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Fujitsu Laptop provides 18-hour Battery Life
Here comes the Fujitsu laptop which provides you a battery life of 18 hours. The Fujitsu laptop named E780 which is a 15.6 inch laptop contains the energy saving feature. The laptop contains the features such as the Power management and the power optimized processors.
It also contains the ENERGY STAR 5.0 certification. Fujitsu earlier came with the edition of pink netbook which were also one of the most awaited product from Fujitsu. The Fujitsu products always surprise you with the features included.
The features included in this laptop are good, specially the energy efficient feature which is going to give a battery life of 18 hours. Stay tuned while we get back with some interesting updates.
Nokia 'Comes With Music' Service in India Soon
Nokia has announced plans to bring its "Comes with Music" service to India before the end of 2010. The service, which is currently only available in the UK and Singapore (for reasons best known to Nokia), will enable users to enjoy unlimited music access.
The move, according to Nokia, will help curb the music piracy problem in the country by providing consumers unrestricted access to music. According to Nokia India's marketing director Vineet Taneja, services like these which remain *almost* free will attract people and buy music legally rather than take the piracy route.
With Nokia Comes with Music, users get access to unlimited music downloads from Nokia's existing "Nokia Music" service for free. This means, the users will have access to over 3.5-million tracks of all genres, Indian and international labels that the Nokia Music Store currently stocks. Many phones priced in the Rs. 6,000-7,000 bracket will come embedded with this service. The user can then download and play the music on his phone. He can also sync it with his PC and play it on multiple platforms without any DRM restriction. Existing phones can be made 'Comes with Music' compatible as well.
Toshiba to launch a line of slate PCs
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Toshiba is making it known that the company ha s no intention of sitting out the tablet PC revolution. You know, if it actually turns out to be a revolution.
Netbooks began to take the world by storm when Asus introduced a consumer oriented low cost mini-laptop in late 2007. It took half a year for HP to introduce the first real competitor for the Eee PC 701, and another few months before the rest of the PC industry really caught up.
Things are moving very differently in the tablet space. Everybody has their eye on the upcoming Apple iPad, but HP, Asus, MSI, Lenovo, and other PC makers have already announced plans to launch their own slates. And now we can add Toshiba to the lineup.
A Toshiba exec tells Fortune Magazine that it will bring out a whole line of slate devices later this year or early next year. No word on what kind of tablets we’re talking about. They could be Windows tablets with x86 processors, or ARM-based tablets running Linux, Google Android, Chrome, or another OS. Or maybe all of the above.
Make sure to check out the Fortune article for a good overall look at the tablet landscape. The Toshiba revelation is just a small part of the article.
Review: Toshiba Tecra A11 laptop
The Toshiba Tecra A11 is intended as a desktop substitute for business users, and is designed with an emphasis on performance and features rather than portability. Despite this, it is not excessively weighty at 2.5kg, but its short battery life means the system can scarcely be used much while away from mains power.
Available since February, the Tecra A11 models have a 15.6in widescreen display with Intel Core i3 and Core i5 processors, optical drive as standard, plus a whole range of I/O ports and business features such as fingerprint scanner, smartcard reader and Trusted Platform Module security chip.
Our review unit was the Tecra A11-11H, which has a dual-core 2.4GHz Core i5 M520 processor, 2GB of DDR3 memory (expandable to 8GB) and a 250GB Sata hard drive, with a built-in DVD Super Multi drive that can record as well as read DVD and CD media.
Windows 7 Professional is supplied as the operating system, with downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional if required.
Display
We found the Tecra's main appeal is the large 15.6in display with its 1,366x768 resolution that makes for comfortable viewing of spreadsheets and web pages, while its size also means there is plenty of space to rest your palms while using the keyboard. This resolution is a bit low for a screen of this size, but users can obtain resolutions up to 2,048x1,536 on an external display.
In terms of performance, the 2.4GHz Core i5 processor, which looks like four CPUs to the system because of Intel's Hyperthreading technology, seemed to make little difference in normal use. That was until we tried an action such as opening a graphics-heavy PDF, which the Tecra took in its stride, while another PC we viewed it on struggled to display it, especially when scrolling up and down.
The Windows Experience Index in Windows 7 rated the Tecra at just 3.9, but this result is pegged back by the performance of the Intel graphics built into the processor itself, with the processor, memory and disk subsystems all showing high scores of 5.1 and above.
Battery life
Another point worth noting is the relatively poor battery life of this model. Toshiba quotes a life of four hours and 40 minutes from the 55Wh lithium ion battery, but we found that it lasted no longer than one hour and 23 minutes in our tests using the Battery Eater Pro benchmark.
This suggests that, while the Tecra A11 is a good overall workhorse machine, it should be regarded as a portable computer for lugging between sites where there is mains power, rather than to be used much on batteries while travelling.
Ottawa to open cell phone market to foreign entrants: throne speech
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OTTAWA — Canada's closed-shop telecommunications industry is being thrown open to foreign competition, setting the stage for more wireless players and possibly lower rates for cellphones and other telecom services.
The government signalled in the throne speech Wednesday it is opening key sectors, including the satellite and telecommunications industries, to both venture capital and investment from outside the country.
The move is not entirely a surprise, given that Industry Minister Tony Clement recently overturned a CRTC ruling that disqualified a new entrant into the wireless market, Toronto-based Globalive Wireless, for being too foreign owned.
And nearly two years ago, a government-appointed commission headed by former BCE chief executive Lynton Wilson recommended Ottawa loosen foreign ownership rules in communications, uranium and some other sectors.
Globalive, effectively controlled by an Egyptian company, has been selling its Wind Mobile wireless services since Christmas.
But now the Harper government appears ready to make the Globalive precedent the rule rather than the exception.
"Our government will open Canada's doors to venture capital and to foreign investment in key sectors, including the satellite and telecommunications industries, giving Canadian firms access to the funds and expertise they need," the document states.
The government said it will also make sure "unnecessary regulation" does unduly restrict foreign investment in Canada's uranium mining sector.
The world's biggest uranium company, Cameco Corp. (TSX:CCO) is based in Saskatoon and has partnerships with other foreign companies in the Athabasca region of northern Saskatchewan, one of the world's most prolific uranium mining areas.
But under provincial law the company is required to maintain its headquarters in Saskatchewan, which makes a potential merger or takeover more difficult.
In the past, Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said his government might open up its uranium sector to foreign takeovers provided Canada gets rights in the country of a foreign owner and that any investments from foreign parties meet a national security test.
Analysts said the door could be opened to a deal involving Cameco, but they don't expect a quick
Further details are expected in Thursday's budget, but industry analysts say the policy shift could harbinger great changes in Canada wireless market.
The digital transition next year opens the possibility of the government auctioning off a wide swath of new spectrum, allowing new players to bid and win space to operate new networks, as Globalive did last year.
"I think this is long overdue," said Michael Geist, a professor of e-commerce law at the University of Ottawa.
"The possibility of a Verizon or Deutche Telekom, or (Japan's) NTT Docomo, some of the large global players that have been investing in other markets might see Canada as more open to business."
Globalive chairman Anthony Lacavera also welcomed the move, saying it will give consumers more choices.
"Canada has got one of the least competitive wireless markets in the world demonstrated by the high pricing and low penetration (of mobile phones)," he said.
Lacavera said he isn't sure whether the Globalive precedent - the company is 65 per cent owned by Egyptian telecom giant Orascom -played a role in the federal government move.
Critics of the current system say Canadians pay significantly more for wireless services than Europe, which allows foreign competition.
HP reclaims laptop battery life crown from Lenovo
One week after Lenovo Group Ltd. introduced a ThinkPad with a 12.2-hour runtime, Hewlett-Packard Co. says it's recaptured the record.
HP's new EliteBook 2540p business laptop can run for up to 12.5 hours, edging out Lenovo's ThinkPad X201s by about 20 minutes.
The caveat is that buyers of the ultraportable EliteBook 2540p must opt for a slower, lower-voltage Core i7-640LM processor and a pricier 9-cell Lithium-Ion battery ($39 more than the 6-cell battery) to achieve that runtime, said an HP spokeswoman. Else, the maximum runtime for the EliteBook drops down to about 11.5 hours, she said.
That situation is similar to the ThinkPad X201s. Users must also opt for a 9-cell battery and an Intel Core i7-640LM CPU to hit 12.2 hours.
Similarly, the runtimes for both the Lenovo and HP laptops are only achievable using batteries warranted for one year of usage. Such batteries tend to degrade and lose their maximum capacity quickly after that first year.
As an alternative, Lenovo last week began to offer long-life batteries warranted to hold their runtime for 3 years, or about 1,000 charges.
Those matched HP, which last year introduced its Long-Life batteries, built by Boston Power Inc., that are also guaranteed to hold their charge for 3 years.
The tradeoff is that long-life Lithium-Ion batteries, while more durable, can't offer the same high capacity/runtime out of the box as the largest Lithium-Ion batteries.
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