February 8, 2009 - February 14, 2009

Curtis Wong who won the 5,000th patent for Microsoft in 2006 wins10,000th Patent for Microsoft this week: Microsoft on Tuesday said it has won its 10,000th patent. Just three years ago it acquired its 5,000th. That is fewer than IBM, which won 4,186 patents last year alone and has tens of thousands of them, but second to none for a software manufacturer. Microsoft has boosted the number of new patents obtained each year by 20 percent, committing 100 people to manage patents following an order by Bill Gates in 2004. As a result, Microsoft won 2,030 patents last year alone, overtaking chipmaker Intel to take fourth place on an annual scale.
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VIA NSR7800 Rackmount Storage Server: VIA today announced the VIA NSR7800 2U rackmount server for network storage solution providers. The VIA NSR7800 is powered by a 1.5GHz VIA C7 processor and supports up to a gigabyte of DDR2 system memory. Two separate S-ATA controllers allow up to 16TB of potential storage capacity through eight S-ATA II ports. These eight S-ATA ports also feature hot-swap hardware support. Users can expect fast file transfer speeds over a network with dual gigabit LAN ports over PCI and PCIe buses. A VGA port is included on the rear for easy on-screen device configuration.
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Fujitsu Develops World’s first RF Transceiver Chip produced with 90 nm CMOS process technology: Fujitsu today announced the development of the world’s first radio frequency (RF) transceiver chip produced with 90 nm CMOS process technology that operates at the 77 gigahertz (77GHz) frequency, designed for use in automotive radars. The new transceiver chip includes several novel miniaturization technologies from Fujitsu Laboratories, including circuit design that employs inductor elements and a newly developed signal-distribution circuit that utilizes magnetic field coupling.
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Garmin-Asus nüvifone M20-Powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with enterprise email: Garmin-Asus today announced the Garmin-Asus nüvifone M20, an all-in-one phone, mobile web-browser and premium navigation system with a Windows Mobile operating system. As the first Garmin-Asus nüvifone powered by Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional with enterprise email, the sleek and colorful nüvifone M20 is designed for on-the-go professionals who want a fashionable and functional smartphone to manage their busy work and personal lives. This powerful device combines a dual-band 3.5G/tri-band GSM phone with Wi-Fi connectivity, desktop-like internet browser, push email, document viewing, multi-media capability, Bluetooth and Garmin sat nav.
More...; February 12, 2009 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones
Honda Gas-Powered Mini-Tiller Runs on Home-use Butane Gas Canisters: Honda will begin sales in Japan of the Pianta1 FV200, an easy-to-use gas-powered mini-tiller that runs on readily available, easy-to-use and store home-use butane gas canisters. The Honda Pianta FV200 is designed to provide easy fuel handling and operation, and for easy transport and storage. Designed to use butane gas canisters, widely available for home-use portable stoves, it enables easy engine startup and refueling so that even a novice can enjoy flower and vegetable gardening more casually. It comes with a carrying box to help keep the storage area clean and a carrying stand with built-in wheels (standard equipment), to ensure easy transport and storage for outstanding all-round convenience. The Pianta’s butane-powered engine emits 10% less CO2 than a gasoline engine of the same displacement.
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Panasonic to exhibit cutting-edge products and technologies for 3G mobile phones at Mobile World Congress 2009: Panasonic Mobile will exhibit its cutting-edge products and technologies for 3G mobile phones at Mobile World Congress 2009, to be held in Barcelona, Spain from February 16 to 19.Panasonic Mobile will display a variety of its latest 3G mobile phones for the Japanese market, and introduce linkage functions between mobile phones and Panasonic AV equipments such as Plasma TV "VIERA" and Blue-ray recorder "DIGA" with live demonstrations.
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Satellites collide for first time-Time to have traffic signals in space: One U.S. communications satellite has collided with one defunct Russian satellite in space, NASA said Wednesday. The first such collision in space, the accident occurred Tuesday nearly 500 miles (805 kilometers) over Siberia, NASA spokesman Kelly Humphries said.
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Casio High Speed Exilim EX-FC100/ EX-FS10 compact digital cameras can shoot video at 1,000fps: Casio Japan announced the launch of High Speed Exilim EX-FC100/ EX-FS10 compact digital cameras that can continuously take pictures at a speed of 30 shots per second and shoot video at 1,000fps. Casio High Speed 9.1 Mpixels Exilim EX-FC100 and High Speed Exilim EX-FS10 have basically same spec except optical and battery life functionality. Model Exilim EX-FC100 with 2.7”TFT LCD comes with 5x optical zoom (37-185mm), while Exilim EX-FS10 with 2.5” TFT LCD comes with 3x internal optical zoom (38-114mm). The battery in the FC100 lasts for approximately 300 shots, while that in the FS10 lasts for approximately 160 shots. While shooting, Slow Motion View allows users to extract still photos from video displayed in slow motion. Furthermore, Casio provided a dedicated button for Slow Motion View in order to improve the operability.
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Thermaltake ProWater880i liquid cooling system pumps 500 liters/hr to keep CPU cold: Thermaltake ProWater880i is developed to solve the dilemma of good performance and space saving. With the special designed mounting kit, gamer can easily install ProWater880i in the back of the chassis. It brings two benefits. One is that the radiator can be cooled by the cold air outside and generate better cooling performance. The other benefit is the space allocation within the chassis can be optimized. To achieve maximized performance, ProWater880i comes with many exciting features. First, it can support the latest and fastest Intel Core i7 processor with the included clip. The 24cm Motorsport Radiator can speed up the heat dissipation.
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Thermaltake Vi-ON Series- world’s first external enclosure with embedded hard drive suspension system and Active Smart Cooling System: Thermaltake Vi-ON external hard drive enclosure is the world’s first external enclosure with embedded hard drive suspension system and Active Smart Cooling System. It utilizes a temperature sensing fan that reacts to hard drive temperature and changes fan speed in real-time for utmost efficiency and silence. While most users do not realize, hard drives are capable of producing a fair amount of vibration when hard drives are at their maximum rotation speed. That is exactly why Thermaltake engineers designed-in the world’s first HDD suspension system to minimize those vibration noises.
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Mitsubishi develops high-speed and compact IP core for processing Graphic in built-in display systems: Mitsubishi has developed a high-speed and compact intellectual property (IP) core for graphical user interfaces (GUI), to be used in built-in display systems for operating a variety of equipment. With this development, the text used in displays for operating purposes will be clearer and easier to distinguish, and response time will be quicker when displaying graphics and other applications.
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Solar power output to rise 55 times from current level in Japan by 2030: The Japan Ministry of the Environment estimates that solar power production in Japan could rise to 55 times the current output by 2030, ministry officials said. By the ministry's calculations, this could spur total solar energy output to around 37,000 megawatts by 2020, and 79,000 megawatts by 2030, 55 times current levels. However, should subsidies for new equipment and the purchase of excess power continue in their present form, solar energy production would rise to only 7,900 megawatts by 2020.
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Dolphin TOUCH- World’s 1st Waterproof Curved Touch pad MP3 Player: With NU Dolphin TOUCH, Guaranteed Waterproof quality level by the International certified IPX7 you can Share all the greatest fun from all kinds of outdoor activities, such as Swimming, Surfing, Snorkeling, SPA, Mountaineering, Fishing, Jogging, Biking. Dolphin TOUCH world 1st Waterproof Curved Touch pad MP3 Player comes with 4GB embedded Nand Flash Memory (960songs of MP3/WMA) and built in FM tuner.
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STM32 Primer2 allows users to quickly turn a concept into an attractive-looking demonstrator: STMicroelectronics STM32 Primer for collaborative embedded development allows users to quickly turn a concept into an attractive-looking demonstrator. The latest STM32 Primer2 from STMicroelectronics is about the size of a cellphone, and comes with a 128x160-pixel color touchscreen, a joystick/push button, extension connector and pre-loaded sample applications. There is also a built-in USB port, a MicroSD card slot, and other features, such as an accelerometer and an infrared transmitter/receiver, that allow users to quickly add numerous extra capabilities and functions to their applications. All of these components are easy to manage through the built-in software framework, the open-source CircleOS.
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Toshiba announces World's Highest-Bandwidth, Highest Density Non-volatile RAM: Toshiba today announced the prototype of a new FeRAM —Ferroelectric Random Access Memory—that redefines industry benchmarks for density and operating speed. The new Toshiba chip realizes storage of 128-megabits and read and write speeds of 1.6-gigabytes a second, the most advanced combination of performance and density yet achieved. In developing the new FeRAM, Toshiba broke its own record of 32-megabit density and 200-megabit data transfers, pushing performance to eight times faster than the transfer rate and density of the previous records and the fastest speed of any non-volatile RAM.
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