IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (Digital Trends) 24/09/2009

HP Re-brands EDS as HP Enterprise Services

Hewlett-Packard Co. is re-branding Electronic Data Systems as HP Enterprise Services, roughly a year after buying the company in a blockbuster $13.9 billion deal. The buyout of EDS, founded by former presidential candidate Ross Perot, more than doubled the size of HP's technology services business and made it the second-largest company in the market behind IBM Corp. HP cast the renaming Wednesday as an important step in integrating the company, a process that has included nearly 25,000 layoffs. It comes as rival Dell Inc. is set to make a similar push into technology services, buying Perot Systems Corp., another Ross Perot company, f

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New Accounting Rules Mean Boost to Apple, Others

Regulators approved changes to accounting rules Wednesday that in the short term will make sales and profits seem higher at technology companies selling certain gadgets that blend hardware and software. Under the old rules, companies like Apple Inc. had to spread revenue from the sale of an iPhone over two years, the estimated useful life of the device. That's because when Apple sells an iPhone, it agrees to provide software updates in the future. Existing accounting rules require many software companies to divide up sales over the length of licensing contracts; until now, companies with hybrid hardware-software products were also guided by those standards. The

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Life Magazine Goes Online Through Google Scan Project

Decades of Life magazine have been scanned and posted online, giving the public the first comprehensive electronic access to the iconic publication's archives. Life already has made images available through the Life.com Web site and a partnership with Google Inc. The latest effort, also with Google, makes stories available as well, all searchable and viewable for free in their original magazine layout. "Every day we receive requests from readers looking for these issues for research purposes, and to find photos and articles featuring family members, hometowns and other memories," Andrew Blau, president of Life Inc., said in a statement. "

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JVC Previews Its New Products at the Digital Video Expo

JVC unveiled a whole slew of new products today at the DV Expo. JVC’s new Blu-Ray and HDD recorders, the SR-HD1500 and SR-HD1250, were previously revealed at CEDIA earlier this month and home theater enthusiasts rejoiced upon hearing they could take another peek at them today. With the SR-HD1500 and SR-HD1250 users can record and author professional BDMV or BDAV discs. Advanced MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 (H.264) encoding provides support for HD and SD sources, and a built-in format converter can downconvert HD content for recording to a standard DVD. Unprotected DVD and Blu-ray discs are easily duplicate

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Sennheiser HD800

Replete with premium components, proprietary technology and several industry firsts, Sennheiser’s HD800 headphones easily earn their place amongst the very best ever made. Retailing at just under $1400.00 though, the cover charge for this listening party is a little steep. However, if you want a jaw-droppingly amazing personal audio experience, these cans deliver and then some.

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JVC Reveals Super-Slim GD-32X1 32-Inch LED TV

Gmail Adds Push Support for iPhone/iPod touch, Windows Mobile

Folks who rely on Gmail—and on their mobile devices—may have reason to jump up and down today: Google has rolled out support for push email for both the Apple iPhone/iPod touch as well as Windows Mobile devices. The support comes by way of Google Sync, which enables users to synchronize their contacts and calendars across computers and mobile devices; now Google Sync supports pushing Gmail messages directly to iPhones/iPod touches as well as Windows Mobile devices; the messages appear as ordinary email in the devices's email application,

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Best Buy Gets Behind iRex Digital Reader

The electronic reader marketplace keeps getting more crowded: electronics retailer Best Buy has announced it will varry the DR800SG iRex Digital Reader in its U.S. retail locations this fall for a retail price of $399. The iRex Reader will compete with electronic readers from the likes of Amazon and Sony, as well as the forthcoming digital reader from Plastic Logic. However, unlike the market-leading Amazon Kindle, the iRex will have a presence in one of America's top electronic brick-and-mortar retailers, enabling customers to get a hands-on experience with the device before buying it. Although detailed specs aren't available for the DR800SG i

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Alienware Debuts New Gamer Notebook, Desktops

Dell's boutique high-performance Alienware division has been a little quiet lately, but that silence has now ended with the introduction of five new high-end gaming rigs at the Tokyo Game Show&mash;led by a new 15-inch notebook computer sporting a mobile Core i7 processor and Nvidia GeForce GTZ 260M graphics with 1 GB of video RAM. "Alienware systems are, and always have been, our benchmark for PC gaming performance," said Dell's VP pf consumer sales and marketing Michael Tatelman, in a statement. "Through the Alienware brand, Dell is committed to offering gamers the richest possible PC gaming experience with the latest technology and coolest designs." First up, the ne

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Nintendo Preparing to Drop Wii Pricing to $199?

Nintendo hasn't changed the price of its Wii gaming console one penny in the nearly three years since it was introduced—and the company hasn't had to, since for the bulk of that time Nintendo hasn't been able to make enough Wiis to keep retailers stocked. However, recent price drops on the Microsoft Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 have given both consoles an uptick in sales, where Nintendo has actually seen Wii sales declining—although they're still leading the console game. Industry watchers have been speculating for months that Nintendo would lower the price on the Wii console in order to spur sales and continue to reap the benefits of the Wii's success…and now

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Sony Ericsson's New Touch Sensitive Headphones

Best New Smartphones Compared

With a new crop of ever-faster, ever-smaller, ever-better smartphones launching seemingly every month, there has never been a more enticing time to buy a smartphone. Or a more confusing time for the prospective buyer. The same plethora of options that make today's smartphones the most best ever made also make the marketplace a minefield to navigate. We've all been there: Your best friend claims the iPhone is the only way to go, but your boss insists you need a BlackBerry, the engineer who lives next door claims you need to go with Google Android, your ge

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Will the iPhone Kill Standalone GPS Navigators?

The iPhone comes as close as you can get to a universal, do-everything device. It's as much a personal media player, translator, Internet tablet, notepad, alarm clock and a dozen other things as it is a cell phone. But with the introduction of the very first turn-by-turn GPS apps from companies like TomTom and Navigon, I think we're finally seeing the miracle device stretched a little thin. I'm as much a believer in convergence as any died-in-the-wool nerd, and I take no particular pride in owning a box full of gadgets that do different things when one can fulfill them all. But as more and more functions get packed into the same little rectangle, the specialization that makes every individual device so good at

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Thursday, September 24, 2009

IT News HeadLines (Digital Trends) 24/09/2009

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