April 24, 2011 - April 30, 2011

VIA launches VIA AMOS-5001 Chassis Kit for Slim Em-ITX Embedded Systems: VIA today announced the VIA AMOS-5001, a specially designed chassis kit for Em-ITX form factor boards enabling the rapid and easy assembly of a wide variety of robust fanless embedded system designs. The VIA AMOS-5001 chassis kit features a unique modular design comprised of only four mechanical parts that ensures the easy integration of VIA EITX-3001 series mainboards. The VIA AMOS-5001 chassis combines with the unique integrated heatsink design found on Em-ITX boards. The discrete aluminum heatsink has direct contact with the processor and chipset on reverse side of the board, forming a solid, robust base for chassis assembly. An optional storage compartment can also be added. An optional 2.5” HDD storage subsystem chassis is also available.
More...; April 28, 2011 | Related Entries - Computing
Hundreds of Japanese flock to buy iPad 2 in Tokyo: Hundreds of people flocked to Apple store in Tokyo’s Ginza on Thursday for the launch of its iPad 2 tablet computer after an about one-month postponement in the wake of last month’s mega earthquake and tsunami. A 37-year-old man started lining up from 8 p.m. the previous day ahead of the 9 a.m. release of iPad 2 at the store in the upscale Ginza shopping district and wants to try the TV phone function on the iPad 2. The iPad 2 is about 30% thinner than the previous model and retails from 44,800 yen ($545). The launch was initially scheduled for March 25. Apple store employees handed out bottled water to customers waiting in queue outside the Apple store in Tokyo’s Ginza, to purchase iPad 2. Hundreds of customers lined up before the store opened at 9 a.m., with the first man in line having been there since 8 p.m. Wednesday.
More...; April 28, 2011 | Related Entries - Computing
Shanghai Pudong International Airport welcomes world's biggest passenger aircraft - Airbus A380: Shanghai Pudong International Airport welcomed the first Airbus A380 jumbo jet operated by Emirates Airlines which landed at Pudong airport's Terminal 2 yesterday, helping the city become the second in the Chinese mainland, after Beijing that can handle the plane. Emirates operate the jet between Dubai and Pudong three times weekly. More than 40 million passengers used the airport last year, nearly half of them international or regional travelers.
More...; April 28, 2011 | Related Entries - Transport
Cost of the PlayStation breach- more than $24 billion?: The credit card data of PlayStation users around the world may have been stolen in a hack that forced it to shut down Sony’s PlayStation Network for the past week, disconnecting 77 million user accounts. Experts feel the scale of the breach is staggering and could cost Sony billions of dollars. The intrusion was malicious and Sony had hired an outside security firm to investigate. It has taken steps to rebuild its system to provide greater protection for personal information and warned users to contact credit agencies and set up fraud alerts. Sony shut down the network last Wednesday after it said account information, including names, birth dates, e-mail addresses and log-in information was compromised for certain players in the days prior. People in 59 nations use the PlayStation network. Of the 77 million user accounts, about 36 million are in the U.S. and elsewhere in the Americas, 32 million in Europe and 9 million in Asia, mostly in Japan. Sony has no direct evidence of credit card information taken, but said, cannot rule out the possibility.
More...; April 28, 2011 | Related Entries - Gaming
Sony's PlayStation hack apology: Thank you for your patience while we work to resolve the current outage of PlayStation Network & Qriocity services. The following email has been sent to all PSN registrants; please read the help and support FAQ for more information. Valued PlayStation Network/Qriocity Customer: We have discovered that between April 17 and April 19, 2011, certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion into our network. In response to this intrusion, we have: 1) Temporarily turned off PlayStation Network and Qriocity services; 2) Engaged an outside, recognized security firm to conduct a full and complete investigation into what happened; and 3) Quickly taken steps to enhance security and strengthen our network infrastructure by re-building our system to provide you with greater protection of your personal information. We greatly appreciate your patience, understanding and goodwill as we do whatever it takes to resolve these issues as quickly and efficiently as practicable. Although we are still investigating the details of this incident, we believe that an unauthorized person has obtained the following information that you provided: name, address (city, state/province, zip or postal code), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity passwords and login and handle/PSN online ID. It is also possible that your profile data, including purchase history and billing address (city, state, zip), and your PlayStation Network/Qriocity password security answers may have been obtained. If you have authorized a sub-account for your dependent, the same data with respect to your dependent may have been obtained. While there is no evidence that credit card data was taken at this time, we cannot rule out the possibility. If you have provided your credit card data through PlayStation Network or Qriocity, to be on the safe side we are advising that your credit card number (excluding security code) and expiration date may also have been obtained.
More...; April 28, 2011 | Related Entries - Gaming
Tokyo Sanrio Head Designer Yuko Yamaguchi visits Sephora Ala Moana: Last week, special guest from Tokyo Sanrio Head Designer Yuko Yamaguchi visited Sephora Ala Moana, Honolulu to mingle with fans and say Aloha to the ‘Memoirs of a Kitty’ beauty collection! Ms. Yamaguchi met up with Hello Kitty and her entourage of supercute Lolita Girls to celebrate the launch of the cherry blossom themed ‘Memoirs of a Kitty’ collection, an exclusive new selection from Sephora’s Hello Kitty Beauty line. Friends of Sephora and Hello Kitty showed up to share the love too! Ms. Yamaguchi signed goodies for excited fans.
More...; April 27, 2011 | Related Entries - Other Stuff
STMicroelectronics digital MEMS microphones enhance audio experience in mobile phones and portable computers: STMicroelectronics today introduced two new digital MEMS microphones. Combining superior sound quality with robustness and reliability at reduced size and cost, ST’s MP34DB01 and MP45DT02 microphones enable enhanced audio experience in mobile phones and portable computers, as well as in many other existing and emerging applications with a voice input. ST’s MP34DB01 microphone is the only device in the market with real high-fidelity audio bandwidth, delivering flat frequency response in the full audio band of 20–20,000 Hz, coupled with an unparalleled signal-to-noise ratio (62 dB) and power-supply noise rejection (70 dB).Housed inside an ultra-small 3x4x1 mm package, the microphone has been specifically designed for mobile phones, with the acoustic port hole placed on the bottom of the package.
More...; April 27, 2011 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones
Sharp multi-screen display system engulfs visitors on five sides with detailed life-like images at Bosch Theme Park in Nagasaki, Japan: Sharp is providing the theme park of Huis Ten Bosch (Sasebo City, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan) with a multi-screen display system. Comprising a large front screen surrounded by screens on the top, bottom, left, and right, the system engulfs visitors on five sides with detailed life-like images in a new kind of image space. This multi-screen display system has a total of 156 units of the PN-V601 60-inch LCD monitor configured in five surfaces: a front wall, ceiling and floor (36 monitors each) and left and right walls (24 monitors each). Because of the small system frame width between neighboring monitors, visitors are surrounded by huge, seamless displays from 200 to 300-plus inches wide in front, above, below, and on both sides.
More...; April 27, 2011 | Related Entries - 3D
Nikon announces AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G lens: Nikon today announced the AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G lens, a fast, compact lens that affords photographers the versatility of the classic 50mm focal length and the benefits of a fast aperture for photos and D-movies. The AF-S NIKKOR 50mm f/1.8G offers the pleasing blur characteristics and three-dimensional rendering capabilities possible only with a fixed focal length (prime) lens at a very reasonable price. A new optical design that enables f/1.8 maximum aperture brightness and utilizes an aspherical lens element has been adopted for this lens, which achieves superior rendering performance for excellent image quality even with shooting in dimly lit indoor settings. The built-in Silent Wave Motor (SWM) ensures quiet auto focus operation. What's more, the SWM means that autofocus shooting is also possible when the lens is used with entry-level Nikon DX-format digital-SLR.
More...; April 27, 2011 | Related Entries - Digital Cameras
Unauthorized Chinese charger for iPhone explodes: A 29-year-old man identified only by his family name Lee, from Simgokbon-dong, Bucheon, Gyeonggi Province,South Korea reported that his unauthorized iPhone charger exploded. Fortunately, the explosion did not lead to a fire. A small firm imported the unauthorized charger from China. Lee lodged a protest with the importer and the company agreed to refund or swap the damaged charger for other goods.
More...; April 26, 2011 | Related Entries - Mobile Phones
Toshiba Mobile Display develops a 7.0-inch low-temperature poly-silicon thin-film transistor liquid crystal display: Toshiba Mobile Display has developed a 7.0-inch low-temperature poly-silicon (LTPS) thin-film transistor (TFT) liquid crystal display (LCD) for vehicle-mounted and industrial uses that enables multi-touch input on the display screen without the need for additional installation of a touch panel. The technology enables an integrated touch panel function by forming the display pixel electrodes and TFT within the LCD panel using LTPS TFT technology and creating a detecting circuit for electrostatic capacitance changes between the electrodes and the peripheral object. Compared to conventional LCDs with an external touch panel, the thickness is reduced by 57 percent to approximately 1 millimeter, the weight is reduced by 48 percent to 225 grams and the surface reflection ratio is reduced by 10 percent. Its smaller size enables the design of more compact products for mobile applications, reduces the impact on the environment by saving resources and power, provides crisp and clear images with minimal reflection of natural light even in a bright environment, and features intuitive multi-touch input.
More...; April 26, 2011 | Related Entries - Transport
Smoke from a TV explosion in second-floor kills a bright student sleeping in her fourth-floor apartment in China: Cai Shuwen, a sophomore at Shanghai Normal University, was sleeping in her fourth-floor home in the Pudong New Area, China when a TV in a second-floor apartment blew up on Saturday. But Cai, despite sleeping with her windows open, died in her bed of smoke inhalation. An elderly woman had been watching TV when the image suddenly disappeared. It is believed she went to seek help from neighbors and the property management company without first unplugging the set. The elderly woman was safe, although the contents of her apartment were destroyed. A mother and her son living on the sixth floor were also at home when the explosion occurred.
More...; April 26, 2011 | Related Entries - Other Stuff
Fujitsu launches ultra-compact thermal Kiosk Printer: Fujitsu America has released a new medium duty, ultra-compact thermal printer unit that can be easily configured for a variety of kiosk, ATM, receipt, label or ticket issuing applications. The Fujitsu FTP-639USL100-R printer module features an auto paper feed and built-in paper guide. An adjustable paper holder arm maximizes installation options. The arm can be extended lengthwise to accommodate different size paper up to 6-inches in diameter and raised or lowered to allow different mounting configurations. A fixed paper holder module is also available for large diameter paper rolls up to 10 inches. The FTP-639USL100-R printer automatically alerts for head temperature, paper out mark detect, platen open and near end paper. LEDs indicate power or error status
More...; April 26, 2011 | Related Entries - Computing
Fujitsu launches new PRIMEQUEST 1000 series high-performance mission-critical x86 server: Fujitsu announced today the launch of a new PRIMEQUEST 1000 series high-performance mission-critical x86 server for enterprise application, cloud and virtualization environments. The Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 1800E2 features the latest Intel Xeon processor E7 family, and achieves 1.2 times performance enhancement compared with previous models. The PRIMEQUEST 1800E2 is compliant with Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Microsoft Windows Server , and VMware vSphere to enable the provision of optimal and highly-reliable multi-OS server infrastructures for enterprise private cloud implementations.
More...; April 26, 2011 | Related Entries - Computing
Latest game-changing cultural import from Japan-Mozzman Episode 3 to premiere in Hollywood on April 29: The latest game-changing cultural import from Japan- Mozzman Episode 3: Ladymozz and the Death of Earth will have its Hollywood premiere at this year’s Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. The third short-film episode of the “Mozz” series, which chronicles an amnesiac alien philosopher’s walking journey as he passes through Yokohama and participates in the waltz of the moon and the sun, has been praised for its unique pairing of audacious cinematic storytelling and its highly positive message.Directed by French filmmaker Cris Uberman, with an original screenplay by Japanese actor / writer Hiro Super, the movie is also notable for its international nature.
More...; April 26, 2011 | Related Entries - Other Stuff
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