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Japan has tested two separate 100 terabit per second data links that use single optical fiber to carry their loads. New Scientist reports that the NEC scholars stuffed the light from 370 lasers into 165 kilometres of fiber to achieve a speed of 101.7 Tbps, while NICT researchers set a new record of 109 Tbps using a special fiber with seven cores to manage it.
Gigabytes S1080 tablet landed in Taiwan this month, is getting ready to hit US. The 10.1-inch Windows 7 tablet stopped by FCC, it got cracked open, and had its silicon-packed innards exposed for camera. The specs are still the same; it features dual-core Atom, 320GB HDD, and so on. We havent heard anything about the price drop yet.
The iPad2 lands in India after a month just over US launch. Its getting launched in 12 countries along with India. It will be launched on April 28th on Japan and April 29th on other 12 countries, including India, Hong Kong, Israel, Korea, Macau, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Turkey, and UAE. China is also expected to get its iPad2 on May 6th. The iPad2 was starting at a base price of Rs.29, 500 and goes up to Rs.46, 900. The prices and according models are shown below.
If you are looking for biggest, fastest hard drive around, I-O Data now introduced the HDCA UT3.0K external hard drive, offers USB3.0 support and 3TB of storage, as company notes, makes it an ideal companion for TVs with a USB recording mode. It struggles to resist to charm of its blue LED and the possibility of owning more storage that you will ever need. It will be released in mid may, costs $324.
Now the opportunity to let the FCC read youre thoughtful, reasoned take on how a GSM monopoly in US might or might not work. To comment, simply visit the source links below of FCC, has some handy forms one for short comments, one for long one and one for with the magic number of the related proceeding, which is 11-65. Let them know just how you will be impacted if the deal goes through, for better or for worse.
The first of Lenovos CES announced S-series, S205, came to the online store this week, albeit lacking the 8GB DDR3 SDRAM option mentioned as its announcement. The base model priced at $499, features a 1.60GHz dual-core AMD Fusion E-350 CPU, 11.6-inch 1366*768 resolution 16:9 widescreen panel, 3GB DDR3 SDRAM, ATI Mobility Radeon 6310 Graphics, and a 350GB hard disk. Two higher cost configurations scored an extra gig of RAM, optional Bluetooth radio, and a 500GB or 750GB HDD. At logic buy the base model is priced at $429 until Wednesday. To get your IdeaPad go to the source links.
The Toshibas upcoming Honeycomb tablet is already headed to Japanese store as Regza AT300, but its been a little slower in arriving stateside. Now the company could be close to shipping real, working product in US. The unnamed slate dubbed the ET100/WT100 for now, it has won the FCC approval for its 802.11n, and Bluetooth radios. The slate features 10.1-inch 1280*800 display, runs on NVIDIAs Tegra2 platform, dual cameras, HDMI and USB ports, an SD card reader, and a removable battery.
Verizon document suggests that will be getting some brand new radio firmware for beleaguered HTC Thunderbolt. The device is not only fallen victim Verizon LTE outage but has 3G data and CDMA / LTE cycling issues since day one. So we lets hope this latest baseband will bring atleast a modicum of relief for affected speed demons across the country. But we dont know when this patch will show up we thought the Xooms security update would be imminent.
With the updated code comes tablet friendly layouts and fast-scrolling in all grid and list views so you can zip through your large local media library. It also includes direct play, internet streaming, sans-transcoding for sating those right now vid carvings. The update is also for small Android devices as well, which makes the newly egalitarian app more enticing than ever before. It costs only five bucks. Get your Plex app by clicking on the source link.
The new J1772 to Roadster Connector bridges the Roadsters 2008 designed charge port to the industry standard J1772, adopted by automakers and energy firms over a full year after its debut. The coupling cable will juice up your wheels in just 4 hours at EV stations outputting 70 amps, or in seven and half an hours for the average 32 amp level-2 charger and this costs you at $750. For your order of the new Tesla J1772 click on the source link.
The Skinny device that is Bluetooth keyboard KT-1087 popped up on Federal Communications site, stripped naked for government filling enthusiasts of the world to collectively ogle. That hopefully means the rest of us will see the wireless add-on for sale in the near future, AA battires not included it will sure go nicely with the HP TouchPad you have been eyeing.
The Sony is offering the one of the best cameras now: Bloggie 3D. The latest addition to the companys line of pocket camcorders was made available this week for $249.99 a $80 more than recently released Bloggie Duo HD, because extra dimensions isnt cheap. The camera takes a cue from Nintendos latest portable, features 2.4-inch 3D display that eschews the need for glasses. If you are not in the mood to squint, you can output the video to a 3D enabled HDTV. For your orders click on the source link
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