Panasonic AX Series Windows 8 Ultrabook (gallery)

[CEATEC 2012] Windows 8 is just around the corner, and it’s no surprise that here at CEATEC 2012 we’re seeing tons of laptops and tablets running on the operating system. Panasonic is one of the manufacturers that will be competing for your dollar bills when Windows 8 goes on sale, and at their exhibition booth we managed to catch a glimpse of its AX Series ultrabooks. What’s neat about these ultrabooks is the fact that it features both a touchscreen and a regular keyboard. Let’s not forget an unconventional hinge that will let you flip the display all the way back, turning the ultrabook into a tablet. (more…)

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ADLINK MXE-1300 Series Fanless Embedded Computer

ADLINK MXE-1300 Series Fanless Embedded Computer

ADLINK Technology, Inc. has proudly introduced the MXE-1300 series of low-power fanless computer. Powered by the Intel Atom D2550 processor, the MXE-1300 features low power consumption, large storage with 3.5″ HDD support, and shock tolerance up to 100 G. The ADLINK MXE-1300 supports rich I/O interfaces, including six USB ports, 4 serial ports, 4 digital I/Os, 3 Gigabit Ethernet ports, and one each Mini-PCIe and USIM slots for wireless operation. The computer also supports multiple OS, including Windows 7, Windows 7 Embedded, Windows XP, Windows XP Embedded, WinCE 7.0, and Linux. [ADLINK]

MegaDroid experiment: Simulation of 300,000 Android phones in a lab

For those of you who watched the latest Resident Evil: Retribution movie, you would realize that Umbrella Corporation had this huge “stages” that simulated how a possible viral outbreak would pan out in an actual environment like Tokyo, New York and Moscow. Well, on a much smaller scale, an air-conditioned data center at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California sees half a thousand desktop computers that are properly lined up on racks, where they work together to form a homebrew computing cluster known as MegaDroid. They are specially stacked up to five levels high, and function to mimic the behavior of an entire city’s worth of Android smartphones.

Right now, up to 300,000 Android ‘phones’ are on the ‘network’, where the simulation will see these ‘phones’ send out text messages, consume wireless data as well as mimic the behavior of the phone’s radios or sensors. The future will see their software being used by groups that are working on social network applications, military battle planners, disaster relief workers and American hackers. It offers a scalable environment where one is able to see how a virus attack on an Android smartphone spreads, as well as help show user behavior in certain situations. Sounds like a nifty idea, don’t you think so?

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Modbook Pro pre-orders start at $3,500 a pop

A MacBook Pro from Apple is not exactly the most affordable kind of OS X-powered machine that you will be able to find in the open market, so it makes perfect sense that a modded MacBook Pro would cost even more. This is where the Modbook Pro comes in, where it was announced last week that pre-orders for the Modbook Pro would commence shortly, and we have discovered that a starting price point of $3,500 has been attached to the Modbook Pro. That’s definitely far from cheap, but on the other hand, it gives you bragging rights that you are now able to control your 13.3” Mac using a stylus.

Shipping will commence from November onwards, where it will come with Mountain Lion right out of the box, accompanied by a 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 processor that can be upgraded to a 2.9GHz Core i7 processor if you have the dough, up to 16GB RAM, and up to 480GB of storage space. Those who are interested can drop a half grand deposit beforehand.

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Sony VAIO SVL24129CJB 3D All-In-One PC

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Here’s a look at another upcoming 3D all-in-one PC from Sony, the VAIO SVL24129CJB. This space-saving machine is equipped with a 24-inch 1920 x 1080 Full HD 3D LCD touch panel, a 2.40GHz Intel Core i7-3630QM processor, a GeForce GT 640M 2GB graphics card, an 8GB DDR3 RAM, a 3TB hard drive, a BDXL drive and runs on Windows 8 OS. The VAIO SVL24129CJB will hit the market from November 3rd for around 240,000 Yen (about $3,066). [Sony]

MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 Micro-ATX Motherboard

MSI-FM2-A75MA-E35-Micro-ATX-Motherboard

Links International has released a new micro-ATX motherboard from MSI namely the FM2-A75MA-E35. Based on AMD A75 chipset, the board supports for FM2 processors and is equipped with two DDR3 DIMM memory slots (up to 16GB RAM), one PCI-Express 2.0 x16 slot, two PCI-Express 2.0 x1 slots and one PCI slot. Connectivity-wise, it has six SATA 6.0 Gbps, four USB 3.0, ten USB 2.0 and Gigabit Ethernet. The MSI FM2-A75MA-E35 sells for 7,980 Yen (about $102). [Product Page]

FTC shuts down telemarketing scammers posing as tech support

The FTC today froze the assets of 14 companies involved in a long-term scam. These companies, usually based in India, cold-called up English-speaking consumers posing as a representative of a major tech company, such as Microsoft, Symantec (makers of Norton Antivirus), and Dell. Using the credibility that they stole posing as representatives of a tech company, they told the marks that their PCs (usually Windows) were infected with nasty malware. Regardless of whether the PC was actually infected or not, the scammers offered to clean the machines, but not for free. Usually the scammers asked for $50-$500 in exchange for “cleaning” the computer. (more…)

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Money makes your Facebook posts go round

They say that money makes the world go round, but so too, does it have enough kinetic energy within to help promote your Facebook posts – at least for those living in the US. The Promoted Posts feature has arrived Stateside, where it will cost you $7 per post which Facebook hopes will be able to help the social networking giant earn some side income along the way (economy of scale and all that), where promoting your posts should come in handy if you are going to throw a garage sales, hold a party, share your wedding photos or make any other important announcements.

Promoted Posts has seen action in 20 other countries to date, and will target the market where one has fewer than 5,000 total friends and subscribers. Does this mean a new age of Facebook posts will rise, where one with more money in their pockets than the rest will have more eyeballs look at the promoted posts? At the end of the day, it remains to be seen what Facebook’s ultimate objective for Promoted Posts will be – to make money, or make Facebook a more fun place to be?

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Panasonic shows off foldable Windows 8 Ultrabook

[CEATEC 2012] A number of vendors have taken the opportunity of CEATEC this year to show off their up and coming products. While the predominant focus seems set on presenting different cutting-edge technologies, there are many who have unveiled products such as tablets and ultrabooks.

Among these is Panasonic who has taken the chance to showcase a new AX series Ultrabook. It is a Windows 8 Ultrabook which features an 11.6-inch display at a 1366 x 768 resolution. (more…)

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iSuppli slashes their Ultrabook shipment estimates

Do you believe that Ultrabooks has become the new standard of mobile computing (smartphones and tablets not withstanding)? Have you noticed an increased presence of Ultrabooks when you look around you? Well according to market research firm, iSuppli, it seems that despite their rather upbeat predictions of PC makers shipping 22 million Ultrabooks earlier this year, the firm has since come forward and announced that they have made some changes to their predictions. (more…)

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