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Acer presents the new Aspire One D250
The quintessence of mobility in a sleek 10.1-inch netbook


Light, slim, attractive and with a comfortable screen size: just a look at the new Acer Aspire One D250 netbook in a 10.1” form factor and you immediately know this is the ultimate partner that will let you be online all the time and to socialize around the clock.
At a little more than one kilo (just 1.11 kg), the new Aspire One D250 combines style, great features and a 10.1.inch form factor to provide the best combination of ultra-portability and optimal screen size for navigation and data input.
Designed for the finest web browsing experience and enhanced productivity, the Aspire One D205 includes a 10.1” high brightness CrystalBrite™ LED backlit display with a 1024x600 pixels resolution that offers a broader vision for more convenient navigation. The Acer Crystal Eye webcam integrated on top of the screen and the digital microphone keep you connected to the world though video calls, video chats and conferences, with amazing image and sound quality.
The Aspire One D250 not only keeps you always connected; it keeps you connected with style. Available in four high-gloss color options including seashell white, sapphire blue, ruby red and diamond black, the Aspire One D250 comes with an unmistakable design that immediately catches the eye. Slim, attractive and streamlined the Aspire One is only 1 inch thick, making it clear that it was designed for a life on the go. Stylish details such as the metallic hinge with cool, teardrop-shaped Aspire logo and the brushed-metal palm rest offer a refined look.
You will surely appreciate how easily you can navigate around the Aspire One D250 using the multi-gesture touchpad that lets you browse, zoom and flip pages. And what’s more, the Aspire One D250 will set you free from cables and adapters, thanks to long lasting batteries that ensure more than 7.5 hours of battery life and will let you enjoy extended fun and productivity wherever you go.
And while you are on the road, keeping in touch with your friends or business contacts has never been so easy. The Aspire One D250 comes with 802.11b/g WiFi connection and Acer Signal Up technology for easy access to available wireless networks. Plus, it is equipped with Fast Ethernet and can also be specified with Bluetooth® or 3G wireless technologies for unlimited connectivity.
The Aspire One D250 is equipped with an Intel® Atom™ processor, Mobile Intel® 945GSE Express Chipset or Mobile Intel® 82801GBM Chipset and can be equipped with up to 2 GB of DDR memory, for an enhanced user experience. Notwithstanding the compact size, the Aspire One D250 features a large 160 GB internal hard drive and a multi-in-one card reader for more storage options and convenient file sharing.
The Aspire One comes with Windows XP® Home operating system; additional preinstalled software includes Acer eRecovery Management; Microsoft® Works with Office Home and Student 2007 Trial; Google Toolbar™; Google Desktop™; Google™ Setup; Adobe® Reader® 9; Adobe® Flash® Player 10; Customized Internet Explorer® 7.0; eSobi; McAfee® Internet Security Suite; Acer Game Zone; Acer Video Conference Manager 4.0; Windows Live™ Essentials — Wave 3 (Mail, Photo Gallery, Live™ Messenger, Writer).
The Aspire one comes with a 1-year International Travelers Warranty (ITW)

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PANASONIC NEWS

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PANASONIC NEWS

This week, Panasonic will begin shipping high-definition televisions (HDTVs), next-generation TVs that are capable of displaying high-resolution digital television broadcasts.
The company announced its intentions in a statement warmly received by analysts, who think the electronics giant's entry could help inspire consumer confidence in the new technology.
Digital television is set to air for the first time this fall, when the top ten markets begin digital broadcasting. HDTVs, paired with a set-top box to decode the digital signal, will be capable of displaying pictures with roughly twice the clarity of current TVs.
Although HDTV owners will not be able to access digital signals until November, customers will immediately enjoy a much clearer picture with the new-fangled TVs, analysts say.
"You will see enhanced video, enhanced audio and display for movies, DVD titles. They have greater resolution and technical enhancements," said Gary Schultz, an entertainment analyst at Multimedia Research Group, who called HDTV "one of several standards encompassed by the DTV umbrella."
To get the full effect of high-resolution HDTV, the broadcast should be in the so-called 1080i format, though other broadcast formats may be able to approach 1080i in quality. It is not clear at this point how many of the major broadcasters will be supporting 1080i.
The 56-inch HDTV shipping this week also offers a "catch-up" feature which allows viewers to watch stored still images, with audio, until they catch up with the program in progress. The device further comes with a picture-in-picture feature which allows real split-screen viewing.
Panasonics's first 56-inch HDTV will retail for $5,999, the company said in a statement. Historically, HDTVs have cost well over $10,000.
Panasonic also has several other forthcoming digital TVs, including a $3,199.95 36-inch model and $1,799.95 32-inch model.
"Those products will probably encourage a lot of people to consider digital television," said Shultz, who noted that over 1 million big screen projection televisions were sold last year for between $3,500 and $4,500. "That market is probably going to be the first group that buys wide-screen, high-definition television."
Panasonic also announced a companion set-top digital signal decoder, due out in October, along with a combination digital and analog VCR.
Schultz, for one, believes that Pansonic's announcement today is just the catalyst the industry needs to begin the process of explaining and promoting a fairly confusing technology. "The big retail chains will be doing a lot to train their people, to make this simple and clear to the consumer," he said, as other major television manufacturers begin to announce their digital televisions. "The race has begun."

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HP LATEST NEWS

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HP Speeds Adoption of Virtualization with New Software, Partner Program





HP today announced new virtualization software, including a tool for planning Sun migrations, and a partner program that are designed to help enterprises speed adoption of virtualization to deliver better business outcomes.
The software – enhancements to the HP Virtual Server Environment (VSE) for HP Integrity servers – optimizes server resource utilization by providing a pool of virtual servers that can grow or shrink based on business needs. A key component of HP’s Enterprise Storage and Server Software portfolio, the HP Virtual Server Environment and associated services allow customers to reduce costs and increase agility by simplifying planning, implementation and management in a virtualized IT environment.
To assist customers in planning migrations and consolidations to HP Integrity servers, HP Integrity Essentials Capacity Advisor can import data collected from Sun servers by HP Performance Agent. In addition, new trending capabilities for this intuitive tool let customers simulate future usage patterns when planning consolidations for HP-UX, Windows® and Linux.
Further enhancements to the HP VSE for HP-UX 11i help deliver better business outcomes by increasing customers’ ability to mitigate risk with intelligent control:
• HP Integrity Essentials Virtualization Manager enables customers to discover and view applications in a virtual server environment in just minutes;
• HP Integrity Essentials Global Workload Manager specifies which workloads can automatically access spare capacity, tightening financial controls while maintaining service levels of key applications;
• HP Global Instant Capacity allows hardware usage rights to be transferred among systems to cost-effectively meet changing business demands and is automatically updated to transfer usage rights from offline servers in the case of a disaster.
“One of the most important elements of HP’s Virtual Server Environment for HP Integrity servers is that it provides the control needed to effectively manage virtualized Itanium environments,” said John Humphreys, program director, IDC. “These enhancements may further improve customer insight into their virtualized environments – as well as predict and plan for future workloads – helping to minimize disruption to the business.”
Additionally, HP announced a new release of HP Serviceguard that expands high-availability options for customers running virtualization in a production environment. HP Serviceguard for Linux now brings high availability to Linux-based applications running in virtual machines for both VMware® technology on HP ProLiant servers and HP Integrity Virtual Machines on HP Integrity servers.
HP Partner Virtualization Program speeds virtualization adoption
The new HP Partner Virtualization Program allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to build and verify applications in a secure, virtualized environment, while choosing from a broad selection of virtualization technologies, platforms and guest operating systems. Through online access to HP Partner Technology Access Centers, ISVs can rapidly test, verify and tune applications running on virtual machines.
“The HP Partner Virtualization Program provides us with added flexibility to react to changing enterprise customer requirements for the open source JasperSoft Business Intelligence Suite, our integrated product line,” said Mike Moody, vice president, Engineering, JasperSoft. “Remote access to virtualized servers allows us to quickly build, test and verify our solution on HP platforms providing our customers with confidence.”
The HP Partner Virtualization Program allows ISVs to easily and automatically request and use HP ProLiant and HP Integrity servers to test applications running in a virtual environment using software from HP and partners such as VMware. ISVs can debug, port, verify and support applications running on a broad range of operating system deployments, such as HP-UX 11i, Microsoft Windows and Linux (Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server or Red Hat Enterprise Linux). ISVs can also publish their applications in an online catalog to enable customers to quickly and easily determine availability of tested solutions.
The new program additionally affords ISVs unique access to open source and Linux virtualization, enabling open source community leaders to evaluate application strengths in heterogeneous environments.
“This is another step in HP’s long history of delivering virtualization solutions that help businesses gain a competitive edge,” said Nick van der Zweep, director, Virtualization, HP. “HP’s holistic approach ensures that our customers can deploy and manage their environments with reduced risk to gain the full benefits of virtualization.”
Virtualization is a key enabler of the HP Adaptive Infrastructure, which delivers the next-generation data center to optimize business outcomes. With these new additions to the powerful HP virtualization suite, the HP Adaptive Infrastructure portfolio helps customers accelerate the move from high-cost IT silos to low-cost, pooled IT assets in order to optimize their infrastructures to increase flexibility and improve quality of service that better serves business needs.

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