Emerge introduces new ReTrak universal notebook charger
Emerge Technologies has now let loose a 90W universal notebook charger that bears the ReTrak coat of arms. Seen below, the charger has retractable cords for easier transportation, is said to be up to 60% smaller than competing solutions, it support over 7000 laptops and includes two USB ports so it can also charge other types of devices - portable media players, phones and such.
The ReTrak 90W charger comes bundled with a carry bag and can be purchased via this page for $100.
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Nero 9 gets reloaded
Karlsbad-based Nero AG has today done a Matrix and introduced an updated version of its Nero 9 digital media suite dubbed Nero 9 Reloaded. This release bears the 'Compatible with Windows 7' logo and comes with a few tweaks, fixes and new multimedia capabilities which enable users to archive HD videos without the need of a burner. The high definition content can simply be imported into Nero Vision and archived hard/solid state drives, flash drives and memory cards.
"Nero has built its reputation on the ability to solve the highly specific digital content needs of today's diverse consumers," said Kris Barton, executive vice president of global products, Nero AG. "With Nero 9 Reloaded we are not only ensuring the liquidity of our users' content, but are helping to better protect their valuable photos, videos, music and data. Compatibility with the new Windows 7 operating system further underscores our longstanding commitment to platform interoperability."
Nero 9 Reloaded is free for those who already own Nero 9 and can be purchased by new customers for 60 Euro / $80 (download version) or 70 Euro / $100 (retail version).
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Nokia making official Qt port to Maemo 5, offers tech preview
Phone manufacturer Nokia has today revealed that it is working on a Qt port to Maemo 5 and has actually released a technology preview of the package. Based on Qt 4.6, which is set to arrive in Q1 2010, but also on the community-driven Qt for Maemo project, the port enables developers to make use of the cross-platform application and UI framework to make their software work on the upcoming Maemo 5-loaded N900 'mobile computer' and also on Maemo 6, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices.
"With this announcement and our upcoming port of Qt to the Symbian platform, we will quickly see Qt established as a leading framework for mobile application development. Developers will be able to use Qt as a framework to create powerful native applications and with Qt's Webkit integration, it also provides them with a platform for creating web applications and services," said Sebastian Nystrأƒآ¶m, Vice President of Application Services and Frameworks at Nokia. "Qt's support for Maemo 5, Maemo 6, Symbian, as well as Windows Mobile makes Qt the most sensible choice for developers looking to target multiple devices and achieve the broadest reach with their innovations."
Developers interested in the Qt port for Maemo 5 can check out this page for more info and the technology preview release.
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Khronos Group debuts the OpenMAX AL API for multimedia apps
The open standard promoters at the Khronos Group have this week released the 1.0 specification of OpenMAX AL, a royalty-free cross-platform API (Application programming interface) aimed at making multimedia applications for mobile and embedded devices.
OpenMAX AL enables devs to port their video/audio applications across multiple operating systems and hardware platforms and can provide extensive functionality including:
- Playback of audio, video, still images and MIDI
- Recording of audio and video from deviceأ¢آ€آ™s microphone and camera
- Still image shooting including extensive controls for the camera such as exposure settings, zooming and focusing
- Extraction and insertion of content metadata
- General audio controls such as volume, rate and equalizer
- Visual controls such as brightness, contrast, gamma, resizing, mirroring and visual effects such as monochrome, emboss and negative
- Analog radio controls including RDS
- Support for LED and vibrator control
Those interested can have a look over the OpenMAX AL 1.0 specs by visiting this page.
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Three more Celeron CPUs to retire next year
Once again delivering the "market demand has shifted to new models" line, Intel has revealed its plans to discontinue the (tray) 2.16 GHz Celeron 585, 1.66 GHz T1600 and 1.83 GHz T1700 next year.
The Santa Clara-based microprocessor company will continue to accept orders for the three 65nm mobile chips until April 9, 2010 and will ship them until October 8, 2010. Bygones.
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Motorola drops from LiMo Foundation board
Mobile phone maker Motorola has quietly relinquished its seat on the board of the LiMo Foundation, an entity it founded back in 2007 together with NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone.
While still on board as an associate member of the foundation, Motorola is clearly dialing its focus on LiMo's Linux-based software platform in favor of the Google-supported and Open Handset Alliance-developed Android mobile solution (which is also based on Linux).
Motorola recently unveiled its first Android handset, the CLIQ/DEXT and has a quite large Android-focused development team which came up with the MOTOBLUR interface. The company is expected to introduce its second Android smartphone in the near future.
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Amazon Kindle DX to go international next year
The Kindle global expansion that's planned to start on October 19 will enable people in more than 100 countries to buy the Kindle 2 ebook reader but not the larger (and more expensive) DX model. Currently a US exclusive, the Kindle DX will also make its way to international markets but according to Amazon, that isn't planned until sometime next year.
The 535-gram Kindle DX features a 9.7-inch (1200 x 824) E-Ink display for reading newspapers, magazines, and textbooks, packs 4GB of storage space (3.3GB are available to the user), 3G support, an auto-rotate feature, and is priced at $489.
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Sun delivers the Solaris 10 10/09 operating system
While still waiting to join Oracle's empire, Sun Microsystems has introduced an updated version of its Solaris operating system. Dubbed Solaris 10 10/09, the new release comes with support for the latest SPARC, Intel, and AMD processors, and includes performance and power efficiency enhancements, a more streamlined management of system installations, lots of fixes and Solaris ZFS updates, including the ability to use solid state drives for data caching and high volume transactional applications.
"Sun continues to add significant capabilities to the Solaris OS, delivering sophisticated power management and performance for the datacenter and helping our customers protect their business continuity," said Jim McHugh, vice president, Datacenter Marketing, Sun Microsystems. "With Solaris 10 10/09, installation, update and patch features have been enhanced to simplify system administration and reduce cost. In addition, Solaris ZFS has been updated to integrate Flash technology, the next revolution in storage hardware, into the operating system."
To try out Solaris 10 10/09 see this page for a download, while for more info on the updates brought by this version click on this link.
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Nvidia puts Intel chipset development on hold
Due to the ongoing lawsuit over its licensing agreement with Intel, Nvidia has decided, or better yet, has been forced to freeze work on new chipsets for Intel-made processors.
Back in February Intel sued Nvidia claiming that their contract does no give the GeForce maker the right to develop and sell chipsets for CPUs with integrated memory controllers. That pretty much means Nvidia won't have chipsets for Core i3, i5 or i7 (or i9 for that matter) CPUs. Sure, the Santa Clara's Green Goblin is fighting the licensing claims, but until the court has its say, no new Intel-oriented nForce chipset will be made.
Nvidia is not giving up on chipsets though as it is currently preparing the ION 2 platform for FSB-based Intel CPUs (Atoms, Core 2 Duo/Quads).
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WebGL makes its way into latest Chrome builds
Keeping up with the latest web developments, Google's Chrome now has been added initial support for WebGL, the open standard which aims to enable hardware-accelerated 3D graphics within a browser on any platform supporting OpenGL or OpenGL ES.
The WebGL specifications, which are currently being developed by a team established by the Khronos Group, make use of the latest web technologies, like the Canvas element in HTML 5.
WebGL is available in the latest Chrome Dev channel builds (for Windows, Linux and Mac OS) but to enable it you have to run the browser after adding two command lines - " --enable-webgl" and "--no-sandbox".
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