Palm dumps PalmOS in favour of webOS

Palm has confirmed that it is dropping the PalmOS operating system to concentrate fully on the webOS currently being developed for the forthcoming Palm Pre.

Palm president Ed Colligan has told investors that PalmOS is being officially retired, and that the company's Centro platform will be the last to use the software.

"There will be no more PalmOS products," he said. "We will transition to webOS as our core operating system, in addition to supporting Microsoft Windows products in the enterprise segment of the market."

PalmOS was introduced in 1996 and proved an instant hit with consumers and business users. Palm eventually sold its software division to Access, and PalmOS became GarnetOS.

Netbook Wind U100 Valentine Edition as gift of Valentine's day

14 February, known as the day of love or called Valentine's day was near. usually, many people who give gifts on the day.and.MSI have been set up product that suitable to be marketed on the moment.
The product is a netbook that is named Wind U100 Valentine Edition.if pink color of the netbook is less representative, then try to see the accents with heart image of the casing.the fiture of this netbook is complete.there are LCD WSVGA 10, Atom Processor N270 1.6 GHzharddrive 160 GB, 1GB Memory DDR2/533MHz, Operating System Genuine Windows XP Home Edition, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, Bluetooth, 1.3 MP Webcam, Battery and 6sel.If you are interested in buying a netbook with a weight of 1.18 Kg, then you must prepare funds of about U.S. $ 430 to bring them home or making as a Valentine gift for the person who you consider special

Sony Vaio TT notebook

Sony is well known for its premium product ranges and the TT series of Vaio notebooks, unveiled in October, is certainly an indication that it puts quality over price.

The chassis measures just 200mm x 279mm and is 23.5mm deep at its thinnest point. Being made from carbon fibre means the whole device weighs only 1.32kg. The lid's 4mm thickness means the whole screen can bend and flex rather worryingly, but the carbon fibre feels completely rugged so, although we wouldn't want to stress test it too much by flinging it around by the lid, normal usage shouldn't cause any problems.

Inside the compact casing is an Intel Core 2 Duo processor running at 1.2GHz, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a Mobile Intel Series 4 graphics card, a 160GB Sata hard drive and a DVD rewriter optical drive. The inclusion of an optical drive, combined with the use of a full Core 2 Duo processor and a hefty amount of memory, is what really sets the TT apart from any similarly sized competitors.learn more>>

Microsoft promises simpler Windows 7 line-up

Microsoft has released some details on how it will be offering Windows 7 to consumers.

Windows general manager Mike Ybarra said that the company will release six different versions of the new operating system, although only two will be aimed at most of the market.

The overwhelming majority of users will see only a Home Premium edition for consumers and a Professional edition for business users.

The company hopes that the simplified offerings will reduce some of the confusion and frustration users encountered when dealing with the various versions of Windows Vista.

"The first change in Windows 7 was to make sure that the editions are a superset of one another," said Ybarra.learn more>>

Intel details technologies for future mobile devices

Intel is to detail technologies it is developing for mobile devices at next week's International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC), including system-on-a-chip (SoC) processors with integrated digital radios and better hardware acceleration for multimedia.

The chipmaker will present a number of papers at the conference, covering subjects such as wireless technology, graphics for mobile devices, and what Intel calls "a new era of scaling for SoC".

"Intel is trying to support emerging markets for light and mobile devices with smart SoCs," said Intel senior fellow Mark Bohr.

He explained that current Intel processors already integrate many components that would have been separate 20 years ago, and that this trend is set to continue. Intel sees SoC as the way forward for small mobile devices such as netbooks, laptops and mobile internet devices, Bohr said.

Several papers at ISSCC will cover developments in digital radios, including a technique Intel has developed to suppress unwanted interference from other circuits, enabling such radios to be integrated into future processor chips, including SoCs.

Intel has previously discussed how digital radios could be reconfigured in software to support almost any wireless communications standard that is required