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Mitsubishi, Nvidia and Aspen Media teamed for home solutions

Info — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:54:50 +0000

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America, Inc. today announced a new relationship with NVIDIA(R) Corporation and Aspen Media Products, LLC, to provide the first complete 3D solution for the home entertainment market. For the first time ever, high-value 3D content will become available to the consumer at home in one convenient package.

“Mitsubishi, a leader in large screen HDTV, NVIDIA, a major force in the entertainment graphics market and Aspen Media Products, an innovator in media server technology, have each developed unique technologies that take us to the next level in realizing the dream of 3D home entertainment,” said David Naranjo, director of product development, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America. By combining the strengths of these three market leading companies, 3D in the home is now ready to become an exciting reality.”

For years, NVIDIA’s successful GeForce FX Go series of graphics processing units (GPUs) have delivered breakthrough 3D imagery primarily for the PC Gamer. Its GeForce 3D stereoscopic technology is a driver for Windows Vista(R), which renders two views for stereoscopic display systems to show depth with Microsoft(R) DirectX(R) games. The 3D stereoscopic driver is compatible with all GeForce 7 series and higher GPUs, which in turn are compatible with Mitsubishi’s 3D-ready Home Theater TVs.

“NVIDIA is extremely excited about its new relationship with Mitsubishi and Aspen Media Products, and is fully committed to bringing 3D technology to the home entertainment market,” said Ujesh Desai, general manager, NVIDIA Corporation. “This is an unparalleled industry first, and we are
proud to play a key role in providing a complete 3D home entertainment solution to the consumer.”

Aspen Media Products focus is on the integration of best-of-breed products and services that enhance the user experience, and the delivery of best-in-class technology to marry entertainment with simplicity.

“The Aspen Media Server has delivered on-demand music, movies and other entertainment programming to the home since its introduction. Now with the increased production of 3D content such as movies, live events, concerts and sports, the Aspen Media server provides an ideal platform to deliver the latest in 3D entertainment technology to the consumer,” said John Oliver, chief executive officer, Aspen Media Products. “We are excited to work with two great industry leaders, Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America and NVIDIA, to bring this amazing new solution to consumers.”

Mitsubishi’s entire product line of Home Theater TVs feature 3D-ready technology. The company continues to lead the competition with the largest Home Theater HDTV available at 73″. This year’s product line includes three new 73″ models along with 60″ and 65″ sizes — all featuring thinner
frames, increased brightness and 3D-ready capability. Mitsubishi’s 1080p Home Theater TVs provide unparalleled picture quality that far exceeds competitive displays, and deliver an optimal experience to enjoy the new generation of 3D home entertainment.

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The GKW-2.1HD: Onkyo New 2.1 HD Audio System:

Info — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:16:13 +0000

On June 21st Onkyo will release a new 2.1 audio system, the GWX-2.1HD. Our system features a subwoofer (60W / 3?) with a built-in 5.1ch amplifier, and two speakers (30W each / 6?). Optional speakers can be added to enjoy a 5.1 system. It also supports HDMI 1.3 (Inputs x 2/Output x 1), Dolby NR TrueHD, DTS-HD master audio and corresponds to 24bits/192kHz audio DACs. 330€.

Source: Akihabaranews.com

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ASUS Unveils World’s Slimmest 22-inch Widescreen LCD Monitor

Info — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 12:05:14 +0000

Catering to discerning users who require a robust performing yet sublime addition to their digital home devices, ASUS, producer of high-quality displays, today launched the LS221H LCD monitor. This ultra-slim 22″ widescreen LCD monitor combines pleasing aesthetics with leather material, superb display capabilities, and features a 9H-hardness glass panel for scratch resistant protection.

Experience True Beauty with Luxurious Craftsmanship
With a thinness of just 248 millimeters, the LS221H is so slim that it seems like more of an object de art than a display unit. Clean lines, diamond-cut corners and edges of glass combine seamlessly on the piano-painted glossy black chassis; while the lower half panel of the LS221H is dressed in genuine leather to present an exquisite outlook that exudes luxury and warmth in digital living. The LS221H is also equipped with a 9H hardness-rated diamond-cut glass surface that protects against damage or pollutive substances. The anti-reflection glass also provides a 96% transmission rate and a reflective rate of less than 2% – allowing users to view clearer images and more vibrant colors. This perfect combination of hard and soft elements subtly emphasizes the luxurious nature of the LS221H; while leading the “soul” of the product into perfect alignment with boutique displays and interior design. Additionally, the Light-in-Motion II dynamic lighting effects from LEDs built into the base add to the ambience; and an embedded HDMI input does away with cable clutter and provides HD multimedia enjoyment with the best quality.

Internal Beauty for Bright and Vivid Images
Proving that this beauty is not just skin deep, the LS221H is equipped with a ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio (ASCR) 4000:1 and two-millisecond response times that delivers sharp, vibrant images of the very best quality without any ghosting. The “Aspect Control” function allows selecting display modes between Full and 4:3 modes for perfect enjoyment of true-to-life HD video games and movies without image distortion; and the ASUS Splendid Video Intelligence Technology automatically corrects and constantly adjusts every detail of the image to optimize visual quality – providing deeper colors, sharper contrasts and an overall brighter picture. Five video preset modes, three skin tones, and five color temperature settings also allow users to easily customize the LS221H to their personal preferences.

Specifications

22″ widescreen LCD panelOptimal resolution: 1680×1050 WSXGA+
2ms response time(gray-to-gray)
ASCR (ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio) 4000:1
16.7 million display colors
300nits brightness
170°(H)/160°(V) wide viewing angles
9H hardness protection glass surface
Splendid™ Video Intelligence Technology
5 video preset modes and 3 skin-tone selections
Inputs: D-SUB, HDMI
3-year system and panel warranty
1-year zero bright dot warranty

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There is a bit of Apple everywhere (pt. 1)

Info — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:22:37 +0000

Apple is even more important now than years ago, but if you look back you will find a bit of Apple in all major stuff that transform our life, wanna see?

1. WWW:
Tim Berner Lee worked in NeXT Computers to created the www, because its superiority in point–click.

The NeXT interface was beautiful, smooth and consistent,” Berners-Lee wrote in his book, Weaving the Web. “It had great flexibility and other features that would not be seen on PCs till later, such as voice email and a built-in synthesiser.”

source: http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/features/2129861/computer-cool-wasn-enough

2. Hotmail:

Created by two formesr Apple employees, the two came up with the concept of a web-based database entitled Javasoft. While pursuing this idea, they subsequently realised the potential of a web-based e-mail system and thus decided to create one called HoTMaiL (the uppercase letters spelling out HTML – the language used to write the base of a webpage).In order to attract attention, the e-mail service was provided for free and revenue was obtained through the advertising on the website. Draper Fisher Ventures invested $300,000 on the project and the service was launched on July 4, 1996.

In less than six months, the website attracted over 1 million subscribers. As the interest in the web-based email provider increased, Microsoft eventually took notice and on December 30, 1997, Hotmail was sold to Microsoft for a reported sum of $400 million.

3. WebTV:

Created by Steve Perlman, a former Apple employee.

WebTV Networks, Inc was incorporated on June 30, 1995. Primary design criteria were ease of use and low cost.
WebTV Networks conserved their financial and managerial resources by providing licensed consumer electronics manufacturers with a reference design, allowing them to manufacture and market the client. Their profits were derived from operating the online service. They paid a fee to manufacturers for each new subscriber, allowing the manufacturers to sell the clients at a lower price.

By the spring of 1996 WebTV Networks employed approximately 70 people, many of whom were finishing their senior year at nearby Stanford University, or were former employees of either Apple Computer or General Magic. They were desperate to obtain business deals with either Sony or Philips in order to have a product on the store shelves for Christmas 1996. However, it wasn’t until they told Sony that there was a deal with Philips that Sony came back to the discussion and asked to be part of the platform. As a result, the company offered the complete package (service and box) on September 18, 1996 to the American market.

Perlman’s Company Rearden spun off Moxi, set top based TV Service used by Adelphia, Charter and Comcast, Moxi is now owned by Paul Allen’s company Digeo. Paul Allen was a Microsoft co-founder.

4. Palm:

Founded by Jeff Hawkins and Donna Dubinsky, Donna Dubinsky worked for Apple and for Apple subsidiary Claris.

The inventors of the Pilot were Jeff Hawkins, Donna Dubinsky, and Ed Colligan, who founded Palm Computing. The original purpose of this company was to create handwriting recognition software for other devices, named Graffiti, but their research convinced them they could create better hardware as well. Before starting development of the Pilot, Hawkins is said to have carried a block of wood, the size of the potential pilot, in his pocket for a week. Palm was widely perceived to have benefited from the notable if ill-fated earlier attempts to create a popular handheld computing platform by Go Corporation and Apple Computer.

Now two ex-apple employees, Jonathan Rubinstein and Fred Anderson, will take control of Palm future.

5. BeOS:

Excellent and powerfull Operating System that almost replace NeXT in what is Mac OS X now.

Gassée worked for Hewlett Packard before becoming head of Apple France. Later, Apple’s CEO John Sculley personally appointed Gassée to Steve Jobs’ old position as head of Macintosh development. Gassée introduced several Macintosh products on-stage in the late 80s including the Macintosh Portable in 1989, and also the Macintosh IIfx. In his product introductions, he was often very comical.

In 1991 Gassée started a new venture, Be Inc., with the ambitious goal of creating an entire new computer platform, hardware and software, from the ground up. A number of Apple employees left with him, including Steve Sakoman, the developer of the Apple Newton. Be developed a new operating system, optimized for multiple CPUs and multithreaded applications, which became known simply as “the Be Operating system,” or BeOS.

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Adobe Launches Public Beta of Acrobat.com

Info — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:52:57 +0000

Adobe Systems today introduced Acrobat.com , a suite of hosted services available as public beta for free signup, that put communication, productivity, and collaboration tools right within a Web browser. Much like Adobe® Acrobat® software enabled the publishing of high-quality electronic documents that anyone can read, Acrobat.com enables individuals to truly work collaboratively on electronic documents. Acrobat.com is a set of online services — file sharing and storage, PDF converter, online word processor, and Web conferencing — that take advantage of PDF, Adobe Flash® and Adobe AIR™ technologies to deliver engaging online experiences that go well beyond traditional office productivity tools. Also accessible through Adobe Acrobat 9 software (see separate release issued today), Acrobat.com delivers a new way for people to work together online.

The hosted services in Acrobat.com include:

- Adobe Buzzword®, a Web-based word processor that can be used to easily co-author and share documents for comment and review, creating high-quality print results;

- Adobe ConnectNow, a personal Web conferencing service that includes desktop sharing, video and voice conferencing and integrated chat;

- Centralized online file sharing with access controls, online PDF conversion for up to five documents, and support for high quality, Web-embeddable documents;

- Developer APIs for real-time collaboration, file sharing and conversion.

In addition, Acrobat.com gives Acrobat 9 users access to a “personal workspace in the clouds” that is available from virtually anywhere for working with others online. Acrobat 9 users can work with Acrobat.com as a central location for sharing forms and collecting forms data, conducting shared reviews, and co-navigating a PDF document with colleagues.

Acrobat.com also works with Adobe Reader® 9 software, giving Adobe Reader 9 users easy access to Acrobat.com so they can share files, convert up to five documents to PDF online and participate in electronic forms and shared reviews initiated by Acrobat 9 us

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Qualcomm and Adobe Collaborate To Empower Developer Ecosystems With BREW Mobile Platform

Info — Sat, 31 May 2008 20:46:14 +0000

Qualcomm and Adobe today announced the BREW® Mobile Platform with integrated Adobe Flash® technology and new platform features. BREW Mobile Platform, which leverages Qualcomm’s widely deployed BREW Client software, greatly expands the capabilities for developers and enables them to create rich applications and Web content in Adobe Flash for the BREW environment. The software will fully integrate and deliver Adobe Flash technology to mass market handset devices. By combining the strengths of both BREW and Flash technologies, BREW Mobile Platform brings the mobile application and Web content development communities together, setting a new standard for mass market handset platforms.

BREW Mobile Platform extends the widely deployed BREW Client’s rich set of services and APIs, with new enhancements in platform capabilities, multimedia and content support, access to device databases, connectivity support, touchscreen user interface development and more. BREW Mobile Platform’s highly optimized and integrated support for Flash technology provides an unprecedented level of access to these platform services from Adobe ActionScript™, enabling Flash developers to create standalone applications that integrate mobile device functionality with Web content and services.

BREW Mobile Platform will be supported by development tools provided by both Qualcomm and Adobe. Native application developers can leverage an expanded and integrated set of tools available from Qualcomm, including integrated support for the popular Eclipse and Visual Studio Integrated Development Environments. Flash designers and developers can use Adobe’s existing Flash development tools, including Adobe Flash CS3 Professional, Adobe Device Central CS3 and other popular tools in Adobe Creative Suite® 3 to quickly deploy rich applications based on Flash technology. Qualcomm and Adobe are working together to provide an increasingly streamlined developer workflow with subsequent releases of their respective tools.

“Qualcomm strives to stay ahead of the growth and evolution in the wireless industry by providing an increasingly robust development platform. Our BREW Client technologies are present on millions of mass-market handsets worldwide, and BREW Mobile Platform will expand these capabilities while fully embracing support for Adobe’s Flash technology and future roadmap,” said Bobb Briggs, senior vice president and general manager of Qualcomm Internet Services. “BREW Mobile Platform will combine the strengths of Qualcomm and Adobe, to deliver an extremely robust wireless platform and development tool chain. This combination provides exciting opportunities for operators, device manufacturers, publishers and developers to create advanced devices, applications and services for the mass market with features typically only available on high-end devices.”

“We are excited to see rapid progress in support of the Open Screen Project with this new mobile platform from Qualcomm,” said Gary Kovacs, general manager, Mobile and Device Solutions at Adobe. “BREW Mobile Platform with Flash technology represents a major step toward the goals of the Open Screen Project, and we look forward to bringing two developer communities together to deliver rich Web and video experiences across mobile devices.”

BREW Mobile Platform is fully backward-compatible with applications developed for previous versions of the BREW Client, allowing existing BREW solution customers to take full advantage of the new capabilities while supporting the multitude of existing BREW applications. The BREW Mobile Platform will be open to developers, operators and handset manufacturers worldwide. The first release of BREW Mobile Platform with Adobe Flash technology is expected to be available on Qualcomm chipsets in the fall of 2008. Additional information on BREW Mobile Platform will be available at Qualcomm’s BREW 2008 Conference, May 28-30, in San Diego, Calif.

Adobe Flash technology is the world’s most pervasive client runtime, delivering unparalleled creative options, highly engaging user experiences and universal reach. With more than one billion devices expected to ship with Flash technology by 2009, Adobe Flash is used by major handset manufacturers, operators and developers to deliver a wide range of dynamic user interfaces, mobile assets, applications and data services. The Open Screen Project is supported by major industry partners and leverages Adobe Flash Player and Adobe AIR to enable a consistent runtime environment that will remove barriers for developers and designers as they publish content and applications across desktops and devices.

Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties, including the Qualcomm’s ability to successfully design and have manufactured significant quantities of CDMA components on a timely and profitable basis, the extent and speed to which CDMA is deployed, change in economic conditions of the various markets Qualcomm serves, as well as the other risks detailed from time to time in Qualcomm’s SEC reports, including the report on Form 10-K for the year ended September 30, 2007, and most recent Form 10-Q.

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