Many people say that Windows Phone 7 is the last hope of Microsoft in the smartphone market, indeed, it is vital time for Microsoft. Although the smart phone market is fiercely competitive, but Microsoft is no other choice. Microsoft's main concern is their own economic interests, but also those who like HTC, ihkc that old cell phone manufacturers also want to see other companies compete with each other. So what kind of advantages of Microsoft's new mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 in the end?
The world's largest software company is hoping that the new phones, from handset makers Samsung, LG, HTC and Dell, will propel it back into the mobile market, which many see as the key to the future of computing, reports the Daily Mail.
The new phones, initially available on the T-Mobile network in Britain and on AT&T in the US, are much closer in look and feel to Apple's iPhone , with colourful touch-screens and 'tiles' for easy access to email, the Web, music and other applications.
Ballmer, who has admitted that his company 'missed a generation' with its recent unpopular phone offerings, said the new phones would eventually be available from 60 mobile operators in 30 countries.
Meanwhile, at a simultaneous launch event at London's Institute Of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Microsoft announced that WP7 will be coming on the Dell Venue Pro by Christmas.
Dell's Venue Pro will join five other WP7 handsets - three from HTC and one each from LG and Samsung - in the British market in the coming months.
In the US, the first phone from AT&T, priced at $200, will be available Nov 8.
Six Windows Phone 7 handsets will be released in Britain in the coming months, including three from HTC and the Dell Venue Pro, which is the only model to come with a slide-out keyboard
Microsoft has a market share of only five percent in the global smartphone market, according to research firm Gartner, compared with nine percent a year ago.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Google's new technology allows automatic driving vehicle
Google announced the company apart in the normal business operations, is also developing the technology allows automatic driving vehicle. The company said in a blog, using this technology can reduce by half the number of deaths due to traffic accidents worldwide each year about 60 million lives saved. At the same time Google also hopes to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Two recent announcements have made self-driving cars seem a lot closer to reality. The first comes from the Army, which is now using self-driving vehicles to guard a large military facility and nuclear waste dump in Nevada. And then there's Google, which recently announced that it has developed self-driving cars that have logged over 100,000 miles on real roads in real traffic.
What is going on inside these cars to make it possible for them to drive themselves? Let's take a look.
You could, in theory, turn any car into a self-driving car. The first thing you would have to do is make it possible for a computer to control the car. This is not quite as easy as it sounds, but it is relatively straightforward. The computer needs to be able to turn the steering wheel, push the accelerator and brake pedals, move the gear shift control and start the engine.
These tasks, at least in experimental self-driving cars, are often accomplished with motors. A motor is mounted so it can turn the existing steering wheel. Another motor is able to put pressure on the accelerator and brake pedals. And so on. It is not a particularly elegant solution, but it gets the job done. As production cars become more advanced, drive-by-wire systems are becoming more common. In cars with drive-by-wire, a computer can hook directly into the existing control systems.
The next thing that a self-driving car needs is sensors, and here things get pretty complicated today. A human being drives a car by using his or her eyes as the sole sensor. The human visual system is amazing in this regard, because it is able to accurately judge the presence of obstacles, their distance, their relative size based on distance, their speed, etc. A human being also recognizes what he is seeing. If a human being sees a fence, she can accurately predict with high certainty that it will not jump into the middle of the road. On the other hand, a child playing with a ball on a sidewalk is a different story.
Computer vision systems are nowhere near this point in their development. So they rely on extra sensors to provide more information. Self-driving cars do have camera-based vision systems that they use to see other cars, unexpected obstacles, road markings and signs. But in addition, self-driving cars almost always have GPS sensors so that they have a better idea of exactly where they are and where they are pointing. They also have LADAR systems — laser scanners that can look for nearby objects and accurately judge their distance. They may have RADAR systems as well. They may also have infrared sensors to improve night vision.
These sensors all feed into a powerful onboard computer (often multiple computers) that process all the data that the sensors are gathering. The internal computer will have access to a database of maps and other relevant information. For example, engineers may pre-drive a route and pre-catalog all signs, road markings, curbs, crosswalks, traffic lights, etc. that the self-driving car will encounter along the road. This way, the car knows what to expect and can plan accordingly. Finally, the onboard computer may also be communicating by radio with bigger computers holding even more data.
Two recent announcements have made self-driving cars seem a lot closer to reality. The first comes from the Army, which is now using self-driving vehicles to guard a large military facility and nuclear waste dump in Nevada. And then there's Google, which recently announced that it has developed self-driving cars that have logged over 100,000 miles on real roads in real traffic.
What is going on inside these cars to make it possible for them to drive themselves? Let's take a look.
You could, in theory, turn any car into a self-driving car. The first thing you would have to do is make it possible for a computer to control the car. This is not quite as easy as it sounds, but it is relatively straightforward. The computer needs to be able to turn the steering wheel, push the accelerator and brake pedals, move the gear shift control and start the engine.
These tasks, at least in experimental self-driving cars, are often accomplished with motors. A motor is mounted so it can turn the existing steering wheel. Another motor is able to put pressure on the accelerator and brake pedals. And so on. It is not a particularly elegant solution, but it gets the job done. As production cars become more advanced, drive-by-wire systems are becoming more common. In cars with drive-by-wire, a computer can hook directly into the existing control systems.
The next thing that a self-driving car needs is sensors, and here things get pretty complicated today. A human being drives a car by using his or her eyes as the sole sensor. The human visual system is amazing in this regard, because it is able to accurately judge the presence of obstacles, their distance, their relative size based on distance, their speed, etc. A human being also recognizes what he is seeing. If a human being sees a fence, she can accurately predict with high certainty that it will not jump into the middle of the road. On the other hand, a child playing with a ball on a sidewalk is a different story.
Computer vision systems are nowhere near this point in their development. So they rely on extra sensors to provide more information. Self-driving cars do have camera-based vision systems that they use to see other cars, unexpected obstacles, road markings and signs. But in addition, self-driving cars almost always have GPS sensors so that they have a better idea of exactly where they are and where they are pointing. They also have LADAR systems — laser scanners that can look for nearby objects and accurately judge their distance. They may have RADAR systems as well. They may also have infrared sensors to improve night vision.
These sensors all feed into a powerful onboard computer (often multiple computers) that process all the data that the sensors are gathering. The internal computer will have access to a database of maps and other relevant information. For example, engineers may pre-drive a route and pre-catalog all signs, road markings, curbs, crosswalks, traffic lights, etc. that the self-driving car will encounter along the road. This way, the car knows what to expect and can plan accordingly. Finally, the onboard computer may also be communicating by radio with bigger computers holding even more data.
Friday, October 15, 2010
Apple ipad vs sumsung Galaxy Tab，exposure of the U.S. contract price
Samsung Tablet PC Galaxy Tab technical details have been revealed, but its pricing and release time is still not resolved the two key issues. U.S. network operator T-Mobile's unofficial blog Tmonews on Sunday revealed the details of this release tablet.
The Galaxy Tab, with its 7-inch display, but a smaller surface than the competition from Apple, but the memory SD card up to 64GB of expandable by.
This offers the Samsung all-rounder a 3.2-megapixel camera – the iPad users are still waiting in vain for this extra. Highlight: The video call feature with an additional 1.3-megapixel camera! Again, the iPad) do not keep up (.
About the Android smartphone operating system are all the apps as well as in normal available.
Great advantage of the Galaxy Tab also: the handy design. The Samsung Galaxy Tab is not much bigger than an outstretched hand, fits in any pocket. And with 380 grams almost half as light as the U.S. bestseller.
Even e-books look good on the tab from right, Bluetooth, music can be transferred. Important for users to the Internet and share the Samsung supports Flash – Apple’s archenemy.
O2 Galaxy tab from the end of October depending on the tariff rates from 99 EURO to 759 EURO one-time payment or for the offer.
These then are still costs for data volume and any flat rates. Early reports is Tablet PC on the market cost of at least 640 EURO.
Wal-Mart has confirmed it will start selling iPad on Friday
October 13, retail giant Wal-Mart has confirmed it will start selling iPad on Friday. It is reported that only hundreds of Wal-Mart store shelves will sale Apple iPad.But Wal-Mart plans to expand more than 2,300 stores for sale Apple Ipad in mid-November,get ready for the Christmas shopping season.
Leg Up on Rivals
The retail push will help Apple maintain its edge in the tablet field it broke open as competitors rush a slew of new devices to the market. Many of the rival devices use Google Relevant Products/Services's Android mobile operating system.
"With Walmart.com adding Apple iPad to its e-commerce offering immediately and Wal-Mart retailers stocking devices in the coming weeks, Apple is working furiously to make its media tablet product available in advance of holiday 2010 purchasing for U.S. consumers," said ABI Research mobile-devices analyst Jeff Orr, who noted that the device sells for $499 for the basic Wi-Fi model and rises to $829 for the version with the most memory, 64GB, and both Wi-Fi and 3G. At that price, Wal-Mart's best advantage is its ubiquity at the nation's busiest shopping centers.
"In the first 90 days of shipments, the average selling price of iPad exceeded $650, a clear luxury item for most consumers worldwide," Orr said. "With Wal-Mart not gaining any special pricing to attract consumers, the bet has to be on mere presence in more places."
That strategy, he said, could backfire for Apple if it brings people into stores only to have them switch to cheaper items, especially if supply Relevant Products/Services is tight.
"Samsung recently announced distribution Relevant Products/Services agreements with the four largest mobile-network operators in the U.S. to sell the company's Galaxy Tab media tablet before the end of the year; a feat no handset, PC Relevant Products/Services OEM, or CE-device vendor has pulled off before," said Orr.
Sales Figures Awaited
He also noted that Apple next week will announce revenue and shipment volumes for its latest financial quarter. "While it was quick to announce shipments of the first and third million iPad units, the company has remained quiet since July about its progress," Orr said. That could mean sales have slowed, or that Apple is building anticipation for a big announcement to impress investors.
Bolstering the latter theory was a note this week from Bernstein Research analyst Colin McGranahan saying that the iPad is likely to be the highest-selling electronics device in history, "a runaway success of unprecedented proportion" with an estimated 8.5 million sold so far.
Google's new technology allows automatic driving vehicle
Google announced the company apart in the normal business operations, is also developing the technology allows automatic driving vehicle. The company said in a blog, using this technology can reduce by half the number of deaths due to traffic accidents worldwide each year about 60 million lives saved. At the same time Google also hopes to reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
Two recent announcements have made self-driving cars seem a lot closer to reality. The first comes from the Army, which is now using self-driving vehicles to guard a large military facility and nuclear waste dump in Nevada. And then there's Google, which recently announced that it has developed self-driving cars that have logged over 100,000 miles on real roads in real traffic.
What is going on inside these cars to make it possible for them to drive themselves? Let's take a look.
You could, in theory, turn any car into a self-driving car. The first thing you would have to do is make it possible for a computer to control the car. This is not quite as easy as it sounds, but it is relatively straightforward. The computer needs to be able to turn the steering wheel, push the accelerator and brake pedals, move the gear shift control and start the engine.
These tasks, at least in experimental self-driving cars, are often accomplished with motors. A motor is mounted so it can turn the existing steering wheel. Another motor is able to put pressure on the accelerator and brake pedals. And so on. It is not a particularly elegant solution, but it gets the job done. As production cars become more advanced, drive-by-wire systems are becoming more common. In cars with drive-by-wire, a computer can hook directly into the existing control systems.
The next thing that a self-driving car needs is sensors, and here things get pretty complicated today. A human being drives a car by using his or her eyes as the sole sensor. The human visual system is amazing in this regard, because it is able to accurately judge the presence of obstacles, their distance, their relative size based on distance, their speed, etc. A human being also recognizes what he is seeing. If a human being sees a fence, she can accurately predict with high certainty that it will not jump into the middle of the road. On the other hand, a child playing with a ball on a sidewalk is a different story.
Computer vision systems are nowhere near this point in their development. So they rely on extra sensors to provide more information. Self-driving cars do have camera-based vision systems that they use to see other cars, unexpected obstacles, road markings and signs. But in addition, self-driving cars almost always have GPS sensors so that they have a better idea of exactly where they are and where they are pointing. They also have LADAR systems — laser scanners that can look for nearby objects and accurately judge their distance. They may have RADAR systems as well. They may also have infrared sensors to improve night vision.
These sensors all feed into a powerful onboard computer (often multiple computers) that process all the data that the sensors are gathering. The internal computer will have access to a database of maps and other relevant information. For example, engineers may pre-drive a route and pre-catalog all signs, road markings, curbs, crosswalks, traffic lights, etc. that the self-driving car will encounter along the road. This way, the car knows what to expect and can plan accordingly. Finally, the onboard computer may also be communicating by radio with bigger computers holding even more data.
Windows Phone 7 is the last hope for Microsoft
Many people say that Windows Phone 7 is the last hope of Microsoft in the smartphone market, indeed, it is vital time for Microsoft. Although the smart phone market is fiercely competitive, but Microsoft is no other choice. Microsoft's main concern is their own economic interests, but also those who like HTC, ihkc that old cell phone manufacturers also want to see other companies compete with each other. So what kind of advantages of Microsoft's new mobile operating system Windows Phone 7 in the end?
The world's largest software company is hoping that the new phones, from handset makers Samsung, LG, HTC and Dell, will propel it back into the mobile market, which many see as the key to the future of computing, reports the Daily Mail.
The new phones, initially available on the T-Mobile network in Britain and on AT&T in the US, are much closer in look and feel to Apple's iPhone , with colourful touch-screens and 'tiles' for easy access to email, the Web, music and other applications.
Ballmer, who has admitted that his company 'missed a generation' with its recent unpopular phone offerings, said the new phones would eventually be available from 60 mobile operators in 30 countries.
Meanwhile, at a simultaneous launch event at London's Institute Of Contemporary Arts (ICA), Microsoft announced that WP7 will be coming on the Dell Venue Pro by Christmas.
Dell's Venue Pro will join five other WP7 handsets - three from HTC and one each from LG and Samsung - in the British market in the coming months.
In the US, the first phone from AT&T, priced at $200, will be available Nov 8.
Six Windows Phone 7 handsets will be released in Britain in the coming months, including three from HTC and the Dell Venue Pro, which is the only model to come with a slide-out keyboard
Microsoft has a market share of only five percent in the global smartphone market, according to research firm Gartner, compared with nine percent a year ago.
Thursday, October 7, 2010
only $ 35 of the world's cheapest laptop
July 23 Indian researchers have demonstrated a price of only $ 35 of the "world's cheapest laptop." It is reported that this touch screen computer with potential customers for the students, the computer system built Linux-based word processor, Web browser, PDF reader and video conferencing capabilities, and can continue to expand as needed.
India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said the Linux based computing device was expected to be introduced to higher education institutions from 2011 but the aim was to drop the price further to $20 and ultimately to $10.
Three models are planned, with touchscreens of 5 inches, 7 inches, and 9 inches. They will have full WiFi, a USB port, and 2GB of onboard storage, which is pretty reasonable for the price. Full internet browsing, with the ability to play Youtube videos, is also promised.
While Indian university students—particularly ones in engineering—have access to advanced computers in campus tech labs, few students have their own personal computers. The Indian government’s initiative hopes to change this with a tablet that impresses with its price—and its feature list. Some are logical choices—like Google’s free Android OS—and others are actually somewhat surprising.
"The solutions for tomorrow will emerge from India.
Sibal said the government may subsidise 50 per cent of the price for students.
Mr. Sibal expressed that about over one-third of the 25,000 colleges and universities across the country are now connected to the broadband connection and various online and video-streaming courses are now available for students with many more are being developed.
At the time of the initial announcement the Indian government had not yet found a manufacturer, leading some to fear that the estimated price was idle fancy. Now, however, it has teamed up with HCL Technologies, a date is set and the price is as it was first advertised, with the possibility of it being lowered to as little as $10 if competition allows.
Microsoft lawsuit against Motorola for mobile phone patent
According to the news PCMAG Microsoft for mobile phone patent lawsuit against Motorola.Microsoft said in a statement now, these patents and synchronize email, calendar, contacts, meeting arrangements and displays signal strength and battery power on the upgrading application software. As a former ally of Motorola's side said that although there is no received the legal documents, but the company is ready to respond to related materials. It seems the Microsoft chose the eve of the Windows Phone7 release is to take action to save Motorola's Windows Mobile system had lost market share.
Microsoft thinks that Motorola nicked its patented methods related to "synchronising email, calendars and contacts, scheduling meetings, and notifying applications of changes in signal strength and battery power".
Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel of intellectual property and licensing at Microsoft said that the patents were important to the "smartphone user experience".
"Motorola needs to stop its infringement of our patented inventions in its Android smartphones," he said.
Similar lawsuits have been flying in the Android market almost as soon as the phones came out. Motorola was sued by Blackberry maker Research in Motion. Meanwhile Nokia has sued Apple over the Iphone and Apple has countersued Nokia, along with suing HTC.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Kapil Sibal said the Linux based computing device was expected to be introduced to higher education
India's Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal said the Linux based computing device was expected to be introduced to higher education institutions from 2011 but the aim was to drop the price further to $20 and ultimately to $10.
Three models are planned, with touchscreens of 5 inches, 7 inches, and 9 inches. They will have full WiFi, a USB port, and 2GB of onboard storage, which is pretty reasonable for the price. Full internet browsing, with the ability to play Youtube videos, is also promised.
While Indian university students—particularly ones in engineering—have access to advanced computers in campus tech labs, few students have their own personal computers. The Indian government’s initiative hopes to change this with a tablet that impresses with its price—and its feature list. Some are logical choices—like Google’s free Android OS—and others are actually somewhat surprising.
"The solutions for tomorrow will emerge from India.
Sibal said the government may subsidise 50 per cent of the price for students.
Mr. Sibal expressed that about over one-third of the 25,000 colleges and universities across the country are now connected to the broadband connection and various online and video-streaming courses are now available for students with many more are being developed.
At the time of the initial announcement the Indian government had not yet found a manufacturer, leading some to fear that the estimated price was idle fancy. Now, however, it has teamed up with HCL Technologies, a date is set and the price is as it was first advertised, with the possibility of it being lowered to as little as $10 if competition allows.
Three models are planned, with touchscreens of 5 inches, 7 inches, and 9 inches. They will have full WiFi, a USB port, and 2GB of onboard storage, which is pretty reasonable for the price. Full internet browsing, with the ability to play Youtube videos, is also promised.
While Indian university students—particularly ones in engineering—have access to advanced computers in campus tech labs, few students have their own personal computers. The Indian government’s initiative hopes to change this with a tablet that impresses with its price—and its feature list. Some are logical choices—like Google’s free Android OS—and others are actually somewhat surprising.
"The solutions for tomorrow will emerge from India.
Sibal said the government may subsidise 50 per cent of the price for students.
Mr. Sibal expressed that about over one-third of the 25,000 colleges and universities across the country are now connected to the broadband connection and various online and video-streaming courses are now available for students with many more are being developed.
At the time of the initial announcement the Indian government had not yet found a manufacturer, leading some to fear that the estimated price was idle fancy. Now, however, it has teamed up with HCL Technologies, a date is set and the price is as it was first advertised, with the possibility of it being lowered to as little as $10 if competition allows.
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