Kingston first to release Advanced Memory

Although netbook computers are not even close in terms of performance
to mainstream notebooks, they are quite popular on the market. Despite
of the fact that those machines are hardly meant to perform, some
companies believe that the upgrade market for netbooks is about to
establish itself. Kingston seems to be among the first who believe in
upgrades for netbooks as it announced advanced 2GB memory module for
such systems.

Kingston HyperX PC2-4200 SO-DIMM memory module with 2GB capacity can
operate at 533MHz with CL3 3-3-8 latency settings and standard
voltage. The module is aimed at netbooks featuring Intel Atom
processor as well as Intel 945 GSE core-logic that does not support
DDR2 memory with higher than 533MHz clock-speed.

Unlike many upgrades, Kingston's is not too expensive and the module
costs just $35, which should not be considered high even given the
price of a netbook. The question is whether applications typically run
on ultra low-cost personal computers demand 2GB of memory and take
advantage of them.

New Specialized Intel Atom Processor Targets

Advancing innovation around the Intel Atom processor with a goal to
target additional market segments, Intel Corporation today announced
four unique versions of processors and two new system controller hub
additions to the company's "embedded" business division product
line-up. The new products for the Intel Atom processor Z5xx series
include industrial-temperature options, as well as different
package-size choices better suited for in-car infotainment devices,
media phones, eco-technologies and other industrial-strength
applications.

The low-power Intel Atom processor is behind much of Intel's growth
into several new computing-related market segments, extending the
popular Intel architecture to embedded industries such as automotive
in-vehicle infotainment (IVI), industrial control and automation, and
media phones. These products also enable market segment innovation
through advancements in integrated 2-D and 3-D graphics, video
acceleration and support for multiple operating systems including
several versions of Windows and Linux.

"With the addition of these new products, we can bring the benefits of
Intel processors to new applications, devices and customers who
develop products used in unconstrained thermal environments with
low-power in mind," said Doug Davis, vice president, Digital
Enterprise Group and general manager, Embedded and Communications
Group, Intel. "Meeting the needs of embedded environments and new
market segments will play a large role in delivering the connectivity
and functionality necessary as the number of devices connecting to the
embedded Internet is expected to grow to an estimated 15 billion
devices by 2015," Davis added, citing a January report by IDC's John
Gantz titled "The Embedded Internet: Methodology and Findings."

The Intel Atom processor is the company's smallest built with the
world's smallest and most energy-efficient transistors. Intel's
30-year-old embedded computing division focuses on machines, devices
and equipment that have computing and Internet capabilities but are
not traditional PCs, laptops or servers. Intel offers an extended
7-year lifecycle for those areas that require longer product refresh
cycles such as IVI.

"Intel is well known for innovation and we're excited to see them
introducing new low-power consumption Intel Atom processors targeted
for in-vehicle systems," said Greg Baribault, director of product
management for the Automotive Business Unit at Microsoft*. "Intel Atom
processors and the Microsoft Auto software platform will provide
scalability for the new era of advanced in-vehicle solutions."

An iPhone remote for Mac Media-center

"I've been impatiently waiting for the arrival of the new Mac Mini, so
I could run out and buy one to use as my living-room media center. So
on Tuesday, I did just that. (Yes, I left work and walked down to the
local Apple Store on day one, put down my credit card and left with a
Mac in a bag. Told you I was impatient.) Then I went home and attached
it to my high-definition TV. It looks great, and the Apple Remote
works well with the built-in Front Row software to display media files
on my hard drive and in my iTunes library.

But the Apple Remote only goes so far. When I wanted to watch a TV
show on Hulu, I had to break out a wireless keyboard and mouse. And
not only do I not want a keyboard and mouse floating around my living
room, but after a few minutes of mousing my wrist really began to
ache. (As a designer by trade, I use a pen and tablet as my pointing
device at work.)"

Now, there are plenty of VNC-style screen-sharing apps on the App
Store, programs that let you see any Mac's screen and control it
remotely. But my TV is plenty big enough. I didn't need to duplicate
the Mac mini's screen on my iPhone, I just needed to control the
cursor and type in a few short items.

When Air Mouse Pro is running, the top half of the iPhone's screen is
a two-button trackpad, similar to the one you'll find on any Mac
laptop. The bottom half of the screen is for other input methods you
can toggle between--there's a full iPhone-style keyboard, a set of
media controller buttons, web-browser buttons, and a configurable set
of function keys.

MacA&D 3.0 for Requirements Management

Excel Software began shipping MacA&D 3.0 for system analysts, software
designers and programmers. The new software is a Universal Binary
application for native performance on all Mac OS X computers. It has
enhancements to the user interface, integrated help, manual set,
report scripting engine, installer plus new features to add, remove,
duplicate and individually lock or unlock editing on diagrams.

System Models & Simulation - Draw causal loop diagrams with equations
and graph simulated results.

Requirements Management - Define, trace, manage, customize and report
requirements.

Software Design - Automate UML, structured analysis & design, database
design and multi-task design.

Code Generation - Create procedural, object-oriented and SQL code from
models and dictionary.

Models from Code - Capture structure charts, class diagrams and data
models from code with MacTranslator.

Reports - Generate standard and scriptable reports, import and export
text or output image and PDF files.

Team Development - Integrate requirements, specifications, models,
code and multi-user documents.

Choose the best mix of software models for each development project.
MacA&D supports process, data, class, state, structure, object and
task models with popular methods and extensive customization. Create
language independent models or generate source code for C++,
Objective-C, Java, Delphi, PHP, SQL, C, Pascal, Basic and Fortran.
MacA&D scales to large projects, multiple users, distributed team
development and the integration of thousands of documents across the
development process.

Requirement entries are defined as structured information in a dialog
controlled by a user-defined template of field and value choices.
Requirements can link to any target document, diagram or specific
diagram objects with two-way traceability. Easily create, navigate and
maintain links between thousands of requirement entries and
deliverables. Information is presented through user-defined views,
queries and reports.

Wavecom and Telenor Connexion Combine

Wavecom and Telenor Connexion today announce the signing of an
agreement that will allow the two companies to offer a solution that
provides easy accessibility to Telenor's network with Wavecom Wireless
CPU® devices by embedding the Telenor Connexion SIM component into the
Wavecom devices. This solution targets high-volume applications such
as telematics systems for automotive, on-board equipment for
intelligent transport systems and smart meters for utility companies.

"Following the launch of Telenor Connexion last October, this
agreement with Wavecom will be a step forward in meeting the new
company's goal to spearhead global expansion of telematics and M2M
communication. We are focused on supplying every customer throughout
the world with a contract for connectivity tailored to their specific
business needs.

Microsoft on Internet Explorer 8 to remove

Microsoft has taken another step to hedge its Windows bets in case the
European Commission lowers the boom on Redmond's browser-bundling
practices.

Recently it has been bolted there appeared of Windows 7, namely
Windows 7 bolted 7048. In these it sees to that Microsoft has a
listening ear for the European Commission, because Internet Explorer 8
can be removed in this version of the control system.

Users of new bolted observed that Microsoft possibly it has made to
give an option to the user to remove Internet Explorer 8 from Windows.
The executable are only removed, because the remaining data still lags
behind on the hard disk.

By means of a window in the new bolted of Windows 7, Windows Features
called, Microsoft enables users to indicate if by means of a check
mark the feature must be yes or no used. Internet Explorer 8 is
retrieve

One thinks that Microsoft its dominant position on the market abused
by installing Internet Explorer with Windows. The last time charges
against the company have been because of this question. Other
browsers, such as Firefox and opera, the dupe will become of this
action of Microsoft according to the charges. The European Commission
must pronounce still a sentence concerning this matter. There a chance
exists that the European Commission forces Microsoft the other install
browsers also at a new installation of Windows.

Intel developed Antenna for Digital TV

Intel researchers have developed the world's first embedded balanced
antenna for digital TV. This patent-pending Intel innovation will
enable on-the-go users to watch digital television on their laptop
without the need for an external antenna. Eliminating the external
antenna reduces the number of items to purchase.