Tesla Motors' Big Surprise

Tesla Motors' Big Surprise

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This wasn't a surprise: Tesla Motors (NAS: TSLA) lost a bunch of money in the second quarter -- despite a big increase in revenues.

The Silicon Valley electric-car start-up dell C5974 battery posted a loss of $0.53 a share on revenues of $58.2 million for the quarter. Both of those numbers exceeded consensus Wall Street estimates, but the trends weren't a surprise: Demand is strong (by Tesla standards, at least) for the company's current car, the Roadster, while development of the upcoming Model S sedan is burning big bucks.

The big surprise was elsewhere -- a hint of dell YF976 battery a huge new deal with mighty Toyota (NYS: TM) .

Tesla's big surprise

Tesla has parts-and-technology deals in place with Mercedes maker Daimler and battery supplier Panasonic (NYS: PC) , but its deals with Toyota are the ones that have attracted the most attention from investors. Thanks to the Japanese giant, Tesla has a factory, a contract to help develop the electric version of Toyota's RAV4 SUV, and a very Dell Precision M20 Battery,
dell F5635 battery visible patron in Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda, who famously test-drove a Roadster last year with Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk.

That RAV4 contract delivered $19 million to Tesla's bottom line during the quarter, and it's expected to bring about $100 million after the deal was expanded in July. But on Wednesday, Musk hinted that much more may be on the way: During a call for analysts, Musk said the company was discussing a deal with Toyota that would be "an order of magnitude" larger than the July contract.

That means billion-with-a-B, the Dell BAT1194 Battery company confirmed after the call. It's not yet a done deal, and we can only guess at the details, but that kind of contract would transform Tesla from a long-shot start-up carmaker to a serious, credible industry supplier.

Maybe even a profitable one. That would be a nice surprise for shareholders.

A smarter route to profitability?

Musk has talked brashly of "disrupting" the global auto business, but I've long thought that the company's best path to sustainable profitability would be as Dell 1X793 Battery a supplier, not a carmaker. The barriers to entry as an auto manufacturer are immense in today's low-margin, globalized car market, but Tesla's experience with electric power trains makes it a valuable potential partner for big automakers looking to up their electric game.

Technologically, Tesla's kind of a Dell BATDW00L Battery one-trick pony, but it's a good trick. The Roadster was the first, and is so far the only, all-electric car that meets global quality expectations with a range comparable to conventional gas-powered autos. To some extent that range advantage is due to the Roadster's expensive battery pack (and corresponding six-figure price point), but the Tesla systems that manage those batteries are good enough to have attracted Toyota's attention, and Toyota is no green-car slouch.

Intriguing possibilities going forward

Tesla was never likely to make it as Dell 7T670 Battery "just" a carmaker. Plain and simple, the company isn't likely to ever have the scale or resources to compete profitably with the likes of Ford (NYS: F) or General Motors (NYS: GM) , much less the German luxury-car makers that dominate the segment Tesla's hoping to enter with the Model S. A niche producer of a few thousand expensive cars a year for Dell F0590A01 Battery the world's gadget geeks? Maybe. But that's not a route to the kind of profitability Tesla shareholders are expecting.

But now we can at least credibly imagine Tesla as the outsourced center of Toyota's electric-car expertise. Could that lead to profitable tie-ups with other automakers? Or maybe even a buyout offer? Tesla's market cap is still under $3 billion -- even an offer with a fat premium wouldn't strain any of the big automakers too badly.

These are just possibilities right now, of course. But they're worth close watching, because this Dell Winbook N4 Battery company seems to have a way of getting more interesting every quarter.

Sony Tablet S1 and S2 Screenshots Leaked?

Sony Tablet S1 and S2 Screenshots Leaked?

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The ever-increasing trend of tablets, notebooks and netbooks has drastically shaken the market. Companies ranging from Apple, Samsung, Asus, Motorola, RIM to the gigantic computing rulers Dell, all have joined the protracted race. Surprisingly Sony has not released any tablet yet but they are at the verge of introducing one that might rattle companies like Apple and Samsung. After a series of teaser videos, images of the upcoming S1 and S2 tablets by Sony have finally been leaked. S1 and S2 which were revealed back in April 2011 are about to invade the market and have been spotted running Android 3.2 Honeycomb with an aura of ecstatic apps and features.

The device will be shipped with Honeycomb 3.2, a great news as some of the users are still waiting for 3.1 update!



Sony will also be including a ‘Wi-Fi Checker’ app which will presumably help people connect properly to the web, perhaps with more complicated enterprise connections in mind.

Screenshots of the app launcher also indicate that Sony will be including a Chumby app. Chumby is a sort of internet companion that’s designed for a bedside table. Sony’s Dash ‘Internet Viewer’ is powered by the Chumby OS, so it makes sense that the S1 and S2 will be able to use the Chumby app to fill a Dash-like role, though the redundancy between Chumby and the ‘Dash Dock’ is perplexing.

The virtual keyboard comes with a number pad. The music player is equipped with a unique design and user interface.

This screenshot seems to be for the Sony Tablet S1. The power charger isn’t micro-USB. We don’t know why Sony sticks to a proprietary charger when most other manufacturers have pledged to fully comply–by 2012–with the Universal Charger Solution (UCS) initiative’s standards specifying the use of micro-USB as the common charging port for handheld and portable devices. Regardless, you’ll need to always bring the proprietary adapter so you can power up your tablet when battery as dell U4873 battery, Dell Inspiron XPS M170 Battery,Dell Inspiron XPS M1710 Battery, dell Vostro 1510 battery, dell T112C battery, dell Vostro 1310 battery, dell T116C battery, dell Y022C battery, dell Latitude E6400 batterypower runs low.

The S1 and S2 are due out this fall, though Sony keeps reminding us that the names are unofficial and may be changed! The devices seem to be interesting with a unique design and auspicious applications but can it beat iPad 2 and Galaxy?

How Malware Might Blow Up Your Laptop

How Malware Might Blow Up Your Laptop

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We depend on our computers to get work done, and so we try to safeguard them appropriately. But our trusty laptops, desktops, and tablets rely on their own internal network of sophisticated computer chips to function. These tiny chips--called microcontrollers--regulate everything from the battery in your laptop to the headlights on your car--and they aren’t always so secure.

Microcontrollers have their own CPU and dell Vostro 1014 battery enough discrete memory to run simple programs, and although they’re usually designed for a single task, they can be reprogrammed via updates to the device firmware. Typically the hardware manufacturer delivers such downloadable updates to improve the performance of your device, but there’s nothing stopping a hacker from mimicking those updates and injecting your device with malicious code.

Thankfully, hackers such as Charlie Miller are happy to demonstrate the potential pitfalls of purchasing hardware from manufacturers that don’t secure seemingly "dumb" devices like batteries. Miller is a security researcher for Accuvant Labs, and after demonstrating how a hacker could take over your iPhone with a text message at dell Vostro A860 battery the Black Hat security conference in 2009, he went looking for a more exciting hack.

"I’d just wrapped a presentation on iPhone hacking and wanted to work on something more flashy," said Miller during an interview with PCWorld. "I wanted to know, could a remote hacker do something to cause physical damage to a computer? Like, could I set my sister’s laptop on fire?"

As it turns out, he probably could. Miller dell Inspiron 1410 battery experimented with the seven or eight MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air models he had won in Pwn2Own hacking competitions over the past three years, and he found that most modern laptop batteries are part of a Smart Battery System that relays information between the battery and the laptop’s operating system to ensure that power is safely stored and discharged. If you’ve ever wondered how your laptop knows exactly how much time you have left before the battery dies, it’s because of this system.

Every laptop battery needs a microcontroller to relay information back and forth, and that microcontroller needs to run firmware independently of the laptop. That firmware is accessible through dell Latitude XT battery the laptop, but is not affected if you wipe your laptop’s memory or reinstall the operating system.

This arrangement is a privacy breach waiting to happen: Malicious hackers with access to your laptop could load small spyware programs onto your battery chip, where they would run--undetected by any antivirus software.

"You could inject malware [from the battery] dell Latitude E5500 battery into a laptop, you just need to find a vulnerability in the OS that would allow battery firmware to exchange code,” Miller speculates. “It’s even possible to execute a kind of denial-of-service attack on your laptop by hammering the operating system with bluff code."

Even wiping or replacing the hard drive wouldn’t catch this type of malware, and since these chips regulate critical system functions such as battery levels or charging speed, there is a potential for serious damage.

"I was able to make the battery lie to the computer about things like how charged it was or how hot it was,” Miller says. “If you changed those variables, something really bad could happen."

Thankfully, the Texas Instruments microcontrollers that Miller pulled off of his Apple batteries are password-protected. Anyone who tries to modify the firmware needs to enter dell Latitude E5400 battery two different passwords, which are set by default when the chips leave the factory. The problem is that Apple has not been changing those default passwords, which means it was child’s play for Miller to reprogram his MacBook Air’s battery using default passwords obtained from Texas Instruments’ website.

"Texas Instruments didn’t do anything wrong," Miller says. “It’s all Apple’s fault for not scrambling the passwords. Other PC manufacturers could use these dell XPS M2010 battery chips and secure them correctly.”

In fact, many battery manufacturers are doing just that; when Miller bought a replacement battery with the same Texas Instruments chip for his 13-inch MacBook from a third-party manufacturer on eBay, he was unable to access the firmware because the manufacturer had changed the passwords.

“It’s so easy to change these passwords. Apple dell HW905 battery should definitely do it, but they can’t safely update existing models," Miller notes. Although Apple and other laptop manufacturers could immediately scramble the passwords with a firmware update, malicious hackers could just reverse-engineer that update to figure out the new password. "They need to start scrambling the passwords before these laptops leave the factory."

To date we’ve heard no reports of privacy breaches or malware attacks via device firmware, but since batteries and other "dumb" devices are ignored by traditional security software, it’s impossible to know whether their failure is natural or engineered.

"There's definitely a risk that malware could brick your battery so it never works again," Miller warns. "I don’t know why someone would do that, except just to be mean."

We contacted Apple for comment on this article, but received no response. Miller has already notified both Apple and Texas Instruments of his findings, and will be presenting his dell Precision M6400 battery research at the 2011 Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas this weekend. There he will also release CaulkGun, a program he wrote that you can use to scramble the passwords on your laptop battery.

"The good news is that malware won’t be able to brick your battery," Miller claims. "The bad news is that Apple won’t be able to update your battery firmware."

Has Starbucks had enough of laptop loungers?

Has Starbucks had enough of laptop loungers?

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Is there a time and a place for laptop use? And should the place never be Starbucks at any time?

It seems that staff at some Starbucks in New York have had enough of those who spend their days using the home of the troubled croissant as their permanent place of work.

The Starbucks Gossip site (which I don't read, but Gawker does) was the first to offer that certain Starbucks were covering up their AC outlets, so that customers would have to rely on their laptop batteries as dell Inspiron 5000 battery, dell Inspiron E1705 battery, dell Inspiron 6000 battery(dell 6000 battery), dell Inspiron 9300 battery, dell Inspiron 9400 battery, dell 310-6321 battery, dell 310-6322 battery, dell D5318 battery, rather than the company's power supply.

A poster named Mike Pollock, who turns out to be Mike Pollock, voice of General Blanque in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3" (as well as Dr. Eggman in the "Sonic the Hedgehog" series), wondered how widespread was the apparent policy of boarding up outlets.

Pollock specifically mentioned two Manhattan Starbucks--one at 14 West 23 Street and the other at West 39 Street and 8th Avenue.

Another poster added to the fascination by claiming: "I will tell you that the NY Metro leadership team has stated they are against covering the outlets because it is a passive aggressive way to deal with the issue. However, in extreme cases, they have approved this action because (and let's be real here) some people just cannot be reasoned with."

However, one perhaps even more insider view comes from a poster with the prophetic handle "Can't please everyone." He or she explains that they are an 8-year Starbucks veteran and that some people should get a life, rather than a light on their laptop.

"Can't please everyone writes": "Covering outlets is not a company wide or even regionally accepted practice. In certain extreme circumstances, where management have exhausted other avenues of resolution, stores have covered their outlets because people do abuse the 'welcoming' nature of Starbucks."

While at pains to declare that Starbucks doesn't want to penalize those who are married to their laptops, he or she adds: "In parts of NYC, you can find a Starbucks on every other corner, but rest assured there is a contingent group that set up shop charging their phones, computer, secondary devices and try to take every free thing they can."

Essentially (and shockingly) it seems that some New Yorkers are simply unreasonable halfwits.

Indeed "Can't please everyone" explains that the laptop loungers are the first to whine if one of Starbucks' free items--like the perfect room temperature for their delicate natures, for example--is suddenly not available.

But shouldn't laptops just be banned from Starbucks? This issue came up a couple of years ago when certain coffee shops decided to restrict the hours during which laptops can be used.

Some larger New York City cafes seem to be having success with limiting laptop use. One poster to the Starbucks Gossip site, Charles, says his Barnes and Noble has found a laptop-limited environment very noble indeed.

"I manage a B&N cafe and we have about 16 tables and a bar with stools which seats about 45 people total. Our cafe is always full of friendly people actually talking with each other, reading books, and enjoying a latte and maybe a slice of cheesecake. How is this possible you ask? We have 1 (one) outlet...period," wrote Charles.

Given that I start the majority of my days at Starbucks (well, after getting up, showering, and wondering what day it is), I contacted Starbucks to see whether a policy change might be green-lighted.

I am thoroughly depressed to say that the company has chosen not to reply. Perhaps it has no answer. But I will update, should some words of wisdom from the Seattle Temple of Tall emerge.

bomb squad robot educate public on crime awareness

bomb squad robot educate public on crime awareness

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The bomb squad was there, along with an armored vehicle.

There were sheriff's deputies, police, firefighters and game wardens. The CareFlight helicopter. Even a robot, which deftly removed a gun from a desperado's hand.

The Target parking lot had all the hallmarks of a disaster scene Tuesday afternoon, except for an actual disaster.

Instead, the concentration of law enforcement was part of the annual commemoration of National Night Out, the crime awareness and prevention program.

The idea is to get citizens behind their local law enforcement agencies, not just in spirit but in actual deed. Take two recent unsolved cases in Missoula - Monday night's rash of bicycle and other thefts in Farviews and other neighborhoods, and the recent widespread vandalism in which vehicles all over town were spray-painted.

The public's help is crucial in finding those responsible, said Missoula Police Detective Sgt. Travis Welsh. "We can't be everywhere at once," he said.

Crimestoppers, the group that solicits tips on such cases and offers rewards when criminals are convicted because of that help, had a booth at Tuesday's event.

Nearby, kids crawled in and out of a shiny fire truck while John Petroff, Bill Moore and Jamie Porter of the Missoula Fire Department's Station No. 5 reminded their parents to be diligent about changing the batteries as dell Latitude C600 battery, dell Latitude C610 battery, dell Latitude C640 battery, dell 1691P battery, Dell 1K500 battery, Dell 8M815 battery, Dell 851UY battery, dell 75UYF battery, Dell BAT-I3700 battery, dell 5081P battery in their smoke detectors.

Their job goes well beyond pouring water on blazing buildings, Moore said. Firefighters provide medical aid, perform river rescues and extract people from confined spaces. They've even rescued the occasional bear.

"We're kind of jack-of-all-trades people," Moore said.

The city and county's ominous-looking armored vehicle was nearly as big a draw as the fire engine.

Missoula County Sheriff's Department Capt. Brad Giffin likened it to a hook-and-ladder truck.

"You don't need it often," he told Kerry Wheeler of Missoula as her sons Chase, 9, and Zachary, 11, clambered around the 18,000-pound vehicle. "But when you do need it, you really, really need it."

Sort of like the Andros robot that zoomed around the parking lot, seemingly on its own, grabbing boxes of chalk from a nearby table and offering them to the kids who clustered around it.

In the case of the robot, the Oz-like man behind the curtain Tuesday was Sheriff's Deputy Dave Bell. He sat in a nearby trailer, manipulating levers and seeing everything "Robo" saw via a monitor.

When 2-year-old William Callison of Reno, Nev., pointed one of his orange plastic six-shooters at Robo, the 'bot promptly confiscated it.

This year's event had twice as many participants as last year, said Missoula County Sheriff's Detective Jason Johnson, who along with Missoula Police Crime Prevention Officer Rob Scheben, Target's assets protection team leader Brandon O'Dell and others organized the annual gathering.

O'Dell watched in satisfaction as a group of squealing kids trailed after Robo.

"Kids are just loving it," he said. Which was, after all, the entire point of the day - to let them get to know the good guys, so that maybe when they grow up, they'll be the ones helping law enforcement look after the community.

Savona man thrives after heart transplant

Savona man thrives after heart transplant

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Savona, N.Y. — Some would say it is a miracle that this man is alive. After a serious heart attack, a stroke and a heart transplant, Jon O’Dell, 49, of Hornell is finally on the road to recovery.

On a hot August day in 2009, O’Dell stumbled into the dell Latitude CPX battery house after he and his son did some work in their yard. His wife, Dawn, thought he was joking around, but when he fell she knew something was seriously wrong.

He was having a myocardial infarction, or a heart attack, which killed the left side of his heart.

O’Dell was taken to the Emergency Room in Arnot Ogden Medical Center by his wife, then transferred for emergency surgery in Elmira. O’Dell was then fitted with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation dell Inspiron 2500 battery machine to keep him alive while being transported to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

About a day after his heart attack, O’Dell had surgery to install the Left Ventricular Assist Device. This dell Inspiron 4100 battery structure was implanted and worked for the left side of his heart, which was no longer functioning.

Only the right side of his heart could function, giving him a half-regular heartbeat accompanied by what sounded like a vacuum, as Dawn O’Dell described. Although it was strange, the family learned as much as they could about the device.

A few days after the surgery to install dell Inspiron 4100 battery the LVAD, O’Dell had a stroke on the left side of his brain.

Doctors were unsure if he would use the right side of his body again, but while sedated to keep his heart at rest he began to move his right leg. When he awoke, he had use of his right side and the only effect of the stroke was some difficulty finding words.

He returned from the hospital dell Inspiron 8100 battery in September 2009, but was forced to go back in October for gall bladder removal. The organ had been damaged during O’Dell’s heart attack.

Life slowly became more regulated, but not without hardship. O’Dell was still living on the LVAD, a device that is battery operated. This meant O’Dell had to always carry extra batteries dell Inspiron 8000 battery throughout the day and be plugged in at night in order to stay alive. Without the machine, O’Dell would die.

While relying on the LVAD, his life was extremely restricted. He was not allowed to drive, and the entire family had to be trained to replace batteries, never leaving O’Dell by himself.

He stayed on this machine for dell Inspiron 8200 battery nearly two years. Meanwhile, O’Dell went back to work for the VA in March 2010, finally having some independence back although he was living with a restrictive device.

In June of that year, he went through intensive medical testing in order to get on the heart transplant list. By November, he had developed an infection on some of the tubing of his dell Latitude CPi battery LVAD, which put his name at the top of the list.

He was on the transplant waiting list for a total of eleven months. On May 14, 2011, his wife answered the phone and was told to be in Rochester within two hours for O’Dell’s heart transplant. A donor had been matched to O’Dell, whose life was about to change forever.

As he went in, he took the situation as a win-win reality. “I was either going to live because I had a new heart or I would go to heaven, so it was win-win for me,” he said. “That really made the kids angry,” he added, because they were anxious about the long surgery.

His wife had been dell G5266 battery especially anxious for her husband of 30 years, but looked to her faith and support from their two sons, Sean and Patrick to cope, as she had since O’Dell’s heart attack.

During the transplant, there were complications, though not deriving from his “new” heart. The infection along the tubin of the LVAD caused excessive bleeding.

The surgical team never gave up, even using 60 bags of blood to keep O’Dell alive.

He made it out and became an inspiration for dell G5260 battery the medical team. “They told me they had never seen anyone [survive so much],” said O’Dell.

Since the successful transplant, he has had seven biopsies to test for rejection of the heart, and all tests were clear of negative signs. Although it is a long road with 17 pill medications and 2 injections daily, O’Dell is well on the way to recovery.

Savona man thrives after heart transplant

Savona man thrives after heart transplant

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Savona, N.Y. — Some would say it is a miracle that this man is alive. After a serious heart attack, a stroke and a heart transplant, Jon O’Dell, 49, of Hornell is finally on the road to recovery.

On a hot August day in 2009, O’Dell stumbled into the dell Latitude CPX battery house after he and his son did some work in their yard. His wife, Dawn, thought he was joking around, but when he fell she knew something was seriously wrong.

He was having a myocardial infarction, or a heart attack, which killed the left side of his heart.

O’Dell was taken to the Emergency Room in Arnot Ogden Medical Center by his wife, then transferred for emergency surgery in Elmira. O’Dell was then fitted with an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation dell Inspiron 2500 battery machine to keep him alive while being transported to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester.

About a day after his heart attack, O’Dell had surgery to install the Left Ventricular Assist Device. This dell Inspiron 4100 battery structure was implanted and worked for the left side of his heart, which was no longer functioning.

Only the right side of his heart could function, giving him a half-regular heartbeat accompanied by what sounded like a vacuum, as Dawn O’Dell described. Although it was strange, the family learned as much as they could about the device.

A few days after the surgery to install dell Inspiron 4100 battery the LVAD, O’Dell had a stroke on the left side of his brain.

Doctors were unsure if he would use the right side of his body again, but while sedated to keep his heart at rest he began to move his right leg. When he awoke, he had use of his right side and the only effect of the stroke was some difficulty finding words.

He returned from the hospital dell Inspiron 8100 battery in September 2009, but was forced to go back in October for gall bladder removal. The organ had been damaged during O’Dell’s heart attack.

Life slowly became more regulated, but not without hardship. O’Dell was still living on the LVAD, a device that is battery operated. This meant O’Dell had to always carry extra batteries dell Inspiron 8000 battery throughout the day and be plugged in at night in order to stay alive. Without the machine, O’Dell would die.

While relying on the LVAD, his life was extremely restricted. He was not allowed to drive, and the entire family had to be trained to replace batteries, never leaving O’Dell by himself.

He stayed on this machine for dell Inspiron 8200 battery nearly two years. Meanwhile, O’Dell went back to work for the VA in March 2010, finally having some independence back although he was living with a restrictive device.

In June of that year, he went through intensive medical testing in order to get on the heart transplant list. By November, he had developed an infection on some of the tubing of his dell Latitude CPi battery LVAD, which put his name at the top of the list.

He was on the transplant waiting list for a total of eleven months. On May 14, 2011, his wife answered the phone and was told to be in Rochester within two hours for O’Dell’s heart transplant. A donor had been matched to O’Dell, whose life was about to change forever.

As he went in, he took the situation as a win-win reality. “I was either going to live because I had a new heart or I would go to heaven, so it was win-win for me,” he said. “That really made the kids angry,” he added, because they were anxious about the long surgery.

His wife had been dell G5266 battery especially anxious for her husband of 30 years, but looked to her faith and support from their two sons, Sean and Patrick to cope, as she had since O’Dell’s heart attack.

During the transplant, there were complications, though not deriving from his “new” heart. The infection along the tubin of the LVAD caused excessive bleeding.

The surgical team never gave up, even using 60 bags of blood to keep O’Dell alive.

He made it out and became an inspiration for dell G5260 battery the medical team. “They told me they had never seen anyone [survive so much],” said O’Dell.

Since the successful transplant, he has had seven biopsies to test for rejection of the heart, and all tests were clear of negative signs. Although it is a long road with 17 pill medications and 2 injections daily, O’Dell is well on the way to recovery.

Dell Launches A New Tablet In China

Dell Launches A New Tablet In China

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Dell has launched its latest tablet offering code named ‘Dell T03G’ or Dell Streak Pro in China. The tablet will be launched in other Asian countries like India later this year. The tablet is available at a price of $568 (around Rs.26,000), but if consumers want additional discount, they can purchase it online for $461 (around Rs.21,000). Here’s a look at the tablets specifications.

This is the first 10 inch tablet offering by Dell, although there is a 5 inch smartphone cum tablet called Dell Streak that is already available in India. The tablet has a 10.1″ WXGA (1280 x 800) multi-touch Gorilla Glass display and runs on the Android 3.1 (Honeycomb) operating system. It is powered by a 1GHz Dual core NVIDIA TEGRA T20 Duo processor and has 1GB of RAM.

Additionally it has 16GB of internal storage capacity which can be extended up to 32GB with the help of a SD card. The tablet has a 5 mega pixels auto focus rear camera with flash and zoom and a 2 mega pixels front facing camera.

Dell claims that the tablet will enable users to ‘work smart and play hard’, all on the same device. To validate their claim, the company has introduced a new application on the tablet called ‘Dell divide’, which provides the user with 2 running modes- work mode and the personal mode.

In work mode, users can access the corporate network and applications without worrying about the IT department snooping on their personal files and in the personal mode, users can access all of their personal data without compromising access to any sensitive work data.

The tablet has in built stereo speakers and offers Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and Dell promises a battery as Dell Inspiron 3700 battery, Dell Precision M40 battery, Dell Precision M50 battery, dell Inspiron 700m battery, dell Inspiron 710m battery, dell F5136 battery, dell 312-0306 battery, dell 312-0305 battery, dell Inspiron 500m battery, dell Inspiron 510m battery life of up to 12 hours. The dimensions of the device are 262.3mm x 178mm x 12.95mm and it weighs at 727 grams.

The Indian launch date has not been disclosed by the company, but it could be before the end of this year. The earlier version of Dell Streak had very few takers in the Indian market, so we will have to wait and see how this one fares in the market.

Whether the new tablet will be a worthy competitor to the Galaxy Tabs and the iPads, or it will end up being a disappointment like its predecessor, only time will tell!

A portable Mack truck for computationally demanding games

A portable Mack truck for computationally demanding games

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Those after svelte design, mobility and high battery life should look elsewhere -- gaming laptops are the Mack trucks of laptop land.

Dell's Alienware brand is dedicated to this dell 6Y270 battery market segment and the Alienware M17x is a 4.3kg bruiser that adds optional 3D to its list of tricks.

The gadget is billed as 3D-capable on the Alienware website but that's not quite true. To get James Cameron's Avatar movie or the Crysis 2 first-person shooter game bouncing out of dell 312-0068 battery the screen, you will need to delve deep into the customisation screens on the Dell/Alienware website to score the right goodies.

To make a M17x 3D capable, you will need to choose the LCD 3D panel option and the Nvidia GTX 580M graphics card and these will add an eye-watering $1100 to the base price. The 3D panel dell Latitude D610 battery option includes a pair of Nvidia active shutter glasses. If you want a spare pair through Dell, be prepared to shell out another $300, although they can be had for less with some shopping around.

he review machine could do 3D but had the less dell Latitude D600 battery powerful Nvidia GTX 460M graphics chipset, which is no longer available for the M17x.

Nevertheless, even with the less grunty GTX 460M, the M17x played pretty hard, assisted by 8GB of memory and a high-end Intel Core i7 2720QM processor.

Missing from the gadget's innards was an SSD drive, which would have dell Latitude D520 battery done wonders for booting Windows 7 and all-round system performance. Instead, the box made do with a 7200rpm, 1.5TB hard drive.

There are SSD drives available for the M17x starting at an extra $709 for a 256GB unit. That's one option box I would check.

Open up the big black Alienware box and there's plenty of eye candy, including a backlit keyboard that looks like a disco dance floor with alternating LED light colours pulsing across dell Latitude D510 battery the banks of keys. It's an excellent keyboard, backed up by a large, easy-to-use touchpad, although most gamers will hook up a mouse.

There's also a pretty good set of speakers, although I would add either headphones or surround speakers for more audio immersion.

The main event on the 3D version of the M17x is the optional 17-inch, 1920 x 1080 3D-capable display screen.

To check out its multi-dimensional capabilities as dell Latitude D505 battery well as the M17x's gaming credentials, I played the 3D-enabled Crysis 2 and Dead Space 2 and also watched the 3D version of Avatar.

Active shutter glasses and LCD screens are known for generating flicker and the Alienware was no exception.

Flicker on the 3D screen doesn't bother me that much and I find my awareness of it recedes over time, but for some it's a real annoyance, so be warned.

The M17x played both games smoothly at dell Latitude D500 battery maximum screen resolution and medium effects settings and the latest version with the uprated GTX 580M should do even better.

The world of Pandora in Avatar was dell Inspiron 600m battery immersive and captivating seen close up on the M17x's small screen but the action does jumble somewhat, especially compared with the tight 3D stage (and flicker-free view) on a 47-inch plasma screen.

The Alienware is a good high-performance gaming box for those who want their grunt and graphics wrapped up in a compact case and the optional 3D is worthwhile for those who don't have space for dell Inspiron 510m battery a full-size 3D television set.

But at close to four grand without an SSD drive, the M17x, which can't be CPU or graphics-card upgraded, is a lot of depreciation to handle over time.

Dell Latitude E6420 (2)

Dell Latitude E6420 (2)

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The Latitude E6420 is available in four preconfigured variants, and — as ever with Dell — you can tweak the configuration on the web site. Two of the preconfigured models feature a 2.7GHz Intel Core i7-2620M processor, the other two a 2.5GHz Core i5-2520M. You can opt for the quad-core Core i7-2720QM if you prefer; our review sample sported a rather more lowly Core i3-2310M running at 2.1GHz. The E6420 supports up to 8GB of RAM.

Our review sample ran Windows 7 Professional 32-bit, but you can specify the 64-bit version, or Windows 7 Ultimate (32-bit or 64-bit).

There are two graphics configurations available: Intel's CPU-integrated HD Graphics 3000 or the discrete Nvidia NVS 4200. Storage options include hard drives between 250GB and 500GB, and solid-state drvies up to 256GB.

Ethernet and Wi-Fi are included as standard, and the Latitude E6420 can be configured with Bluetooth 3.0, mobile broadband and GPS.

Further evidence of the E6420's 'business rugged' status is the presence of hinged rubber covers for many of the ports and connectors. This helps protect against the ingress of dust and liquids.

On the right edge, under a rubber cover at the back, there are two USB 2.0 ports and a USB 2.0/eSATA combo port. In front of these is the optical drive and, above it, a toggle for Wi-Fi. Right at the front is an ExpressCard slot.

There's a fourth USB 2.0 port on the left-hand side, behind a rubber cover at the back, along with a VGA connector and a headphone/microphone combo jack. Towards the front is a SmartCard reader.

The housing for the two rubber covers extends round the back corners of the chassis and onto the back edge. The left one provides a single-hinged cover for the Ethernet (RJ-45) port, next to which is an unprotected power jack. On the right the rubber housing provides a single hinged cover for a HDMI port and a cover that's marked as protecting a modem port, although there was no modem on our review unit.

The rubber protectors are screwed into place, and can be removed easily enough if you don't require them. When in situ they don't affect your ability to remove the battery. On the front edge of the chassis is a card reader for SD-compatible media.

Dell does not overburden the Latitude E6420 with software, but does include its own power management utility, which comes with several preconfigured power plans and the ability to build your own. It provides a visual representation of the effects the different power plans have on surface temperature, fan volume, CPU speed and battery life.

Performance

A Windows Experience Index (WEI) of 5.5 (out of 7.9) is probably on the low side for this notebook, given that the processor in our review unit is the slowest of those on offer and bettered by those in the preconfigured options. The indications are, then, that the Dell Latitude E6420 is a decent performer.

The WEI corresponds to the lowest component score, which was for Graphics (desktop performance for Windows Aero); the highest score, 7.6 went to RAM (Memory operations per second). In between was Primary hard disk (Disk data transfer rate) with 5.8, Gaming Graphics (3D business and gaming graphics performance) with6.2 and Processor (calculations per second) with 6.4.

Dell supplied our review sample of the Latitude E6420 with a 6-cell battery, although 4-cell and 9-cell options are also available; a second 3-cell battery can also be fitted in place of the optical drive.

We tested the battery as dell PC764 battery, dell TD175 battery, dell Precision M65 battery, dell DF230 battery, dell Latitude D531 battery, dell Latitude D820 battery, dell Latitude D830 battery, dell MM165 battery, dell YD626 battery, dell 312-0393 batterylife by playing a DVD video continuously from a full battery charge, choosing Dell's basic power plan that delivers an optimal balance between performance and power consumption. Under this plan the Latitude E6420 ran for a reasonable 4 hours and 22 minutes.

Conclusion

The Dell Latitude E6420 has rather ungainly looks, but these are underpinned by a solid chassis design. The screen and keyboard are both good, as is the battery life. With CPU options ranging fromCore i3 to quad-core Core i7, this is a highly configurable notebook. There are no integrated USB 3.0 ports, though — disappointingly, that's only available as a modular bay option.

Dell Latitude E6420 (1)

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Dell's Latitude range of business notebooks includes a large number of models spanning ultraportables through to the fully rugged. Somewhere in the middle is the 14in. Latitude E6420, a 'business rugged' system that's designed to dell 312-0386 battery withstand significant punishment on the road. Dell lists four models at its UK web site, starting at ￡719 (ex. VAT) and rising to ￡1,019 (ex. VAT).

Design

The Latitude E6420 is an extremely solid-looking dell Latitude D620 battery notebook, although the design is a little consumer-grade: it has a stippled black edging to the mainly silver lid section, and a rather odd orange trim around the keyboard. The trim has the unfortunate effect of making the keyboard look small and rather lost in its surroundings.

The materials should definitely handle a few dell RC107 battery knocks. The Latitude E6420 has been designed to meet MIL-STD 810G, which certifies the system as capable of handling levels of temperature, vibration, dust and altitude that would cause problems for everyday notebooks.

Meeting MIL-STD 810G requires a tough chassis, for which Dell uses its 'Tri-Metal' design. This includes an anodised aluminium lid that exhibits almost no flex at all, offering plenty of dell Y9943 battery protection for the screen. The lid is quite thick, with a little airspace between it and the screen. So if there is any flexing, the screen should not be affected at all.

In addition, the Latitude E6420 has a powder-coated base dell Inspiron 640m battery that feels rigid, reinforced steel hinges, a magnesium alloy internal frame and a zinc alloy latch. The latter relies on a single hinge where other standard and rugged notebooks use a dual hinge system; still, it holds lid and base sections together securely enough.

Elsewhere there's a spill-resistant keyboard, a protective LCD seal and a 360-degree 'bumper' for added screen protection that's designed to repel liquids and provide general dell Inspiron 630m battery protection from knocks. These features aren't immediately apparent.

What effect does all this dell 6T473 battery ruggedisation have on the Latitude E6420's size and weight? It's quite heavy, starting at 2.07kg, and also on the chunky side for a 14in. notebook, measuring 35.2cm wide by 24.1cm deep by 2.69–3.24cm thick.

The keyboard looks a little incongruous with its dell Inspiron 5100 battery aformentioned orange frame, and it eschews the trendy 'chiclet' style. It feels great under the fingers though, with plenty of return and good-sized keys. Touch typing at speed — if that's your thing — should not be a problem.

Dell includes a pointing stick between the G, H and B keys that can be used in conjunction with three buttons sitting beneath the space bar — the central button is for vertical and horizontal dell Inspiron 1100 battery scrolling. Meanwhile, the two-button multitouch touchpad has support for scrolling.

There are secondary screen brightness controls on the cursor keys on the bottom right-hand side of the keyboard, and media playback controls on three of the Fn keys. Another Fn key can be used to disable the touchpad, and another to switch monitor configuration.

Three small buttons on the far right handle volume up, down and mute functions. The only other button on the keyboard surround is the on/off switch. A keyboard backlight is optional, and was not present on our review sample.

The Latitude E6420 has a couple of dell C1295 battery options for its 14in. screen. Our review sample had a 1,366-by-768 pixel panel, but you can specify a 1,600 by 900 unit. There's also a touchscreen option for the lower-resolution screen. The reflective finish on our review sample didn't help in brightly-lit conditions, but viewing angles are good. The screen does look a little lost inside its wide bezel.

Our review unit lacked a fingerprint sensor and a webcam, but both are available as options.

And now, a car that cooks tea

And now, a car that cooks tea

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Nissan and Mitsubishi say their electric cars can be used for more than just going to the grocery store. Soon, the battery-powered vehicles may also help owners cook dinner during a blackout.

Mitsubishi is working to increase the 100-watt discharge capacity of its i-MiEV electric car, which can already power small gadgets such as mobile phones with the use of an optional accessory, to 1500 watts.

At that level, "you'd be able to power a rice dell GD761 battery cooker or a microwave," said Yoshikazu Nakamura, head of the company's electric-vehicle business.

The electricity shortage that caused rolling blackouts in Tokyo after an earthquake knocked out nuclear reactors in March is highlighting the usefulness of electric-car batteries as back-up power sources, according to Nissan and Mitsubishi, the world's two biggest makers of such vehicles.

Toyota has also dell Inspiron 1501 battery jumped on board. Next year, Toyota will start offering AC electric outlets as an option on its popular Prius hybrid in Japan so drivers can plug in household appliances.

The idea was born from watching victims of dell Inspiron E1505 battery Japan's March 11 quake using the Toyota Estima hybrid van as a source of emergency electricity when the power was knocked out.

It is the only Toyota model currently offering a standard AC outlet. But Toyota wants to add them to the Prius next year and eventually across the hybrid line-up. The disaster may boost electric-car sales, said Takeshi Miyao, an analyst at consulting company Carnorama in Tokyo.

"Electric cars now have the chance to dell Inspiron E1505 battery demonstrate how useful their batteries can be," Miyao said. "Electric vehicles have an advantage, more than ever." Tokyo Electric Power has said electricity shortages may lead to further scheduled outages after the quake crippled its Fukushima Dai-Ichi atomic power plant in the world's worst nuclear accident in 25 years.

Other reactors in Japan have also been dell Inspiron 6400 battery halted for inspections and maintenance, exacerbating a national power shortage.

Even so, energy use at night, when electric-car owners typically charge their vehicles, only reaches about 50 per cent of available supply, according to the utility.

"Charging electric vehicles during the night dell Inspiron 8600 battery shouldn't be a problem at all," Miyao said. "What's necessary is to cut back during peak times."

Using the car's battery to run appliances is done with a 30cm device Mitsubishi sells for an extra $230. It plugs into a socket in the i-MiEv's interior and converts the battery's direct current into alternating current for the appliances, which plug into the other side.

Nakamura said Mitsubishi had intensified battery-development efforts since the March disaster. The Tokyo-based company aimed to introduce a battery that could discharge as much as 1500 watts by the end of this year, he said."We noticed a shift in the public's focus, and we are speeding things up."

Hideaki Watanabe, Nissan's head of zero-emission vehicles, said it planned to unveil a discharge system for Dell Precision M60 battery its Leaf electric car next month.

Nissan spokesman Shiro Nagai said although the car's battery had a capacity of 2400 watts, the carmaker had yet to decide on its discharge capacity.

He said although Japan's overall motor vehicle sales had declined after the earthquake, orders for the Leaf had held steady.

Sales of the model in Japan, which fell in March and April amid output disruptions caused by the disaster, rebounded in May to 472 vehicles from 177 the previous month.

Watanabe said Nissan had sold about 8200 Leafs globally as of mid-June, after introducing the car in December.

"Even though we had to halt production after the quake, sales are going well," Nagai said.

For now, the technology may be of limited use to people dell 8N544 battery living in high-rise apartment buildings, who have no way to connect their cars to their kitchen appliances. "Right now, it's impossible," said Toshitake Inoshita, a spokesman at Nissan. "The infrastructure to carry that electricity up to a room on the 12th floor needs to be developed first."

Mitsubishi spokesman Kai Inada said the technology wasn't meant for regular use in homes just yet.

"We only have plans for the electricity to be used in emergency situations, or for people going camping," he said. Mitsubishi's i-MiEV, which went on sale in April last year, uses a battery dell Inspiron 8500 battery supplied by Lithium Energy Japan, a joint venture between Mitsubishi and battery maker GS Yuasa Corp.

The battery can be fully charged in seven to 14 hours and can power the vehicle for 160km, Mitsubishi says.

It has sold about 4000 i-MiEVs in Japan and exported more than 10,000, including vehicles supplied to French carmaker PSA Peugeot Citroen.

The Japanese company plans to add eight hybrid and battery -powered models by 2015, beginning with its M model, on sale in Japan this week.

Nissan plans to introduce a total of seven electric models in addition to the Leaf in the six years to fiscal 2016.

It is targeting sales of 1.5 million electric vehicles over the next six years with its French partner, Renault.

In addition to serving as an emergency power source, Nissan's Watanabe said electric vehicles could help conserve energy during peak demand times.

"They can store energy during the night, when demand is low, and that stored energy can be used at peak time," Watanabe said.

"The battery's ability to store power adds value to the car even when it's not running."

The Leaf's lithium-ion batteries, supplied by battery dell Latitude D800 battery maker Automotive Energy Supply, a venture between Nissan and NEC, take about eight hours to be fully charged to 24 kilowatt hours. A full charge can power the car for an estimated 200km, according to Nissan.

The company plans to begin making batteries for the Leaf in Smyrna, Tennessee, and Sunderland, England, next year. It will start making them in Portugal in 2013 and also plans production in France. Nissan aims to make 500,000 batteries a year by 2015.

"The Leaf already has the capacity to supply all the electricity you need for a regular household for two days," Watanabe said.

Thumbs-up, thumbs-down

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"The automotive community in Northern Colorado rocks. Twenty businesses donated sets of tires, alignments, tire rotations and balances, oil changes, discounts off repair services, free battery dell KD476 battery, dell TD347 battery, dell Inspiron 1000 battery, dell Inspiron 2200 battery, dell 312-0292 battery, dell INSPIRON 2600 battery, dell INSPIRON 2650 battery, dell 1G222 battery, dell BAT3151L8 battery, dell Latitude X300 batteryand installation, gas certificates, free inspections, car washes, discounts off windshield replacements and a 1999 Dodge Caravan, all going to low-income single parents at Project Self-Sufficiency. Many thanks to the following organizations: Peerless Tires, Big O Tires, Grease Monkey, Summers Auto Repair, E&B Automotive, Dellenbach Motors, Schrader's Country Store, Houska Automotive, Markley Motors, Ed Carroll Motors, Co's BMW, Nice Car, Discount Tires North, Discount Tires South, Fort Collins Muffler & Auto, Mr. Mechanic, Colorado Auto Brokers, Speedy Sparkle Car Wash, Metric Motors and Ed's Auto Paint. These businesses are a shining example of how a community can pull together to support the needs of others."

Dennis, Noreen and L.J. Houska

"I would like to give a big thank you to Ray Martinez and John Lucchino of Neighborhoods United for their help with a laptop of a deserving young man, Lionel. Lionel, who came to me for help, is attending Poudre High School and needed a computer. I support our youths and know how important it is for them to have the tools they need to do well in school. I met Lionel through the Museo, and am proud that we could make the connection with Neighborhoods United to help this young man. We appreciate the continued support from Neighborhoods United."

Betty Aragon-Mitotes, director, Museo de las Tres Colonias

"Thumbs-up to She She Nail and Wax Lounge for hosting the first ever "Big She Bang!" The funkiest girly-girl event of the year focused on raising funds for two amazing nonprofits, SAVA and Animal House. The event was a smashing success, thanks to a long list of sponsors, including presenting sponsors Great Western Bank, Studio Be & Fort Collins Hilton and the 225 attendees who helped raise much-needed funds to support victims of sexual assault and save the lives of our furry friends. The Big She Bang! is an excellent example of a for-profit business celebrating and expanding their customer base while supporting the issues they are passionate about in their community. A forward-thinking approach to doing business, and we applaud their glamorous giving and cutting-edge corporate citizenship."

Dell Streak 10 Pro finally launches in China

Dell Streak 10 Pro finally launches in China

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After some pictures of it leaked yesterday, Dell has finally launched its third Android-powered tablet in China. The Dell Streak 10 Pro joins the Streak 5 and Streak 7 in Dell’s portfolio and excitingly adds the world Pro to its name for no apparent reason.

The Dell Streak 10 Pro, is, in terms of specs, your average run of the mill Android Honeycomb 10.1-inch tablet. It has a 10.1-inch 1280×800 touchscreen with Gorilla Glass, a dual-core 1 GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB of storage space, an SD card slot, a 5-megapixel rear camera and a secondary front-facing 2-megapixel camera, dual-band Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth. It runs Android 3.1 Honeycomb and weighs 727 g. Dell claims up to 12 hours of battery as dell W0465 battery, dell Inspiron 2000 battery, dell Latitude LS battery, dell 2834T battery, dell 4834T battery, dell Inspiron 1520 battery, dell Inspiron 1521 battery, Dell Inspiron 1720 battery, dell Inspiron 1525 battery, dell Inspiron 1526 batterylife, but we all know how realistic computer manufacturers’ estimates about battery life usually are (except Apple in recent years), so make of that what you wish.

The Dell Streak 10 Pro enables both work and play by using the Dell Divide application, which delivers a clear balance between your personal and professional information. In work mode, you can access the corporate network and apps, and in personal mode you can do all the personal stuff people do on tablets. All without worrying that your employer may have access to your personal photos, for instance, and without compromising access to any sensitive work data. Your personal and professional stuff is kept safe, secure and, most importantly, separate from one another.

An interesting experiment, this. As is the fact that the tablet launches in China first, and Dell isn’t yet sure if it will also sell it elsewhere. It plans to wait and see how things go on the Chinese market first, then make up its mind about global availability based on what it’s learned in China.

Of course, we’ve seen the Streak 10 Pro many times before, even earlier this week when we heard that the launch was imminent. The Dell Streak 10 Pro will become available online at Dell, and in Dell-authorized retail channels (which can be found in more than 2,000 cities) in the country in the next couple of weeks.

The Dell Streak 10 Pro costs RMB 3,699, which amounts to approximately $575 or €403 at today’s exchange rates. However, Dell has a special offer for those of you who order a Streak 10 Pro today. If you choose to do that, you’ll only pay RMB 2,999 for the tablet, so just $466 or €327.

The Best Tech Gear for the Road

The Best Tech Gear for the Road

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Laptop bag or backpack: You’ll need something to carry all your gadgetalia. Checkpoint-friendly bags let you zoom through airport security without having to remove your laptop--just open the bag, place it on the conveyor belt, and let the TSA’s X-ray machines do the rest. I’m a fan of light, easy-to-carry backpacks, like the one shown here from Targus.

Laptop: Weight and size are typically Dell 312-0058 battery a traveler’s most pressing concerns. A solid netbook addresses both issues, giving you all the computer you need without hurting your back. Compact components also mean that the machine has less room for parts to wiggle around, which means there’s less to break while you’re trekking around India. Based Dell 8U443 battery on durability, price, and weight/size, I’m partial to Asus Eee netbooks and Dell netbooks in the Mini 10 line.

Ethernet cable: Many hotels have ethernet jacks that allow you to bypass all of the potential flakiness of so many wireless connections. Many airports (hint, hint: JFK) don’t advertise that they too have their fair share of jacks hiding around certain terminals, opening up the possibility of free Internet via wire. A handy little retractable ethernet cable could be just what you need.

Portable battery: Need to use a backup battery Dell Latitude X200 battery during the day? Have to recharge your phone when it’s out of juice? The i.Sound Portable Power Max can charge up to five USB devices at one time, even when you have no access to a plug.

USB drive: Keep all of your important digital documents and files in a separate USB drive (16GB should cover you) in case your laptop's hard drive dies on the road. You should encrypt passport scans, client documents, and the like to protect yourself even further. On USB drives you can also carry around portable operating systems, which give you a safe Dell Latitude X200 battery virtual environment in many Internet cafés.

E-reader: You certainly don’t want to schlep around a bagful of books, which is why e-readers are such perfect traveling companions. These days I like the Nook Color.

Bluetooth headset: You’ll want to consider both sound quality and comfort when you’re selecting a headset. You probably already have one, but if not (or if you’re considering an upgrade), take a look at PCWorld's comparison of eight top Bluetooth headset models.

Stereo audio cable: Many rental cars these dell 312-0625 battery days have 'Aux' outlets that let you plug your iPod or other portable music player directly into the radio. Buy a cable at any Radio Shack or online, and save yourself from fumbling for new radio stations as you’re driving. You’ll be able to listen to what you know you’ll enjoy--without increasing your chances of an accident.

Microfiber cloth: The world is a dusty place; unless you regularly clean your dell 0XR693 battery devices, they’ll accumulate grime quickly, increasing the chance that a rogue dust particle will ruin your best gadgets. A proper microfiber cloth and cleaning solution (less than 3 ounces, of course) are the only things you should use to wipe down your sensitive screens

All-in-one plug adapter: Rather than wasting your time looking up outlet types or taking the risk of forgetting an outlet adapter altogether, throw one of these dell XR693 battery in your bag and leave it there. It will cover you for plugging in just about anywhere in the world. I’ve had success with the inexpensive, if unimaginatively named, International Adaptor All-in-One, while the $30 iGo Dual USB Charger and World Adapter (shown here) has the same functionality and throws in two USB ports for good measure.

USB light: A lightweight, LED light illuminates your e-reader or laptop--it's a useful accessory, since you’ll never know what kind of lighting conditions you’ll encounter. The $6 Flex Light by Manhattan draws very little power and dell RN873 battery coils up to take minimal space.

Alfa USB wireless adapter USB wireless antenna: Improve your wireless reach and snag all of those Wi-Fi connections that are just out of range with an extender, such as the Alfa USB wireless adapter shown here.

USB travel charger adapter: Chances are, your laptop doesn’t have more than a few USB ports. These adapters let you plug in your USB-charged devices directly into a wall socket. Another benefit: faster charge times. One adapter from Eforcity (not shown), priced at about $2, is hard to beat.

Individual power adapters: Why do you need these if you already have an all-in-one adapter? Because sometimes you’ll need to plug in more than one device. Also, many dell GW240 battery wall sockets aren’t completely firm, and individual adapters are usually light enough to prevent your charger from continually falling out of the outlet. Lenmar’s five-piece adapter set (not shown) is just $11.

Portable power strip Portable travel strip: You’ll often need more outlets than your hotel room offers, so it makes sense to bring a few of your own along. This diminutive Outlets to Go Power Strip from Monster Cable has three AC outlets, plus a USB port for charging your electronics.

Unlocked mobile phone: Though unlocking a phone will typically break your manufacturer’s warranty, a locked phone means you’ll pay for roaming charges internationally. An unlocked phone allows you to swap out any old SIM card around the world, saving you considerable money for talking and browsing the Web anywhere.

Four-legged Octopus USB multiport hub: This four-legged beastie Dell HP297 battery from Octopus Design turns one USB port into four, since you can never have enough.

Extra SD Card for your camera: SD Cards, like all other storage devices, have a limited life span, and like many electronic devices they tend to go bad at the worst possible time. An extra, emergency card will set you back about $10 to $20, but it could save you the nightmare of missing wonderful opportunities to catch, say, a sunset in Fiji.

2011 Kia Optima Hybrid

2011 Kia Optima Hybrid

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Nanoose Bay, B.C. ? Quick, name the fastest-growing auto company in Canada. The revamped General Motors with its suddenly resurgent product line and the creditable Cruze compact? Nope. Ford and the fawning headlines it garners continuously as the only American automaker not to succumb to a bailout? Nah. How about Volkswagen with its Hp F3172A battery suddenly cheap, cheap, cheap Jetta and Passat? Almost.

Well, at least the last one is pretty close. Riding the back of the new $15,875 Jetta, VW is tearing apart the market, its 17.2% growth from last year a result of its new-found ambition to Hp F2299A battery take the Japanese head on. But the real winner is Kia. While Hyundai, its sibling, has been justifiably garnering headlines for its expansion, Kia Canada’s sales have been growing like wild weeds, up an astounding 24.9% so far this year compared with an already surging 2010.

Naysayers will point out that Kia Compaq Presario NX9000 battery still sells less than 100,000 units annually, making it one of the smaller mainstream players in the Canadian market. Of course, the Japanese automakers, much to their chagrin, used to ignore Hyundai’s progress for much the same reason.

If the new Optima Hybrid is any indication, everyone had better Compaq Presario NX9010 battery start looking in their rear-view mirrors. Essentially using the same powertrain as the Sonata Hybrid, the newest Optima is powered by a 166-horsepower, Atkinson-cycle, 2.4-litre four-cylinder mated to a 40-hp electric motor and connected, unusually, to a traditional six-speed automatic transmission (actually replacing the torque converter).

According to Kia, the total power output, when the two are working in Compaq Presario 2500 battery
(compaq 2500 battery) perfect harmony, is 206 hp and 195 pound-feet of torque. The unique (for a hybrid) powertrain arrangement — i.e., one not using a continuously variable transmission à la Ford Fusion and Toyota Prius — makes the Optima a more pleasurable, or at least more familiar, experience. There’s none of the CVT’s drone and awkward flashes of rpm. Indeed, except for the almost requisite ecoweenie dashboard graphics displaying the Hybrid’s greenness, there’s little in this Optima’s comportment that tells you it’s been electrified. Considering the driving experience of some past hybrids, that’s high praise.

And the Optima Hybrid delivers on many of its miserly promises. At an admittedly dawdling pace of 100 kilometres an hour, I averaged about 6.8 litres per 100 kilometres (the official ratings are 5.6 L/100 km in the city and 4.9 on the highway) along picturesque Vancouver Island’s byways. That’s as good as any comparably sized hybrid and better than any conventionally fuelled sedan, although it still can’t match the VW Passat TDI’s 5.0 L/100 km that’s averaged at a steady 110 km/h. The Optima, however, would probably out-sip the oil-burning VW in the city, at least if driven appropriately. As well, Kia brags that the Optima can be driven on electric power alone up to 100 km/h, though only for a few minutes since the lithium-ion polymer battery Compaq Presario 2100 battery
(compaq 2100 battery) stores only about six kilowatt-hours of energy.

However, Kia’s estimation that the 166-pony gasoline engine and the 40-hp electric motor combine for a total of 206 horses seems a tad optimistic. For the figure to be accurate, both engines would have to peak at the same rpm, an unlikely scenario. Usually, the total horsepower a hybrid powertrain puts out is less than the sum of Hp 319411-001 battery its individual parts. I suspect a more appropriate number might be 185 or 190 hp. That said, it’s more than enough and, other than a little hunting from the six-speed automatic while climbing hills, the Optima’s comportment is great.

That same great-with-a-small-exception also captures the essence of the Optima’s handling. For instance, body roll is well contained for a family sedan. The ride, too, is excellent, even over roads proving that B.C. pavement can be as unruly as Ontario’s. The electrically boosted steering is a little heavy, perhaps the result of the Hp F4812A battery Hybrid’s 1,583-kilogram curb weight — or maybe simple tuning. Asian manufacturers have taken criticism of their overboosted steering to heart, but the pendulum may have swung too far the other way.

Where Kia truly excels is in the Optima Hybrid’s styling. The snazziest of any Hp F4809A battery sedan emanating from Asia, the Optima’s shape is more fastbacked than the Sonata. I also appreciate some of the design cues penned by famed stylist Peter Schreyer, such as the windshield top frame, which matches the lines of the front grille. Throw in a bunch of aerodynamic fettles — skirts, spoilers, etc. — that are genuinely attractive and you have perhaps the prettiest car in its segment. Only the designed-to-be-aerodynamic wheels let down the plot.

The interior, too, is impressive. Stylish and well appointed, the Optima feels like a premium product, befitting a price tag that starts at $30,595. This is a figure that, while hardly exorbitant, is not the bargain basement that used to be a South Korean automaker’s chief calling card. The leatherette/cloth seats are stylish and coddling, the air conditioning controls simple and stylish and the gauge set excellent. There’s also plenty of room fore and (especially) aft.

The base car comes with a UVO (short for “your voice”) infotainment system. Made by Hp F4098A battery Microsoft, think of UVO as son of Sync (Ford’s infotainment system). I can’t tell you if it’s better than the Ford system — which is subject of many consumer complaints — because, even though it is both powerful and colourful, it seems awfully complicated for a simple mega-cretin like me. My more computer-literate 27-year-old son, no doubt, could plow through all the submenus in a nanosecond, but, then, he couldn’t even afford the Optima’s button-infested steering wheel.

Nonetheless, as loyal readers are aware, I’m not a big fan of hybrids. That said, were I thinking of buying one, the Kia Optima would be near the top of my list.

HP launches TouchPad tablet with webOS

HP launches TouchPad tablet with webOS

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HP has chosen the release of its entry into the tablet market, the TouchPad, to launch its new operating system, webOS.

With its roots in technology acquired when HP purchased Palm in April last year, webOS will eventually be rolled out across HP’s entire device spectrum, although the general manager, Paul Boshoff, gives no indication how long this may take.

"This is a very important first start for HP in this space,” Boshoff says.

"It is important that we get it right.”

The operating system is predicated on making it more efficient for users to access and combine information across a wide variety of applications.

For example, webOS can combine the user’s contact lists from different email applications into one place, allowing the user to manage several accounts from one page. Likewise things like photos in social media sites.

webOS also offers ‘true multitasking’, allowing users to stack web pages like ‘cards’, and group apps according to their subject matter, like piles of paper on a desk.

Another handy feature is what HP calls Just Type, which is a search function that searches for a word and offers a selection of apps depending on what the user may be trying to do.

HP says its webOS app store features thousands of applications, including all the standard apps such as Facebook.

As for the tablet itself, while it may seem the market is getting crowded, Boshoff says saturation point is still a long way off.

"We expect the tablet market to grow between four and six times in the next few years,” Boshoff says, "so we don’t worry when people say the market is saturated.”

The TouchPad should be a competitive entry, arriving just a month after the Motorola Xoom. Available in wi-fi only, the TouchPad is priced to match the iPad 2 at $799 for a 16GB model and $949 for 32GB.

Boshoff says the battery as Hp Pavilion ZT1000 battery,Hp Pavilion XZ200 battery, Hp Pavilion ZT1100 battery, Hp Omnibook XT1000 battery, Hp Omnibook XT1500 battery, Hp F2019 battery, Hp F2019A battery, Hp F2019B battery, Hp OmniBook 6000 battery, Hp F1739A battery, life is an impressive 8 hours running intensive applications, or up to four days just playing music.

The battery charges automatically when the TouchPad is left on the TouchStone stand (sold separately).

Fuel cells rescued by batteries

Fuel cells rescued by batteries

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(Nanowerk News) Fuel cells were originally considered to be replacements for internal combustion engines used in traditional vehicles and replacements for traction batteries used in pure electric vehicles. Unfortunately, they have proved woefully incapable of efficiently and economically supporting the frequent load changes of vehicle traction. Many of them had a troublesome start up time and problems of life and reliability as well. Thus building ever larger fuel cells was pursued from about 1991 to 2001 but it ended in tears.

After that, better batteries, notably NiMH then Li-ion Hp 367759-001 battery were able to take over even more of the work of traction. It has been feasible to trial smaller fuel cells in the hope of achieving an affordable fuel cell range extender for hybrid vehicles that can perform the easier task of providing constant power and less of it. Both the improved power density and the improved energy density of the newer batteries come to the rescue. Commercial success is still elusive, unless we count one off; Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (UAVs), Unmanned Air Vehicles (AUVs), and military land vehicles, that have been deployed for something more than a trial. All the same, there is reason to believe that commercial success of volume production of traction fuel cells for vehicles will be achieved in due course as they Compaq PP2100 battery are perfected as range extenders, not primary power. In this new role, they will be providing only kilowatts to tens of kilowatts of power in the main, just like their rivals the simplified gas turbine and piston engine range extenders that are designed-to-purpose. The history of trials of fuel cells in buses is illustrated below. They peaked at around 300 kW but we show the broad trend of the largest and smallest ones.



Now let us look at the next twenty years. The hybrid vehicle is evolving to become more like a pure electric vehicle. The battery is doing more of the work and the conventional engine is doing less of Hp DP390A battery the work, this increasingly involving no direct drive of the wheels but just the function of charging the battery when going along. Nevertheless, that does not mean that the hybrid will end up with the huge batteries holding hundreds of kWh that we see in the larger pure electric vehicles today. This will be resisted because batteries are still the Achilles heel of electric vehicles in limiting price reduction, performance and life. Although this will be eased by the planned threefold reduction in lithium-ion traction battery cost over the decade and probably greater reduction in price due to oversupply, that is not enough to prevent batteries being a limiting factor.

We shall therefore see fast charging to the vehicle - frequent top up becoming feasible - reducing the necessary size of battery even as all-electric range of a hybrid increases Hp HSTNN-UB02 battery in response to strident demands for users. (They can save a great deal of money by using electricity whenever possible and be greener). An increasing variety of energy harvesting and use of supercapacitors in the vehicle will also reduce the size of traction battery that is needed, compared with what it would otherwise be. In other words, traction batteries in hybrid vehicles will get bigger but nothing like as big as those in today's pure electric vehicles that they increasingly emulate in having high energy density to get longer all-electric range. The days of hybrid vehicle batteries Hp F2024B battery optimising primarily power density and cycle life are ending as this becomes a given and attention turns to all-electric range. Over the next decade, this all-electric range of hybrids will treble from today's 80 kilometers or so in the best on-road hybrid vehicles in volume production.

Evolution of lower power range extenders is matched to higher energy storage/ energy density batteries becoming affordable and energy harvesting increasingly being of assistance, though not on demand like a range extender. We have mentioned this earlier but here we look in more detail, one scenario for large vehicles Hp HSTNN-DB02 battery being shown below.

The three generations of lithium-ion battery Hp 346970-001 battery that will achieve this are shown below with three generations of lithium-ion battery with technical features that are sometimes problematical. In actual applications, prudent manufacture and assembly of cells and optimised battery management systems almost always ensure a very high level of safety with the exception of certain examples in China where serious incidents have occurred, including with badly assembled second generation cells. Currently, there is no such thing as an inherently safe lithium-ion traction battery cell.

Most hybrids today use an off-the-shelf diesel or gasoline engine not designed for this purpose but with some modest modification to optimise performance in this application. Thanks to those better batteries Hp Omnibook XE3 battery, range extenders now work at fairly constant torque and revolutions when they revolve, as with a piston or turbine motor, or fairly constant power output if they generate electricity directly as is the case with a fuel cell range extender. With current and imminent technology, the traction battery in the vehicle that powers the electric traction motor copes well with power surges and instant start up requirements, so even the notorious warm up time of some fuel cells can increasingly be tolerated. An off-the-shelf conventional internal combustion engine designed for nearly instant warm up, huge surges of power and so on is therefore over designed for today's range extender purposes and this comes with Hp F2024A battery being over- expensive, over-polluting and over noisy and vibrating. Users really notice these things being eliminated. For example, 15% more passengers use the new electric buses in Amsterdam, citing the gentler, quieter ride.

In short, fuel cells and lithium-ion traction batteries will increasingly be seen working together in driving land, sea and air vehicles. Their relationship is changing but they have much in common. For example, third generation lithium-ion batteries are often solid state, employ printing technology and allied nanotechnology, capabilities also brought to bear in the newer fuel cells. The world's largest event on printed electronics and electrics will once again cover this. This year's Printed Electronics and Photovoltaics USA 2011 will take place in Santa Clara, CA on November 30 and December 1. This event covers all the Hp Omnibook XE battery applications, technologies and opportunities. Printed Electronics USA is an ideal opportunity for you to learn how this technology can enhance your business and witness printed electronics in action.

Those wanting the latest on energy harvesting should attend the world's leading conference on this subject, "Energy Harvesting and Storage" in Boston, USA on 15-16 November