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Acer to reincarnate and likely to go the Apple way

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Gianfranco Lanci

Gianfranco Lanci ( The CEO of Acer ) resigned from his post yesterday. The Board Of Acer wants it to me more like Apple than to HP. A simple reason for this was that Lanci followed a policy of increasing the volumes of Laptops so that he can provide cheaper Laptops than Dell and HP. Another reason for this could be the huge difference between Apple’s profit margin of 21.5% and Acer’s of 2.3% for the last fiscal year.

JT Wang(On the board of director) has replaced Lanci as the new CEO. Wang wants to concentrate on Tablets and Smartphones around enterprise sales. Wang clearly stated the start of new era for Acer by saying”Recently the iPad [tablet computer] and other new form factors have had a very big impact on the PC market. We have to change our business strategy.”

Let’s see whats the change in the strategy and how it works out. Apple is serving the premium market which means Acer could also be leading the same path. [Source]

Sony Comes Up Vaio S Series Laptop In India

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Sony just shot the latest VAIO S Series into the Indian Markets today. Here’s the feature and pricing breakup.

Vaio S Series

Features

  • It comes with a choice of i5 or i7 processor.
  • It has about 4 GB Ram.
  • An 13.3 inch LCD screen.
  • Resolution of 1366×768 pixels.
  • up to 500GB HDD or 256GB SSD.
  • Webcam.
  • Wi-Fi.
  • HDMI Output .
  • Windows 7 OS
  • The higher end models feature the ‘Quick Boot’ feature that boots up the laptop from a shut down state in a 17 seconds.
  • 6hrs Battery life.
  • Graphics Card of 1GB.
  • Magnesium Metal Body Finish.
  • Aluminium Palm Rest.
  • Fingerprint Sensor.
  • Backlit  Keyboard.

Sony Vaio S Series Price

Sony Vaio S Series retail price are:
Sony Vaio S VPCSB19GG: Rs. 1,09,900
Sony Vaio S VPCSB18GG: Rs. 69,990
Sony Vaio S VPCSB17GG: Rs. 62,990
Sony Vaio S VPCSB16FG: Rs. 56,990

OverView and Verdict

The laptop looks dead fine and the laptop is pretty lightweight so is more of a traveler’s laptop than a high-end user’s laptop. This is somewhat Apple’s MacBook Air competitor in the line. Low end models are worth a try, or else I would prefer MacBook air over the high end models as both have nearly a same price.

Apple Store Currently down : Smells of updated MacBook pro’s

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Currently Apple’s Online store is down and speculations start right away. The most obvious among them is the MacBook Pro refresh because the rumor has been around almost for about a week.

Apple Insider has been told that the refresh will add a 4GB of RAM to the MacBook Pro models , which include 2.4GHz and 2.66GHz 13-inch models, 2.4GHz, 2.55GHz and 2.66GHz 15-inch models, and a 2.53GHz 17-inch model. It’s also being said that models might have a 512 gigs Flash Storage.

Not to forget, the MacBook Pro’s will have three type of screen modifications available, Glossy, High Resolution Glossy and High Resolution Glossy with Anti Glare.

They blew my Macbook because they thought it was a Bomb

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Israeli Police blew up a Macbook with bullets because they thought it was bomb. Smart reason.

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A lady was going to Jerusalem and they were stopped at the border for security reasons, asked questions like who was her boyfriend, was he a Arab, Egyptian, Palestinian?

Sometime later when the lady waited and a manager arrived and told her,

I’m sorry but we had to blow up your laptop.

Obviously she was shocked, i mean even i would be. Check out the pictures (BTW it still looks beautiful!)

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Gestures will control everything including internet : Birth of Sixth Sense

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The Evolution of Humans has been drastically affected by the growing technology. And all this has just happened in the past decade. 

Growth of Information Technology has given birth to this. The Hunger for Information is driving innovators crazy such that they are going to any extent to feed themselves of their hunger.

Pranav Mistry, from MIT is one of them. His ideas are unique and probably represent the future. The Indian, has many ideas which he has put into practice and has made Future Possible Today.

Oh his creations, the most popular one is Sixth Sense. The term Sixth Sense itself is fascinating. Apart from the five sense of Touch, Sound, Sight, Taste and Feel what else could be generated now? Pranav has the answer and it is gesture.

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He Started with the mouse, not one but two eight years back where he took of the Sensors which surrounded the Ball of the Optical Mouse and used them to bring together the Physical World and the Digital World and with his creations today, we can surely say that he has succeeded in his Mission.

Ever thought of with few finger actions, you could take a picture without even removing any other device form your Pocket? Forget that, Ever wondere you just look at your boarding pass and get the latest updates about you Flight like Delay Time, etc? 

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How would it be if you could pinch some data from Paper and drag it and convert it into Digital Data and actually edit it and get it printed all in Minutes? You are at a book store and you just open up a Book and you get reviews Related to the book and lot more just on the cover of the Book? 

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Watch Live Videos on Your Newspaper related to the article your reading, and yes this does not involve any OLED display or anything but just a projector!

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Forget Cell Phones, when you can just call from your palm? Tick, Tick, Tring! If you could make a piece of paper your laptop and surf web on it with your fingers? Motion Gaming on Paper? All this is Possible with Sixth Sense. 

 I surely want to get my hands on it!

Sony has got the Lightest NoteBook Ever

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Sony recently unveiled VIAO X. This 11 Inch NoteBook has been named as the Lightest Laptop Ever. How does it manage it? Well, it’s got a Carbon Fiber Shell and so it’s got a weight of just 1.6 pound.

It’s got a Atom Chip, which makes it run continuously for an average of 3.5 hours and a Second Extended Battery which can allow it to work, 14 hours extra! 

It’s also got a MultiTouch Interface, which supports all those, Pinching, Swapping, Rotating ( Like those MacBook Trackpads). 

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Pricing is set to be $1300, with a 2Ghz processor, 2Gb Ram, 64 GB solid state drive and unexpectedly not windows Xp but Windows 7! 

Design is pretty cool, and this is a must must firstly if you can go for $1300 and if you like showing it off. $1500 Limited version is also available which it has a doubled Storage and other features and All Gold Style.

[Thanks Electronista]

TouchScreen for VAIO? : Much Expected with Windows 7 Launch

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Touch Interface which seems to buzzing out days. And with that happening how can sony stay behind? Mike Abary of Sony recently confirmed that Sony is going to release VAIO with a touchscreen. 

It will come accompanied by a Windows 7, which is obvious choice because of it’s Touch-Screen friendly interface. Probably there could also be a Playstation Network Integration! The product will be launched somewhere after the OS launch.

The Prices have not been confirmed. Also along with that we aren’t sure if the TouchScreen is going to be available for Laptops or Desktops.

10 dollar laptop : Will it ever be true?

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Indian Government has announced to launch a $10 Laptop. Now how will it be, what will it contain, why is it being launched and so on… all these questions shall be answered further. First the reason why this laptop is being developed is because in India Laptops are Very Much Costly for the people in Rural India To afford so the Indian Government came up with an idea to develop a laptop which could work in places of less internet conecetivity and also it would consume very less electricity i.e around 2 Watts.

It will have a 2 Gb ram along with Wireless internet connectivity. Now that’s Good but it does not contain a Hard Drive nor a Cd/Dvd Drive. Indian government need to really work hard as Processors and other costs may take the laptop price much higher.

Catch your Laptop thief and find his exact location within minutes

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Laptop thiefIn today’s world every one depends on technology and so we need to take care of things. Just like our laptops. Laptop theft is nowadays becoming common. So if you have some really necessary things in it like you project files and other stuff and if it get’s stolen, How will you get it back?

A software called Adeona makes it possible for a laptop user to track the thief of his laptop. It uses simple things. It always runs in the background of your laptop. It monitors the location of the laptop via IP addresses and local network topology , which is a useful information to find out your laptop thief. The Mac OS X version allowed you to capture the pictures of the laptop user via built-in iSight camera. All this information can only be sent to the original user via encryption methods.

It is free and you can get the software here.

The software was developed by Ph.D. students from University of Washington - Gabriel Maganis and Thomas Ristenpart, and UW faculty members Tadayoshi Kohno and Arvind Krishnamurthy.

Source : cheatppc

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