Canonical makes Ubuntu Netbook Remix official at Computex

Not like we weren’t totally expecting this or anything, but Canonical has chosen Computex as the expo where it will officially showcase Ubuntu Netbook Remix. Hailed as a “reworked desktop image of Ubuntu built specifically for a new category of portable internet-centric devices,” the operating system will probably not be too foreign for those familiar with the standard Ubuntu Desktop Edition. We are told that this flavor will feature a launcher that enables users to “get online more quickly and have faster access to their favorite applications,” and that it “leverages Moblin technologies optimized for the Intel Atom processor.” Unfortunately, devices pre-loaded with UNR aren’t apt to ship until “later in 2008,” though OEMs interested in getting in while there is still room on the bandwagon are encouraged to hit up Canonical. Full release waiting after the jump.

Samsung plans 256GB SSD drive this year

Samsung Electronics plans to launch within this year a flash memory-based solid-state disk that boasts a 256GB capacity and high-speed interface, it said Monday. The drive, which was unveiled in prototype form at a Samsung event in Taipei, has the same form factor as a 9.5-millimeter high 2.5-inch hard-disk drive for which it is designed to be a drop-in replacement. Solid-state disks (SSDs) are an emerging type of storage device that use flash memory chips in place of the spinning magnetic disks used in hard-disk drives.

The memory chips mean the drives are more sturdy and typically have a higher performance but the per-byte storage cost is also much higher, so they are generally more expensive. That has largely restricted them to niche applications but as flash prices come down they are expected to become more widely used. The prototype drive announced today by the company has a read speed of 200M bytes per second (Bps) and a sequential write speed of 160M Bps, said Samsung. Samples of the drive will be available to customers from September with mass production due by the end of the year. A version with a similar form factor to a 1.8-inch drive is also expected to be available in the fourth quarter of the year, the company said.

Wii fit .. new way of gaming .. new way of sport ..

Last week Nintendo lunched the new Wii fit into international market .. new and amazing gaming and sport style .. it uses a wireless board with high sensitive sensors to measure balance and weight and build a visual picture of you on the screen playing or doing sport and indicates if you doing it wright or wrong .. see the video .. its amazing !! 

  

Google starts to blur faces in StreetView Maps

After privacy complaints, Google Inc. is beginning to automatically blur faces of people captured in the street photos taken for its Internet map program. Rolling it out will take several months, however. Although Google’s Street View service was not the first to augment online maps with photos, the detail and breadth of images on the site surprised and unsettled many users when it launched last year. As specially equipped Google vehicles cruised city streets snapping panoramic images of homes and businesses, the resulting photos revealed people falling off bikes, exiting strip joints, crossing the street, sunbathing — everyday, in-public things but nonetheless, things they might not have wanted preserved for posterity.

Some privacy advocates, including the influential Electronic Frontier Foundation, suggested that Google blur the images of people. That move, the critics pointed out, would not inhibit Street View’s goal of helping people become familiar with the look and feel of a location before they travel there. This week, Google revealed it had indeed begun deploying a facial-recognition algorithm that scans photos for mugs to blur. The changes are happening first in scenes in New York, before slowly expanding to the other 40 cities in Street View. Google spokesman Larry Yu said the company is still tweaking the system. For now it tends to err on the side of blurring too many things — things a computer erroneously interprets as faces — but that is better than leaving too many faces unblurred, Yu said.

HTC Touch Diamond

The new HTC mobile Touch Diamond which considered as a competitive to the Apple iPhone

 

nice mobile specially the the weather thing

Features:

• 2.8-inch VGA display
• WinMo 6.1 Pro
• WiFi, Bluetooth 2.0
• eGPS, FM tuner
• Quad-band HSDPA 7.2
• 4GB internal flash, microSD slot
• 528MHz CPU
• 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus
• 10.7mm (0.47-inches) thick
• Supposedly also features an orientation sensor / accelerometer

Super 3G Technology realizes 250 Mbps Downlink Rate

Just when you thought the 7.2Mbps downlink speeds of HSDPA (which are usually only available in limited number of urban areas) was impressive, NTT DoCoMo have revealed that they’ve recorded a 250Mbps downlink using the new Super 3G technology they’ve been trialing in Yokosuka, Japan since February. 

Super 3G, which is also known as LTE (Long Term Evolution), has been in theory earmarked for several carriers in a variety of locations, but NTT DoCoMo’s are some of the first results from an actual wireless environment.  They expect the network – which has a theoretical maximum downlink of 300Mbps and uplink of 75Mbps – to be technically ready for launch by 2009.

Super 3G uses four MIMO (Multiple Input, Multiple Output) antennas on the base station and makes use of the 20MHz frequency band.  The carrier has been performing indoor tests since July 2007, and will now concentrate on the verification and validation process, including base station handover, while Super 3G undergoes standardisation by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).

Save the Developers! Stop Using Internet Explorer 6

There is a scourge on the Web. It is called Internet Explorer 6. Even though the more recent version of Microsoft’s browser, IE7, has been around for more than two years, IE6 still represents 31 percent of all browsers out there (versus only 22 percent for IE7 and 36.5 percent for Firefox). This upgrade lag is simply unacceptable—to programmers, that is, who find it a real pain to make sure their Web apps work on five different browsers. Not only that, but IE6 supports some non-standard features and functions that are not compatible with other browsers. The security vulnerabilities aren’t too much fun either.It’s too much work and, quite frankly, it is driving some programmers batty. Which is why a group of them have created SaveTheDevelopers.org, an organization dedicated to making the Web a better place for developers (and thus for users as well). Web developers can grab a piece of code to put on their Websites which will detect if a visitor is using an outmoded browser (IE6, cough). When the offending browser is detected, a pop-down window will appear (assuming those aren’t blocked) which will direct the user to a page where they can upgrade to IE7, or the latest version of Firefox or Safari.More campaigns are planned for the future to whip those laggard Web surfers into shape, and once again make the Web safe for developers.

Get A Mac :P

I’m posting this for fun ..

although I think Macs are much better(Mac user) .. I believe each machine has its problems

Blu-ray is finally hacked ..

With the Toshiba-backed HD-DVD format recently falling to the skills of one anonymous hacker known only as ‘Muslix64’, it was perhaps only to be expected that Sony’s Blu-ray technology would be quick to follow suit—and it has.

Late Sunday night it was the turn of Sony’s AACS (Advanced Access Content System) content protection system to fall.

According to a report on The Inquirer, Muslix64 beat the Digital Rights Management (DRM) protection on Sony’s Blu-ray discs and swiftly unlocked the files, which will probably grate with Sony considering it believes its AACS to be a much more significant deterrent to hackers than the protection system utilised in HD-DVDs. However, if the reports are real (and they probably are) then previously AACS-protected files are now playing on Muslix’s freeware video player of choice.

More pointedly, it would appear that Muslix64 relied on a successful plaintext data stream approach to hack both HD-DVD and Blu-ray—unlike other failed attempts by (lesser?) hackers that opted to hammer on Blu-ray and HD-DVD’s player software.