| Bumps in the road inevitable on long trips | | Posted Wednesday, February 07, 2007 3:02:11 PM by Blog57 Team | | The philosophy is to celebrate the good and redeem the bad. And in the sportswriting business, an eight-city, 14-day trip is about as far in the bad category as having your laptop computer crash in Oklahoma City (which sadly happened last month). The Lakers are on their longest trip since 1989, and we're on it with them. So to redeem the spending of so much time away from home's comforts, we're mining the road for underground nuggets from this traveling NBA show - and we're here to share that path with you. (The path is so long that we'll have a second journal installment to cover Atlanta, Detroit, Toronto and Cleveland next week.) NEW YORK (Monday-Tuesday): Start spreadin' the news! The NBA has suspended Kobe Bryant for the Lakers-Knicks game and created a huge pile-up on Turn 1 of this long road race.... | |
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| | | FE Information Technology | | Posted Sunday, January 21, 2007 1:05:07 PM by Blog57 Team | | Apple Computer CEO Steve Jobs on Tuesday made the company's long-awaited jump into the mobile phone business, unveiling a gadget that's controlled by touch, plays music, surfs the Internet and runs the Macintosh computer operating system. Jobs also renamed the company "Apple Inc." to reflect its increasing focus on consumer electronics. The iPhone, which starts at $499, will "reinvent" the telecommunications sector and "leapfrog" past the current generation of hard-to-use smart phones, Jobs said. "Every once in a while a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything," he said during his keynote address at the annual Macworld Conference and Expo. "It's very fortunate if you can work on just one of these in your career. ... Apple's been very fortunate in that it's introduced a few of these." Jobs also unveiled a TV set-top box that allows people to send video from their computers to their televisions.... | |
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| | | Low-Cost Laptop Could Transform Learning | | Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 3:02:33 PM by Blog57 Team | | Forget windows, folders and boxes that pop up with text. When students in Thailand, Libya and other developing countries get their $150 computers from the One Laptop Per Child project in 2007, their experience will be unlike anything on standard PCs. For most of these children the XO machine, as it's called, likely will be the first computer they've ever used. Because the students have no expectations for what PCs should be like, the laptop's creators started from scratch in designing a user interface they figured would be intuitive for children. The result is as unusual as -- but possibly even riskier than -- other much-debated aspects of the machine, such as its economics and distinctive hand-pulled mechanism for charging its battery. (XO has been known as the $100 laptop because of the ultra-low cost its creators eventually hope to achieve through mass production.) For example, students who turn on the small green-and-white computers will be greeted by a basic home screen with a stick-figure icon at the center, surrounded by a white ring.... | |
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| | | AMD-based Apple laptop in the works? | | Posted Thursday, November 23, 2006 1:00:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | Apple and AMD are joining forces to build an AMD-based Apple laptop, according to a report by DigiTimes. The publication claims that Taiwan passive component makers are seeing an aggressive rise in orders for high-capacitance multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs), and that most of the MLCCs are for use in an AMD-based Apple notebook. The new laptop will require about 70 22F MLCCs manufactured by Japan-based Murata Manufacturing, Taiyo Yuden and TDK. Demand for Apple's Intle-based dual-core laptops that require around 80 22 MLCCs has tightened supply for the high-capacitance MLCCs, forcing notebook makers to adjust their MLCC mixture. AMD CEO Hector Ruiz in September suggested that Apple would eventually use AMD processors in some of its Macs to avoid being held "hostage" to exclusive pricing deals from Intel.... | |
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| | | Apple Rolls Out G4 iBooks | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 3:09:23 AM by Blog57 Team | | At long last, Apple Computer has excised the G3 processor from its consumer laptop line. The company has announced its revamped line of G4 iBooks, featuring the same type of CPU that's found in its iMac and eMac systems. G4 processors aren't the only improvement to the new systems. They also gain support for AirPort Extreme 54-mbps wireless networking connectivity, DDR RAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 graphics with 32MB of VRAM, and the ability to use an internal Bluetooth module for wireless peripheral connectivity. What's more, all iBooks come equipped with 256MB RAM and a slot-loading CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo drive. IBooks also gain USB 2.0 support with this new revision, but otherwise retain features seen in previous models, including FireWire 400, a built in 56K v.92 model and 10/100BASE-T Ethernet connectivity.... | |
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| | | Apple Adds Core 2 Duo to MacBooks | | Posted Saturday, November 11, 2006 11:17:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | In a widely expected move, Apple said Wednesday that it had begun shipping its MacBook laptop with Core 2 Duo processors. The entry-level laptop is largely credited with helping the Cupertino company regain lost momentum in the portable market. "MacBook has helped drive Apple's notebook market share to over 10 percent in US retail, and the new MacBooks will be among this holiday season's most exciting new products," said Apple marketing senior vice president Philip Schiller. .... | |
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| | | Apple Brings MacBook Consumer Laptop Into Dual-Core Fold | | Posted Thursday, November 09, 2006 7:21:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | Just a couple of weeks after upgrading its MacBook Pro laptop line, Apple on Wednesday shipped a new lineup of MacBook consumer notebooks powered by Intel Core 2 Duo processors. The Cupertino, Calif., company said the new MacBooks are up to 25 percent faster than the previous versions and come in two white models and one black model, all of which are an inch thick and sport 13.3-inch screens. A 1.83 GHz white MacBook, priced at $1,099, comes with 512 Mbytes of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM (expandable to 2 Gbytes), a 60-Gbyte Serial ATA hard drive, a slot-load DVD-ROM/CD-RW optical drive, a Gigabit Ethernet port, built-in AirPort Extreme wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.0+EDR, two USB 2.0 ports and one FireWire 400 port. A 2 GHz white MacBook, priced at $1,299, includes the same features but comes with 1 Gbyte of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, an 80-Gbyte hard drive and a slot-load 6x SuperDrive with double-layer support (DVD+R DL/DVDRW/CD-RW).... | |
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| | | Dreams nearly fulfilled, Thank you Fujitsu,,, NOW GIMME my lappy!! ... | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 12:58:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | You know as a kid, a slightly balding man, or a woman, you always wanted a Ferrari, admit it. Well computers are kind of the same; you always wanted power, monstrous power, and a convenient, easy way to interact with it. Well for many of you, that occurred in the past few years when laptops embedded with wireless functions and large amounts or ram and power, enabled programmers, and businesspeople alike to do nearly anything and everything they've wanted to. Alas, for those in the art and design world this has not yet truly been the case. While Wacom released their beauteous and wonderful Cintaq (it's a stylus/screen combo so you can draw on the screen), one of the best innovations for the power design user ever seen. Sadly this monitor/tablet interface hasn't truly been available in a powerful laptop configuration, only as a desktop.... | |
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| | | Tech Fair 2006 Draws Hundreds To SU | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 3:26:02 AM by Blog57 Team | | After playing a few Xbox 360 games on a ViewSonic television, a student could walk a few steps to his right and test out the new Microsoft Vista. If he turned left, he could enter to win an iPod. Past the Apple table with the iPod raffle, the student could find answers to questions about his Sony laptop. Tech Fair 2006, sponsored by the UConn Co-op, brought a number of technology vendors and UConn departments together for an informational event in the Student Union ballroom yesterday. Vendor tables were set up around the ballroom, making it easy to browse selections and test products from different companies as well as ask technology questions. The event included raffles, giveaways, demonstrations, training and networking, as advertised in the Tech Fair 2006 flyer.... | |
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| | | BUSINESS BAROMETER: Apple debuts iTunes Latino | | Posted Friday, November 03, 2006 3:19:37 AM by Blog57 Team | | Apple Computer Inc. on Wednesday launched iTunes Latino, a dedicated area within its U.S. online store for Latin music, videos, audio books and podcasts. The iTunes store, the world's leading digital music outlet with more than 1.5 billion songs sold since its launch, had previously included Latin as a music genre, but company officials said customers were asking for more Latin content. Offering a dedicated Latino section with a broader product mix also made sense given the nation's growing Latino population, of which more than half are Internet users, said Eddy Cue, Apple's vice president of iTunes. "It's a key opportunity that we were missing," said Cue, whose father is from Spain. The new section features different music genres, including regional Mexicano, baladas y boleros and pop Latino, as well as Spanish-language and bilingual TV shows under a new deal with NBC Universal's Telemundo, the nation's second-rated Spanish-speaking network.... | |
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