Wow! Price of Microsoft Xbox 360 Arcade Price reduced to $199

History shows that more than 75 percent of all console sales happen after the price falls below the $200 mark. For millions of consumers who have been waiting for the perfect time to buy an Xbox 360 console, their moment has finally arrived. At $199, Xbox 360 is the most affordable next-generation console on the market, offering something for everyone with the most dynamic, interactive entertainment experiences available.

Google Chrome released for Windows XP/Vista

Google has jumped into the browsing arena by launching it’s own(!) web browser, Google Chrome.

Google Chrome released for Windows XP/Vista

We all know that Google has been a great supported of the Mozilla Firefox from day 1 and has also been telling it’s users to use Firefox instead of IE as it offers better security and features.

You can read more about Google Chrome at the link given at the bottom of this post

Granted, the Chrome is still in Beta, but it is missing some basic features.

  • You cannot choose the cache location. I plan to use it on my SSD based Netbook where I make full use of RAMdisk to store browser cache. Since Google Chrome offers you no settings to do that, you will writing all the data to the SSD
  • Zooming feature does NOT zoom in or zoom out all the elements. It suffers from the same problem which the Mozilla Firefox 2 used to suffer – it zooms in and zooms out only the text!

I was surprised to see the aforementioned features were not there.

Fujitsu unveils Fujitsu P1630

Fujitsu today unveiled the successor to the Fujitsu P1620. Fujitsu P1630.

Specifications:

  • 8.9 inch 1280 x 768 touch screen
  • Intel Core2 Duo SU9400 1.4Ghz
  • Intel GMA X4500
  • Up to 2GB RAM
  • Wifi, Bt and LAN
  • Fingerprint reader
  • PCMCIA, SD, VGA out and 2 x USB
  • 232mm x 167mm x 37mm
  • Weight: 1000g

Fujitsu Amilo Mini gets a Product page

The much awaited Fujitsu Amilo Mini gets it’s product page and official specifications.

Here are the specifications of Fujitsu Amilo Mini:

  • Intel® Atom™ N270 low-power processor
  • genuine Windows® XP Home Edition
  • 8.9-inch WSVGA display (non-glare)
  • Intel® Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (shared memory)
  • 60 or 80 GB hard disk capacity
  • 1 GB memory
  • Integrated 1.3 Mpixel webcam and digital array microphone for easy video telephony
  • Integrated WLAN, LAN and Bluetooth®
  • Interfaces: VGA, USB 2.0, ExpressCard (34 mm), 4-in-1 card reader, 2x audio
  • Special Features: long battery runtime (about 4 hours depending on usage), silent mode function
  • Weight: ~ 1 kg
  • Additional accessories: clip-on covers with different colors, external optical disc drive with Nero software suite (via USB 2.0), 6 cell battery

Documents to Go for Windows Mobile released!

If you have been a Symbian or a Palm user, Documents-to-Go is not an alien word. Now, it is available for Windows Mobile too!

Documents To Go for Windows Mobile 5.0 for Pocket PC Phone Edition & 6.x Professional lets you view, edit and create Microsoft® Word, Excel and PowerPoint® files, view Adobe® PDF files as well as zip/unzip files on your device – all in one complete package.

Featuring our revolutionary InTact Technology™, original desktop documents will never lose formatting when you make edits on your smartphone, thus helping you confidently get work done no matter where your personal or professional life takes you.

The application  Documents to Go is one of the most popular application in the the Palm and Symbian arena. Time will tell how will it perform in Windows Mobile arena especially with stiff competition from Softmaker Applications.

http://www.dataviz.com/products/documentstogo/ppc/

Meet the World biggest security threat: BGP weekness

Two researchers have proved that it is possible to intercept internet traffic. Till date, it was known that only NSA(National Security Agency) could access this traffic.

The hacker exploits the BGP(Border Gateway Protocol) that lets him to monitor unencrypted traffic.

Here’s how it works. When a user types a website name into his browser or clicks “send” to launch an e-mail, a Domain Name System server produces an IP address for the destination. A router belonging to the user’s ISP then consults a BGP table for the best route. That table is built from announcements, or “advertisements,” issued by ISPs and other networks — also known as Autonomous Systems, or ASes — declaring the range of IP addresses, or IP prefixes, to which they’ll deliver traffic.

The routing table searches for the destination IP address among those prefixes. If two ASes deliver to the address, the one with the more specific prefix “wins” the traffic. For example, one AS may advertise that it delivers to a group of 90,000 IP addresses, while another delivers to a subset of 24,000 of those addresses. If the destination IP address falls within both announcements, BGP will send data to the narrower, more specific one.

“It’s a huge issue. It’s at least as big an issue as the DNS issue, if not bigger,”

said Peiter

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Photoshop Mobile – Upload, view, and share photos

Adobe® Photoshop.com Mobile is the easiest way to upload, view, and share your photos online from your phone. All you need is a supported Windows Mobile phone and your Photoshop.com account ID. Photoshop.com Mobile beta will be available as a free download in September.

Upload from the road
Have Photoshop.com Mobile upload photos from your phone to your Photoshop.com account as soon as you take them. You can store up to 5GB of photos there free. (Note: Photoshop.com Plus members get 20GB.

Access anywhere
At a party, in a meeting, on the road — view your online photos and albums from your phone, wherever you are.

Share with friends and family
Create a Mobile Share album right from your phone to show the world, or invite friends and family to view your photos online from Photoshop.com.

However, the touchscreen feature won’t work on the windows mobile devices. Looks like they just made it for smartphone only!