German company Cizmo introduces a new 15.4″ notebook with Centrino-2 technology, known as CX15. Cizmo CX15 is equipped with the processors P8400, P8600 or P9400 Core 2 Duo, video cards NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX, fast DDR3 memory, an optical drive Blu-ray (optional), eSATA port and the usual amount of hard disk 32GB or 64GB SSD capacity of the drive.
Coca-Cola makes the products in Austria closer to mobile phones, together with the operator VeriSign. From now the subscribers of VeriSign can with the use of a mobile telephone buy drinks of Coca-Cola in automatical mashines.
For every purchase in the automats of Coca-Cola VeriSign will get a certain percent from the spent money (a percent is unknown).
American operator of mobile communication Virgin Mobile, joined in the program of processing of old mobile phones. Procedure of selection of old mobile phones is rather interesting. It means that a person who comes to the shop of Virgin Mobile and purchas a new mobile phone, is suggested to leave the old mobile phone in the specially given out package.
All of the left mobile phones will be directed to tha partner of Virgin Mobile, namely ReCellular, which will restore old mobile phones in same queue, all of the restored mobile telephones will be sold whereupon. All of the rescued money will go on charity - to help the homeless young people.
Nokia signed the research acceding with the army of the USA, within the framework of which specialists of Nokia and armies of the USA, will test possibilities of technologies of Nokia in area of PCS, WCDMA 3G, GSM and WIMAX.
Thus, these tests will allow to find out whether technologies of Nokia befit for the American army.
The first researches will begin in the fourth quarter of 2006 and will proceed five years.
The Japanese operator of mobile communication NTT DoCoMo, starting it’s service 3G FOMA on the 1-th of October, 2001, a couple of days ago marked the connecting of the 30-millionth subscriber.
From the moment of the launching of network of FOMA, operator NTT DoCoMo annually increased the amount of the base stations of FOMA on 50%.
Besides, that an operator increased an amount of the base stations, the engineers of the company conduct modernization of already existent network, in order to realize a support of technology of high-speed communication of data HSDPA.
The operator of mobile communication Grameen Phone, one of the greatest operator in Bangladesh (the state in South Asia), reported that the 10-millionth subscriber was connected to the network of Grameen Phone at the beginning of November, 2006.
Bjorn Strongberg, a designer and a programmer, on the site UML, presented a conceptual portable device, getting the name Butler.
This portable device, Bjorn developed independently. In fact, it is an ultra mobile device which can practically everything, that ordinary can a computer, a mobile phone and television set.
Looking on Sharp WS003SH, it is possible to draw a conclusion, that it is a PDA with the standard set of functions of Windows Mobile 5.0. But it appears that Sharp WS003SH is rather UMPC.
Display is 9.4 sm and it operates, as a touch VGA-screen. A keyboard works on principle of QWERTY. The system functions on the base of processor 416 MHz Xscale.
64 Mb RAM and 802.11b Wi-Fi is integrated. There is a digital camera (1.33 MPxl), a slot for the card PHS W-SIM, slots of miniUSB and microSD.
Yuvee has presented the conceptual keyboard for mobile phones: “NeoKeys”. Above each button there is a small display in NeoKeys. And so, depending on what task is chosen, it is shown on the display. That is, for example, having pressed the button the text (look a photo, the button on the right) on displays above buttons letters will be displayed. As there are only twelve buttons so letters will be only twelve (abcdefghijkl), for switching on following group of letters it is necessary to press one of buttons at the left which suggest to choose what group of letters to display “m-x” or “y-z”.
It is necessary to agree, that such keyboard is very convenient, however there are doubts, that the accumulator of a mobile phone with such keyboard can provide long work.
Nokia together with institute MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have opened the new research center in Cambridge. Representatives of company Nokia and institute MIT declare, that joint efforts ” will turn mountains “.
It is interesting, that engineers of company Nokia will get access MIT researches of an artificial intellect. The full name of research sounds: MIT CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory). Well and certainly than engineers in new research laboratory will be particularly engaged, nobody has told, and, most likely, are not going to speak yet. Excuse, but it’s a trade secret. In any case I hope, that in the new center the mobile phone which is able independently to make of the decision will not be born.