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)

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.

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