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| That's summit was held in the Loews Hotel in Philadelphia |
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| The world's first GPS-receiver c Bluetooth |
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| Sendo Z100 - the first device for Smartphone 2002 |
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| Interface Smartphone 2002 |
Smartphone 2002 and Bluetooth GPS
Softool 2002 - Exhibition for accountants and not very
Sof'tool Exhibition 2002, which now goes to REC, unfortunately, not too rich in artifacts, somehow related to portable electronics. Like most Russian exhibitions all over the pavilion is dominated by a huge yellow ball of 1C. Every other booth - automated enterprise management system, interspersed with computer systems design. On the whole show seems very "accounting." But the contingent of visitors to the appropriate - solid managers and their assistants at least respectable. Almost no students, which are usually filled all the high-tech exhibition in Moscow. They are just bored. As, unfortunately, and we, the true fans of the handheld electronics. Nevertheless, in this realm of corporate marketing systems HPC.ru reporters managed to find the germs of a light pocket-computer of the future.
Stand Abbyy, which, among other products of this famous company demonstrates dictionary Lingvo 8.0 for Pocket PC (to represent employees MakTsentr), was not only very interesting but also practically the only pocket-computer sector. This naturally attracted to it of great interest. It's nice that this interest is not turned into questions like "What is in your hands for a brilliant contraption?". Most of the visitors in the course of events "and asked quite meaningful questions about the capabilities of the software, the characteristics of the CCP, the prospects for the emergence of new models. Visitors can personally see and "feel":
The most valuable finds - two developments in the field of portable navigation systems. The first - "Horizon" - is still only at the design stage, at least in the version for Pocket PC. However, even what we saw on iPaq'e, connected to a desktop computer, is impressive: meticulously traced map, combined with a database of sites on this map, Routing and mapping to map the current status of the owner of the system (in the form of cute cars ), three-dimensional image terrain on which the motion. I'd like to believe that a version for the handheld system will see the light.
The second "pocket navigator" - a turnkey solution for use in the car from a company called Demos called Ariadne. There is mounting on the instrument panel, power cord that connects to the onboard power car, GPS-receiver and, in fact, PDAs with preinstalled software. Unfortunately, the system that we saw at the show was built on the base at the time superpopular, but now obsolete machines Casio Cassiopea E-125. As far as can see, the system is sold complete with all equipment, and all this fun costs about $ 1200.
I regret to have to report that on this handheld computers at the exhibition is almost over.The only bright spot that caught my attention - a box on the Palm m125, which can be seen at the site of the "Open Systems" (This company publishes several well-known zhurnlaov computer topics). Boll is clearly exhibited as a symbol of the fact that among the topics covered in the periodical publishing house was a place and a hand-held electronic assistant. Was inside the box itself naladoniik is unknown.
In addition, the exhibition revealed a pair of stands with storage facilities, such as Psion Workabout, just more specialized. Some models can be synchronized with the database via a wireless connection.
On at least two stands exposed hardware security system, if easier, - USB-keys, without which the appropriate connectors or laptop PC can not get to confidential information. Well, the first handheld with USB already, may soon have keys can be used to protect data that fit in your pocket.
Next to the USB-keys were well known to many users of USB-drives c Flash-Memory - excellent tools for rapid transfer and reliable storage of large amounts of information.
In addition, we are pleased and computer mouse with a fingerprint scanner - for vyaschey security. Recall, incidentally, that the "fingerprint" the principle of user authentication will be applied in new handhelds Hewlett Packard iPaq.
Pleased to note that once again with the best hand proved to be the mobile Internet - from his boss left the office, stand or seek instructions directly from the PDA via GPRS.
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- Mitac MIO528
- Wincent (DOT) 320
- HP iPaq H3970
- Cassiopeia Pocket Manager BE-300
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Mobius 2002 - Microsoft news
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| Buying a mobile software online |
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| Motocross on the Pocket PC |
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| E-Beam System 3 |
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| ViewSonic V35 (left) and T-Mobile Pocket PC Phone Edition |
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| Microsoft tells Phone Edition |
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| Gameworks. Here goes Bill Gates |
802.11b-Server for Dummies, crossing a laptop with a tablet, PDA, and other
Invitation to the presentation has been arranged very mysterious. "This will present new laptops, including the pocket and promised to Toshiba. Deceived. There were no new handheld computers. And indeed any PDA, so that the "feel" was not. However, something interesting about the already known models, Toshiba, we still know, and besides the handheld during the presentation had something entertaining.
Press conference started with an overview of the market and the position of Toshiba. Overview of turned out to be the next mandatory for admission into tediousness, if not an interesting figure. Toshiba has assessed the market structure of computers in general, for the first half of 2002. It turned out that the desktop computers in the sales took just over 93% of the server quite small, handheld PCs (meaning laptops!) Just over 5%. In absolute terms, laptops for six months has sold about 60 thousand. That is, for the year should be around 120 thousand. Here want to recall similar figures for the PDA market. Company MakTsentr not so long ago predicted that the CCP in Russia this year will be sold around 50 thousand, and the optimistic firm SmartMarketing generally called the figures of 100 thousand and more devices. It turns out that even by conservative estimates, PDAs, laptops behind only twice (c balance:). Honestly, for me it was a surprise. I was sure that the CCP is still sold considerably less than laptops. After the marketing side was followed by a brief review of the line wireless products. From the review interesting to show the server Magnia SG20. Outwardly, he did not like the usual dreary server box, and resembles rather a modern DVD-players. Actually, it looks this way because it is (a unique case!), Including for home use. This server is the "default" is equipped with hardware and software for the organization of the wireless networking standard, 802.11b (also known as Wireless LAN). Even an inexperienced user ("teapot", that is) can, according to company representatives, for 20 minutes completely connect the server and configure it so that it combined all the devices in a house in a single wireless network. In addition, Magnia SG20 can work as a wireless access point to the Internet.
Cute and seemed laptop Satellite 5200. Not only is it just the apotheosis of wireless technologies - there is Bluetooth and Wireless LAN. It comes with a DVD-burner drive. Fun it's probably "cut" DVD on a laptop. And even more fun - to work with a series Satellite 1900. The new models in this series keyboard can be removed from the notebook and work with her at a distance of up to ten meters away from the machine itself - they connect chereh Bluetooth. The set comes is the same "golubozubaya" mouse. However, this is not our subject, so that one can only apologize for the off-topic.
Go to our subject. According to her, unfortunately, there were very few new features.Machines are not shown. Is that the presence of the journalists got bukletik about Toshiba e330 - such a beautiful, four pages. Nothing new, however, we have not learned from it.
Plus, as an integral part of wireless solutions korporatinogo told about the Toshiba e740 - flagship range of PDAs.
Emphasis on wireless technologies - important in positioning strategy Toshiba PDAs on the market. e740 has become an integral part of the corporate system. That is why, incidentally, to the Russian market will not be delivered "naked" version of this model, in which there will be Bluetooth or Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11b). "We are interested in moving to the Russian market is wireless, so we intentionally deliver here only the" older "model", - said Vladimir Korotkov, head of portable computers in the Russian office of Toshiba. Particular emphasis was placed in a presentation on a USB-station expansion and the battery, which - in theory - provides battery life up to 22 hours. Recall, if you use the station extension to the PDA can be connected to ordinary USB-device (if you find an appropriate driver, of course) and an external monitor to get the "ba-a-alshoy" pictures. A battery that extends the life of the CCP, is something like iPaq'ovskih jackets - heavy and thick. In addition, it was found that the PDA has recently granted not a one-year and two-year global warranty. Nice, but at this with handheld computers in the presentation was over. Rumors about the future as Toshiba e750 high-end company representatives declined to comment on. Another device that attracts attention and, in general, within the scope of our interests was the Portege 3500 - a hybrid notebook and tablet Tablet PC.
Imagine edakiysovershenno unremarkable notebook - klaviaturka, screen - which suddenly "rolled up his head," that is deploying the upper half of the vertical axis. Keeps the entire mechanism on a metal hinge, the strength of which can not but cause concern. However, experts Toshiba repeatedly assured skeptical press that "made in the century." Well, so much better, but it is not the case. "Displacement of the head" - not just a pleasant "Fennec." Dovernuv screen up to a certain position, you can "put" it on top of the keyboard, prvrativ device in Tablet PC, however, quite "chubby". Recruitment software - is also quite advanced Tablet PC. There is a recognition of voice commands and even nadiktovki text, handwriting recognition system. However, from all this, not really too much, because applications are not localized - only work with the English language. More from the "tablet" programs have been found magazine, stickers (reminders on the screen), Symbol Commander (it can be used as a means of Graffiti, run macros). More cars have a very curious stylus ...As far as I understood from the explanation "toshibovtsev, it uses technology similar to the one that is in the tablets Wacom - around the screen is a certain field in which the stylus begins to vibrate and thus finds itself. As a result, if the stylus is at a distance of several centimeters from the screen, the screen behind him running the mouse cursor, but if you carry a stylus directly on the screen - and you can just as when using the Touch Screen. However, given that the company does not know the answer to the question "Which of the halves is the processor?" To explain the principles of the stylus can not be taken seriously. The authors, translation:
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IT-Goodwill Games from Hewlett-Packard
Yesterday in the entertainment complex "Snowstorm" a solemn meeting of the Club Champions Hewlett-Packard "and awarding the winners of Round 4 of the program - a kind of" IT-Goodwill Games. " Deliberative - entirely athletes, members of the Komsomol (the past), and top managers of large Moscow firms, product distributors, HP. But to begin with a brief background to the event. In order to stimulate sales, PR-managers of the Moscow office HP decided to organize a capitalistic competition between resellers. The mechanism of the event was borrowed from the Soviet ideology, changed only the titles and dates: the reporting period (Five) were the rounds, a program which had to meet or exceed over 4 months old. Labour blast working on a plan of organizers, rewarded financially. It is curious that it was not without ideological inspiration. Each stage of the program (they passed only four) was ideologically furnished. The same four, in which participated MakTsentr, for example, was perceived by participants as a "Goodwill Games". Each dealer HP, responsible for which type of product is assigned to the sport. Thus, the sellers pocket computers, for example, competed in the category "Sports in the clouds."
Thus, mandated to hold a meeting of the Club Champions Hewlett-Packard "was Nikolai Fomenko, with all ensuing consequences. In his opening remarks, he walked about the letter combinations HP (in Russian transcription - "CP"): "Think about these letters - to persuade the audience Champions lead - remember with what they have assotsiiruyutya. We know them from early childhood. Each student will tell us that where P is, there is X, and vice versa, and so on ... " In short, the one who ordered the music, not enough thought:) But this Fomenko. It can be. And even need ...
It started rewarding. Drummers of capitalist competition is not bored, eating all sorts of snacks and occasionally getting his due from the master. Finally, it came to "debriefing" MakTsentr and competing firms. Recall that our colleagues were in the category "Sports in the clouds." And here it is necessary to make a small digression.
Rules of the Game, which took MakTsentr, stated: "Athletes, elated by success and experience, will receive 2 points for each iPAQ H3830, 3850, 3950 and by 5 points for iPAQ H3870, 3970." Best sellers, according to a plan of HP, will be three. Each of them will win at his level - a complex, medium or light. Win in an easy means to show the class in mid-air freestyle, on average - in aircraft modeling, in a complex - in hang gliding. Winner of the level determined by the sum of the scores and gets valuable prizes and gifts. Return to normal activity. As a result, the race for gliders (intricate level or first place) won MakTsentr, gaining as much as 882 points! Who would doubt ...:) Hurrah! Director of Dmitry Markovich Havzhu was awarded an honorary diploma and a certificate for a gift - SLR camera Olympus Camedia C4040.
The most courageous jumper (light level) was recognized as the Moscow company "Warum", for which its director has got the HP ScanJet 5470 and the winner in the competition for aircraft modeling (Intermediate) was the company Elekton headed by Alexander Fuzeevym. The second place gave him a HP digital photo studio, consisting of a PhotoSmart printer 7150 and digital camera HP PhotoSmart 215.
However, this debriefing was not limited. Ahead for another exhibition. Fomenko made three distinguished directors push-ups. You bet! Why not make a real drummer capitalist labor extra incentive prize - a bottle of champagne from the hands of Soviet popular leader ... It turned out, something which, as this is not exactly do that. Anyway, not everyone ...
So, on a plastic mat, MakTsentr once again confirmed his title. Parachutist already at the tenth regime fizzled out, closer to the Twentieth exhausted model aircraft, gliders and calmly pushed, wondering what's going on with their rivals. After the speech, the winner, as expected, gave an interview to leading, which assured the audience of the benefits of morning exercises for body, soul and business:)
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CeBIT 2003: Offtopic
It just so happened that while our editors are preparing a serious photography and serious coverage, dropped a minute to write about all the fun that observed at CeBIT 2003, our roving digital camera Casio QV-R3:) (more details about the camera). Well, now that a report is written, then delay its release is quite useless. We offer you a selection of gags CeBIT'a. Here's a funny robot strongly rotating head, went on the stand Institute Fraunhofer. With true "terminatorskim" red gleam in his eye robot collected on the pool table balls, deftly dodging the walls and obstacles.
But this system will be useful to start auto-service employees. It is a kind interactive manual for disassembly of aggregates. Enough to wear special glasses and look at the engine ... Directly opposite the real nuts on the engine lid arrows will appear with instructions what to do. Just incredible. The system can recognize images and display contextual information on them. Unfortunately, for recognizing the need for special tags, the number of species is limited.
But it is quite interesting. A small chip inside a soccer ball can bring a lot of good. For example, he makes camera automatically follow the flight of the ball, will help to resolve disputed issues on the subject of goals, off-sides, etc. In general, an interesting solution, only a matter of attaching the chip inside the pump the air ball.
These shoes will fit perfectly for James Bond. GPS in the heel, the transmitter in the insole, the antenna laces. A cool head and warm heart.
And you could leave on a typewriter F1. It is true that far and only on the screen. In general, cars in the stands stood very much: Hammer, smart, athletic. However, that in itself is not interesting. Much more interest is cars with mounted electronics, but more on that read our other materials.
Once is not izgolyayutsya manufacturers of desktop PCs. Sea of neon and literally sea water cooling system - is now the most squeak. How about a mouse with a booster and anti-lock system joystick?
For nostalgic for the Soviet pen with a small Gagarin flying inside. A special mouse with an astronaut.Most likely released in advance of this autumn - the planned launch of China's manned spacecraft.
If we are talking about the desktop, then let me introduce the latest technology - with a vertical keyboard shortcuts, and rear-view mirrors:) Oh, I do not know how it is convenient to work with this keyboard, but the sample was submitted to a completely industrial. Will likely have to taste the road and motolyubitelyam:)
If not mistaken, somewhere in the mid 20 th century, spread to some extent was a musical instrument called the theremin. Bringing the hand to an antenna or remove it, it was possible to extract from the instrument sounds of different pitch. At the booth Mitsubishi was surprised to find a modern version of theremin. Probably with lots of electronics inside:)
Stand firm, offering services for the destruction of computers. Joke. In fact, the company is engaged in restoration of data. The entire bench littered with burned-out components, and from the form of computer types burnt on the table from time to time brings down the thick smoke.
Horror sysadmin.
Venus Nokiyskaya? Or guide to action?
At the airport in Hamburg, you accompany a peculiar way. From time to time the unfortunate body shake. Dropped from the pockets of money are glued to the floor (checked:)). Interested parties can download the MPEG-An excerpt from the filmed process:)
Mercedes - present. Chewing gum - is unlikely.
Embracing the CeBIT, as well as all the immensity, it is simply impossible, but we try. Very soon, wait for the new fotoreporeportazh from the show. This time ...:) serious authors, translation:
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