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Samsung Galaxy Spica Official in Russia

 Samsung Russia officially announced the Galaxy Spica i5700 (aka GT-I5700, Galaxy Lite)Android smartphone, the little brother of the i7500 Galaxy. The Spica is powered by a 800MHz processor and 128MB  memory and runs the Google Android OS.

Samsung Galaxy Spica has a 3.2-inch touchscreen display, a 3.2 Megapixel camera, A-GPS support, built-in digital compass and Bluetooth. We can also expect WiFi support and 1GB internal memory as well as a microSD card slot.
Samsung’s Spica supports Quad-band GSM/EDGE and dual-band WCDMA/HSPA networks. The Android handset will be released in Russia in November for 14000 Rouble (US$483).

Pegatron Wall-e IPP7A-CP Nettop for Russia

Pegatron introduces in Russia the Wall-e IPP7A-CP Atom-powered nettop PC, which is just another nettop based on Pegatron’s Cape 7, like Lenovo IdeaCentre Q100/Q110, Medion Akoya Mini E2076 D, EMTEC G Box and Ruvo MiniCap 7
Pegatron Wall-e gets an Intel Atom 230 procesor and NVIDIA’s ION graphics chip. Other features are pretty standard, 2GB RAM, 2.5-inch hard drive, WiFi, DVI, USB 2.0 ports, multi-in-one card reader. It lacks HDMI port, however.

LG KM555e Clubby Mobile Phone for Russia

Other than the LG Mini, here is another new cellphone from the Korean firm, the KM555e Clubby. The KM555e sports a 3-inch 240×400 touchscreen display, a 3 Megpaixel camera, Dolby Mobile Sound, support for WiFi and a microSD card slot.
The LG Clubby supports playback of audio and video and comes with document reader for MS Office files, PDF and TXT files. It has FM tuner and offers access to LG Music Club music download service.

E-Ten Glofiish X610 for Russia

E-Ten launches its Glofiish X610 WM6 smartphone in Russia. The X610 is an updated version of the Glofiish X600. Powered by Samsung SC3 400MHz processor, the Glofiish X610 has 128MB ROM, a 2 Megapixel camera, a QVGA touchscreen display. It comes with integrated SiRF Star III GPS chipset and support for WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0 connectivity.

Dior My Dior – Luxury Phone for China, Russia

While Prada has the Prada phone with LG and Giorgio Armani has the Armani phone with Samsung. Another luxury brand, Christian Dior unveiled its luxury mobile phone, My Dior, for China and Russia market. The phone is a little bit bigger than a USB thumb drive and features a touchscreen, and camera. The phone made by ModeLabs Group and will be priced at $5000 range.

LG KP265 Music phone for Russia

LG introduces in Russia it KP265 music phone. The LG KP265 is a entry-level slider phone with a 260k color LCD screen, a 1.3 Megapixel camera, built-in music player, FM tuner and Bluetooth.

iRiver N15 MP3 Player for Russia

iRiver offers in Russia the N15 portable audio player that looks exactly the same as its brother N20. The N15 is available in 2GB or 4GB capacities. It has a PMOLED display and supports MP3, WMA, WAV, APE and FLAC files. Compare to the N20, the N15 gives up the support for OGG files and offers 12 hours of battery life that is 3 hours less.

Apple, Android to take out PC sales - Gartner

Tablets, led by the iPad, will cut increasingly into PC sales from this year onwards, according to the latest forecasts from the Gartner research firm.
While the chipmaker  Intel has predicted tablets will expand the PC market, Gartner suggests Apple and Android tablets will displace around 10 per cent of other PC sales by 2014.
Gartner said on Monday worldwide PC shipments should grow 14.3 per cent in 2010 to 352.4m units, but that is down from its prediction of 19.2 per cent growth to  367.8m units made on August 31.
It predicts 15.9 per cent growth to 409m units in 2011, down from its earlier estimate of 18.1 per cent growth.
“These results reflect marked reductions in expected near-term unit growth based on expectations of weaker consumer demand, due in no small part to growing user interest in media tablets such as the iPad,” said Ranjit Atwal, Gartner research director.
“Over the longer term, media tablets are expected to displace around 10 per cent of PC units by 2014.”
Gartner describes media tablets as touchscreen devices running Android, Chrome or Apple’s iOS operating systems and does not include them in its PC figures. It does include tablets running Windows operating systems in its figures.
The research firm says the PC market will be weakened by disruptive forces such as media tablets and next-generation smartphones. Desktop PCs could be hit by adoption of computing in the cloud, with only thin-client “barebones” PCs or refurbished ones needed.
“PCs are still seen as necessities, but the PC industry’s inability to significantly innovate and its over-reliance on a business model predicated on driving volume through price declines are finally impacting the industry’s ability to induce new replacement cycles,” said George Shiffler, another Gartner research director.
Emerging markets are providing growth, but there is a risk consumers there could leapfrog PCs for alternative devices, Gartner says.
To complete the gloom, the research firm says economic uncertainty is making consumers postpone purchases in mature markets and media tablets are “rapidly finding favour with PC buyers who are attracted to their more-dedicated entertainment-driven features and their instant-on capability.”

An iPad Project for a magazine Virgin

 

With any Virgin launch, it is worth looking for the substance behind the hype guaranteed by Sir Richard Branson’s involvement. Tuesday’s unveiling of Project, billed as  the first truly interactive magazine for the iPad age, was no exception.

Joined by Holly, his 29-year-old daughter who is leading the Project, er, project, the bearded balloonist happily played into the hands of reporters who have  billed his pitch for Apple’s tablet as a battle of the billionaires with Rupert Murdoch, whose $30m iPad “newspaper”, The Daily, is expected early next year.
“This is not a battle. This is not a war. It’s about the future of publishing,” he said, before adding the jibe that 30 years of reading Mr Murdoch’s papers convinced him that his title would win “the battle of quality”.
But what does Project offer for what editor Anthony Noguera dubbed the most exciting thing in publishing since Caxton’s printing press? The launch issue, shown off with the usual wifi glitches in a New York hotel, features a flickering cover shot of Jeff Bridges, the Tron Legacy star, who strides on to the first page of an interview which offers more video and audio clips. Other features encourage interaction with the iPad’s touch screen, to colour in a blueprint of a new Jaguar or fly through the streets of Tokyo for a travel article.
For $2.99 or £1.79, readers will (after a 10-minute download wait “on a reasonable internet connection”) get “a monthly magazine that changes daily”, Branson said, highlighting its regularly updated blog and its desire to “crowdsource” comments, editorial ideas and other content. If that sounds like a mess waiting to happen, Noguera says these will be curated.
Project needs the crowd’s help, in part because it has just 20 people, only five of them in editorial roles. The Daily, by contrast, is hiring 100-150 people. “Virgin is a cheapskate,” Branson joked, shortly after dressing up as a mannequin for a photo opp outside an Apple store. Such stunts would encourage many people with iPads waiting under this year’s Christmas tree to buy the app in order to have something to show off what it can do, he predicted.
More revealingly, Noguera said this type of magazine was “far more expensive” to produce than a comparable print title. Forget all the talk about the benefits of not having unionised printers and delivery trucks – tablet-only titles still needed “extremely well-paid” developers and faced the tedious process of redesigning their products for each new device.
Project hopes that such costs will be offset by being charging advertisers such as Lexus and Panasonic a premium for interactive ads you can swipe, tilt and play with, and boasts that it will not carry a single inanimate PDF. “It’s going to make advertising a thousand times more effective than it is now,” Branson said.
But Project is a one-off app up against the likes of Condé Nast, Hearst and Time Inc which are busy translating their well-resourced magazine brands for tablets.  Branson told Bloomberg it would be “great” if Project attracted 50,000 subscribers (one-sixteenth of the number  Murdoch told the Australian Financial Review he needs for The Daily), but his daughter was more circumspect about the size of the market. “It’s quite difficult to put a figure on. It’s virgin territory,” she said.

MacBook Air

Computer Equipment
Client: Apple (U.S.)
Design: Apple (U.S.)

The MacBook Air is a full-size 3 pound notebook encased in sleek, sturdy anodized aluminum. The 13.3-inch, widescreen LED backlit display is mercury- and arsenic-free. The keyboard is full-size and has backlit key illumination with a built-in ambient light sensor that automatically adjusts keyboard and display brightness for optimal visibility. MacBook Air also includes a built-in iSight camera and an oversized trackpad with multi-touch technology. The port hatch flips down to reveal (and closes to hide) a USB 2.0 port, headphone jack and a micro-DVI port. The Intel Core 2 Duo processor was custom-built to fit within the compact dimensions.

Bloomberg Flexible Display

Computer Equipment
Client: Bloomberg (U.S.)
Design: Antenna Design (U.S.)

This highly flexible and compact dual-head display allows subscribers to the Bloomberg Professional Service to easily adjust the screen's display height, angle, vertical and horizontal orientations for optimum use with different software tools.

Dell XPS M1330 & M1530

Computer Equipment
Client: Dell (U.S.)
Design: Dell (U.S.), M3 Design (U.S.)

The design of the M1330 and M1530 notebook computer family builds a bridge between utility and aesthetics, adding appeal to the company's reputation for utilitarian value and mass production efficiency. The design's package is as much art as tool, delivering unprecedented fit and finish, premium color choices and outstanding connectivity. The notebooks are super slim, with an elegant wedge shape made possible by a two-point barrel hinge. High-tech buttons glow blue at the lightest touch, adding responsiveness to the interface.

Belkin RockStar

Computer Equipment
Client: Belkin (U.S.)
Design: Belkin (U.S.)

RockStar is a simple device that allows up to six audio devices, speakers or headphones to be shared with one another. Input jacks are the same as output jacks, so any port can be used to put sound in or get sound out.

SonoSite S-Series portable ultrasound tools

Medical & Scientific
Client: SonoSite (U.S.)
Design: Carbon Design (U.S.), SonoSite (U.S.)

This product line is a suite of five specialized ultrasound tools customized to meet the specific needs of physicians at the point of care. With its highly simplified user interface, clinicians need only manipulate two knobs to get the image they need. Transducers, exam settings, software and algorithms are all customized to the specific clinical application. These tools are also the first ultrasound devices able to offer a zero footprint; they can be mounted on a pole, fixed on a wall or ceiling, or hand-carried to the patient, saving valuable floor space in crowded hospital and office environments.

Spyder roadster

Spyder roadster

Bronze
Transportation
Client: BRP (Canada)
Design: BRP (Canada)

The Can-AM Spyder roadster combines the open-air benefits of a motorcycle with many of the convenience features of a traditional roadster to define a new paradigm for an on-road power sport vehicle. The unique Y-architecture with three wheels (two in the front, one in the rear) provides stability at rest and in motion, balancing performance needs with safety concerns. The Vehicle Stability System, which includes ABS, traction control and stability control, comes as standard on each vehicle. This makes the Spyder roadster user-friendly and the road accessible to many people who want to enjoy the open-air experience.

Russian Submarine Appears Near the Beach

This is a city port of Severodvinsk city, the city in northern part of Russia on the shores of cold White Sea.
The city has a big marine base so sometimes people on the beach can see submarines appear from underwater right before them.
That’s not thing you would see often on other beaches of the world, it could be a set for new James Bond action movie.

Underwater Fountains of St. Petersburg

Just a few days ago the authorities of St. Petersburg city has launched the set of new fountains in the city. These ones remarkable though. Now they placed the main part of the fountain underwater, not underground, under the waters of Neva river of St. Petersburg.
Now from many points in the city people can see the new fountains, illuminated in the evening, which make different unpredictable structures with the water.

Moscow City in Fog

 Today our dish is picturesque photos taken from one of the balconies of the business complex “Mirax Plaza” in Moscow.

 So, let us begin. The Third traffic ring. Dorogomilovsky highway bridge is spanned over the Moscow river. Initially it used to be Smolensky railway bridge used to span two stations – Kutuzovo and Testovskaya on the smaller ring of the Moscow railway in Byelorussian direction. Then in 1998 with the beginning of the international centre “Moscow-City” construction the railway platform of the bridge was dismantled, its bearings were modernized and a new double-deck platform was set up: on top are the lines for cars and lower are the lines for high-speed trains from Sheremetyevo in the centre and for pedestrians on the periphery. The urban beauty as it is.

 The view of “Moscow-City” itself. On up front is the complex “Embankment tower”, it used to be the highest, now the leadership belongs to a multifunctional complex “Capital City”. As the overpass is narrowing, there is a terrible jamming in the “Moscow-City” area. And now the overpass is actively being widened.

 And here is the “Northern Tower”, one of the ugliest buildings in the Moscow International Business Centre. It is constructed in the manner of “a yacht” and it looks especially awful when multi-colored lighting is on. It seems that the terrible giant starts smiling with its toothless wonder smile. Cute colorful lights, cheap composite panels, merry blue glass, what else for the modern Moscow architecture? Only such a tutti-frutti picture.

 The traffic interchange of Kutuzovsky Avenue with the Third traffic ring. That is a unique for Moscow five-level system providing traffic of cross transportation flow. The Moscow wonder has been built for 23 months.

 Many design conceptions are rather enigmatic. Thus it is not clear what for these nice sheds have been made. And what is the purpose of these flowerbeds, benches and alleys on the junctions? It is really hard to imagine people who would like to take a walk here.

 By the way, the skyscrapers are very beautiful in fog embracing their upper floors. Time seems to stop when you look at it. But the fog won’t prevent us from peeping in the windows. Well, what’s there? Let’s zoom in a little. Aha, the working day is over but someone is still on the “groupmates” website.. And let us not have a look in the windows of the government house…for some ethical reasons. We’d better admire the foggy scenery again, all the same – the skyscrapers in the fog are gorgeous.

iPad As A Strike Banner

Probably everybody will agree that iPad is the most popular device among the famous politicians from various countries.

Mayor of NY Michael Bloomberg worships his iPad, and David Cameron, the prime minister of the UK hooked his whole family on the Apple device. Russian political parties also shift to the iPhone’s elder brother, rejecting paper data carriers.

Lithuanian workers in their turn went on a political strike. It might seem ordinary action by Russia’s southwestern neighbors if it wasn’t for an iPad used as a banner.

iPhone Music files - Find Cheap Music Service

Affordable iPhone music downloads is a favorite of hundreds of thousands of users. As the owner of the latest cool gadget, you may not know that there are now dozens of download services that are ready to share the pie with iTunes. For a fee, you can now enjoy iPhone music downloads to your heart. But how do you know which service to choose?

If you have money to spare, go ahead and subscribe to services, how much you need. But I suspect that we want to find something that suits your needs for quality music. Well, there are several established and reliable services that offer not only music, but also other media content, such as downloading movies, videos, software and much more. Well, you're ready to see what to look when buying download service?

1. The cost of the song

Music Stores on the Internet, or pay for a song or download a membership fee for access to the life of your music library. Payment for the download is losing its luster, as the participants seemed to be more affordable options and alternatives to save money. Very often, you can access a lot of iPhone music downloads once you pay a monthly fee of $ 49.99 or less.

2. The size and type of Media Collection

Since we are looking for songs that would be great to find one that comes with a collection of different genres. This means that you can find your favorite brand of music and sang songs from your favorite artists, like Britney Spears, Jennifer Lopez, Beyonce, and so on. Few of them also offer movies, videos and games.

3. Easy to use area navigation

Not all sites music downloads for iPhone are the same in this aspect. Would you like to choose a service member with an easy navigation allows quick search and found the name of the song. Some of them are easy and fast, others painfully slow. His assessment of the best non-member is to see how your site is well done. Fortunately for you, I have listed several services easy to navigate member navigation area may be considered. You want to choose one that provides the necessary free downloading and file conversion software.

4. Customer Service and Support

False bucket shops that have the money and go on their own. This does not apply to services commissioned iPhone to download music, which comes with a satisfaction guarantee that support will be provided at any time. Imagine being stuck in some technical problems on Friday night, and wait several days before receiving any assistance. This fall! Contrast that with a professional who comes to his rescue in a few hours.

Now that you know more, it's time to go hunting for good service, which provides a constant stream of music downloads on the iPhone available. To learn more about the current top favorite among users, refer to my music blog.

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