HCL Laptop 39 Series

HCL announced Leaptops Series 39 Notebooks

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HCL announced Leaptop 39 Series for the Indian market. In principle, it is Leaptop Series 39 was designed taking into account the weather condition in India. This series is designed to achieve a lower temperature difference of less than 6 degrees on the palm rest area. The HCL Leaptop Series 39 is available in both Windows and Linux versions and has a battery back-up of more than four hours. The leaptop series 39 come with a 14.1 inch wide screen and is powered by Intel’s Centrino and Centrino2 processor technology.
Starting price range for Leaptop 39 Series with the Centrino processor Rs. 39,900 and Rs. 42,990 for the Centrino2 processor technology

Sony to pull out of LCD JV with Samsung

TOKYO: Sony Corp ,struggling with a loss-making television business, is in negotiations to pull out of its LCD joint venture with South Korea's Samsung Electronics in a bid to cut costs.The Japanese electronics and entertainment giant is aiming to reach an agreement by the end of this year to sell its nearly 50 percent stake in liquid-crystal display joint venture S-LCD to Samsung.Sony intends to rely more on outsourcing to reduce procurement costs to cope with rapidly declining prices of LCD panels due to a global oversupply.

South Korean newspaper Chosun Ilbo had a similar report on the joint venture breakup in July, which Sony denied. A well-informed industry source told Reuters in Seoul that such reports seem to be "distorted" because Sony has been negotiating with Samsung over its return on investment in the joint venture, rather than shareholdings. "Under the contract on the LCD joint venture, the two parties are allowed to discuss such matters, which outsiders could misunderstand as a step for Sony to withdraw from the joint venture," said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

In April, the two companies cut capital in the joint venture by $555 million as Sony sought to slash its TV losses and Samsung pushed ahead with next generation displays.
Sony is under pressure to show it can reduce its exposure to the loss-making TV unit and concentrate on developing its strategy for smartphones. Last week, it announced it will take control of its mobile phone joint venture with Ericsson as it seeks to exploit its music and video applications to help it catch smartphone leaders such as Apple Inc .Sony reports July-September results on Wednesday. Analysts are forecasting Sony will fall short of its operating profit outlook of 200 billion yen ($2.63 billion) for the year to March 2012, with consumer confidence wobbling in Europe and the United States and as the strong yen bites into profits.
The electronics giant, which competes with Samsung and LG Electronics in televisions, needs to slash costs as it heads for its eighth straight annual loss in its TV business. Sony has already sold off TV factories in Spain, Slovakia and Mexico in the past few years and outsources more than half of production to companies including Hon Hai Precision Industry. It retains four TV plants of its own in Japan, Brazil, China and Malaysia.

Samsung’s new phones will have flexible screens

Samsung‘s new mobile device lineup will feature flexible screens starting in 2012, the company announced today.

In its quarterly earnings call, Samsung’s vice president of investor relations, Robert Yi, told investors, analysts and press, “The flexible display we are looking to introduce sometime in 2012, hopefully the earlier part. The application probably will start from the handset side.”

After flexible-screen mobile phones roll out, the company plans to introduce the same technology for tablets and other devices.

In January 2011, Samsung purchased Liquivista, a strategic acquisition that will allow it to produce the kinds of displays that were announced today. Liquivista made electrowetting display technology, which is used to create mobile and other consumer electronic displays that are bright, low-power, flexible and transparent.

Flexible screen technology was also a focus of Samsung’s in March, when Yongsuk Choi, director of Samsung Mobile Display, gave an overview of the company’s future mobile device plans. At that time, Choi said most of the flexible-display technology Samsung was working on was still in very early stages.

Flexible displays have been on the fringes of up-and-coming mobile technologies for some time. For example, we saw a bendable e-reader from Plastic Logic back in 2008.

More recently, Sony, in particular, has shown some interesting work in the field, demonstrating its first flexible display at CES in early 2009 and showing off advanced, thinner, more flexible displays just last year.

Still, flexible screens aren’t something we’re seeing on the mass market yet; we wonder if consumers will warm to the idea when Samsung takes the wraps off these new devices.

Samsung recently surpassed Apple as the top smartphone manufacturer, shipping 27.8 million smartphones last quarter. Altogether, Samsung’s current share of the smartphone market is 23.8 percent.

Windows 8 smartphone

A Chinese company says it will bring the yet-to-be-released Windows 8 to the small screen.

In Technology Group has seemingly dedicated itself to merging the Windows PC experience with the smartphone--something the company has dubbed the "post-smartphone." They started with phones running Windows XP a few years ago, and by earlier this year, ITG's XPPhone was available with Windows 7. Now it says a far slimmer, lighter, and energy efficient XPPhone 2 that will run both Windows 7 and the PC version of Windows 8 (once it's released) is in the works.

Though it seems doubtful to me that many consumers will find a need for so much Windows in their pocket, ITG has made sure to pack the XPPhone 2 with the meaty hardware to pull it off. This beast will boast a 1.6GHz processor and 2GB of RAM. ITG's Web site also mentions the possibility of an insane 2GHz model. There's also plenty of storage space to house Microsoft's notoriously bulky OSes, with 112GB on board.

ITG is billing the XPPhone 2 not just as a phone but as the "smallest notebook PC in the world," measuring 140mm X 73mm X 17.5mm. The pitch is basically that the phone is easily dockable and can stand in for a laptop, desktop and in-car navigation system.

The success of this kind of a device will likely depend on it being at least more usable than the English translation of its press release, which requires several aspirin to navigate, with sentences like: "The Editor considers that, presently it forms three camps of smart phone in the way of tripartite confrontation--The Apple, Google & Moto, and Intel & Microsoft & xpPhone, of which stands for three complete different technical orientations."

Let's hope they took the money they saved on their translator and put it into engineering.Engadget reports that we could see an XPPhone 2 release as soon as January.

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Mobile Scanner DocketPORT 487

The DocketPORT 487 scanner is an office workhorse with the versatility to scan single-sided and double-sided documents and handle a range of media from card-sized up to 8.5” x 14” legal-sized documents. The unit also scans photos and turns receipts into versatile PDF files.

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The DocketPORT 487 features a small footprint and USB connectivity, saving space and the hassle of using an AC power adapter. Included software lets the user save images as a PDF, JPEG or TIFF and scan multiple pages into one PDF file.


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Upgrading From Windows XP to Windows 7

The official word from Microsoft is you can’t upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7; you need a clean install. But in fact you can upgrade, including moving your data, applications, and settings. Here are some tips to help.

With Microsoft having abandoned Windows XP SP2, late-adopting companies still using XP are being pushed to make the upgrade to Windows 7. Windows XP is a dying breed.  It’s time to upgrade. Microsoft says only Windows Vista systems are eligible to upgrade, while Windows XP users need to make a clean install of the new operating system:

You can’t directly upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7, says Microsoft.

Thankfully, you can avoid the need to wipe the disk of each PC and clean-install Windows 7 manually.  Some tricks are more effective than others. Let’s look at some of these upgrade options, the DO’s and DON’Ts, and pick the slickest (and cheapest) and method.
#1: Don’t migrate from Windows XP to Windows Vista to Windows 7

Some IT departments are so desperate to avoid clean-installing Windows 7 that they “upgrade the upgrade.”

The workaround involves performing an in-place upgrade from Windows XP SP3 to Vista SP2 (which is possible), then an upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 using Setup.exe (which is also possible, of course). This is a bad idea because it requires paying for Windows Vista licenses. There are other reasons why no company should even consider going that route.

The reason Microsoft doesn’t recommend upgrading from XP to Windows 7 is that there are too many changes to PC configurations (such as applets, hardware support, and the driver model) to carry it all forward, according to Microsoft’s Engineering 7 blog. A clean install is better.

The driver and legacy applications problem could be solved if your IT department puts enough time into it. But also, PCs become unstable. After years of installing programs, collecting temporary files, crashing dozens of times and sometimes fighting malware, most old Windows XP systems have become messy. Performance is just not on par with a clean install; neither is stability.
#2: Clean-Install and Rely on Windows Easy Transfer

FOLDER OPTIONS ARE MISSING IN XP

Many times we find that the folder options missing in windows explorer

Here is the solution for that

How to Restore folder Option.....
Following a few simple steps to get this problem resolved:

1st Solution  to Fix Folder Options Missing: Edit registry setting1. Navigate to “HKEY_CURRENT_USER | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer”
2. At right panel, look for a value called “NoFolderOptions”, delete the value.
3. Go to “HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE | Software | Microsoft | Windows | CurrentVersion | Policies | Explorer”
4. Repeat step 3 to delete NoFolderOptions entry.

 2nd Solution to Fix Folder Options Missing: Change setting in Group Policy

 

 Go to Start -> Run. Type gpedit.msc and press enter
- Expand User Configuration -> Administrative Template -> Windows Components.
- Click on Windows Explorer
- Locate Removes Folder Options menu from Tools menu in the right pane.
- Doubleclick on it and choose Disabled or Not Configured and click OK.

 

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Classic Menu for Office Standard 2010

f you have spent a lot of time adjusting yourself to the Ribbon interface of Microsoft Office Standard 2010, or being frustrated by searches for new features on the Ribbon interface, Classic Menu for Office Standard 2010 will help to solve your problem. The software adds a Menus tab to the whole interface of Office Standard 2010, and then brings back the familiar Office 2003 and 2007 toolbars and menus into work. It is developed by Addintools (a company provides professional software, add-ins and tools for Microsoft Office) and helps improve your working manner and efficiency. Don't be afraid that the new feature of Microsoft Office Standard 2010 will be lost. Classic Menu for Office Standard 2010 presents all the new features in the classic style interface. It is very easy to deploy the software to client computers in your enterprise or organization. Your colleagues or employees don't need trainings or tutorials any more after upgrading to Microsoft Office Standard 2010. Supports all languages that are supported by Microsoft Office 2010 including: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Dutch, Chinese, and more. The software is fully compatible with Windows 7, Windows 7 x64, Vista, Vista x64, XP, XP x64, Windows 2003 Server and 2008 Server. The Classic Menu suite includes following applications: Classic Menu for Word 2010, Classic Menu for Excel 2010, Classic Menu for PowerPoint 2010, Classic Menu for Outlook 2010, Classic Menu for Publisher 2010, Classic Menu for OneNote 2010. You could find the product at the Microsoft Office Marketplace. Easy to install, uninstall and use. Easy to show or hide the classic menus and toolbars.

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Google Chrome

Google Chrome continues to mature from a lightweight and fast browsing alternative into an innovative browser on the precipice of a potential browsing revolution with the just-released Chrome OS. The browser that people can use today, Chrome 14, offers highly competitive features, including synchronization, autofill, and standards compliance, and maintains Google's reputation for building one of the fastest browsers available.

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• Version: 14.0.835.163
• Date added: September 16, 2011
• Price: Free
• Operating system: Windows XP/Vista/7
• Total Downloads: 7,402,668
• Downloads last week: 121,577

Chrome 14 represents a major milestone for the browser, but those expecting to see dramatic changes in major-point updates will be disappointed. For a while now, Google has been pushing features over what it calls milestone numbers, which means that as soon as new features are usable in the beta version of Chrome, Google will likely push them to all users in the stable edition.
First Look: Chrome still shines, 10 versions later

Chrome 14 is the first version of the browser to support Native Client (NaCl), an open-source technology that allows C and C++ code to be securely run in the browser. It basically lets software run within two protected sandboxes, which will theoretically cut down on browser-based threats dramatically. When completed, NaCl will power Web apps to run as smoothly as programs that are hosted on your hard drive.

As implemented in Chrome 14, NaCl works only for Chrome Web Store apps, though Google plans to expand NaCl so that eventually it powers the entire browser.

Also new in Chrome 14, the Web Audio API lets developers create advanced audio effects such as spatialization and room simulation in HTML5. Google has put together a page of samples that you can listen to here.

Adobe's Elements turn 10

It doesn't seem all that long ago that Adobe trotted out its first consumer image-editing application, but Photoshop Elements seems to have aged fairly well over the past 10 years. It hasn't changed that much--it still has a task-based interface and modular architecture--though it's gotten a bit glitzier looking and, as it continually absorbs new technology and features from its big sister Photoshop, has gotten a lot more powerful as well.

Premiere Elements' new Three-Way Color Corrector lets you adjust highlights, midtones, and shadows independently.

(Credit: Lori Grunin/CNET)

Along the way, Adobe paired it up with a consumer version of its Premiere video-editing software. Though not 10 years old, it carries the same version number, and some of the same baggage, which includes an interface that hasn't changed substantially over time, and therefore has a steeper learning curve than a lot of newbies want to climb.

The new versions of both applications don't boast a lot of shiny, gee-whiz new features, but Photoshop Elements continues to evolve in meaningful ways, and Premiere Elements makes the important jump to 64-bit operation, at least on Windows. Plus, the company unified the Organizer to better handle both video and still media.

Pricing remains the same: $99.99 each or both for $149.99. The $79.99 upgrade pricing per product seems a bit steep to me, though.

Read the review of Adobe Photoshop Elements 10 for Windows | Mac
Read the review of Adobe Premiere Elements 10 for Windows | Mac

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File Scavenger is a Windows file undelete and data recovery utility for NTFS and FAT/FAT32 volumes. It can recover files that were damaged by virus or accidentally deleted from Windows Explorer, the Recycled Bin, command line window, or a network share along with original folder names and file Create and Modified dates. It supports reformatted volumes or broken hardware/software RAID volumes as well as file compression, dynamic disks, alternate data streams, sparse files, Unicode file names and more. With the trial version only 64KB or smaller files can be recovered.

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