Microsoft has recently annouce their tablet, Surface with two version namely Windows 8 RT (ARM NVidia) and Windows 8 Pro (Intel Ivy Bridge i5), here, early this morning.

Design Windows 8 RT as heavy 676g and thick 9.3mm. If want to be compared, iPad as heavy 652g and thick 9.4mm. This tablet complete with port USB 2.0, MicroHD and microSD apart fromdisplay ClearType HD 10.6-inci.

It also have antenna 2×2 MIMO which gives strong capacity wifi fromany tablet. Meanwhile, tablet Surface Windows 8 Pro as heavy 903g and thick him 13.5mm.Features including display ClearType 10.6 inch with Full HD apart fromUSB 3.0 with slot microSD and mini DisplayPort Video which enablesconsumer send video to full screen.

If we still remember, on the first launch of Android OS, Apple and Symbian are laughing at their sluggishness and immature look. But nowadays, people feel happy to use them. In fact, slowly and slowly android is taking over Apple dominant, especially after Steve Jobs died. But what is so special about Android Smartphone?

Android is operating system for mobile devices owned by Google. And, according to Google’s Andy Rubin almost 700,000 Android mobiles are being activated everyday(on a good-business day). And, the number of iPhones being sold is believed to be lesser than this number.

What makes the 700,000 people opt for Android everyday over others?

There are a wide range of phones that support Android OS. And this gives the customer the power to choose which isn’t the case with other operating systems.

The ability to add widgets on the homescreen is a remarkable feature. This allows you to check all your updates and news feed without having to switch between different apps. And, the seamless integration of Google owned services makes Android stand out among Mobile OSs.

As for me, Android is really a great geek gadget try to beat a unique super-bowl device. And It`s really happen actually. As I said before, It really happen after Steve died. And it seems that the legacy on Apple only can be carried out by Steve Jobs alone, not others. Even Bill gates.

Not even Nokia 3310 can beat their super-budget value if we want to compare both era. But Nokia is taking a multi-lap on giving hope to the budget users who dont really care about latest technology but still want to remain normal phone function with just a little bit of smart utility. On May 15, Nokia held an event to launch a Super-Budget device at Karachi, Pakistan. These devices are mainly to penetrate the market of Asian countries where the sales figures of budget phones are very high. There were rumours about Nokia launching full touchscreen S40 devices or budget Meltemi OS device, but instead they launched 2 Nokia devices: Nokia 110 and Nokia 112!

Both these are powered by the S40 OS and are priced very competitively!

Specifications of Nokia 110 and Nokia 112

• Screen: 1.8-inch TFT LCD; 128 x 160px
• Dual SIM capability
• FM Radio & Media player
• VGA digital camera
• Operating system: Series 40
• Size and weight:
• Nokia 110: 110 x 46 x 14.8mm; 80g
• Nokia 112: 110.4 x 46.9 x 15.4mm; 85.5g
• Radio: GSM  900/1800
• Connectivity: GPRS/EDGE, 2.0 mm Charger Connector, Bluetooth v2.1 with EDR, 3.5 mm AV connector

Its has been around five years after 802.1n wireless first launching. The technology is really hitting the ground. With the transfer speed range from 30 Mbps to 150 Mbps, the MIMO technology really help to have real-time streaming on wireless. However, the range is considerably slow right now. Today, with SSDs capable of sustaining transfers of over 500MB/s, the bottleneck in many wireless homes is increasingly becoming WiFi.

The IEEE have been working on the specification for the fifth generation of 5G WiFi: 802.11ac. That spec is now in its draft stages and is expected to be finalised by the end of 2012 or beginning of 2013. The first 802.11ac chipsets have already been announced by Broadcom, with the first devices (routers, USB dongles, PCIe cards and OEM systems) shipping very shortly. Broadcom expects that the final version of the 802.11ac spec will be only marginally different from the current draft and any changes it expects to be able to address in the software. By utilizing the 5Ghz spectrum, the 802.11ac speed transfer is faster than 802.11n up to 4 times to 433Mbps. Then, how it can gigabit transfer? The trick is in the MIMO technology at the endpoint. If we are using 1:1 tranfer of course , we could only get up to 433Mbps, but for the high end laptop, they have 3:3 receive and transmit , which provide them up to 1.3 Gbps speed transfer.

Over the past decade, wireless communications technology has made tremendous advances, a trend that promises to continue well into the future. Currently, wireless networks can be implemented within a single business enterprise (wireless local area networks (WLANs) or built to encompass a much larger area (wireless wide area networks (WWANs). Again, campus-wide WLAN is still becoming a great topic to gear the technology driven in wireless. In fact, University campus usually become a testing field for most of the enterprise device, to benchmark its capabilities, usability, capacity and coverage as well. Same goes to Allied Telesis here.

The major gap compare to other wireless players, Allied Telesis focuses entirely on end-to-end, purpose-built Ethernet and IP applications; with a complete line of networking products that includes Layer 2 switches, Layer 3 switches, carrier class fiber/copper Multiservice Access Platforms, wireless access points, wireless adapter cards and residential gateways.  No other networking vendor can match Allied Telesis’s breadth and depth of Ethernet products—we are the leading manufacturer of media converters, unmanaged Fast Ethernet switches and hubs, fiber optic network adapters and other feature-rich inter-connectivity products, worldwide.

While Ruckus focusing on wireless coverage and Aruba focusing on single control and security based wireless approach. Allied Telesis is opening a new paradigm in wireless arena. Allied still apply the ‘thin AP concept” but, instead of leaving operation to one single controller, it subs the processing in wireless to the Allied access switches. Means that the one single 24-port Allied Telesis access switch contains of 24 wireless antenna  to cover certain area. The company expert claim that the actual throughput of the wireless design approach is 450Mbps. does it look great? each of the access switch will be controlled by a master controller and the license is based based on the port switch. The most interesting part is that it can combine the 802.11n and 802.11 a/b/g user without interrupting the performance of 802.11n users, which most of the wireless vendor fail to provide.

As the apple`s founder, Steve Jobs died last week, it does not end the journey of his legacy, Iphone. Upgraded version from Iphone 4, Apple come out with the latest smartphone version, Iphone 4S. like identical?…The iPhone 4S won’t be shipping until October 14, but performance scores for the device have already begun to surface. Following reports this morning that a lucky customer received his iPhone 4S early in Germany, there have been a separate leak of Geekbench scores for the device that reveal a 73 percent faster performance than the iPhone 4.

The iPhone 4S sports a new dual-core A5 processor clocked at 800MHz, which is slightly slower than the 1GHz clock speed of the A5 processor in the iPad 2. However, the decrease doesn’t impact the performance as much as it increases the battery life.

In overall results, the Geekbench metrics show that the iPhone 4S scored a 623, which is a bit behind the iPad 2′s score of 751, but way ahead of the iPhone 4′s score of 360. In graphics processing, the iPhone 4S scored 122.7, while the iPhone 4 scored only 15.3.

The results also reveal that the iPhone 4S beats several major Android competitors, including the Samsung Galaxy S II, the LG Optimus 3D, and the Motorola Droid Bionic, which all feature higher clock speeds.

Eventhough we have 2 GHz Processor with 1 GB RAM embedded to our smartphone, together with 128 GB Memory, it is still useless for video viewing. Dont say it is sufficient to have 480×800 wvga to watch your favourite movie, and HD some more. The solution for this is might be a projector embedded inside the smartphone. In fact, this is the most potential feature in the future war of mobile gadget. The feature would allow video to be projected on a wall as a 60-inch HD output, for example, maybe even larger. The problem with adding such functionality is one of size, power, and heat. At the moment the projector components are too big, they require a lot of power, and generate a lot of heat. That makes them unsuitable for inclusion in the tiny, cramped enclosure of an iPhone or Droid.

Alps Electric is trying to solve that problem though, and has just announced the world’s smallest aspherical glass lens. It measures just 1mm x 1mm. Such lenses are used in high-capacity communication networks. The glass lens is used in optical communications for transmitting light signals to optical fibres, but those same lenses are also ideal for use in projectors.

Alps’ latest aspherical lens is called the FLGS3. Not only is it incredibly small, but it has a high coupling efficiency (measure of light transmission efficiency) of 73% over the previous 68%. What that means is you need less light to gain the same level of brightness. Less light means less power and less heat.The gains from the new lens mean that palm-sized projectors may no longer require the Peltier device–metal component used to help dissipate heat–therefore making them smaller and cheaper. The savings in power will also mean you can use the projector for longer on a single battery charge.

Even if the savings don’t turn out to be enough for use in smartphones, it should see a reduction in size of new, dedicated palm-sized projectors in future. Alps has already started production of the new glass lens, and definitely sees them being used in consumer devices as it ramps up production to 100,000 per month by the end of 2011.

If the tiny mini-mobile projector really works, then we should thing how the battery size should be. Projecting a continuous image should require a lot of power and are we really want to charge our mobile all the time?

Just within one day, 1one million copies has been downloaded for the new Apple OS X Lion. In addition to three other products, Apple released OS X Lion yesterday, an update to the Mac operating system that has be in the making since 2009. It seems that there were quite a few people waiting for the OS X release–apparently Lion was downloaded over 1 million times yesterday. That sets Mac OS X 10.7 as the fastest downloaded OS in Apple’s history.

Coincidentally, when Apple launched the Mac App Store back in January, it too received 1 million downloads in its first 24 hours. Lion was made available yesterday in the Mac App Store for $29.99, which was also a first for Apple since it used to offer a physical copy of the software available in its retail stores. However, customers had only one choice if they wanted Lion on the first day of its release, and that was the Mac App Store.

Apple is getting their torque and now moving faster while Microsoft is still looking for the suitable nut to tight their loose 7.

Nokia Corp has completed a deal to outsource its Symbian software development to Accenture, including the transfer of 2,800 workers to the global management-consulting firm.

The announcement came two months after Nokia disclosed the plan as part of its aim to cut costs by US$1.5bil by 2013, including 7,000 global layoffs, and catch up with top rivals in the tough smartphone market.

The Finland-based company faces strong competition from Research in Motion’s Blackberry, Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android, as it continues to see market share fall. Last month it issued a big profits warning.

Nokia’s share price has plunged in recent months and recently has been trading at multi-year lows of around US$6.05.

Nokia said Accenture PLC will provide it with software services through 2016 with the personnel transfer expected in October when the deal closes. Half of the workers are based in Finland with another 1,400 in China, India, Britain and the United States.

Besides the personnel transfer, Nokia has said it plans to lay off 4,000 people by the end of next year, mostly in Denmark, Finland and Britain.

Since 1998, Nokia has been the biggest seller of cellphones, but in the first quarter of this year Apple overtook it as the world’s top handset vendor in revenue terms - reaching sales of US$11.9bil on shipments of 18.6 million devices against Nokia’s revenue of US$9.4bil on shipments of 108.5 million units.

Although Nokia sold 432 million devices last year - more than its three closest rivals combined - its market share continues to fall. At 29% in the first quarter, it’s at its lowest level since the late 1990s.

Why Meego?

Nokia has unveiled its N9 smartphone, based on its new MeeGo platform, but the handset received mixed reviews as markets are waiting to see the company’s first Windows Phone.

Elop has said that the Windows-based phone will be launched later this year with bulk sales expected in 2012.

In February, Nokia announced a major strategy shift when it partnered with Microsoft Corp, saying it will gradually replace Symbian and MeeGo platforms with the Window-based software that will become the main software used in its cellphones.

Demand on a big storage is already exploding. People are now no more playing with Gigabyte space but Terabyte is becoming norm nowadays. As the storage size is increasing, the data acess flow, access efficiency, and data storage management has become more and more crucial. Dell decided to take over Compellent technologies Inc in order to strengthen their Enterprise Data Storage. With Dell Compellent, enterprise can manage data efficiently via Fluid data architecture, in which capable to deliver better performance with less disk, power and space. Fluid Data technology enbale managing the storage at most granular level together with its built-in system intelligent to enable the dynamic flow of enterprise data. The term fluid does not mean that water take part into the process, or even the technology itself. The name is driven by the dynamically and intelligently flow of enterprise data storage to the different level of speed of storage process and vice versa.

The approach is based on the tiering concept; for an example tier 1 consist of SSD, tier 2 consist of 15K fibre channel, and tier 3 consist of 7200 SATA. The active data will be dinamically moved to the faster storage (SSD) while the passive data will be dynamically allocated at the 7200 SATA storage. Managing data at the block level also enables Dell Compellent to virtualize storage at the disk level. Enterprise storage virtualization not only consolidates resources and reduces disk costs, but dramatically increases system flexibility. Administrators no longer need to allocate particular drives to specific servers. Instead, an advanced storage virtualization engine creates a shared pool of storage spanning all the drives in the system. Storage is presented to servers simply as capacity, regardless of disk type,RAID level or server connectivity. In short, all storage resources are available to all servers all the time.

Last but not least, Dell Compellent offer an advanced, space-efficient snapshot technology to produce instant recovery in cae of having data error or disaster. The most interesting is that, compare with traditional sapshot which require storage space yet limit to couple of hundered times, Compellent continous doing unlimited snapshot without squandering storage resources. Hence, by leveraging Fluid Data technology in the data center, organizations can significantly lower the cost of managing enterprise data throughout its lifecycle.

Nique

Communication Labs, IIUM