable that the Chinese car battery industry will usher in rapid development of the golden opportunity.

In contrast, in the hot behind the new energy automobile market, the corresponding battery technology is also increasingly on the agenda. At present, China's new energy vehicle development layout showing a pure electric vehicles, fuel cell vehicles and hybrid neck and neck situation. Pure electric vehicles currently on the market are mainly used nickel-metal hydride batteries, lead acid batteries and lithium batteries. Should be said that a variety of technologies are not enough, there are some flaws, many laboratories and companies still have to improve.

Currently On the whole, there is a lithium battery safety issues. Whether lithium manganese oxide or lithium iron phosphate, from the cycle life, reliability, security, in terms of charge-discharge performance, there are a variety of defects. "Domestic power last couple of years (600,627, stock it) pool is very large enterprise projects, can be a real breakthrough did not. Lithium batteries in five parts: the cathode material, anode material, electrolyte, separator, packaging, each items are very important, are all core technology. research which has been a very, very different. "Triangle Changshu Institute of Technology, Changsha green energy Yongkang said.

As a result, the frenzy of lithium iron phosphate partly reflects the mentality of most Chinese enterprises now. A technology not yet mature in the premise, do not put more effort and money spent on technology research, choosing instead to quickly launched, this is really a waste of resources.

In addition, the quality of domestic and foreign lithium batteries there is a great gap between the main mode of production in different decision. Zhejiang University of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science Professor Wang Lianbang said: "Chinese enterprises mechanization and automation with foreign countries vary greatly, many of which are handmade. A battery can not see it, hundreds of batteries in a series, the difference is obvious. the gap between the quality consistency of the main battery from raw materials to products, there are very many processes. a number of different quality products are not the same. 100 batteries, there are 2 may not be very good, which is the mode of production the problem, not 2012 to make up. "

Sand Yongkang also believes that consistency is not guaranteed a big problem. "In this way it is possible to do cell phone batteries, battery capacity is small because the phone. Open an electric car 150 kilometers to 15 kwh storage capacity of 20 kWh battery pack, cell phone batteries may be 1 watt, the equivalent of 15,000 times most of our businesses to use the machine plus the manual way, consistency is not high now the yield is still very low. "

If the lithium battery can not take on the future development of new energy vehicles task, then who can play a leading role it?

Although there are many domestic enterprises to promote lead-acid batteries, but due to the high contamination of this feature makes this product not to be optimistic about the development when there are more helpless feeling. "Lead metal refining, manufacturing batteries, battery recycling process are contaminated, only cars on the road when there is no pollution, so can not say that this is clean energy than lead-acid battery technology to promote a worthy present lead-acid battery has 45% of Chinese production, Europe and the United States will use, but not manufacturing, not recycling, pollution in China. "Sha Yong Kang said.

Instead, the fuel cell is a lot of experts look for direction, there are many international giants continue in this field force. Is a hydrogen fuel cell and the oxygen in the air combine to form water by the electrochemical process and generate electrical energy generating device. Fuel cells work without combustion, no moving parts, with the energy conversion efficiency (actual efficiency of an ordinary internal combustion engine 2 to 3 times), no noise, long operating life, high reliability, maintainability and good; it is the only a product is water, truly meet the clean, renewable requirements. Since 1994, the first fuel cell vehicle came to a few dozen years now, technology is developing rapidly.

Action, the current world of fuel cells in various countries, the development of fuel cell vehicle technology to give a very high concern. Toyota has announced that first fuel cell vehicles will be available in 2015. Last September, Toyota, Honda, Hyundai, Ford, General Motors, Daimler, Kia Motors Corporation and other well-known joint statement calling on governments in 2015 to build more hydrogen fuel infrastructure. If this goal can be achieved, from 2015, worldwide there are hundreds of thousands of hydrogen-powered vehicles will be gradually achieved commercial production. Although the cost of car fuel is still very high, but this is truly meet the cleanliness standards of technology, the industry believes that with the expanding scale of production, cost reduction is only a matter of time.

At the same time, hydrogen safety has become the focus of everyone worried about this, Zi-Feng Ma said, the world of technology for hydrogen safety studies very hard, hydrogen as petrochemical, metallurgical and pharmaceutical industries important raw materials, their storage and transportation arrangements have a very good solution. Our project team is involved in the development of 973-vehicle hydrogen storage of national standards and international standards, the laboratory has reached 70 MPa hydrogen cylinder, and commercial use at about 35 MPa only, greatly increased the safety factor. In addition, the hydrogen source is diversified. Currently in Shanghai, peak power vary widely, summer electricity shortages, and spring off the electricity supply, the use of peak power can be electrolysis into hydrogen. As for Shanghai Baosteel, Shanghai Petrochemical and other large enterprises, large-scale hydrogen is a by-product, so that future prospects are bright.

On the direction of view, the innovation of new energy vehicles is bound to promote the expansion of battery technology. Zi-Feng Ma believes that the future of fuel cells and batteries or fuel cells and capacitors to be combined, combine the advantages of both, is a good direction. "We know that a good power rating for the design of the fuel cell, hydrogen and oxygen electrochemical reaction by the constraints of the output power is stable, such as loading 60 kilowatts of fuel cell vehicles, slow down or stop when the fuel cell is always at work, then more charge storage devices give out, when the car accelerating or climbing, the fuel cell power can not be turned into 70 kilowatts from 60 kilowatts, this will be supplemented with storage devices, this combination will help to improve the dynamic performance In short, we should select some more direction, more cutting-edge place to look, such as our cooperation now and in the University of Michigan study of lithium - air batteries, the latest technology, this relatively remote, to 15 years will have a big development. "

Sand Yongkang also believes that the new energy vehicle technology is very diverse, and should not be all eyes are focused on the battery itself. The concept of new energy must be wide, with wide concept have new ideas. Perhaps in the near future will be able to find a new liquid fuel, methanol and ethanol can replace. Another example is the use of wireless power technology in the car. Although long-distance applications there are certain problems, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2007, this technology can be lit by 2 meters away, 60-watt bulb, which gives people unlimited reverie. The future, the wireless power technology combined with the car might be a viable option, save the plug so tedious steps.

New energy vehicles is undoubtedly the future direction of development, after 50 years is likely to fade out conventional diesel when the stage of history. However, as the sand Yongkang said: "The new energy vehicle development to broaden thinking, not staring at a mature production technology blindly. Can not see the market to engage in the project, only for research funding, subsidies to state action." Japan Toyota, Honda and other manufacturers like a day ten years of painstaking research a technology, once mature, strong market, other companies can only be far behind to catch up. In contrast, Chinese companies want to turn to overtake the field of new energy vehicles, still need to stop.

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He's running for president but sometimes it sounds like Santorum is working toward tenure

2012-01-17

He's running for president but sometimes it sounds like Santorum is working toward tenure

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. - Rick Santorum is running for president but his campaign speeches sometimes sound like he's working toward tenure.

The Republican quotes Irish statesmen and French historians, traces word origins and explains Islam to the Christian conservatives who have great sway in South Carolina's Saturday GOP primary. He recommends books, cites academic studies and doesn't shy from footnoting his own unscripted remarks.

At times, Santorum's events more closely resemble a somber college lecture than a raucous political rally - informative, if not always inspirational.

"After I left the United States Senate, I wrote and lectured around the country about Iran," the former Pennsylvania senator said to one audience here last week. So, he argues, vote for him "if you're looking for someone who has some understanding and knowledge and has had success in trying to shape Iran policy, someone who has that experience to be commander in chief and has the ability to go out and look at and lecture on that country."

At another point, Santorum explained how the American and French constitutions differ.

"There were no God-given rights (in France) because there was no God," he said. "What happened? Tyranny and the guillotine."

Comments like those are standard Santorum fare. In the stump speech he gives several times a day, Santorum includes red-meat conservative rhetoric but also sprinkles in academic discourse and Senate-speak. And there's another frequent public-speaking device: He throws queries back at his questioners - and then provides his own answers.

"How many 62-year-olds do you know who can't work?" he asks when talking about early benefits some Americans draw for Social Security. "Do you know how many people take benefits early?" And when voters venture a guess - he jumps in to correct them, exclaiming: "Seventy percent."

A long-time footnote in the race, Santorum is relishing his new relevance ahead of Saturday's first-in-the-South primary. His surprise finish in Iowa elevated him for the moment as the chief conservative rival to front-runner Mitt Romney but he was shellacked just a week later in the New Hampshire primary.

Now he's looking to rebound in South Carolina, more friendly territory for the social-conservative crusader.

Campaigning in South Carolina over the past week, Santorum has faced audiences eager to pepper him with questions about cultural issues, like what he would do to make it easier for parents to homeschool their children and how he would work to end abortion rights. An attorney who has an MBA, Santorum exudes confidence in his knowledge but seldom appears arrogant. His lectures seem designed to persuade his audiences, not convince them of his brilliance.

"Rick Santorum's grasp of the issues is deep," said Alan Lord, a 45-year-old engineer from Lexington who supported former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee four years ago and visited with Santorum in West Columbia last week at an overflowing town hall-style meeting. "I watch him and he clearly knows what he's talking about."

At event after event, Santorum quotes journal studies and his faith in equal measure.

"If it wasn't for immigration, America would be declining in population," he said in Charleston. Then he directed his packed auditorium toward a study of population changes in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Often, Santorum commends one of his recent reads, David Hackett Fischer's "Washington Crossing," to his audiences. He mentions Edmund Burke, the 18th Century historian. He quotes Alexis de Tocqueville's study of American democracy.

"We cannot have a strong economy unless the family is a strong foundational unit of our society," he says frequently, as he did this week in Columbia. "The term economy comes from the Greek word, 'home.'"

He also challenges the contemporary interpretation of the Declaration of Independence's call for "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."

"Happiness at the time of our founding was not defined the way it is today," he told an audience in Beaufort. "The dictionary definition of 'happiness' at the time of our founders was 'to do the morally right thing.'"

And when a voter in Charleston urged Republicans to impeach President Barack Obama, Santorum said: "I don't think you can impeach a president because you disagree with his public policy ... I hesitate to get involved in political impeachments. That happened once under Andrew Johnson and that didn't work out so well."

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South Carolina GOP chair at center of Myrtle Beach presidential debate

2012-01-17

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. - Hordes of politicos circle the upstairs bar inside the Sheraton on Sunday evening, constantly refreshing Twitter feeds, sipping libations and searching for the juiciest tidbit in a topsy-turvy GOP race.

It is 24 hours before Myrtle Beach's GOP debate, and the stage, emblazoned with Fox News logos and blocked by barriers, is set for action. But now former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman is out, and one podium must drop from the dais. The seating chart hanging inside the GOP's crowded command center also must be reallocated; Huntsman no longer needs 30 chairs in the debate audience.

The GOP staff - huddled with Mellow Mushroom pizza inside the chaotic, crowded center just yards from the bar - quickly erupts in buzzed phones and frenetic action.

Chad Connelly, the affable S.C. GOP chairman from Prosperity, barely notices. He's holding court in a far booth, playfully cajoling a national reporter and far removed from the tweets. He's been the face of the state's Republican Party in the months leading up to the debate. In many ways, his background of business success and even personal tragedy, prepared him for his moment in the national spotlight.

A few minutes later, the civil engineer turned Amway entrepreneur turned motivational speaker turned state GOP chair strides downstairs into January's brisk beach winds. Behind the backdrop of a gigantic Mount Rushmore-esque sandcastle that still includes Huntsman's caricature, Connelly waits for more than 10 minutes with television wires dangling from his pockets so he can chat with Geraldo Rivera at 10:30.

The interview will be Connelly's 25th national appearance in recent weeks, top aide Matt Moore says. Finally, after a 10-minute lull, Connelly is cued with a question: what does Huntsman dropping from the race mean for the party?

Connelly demurs but adds the Myrtle Beach may be the "most decisive and pivotal debate in the entire season." One other question is quickly dispatched, and the interview is over. He is composed and stays on message. Nervous aides breathe a sigh of relief. Connelly speaks for all of 90 seconds.

The aides - Moore and state political director Alex Stroman - are soon bombarded with text messages and emails. One friend of Connelly's writes to say, "Geraldo is obviously a big fan." Connelly beams and tells Moore and Stroman that he loves them.

It is now almost midnight, and there are logistics to discuss inside the debate hall, which Connelly inspects for a final time. Gov. Nikki Haley's staff needs 20 seats together. Ex-Gov. Mark Sanford needs a ride from the airport, and Sanford has an extra seat for a guest. The question resonates with laughter inside the hall: Who might it be?

Connelly is 20 yards away from his staff, wandering across the hall, standing alone and grinning. The grin seems permanently afixed to his face, but it rarely appears forced. As Connelly walks through the hall, he seems awestruck.

The hotel's roar heightens as time passes. Connelly doesn't return to the bar; instead, he retreats to his presidential penthouse on the twelfth floor. Moore says his suite is the nicest in the hotel.

Connelly must sleep. Interview 26 - a live spot with CNN - comes at 7 a.m. And then there's the debate, the evening Connelly has planned for months.

Connelly's bio looks simple and expected for a state GOP chairman: Baptist Sunday school teacher, little league coach, NRA member and motivational speaker. He has a civil engineering degree from Clemson, where his friends will tell you he spent lots of time not studying. He is Dana Connelly's husband and a father of four.

But there's this: In 2006, Chad Connelly and his two young sons came home from church to see his wife of almost 19 years in a pool of blood on the floor.

She had skipped church - just as she had two weeks before - presumably to cook lunch. But the depression that gripped her had taken its final hold in a suicide that devastated his family.

"The boys saw something they never should have seen. I tried to hold them back as much as I could," Connelly says, suppressing tears. "It was a gut kick, an absolutely harsh, brutal scene that feels like TV but you're living it."

For months, he'd grieve in anger. How could she do this? Connelly and Michelle had started a successful Amway business and traveled across the world for business engagements. They had met at Clemson and shared dreams. Their family was young; their boys were happy.

Connelly's motivational speaking business was booming. He had recently published a book.

Now, he would find in a whirlwind of shock, pin-wheeling from phases of depression into resiliency back into depression. Connelly admittedly mellowed some, and the children kept him from falling further into pain: they needed a father, and they needed normalcy.

Haley, after receiving a raucous standing ovation, urges the party to eventually rally behind a candidate that can expel President Barack Obama from the White House.

After about nine months, friends introduced him to a lady named Dana. Her husband had committed suicide, too, leaving her a single parent with two young daughters.

They'd chat on the phone and occasionally see each other. There was a deep connection; no one else understood the deep betrayal and feelings of inadequacy. In July 2007, they were married.

"Michelle believed I'd move on, God ordains us to move on and my boys deserved it," Connelly said, praising the virtues of family.

Moore, his executive director, later adds that his own father committed suicide in May 2009. Connelly and Moore bonded over coffee and forged a deep friendship.

"Chad is the closest thing to a father I have on this Earth, and I'd do anything for him," Moore said.

An aide prods him to move along to the next event. There are speeches to give and donors to schmooze. The debate is 12 hours away.

Connelly bursts into the statewide executive meeting he is expected to lead just two minutes before it begins. In typical fashion, he hugs women and shakes hands of men - sometimes hugging them as well.

"This is the day the Lord has made," he bellows to a full room. "This is the day we've all been waiting for."

The meeting is on schedule until Haley bounds in the door; she wasn't expected but happened to walk by. Haley, after receiving a raucous standing ovation, urges the party to eventually rally behind a candidate that can expel President Barack Obama from the White House.

It's soon time to face the lingering issue in the room: Stephen Colbert. Connelly faced negative headlines after Stephen Colbert almost hijacked the primary, offering the party $400,000 for exclusive naming rights and a ballot referendum: are corporations people or are only people people?

Connelly owes the top brass an explanation. He admits the deal "made him nervous as a cat." But he wanted to reach the "cool and hip" crowd of the younger generation and said the party could use the money. Had the state GOP lost a lawsuit to the county parties in a dispute over who should pay for the state's primary, Connelly would have faced a looming debt.

"I'd wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat thinking I'm on the front page of USA Today as goat of the year," Connelly said.

The party's top brass - assembled from 27 counties across the state - laughs off the Colbert criticism and bashes the media in incremental bursts. But all agree: it is best Colbert's name is not on the primary.

Connelly will handle a few more other official duties: his formal chairman's luncheon and several donor greetings. He walks a prominent group of VIPs through the debate hall and shows them their prime seats. In turn, they stage pictures and glow in the spotlight.

The guests are quickly ushered along. At 3 p.m., the building is wiped free of people and swept for bombs. Connelly retreats for respite - a brief chat with his wife and children and a nap. He's been up since 5 a.m.

Connelly emerges again a little before 6, galloping off the elevator into a pre-debate reception. The party is typical political fare: bigwig donors, fancy plates of gourmet food and gossipy conversations and debate predictions. Connelly has schmoozed plenty before, and he's especially good at it.

In separate interviews, several Columbia politicos praise Connelly for his outgoing demeanor and gregarious style. Likewise, several local officials say they've been duly impressed with his ability to handle contentious issues. All interviewed say he's maintained a higher profile than his predecessor, though they're quick to say it's too early to judge his leadership.

But on Monday night, amid clanking glasses and the glow of national cameras, everyone seems to grin.

Connelly's smile - as it has been for days here - may be the widest of them all.

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Conservatives feud over Santorum endorsement

2012-01-17

In an evolving power struggle, religious conservatives are feuding about whether a weekend meeting in Texas yielded a consensus that former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is the best bet to stop Mitt Romney's drive for the Republican presidential nomination.

A leading evangelical and former aide to President George H.W. Bush said he agreed with suspicions voiced by others at the meeting of evangelical and conservative Catholic activists that organizers "manipulated" the gathering and may even have stuffed the ballot to produce an endorsement of Mr. Santorum over former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Mr. Santorum, who nearly upset Mr. Romney in the Iowa caucuses, won the first ballot ahead of Mr. Gingrich in Saturday's Texas meeting but the margin was too slim for organizers to claim a consensus. It was not until the third ballot, taken after many people had left to catch flights back home, that Mr. Santorum won more than 70 percent of those still in attendance and claimed the endorsement.

Former White House evangelical-outreach official Doug Wead, who represented GOP presidential hopeful Texas Rep. Ron Paul at the event, said it appeared the outcome obviously was determined in advance by the choice of the people invited.

"By the time the weekend was over, it was clear that this had been definitely planned all along as a Rick Santorum event," Mr. Wead said, noting that he was the only supporter of Mr. Paul to receive an invitation.

"The organizer was for Santorum, the person who created the invitation list was for Santorum, the emcee was for Santorum, and after making sure all of the Gingrich people had vented early, the last three speakers before the vote were for Santorum," he said.

Added a Gingrich supporter, a prominent social conservative who asked not to be named, "My view is that the vote was manipulated."

Yet another evangelical political organizer who attended the meeting said he witnessed a possible incident of ballot-box stuffing. In at least one instance, the witness said, a participant was seen writing Mr. SantorumÂ´s name on four separate ballots and putting all four in the box.

The closed-door gathering of about 150 activists at the Benham, Texas, ranch of Nancy and Paul Pressler was being closely watched as perhaps a last chance for social and religious conservatives in the party to change the direction of the nomination fight by uniting around a single alternative to Mr. Romney, whom many distrust.

The Wead allegations are part of an acrimonious power struggle - some involved call it a "civil war" - on the religious right about whether to back Mr. Gingrich, Mr. Santorum, Mr. Paul or Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Just what happened in the meeting and whether the result was manipulated have sparked a stream of emails back and forth among leading conservatives after the meeting broke up.

Supporters of Mr. Santorum defended both the process and the result of the Texas vote.

Family Research Council President Tony Perkins told The Washington Times that he thinks it "is unfortunate that there were a few individuals that have chosen to malign the process and their conservative colleagues. This is not reflective of the tone of tenor of the meeting in Houston."

Longtime conservative activist Richard Viguerie denied charges of collusion by meeting organizers.

"After two ballots, the group had narrowed the field to Santorum and Gingrich, with Santorum leading," he said. "On the third and final ballot, a number of Gingrich supporters, in a principled effort to achieve unity, switched their support to Santorum. This resulted in a strong 75 percent consensus of the group in support of Sen. Santorum's candidacy."

Let Freedom Ring founder Colin Hanna, a pro-Santorum evangelical, told The Washington Times that he and his wife may have been the unwitting inspiration for the charges of ballot stuffing.

He said he and his wife left for home after the first ballot and had asked another couple in attendance to cast proxy votes for Mr. Santorum in the second round of voting.

Mr. Perkins strongly defended the Texas meeting as "a remarkable gathering of conservatives leaders."

"There was no absence of passion in the advocating for perspectives or preferences, but it was marked with tremendous camaraderie and cordiality," he said. "While not everyone agrees with the outcome, they do agree with how the group arrived at that outcome."

But Mr. Wead, who said meeting participants were warned not to discuss the gathering in the media, was still upset and said the entire exercise was misguided.

"The idea of evangelicals meeting this late to select a candidate always struck me as incredibly naive, almost stupid. It is way too late for that," he said.

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SlashGear 101: Android@Home

2012-02-09

Google's vision for a network of accessories connected to one another and running on Android as their operating system is what they call Android@Home. This system was first presented at Google I/O 2011 at their Day One Keynote and stood to extend the Android OS to include new services and apps to discover, connect, and communicate with appliances and devices in the home. The following is a basic guide of what this project, Android@Home or the Android at Home Framework, entails as of today.

For appliances that are unable to connect to Wi-fi, the folks at Google have designed an open wireless protocol that allows Android devices to talk to them. This protocol is designed to offer low-cost connectivity to everything electrical in the home. Lights, alarm clocks, thermostats, and more are included in the first iteration of this connectivity protocol - Google wants to think of every single appliance in your home as a potential piece of the puzzle in this Android@Home framework, ready to work with Android apps.

In the original presentation of Android@Home, an app with four off/on switches was presented with data flowing to the right on a Motorola XOOM tablet's display. This app connected with a set of four lamps, each simply controlled by the app and connected with the protocol written for Android@Home. Very simple stuff. The next example was an app that connected to your alarm clock/stereo and your lights throughout a room - this app gradually raising the brightness of the lights and turning up the sound on your stereo as the time for your awakening in the morning approaches.

Another example given by Google was an app connected to your home's irrigation system, this bringing you a "real world Farmville app" so to speak, watering your plants and grass whenever you tap a button or on a set schedule. A game connection was shown on stage at I/O 2011 with the game Quake being played on the Motorola XOOM Android tablet - as shots were fired and enemies were killed, the lights connected with the app flickered and dimmed - no more life, no more light.

Google has partnered with several industry groups on this project, one of these being Lighting Science - a leading LED lighting manufacturer. This group will be the first to sell LED lighting and switches directly tied to the Android@Home environment. You can check out the bulb held up and demoed at the event over at Lighting Science but good luck getting much information out of them on how they're doing with the Android@Home project now - mum's the word!

The Android@Home Hub is a "totally new kind of Android device" as they said at Google I/O 2011 and combines a standalone Google Music endpoint and a bridge to the Android@Home network. This project was code-named Project Tungston. At the first introduction to the project, they had a couple of Tungston devices - both of them ran the Android operating system as well as the Android@Home software framework. Both of these devices were "always powered on" and always connected to the cloud. They have Audio Out and can connect to either 3rd party speakers or your home stereo system (aka wirelessly or wired). These Tungston devices connected with what we now know as Google Music - all your music in the cloud and available for purchase on command.

The control device, aka the one that looks like a leaning box here with lights flashing in its seams, is controlled by your Android smartphone or tablet. In the interface on Google Music you're able to see which devices you're connected to, and in this case you've got "Stage Left" and "Stage Right", the names of the two Tungston controllers connected to speakers.

All of this connectivity and functionality is, like Android itself, based on an open source code. Developers will be able to create their own apps based on the code freely and without cost. Another "Tungston" device was demonstrated on stage at I/O 2011 that looked more like a sphere than a box. This device was able to read NFC tags that were "activated when the packaging was taken off of the case" of a CD. When you opened your CD case up and tapped it to the sphere, it would read the tag inside and the music was immediately added to your Google Music library in digital form. Touching the sphere with the CD case once the music was added started playing the music from the first track instantly.

Head to about 43 minutes into the video here to see the entire presentation on Android@Home or watch the full video to see everything presented on the first day at Google I/O 2011 - it's Ice Cream Sandwich fantastic!

Android@Home is likely to pop up again here in the Spring of 2012 as the Google Home Entertainment Device we've been hearing whispered tips about for the past week. We're thinking that the open protocol and codes galore for developers will be formally passed on soon, and that a device may well be developed by Google to show the functional power of Android@Home off to the world, much like an Android Nexus device would. Let's get connected at home in 2012!

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Does Firefox have a mobile future?

2012-02-19

Mozilla has ambitious plans for mobile in the coming year, but will the team behind Firefox be able to make the leap to mobile, or be left stranded on the desktop?

Firefox may be losing marketshare to Chrome, but the Mozilla Foundation has laid out an ambitious roadmap for 2012. It includes not only major new features and capabilities for its Firefox browser, but solutions for online identity management and a full-fledged marketplace for cross-platform Web apps to rival offerings from Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, and others.

However, while Mozilla is perhaps singlehandedly responsible for breaking Internet Explorer's stranglehold on the desktop browser market, the Internet world is increasingly focused on mobile - and Mozilla has yet to make a strong transition to mobile devices.

Can Firefox and Mozilla survive in a world where mobile users are almost all locked into app and software ecosystems - and Mozilla is all but locked out?

Mozilla's Firefox has waged a lengthy - and successful - battle against the market dominance of Microsoft Internet Explorer on the desktop. Internet Explorer once accounted for over 90 percent of all browsing around the world, a feat it accomplished after successfully vanquishing one-time browser leader Netscape. Mozilla was birthed from the ashes of Netscape, and over years of pressing for open standards and pushing for improved performance, security, and features, Mozilla arguably won that battle, even if IE is still the dominant browser in the world (Net Applications has all versions of IE currently accounting for about 53 percent of the desktop market). More recently, Google's Chrome has become a major force in the browser market, essentially neck-and-neck with Firefox for the not-using-Internet-Explorer crowd.

However, in the mobile world, the landscape is very different. The success of Apple's iOS on iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches makes Safari the dominant mobile browser: According to Net Applications, it has a 55 percent share of the mobile browser market. Mozilla and Firefox are almost absent, while Opera mini and the default Android browser each account for about one fifth of mobile browsing. After that, shares fall into the single digits for Symbian and BlackBerry. Firefox barely registers: According to Net Applications, it claims just 0.02 percent of the mobile browser market.

Firefox's challenges in the mobile arena are formidable. For instance, Apple's development restrictions for iOS mean browsers have to use iOS's built-in WebKit rendering engine, and that rules out a port of Firefox's Gecko rendering engine for iOS. To be sure, Mozilla could produce an iOS browser called Firefox built on WebKit, but doing so would leave most of Mozilla's core technology behind. While a WebKit-based Firefox could perhaps offer a different mobile browsing experience than Safari, it likely would never be able to keep up with Mobile Safari because Apple has a history of keeping some WebKit optimizations to itself.

If Microsoft's Windows Phone platform develops market traction, it could be an opportunity for third-party browsers, except that Microsoft restricts third-party app development to XAML and its own Silverlight platform. It might be possible to build a browser with those technologies, but (again) Mozilla would be leaving its Gecko engine behind, re-inventing the wheel, and starting off at an incredible disadvantage compared to native apps.

Firefox's first moves into mobile browsing were for MeeGo, an open-source mobile operating system being developed jointly by Nokia and Intel. Unfortunately for Mozilla, Nokia threw MeeGo to the wolves when it fully embraced Microsoft's Windows Phone platform. Although the MeeGo project has been rolled into Tizen (which has recently been augmented by Samsung's Bada), both are still a long way from fully-baked, let alone shipping on handsets or making a mark on the market. By the time Tizen starts hitting the streets, it'll probably even have competition from webOS, which should be fully open-sourced by September 2012.

That pretty much leaves Android - and, to be sure, Firefox is available for Android. Although the degree to which Google's mobile OS is "free" and "open" won't likely be settled for some time (in or out of court), the Android platform does offer the low-level access Mozilla needs to bring its browsing technology to mobile devices. But Firefox for Android faces some very real challenges. For one thing, it's performance is distinctly subpar compared to Android's native browser. Mozilla promises it's working fast on a rewrite to bring Firefox for Android up to speed, in part by tapping native Android interface elements. But that will lock Firefox for Android out of a lot of existing Firefox add-ons. And it's not like Firefox is the only alternative browser for Android. Google not only packs a default WebKit browser into Android, it just launched its own version of Google Chrome for Android, to generally positive reception. If any company has a leg up on making a browser for Android, it's Google.

So where do Mozilla's mobile hopes lie? Since Mozilla is effectively locked out of every mobile platform but Android (and perhaps Tizen, one day), Mozilla is hoping to do an end-run around the mobile OS conundrum with Boot to Gecko, a fully Web-based mobile operating system for tablets and smartphones. Yes, another mobile operating system. The idea behind Boot to Gecko is to provide an OS built entirely on HTML5, Javascript, and CSS. Everything on screen would essentially be a Web app, and those Web apps would essentially be native-optimized apps on Boot to Gecko. Although built on a basic foundation from Android, Boot to Gecko would offer no proprietary layers, no distinction between Web apps and native apps. Boot to Gecko will support a privilege model that puts users in control of their data and personal information - in part, that would leverage Mozilla's BrowserID framework, which enables users to log into Web sites (and go back again) via any email address they like.

If Boot to Gecko sounds a bit like Palm-then-HP's killed-then-open-sourced webOS, you're right. Much of the idea behind webOS was to build a mobile operating system using purely Web-based technologies on a WebKit engine. Maybe the world isn't ready for a mobile operating system based fully on Web technologies: One former Palm executive has laid the failure of webOS squarely at the feet of WebKit - a claim that seems a little preposterous since Apple and Google have had solid successes with the same technology, but it's important to remember Palm tried to get there first. Boot to Gecko would use Mozilla's Gecko rather than WebKit, but unlike webOS, will apparently eschew native apps. (So did the original iPhone, if anyone remembers.)

Given that modern mobile hardware has considerably more horsepower than the original iPhone (or Palm's first webOS devices), it's conceivable a Gecko-based mobile operating system could fly where webOS has (so far) failed. However, the problem might be timing: Mozilla B2G roadmap reveals the organization isn't expecting to have a demo of Boot to Gecko up and running until this quarter, with "productization" starting in the second quarter. Even if Mozilla gives birth to a fully-formed Boot to Gecko OS by the third quarter of 2012, it then faces an uphill battle to adoption. Mozilla has to pursue deals with handset makers, who by that point, will be able to choose not just Windows Phone and Android but perhaps webOS and Tizen too, or try to convince the technologically savvy to install B2G on Android handsets with unlocked bootloaders. That may appeal to developer-types, but not to mainstream mobile users.

Realizing its opportunities to bring Firefox to to the mobile world are perhaps less-than-ideal, Mozilla has outlined another zag-rather-than-zig strategy: a marketplace for cross-platform Web apps. The idea sticks to the core of Mozilla's fundamental principles that consider the Web itself to be the primary platform for the future of the Internet, rather than iOS, Android, Windows, or even Firefox. To that end, Mozilla wants to create a marketplace for cross-platform Web apps. Sure, they would run on Firefox, but they would also run on other HTML5-compliant browsers. Customers would be able to buy a Web app from one place (whether via Mozilla, directly from the developer, or through a competing marketplace) and use that app in any compatible browser on any compatible device, whether that's an iPad, a Windows desktop, or an Android phone.

"Most apps today are built using platform-specific tools and languages," Mozilla's Ragavan Srinivasan wrote in it Apps Roadmap. "They are distributed using tightly controlled and locked down app Stores. They only run on specific device and OS combinations. A few dominant market players have assembled these various pieces into integrated app ecosystems that pose some big challenges for users and developers."

Mozilla is hoping that advances in Web technologies, as well as mobile and desktop hardware, will enable HTML5 apps to rival the experience and performance of native apps. And, unlike app marketplaces from Apple, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and others, Mozilla's app store will not be locked to a single platform, or even locked to Firefox. Any browser supporting the standards needed by a Web app will do.

Mozilla plans to develop its own Marketplace for Apps by first building on the infrastructure it's created for Firefox add-ons and extensions. Mozilla's Marketplace will also be the default location for users to look for things to enhance their Firefox experience. Mozilla says the Marketplace will enable one-click payments: Users will be able to purchase premium apps, and Web apps will be able to tie back to the Mozilla Marketplace to facilitate in-app payments, subscriptions, and other monetized services. All the validation will center around Mozilla's BrowserID technology.

Since Mozilla's inception, Firefox has been the organization's primary platform: Firefox allowed Mozilla to drive adoption of Web standards and innovation on the Web. However, now that support for HTML5 and CSS3 are the norm across almost all operating systems and devices (and standards support is seen as a strength, rather than a hassle), Mozilla's future might not lie as much with Firefox itself as with the goal to treat the Web itself as a platform. Ironically, that's a notion that harks all the way back to Netscape's original battle with Microsoft in the 1990s. The question then becomes whether the browsing world - on desktops, tablets, phones, televisions, and other devices - is ready to drop distinctions between operating systems and focus exclusively on the Web. It might seem like a long shot now, but most people thought Mozilla was tilting at windmills when it took on Internet Explorer. Just look how that's turned out.

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Instagram Reaches 27 Million Registered Users

2012-03-12

Instagram, the photo-sharing app that has taken a definitive lead on iOS, said it has surpassed 27 million registered users today at the SXSW Interactive conference in Austin, Texas.

Co-founder Kevin Systrom didn't disclose daily active users during his fireside chat with TechCrunch editor Alexia Tsotsis. But he did say of all the users who have been active in the last week, 67 percent of them used the app yesterday.

He didn't really offer any clarity on rumors that the company is raising $40 million at a $500 million valuation.

"Good companies are always fundraising," he said. "Whether you're meeting people or considering firms, you're always fundraising. But it doesn't mean we're active. We're trying to create a long-term, viable company that doesn't come and go with fads. It should be something that lasts and creates meaningful value."

Systrom also had one more thing up his sleeve - he showed off the company's upcoming Android app. He waved it around very briefly on-stage, but he didn't give a full demo. (That's for later, and the company tells us they aren't totally ready for a walkthrough yet.)

Co-founder Mike Krieger added that folks over at Android have been pretty impressed with the way the app leverages the platform. It's taken awhile to come to Android simply because the company was focused on scaling on iOS, Systrom said.

"I don't think it took us so long. We just had priorities. Had we tried to be both on Android and iPhone at the same time, it would've been tough to innovate in the way that we have," he said.

He was also coy about what Instagram's business model will ultimately end up being. The app currently doesn't have any advertising and it doesn't have any in-app purchases. Path, in contrast, sells some filters. (But it also has far fewer users with the latest publicly shared figure being 2 million registered users.)

"We have a visual platform and advertisers like visual mediums. They like TV and magazines, but attention is moving online and they want to switch," he said. "I do believe that Instagram has put a stake in the ground and we're growing more quickly than anyone. Is there something in there we could do to make it a multi-billion dollar business? I think we can figure out something along the way."

Launched in the fall of 2010, Instagram grew out of some unsuccessful experiments in location sharing. While the company would have been too late to a crowded space that included Foursquare and ultimately Facebook Places, Systrom and Krieger saw that their beta users were sharing tons of photos.

"I was not super pumped up about location-based services. But I saw that what Kevin was doing was more about sharing the story of a place," Krieger said.

They quickly turned around a native iOS app that seemed to marry elements of paid camera app Hipstamatic with social features. It was perfect timing since the iPhone 4 was just arriving on the market and the device finally had a camera that produced photos of comparable quality to what point-and-shoot cameras could do. Apple also had an installed base of iOS devices that was finally large enough to produce the network effects that Instagram needed to take off.

"Mobile has created a totally different dynamic for discovering apps," Systrom said. "You're sitting in a bar and your friend is taking some pictures and then you ask what app they're using."

The app was soon a home run that quickly secured a top ranking among photography apps and then a consistently high ranking on the free app charts. On the first day, 25,000 registered users showed up. The challenge soon became about scaling the back-end and infrastructure.

"From then until now, it's been a hockey stick," Systrom said. "We've been very lucky with scaling. The difference is that we're served out of the cloud and we can call up instances with the demand. We also have a fantastic team that focuses on scale."

Just months after that, the company picked up a $7 million Series A round led by Benchmark Capital, with participation from Baseline Ventures, Square CEO Jack Dorsey, Chris Sacca and Quora co-founder Adam D'Angelo. Benchmark partner and Facebook alum Matt Cohler joined the board.

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Sony acquisition of Ericsson now complete - what we can expect

2012-04-16

This has been one of the smoothest acquisitions we have seen in the life of Android. In less than 4 months since its announcement, Sony has completed the full acquisition of the Ericsson mobile devision. This costed the Japanese manufacturer €1.05 billion, but good ol' Sony is now in full charge of its mobile division.

Even before this transaction was finalized, though, things had already started to change. We have seen the latest Xperia devices being unveiled without the Ericsson branding (like the Sony Xperia Ion and the Xperia S). But we feel like Sony's plans are not fully portrayed by these devices.

Sony can turn the tables around, and make things much better for its future. And we would assume that Sony has a plan - they did not spend €1.05 billion on a hunch. Sony Ericsson hasn't been making the best profits, but we should start seeing some strategy changes soon.

According to Sony, this is the main reason for said acquisition. The company wants smartphones to be part of the connected home that they have been creating for years. As of now, they have done a great job with their other products: computers, televisions, Blu-ray players, game consoles and other devices have the ability to communicate with one another, taking us closer to the "smart home."

This is something we can see the smartphone being integrated into - better communications with other Sony products and services. Many Sony TVs can now be turned on automatically when a Playstation 3 or Blu-ray player is in use, and the console can be controlled via a keyboard and mouse.

It would be great if a portable device could be added into the equation. Imagine if there was an option that allowed you to do the same with your smartphone. Simply select the DLNA (or any form of wireless communication) option when walking into the living roon, and boom - the TV turns on and starts playing the movie.

Maybe being able to access your Playstation 3 while on the go will also be featured in the future, much like the PSP devices have been able to do for a long time. The possibilities are endless, but such features are what we should start seeing in Sony smartphones. The connected home is the future, after all.

Sony is one of the most successful competitors in the video game industry. Its consoles have created a great consumer loyalty since the release of the Playstation 1. It continues to hang with the best of them with consoles like the Playstation 3 and the PS Vita.

There have been recent rumors of Sony moving to Vita OS in the future[1], but this is not expected to happen for a long time. And we hope it never happens, because it has great potential to be successful in the Android world.

Gaming is something very important in the mobile ecosystem, and Sony can apply some of its talent to coming smartphones. We have already seen a gaming device being released, the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play (image to the right). This phone is great, and the controller pad definitely makes for a better experience. The games and specs left much to be desired, though.

With Sony in charge, we should be seeing many improvements in the Xperia gaming strategy. Better gaming smartphones and tablets, an improved Playstation Certified experience and console quality games could really turn things around in the Android ecosystem.

Will we see super phones with access to games with PS Vita quality and resolution? We will have to wait and see. It is highly likely Sony will make some strong moves within mobile gaming, though.

Sony Ericsson devices have not been the best, but they improved greatly last year. Sony Mobile Communications could take great advantage of the company's resources and talent. As already mentioned, Sony is no small kid on the playground. Many of its products are highly desired by the population, and their name has a great reputation for solid manufacturing.

Sony Ericsson's design already fits in with Sony's style, and we probably won't see that changing too much. We may see Xperia devices with much better specs, though. If the new smartphones are going to be powerful gaming devices, the specs will have to be much more impressive.

Quad-core processors and gadgets with 2 GB of RAM are just around the corner. We might, or might not be seeing Sony taking a leap in this movement. Sony might have some hiccups with the transition, but we could expect them to stay on top of the game from then on.

Sony has great potential and talent. We have seen it in their other products, and hope to see better smartphones being added to its line - but this is only the beginning. There is much more that could be done. The Japanese manufacturer could make use of its talent to add great cameras, better sound, better displays and all of the above mentioned improvements.

But Android enthusiasts care about even more - for some, a super phone is immediately discarded after learning that it has a locked bootloader (Sony Ericsson has been great about open bootloaders). It is also a big "no no" if a manufacturer is known for not keeping its devices updated in a timely fashion.

There are many things that Sony could do to make its customers very happy - some being relatively simple to accomplish. So let's see how Big Sony plays things out. We hope that it goes well. Competition is a great factor for the mobile evolution, and we hate to see manufacturers fail.

But let us know what you think. Do you think Sony will do well with the acquisition? If so, what do you see coming in the near future?

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Sony Begins Entertainment Push After Ericsson Buyout

2012-04-16

Sony revamped its mobile strategy to integrate gaming and entertainment features, in the wake of the completed Ericsson buyout of their joint venture.

The Japanese giant plans to merge its newly acquired mobile division into its electronics division, bolstering its product line-up and helping the company better compete in the smartphone market. The deal also fuels Sony's migration from low-end phones and puts a renewed emphasis on cutting-edge smartphones like its Xperia handsets.

The buyout figures into Sony CEO Kazuo Hirai's larger strategy to focus on producing high-end devices with unique capabilities that capitalize on Sony's strengths.

Hirai intends to "fully leverage Sony's diverse electronics product portfolio, in conjunction with our rich entertainment assets and growing array of networked services, to engage with our customers around the world in new and exciting ways," a goal the Ericsson deal will help reach by consolidating mobile operations and giving Sony full control over them.

The acquisition arrives at a critical time for Sony, as the company has weathered disappointing sales and a leadership overhaul. The Japanese company is struggling to stay afloat in a competitive market, and the deal confers vital advantages, like cross-licensing and integration opportunities.

Sony is already pursuing aspects of its strategy. This week, Sony granted PlayStation Certification to HTC, allowing the company's devices access to the cross-platform PlayStation Suite. Expanding this gaming suite, which was previously exclusive to Sony's smartphones, to some of the world's largest Android manufacturers is another way the company is getting its software into the hands of more customers and expanding its targeted gaming audience.

At the same time, Sony's decision to license its PlayStation Suite will likely bring the company revenue, which it can use to finance its higher-end smartphones. The company is fine-tuning these higher-end devices, and the licenses are expected to cultivate a market which Sony can capture with its own devices.

The Ericsson deal builds on this strategy since Sony can now employ its cloud technology and bring its gaming and entertainment holdings onto its handsets without working out deals with Ericsson.

Sony paid $1.29 billion for control of the company, which includes comprehensive cross-licensing agreements, and intends to rename the mobile company Sony Mobile Communications. The Ericsson deal was a necessary expense for Sony, as Hirai's plan hinges on substantial strategy shifts, and some of these changes may only be possible with the buyout.

Sports Illustrated swimsuit viewerThe 2012 swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated hits newsstands this week, but fans will be happy to know it's been given an upgrade thanks to mobile technology.

Readers can now point their smartphone's camera at one (or all 19) of the models featured in the swimsuit issue to view behind-the-scenes videos of the photo shoots. For it to work, readers must have an Apple or Android smartphone, download the Swimsuit Viewer mobile app, and point their camera at the models' photos.

How do they do it, you ask? Each model's photo has been embedded with invisible digital watermarks to ensure they do not detract from the photos.

Bryan Laurienti, leader of BBB Systems' graphic design team, said he thinks the digital watermarks are a great way to make the Sports Illustrated magazine an interactive experience. Plus, it gives the magazine a modern update that may draw in new readers thanks to the bonus videos.

Tell us your thoughts: Do you think mobile technology - like digital watermarks - will work well in a magazine like Sports Illustrated?

Mobile phones running Google Android software extended their market share lead over Apple's iPhone during the fourth quarter of 2011, market research outfit Gartner says.

Apple had a boom quarter on the back of the new iPhone 4S, selling more than 35 million handsets, double that of the year-ago quarter.

Yet Android-based smartphones (made by Samsung, Motorola, Sony, HTC, Huawei, LG and others) also more than doubled sales to maintain their collective majority market share.

The Android camp's fragmentation did mean that Apple registered the highest sales of any single smartphone maker.

And, like a recent IDC survey, Gartner found Apple is now number three in the cellphone market as a whole.

Apple and Android's success was at the expense of BlackBerry maker RIM and Nokia, whose smartphone share halved over the period (although it is in the process of mounting a fightback with its new Microsoft Windows-based handsets that will be released in New Zealand next month).

Microsoft New Zealand country manager Paul Muckleston told NBR that so far Windows Phone smartphones have been a hit with a niche audience. Nokia was still the largest mobile phone maker overall (see second table). The Nokia-Microsoft partnership would help Microsoft's mobile software pushing into the mainstream, and revive Nokia's smartphone fortunes.

With the three-way fight between Apple, Android and Nokia/Microsoft helping to grow the smartphone market overall, the phone companies win either way.

Global smartphone sales to end users reached 115 million units in the third quarter of 2011, up 42% from the third quarter of 2010, Gartner said.

Nokia's Windows Phone-based Lumia series has sold more than 1 million since its November launch in Europe, Nokia Australia-New Zealand MD Chris Carr told NBR - still modest compared to the numbers clocked by Apple and Android, but not bad from a cold start.

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Apple's foray into TV could leave Samsung hamstrung

2012-04-16

TV companies may well be led by Apple into a completely different world of TV entirely

IT'S NOT OFTEN you hear an executive saying words so laden with hubris you can practically hear the bell tolling for them in the background.

Chris Moseley, Samsung's UK marketing manager for its audio-visual products, told Gadget site Pocket Lint last week "TVs are ultimately about picture quality. How smart they are a secondary consideration."

He was responding to the persistent rumours that Apple is readying a new television product, aimed at the giants of television like Samsung. This would mean taking the current Apple TV product from a $99 device that Steve Jobs described as a "hobby" to a more serious line of devices, potentially with content deals like iTunes, and an integrated display.

The rumours are strong and growing. In December, the Wall Street Journal published reports that the company was in negotiations with TV media companies, and had mentioned in vague terms a new TV product. Analysts Piper Jaffray claim that Apple has spoken to at least one "major TV component supplier" about a potential display for the device.

The television market has been stable for some time, with little interest in anything beyond displaying what TVs are sent by satellite, cable and terrestrial broadcasters. The top-end hardware fight, as Moseley says, is mostly about picture resolution and quality.

But if that's what manufacturers are concentrating on, then that's exactly the moment for Apple to step into the market.

Screen quality, as an attractor for the majority of customers, is bottoming out, just as processor speed became less and less important for computer purchasers. What annoys you more - that your television picture isn't high resolution enough, or that your digital TV box takes five seconds to change channel? That your colours aren't beautiful enough, or that you can't find what you want to watch now on your intensely confusing digital program guide?

Television is, already, all about the software. And the software, for now, sucks. Some is better than others, but Moseley's point indicates why none of it is good enough. The programming part of your TV is thrown together, and stuck into state-of-the-art hardware.

Or worse, it's not in the television at all, but in a medley of set-top boxes, digital video recorders, mysterious audio and video connections, and endless incomprehensible remote controls.

Could Apple step into this, given their lack of experience building a high-grade television? Of course they could. Indeed, this is pretty much exactly the market they faced when they entered the mobile telephone market.

There were plenty of smartphones before the iPhone, but they were all a little clunky, a little slow, a little frustrating to use.

Apple brought their marketing, their user interface skills, and their devotion to a single, highly refined product. They not only established a beachhead for their product, but they also created a secondary market around it. The iPhone was not just an accessory, but an accessory with its own accessories - be they software apps, or complementary hardware.

The comparison runs even deeper. Before the iPhone launched, Apple experimented with a "hobby" iPhone - the Rockr, a Motorola phone with iTunes software.

The product quietly failed, but it gave the Apple engineers an insight into how the mobile phone market operated.

The current €121 Apple TV is Apple's similar, early, foray. And Samsung cannot seriously believe that Apple can't apply the expertise it has gained from its monitor and retina-display LCD development (and ability to massively invest and dominate supply channels).

Jobs himself, the same WSJ article reported, was dismissive about entering the TV market - the margins are low, he told Apple employees, and consumers don't buy televisions very often. But Jobs frequently dismissed a market just before entering it. And we know that before his death, Jobs mentioned to his biographer Walter Isaacson that he had "cracked" the best interface for operating a TV.

In truth, it might not be Samsung, or its product managers, who really need to worry if Apple turn their gaze toward the television market. The iPod, iPhone, and iPad stories show that the group who has to gamble most on Apple's new markets are the content providers. If they choose not to go with Apple, they risk missing the initial gold rush of a new Apple-spotlit market. If they do make a deal with Apple, they can find their negotiated deal being rather less beneficial than they imagined. The music industry was happy to work with Apple, until they realised the dominant position of the iTunes store meant they were no longer able to set their own prices on singles. The phone carriers fought over iPhone, but have discovered that its bandwidth demands and circumvention of their own media dreams have limited their own room for manoeuvre.

The rumours of Apple talking to cable and TV companies about their new TV should worry Samsung. But perhaps it should also worry those potential partners. At least Samsung knows Apple is entering its market. The TV companies may well be being led by Apple into a completely different world of TV entirely.

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IPhone sales hurt carriers' profits

2012-04-16

The iPhone has been a huge hit for Apple Inc., helping send the company's stock to all-time highs and producing record-breaking profits.

But for AT&T Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Verizon Communications Inc., it's breaking the bank.

The three wireless carriers all found themselves answering to Wall Street in recent weeks for posting depressed quarterly earnings, and analysts pointed to the heavy cost of offering the iPhone as a culprit.

The iPhone has become the single most popular smartphone in the United States, and that has left the carriers trapped in a kind of Faustian deal: The more iPhones they sell, the more money they lose.

That's because they have to buy the phone from Apple before they can sell it to their customers for hundreds of dollars less. The carriers are betting that they'll make back the difference and more by signing up customers for two-year plans and collecting monthly fees.

AT&T was the first carrier to offer the iPhone and has been struggling to make it profitable for years. During the last quarter, the iPhone accounted for 82 percent of the smartphones AT&T sold to its customers, meaning the company had to pay the hefty subsidy on each of the 7.6 million iPhones.

All that money paid to Apple tugged down the company's profits. In AT&T's wireless division, operating margins - a common measure of how much a firm makes - dropped to 15.2 percent from 22.9 percent a year earlier.

"The AT&T wireless model is broken," said Kevin Smithen, a wireless analyst at Macquarie Securities. "AT&T is basically subsidizing Apple's revenues and profit growth."

Investors have taken notice: Since June 29, 2007, the day AT&T first offered the iPhone, Apple's stock has shot up more than 300 percent, to $493.69 from $122.04. Meanwhile, AT&T's stock has dropped 28 percent, to $29.82 from $41.40.

Sprint's stock is down more than 16 percent since it began selling the iPhone late last year. It sold 1.8 million iPhones last quarter, spending $630 million to buy them from Apple. That was a large contributor to the company's $1.3 billion quarterly loss - a 40 percent wider loss than the struggling company saw a year earlier, before it offered the iPhone.

Verizon sold 4.2 million iPhones last quarter, accounting for more than half of the smartphones it sold. But despite those strong sales numbers, Verizon's profit failed to meet Wall Street's expectations, and the firm's stock dropped 2 percent after its earnings release.

Wireless carriers began subsidizing the cost of cellphones years ago, in an era of simpler, less expensive "feature" phones. Carriers might have offered a $300 phone to consumers for $100.

But that doesn't work well with the much more expensive iPhone, which companies buy from Apple for about $600, analysts estimate, before reselling it to consumers for $200 - eating the $400 difference.

A particularly sticky issue for carriers is that many iPhone users don't want to wait for their two-year contract to expire to buy the latest model, which has come out once a year.

Generally the carriers have required consumers to pay the full price if they want a new iPhone before their contract runs out. But now, worried that subscribers will flee to competitors if they can't get a good price on the new phone, several carriers are offering "early upgrade" deals to discount the newest iPhone before two years elapse. That means helping the consumer buy a second iPhone in one year - and handing over additional hundreds of dollars to Apple.

"Can Apple continue to roll through industry after industry, soak up all the profits, and leave everything it touches as a smoking wreckage?" asked Craig Moffett, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "They've done it with music and handsets, and now they're doing it to the carriers."

Representatives from Sprint, AT&T and Verizon declined to comment on their plans for offsetting the iPhone's effect on their bottom line.

But analysts believe the carriers' best shot at wrestling back some power from Apple is getting consumers interested in alternatives. This year, that has meant souped-up campaigns to entice buyers to look at Google Inc.-powered Android phones manufactured by Samsung Electronics, LG, HTC, Motorola and others.

After heavy promotion, devices such as Motorola's Droid Razr and Samsung's Galaxy S 4G have begun to sell well. They also can take advantage of faster, next-generation 4G wireless technology, while Apple's iPhone still works with the slower 3G.

Best of all for carriers, the Android devices can cost half as much, allowing them to pay closer to $200 for each device instead of $400 for the iPhone.

"They're doing everything they can to make the Android phone something you want to choose," said Chris Larsen, an analyst at Piper Jaffray & Co. "It keeps Apple in balance to some degree."

At a Verizon Wireless store in Los Angeles' Koreatown neighborhood, half a dozen wall-mounted displays feature fancy, back-lit red-and-silver graphics pitching the company's new line of next-generation 4G Android smartphones. The display for the iPhone is smaller and plain, its white motif clashing with the store's color scheme.

"It depends what you like," a clerk says when asked for advice on which type of phone to buy.

"Do you like the Androids' faster download times, bigger screens, longer battery life and better cameras? Or do you like Apple?"

Classrooms of the Future: New Digital Textbooks and Other Mobile Technology to Help Prepare Texas Students for College and Beyond

School leaders to participate in conference this week to improve education across the country as the nation moves to digital textbooks and other mobile learning technology

Interactive textbooks for the iPad and other digital instructional materials from Pearson are taking center stage days after the U.S. Department of Education announced a move toward digital textbooks and other mobile learning technology for classrooms of the future. Superintendents and other school leaders from Texas and around the country will gather in Houston this week to share ways to help teachers improve student achievement and better prepare students for college and careers with technology like interactive textbooks and other powerful classroom tools.

A pioneer in digital and mobile learning, Pearson worked with Apple to recreate the textbook and help teachers offer a learning experience for students illuminated with color, video, 3D animation and interactive images. Pearson's iBooks and other digital instructional materials are built on decades of expertise and research in effective teaching and learning.

As the American Association of School Administrators' (AASA) National Conference on Education kicks off in Houston this week, schools are making a major push to transform the classroom experience in Texas and across the country by integrating digital instructional materials proven to work, such as those provided by Pearson.

"Mobile learning will revolutionize school as we know it, with interactive textbooks, videos, 3D animation, and illustrations at students' fingertips, bringing concepts to life," said Raymond Ward, Pearson vice-president for Texas. "When students graduate, they go to college and enter a workforce where technology - and the ability to use it and interact with it - is at the forefront. Digital learning helps students grasp the substance of their lessons while meeting them on the digital frontier where they are already spending their time."

iBooks are the newest addition to Pearson's wide range of mobile learning solutions available for schools today, including the Online Learning Exchange. OLE is a digital program that gives Texas teachers mobile access to multimedia learning materials like videos and podcasts so they can choose and develop lessons best suited for their students' needs. Pearson's Prentice Hall Writing Coach is an interactive writing and grammar program that provides personalized help for every student through a digital "coach" that gives individualized feedback on paragraphs and full essays. Pearson's digital Online Learning Exchange (OLE) and Writing Coach programs are already being used in Texas on computers and mobile tablets.

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HP layoffs and Facebook IPO reflect Silicon Valley's highs and lows

2012-05-18

So rarely do two events occur in such close proximity that perfectly capture the agony and the ecstasy of Silicon Valley.

As the sun rose, hundreds of hoodie-wearing Facebook employees gathered on their new campus to celebrate the social network's first day as a public company. Meanwhile, employees of Palo Alto-based Hewlett-Packard were still digesting reports that their company is potentially planning to lay off between 25,000 and 30,000 people.

Facebook represents the promise of the future. HP, the onetime icon, seems destined to continue its slow, ignoble slide. And Silicon Valley shrugs and marches on.

"We once again see how 'creative destruction' continues to transform the Valley as Facebook goes IPO and Hewlett-Packard restructures," wrote Doug Henton, CEO of Collaborative Economics, in an email Friday. "This is historical but fits a longer-term pattern."

In a place like this, with its relentless fixation on the future, there is no time for sentimentality.

Today, who weeps for the passing of Netscape, SGI or Sun Microsystems? The valley just moves on, or, in the case of Facebook, moves into Sun's old headquarters.

Earlier this year, I was having coffee in Palo Alto with former Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz to talk about a new health-related startup he had founded. I asked him how it felt to see Facebook occupying the place that had been home to Sun for so long before it was acquired and moved by Oracle.

Schwartz said, very matter-of-factly: "That's just how Silicon Valley works. Companies die and new ones are born."

Clearly, the verdict Friday is that Facebook is the future, while HP doesn't seem to have much of one. And that's why, even though the HP news is likely to affect far more people, a disproportionate share of the public and media's attention was focused on the Facebook news Friday.

The Facebook IPO represented the welcome end of several years of breathless speculation about when the company would go public. Yes, with the stock closing the day almost flat, it was easy to shrug it all off as anticlimactic.

But don't let the first-day performance fool you. Facebook is a juggernaut. Armed with billions of dollars, thanks to investors, it will hire thousands of new employees, acquire dozens of startups, and further extend its reach into every corner of the Web and our lives.

Yes, like any company, it faces challenges. Things could go sideways. Or a new competitor could come from nowhere and derail it. But I wouldn't count on any of those things happening anytime soon. I expect a year from now, Facebook's stock will be trading substantially higher, and many of us will be kicking ourselves for not buying it for that $38 when we had the chance.

Facebook, with its 3,500 employees and $3.7 billion in annual revenue, is now valued at $104.63 billion, more than double HP's anemic $42.43 billion valuation. That is shockingly low for a company with almost 350,000 employees and $127 billion in annual revenue.

HP long ago turned away from its history of being a place that invented things and instead embraced the modern corporate mentality of trying to build itself up through a strategy of endless acquisitions and layoffs.

Starting with the Compaq merger in 2001, HP has spent more than $60 billion in cash and stock to acquire at least 59 companies. In the process of growing from 88,000 employees to nearly 350,000, the company has announced job cuts over the past decade that could top 120,000 come Wednesday.

This strategy was initiated by Carly Fiorina and embraced by Mark Hurd. For a brief moment his replacement, Leo Apotheker, seemed to promise a respite. He promised to invest! Give raises! Focus on innovation!

Of course, Apotheker was gone in less than a year. Enter Meg Whitman. After growing rusty in the basement, it sounds like she's dragged out the HP layoff machine, gassed it up, and is apparently going to cut loose.

When a company's most successful product is the creation of former employees, it's hard to hold out much hope for its future. Sadly, binging on acquisitions and layoffs has gotten HP nowhere. The announcement expected Wednesday will be the surest sign that HP is lost with no chance of finding its way back.

But most likely, this news will be met with a shrug across the valley, where most people will be too busy figuring out how to start the next Facebook to fret much about a company like HP as it sinks into irrelevance.

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (32GB)

2012-06-18

The good: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 delivers a mostly pure Ice Cream Sandwich experience for only $250. The tablet also trumps the Kindle Fire in extras by including dual cameras, expandable memory, and TV remote control functionality.

The bad: The screen doesn't look as pretty as other PLS displays, and its camera performance is lacking compared to other tablets in the line.

The bottom line: The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 offers an excellent value and a full Android experience that no other tablet can currently match for the price.

I guess we have Amazon to thank for proving that you don't need a premium tablet to be successful. While Samsung tried competing on the premium tablet front for the last year and will continue to do so, it's finding this strategy to be more difficult than anticipated.

With the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, the company is, thankfully, learning from its mistakes and taking a price cue from Amazon by offering a full-featured tablet for $250. The market isn't stagnant, though, so will Samsung actually have time to ... Expand full review

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The Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 sports a slightly altered design from the 7.0 Plus, but you'd be hard-pressed to notice those differences at first glance, unless of course you were as intimately familiar with the Plus as I am.

The shape and weight are about the same with some slight dimensional differences. The new tablet's outer plastic shell spills a bit into the bezel at the right and left sides and the power/sleep button and volume rocker are more pronounced and feel slightly more responsive. Also, the IR blaster is a bit larger than the one on the Plus.

Aside from that, they're pretty much physically identical. The Tab 2 7.0 is fairly thin, although not Tab 7.7-thin. It's also comfortable to hold with smooth, rounded corners. Samsung identifies the color that covers the back of the tablet as "titanium silver," which seems fitting enough.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus Amazon Kindle Fire Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7

Side bezel width in inches (landscape) 0.76 0.74 0.78 (Power button side), 0.6 opposite side 0.68

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The microSD card slot allows you to add an additional 32GB of storage on top of the built-in 8GB. Samsung provides 50GB of free Dropbox storage for a year on top of that. The door to the microSD slot is easier to open now and doesn't get stuck as often as the Plus' did.

Take that Kindle Fire! With expandable memory up 32GBs, you shouldn't have to worry constantly about running out of space.

The 2-megapixel front camera from the Plus has been replaced with a VGA one here, but the rear is still rated at 3-megapixel, albeit sans an LED. Thankfully each camera is located in the upper left corner when holding the tablet in landscape, thus allowing them to avoid unwanted fingers creeping into the camera frame when taking a picture.

Equidistant from surrounding dual speakers on the right, sits a dock connector and the left edge houses a headphone jack and microphone pinhole. The ambient light sensor sits about an inch away from the front camera on the bezel. However, the ambient light sensor which automatically adjusts the tablet's brightness when auto brightness is turned on is calibrated too sensitively. When typing, my hand would occasionally cover the sensor making the screen darken. This was so consistent (and annoying) that I was forced to turn off auto brightness on the tablet while I used it.

Sadly, as with most Samsung tablets, there's no HDMI port, requiring you to purchase an adapter if you'd like to play video from your tablet on your TV.

Possibly the biggest selling point (other than its price) of the Tab 2 7.0 is that it ships with Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.3 to be precise) installed, making it the first Samsung tablet to do so.

Samsung's Touchwiz UI skin is of course included and comes with custom Samsung apps like Music Hub, Media Hub, and Game Hub, a built in screenshot app, and the Mini Apps tray located on the bottom of the screen. Tapping it brings up a tray of apps consisting of a calculator, notes, calendar, music player, and clock. However, the most useful of these is still the task manager, which allows you to quickly kill any app running in the background; this comes in handy when apps become otherwise unresponsive.

The basic look and design of ICS is retained, just with a Touchwiz skin and a few extra shortcuts for quickly turning off Wi-Fi, GPS, screen rotation, etc.

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The IR blaster found on the Tabs 7.7 and 7.0 Plus makes its way to the Tab 2 7.0 and in conjunction with Peel's included Smart Remote app, helps turn your tablet into a remote control for your TV. Peel can take the place of your cable or satellite channel guide and display a list of shows currently playing locally on your cable or satellite provider's channels. Go to the currently playing tab and click on a show, and your TV switches to the appropriate channel. Peel does a great job of holding your hand initially through a step-by-step setup wizard. The setup only requires that you know your TV's manufacturer's name, your cable/satellite provider, and your ZIP code. Thankfully, Peel spares us from having to know any more detailed information; however, be aware that Smart Remote does not work with regular monitors and only TVs or monitor/TV combos.

Once it's set up, you can browse shows by category, mark shows as favorites, or prevent shows you'd rather not see on the list from showing up again. Thankfully, Smart Remote now syncs with over-the-air listings, but its accuracy as to which shows and channels were available to me left a bit to be desired.

Navigating the interface took some getting used to, but was easy enough to pick up; however, I took issue with the method by which cable TV screen menus are controlled by the interface. Peel went with a swipe interface that requires you to flick the screen in one of four directions to highlight different menus. While this method works and after some time could be gotten used to, I would have much preferred more-direct directional controls.

As I learned with the Tab 7.0 Plus and 7.7, Smart Remote's accuracy is very closely dictated by the information cable and satellite providers choose to release. So, while the Smart Remote guide may indicate that "Law and Order" is on right now on Channel 12, selecting it didn't always take me to the appropriate channel. In addition, sometimes the channel wasn't available to me or there was a different show on the channel at that time.

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The space agency on Friday put out a call for ideas for the next Mars mission in 2018. The fine print: The cost can't be astronomical and the idea has to move the country closer to landing humans on the red planet in the 2030s.

The race to redraw a new, cheaper road map comes two months after NASA pulled out of a partnership with the European Space Agency on two missions targeted for 2016 and 2018, a move that angered scientists. The 2018 mission represented the first step toward hauling Martian soil and rocks back to Earth for detailed study - something many researchers say is essential in determining whether microbial life once existed there.

Agency officials said returning samples is still a priority, but a reboot was necessary given the financial reality.

In the past decade, NASA has spent $6.1 billion exploring Earth's closest planetary neighbor. President Barack Obama's latest proposed budget slashed spending for solar system exploration by 21 percent, making the collaboration with the Europeans unaffordable.

A team will cull through the ideas and come up with options by summer when NASA's latest mission, a $2.5 billion car-sized rover Curiosity, will land near the equator on Mars.

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NASA mounted space shuttle Discovery on a jumbo jet Sunday (April 15), in preparation for the retired orbiter's delivery to the Smithsonian. The paired air- and spacecraft are expected to depart Florida for Washington, D.C., on Tuesday morning (April 17), weather permitting.

Discovery's mating to the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), NASA's modified Boeing 747 jetliner, came a day later than the space agency had planned. On Saturday, wind gusts at the Kennedy Space Center's Shuttle Landing Facility set the 167,000 pound (75,300 kilogram) Discovery swaying under its lift sling, posing a risk that it could impact the Mate Demate Device (MDD), the gantry-like steel structure used to hoist the shuttle onto the jetliner.

Workers reconvened at 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT) on Sunday, to finish retracting the shuttle's landing gear. They then raised the orbiter 60 feet (18 meters) off the ground so that the carrier aircraft could be positioned underneath. Discovery was then lowered onto the jumbo jet's three protruding attach points to achieve a "soft" mating.

Work continued throughout the day Sunday to secure, or "hard" mate, Discovery to the 747, before removing the hoist sling and backing the paired vehicles out of the MDD on Monday morning.

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RIM Customers Working On Contingency Plans

2012-07-09

Research In Motion Ltd. (RIM) customers from GoDaddy Group Inc. to asset manager Thames River Capital UK Ltd. are preparing for the worst: the loss of the BlackBerry service their employees depend on to communicate.

RIM's stock has slumped more than 70 percent in the past year, and tumbled 19 percent on June 29 after the company posted a quarterly loss and delayed the BlackBerry 10 operating system, increasing the pressure on RIM to find a buyer or sell assets. While RIM has built infrastructure to ensure continued service, some customers are devising backup plans as RIM prepares to face shareholders at its annual meeting tomorrow.

"In the past three months there's been a lot of concern that the BlackBerry platform won't be around in the future," said Maribel Lopez, founder of Lopez Research, a wireless- industry consultant based in San Francisco. "It's not unheard of for a large phone manufacturer to go out of business."

Corporate customers, the backbone of RIM's business, are fortifying contingency plans so they won't be affected by a possible breakup of the BlackBerry-maker or other setbacks. With millions of employees connecting to the office through mobile e- mail, companies have been eager to establish a fallback or replacement plan, said Avi Greengart, a technology research director at Current Analysis.

Thames River Capital supplies about 140 of its 170 employees with smartphones, most of them BlackBerrys, said Robert Cockerill, head of infrastructure at the London-based money manager. With the delay of BlackBerry 10 and a service contract with RIM expiring this year, Cockerill said he expects much of his staff to switch to Apple Inc.'s (AAPL) iPhone or devices based on Google Inc.'s Android platform.

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Cockerill has brought in MobileIron Inc., a Mountain View, California-based developer of software that helps companies manage and protect data on mobile devices and tablets. MobileIron provides security for Thames River Capital including encryption and password protection for non-BlackBerry devices such as iPads, he said.

Thames River Capital is preparing for scenarios where BlackBerry service may be shut down, disrupted, or if a competitor such as Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) acquires RIM and converts the operating system to its Exchange e-mail service, he said.

"There is a risk of RIM getting bought," Cockerill said in an interview. "But if you have the right support you can be agnostic and it won't really matter."

MobileIron Chief Executive Officer Bob Tinker said his customer list includes 100 Fortune 500 companies, and about a quarter of those customers are financial services firms.

"Large enterprises don't want to be locked in with a single vendor anymore," Tinker said in an interview. Customers want to embrace all the innovation in mobile and RIM's delay of BlackBerry 10 doesn't help that, he said.

"CIO's are now asking us: 'What do we do if RIM gets acquired or if they restructure,'" said Tinker.

Norton Rose LLP, a law firm with 6,000 BlackBerry-equipped employees, is using MobileIron's software to support iPhones and iPads, which were given to some staff members as secondary devices, said Vlad Botic, group enterprise architect at the London-based firm.

Botic, who said Norton Rose would like to continue using BlackBerrys, began exploring alternatives last year after the three-day BlackBerry outage that caused users around the world to lose data services amid a network failure.

"RIM isn't in a good position right now," Botic said in an interview. "The problem with BlackBerry, which was highlighted when the service went down, was that the only way to solve it is with an entirely new device."

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While the chance of BlackBerry service getting shut down is slim, Botic said he has scheduled a meeting with RIM this week to seek assurances that there won't be a disruption in the event of a takeover.

GoDaddy, an Internet domain-name and hosting company, could switch users to iPhone or Android devices "within hours," said Auguste Goldman, chief infrastructure officer at the Scottsdale, Arizona-based company.

In the event of a "significant outage" for BlackBerry devices, GoDaddy has a plan to migrate users to other platforms, Goldman said in an interview.

"The BlackBerry infrastructure and services are among our most valuable assets," said Nick Manning, a spokesman for Waterloo, Ontario-based RIM. "BlackBerry customers depend on our robust network and they can continue to depend on it going forward."

Six staffers at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. first began planning for the possibility of a disruption in BlackBerry service last year. To prepare, Nationwide retained Good Technology Inc., whose software for servers and phones can provide secure corporate e-mail and calendar services to iPhones and Android devices.

"You could see that RIM started to decline," Robert Burkhart, director of new technology innovation at Nationwide, said in an interview.

Today, the number of BlackBerrys Nationwide associates use is down to 7,000 from about 8,500 a year ago, while the number of non-BlackBerry devices used has risen from zero to 4,450, Burkhart said.

"We are well on our way to having a dual environment, so if RIM did go out, we'd be okay," Burkhart said. "If people are starting contingency plans now, they are behind the eight ball. They should have been looking at this all along."

Good Technology, which works with 4,000 corporate customers worldwide, including eight of the top 10 financial services companies, has seen an inflow of customers concerned about RIM's prospects and making contingency plans.

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"We've had two meetings this month with large financial services firms on this topic," Brian Carr, senior vice president of worldwide sales at Sunnyvale, California-based Good Technology, said in an interview. "In the last year, I talked with half of Fortune 100 companies, and it's a concern for all of them. Every single one of them is looking at contingency plans."

The concerns are prompting many companies to speed up their transition from BlackBerries to other types of mobile devices, Carr said.

RIM has struggled to keep up with Apple's iPhone and devices based on Google's (GOOG) Android platform. Last month, RIM said it would cut 5,000 jobs and posted a quarterly loss that was five times bigger than projected. Sales last quarter plunged 43 percent as RIM's share of the global smartphone industry fell by more than half to 6.4 percent in the first three months of the year, according to research firm IDC.

"RIM's situation is dire, but even in a worst-case scenario, RIM's servers aren't likely to get turned off anytime soon," said Current Analysis's Greengart. "Still, IT managers are looking more seriously at alternatives to BlackBerry. There's a whole industry ready to provide security and management around Apple and Android," he said.

The migration from BlackBerrys started two years ago for Ken Lawonn, senior vice president of strategy and technology at Alegent Health, an Omaha, Nebraska-based health-care provider.

The shift was prompted by user preferences, rather than concerns about the future of RIM, said Lawonn who uses Good Technology's software. The number of Alegent's 300 smartphone users with BlackBerrys has shrunk to 10 percent from about 50 percent two years ago, he said.

"Should something occur, we believe that's going to be a fairly easy transition," Lawonn said. "If my BlackBerry broke down, I'd look at the options, and if a BlackBerry wasn't available, I'd pick up an iPhone and be on my way."

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Security firm traces torrent of spam to Yahoo's failure to activate HTTPS by default in its Android app.

Is a big, bad Android botnet sending mountains of spam to unsuspecting email users?

That was the warning issued by Microsoft researcher Terry Zink last week, who said that spam traps had been capturing inordinate amounts of bogus email that had been sent using Yahoo IP addresses associated with the search giant's Android app. As security experts questioned what exactly might be happening, a Google spokesman cautioned that the available evidence didn't add up to a botnet, but rather "that spammers are using infected computers and a fake mobile signature to try to bypass anti-spam mechanisms in the email platform they're using."

Facing criticism for suggesting that there was a new Android botnet sending spam, Zink fired back, saying that whether or not the email signatures are faked, something's been sending spam via Yahoo's Android channels. "The reason these messages appear to come from Android devices is because they did come from Android devices," he said in a blog post.

Other information security researchers backed up that finding. "Many, including Google, have suggested the messages are forged. We see no evidence of this. The messages are delivered to our spam traps from genuine Yahoo! servers with valid DKIM [DomainKeys identified mail] signatures," said Chester Wisniewski, a senior security advisor at Sophos Canada, in a blog post.

Yahoo, meanwhile, defended its Android app. "While our investigation into claims of a potential malware compromise operating as a botnet is ongoing, we can confirm that there is not a problem with our official Yahoo! Mail app for Android and there is no reason for users to uninstall the app," said a Yahoo spokeswoman Friday via email.

What's going on? "One of two things is happening here," said Wisniewski at Sophos. "We either have a new PC botnet that is exploiting Yahoo!'s Android APIs or we have mobile phones with some sort of malware that uses the Yahoo! APIs for sending spam messages."

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But in fact, the culprit may not be malware-infected PCs, botnets, or some never-before-seen type of Android malware. According to mobile security firm Lookout Security, in fact, the problem is rather the Yahoo mail Android app's default use of HTTP. "Yahoo! Mail for Android does not encrypt its communications by default--it performs all its functions over HTTP, not HTTPS," according to a blog post from Lookout. "This means that any traffic that is sent by the Yahoo! Mail Android app can easily be intercepted over an open network connection such as a public Wi-Fi network. This exposes Yahoo! Mail for Android to session hijacking, a form of attack that gained mainstream attention with Firesheep."

Introduced in 2010, Firesheep is a Firefox plug-in that can be used on any unsecured Wi-Fi connection to hijack the session cookies of anyone sharing the same connection who logs onto a website that uses HTTP, but not HTTPS. Created by Eric Butler, the plug-in was designed to illustrate how--in his words--"on an open wireless network, cookies are basically shouted through the air, making these attacks extremely easy." Attackers had long been able to execute credential-hijacking attacks using free, open source tools. But in the wake of Butler's plug-in release, numerous online service providers, including Facebook, added HTTPS as an option--if not always a default.

A Yahoo spokeswoman didn't immediately respond to an emailed request for comment on Lookout's theory. But according to Lookout, Yahoo's failure to use HTTPS by default means that an attacker could easily create an open Wi-Fi network, then wait for people using the Yahoo Mail app on Android to join the network, and check their email. "The attacker intercepts a particular cookie and can use it to impersonate that user, over whatever networks are available to them, including by tethering to a mobile network," said Lookout. "This allows the attacker to send spam emails that appear 100% legitimate."

Given that revelation, all Android users who employ the official Yahoo Mail app on their smartphone or tablet should immediately set the app to only check for email using HTTPS, as opposed to the default HTTP setting. According to Lookout, "from within Yahoo! Mail, simply open Options > General Settings and select 'Enable SSL.'"

Furthermore, while this latest attack targets only users of the Android Yahoo Mail app, it reinforces the need to use HTTPS whenever possible. "All mobile users should exercise caution when connecting to open Wi-Fi networks from a laptop or mobile device. We recommend that desktop users of Firefox or Chrome install the plug-in HTTPS Everywhere to ensure that their traffic to popular sites is properly secured," according to Lookout.

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