Google Chrome Laptop: On The Web In Less Than 50 seconds! (video)

December 16, 2010

It took less than 50 seconds, from the time I hit the on/off button on Google’s CR-48 laptop to the display of the first Web page. And probably, the longest time was me entering my super secret unhackable password :-)

Very impressive. Faster than Windows 7 and perhaps even MacOS X, on a good day!

Too bad that the external ports (USB, Ethernet, VGA) on the Chrome notebook are not working – it’s still a prototype – as of today. Also, there’s no optical drive (who needs one now with the Web anyway!) and no keyboard backlighting. Otherwise, it’ll look like a black MacBook!

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Cell Phone Industry Adopts micro-USB Charger Standard

February 18, 2009
A thing of the past: the universal phone charger kit

A thing of the past: the universal phone charger kit

The micro-USB port will become by 2012 the unique way to charge your cell phone.

At the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, 17 wireless operators and handset makers – including AT&T, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, T-Mobile and Vodafone – agreed to standardize chargers shipped with their cell phones.

“A universal charger will also make life much simpler for the consumer, who will be able to use the same charger for future handsets, as well as being able to charge their mobile phone anywhere from any available charger,” explains the GSM Association (GSMA).

The Universal Charging Solution (UCS) uses the handset’s micro-USB port to deliver a 5 volts charge at up to 2.5 watts.

According to the GSMA, these energy-efficient chargers will result in an estimated 50 per cent reduction in standby energy consumption, 50 per cent less chargers being manufactured each year, resulting in the potential elimination of up to 51,000 tonnes of duplicate chargers.

UCS is good for the environment, cheaper to make and more convenient for the consumer. Now why did it take so long?

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Iomega Looks At Network Storage For Growth. Bets on Style to Compete With Seagate, Western Digital in Portable Drives. But No Adoption Of Consumer Flash Drive Before Christmas 2010

September 25, 2008
Jonathan Huberman, CEO, Iomega

Jonathan Huberman, CEO, Iomega

Beware Seagate and Western Digital, Iomega is on the come-back!

Speaking yesterday at EMC’s Innovation, Information and Security Summit held at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters in Santa Clara, Iomega CEO, Jonathan Huberman (pictured), predicted a massive consolidation of the consumer portable storage market (think USB hard drives), with only a handful of companies surviving in this cut-throat market largely dominated by the disk drive makers themselves.

“There’s only a handful of companies in this market that can invest as much as we do in R&D and marketing. The disk drive makers are investing a lot in improving aerial density not really in design, packaging, etc.”, explains Huberman.

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