Sony Bravia Flat HD TV

In today’s highly competitive market scenario prevailing all over the world, there is nothing new or surprising in the fact that companies regularly come up with lucrative offers for their customers in order to hike their own sales figures. But it comes quite as a shock to know about Sony’s latest offer about exchanging any old Television set for a new Bravia.

The flat screen TV which has been quite popular among users around the world will now be available at a reduced price of up to i50 pounds if one just puts in enough effort to drop in at a Sony showroom along with his old CRT junk. Incidentally, Sony Corporation is doing everything to highlight and promote this offer. One particular promotional teaser features the American rock n roll icon Alice Cooper encouraging the customers to walk in with their old TV sets and get home a new Bravia.

PS3 slim

Sony’s PS3 is out this September with a 120GB hard drive and a price tag of £250, The President and CEO of SCE Kaz Hirai said.

The PS3 is 32% smaller, 36% lighter and consumes 34% less power. Sony has announced that the internal design and architecture of the new PS3 has been completely redesigned thereby achieving a much lighter and slimmer body. The external design has perfect textured finish accompanying the sleek and curved body of the model, giving it a casual yet subtle look.

Some of the features of the new PS3 include:

• PS3 system software update to version 3.00
• Bravia sync feature
• Separately sold “vertical stand” that will allow users to set the PS3 slim in a vertical position.
• Users will not be able to install any other operating system as the “Install other OS feature” will be done with in this model.

Sony PSP Go

Sorry to say, but you can’t surprise people with your press conferences if people already know what you are going to announce in them.

Microsoft seemed to do the same on this Monday, as well knew that the company was about to release a motion sensitive control system, but something was quite surprising despite all this, as none was aware how polished that new product could be. Yup, it’s true Project Natal was really surprising at its unveiling.

Now it’s Sony that looking to get some spotlight at E3 and just like always the pressure is mounting on and on. It’s, indeed, a bitter pill for Sony to sustain its PS3 success even after attaining such a great next-gen level in gaming consoles.

Now the speculations are about a more compact and slimmer PS3, but right at that moment it doesn’t seem to happen. However, PSP Go or PlayStation Portable as it is being named has been utterly revamped and now its going to get somewhat sliding shape that might be reckoned as the best shot from Sony to sustain its mojo.

There are also rumors that Sony will come up with a new sort of motion-sensitive controller at E3.

When it comes to the games, it is not clear yet what Sony is going to show off, but the God of War title is certain.

Source: Cnet News

Upon unleashing the news of introducing whole slew of PSone library on PSP, he added that it has been decided to release a long list of titles on Capcom Unity after putting it together, so that people can opt for their favorite ones and get tremendous fun. He also agreed that nearly 20 to 40 PSN titles have been planned to bring in next few months for the enthusiasts. It is also believed that the new range of games can be played at PS3 as well as the PSP.

Merely, the news of something big on the Playstation Network has created an excitement among entire game lovers. “PSOne is included, but everything is on the table…We look for some of those big hits from all of the past games in their history and look for ways we can bring them over. It’s not always easy. There are obviously technical areas that need to be bridged. But when those are solved, consumers will see a wide variety of retro games and brand new games coming to PSN”, said John Koller, Sony’s head of U.S. marketing for PlayStation hardware.

Soucrce :

1. Capcom Prepping Massive PSone Game Download Library
2. Capcom preparing to release between 20 and 40 PS1 and PSP titles via PSN
   

But according to a specialist from Amsterdam’s Smith & Jones Center, gaming is not an addiction and it must not be treated like that.

Keith Bakker, who is the head of first clinic to work with gamers in Europe, believes that compulsive gaming is a social instead of a psychological problem in the youngsters and kids.

In an interview with the BBC, Baker told that these kids showed some symptoms that were comparable to chemical dependencies and other addictions and they seemed addicted to MMOs.

“ But while working with these kids I found that we couldn’t call this addiction, as it was something like a social problem and many of them needed guidance from their school teachers and parents,” Baker said.

“We observed that almost 80% of these young kids were bullied at their schools and felt isolated. Their many symptoms can be treated just adopting the good old tool of proper communication.”

The research carried out by Smith & Jones Centre recommends that the feelings of powerlessness and anger in compulsive gamers preexist the craving for playing MMOs and other videogames full of violence.

AU Optronics Corp (AUO) is known as the major companies of Taiwan. It emerged in the top three manufacturing companies of world which is named as the TFT-LCD. It is meant for thin film transistor liquid crystal display panels.

TFT-LCD as over spreading

AUO is providing a full range of panel sizes and wide-ranging applications to its clients nowadays. The TFT-LCD panels are ranged from 1.5 inches to 65 inches.

Worth of the AUO

AUO has earned about NT$480.2 billion (US$14.8 billion) during the period of 2007. It has hired a bulk of professional employees ranging from 40,000 to 43,000. These professional persons are globally interacted. For example the employees of the AUO belong to various countries such as Taiwan, China, Japan, Singapore, Mainland, South Korea, United States and all other European countries.

World’s first curved LCD announced

It is declared that AU Optronics has been emerged as world’s first curved LCD’s. This is the latest news which is propagating in all over the world.

Curved Display Technology

Meanwhile, the society for information display (SID) has announced that the company divulged a curved TFT-LCD. This is implemented as the Curved Display Technology. It has a unique screen which is curved around 3.6 inches and it is 100% liquid crystal display (LCD).

Clarification of CEO’s of AUO

The chief executive officers of the AUO elucidated a few time ago that these types of LCD screens can be used in watches and consoles.

World’s thinnest LCD

It is quite amazing to hear a fact that AUO has marked the world’s thinnest LCD. This screen is dedicated around 1.9 inches and it has a width of 0.63 mm. Furthermore, it has knocked a massive 0.07 mm of AUO’s own record.

Futuristic perceptions about thick LCD

Moreover, it is expected that this beautiful thick LCD would be implemented in future into marvelous trendy mobile devices.

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This technological shift and has been made possible for an important reason that it is basically based on a fundamental change in screen technology from fluorescent-backlit to LED-backlit.

Paul Moore, Senior Director of mobile product marketing for ‘Fujitsu’ did disclose in a ‘ray-statement’ to David De Jean for his story headlined “The Future Of Mobile Tech: Next Year’s Notebooks Will Be Worth Waiting For”, “ The future, it turns out, is now”. Paul Moore was speaking in generalized way about the display technology in the “LifeBook S6510” that ‘Fujitsu’ announced recently.

“A 14-inch widescreen LED display on a laptop that weighs four pounds. That’s with the optical drive. Take out the optical drive and it goes down to 3.7 pounds” said Paul Moore in his statement.

The 14-inch LED screen fits in the same space that would have been required by a 13.3-inch LCD screen. The difference, Moore informed in a telephonic conversation, is that the LED display panel doesn’t require an inverter, a transformer that steps up the notebook’s battery power to drive a high-voltage circuit that powers the screen’s backlighting. LED backlighting runs on unmodified battery voltage, so the inverter and the space it takes around the display can be used for something else, like a bigger display.

Deleting the requirement of an inverter not only saves space but also makes the display more reliable. Having an inverter for a laptop is one of the big problems in itself. On the contrary a laptop without an inverter also saves weight and of course it saves power too. Technical specifications of the model ‘S6510’say it will run for 4-1/2 hours on its standard six-cell battery, or more than 6 hours with the optical drive removed from the modular bay and replaced with a second battery.

“With this considerable weight savings of the LED screen and new 9.5-mm thin optical drive, the $1,529 S6510 weighs about a pound less than the 13.3-inch version”, said Paul Moore.

David DeJean says, “That’s an impressive diet for any notebook, and a demonstration of the changes still coming in notebook technology”.

‘Palm’ reported a quarterly loss of $9.63 million this second quarter, compared with a $12.8 million profit a year earlier. The company’s revenue went down by 11%, and Palm’s stock fluctuated heavily.

The company hopes that the ‘Palm Centro’ and the introduction of more ‘Windows Mobile-based Smartphones’ will be its ticket to recover the revenue jolts.

“We are pleased with the early success of the ‘Palm Centro’ and intend to deliver more Windows Mobile and Palm-based products throughout the next year”, said Ed Colligan, Palm’s president and CEO.

The industry experts are not that optimistic about ‘Palm’s’ future. Experts, cited Palm’s lack of innovation, an outdated mobile operating system, and a never-ending Linux initiative as the top reasons for mobile professionals to prefer ‘Smartphones’ from other manufacturers.

‘Palm’ is still continuing making ‘Smartphones’ based on the Palm OS, like the new ‘Centro’, but it badly requires evolving with the changing times. One option is to join Google in its Android initiative and consider using the future mobile platform for its ‘Smartphones’.

Palm is investing lot much hope into its ‘Windows Mobile Smartphones’, but they aren’t differentiated in a brutally competitive market with Windows Mobile products already available with brand names like HTC, Samsung, and Motorola.

“BlackBerry’s RIM” also reported earnings this week, which doubled in the third quarter. RIM’s revenue for the quarter grew up by 22% from $1.37 billion in the previous quarter. RIM’s stock was also up by 12% as a result.

More than 80% of RIM’s revenue derived from devices, 14% from services, and 4% from software. The company added 1.65 million BlackBerry subscribers, growing its subscriber base to 12 million. In addition to that the company also shipped more than 3.9 million devices.

“We are pleased to see continuing growth amongst business and government users, with the BlackBerry platform being deployed for a widening range of applications, and we are also pleased with the excellent consumer sales results achieved so far in the holiday buying season,” Balsillie said in a statement.

J.D.Power and Associates conducted a study and revealed that ‘Blackberry’ ranked at the top in overall customer satisfaction among all business ‘Smartphone’ users. Business users expressed their complete satisfaction with the BlackBerry operating system, including attributes like the ability to move between applications quickly and the fast speed of sending and receiving e-mails.

Apart from introducing improvements in existing BlackBerry products, RIM also entered into the consumer market, continuing to roll out its “BlackBerry Pearl and Curve” product lines. The company also introduced a “Dual-mode BlackBerry” with both Wi-Fi and cellular capabilities, and started an aggressive persuasion of customers outside the United States.

“RIM is blowing the doors off with 100% year-over-year growth. It redesigned its products starting in 2006 to be more fashionable and consumer friendly, and is reaping the rewards. Palm is getting squeezed by RIM for enterprise users and by Apple for entertainment-oriented Smartphone buyers,” says analyst Greengart.

Gartner, the research firm predicted recently that the worldwide end-user spending on mobile music is expected to reach at a new level of $32.2 billion by 2010 from a level of $13.7 billion this year. It is in fact an ortho-shift where the growth in ‘ringtone revenue’ is on down side and the ‘realtones’ are becoming new “cash cows” for carriers, reveals the research firm Gartner.

‘Realtones’, or the ‘True Tones’ or the ‘Real Music Tones’, are snippets of real songs that are used as ringtones. Polyphonic ringtones, on the other hand, are simple instrumental versions of songs made with a synthesizer and intended to play on any cell phone.

Apple last week added the capability to allow users to create their own ringtones in ‘GarageBand’ and export them to the iPhone. Users can now choose their own preferred songs from their ‘iTunes library’ to create their own ringtones.

End mobile users are expected to spend a total of $6.9 billion worldwide on polyphonic and monophonic ringtones next year. This will be downfall of revenue from $7.1 billion this year. Spending on ‘full music tracks’, ‘realtones’, and ‘ringback tones’, a customized music that plays when people ring a number, is expected to surge up to $12.3 billion next year. This will be a shoot up from the existing revenue level of $6.6 billion this year, according to Gartner forecasting’s.

AT&T’s Top 10 list revealed that out of the 40,000 ringtones that it offers to the users, the most popular ringtones are the carrier’s music tones. Top Ten Ringtones are;

1. “Party Like a Rock star” by Shop Boyz
2. “This Is Why I’m Hot” by Mims
3. “Crank That” by Soulja Boy
4. “Rockstar” by Nickelback
5. “Don’t Matter” by Akon
6. “Buy You A Drank” by T-Pain
7. “A Bay Bay” by Hurricane Chris
8. “Beautiful Girls” by Sean Kingston
9. “Pop, Lock & Drop It” by Huey
10. “Big Girls Don’t Cry” by Fergie

“Ringtones continue to be one of the most popular entertainment features on wireless devices, whether they’re hip-hop, alternative, classic rock, pop, Latin, country or even holiday tunes”, said Mark Collins, Vice President of consumer data at AT&T’s wireless unit.

For customers, AT&T’s ringtones cost $2.49 each. Users may also sign up for ‘MyMedia Club’ to get redeemable credits to be transacted for other ringtones, graphics, and games. These typical packages start at $6 a month.

To awaken the holiday spirit in customers, AT&T has also offered its customers ‘songs of the season’ as ringtones for free. To download such a free holiday ringtone, users may send a text message with the word “gift” to the number 7230.

These small items proved difficult to protect before this technology came about as they had to remain small and the traditional bulky waterproofing methods was simply not viable. This new technology, known as ion-mask, creates a protective layer over virtually any material that is just nanometres thick and it works even with the intricate parts of the electronics that are the circuit boards and processors without causing any damage. This form of protection is achieved via the means of an ionised gas, or “plasma”.

What this coating does is that it causes water to bounce off like beads, such as can be seen on already existing waterproof material. The ion-mask does this by decreasing the surface energy of the material that it coats, which prevents the bonds water molecules from being disrupted as easily as it usually would. Due to how thin the layer is, it is hardly visible and this allows the material to retain all its physical features, such as color, texture and the feel.

Further ahead, this technology can be applied to create completely waterproof electronics that can be used in the shower or even underwater. Products such as mp3 players and headphones could use this technology to allow us to do things in places where electronics could not be used before due to the danger of water damage.

Leading manufacturers were amazed at this new technology when it was demonstrated to them, and many are now considering using ion-mask to enhance the durability and performance of their products.