EluxMedia has a report on this week Dell annonced the launch of their Inspiron 1525 notebook equipped with Blu-ray disc player for the very reasonable price of $879. With the help of Inspiron 1525, users can burn files, such as digital photos and videos, to a Blu-ray disc, but also burn and play traditional CDs and DVDs. Blue-ray discs are significantly superior to regular ones, as they can stock up to 50 GB of data. Read more

According to PCMagAT&T announced today that the nation's largest wireless carrier will offer subscribers ten channels of live, mobile TV on at least two new phones starting in May.

AT&T Mobile TV uses Qualcomm's MediaFLO system, which we reviewed last year with two Verizon phones. The MediaFLO system allows for at least 14 channels. AT&T and Verizon will share eight: CBS, Comedy Central, ESPN , FOX, MTV, NBC, NBC News, and Nickelodeon. AT&T will get two exclusive channels of their own, which Verizon customers won't have access to.

Verizon, for its part, added two exclusive channels this week: ESPN Radio and a Latino-focused MTV spinoff, "MTV Tr3s".

MediaFLO channels aren't simulcasts of broadcast TV. Rather, they're rearrangements of the TV schedule to play popular programs several times a day. Late night talk shows pop up during morning commuting hours, for instance, and the NBC channel mixes in both NBC network programs and popular shows from NBC's Bravo cable channel.

Since AT&T uses the exact same mobile TV network as Verizon, we expect quality to be the same (excellent, just like 'regular' TV) and pricing plans to be the same (around $15/month.)

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Apple, Dell and a host of other companies are encouraging new handets makers to enter the market.The reasons vary from costs to the surge in demand of smart phones amongst others. According to an article in Washington Post

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) must be making the cellphone business look too easy. With the company on track to sell 10 million iPhones this year?after only launching the device in July?it seems a number of other companies are willing to give it a shot. This week, two new companies are rumored to be entering the market with details about two other handset manufacturers making phones based on the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android operating system.

According to PCWorld

Dell will make significant investments in China to beef up the company's regional presence, CEO Michael Dell said Friday.

Calling China one of the world's fastest-growing economies, Dell said his company would purchase US$70 billion of hardware components from Chinese companies between last year and next year. In 2006, Dell purchased about $18 billion in technology components and related products from suppliers in China.

Dell officials have stressed the importance of emerging markets like China and India for sustained growth. Dell last year signed up Chinese consumer electronics retailer Gome to sell its PCs. For the fourth quarter of 2008, the company reported a 36 percent rise in combined sales in the emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India and China, compared to a 17 percent increase in sales in the U.S.

Business in the 21st century is about human resources in terms of the right minds at work. Staffing has acquired an altogether different dimension. This site is about a company that deals with full service staffing. Read more

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According to Information Week Intel, which plans to enter the high-end graphics market next year with the release of the Larrabee processor, said Monday that its software development tools will take the platform above products from competitors Nvidia and Advanced Micro Device's ATI unit.

Expected to ship to computer makers in late 2009 or early 2010, Larrabee will mark Intel's entry into the emerging market for so-called general-purpose graphics processing units, which can handle graphics and non-graphics workloads. In addition, Larrabee, which is the codename for the Intel GPU, will launch Intel into the market for discrete graphics cards, which fit into separate slots on a motherboard and perform the graphics-intensive tasks demanded by videogames and professional video and photo editing

PCMag says Intel operates on what it calls a "tick/tock" cycle of CPU development. The "tick" comes when it moves to a new manufacturing process, taking the current microprocessor architecture (such as Core 2 used in today's CPUs) and moves it to smaller, faster, lower-power manufacturing. The "tock" comes when the company releases a new CPU microarchitecture, using the same manufacturing process as the old. Today you can get Core 2 CPUs built on a new 45nm process (tick), the next processor architecture on 45nm is Nehalem (tock).

Avaya Inc, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services, today introduced Intelligent Presence, breakthrough software that drives greater precision, speed and collaboration using presence-based, real-time communications. Avaya Intelligent Presence collects and integrates presence information from multiple sources for a richer view of a worker’s status that can be supplied to both individuals and business applications to improve collaboration and business execution. Avaya Intelligent Presence solves the challenge of integrating diverse sources of presence information from different vendor platforms using multiple protocols. Intelligent Presence aggregates telephony, desktop and application presence information from Avaya and third party sources, such as those from Microsoft, IBM and others, and bridges industry standard protocols including SIP/SIMPLE and XMPP. This multi-vendor, multi-protocol support provides the most comprehensive information about a user’s availability. The more holistic the view of the employee’s presence, the more accurate the contact between employees, customers, partners and suppliers can be — and ultimately more useful in supporting presence-aware applications. Read more

People Infocom (Mauj Mobile), one of India's leading end-to-end Managed Services Provider has created a new age 3G Portal for the Bahrain Telecommunications Company (Batelco) – (wap.o.com.bh & www.o.com.bh). The portal launched under the brand name 'O' has been specifically designed for Batelco's recently unveiled 3G Network.

This project has showcased People Infocom's expertise in platform management and content delivery as the initiative has been powered by the company's cutting edge Platform – ArmadaTM. People Infocom, known for its high-quality platform management technology is responsible for developing, designing, hosting and maintaining Batelco's 3G portal – 'O'.

This next generation Portal has an English and Arabic Version. The Rich User Interface provides the consumer ease of content discovery, in turn assuring the operator of customer stickiness, resulting in generating higher ARPUs (average revenue per user).

Commenting on this achievement, Mr. Manoj Dawane, CEO, People Infocom, said, "3G technology is the next wave in the wireless world, and India will soon be a part of this revolution. It is a feeling of great achievement & pride for us to have had the opportunity to represent India in this space internationally, through our association with Batelco. 'O' has provided us the stage to showcase People Infocom's potential in Platform and Service management. This is just a peek into the future and we hope to see more Indian Telecom companies, MVAS players and Media houses expanding their businesses to embrace this technology."