Asus’s new notebook for Korea comes a 12.1-incher dubbed as F9J. Despite being small, the laptop combines sturdiness, looks and features. It runs on Core 2 Duo T5600 processor, 1GB RAM, Wi-Fi (a/b/g), 120GB HDD, 1.3 megapixel camera and Geforce 7300 GPU. It also boasts some security features like fingerprint recognition and TPM chip which allows user to set the security level for each drive, directory or file. It will go on sale soon at an expected price of $1525.
We have got enough hints about the upped version of N95 with larger capacity. Now here’s the real deal. Popular Electronics has listed the black 8GB N95 which will be available from December 1. And yea, the price. They are taking pre orders for a whopping $1000. So start saving your shillings to get your hands before Christmas.
In case you don’t know yet, it has a 5MP camera, Wi-Fi, GPS, dual slider, music player etc. which makes it a complete entertainment device.
After a lot of denial Microsoft has finally announced the price cut of Xbox 360 in a bid to compete with the recent PS3 price cuts. The new price of the console for the premium edition would be $50 less to $350, Core at $280 which is $20 less and the Elite edition is priced at $450 which has got a $30 price cut.
This price cut is limited to US only.
Taiwanese computer maker, Acer has announced that they will acquire the third largest US PC maker, Gateway for a whopping sum of $710 million. Acer will buy all the shares of Gateway for a price of $1.90 which is 57% higher than Gateway’s closing price on Friday. This acquisition will make Acer the third largest PC maker in the world putting Lenovo in the fourth place.
J.W. Wang, Chairman of Acer:
This strategic transaction is an important milestone in Acer’s long history. The acquisition of Gateway and its strong brand immediately completes Acer’s global footprint, by strengthening our US presence. This will be an excellent addition to Acer’s already strong positions in Europe and Asia. Upon acquiring Gateway, we will further solidify our position as number three PC vendor globally.
I use Google Reader extensively. And as every day, I logged into my account only to find this message. Unfortunately I couldn’t try the new look as the link was not clickable in Opera. Anyone else got the same message?
If you haven’t noticed the screenshot, it now features a search bar too. Hit the more button for a larger view.
Japan is the mecca of gadgets. Or I would rather put it as a mecca of quirky gadgets. The image you see above is a headphone resembling hair growing device. The KeUpper has to be worn as a headphone and the spikes sit on the head. Ouch! The spikes then magically do something to make your hair grow. It is surely a pain on the head as well as the pocket. It costs $1000.
The past few months have been busy for me and for my team. I took a long vacation back to Istanbul, giving me an opportunity to disconnect from my work and my blog for a while, and then came back to a new organization, a launch, and a very active Seattle.
As Moz recently summarized in an entry, we went through some reorganizations and the changes they brought. We seem to have settled into a new structure for now: product management and marketing roles have been more clearly delineated, while lines around our products have blurred. As most of you know, I have been working on the Spaces and Writer products for the past two years. In an effort to bring more seamless experiences to our customers in our next waves of planning, I will now be heading a new team focused on Sharing and Social Networking. Product management for a lot of the services you are familiar with, such as Spaces, Events, Writer, Photo Gallery, will now be run from my team, giving us a better view of your end-to-end sharing scenarios. Chris and Charlotte will be the managers on my team, as well as JP, a new product manager joining us to bring you better Memories experiences. My marketing leads like Marty, Marianna, and Pooja will continue to work on marketing, moving to the organizations running US and international execution.
In addition to the organizational changes, we have been busy building software. You probably saw the launch of Windows Live Events and a set of new features last week, especially the improved "What's New" section. Windows Live Photo Gallery also raised the bar with Flickr integration. I am excited with the stuff coming out but am painfully aware of how much we still have to do, in order to bring great experiences together.
I have been receiving a lot of questions lately about "Spaces' social networking" plans. Speculation around our partnerships have also led to the questions "isn't Spaces Microsoft's competitor to Facebook? What social scenarios are you thinking about?" While I cannot divulge any long term plans here, let me clarify one thing: "social networking" for us refers to the set of online experiences that allow users to feel connected with the people they care about. You did not see "Spaces" anywhere in there, did you? That is because I do not equate it with Microsoft's "social network." A lot of players have done a good job building profile networks --MySpace and Facebook most notably. I am a Facebook user (and Twitter, and MySpace, and a bunch of other things) and have a lot of respect for what they are doing. However, I do think that social scenarios will extend well beyond a "profile network," and defining social networking as a "website where I have a profile, friends, FoF, and some communities I share with" may be short sighted. Windows Live Messenger and Hotmail should become amazing social experiences. Our memories experience should tie in. Events and others
should become great social experiences, not to forget MSN. And all these things will be part of our "social networking" plans. Do not equate "what is Spaces doing" to "what is Microsoft doing" so quickly --and I do not think Facebook is thinking so narrowly either. We will continue to develop and improve Spaces of course, but we are trying to think broader to address your needs.
I will save writing about Istanbul to another day. I am excited to be back in Seattle, but I already miss home. Perhaps a good skiing season will lessen that feeling!
