What will iPhone 3.0 bring to the enterprise?

Apple revealed more details this week about its upcoming iPhone 3.0 firmware update which, although hotly anticipated, looks like bringing relatively minor enhancements for both consumers and enterprise users.

Among the most welcome additions will be the ability to cut and paste text, a feature which has been sorely lacking from the handset since its launch in June 2007. For business users who rely on the phone heavily for email, the feature will have immediate and obvious benefits.

Other enterprise-friendly additions include multimedia messaging and new recording features, which together could allow users to record and send audio through the iPhone's messaging tools.

While the updates are significant, the 3.0 firmware will hardly have the enterprise impact of last year's iPhone 2.0 release, which introduced 3G connectivity and support for a number of popular enterprise communications platforms, such as Microsoft Exchange and Cisco's VPN security, designed to usher the iPhone into the enterprise arena.

The real benefits for enterprise users, however, could come not from the end-user upgrades, but from the new tools Apple is providing to developers.

These include a slew of new application programming interfaces (APIs) which will greatly expand the individual applications that users will be able to access on the device.

The new APIs will allow developers to access 'push' data updates to display new events, for example, and to stream audio and video.learn more>>

Dell ships ultra-thin Adamo laptop the rival of Macbook Air

Dell is now taking orders for its Adamo laptop, which it claims is the world's thinnest at about 16.4mm thick.

Adamo was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January, and is the first product in an entire Adamo line that will feature new design aesthetics, according to Dell.

The laptop is available to pre-order today from the Adamo By Dell web site, and will start shipping worldwide from 26 March.

With a 13.4in widescreen display and measuring just 0.65in (16.4mm) thick, the Adamo has been compared to Apple's MacBook Air, claimed as the thinnest laptop when it launched in early 2008. However, the Adamo is significantly heavier at about 1.8kg.

Dell makes much of the Adamo's "premium craftsmanship and design", which includes a chassis milled from a single piece of aluminium featuring precision detailing, and a scalloped backlit keyboard.

The system is based on Intel Core 2 Duo processors, and is available in two configurations: the Base has a 1.2GHz SU9300 chip and 2GB memory for £1,649, while the Enhanced has a 1.4GHz SU9400 and 4GB memory and costs £2,249. Both have a 128GB Flash drive instead of a hard drive as standard.learn more>>

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