Thursday, March 27, 2008

Apple MacBook - World's Thinnest Laptop!!

· 13.3-inch LED-backlit glossy widescreen display with 1280x800 resolution;
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1.6 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 4MB L2 cache;
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800 MHz front-side bus;
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2GB of 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM;
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80GB hard disk drive with Sudden Motion Sensor;
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Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100;
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Micro-DVI port (includes Micro-DVI to VGA and Micro-DVI to DVI Adapters);
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built-in iSight video camera;
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built-in AirPort Extreme 802.11n wireless networking and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR;
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one USB 2.0 port;
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one headphone port;
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multi-touch TrackPad with support for advanced multi-touch gestures including tap, scroll, pinch, rotate and swipe; and 45 Watt MagSafe Power Adapter.

The super-slim new laptop is less than an inch thick and turns on the moment it's opened. MacBook Air measures 0.16 inches (0.4cm) at its thinnest point while its maximum height of 0.76 inches (1.93cm) is less than the thinnest point on competing notebooks

Thursday, March 6, 2008

Yahoo's R&D Lab In India

Yahoo Launches R&D Lab in India

Yahoo will be opening up an R&D lab in India soon. The lab to be opened at Bangalore will be a centre for excellence for the next generation of web, search and advertising technologies. The focus will be deliver memorable experience to the users. Yahoo said Yahoo-Labs-Bangalore will be responsible for making the Internet simpler and easier for advertisers and users.

After rebuffing the offer from Microsoft, Yahoo seems to be focusing more on creation of assets to align with its business. Setting up an R&D lab in makes sense. And its not just theYahoo Will Be Setting Up An R&D Lab in Bangalore, India cost factor. A majority of Microsoft’s products are developed here in India, its second biggest development centre after Redmond, United States. The engineering talent in India is capable of producing the cutting edge technology products in a world class manner