Debut of "Google phone' expected to flood the market this week

Google is expected to call the new year by unveiling its own smartphone on Tuesday, the connection One, in a bid to expand its powerful brand in the booming web mobile arena.

The Internet search and advertising giant has gained the opportunity to market its Android mobile operating system, which featured a phone number beginning with T-Mobile's G1 in October 2008 and more recently Droid from Motorola.

But one connection, designed by Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC, represents a significant departure from that Google is expected to sell Google-branded phone directly to consumers is not tied to any one carrier telecom.

Apple's popular iPhone, for example, is only available in the United States by AT & T, but the buyers of the "Google phone" is reportedly their choice of wireless carriers.

Technology blog Gizmodo, mentioned in the leaked document, said the connection one is worth 530 dollars, "unlocked" - meaning it is not tied to a specific carrier - or 180 dollars on a two-year service agreement with T-Mobile, a subsidiary of Germany with Deutsche Telekom AG.

Google is shy about any plans to go first to the rapidly growing smartphone market, down notes but not showing it in pursuit of illegal.

Inquirer and other media outlets have been invited to a press event on Tuesday in the Google headquarters in Mountain View, California, charged only as an "Android press gathering."

"By launching the first Android-powered device just over a year ago, we have seen how a strong, open platform could spur mobile products of change," the invitation said. "And this is only the beginning of what is possible."

Google provided no additional details about the event, the timing appears to be an attempt to upstage the Consumer Electronics Show, the annual technology extravaganza that opens in Las Vegas on January 7.

Among the notes dropped by Google is a blog post last month in which the company said employees of testing is a mobile product in an exercise known in the industry as "dogfooding."

Google's plunge in the smartphone market has thought of a mixed reaction.

"It looks like Google is moving to see if they can do things that Apple," said Rob Enderle ANALYST, the Enderle Group in Silicon Valley, a reference to the iPhone, which has become a wonderful success since it was introduced in 2007.

Pointing to Google's 750Mi$ acquisition of mobile advertising company AdMob in November, a number of analysts said Google hopes to replicate its success of Web advertising in the mobile space.

Not everyone is convinced by the wisdom of moving. "For Google to go into business selling phone just does not make a whole lot of sense," Gartner ANALYST Van Baker said.

"Just from a high-end phone you do not really buy much," Baker said. "I'd be hard pressed to have enough revenue from pushing ads to pay for phone service."

Ovum research fellow Jonathan Yarmis said Google has to walk a fine line between marketing its own smartphone and being supportive partner for the growing number of companies building their own handsets based on Android.

Now the iPhone will have a helicopter for that

A company that makes accessories for cell phone want to add something else to the endless list of things you can do with an iPhone: flying toy helicopter.

International Consumer Electronics(ISE) Showed this week, Paris-based Parrot unveiled its AR.Drone - a plastic and foam helicopter was about a foot long and can be controlled remotely from the screen of the iPhone or iPod Touch. Copter The iPhone connects over Wi-Fi and is equipped with two cameras: one on his belly to calculate the speed of this and other of his nose medium in its field of vision back to screen phone.

Simulate also plans to release games that meld the real world seen by AR.Drone to "expanded reality." This means that the helicopter may appear from the virtual objects like robots on the screen of the iPhone's.

Monkey founder and CEO, Henri Seydoux, thinks the toys will appeal to people because they play it out - something not usually get a video game.

Loro expected to release later in the year AR.Drone. It is not announced a price.

Rolls on new Intel chip that AMD bring on show

Intel Corp on last Thursday the new computer chip circuits in their ability of processors to reduce the company's lead over Advanced Micro Devices Inc. rolled out to highlight.

Intel's new Core chips, the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas at the company's average width of 32 nanometers or smaller parts of a meter 32 billionths of property was first announced.

Transistors - / switches closed slightly above the current electricity - so that chips may be appropriate on this 60 million-per-pin small regulates the flow. This is twice in the same area the previous generation of chips may be appropriate to the number's.

While the changes may be visible with the naked eye, better performance and lower computer prices for consumers in the form of the effects of experience. The ability to add more features and cutting costs from the benefits of the chip manufacturer.

AMD's 32-nanometer chips will not appear until 2011 personal computers. This circuit size is not as important as performance and graphical argues.

Race between Intel and AMD because basically all modern personal computers and microprocessors made all the important PCs "brains" were made by Intel or AMD.

In recent years, AMD, the company focused more games of computers and high-definition video images is so important to say that chips, made graphics performance. To this end, AMD, ATI Technologies, Intel to buy into a market in spite of repeated attempts to break the fight for high-end graphics, to become a player has paid $ 5.6 billion in 2006.

Last month, Intel, Santa Clara, Calif., AMD's ATI graphics division-centric direct result will be a new graphics chip and other heavy trash Nvidia Corp. plans for Intel, silicon and software development delays blamed.

In the meantime, Intel, key business markets such as the help of "netbooks" are branching out as - Stripped-laptop computers, primarily used for surfing the Internet down - and now mobile phones, previously worked for another crack market. Mobile phone chip, but Intel processors generally make less, use less power to suck up.

On Thursday, Intel CEO Paul Otellini, Intel chips and LG Electronics Inc. built this year sales are expected to go in the second half showed a new smart phone. This from the same family of chips Intel sells a processor for netbooks have is the first phone.

With a 4.8 inch screen, LG GW990 is larger than a smart phone standards. He did not Apple Inc. 's iPhone has 3.5-inch screen and Motorola Inc.' s 3.7-inch screen Droid - U.S. LG smart phones are the basis for the upper limit where the phone will be marketed.

Additional processing power for things like video conferencing and high-definition video can be used while playing.

"I really can see the popular five-inch screen," Otellini said in an interview.

Mobile phones in 2006 for $ 600 million to Marvell Technology Group Ltd. The communications chip division had ended with the sale of Intel's previous stab. Time, Intel's financial pain is due to competition from AMD, and therefore can focus on their core activities of these business units were underperforming spillage: personal computers, and sales of chips for servers.

E-readers a new range of options kindles explosion

Most people Welding thin, white Kindle electronic book reader probably springs to mind, thinking. But this may be about to change.

E-readers a waterfall this year, with touch-sensitive navigation and video chat features such as gray-scale screens to the market far beyond the device to receive - and possibly lowering prices, too.

These mobile phones and other gadgets such as tablet computers, such as people dive into their favorite books to give more options for going on. Perhaps the only negative about a company belonging to an e-reader does not enter the purchased may be alarming.

This week, nearly two dozen companies to make devices or reading materials delivered to the International Consumer Electronics Show, a section devoted to this e-book products that are showing for the first time.

E-book company to reach mainstream status as a signal of hope for good, they like Las Vegas Convention Center and most Microsoft Corp. by Amazon is not even in the exhibition have inherited are clustered in a prime location.

E-books that make up a very small fraction of book sales, but popularity is growing rapidly. Consumer Electronics Association, the trade fair earlier, 2.2 million e-readers were shipped to stores in 2009, nearly four times the year, according to organize. This year, the group expects 5 million will be sold.

"This incredible growth of the category," Jason Oxman, vice president, said the electronics association industry relations.

E-readers from Sony and other companies make impulse purchases more easily around the Amazon Kindle in 2007 and published before, but the first was presented Kindle wireless book downloads.

Since the $ 399 Kindle, Amazon, and that approximately $ 10 to $ 259 price drop, for each book buyers with the new version of cheap materials, such as certificates tucked entered. Christmas Day, Amazon E-first time sold more copies than the physical book.

, Barnes & Noble to hold the output, and Sony Corp. for its $ 259 Corner play in it with readers, entry-level model has remained $ 200. Each one has a relatively small number Exclusives offers hundreds of thousands of books - publishers showed little interest on the favor to another device.

Now other companies are getting in the game. Samsung Electronics Co., phones and TVs in the U.S. the leading producer, will launch this year, an e-reader.

Interead Ltd is already $ 249 device called COOL-ER sale and trade show two new models: a smaller, compact and lightweight version of the touch screen model called Interead books online store called Connect can be downloaded if the user Wi-Fi hot spot.

Also plans to start in the first quarter Interead. At the same time a "3G" cellular network access, Wi-Fi roll out a model for use at outside locations, summer plans.

Entourage Systems Inc., two screens - 10.1-inch color touch screen has the right and fair de-black-9.7 inches and the left-and-white screen is showing off $ 490 e-reader. This is controlled with the stylus.

Corner, such as Entourage's device, EDGE, Google Inc. s Android operating software works, therefore, to browse the Web and watch videos on a color display can be also. Even a small camera will be video chatting.

Wi-Fi Entourage e-store customers and the company will be able to buy books through the service with a wireless carrier is waiting for a version. EDGE is expected to ship to customers in February.

Small version of the Kindle costs twice what price. But Doug Atkinson, vice president of marketing and business development Entourage's because it combines Web browsing and reading people to believe that the company withdrew the device.

Success in this market, but more may require a specific device sales. Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Sony, for example, but also for people in other devices like iPhone to sell electronic books to read.

If the most popular reading device, a tablet-style computers such as Apple was expected to say this year comes to pass, this company provides a way to profit.

Another company that hedging bets in this way skiff LLC, e-media holding company of reading developed by the Hearst Corp. is hoping a funnel device for content from various manufacturers.

In the pages of a book because we are accustomed to seeing a more complex text layout is one column I am trying to newspapers and magazines skiff good e-reader - which is difficult to look focused. Skiff plans to add the ads.

First product skiff, skiff Reader, a 11.5 in., skiff can also download materials from the online store will have a gray-scale touch screen. Companies that are common to Spring Nextel Corp., and wireless delivery. But has not announced a price or a skiff called the manufacturer of the device is expected to be released this year's.

Nokia beats 80 Million services users target

Manufacturer leading mobile phone world, Nokia, has 86 million users for its Internet services, beating a target of 80 million until the end of 2009, the source of direct knowledge of the data told Reuters.

A Nokia spokeswoman declined to confirm the data seen on the big screen TV in Nokia's business location.

Nokia, is to find revenue from online services market new phones to its traditional September, to reach 300 million people using the service in late 2011, generating annual revenue of € 2,000,000,000 ($ 2.89 billion).

Niklas Savander, head of business services at the company, said last month he was more confident about reaching €2000000000 sales target than a year earlier.

"With the number of Nokia customers worldwide it is not a problem to get millions of customers do not pay. The point is to get paid millions of customers," said John Strand, CEO the Strand Consult the advice of Denmark.

1100000000 some people around the world use Nokia phone.

"Unlike Apple or Google, Nokia has participated less directly to users. Increased communication and interaction with customers is very important," said Ben Wood, head of research at CCS Insight.

Nokia push strong headwinds encountered last year with a series of failures which have a disastrous launch of Ovi shop in May and decided to close its gaming service in October.

Nokia said at the end of 2008 expected music and navigation, each, to generate about a third service revenue, while other services will make of things left.

Nokia counting every consumer who uses a service at any time in his six months as a user is running.

Ford Co. brings smartphone Web Applications to cars

Ford Motor is doing their vehicles through a web application platform for drivers to access streaming media and other smartphone applications.

During the keynote on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show, Ford president Alan Mulally plans to show the latest high-tech interior Ford vehicles, including a redesigned driver, which allows the driver to access your smartphone applications through voice commands, the function of the synchronization software for your car. Cars equipped with the latest interface, Ford, called MyFord Touch will be available on some models this year, according to Ford.

The first three applications are available Pandora streaming music services, news services, audio and Stitcher, Twitter, "said Jim Buczkowski, director of global electrical and electronics systems engineering at Ford.

So instead of fiddling with the BlackBerry or iPhone while driving, consumers can use voice commands to navigate through the applications, he said. Internet connection is via a network connection your smartphone and the car phone to call the software via Bluetooth.

Ford created the application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow other developers to change the smartphone applications to work with sync. All applications will be available at the time, such as how consumers coach to operate more efficiently, but Ford plans to approve the proposals, which will be available, Buczkowski said.

Lincoln models will be the latest software with Sync standard models ranging from 2011 Lincoln MKX. Ford Edge crossover and the Ford Focus sedan will also have the latest Sync software, Buczkowski said, adding that the complete list will be announced at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit next week.

Mobile hot spots
Mulally is also scheduled to be announced connectivity options built off Ford's Sync software, which uses the Microsoft built-in car.

People can use the USB modem to connect to mobile networks and the creation of mobile Wi-Fi network in your car. The car itself will have Wi-Fi and let the driver when parked, Internet access via public Wi-Fi hot spot or home network, Buczkowski said.

"We are in decision-making is the use of (network) devices that are already on the market or will in the future," he said.

Giving drivers the ability to connect to the web application creates more opportunities for entertainment. But Buczkowski said that drivers are already on their smartphones in cars, and voice control is safer because it allows the driver to keep his hands on the wheel and eyes on the road.

A waterproof Kindle case that floats for Notepad like i Phone have

Otterbox is known for its ultraprotective for the iPhone. Now M-Edge, which specializes in cases, the Kindle, does the same for the Kindle, with a report that will sell the first waterproof case Kindle this spring.

The company claims that carers are made of molded plastic and protects the Kindle in all environments of water 1 meter deep, whether you're in the pool, ocean, or just a bath. Your e-reader is completely closed, in the case, but you can still access all the buttons for "flexible closed cut button. Even better, the case turns out to inflame the flotation device and allows you to become acquainted with the kit in the water.

According to Mr. M-Edge, "The three inner chambers provide buoyancy of the flotation to keep Kindle distributed at sea and vertically in the water reading. Cool.

Japanese project aims to turn CO2 into natural gas

Japanese researchers said on Wednesday that they hoped to obtain bacteria in the fight against world's greatest problem i.e., global warming to transform carbon dioxide into the seabed buried natural gas.

Scientists from the Japan Agency, Marine-Earth Science and Technology to activate the bacteria found naturally in soil to turn CO2 into methane, the main component of natural gas.

A team led by principal investigator Fumio Inagaki already confirmed that the bacterium is present in the earth's crust deep under the seabed beyond the north end of the main island of Japan, a spokesman for the Institute told AFP.

But the project faces a major challenge to develop methods to activate the bacteria and accelerates the speed of methane, a spokesman for the agency acknowledged.

In the natural environment, the bacteria turn CO2 into methane very slowly, over billions of years, "he said.

The researchers hope to develop technologies over the next five years in order to activate the bacteria and shorten the transition to about 100 years, "he said.

"The Institute has a number of obstacles, including the need to ensure that the budget before the official kick-off the project," said a spokesman. "But if you run, this will be the first such project in as far as we know it."

The point is, the bacteria produce methane from CO2 is buried in a layer about 2000m(6600 ft), in accordance with the seabed, the agency said.

Scientists from Japan and elsewhere are trying to capture and store co2 in underground in efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Such projects are controversial as environmentalists warn that CO2 can pass on the outside.

Scientists proved that Cell phone radiation may improve human memory

surprised to find that the impact of mobile phones, launched in early adult life protects memory in mice otherwise destined to develop symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, "Gary Arendash, lead author of the study and research of Florida Alzheimer's Disease Center, said in a statement.

The researchers showed that mice, exposing old Alzheimer's disease in the electromagnetic waves generated by mobile phones removed brain deposits of beta-amyloid, a protein is strongly associated with Alzheimer's disease. Clumps of beta-amyloid form of the so-called brain plaques that are the hallmark of this disease. Scientists suggest the radiation of cell phones increases brain temperature, causing brain cells to release Nasty plaques.

They suspect that a similar effect would occur in humans, and therefore mobile phone radiation can be used for prevention and treatment of debilitating diseases for us, they say.

However, studies conducted in rodents, does not always lead to a useful human therapy, so further studies will be needed.

Mice on cell phones:

The study involved 96 mice, most of which have been genetically modified to develop beta-amyloid plaques and memory problems mimicking Alzheimer's disease as they age. Some mice remained as is, so that scientists could test the impact of radiation on normal memory.

Both Alzheimer's disease, and mice were exposed to the electromagnetic field generated by the use of standard mobile phone within two 1-hour periods each day for seven to nine months.

Mice were actually chatting on a mobile phone or even the packaging devices. Rather, they were placed in cells arranged around a centrally located antenna, which gave rise to a cell phone signal. The cells were located at equal distances from the antenna and is subjected to radiation emitted normally to the mobile phone, pressing a human head

Radiation and memory:

Was protected results showed, if the impact of mobile phones began when the mice were Alzheimer's young people - to the signs of memory impairment were obvious - their cognitive abilities. In fact, the Alzheimer's mice performed as well as on tests measuring memory and thinking in the aged mice without dementia.
If the adult mice with Alzheimer's has already seen problems with memory were exposed to radiation of a cell phone, their memory impairment disappeared. Researchers believe this treatment may be associated with a slight increase in brain temperature that they observed in Alzheimer's mice months after infection with cell phones. The higher the temperature, may help the brain with Alzheimer's disease, to remove the newly formed beta-amyloid, causing brain cells to release it.

Impacts of a cell phone even increased the memory of normal mice above the normal level.

Memory of benefits took months to show up, consider that a similar effect in humans will last for years. The researchers suspect that the main reason for this is to improve the ability of electromagnetic radiation to increase brain activity, promoting blood flow and increase energy metabolism in the brain.

How people can benefit?

Test memory used in mice was designed to test for the determination of Alzheimer's disease, or its very early signs (mild cognitive impairment), are present in the human body.

"Since we have chosen the electromagnetic parameters, which were identical to the person to use a cell phone and test mice closely analogous problem for human memory test, we believe that our findings may have considerable relevance to people," said Arendash.

Arendash and his colleagues concluded that the electromagnetic field effects could contribute to the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease in humans. They are currently evaluating whether different sets of electromagnetic frequencies and strengths will produce faster and more effective than cognitive contained in their current study.

There have been recent controversy about the electromagnetic waves from cell phones cause brain cancer. Although many studies have found no risk, review article in October last year concluded that some of the "highest quality" studies show, has made the associated risk. World Health Organization and the National Institutes of Health continues to conduct research on the topic, and some countries have issued guidelines for the use of mobile phones, such as restricting the use of children.