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Verizon Wireless announces the Casio G’zOne Boulder as the newest Push to Talk phone that is exclusively available through Verizon.
The G’zOne Boulder is rough and tough mobile phone is built to military specifications to withstand shock, water and dust environment.
The rugged design of the new G’zOne meets military specifications 810F standards for water, shock and dust resistance; immersion; vibration, salt fog; humidity; solar radiation; altitude; and low and high temperature storage. Features of the G’zOne Boulder include
Other features of the G’zOne Boulder include flashlight, compass, VZ Navigator-capable, Field Force Manager-capable, V CAST Music with Rhapsody-capable, 1.3MP camera, Bluetooth, Voice commands, speaker phone, and 2 inch QVGA screen.
The G’zOne Boulder is available for $129.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate and a new two-year customer agreement.
Corporate discount pricing is available. In addition, customers may choose to purchase the G’zOne Boulder without a camera in silver and black, available today through business sales channels and through the company’s online store.
Via the Verizon Wireless site.
Casio introduced the first G’zOne mobile phone for the outdoors in 2005.
HANNSpree has launched the HT11 that’s aimed at the second TV market.
The HT11 offers a 19-inch screen and a viewing angle of 170 degrees. It can also double as a computer monitor with VGA connectivity - as well as HDMI.
The set features an HD ready 1280 x 1024 resolution, twin TV tuners including a digital tuner delivering the full Freeview channel line up and 252 page Teletext.
It also boasts a 1000:1 contrast ratio, 5ms response time and a brightness of 300cd/m2.
With the claim that it’s “received a bit of the HANNspree design magic” (but not too much, thankfully) the TV has a piano black surround and “sophisticated lines.”
The HT11 is available now for £189 from www.misco.co.uk.
Dell today released its 24-inch full HD wide monitor ‘S2409W’ in Japan market, which is designed for those people who use a game console or video editing program.
Supporting 16:9 ratio video output, 5ms response speed, 1000:1 contrast ration and 300 cd/m² brightness, the S2409W adopts HDMI and DVI ports.
Suggested price is 59,800(JPY).
Dell has apparently been hard at work over the last few months on an iPod rival that’s due to launch within weeks.
The Wall Street Journal has it on good authority that the company has been busy testing a digital music player, according to “several” Dell officials.
The player is said to feature a “small navigation screen and basic button controls” and would offer Wi-Fi connectivity to allow wireless downloads.
Dell is apparently also working on software for a range of “portable PCs” that will let users download and organise music and movies from various online sources.
Dell has previously tried its luck in the portable media player market in the States will its Creative-made range of various “DJ” branded products that were not a success and were since discontinued.
The WSJ says Dell would price to player at less than $100 - so less than £50 for the UK market. We will keep you informed.
As we surmised earlier this month with the formal introduction of Mobile Edge’s trio of TSA-approved laptop bags, the flood of competitors are now rushing out. One of the first out of the gate is Targus, delivering its Zip-Thru 15.4-inch Corporate Traveler Laptop Case. Just the first in the outfit’s sure-to-be-long line of checkpoint-friendly bags, this one measures in at 16.93- x 6.5- x 13.98-inches, weighs 3.74-pounds, is constructed from durable black ballistic 1680 denier nylon and can — of course — slip under those airport scanning machines with your precious machine still tucked inside. Unfortunately, it won’t be available for summertime travel (look for it to land in October), but you can go ahead and budget in $99.99 well before Q3 gets sticky..
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Lexar has introduced the latest flash drive in its JumpDrive line. The drive is called the JumpDrive Solo Vault with FIPS Validation. The FIPS validation certifies that the drive meets the requirements of the Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 Level 1standards.
The drive uses 256-bit AES encryption along with FIPS certified software needing no central management to encrypt and protect data right out of the box. Features of the drive include an idle time out, passwords of up to 32-bits long, and a FIPS approved application for deleting files.
Tabb Compton, senior enterprise sales manager at Lexar Media, noted: “It’s well known that data security continues to be a major concern for both government agencies and the private sector. With its advanced, tested security technologies and high-speed performance, Lexar JumpDrive Solo Vault is an ideal solution for the security and value requirements demanded by forward-thinking organizations.”
Verizon and LG bravely introduced the LG Dare today, with a full touchscreen user interface and 3.2 megapixel camera. On-board photo editing tools allow you to have fun with your photos, and the handset also allows for quick uploading of photos to popular social networking sites.
The LG Dare supports Verizon’s high-speed EV-DO 3G network in addition to the V CAST Music and VZ Navigator services. The LG Dare’s finger-friendly touch interface allows you to flick through your contacts list, and even offers a drag and drop interface for accessing your favorite contacts.
Pricing and availability for the LG Dare have not yet been announced.
IBM on Thursday announced plans to use water to cool its next-generation of computer chips internally, allowing it to develop faster multi-layer processors that don’t require additional external cooling. To this end, the company showed off a prototype 3D chip with thousands of tiny water passages in between the chip’s layers. The company says interlayer cooling was necessary, as traditional heat sinks weren’t efficient enough to cool today’s densely packaged processors. The water-carrying tubes are just 50 microns in diameter, and integrating them into the chip necessitated the development of a new thin-film soldering technique by IBM engineers.
To prevent electrical shorts, the passageways were hermetically sealed using a silicon wall and silicon oxide around each interconnect. At 10 microns, these seals required a fabrication accuracy that is 10 times more precise than for current chip interconnects.
The final chip sits in a silicon cooling container, with water pumped in through one side and out the other. While water-cooling computers is not a new concept, this is the first time it would be accomplished on such a miniature and large scale. According to IBM, the technology could find its way into consumer-level products within five years.
IBM on Thursday announced plans to use water to cool its next-generation of computer chips internally, allowing it to develop faster multi-layer processors that don’t require additional external cooling. To this end, the company showed off a prototype 3D chip with thousands of tiny water passages in between the chip’s layers. The company says interlayer cooling was necessary, as traditional heat sinks weren’t efficient enough to cool today’s densely packaged processors. The water-carrying tubes are just 50 microns in diameter, and integrating them into the chip necessitated the development of a new thin-film soldering technique by IBM engineers.
To prevent electrical shorts, the passageways were hermetically sealed using a silicon wall and silicon oxide around each interconnect. At 10 microns, these seals required a fabrication accuracy that is 10 times more precise than for current chip interconnects.
The final chip sits in a silicon cooling container, with water pumped in through one side and out the other. While water-cooling computers is not a new concept, this is the first time it would be accomplished on such a miniature and large scale. According to IBM, the technology could find its way into consumer-level products within five years.
