Archive for October, 2008

BlackBerry Pearl Flip Reexamined

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Landing on T-Mobile today, the big-boned Pearl Flip is directed at people fine-tuning to their first smartphone, and it definitely has its own kind of appeal.

So what’s the finding of fact? The commentator says the phone is “beautiful,” and despite the goodly flavor, it feels really light in the hand. The SureType keyboard is larger than that of the Pearl, but the keys curve downward toward the middle. On the other hand, It has one of the finest startup times we’ve seen on a BlackBerry.  Still, the new BlackBerry OS is imminently easy-to-use and almost as easy to look at.

The review is by and large affirmative, but it was mustered for the battery and low-resolution screen. Head on over to BerryReporter for the entire review and an orgy of photos.  Since this was first declared, we’ve quite intrigued with this flip phone that has ample smartphone features.

New Back Door Attacks Windows Users Surfaces

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Security firm Barracuda Networks says it espied a new virus that attacks to set up a back door on the systems of its victims. It’s disseminated via an e-mail proposing to be a Microsoft security update. Imagine there are still mass of users who can fall victim to bogus e-mails masked as a security update.

The virus, classified by Barracuda Central as “Trojan.Backdoor.Haxdoor, is handed over as an attachment to an e-mail allegedly from the Microsoft Security Assurance team and employs several innovative social engineering techniques, such as using Microsoft KnowledgeBase naming conventions for the file attachment, such as using Microsoft KnowledgeBase naming conventions for the file attachment. The e-mail informs the receiver that Microsoft company has lately released a Security Update for OS Microsoft Windows. The update employs to the following OS versions: Microsoft Windows 98, Microsoft Windows 2000, Microsoft Windows Millenium, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows Vista.

UDO Leads the Optical Archival Storage Market

Monday, October 27th, 2008

A few years ago, optical storage appeared like the future. While disc drive held 200MB, magneto-optical disks stored 650 MB and that could be WORM (Write Once Read Many), making optical nickelodeons the only data-storage medium that could fill the not deletable, not modifiable demands of the rules Wall Street broker dealers and other associated deep-pocket clients had to abide  with. Today it looks like optical disks might connect head-per-track disks on the scrapheap of storage.

Fast forward 20 years, and hard drive and tape magazine capacities have arrived at 1 TB and more. The regulatory agencies have authorised, at least tacitly, software-based WORM technology in archiving solutions likeEMC  Centera and Nexsan’s Assurion and in the firmware of tape drives, including the market leading LTO. Now Plasmon - the manufacturer of UDO- is in governance and rumors are fast-flying around the Net about its, and UDO’s, future.

Unconvincing : T-Mobile Pre-Sells 1.5 Million HTC G1 Android Phones

Monday, October 27th, 2008

T-Mobile alleged that it had tripled its first supply of Android phones, but it hadn’t supplied an actual number. Directly we know: 1.5 million people have pre-ordered the G1, set to go on sale Oct. 22.

That’s an irrational amount of concern for such a device. Certainly, Apple says that it sold 1 million 3G iPhones the first weekend the device was available, and that’s pleasant. But here follows T-Mobile, the nation’s fourth-largest wireless network operator, coming up with 1.5 million pre-orders on a brand new mobile platform.

HTC must be alongside itself with fervor. The Taiwanese firm that is inventing the G1 has had enough of success with its Touch line of Windows Mobile smartphones, but this is over-the-top. HTC was picturing that it would sell several hundred thousand G1s by the end of 2008. To learn that 1.5 million people have pre-ordered it is unbelievable.

Storage Manual Movements - Fixing The Budgets

Monday, October 27th, 2008

With the prevailing fiscal news, IT masters are seeking ways to keep budgets fixed. We’ll hunt a host of alternatives that we can enforce to curb storage prices. Today, it’s manual moves.

The initial direction of storage cost decrease should be optimizing the capacity of primary storage and then acquiring that data off primary storage.  Experts advocate using a software application to help you find and distinguish old data, with a disk archive solution you can easy arrest this older data off chief storage with a bare manual move of that data.

A manual move is identifying older data and thru the OS moving that data to the archive. With the data motion methods - global file systems, agent movers, or agentless movers - the user access to the old data is transparent. Users don’t have to know where the old information is since the movers manage the linkage.

Cyber Expert Linda Criddle Details Internet-Safety Dangers

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

Criddle said social networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, can be useful tools, as are other things such as online banking and shopping, but exhorts consumers to protect themselves with the best safety device available and to be extremely cautious about revealing personal information. She centered mainly on how criminals profile victims through the Internet. Criminals also check out bridal and baby registries, where identity theft can happen even before a child is born, and obituary places, especially those that include genealogical data.

Criddle at one time, plugged fake data into a health survey on longevity that kept request personal medical queries,followed by a health insurance survey that wanted financial information. She noted that her data was being fed in real time to a titan retail pharmaceutical firm that wanted to sell her products and it also was attending other, unnamed sites.

New Laptops From Apple made In Aluminum Bricks

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

The computer and consumer-products groundbreaker is about to uncover a new kind of twist that carves a solid-aluminum frame for MacBooks out of an aluminum brick. With new MacBooks scheduled to be issued soon, assumption has grown that it might include models made with the brick process.

Totally radical, the manufacturing process uses lasers and water-jet cutters to carve the aluminum block.  The rationality is that a solid chassis could mean no seams, curves, screws or other fasteners, relieving a bit of weight and maximizing strength. With all Apple products, it could lead in a visually delighting device. The new manufacturing process is the biggest Apple conception in a decade. Apple has spent several years honing the process, it can now turn Apple  more independent in controlling the fabrication of its products, rather than farming them out to Chinese or Taiwanese factories.

HTC’s Touch HD Revealed In Much Elegant Atmosphere

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

The high resolution touchscreen display on the HTC Touch HD is unbelievably enticing, tendering outstandingly crispy text and lucid video playback.

Connectivity-wise we’ve got Europe-friendly HSDPA, GPS / A-GPS, 802.11g WiFi (we weren’t clear on that one before), Bluetooth 2.0+ EDR and a microSD slot. On the software side there’s TouchFLO 3D on top of Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro. There’s also a front-facing VGA camera for video calls, 512MB of ROM and 288MB of RAM. HTC expects the 1350 mAh battery to score you 390 minutes of 3G talk and 450 ours of 3G standby, with 120 minute video calls just for kicks. The phone measures 12mm thick.

The HTC Touch HD is not yet available, but HTC is already beginning to make some expectation for this device by unloosing this big promotional post.

The HTC Touch HD boasts a large 3.8-inch touchscreen display with a WVGA (480×800) resolution.

Rogers 6GB/$30 Smartphone Data Plan Still Extended!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

The promotional 6GB for $30 data plan from Rogers and Fido was only intended to be around until the end of August. After that, the Canadian GSM provider determined to prolong the packaging to the end of September. After October 1st rolled around, iPhone 3G users felt pretty sorry that they couldn’t make it on 6GB of data for $30 whatsoever.

But it was  affirmed that the 6GB/$30 data plan has been extended! If you pass into a Rogers/Fido store and ask about it apparently they still can. It seems that Rogers dealers across Canada are still able to tack it on to new service agreements. There’s no saying how long this unofficial promotional extension will last. You could even try ringing a CSR on the phone. This is bang-up news for those still wanting the 6GB/$30 data plan, against the new altered data rates!

New HP Oak Windows Mobile Smartphone Set For Unveiling

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

HP is approaching the turn of two essential touchscreen phones. The Wall Street Journal hints that one of HP’s first touchscreen-focused iPAQ smartphones is due in Europe two months from now; the account directly supports a leak early in the year of the Oak that uncovers a hybrid touch and keyboard design designated for Vodafone. The earlier and more specified leak would give the phone a side-slider design with 7.2Mbps, HSDPA-based 3G as well as GPS and Wi-Fi.

The newsprint adds that the phone should be obtainable worldwide after the European release but doesn’t remark more specific dates or prices.

Engadget received the first exposures of the Silver, a candybar-style parallel to the Oak. It would lose the touchscreen and return to a SureType-style keyboard while maintaining the advanced 3G and Windows Mobile foundations of the larger and likely less affordable Oak.