Solar powered charger for your phone

Solar powered charger for your phone

TechJapan :: English news on technology from Japan
Posted on Jul 19, 2004 - 04:26 PM by zmcnulty

"The "Pocket Energy," a simple mobile device charger that uses solar energy, has been introduced. This solar-powered recharger, with a postcard sized 23mm thick body, is opened up much like a laptop; if it is placed in the sun for 4 to 5 hours, it can recharge two cellular phones."

HP to Dick Tracy: Bet your phone can't do this

http://news.com.com/2100-1041_3-5282083.html?part=rss&tag=5282083&subj=news.1041.20

Last modified: July 25, 2004, 6:05 PM PDT
By Ina Fried and Ben Charny

"The h6315, which was co-developed with T-Mobile, operates on a traditional cellular network but can automatically hop over onto a faster Wi-Fi connection when one is available. The device also has a built-in camera and a detachable keyboard and can also act as a cell phone using the GSM cellular network.

"This is the ultimate device," said Scott Ballantyne, vice president of business services marketing for T-Mobile USA. "This will play and store MP3s. It takes pictures.""

Daisy Multimedia GEMPIX DM 425 Z

Camera, MP3 player, voice recorder, MMC/SD card slot, USB Removable Drive, optional Bluetooth.

Jackito Tactile Personal Assistant

http://www.jackito-pda.com/what_is_jackito/overview.php

Optional FM radio, MP3 player, Bluetooth, SD or MMC card reader.

"1) The first PDA screen that is 100% Fingertouch-sensitive.
Designed for all fingertips (leading-edge technology and user interface).
The most reliable touchscreen technology: no need for recalibration.

2) The first screen to support two simultaneous touch points.
While holding Jackito in your hands, you can easily move both your thumbs, either
separately or together. This lets you operate the Touchscreen as fast as your brain thinks
(you can touch two points simultaneously).

3) The first screen featuring three multimedia layers.
Touchscreen (top) + Display (center) + Sound (bottom)."

CALLING UP RECORDS: Data hungry? Tap into your cell

http://www.asahi.com/english/business/TKY200407170168.html

The Asahi Shimbun
(IHT/Asahi: July 17,2004) (07/17)

"Produce grower and exporter Dole has introduced a new technology service that allows a cellphone user to check vegetable information while at the store.

Consumers can learn where the produce came from and how it arrived on the shelf, along with cooking tips.

The service only works on produce packaged with a ``QR'' barcode, a matrix-type super-code capable of storing lots of information. The shopper needs a cellphone equipped with a camera and scanner equipment that can read the codes.

For now, only Dole's broccoli has the QR code, but the company plans to expand the service to other vegetables."

P2P Company Not Going Anywhere

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,64233-2,00.html?tw=wn_story_page_next1

Wired News
By Michelle Delio
02:00 AM Jul. 17, 2004 PT

"McCaleb is currently in the process of developing a new application called 'kdrive,' which will provide a way to securely share files and chat with friends and colleagues. McCaleb said it's an attempt to make a 'secure virtual global hard drive,' and though kdrive is still in early beta form, he's very excited about its potential."

The New Miniature Computers (They Also Make Phone Calls)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/19/technology/19phone.html?ex=1247889600&

The New York Times > Technology
By JOHN MARKOFF
Published: July 19, 2004

"The cellular industry's long pursuit of ever-more minuscule phones has shifted into reverse, giving rise to bulkier wireless handsets with larger color screens and small versions of standard qwerty-style computer keyboards to send e-mail and instant messages."

SAMSUNG Moniteur LCD 710MP

http://www.samsung.com/be-fr/products/monitor/lcdmonitors/multimedia/710mp.asp

Délai de réaction 12 ms

VGA (15 D-sub), S-Video, SCART, RCA?

TV Tuner

Apple updates Rendezvous for Windows, Linux

http://news.com.com/Apple+updates+Rendezvous+for+Windows,+Linux/2100-1046_3-5253786.html?tag=nefd.hed

"While Apple open-sourced the code to Rendezvous for the Mac OS X and the underlying Unix-like Darwin operating system almost two years ago, the latest development release adds new tools for users and expanded functionality.

"By supporting an open standards process and providing open-source software that is available today, Apple is encouraging the rapid adoption of Rendezvous technology," Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing, said in a statement marking the original release of the code.

The current release includes full support for linking to other devices using standard Internet protocols and allows Windows machines to advertise and discover Web servers and file servers on a local network using Internet Explorer. A printer setup wizard allows Windows networks to use Rendezvous compliant printers."

01net. - Un SI mis en place grace au libre

http://www.01net.com/article/246316.html

Renaud Bonnet, Décision Informatique, le 21/06/2004 à 00h00

"Après un gros chantier de mise en réseau des différents bâtiments de l'administration municipale, il met en place un back office basé sur des logiciels libres : intranet, annuaire LDAP, messagerie. Les cinquante postes de travail de la mairie déjà en place, et les cinquante nouveaux postes alors déployés, sont équipés de StarOffice 5.2, ce qui résout les problèmes d'incompatibilité entre formats, dus aux différentes versions de Microsoft Office, qui devaient jusque-là cohabiter. Un portail web de travail de groupe est déployé, qui fournit agendas partagés, carnets d'adresses, accès à la messagerie et gestion électronique des documents. Le logiciel utilisé, Xinotis, est propriétaire, mais installé sur une plate-forme libre Lamp."

Samsung place Linux au coeur de sa prochaine génération de mobiles

http://www.neteconomie.com/perl/navig.pl/neteconomie/infos/article/20040629083704

neteconomie.com
Jérôme Bouteiller

"La solution dévoilée par Samsung Electronic s'appuie sur la mémoire Flash "NAND" et permet également, grâce à Linux, l'exécution de programmes. Cette nouvelle architecture qui fait l'économie de la mémoire NOR et de la mémoire RAM devrait augmenter les performances des téléphones mobiles tout en réduisant sensiblement leur consommation et leur encombrement.

Le système de fichiers Linux mis en œuvre par Samsung est quand à lui appelé RFS (Robust File System) et assure une préservation plus efficace des données en cas d’interruption de l’alimentation, ainsi qu’une meilleure répartition de l’usure pour davantage de fiabilité. Pour résoudre les problèmes de perte de données consécutives à l’altération des tables d’allocation des fichiers (FAT), Samsung a développé une solution mémoire Flash NAND bâtie sur Linux qui prend également en charge les tables " Transactional FAT " pour les cartes mémoire externes. Par rapport aux systèmes de fichiers ouverts JFFS2 et YAFFS conventionnels, le système de fichiers Linux de Samsung accélère - respectivement jusqu’à quatre et dix fois - la vitesse d’écriture en mémoire Flash NAND."

The Best (and Worst) Video Feeds Online

http://ojr.org/ojr/technology/1087947933.php

Online Journalism Review
Mark Glaser
Posted: 2004-06-22

Reviewed: CNN.com, Washingtonpost.com, RealOne SuperPass, FoxNews.com, ABCNews.com, ABCNews.com, FeedRoom, ESPN.com, NYTimes.com, MSNBC.com, MSNBC.com.

simsi moblog - your mobile photo weblog

http://www.rowlff.de/simsi/

"simsi is a free, simple piece of weblog-software I have written as a means of posting my thoughts while I am on the road, away from my trusty computer - a moblog, to use current nomenclature. All you need is a cellphone to send a message, either an SMS (for all you Americans out there: a textmessage), an MMS or a regular eMail to your address. Or you can use any internet-cafe you come across. Whenever then somebody looks at the weblog, the script queries the mail-address for messages to be posted and adds their date, author and content to the weblog. Any photos (.jpg) sent with your message (e.g. from your new shiny camera phone) are displayed as well."

Language: PHP

Uses: IMAP

Téléphonie IP P2P : Skype disponible sur linux

http://www.neteconomie.com/perl/navig.pl/neteconomie/infos/article/20040623005750

Le 23/06/2004 à 00:57
Jérôme Bouteiller

"Après les systèmes d'exploitation Windows et Windows Mobile, Skype Technologies S.A. annonce le portage de son célèbre logiciel de téléphonie IP sur la plate-forme linux. Skype est disponible pour de nombreuses distributions telles que SuSE 8 et 9, Fedora Core 1 et 2, Mandrake 9 ou encore Java Desktop System Release 2."

mercora

http://www.mercora.com/

"Mercora is a person-to-person network that enables you to find, communicate and share interests with friends and family. Mercora has built a framework for sharing digital content using peer-to-peer technologies to directly connect you with your friends on the network. You do all these things through the simple interface of the Mercora applications."

Hotmail incinerates customer files

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5226090.html

By Evan Hansen
CNET News.com
June 3, 2004, 2:03 PM PT
News - ZDNet

"Legal experts said there is generally little recourse for consumers in the event of data loss on services such as Hotmail, which are typically covered by terms-of-service agreements that provide broad liability exemptions.

"In general, consumers are out of luck," said Ira Rothken, an attorney based in San Rafael, Calif., who has litigated such cases in the past. "Frankly, it's understandable. There are always going to be glitches that lead to data loss."

He said consumers can protect themselves by ensuring that valuable files are adequately backed up. Some Web-based e-mail services, such as Yahoo Mail, allow customers to download e-mail to their desktops and retrieve them using a PC-based e-mail client such as Microsoft's Outlook. Online storage services such as IBackup, Xdrive and Connected also provide file backup services for a monthly fee.

Raghu Kulkarni, a spokesman for IBackup, said demand for online storage services is growing. The privately held company serves thousands of customers who subscribe to service packages that run from $3 to $800 a month. The most popular plan costs $14.95 a month for a 4GB backup plan.

But he offers a sobering note: Online storage companies don't guarantee customers a fail-safe backup system.

"We do not provide a 100 percent guarantee that the backup will take place," he said. "That cannot be guaranteed by anyone. That's just because of the nature of the Internet--it's very difficult to provide a 100 percent guarantee.""

In the virtual stacks, pirated books find readers

http://news.com.com/2100-1030_3-5226077.html?tag=nefd.hed

In the virtual stacks, pirated books find readers
Last modified: June 3, 2004, 1:43 PM PDT
By Sandeep Junnarkar
The New York Times

"Early in his undergraduate years at Indiana University, Joseph Ruesewald said, he had trouble finding the required titles for a couple of his classes at the local bookstores.

When he tried ordering the books online, he learned it would take too long for delivery. Having come of age in the era of Napster, Kazaa and other file-sharing networks infamous as bazaars for pirated music, he knew exactly how to obtain the books--if not in his hands, at least for his computer's hard drive.

Over the semesters, downloading books free and reading them on his monitor became routine, he said. He learned to adjust the screen color to off-white to help reduce eye strain and depleted his university printing allotment by running off hundreds of pages at a time."

Du peer-to-peer pour les radios en ligne

Du peer-to-peer pour les radios en ligne

Eric Larcher, L'Ordinateur Individuel, le 01/06/2004 à 15h00

"Avec la technique du peer-to-peer, une simple liaison ADSL offrant un débit de 128 kbit/s en émission peut suffire pour alimenter des milliers d'internautes, l'ordinateur de chaque personne connectée au réseau servant de relais vers une dizaine d'autres."

"Avec Peercast, nous avons pu écouter, malgré quelques coupures du son, la petite Webradio d'une école nancéienne."

Les smartphones pour gérer les e-mails via le mobile

http://www.lentreprise.com/dossier/489.html

La vie des nomades de l'entreprise va changer. Bouygues, Orange et SFR proposent des appareils qui gèrent les e-mails et font même PC de poche. Que valent-ils à l'usage ?

Antoine Maurel - L'entreprise.com - Dossier du 12/05/2004

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Blackberry, la 'machine à mails'

http://www.iptsos.com/services/news/news.php?id=2332

"Blackberry est donc une véritable 'machine à mails' qui permet de rester connecté partout tout le temps. D'abord réservé aux professionnels pour se connecter à leur messagerie d'entreprise, ce produit s'ouvre aujourd'hui à un public plus large car SFR vient de commercialiser une version qui permet d'accéder aux messageries hébergées (c'est-à-dire si vous avez une adresse e-mail chez Yahoo, Hotmail, Wanadoo, Tiscali, ou n'importe quel fournisseur d'accès). Dommage qu'il n'existe pas de version sachant faire les deux à la fois !"