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Acer Releases Android Based Cell Phones
The second-largest PC manufacturer in the world, Acer has also entered the smartphone market. The company has already launched 10 handsets, this year, out of which, nine were powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile operating system.
The last one, Acer A1 Liquid, has just hit the market with Google’s Android platform on board.
Acer’s Aymar de Lencquesaing said that the company had not planned to use any other operating system, but the Android had 3.5 percent of the global smartphone market in September, which motivated the company to switch over to Android.
Google Chrome OS available for download Shortly
Google Chrome OS will be available for download by end of next week (source). Since Google announced in July, 2009 that it is developing it’s own operating system, IT developers and enthusiasts in general are waiting for its launch date. Earlier some news pieces suggested that Google is expected to launch beta version of its long awaited Operating System (Chrome) sometime in early fall.
There is a lot of speculation about the features and bugs that will come in the new operating system. Providing driver support for large array of hardware would be one of the biggest challenge faced by developers at Google. Although It has dedicated a huge team of developers for development of hardware drivers, it is almost impossible to include all the hardware available out there. especially the legacy devices.
There are rumors that Google would expect the hardware manufacturers to provide drivers for their own hardware. If these rumors are true then Launch of Google Chrome OS would be a sure Flop. Manufacturers have no incentive to invest into driver development before widespread availability and acceptance of the new operating system
Top 5 Laptops You Can Buy in Less Than $500 USD
Need to shop a desktop or laptop for your children who are ready to get back to their school. We are presenting here some suggestion for buying a good laptop that are ranging from entry-level to high powered quad core processor machines.
lets have a quick look at the laptops that you may want to buy.
Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955
Price: 350$
It’s difficult to ignore a laptop that has the price tag of 350$ only, a good television were not this low cost five years ago. But the question arise after seeing such price that what I am getting for such price.
Toshiba Satellite L305-S5955 is one of the entry-level laptop that we choose for our Back-to-School roundup. Its not only the price tag of 350$ catches our attention but its quality also. We can have 15.4” display with all the necessary component like 2.2GHz Intel Celeron 900, 2GB, DDR2 800MHz memory, 160GB 5,400rpm hard drive, Intel GMA 4500MHD graphic card with Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition and its weight is just 6.5 pounds.
Sony Will Arrange Replacement Batteries for 100,000 Notebooks
Over 100,000 notebook batteries will be replaced as Sony declares them unsafe. Last time this happened, Sony replaced 9 million batteries causing a major dent in companies profit.
PC makers have reported 40 cases of overheating, including four cases where users suffered minor burns, and 21 cases of minor damage from fires and overheating. US Govt., after a review of situation , issued a notice to Sony to recall 35,000 of it’s batteries and the Tokyo-based company said it would recall a further 65,000 batteries worldwide.
75,000 drivers for Windows 2000, XP and Vista
When you are an ixibo.com regular, you have no need to spend hours on-line browsing for drivers. signing up for driver sites that do not let you download you a single file unless you pay them through your nose.
Just pop the Univers
al Driver CD in and Windows will automatically search the comprehensive drivers. This CD, (Iso format) contains software drivers for over 70,000 hardware components from brands such as Dell, HP, Compaq, IBM, Sony, Toshiba, Panasonic, as well as hardware component manufacturers Intel, 3Com, VIA, nVidia, ATI, SoundMax, and many more…
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