http://newinthenews.net/blog Get The latest here!!! Thu, 16 Oct 2008 14:57:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Asustek Computer is planning to launch notebooks featuring a touch panel in the first or second quarter of 2009, according to sources at panel makers, in addition to Eee PCs as previously reported. Asustek's new touch panel notebooks are expected to take advantage of Windows 7, said the sources. Asustek showed ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/10/16/asustek-plans-to-launch-touch-panel-notebooks-in-1h09/ T-Mobile will be the first carrier to offer a mobile phone powered by Google's Android software, according to people briefed on the company's plans. The phone will be made by HTC, one of the largest makers of mobile phones in the world, and is expected to go on sale in ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/08/15/t-mobile-to-be-first-to-use-googles-android/ Take it with a grain of salt, or many grains of sand, if you want, when the young volunteers say that every one of the 60 or 70 people helping to put on Wikipedia's annual convention here (called Wikimania) is active on Facebook.Not one exception? No. The young women in head ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/07/21/in-egypt-wikipedia-is-more-than-hobby/ The personal computer industry is poised to sell tens of millions of small, energy-efficient Internet-centric devices. Curiously, some of the biggest companies in the business consider this bad news. In a tale of sales success breeding resentment, computer companies are wary of the new breed of computers because they sell for a ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/07/21/new-minicomputers-for-300/ On July 23 Livescribe Inc. announced its national retail rollout for the Pulse™ smartpen, with availability at Target, Target.com, Amazon.com, and major college and university bookstores supported by The Douglas Stewart Company. "Our partnerships with ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/06/25/never-miss-a-word-pulse-smartpen/ With the iPhone still setting the standard for touch-screen phones, challengers to the throne all seem to be trying to out-elegance one another--witness the new Samsung Armani, for instance. Now along comes the HTC Touch Diamond, "a new benchmark for phone sophistication," the company crows. Central to the phone is the ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/05/13/htcs-touch-diamond-phone/   Sony's boasting that the new Grand Theft Auto was "meant to be played" on the PS3, while Microsoft is touting the exclusive downloadable content—including, perhaps, a new city—that's on tap for the Xbox 360 version of GTA:IV. PS3 vs. Xbox 360...fight!PS3 pros: From what the Rockstar developers are saying, the ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/04/29/ps3-xbox-360-versions-of-grand-theft-auto-iv-square-off/ Sony's LCD TV panel supply this year will still chiefly come from S-LCD and Taiwan-based makers despite its recent deal with Sharp to build a 10G line, according to company president Ryoji Chubachi. Chubachi maintained that the 10G joint venture will not be established until 2009, and therefore Taiwan and Korea ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/04/07/sony-president-says-taiwan-and-korea-remain-chief-source-of-companys-lcd-tv-panels-in-2008/ Intel unveiled a new design of the Intel-powered classmate PC at the Intel Developer Forum in Shanghai. The second-generation Intel-powered classmate PCs have wireless capability, longer battery life, water resistant keyboards and are more shock resistant if dropped. Intel is calling this category of PCs "netbooks." source: DigiTimes http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/04/07/intels-second-generation-classmate-pc/ I love anything Nano (except the ipod =P). Here is some amazing Nano-Art I've come across online. Take a long look and admire their beauty.         The wires are made of a material called silicon carbide, and researchers hope to use these wires to develop the next generation of electronic devices.   The flowers ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/03/28/amazing-art-on-the-nanoscale/ This may perhaps change the way we use any objects ever again, allowing us the embed circuitry into the tinyiest of places. Check out the article below! The stretchy circuits could be used to build advanced brain implants, health monitors or smart clothing. The complex devices consist of concertina-like folds of ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/03/28/huge-breakthrough-stretchable-bendable-circuits/ Google TiSP (BETA) is a fully functional, end-to-end system that provides in-home wireless access by connecting your commode-based TiSP wireless router to one of thousands of TiSP Access Nodes via fiber-optic cable strung through your local municipal sewage lines. source: Google  http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/03/26/google-tisp-wifi-from-your-toilet/ Asustek Computer has announced its Splendid HD1 video enhancement card, which is able to increase picture quality for HD content to deliver sharper, more vividly colored visual outputs. It can also enhance lower-resolution inputs by recovering image clarity when viewing legacy content for viewing on LCD TV or monitors as ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/03/25/asustek-splendid-hd1-video-enhance-card/ Microsoft Corp. will release Windows XP Service Pack 3 during the second half of April, according to a report from a Web site that has correctly predicted recent Windows ship dates.TechARP.com, a Malaysian Web site that nailed Vista SP1's release-to-manufacturing (RTM) date last month as well as ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/03/25/windows-xp-sp3-due-next-month-says-report/ Microsoft Corp. is offering free support to any Windows Vista user experiencing problems with installing Service Pack 1 (SP1), according to a company spokesman."[Anyone] needing technical support regarding your installation of Windows Vista SP1, please go to the following URL and choose the bottom option ... http://newinthenews.net/blog/2008/03/25/microsoft-offers-free-support-for-vista-sp1-installs/