Sony renueva su libro electronico.
El Pais.com 20081006
Sony ha evolucionado su lector de libros electrónico. El PRS-700, que así se llama el nuevo cacharro, da un paso más en la batalla por el liderazgo de este tipo de dispositivos. Las mejoras: un lector con luz incorporada y una pantalla táctil. A priori las funciones que ofrece el nuevo lector de Sony son más atractivas que las de su rival, Kindle de Amazon. Será a finales de este mes cuando se vea la competitividad real entre los dos libros electrónicos, para entonces el dispositivo estará en las tiendas a un precio que rondará los 400 dólares. Sony ha dotado de un bolígrafo electrónico al PRS-700, capaz de acumular hasta 350 libros en su memoria. A pesar de la renovación de este aparato que llega a los 283 gramos de peso, Sony no ha abordado uno de los puntos débiles que es precisamente uno de los fuertes de su rival Kindle. No se podrán descargar libros en línea de ...
SanDisk and Major Music Labels Attempt to Revive the Physical Music Format .
PC World.com 20081006
SanDisk has teamed up with EMI Music, Sony BMG, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group to bring DRM-free MP3 music preloaded on microSD cards. These cards, dubbed slotMusic, will be available at Best Buy and Walgreens, where theyll be sold alongside CDs in a designated section. SlotMusic cards can be inserted into any microSD-enabled mobile phone or MP3 player (or into your camera, if youre feeling crazy). The cards will be bundled with a USB sleeve that is compatible with all Windows, Linux, and Mac computers; no downloads are required. The cards will hold 1GB of content, enough room for songs, liner notes, album art, videos, and other creative elements of the artists choice. The rewritable cards will have enough space left over for consumers to add their own content as well. And since the music will not be locked to the card, users can drag and drop songs into whatever media player they use. SanDisk hinted at the move to deliver music on flash memory a few months ago when the company offered the promotional Sansa Sessions MP3 compilation on a 512MB card free with purchase of the 8GB Sansa Fuze player. The compilation included 50 songs by up-and-coming bands such as Ladytron, Of Montreal, and Nada Surf. Theyre not the first to use this approach: Disney has been selling memory cards preloaded with music content, aimed at the tween set. Part of the allure of physi ...
Los fabricantes de portatiles ajustan su estrategia con Blu-ray.
The Inquirer.es 20081006
Los fabricantes de portátiles ajustan su estrategia con Blu-raypor : Juan Ranchal: 24 Set 2008, 10:36Varios fabricantes de portátiles han empezado a reducir la implantación del formato Blu-ray, como unidades ópticas por defecto en sus equipos ante el aumento de preocupación por la crisis económica mundial. Tampoco los últimos datos de venta de reproductores auguran el despegue del formato de alta definición. Al DVD le queda cuerda para rato. Fuentes cercanas a los fabricantes de portátiles en Taiwan han indicado que Asustek no incluirá unidades Blu-ray en el portátil N80 ...
Emiratos planea construir la pantalla digital mas grande del mundo.
El Mundo.es 20081006
ABU DHABI. - Una compañía de Emiratos Árabes Unidos (EAU) anunció un proyecto para la construcción de la "pantalla más grande del mundo", que llevará incorporada tecnología LED, y que ocupará la fachada de una torre comercial. La compañía Tameer Holding explicó en un comunicado que la pantalla -compuesta de diodos luminosos LED-, tendrá una altura de 33 plantas (100 metros) y estará ubicada en Dubailand, una zona turística y de recreo en las afueras de la localidad emiratí de Dubai. La pantalla podrá ser vista a una distancia de un kilómetro y medio, según la nota. La idea del proyecto, bautizado como Podium, surgió del equipo de ventas de Tameer mientras que el diseño ha sido desarrollado por la compañía Dactronics, experta en tecnología LED. El director operativo de Tameer, Ghasan Sajnini, subrayó que Podium, además de marcar un avance tecnológico, se convertirá en un medio de comunicación a través del que las compañías, las ONG y las autoridades gubernamental ...
1TB Hard Disk Drives Roundup.
Xbit Laboratories.com 20081006
Watching the never-stopping progress in the performance of central processors, graphics cards and other PC components, I sometimes wonder what component is the slowest to evolve these days. I guess it is the hard disk drive. Yes, the storage capacity of hard disks is getting higher and higher but it seems like the manufacturers are trying to engage the users into the race for gigabytes of storage not because they care so much about them. Rather, it is because increasing the capacity of the HDD has proved to be easier than increasing its performance. The HDD becomes faster with higher recording density but only in one operation mode: when the disk is accessed for sequentially placed data. Large files are an example of that. As soon as the requested data are not below the magnetic head, the HDD has to take some time to think and move the heads. It takes a dozen or more milliseconds – a whole eternity by today’s standards. It is the delays on the part of the HDD’s mechanics that are the main obstacle to boosting the performance of HDDs. In fact, nothing new has been introduced into the head movement mechanism in the last decade, so why should there be any breakthroughs in terms of performance?Some time ago one company, which has my respects for its attempts to increase both the capacity and the performance of hard disks (e. g. it was the first to equip desktop HDDs with a large cache buffer), introduced the unconventional product called Raptor. Targeted at desktop PCs, the Raptor combined advanced server-oriented mechanics and an appropriate spindle rotation speed (10,000rpm). The downsides were the small capacity of the disk and the amount of noise it produced. On the other hand, the average time to access data was reduced considerably from about 13 milliseconds to 8 milliseconds. That was a breakthrough indeed. No other company has followed Western Digital’s example so far (Seagate’s Cheetah NS is not targeted at desktop PCs as is indicated even by its SAS interface). The rest of the manufacturers take no marketing risks and prefer to s ...
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