Category: Battery technology

May 31 2010

Despite Intel backing, MeeGo Linux to support ARM chips

MeeGo Linux is being developed as a platform for smartphones, netbooks, internet connected TVs, in-car systems, and other devices where Windows may not always be the best option. The project is backed by chip-maker Intel and smartphone maker Nokia. And so far, every device I’ve seen running MeeGo has had an Intel chip — usually a low power Intel Atom processor.

But in an interview with The Inquirer, Nokia vice president Alberto Torres explained that MeeGo is an open platform and that it will be available for device makers to use on a wide variety of hardware. In fact, Nokia’s first MeeGo device will have an ARM-based chip rather than an Intel x86 processor.

Nokia plans to release its first MeeGo product by the end of the year, but it’s possible that we could see other hardware makers bring devices to market using the mobile operating system sooner than that. MeeGo 1.0 for netbooks was released last week, and while there isn’t a lot of third party software designed specifically for the OS yet, it does run quite well on an Atom-powered netbook.

Apr 30 2010

Ultra-thin aesthetic + piano ASUS MS a continuous arrival

Asus MS-Series on the market, with its ultra-thin on a bit of luxury and unique design caused many LCD fans concerned about it. Today I start to introduce a series of fashion as the MS product MS202D, now offer 1,299 yuan business.

ASUS MS202D LCD to the author’s first impression is that it supports and other series monitors are not the same, feels like a lot of digital photo frame amplification is very suitable place in the bedroom, very decorative, adding to the simple life a touch of elegant atmosphere. The current 1,299 yuan, change is not great, like friends, attention can be sustained and timely start when the price is right.

ASUS MS202D the appearance of liquid crystal displays

From the appearance, the ASUS MS202D LCD with 16.7mm ultra-slim body, its unique three-dimensional ring of the base design, can be adjusted to body tilt. Piano paint beautiful, pure white decorative body, is the overall look is stylish yet elegant. Performance, ASUS MS202D have 1600 × 900 resolution, and up to 50000:1 dynamic contrast ratio, 5ms response time so that the different scenarios and environments more realistic color display, users get the most perfect visual experience. Interfaces, the ASUS MS202D only a D-Sub interface, but the practical effects of the impact is not great.

Apr 23 2010

Firmware version 1.3 includes a web browser, faster page turning, a few Android games, and a Read in Store feature

The Barnes & Noble Nook is first and foremost an eBook reader. But it’s powered by Google Android and it has a color touchscreen display in addition to the e-Ink screen for reading eBooks. It’s kind of just been begging for a few apps beside the eBook reader, and today Banes & Noble pushed out a new firmware update for the Nook that starts to turn this eBook reader into a multfunction device.

Firmware version 1.3 includes a web browser, faster page turning, a few Android games, and a Read in Store feature. The Read in Store features sounds pretty awesome, since it will let you flip through the pages of any eBook available through the Barnes & Noble electronic store when you’re in a bricks and mortar store. The books will disappear from your device when you leave the store, so it’s kind of like sitting in the coffee shop at a Barnes & Noble with a stack of books you picked up from the shelves and checking them out to see if you want to purchase them to take home.

The web browser is clearly going to be a bit limited, since the Nook has an e-Ink display that can’t show color, and can’t play video. But now you can use the Nook to login to WiFi hot spots that require you to check a box on a web page first. And you can read newspaper web sites, blogs, or other content on the e-Ink display while using the color screen on the bottom of the device to navigate.

The first Android apps available for the Nook are Soduku and Chess. Hopefully we’ll see more apps in future updates.

Nook users can find instructions on applying the update at nook.com/update.

Apr 16 2010

Quanta showcases WiMAX netbook overall

Nicole from Netbook News got a chance to check out a netbook prototype from a subsidiary of Quanta at the WiMAX Forum in Taipei recently. The defining feature of this laptop is probably the fact that it has a built in WiMAX modem, which means you can connect to 4G mobile broadband networks without a USB dongle. But the thing about built in wireless components is they don’t really give you much to look at… the netbook is somewhat generic looking overall.

But it does have an interesting keyboard with wide, flat keys. It looks kind of like the keyboards Acer is using on its 11.6 inch laptops, but the keyboard features a double-sized Enter key and a small shift key on the left side of the keyboard, with a full sized shift key on the right.

Quanta doesn’t sell computers under its own name — but the company manufactures PCs for other big name computer vendors. So it’s possible that we could see this netbook show up with a different brand name eventually

Apr 15 2010

PhoneGap framework fine for App Store development, sez Apple

Now, we’ve all been concerned about recent updates to the iPhone dev agreement — you haven’t been sleeping and your parents are, quite frankly, worried for your sanity. And it’s a heady subject: “what is the fate of PhoneGap in the wake of the iPhone OS 4 beta SDK?” Well, worry no more, little one — it seems that Jesse Macfadyen, a contributor to the project, pinged Apple to make sure that users of the mobile development platform wouldn’t find their apps rejected simply for using the tool. As you remember, the agreement states: “Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine” (and of course HTML and CSS are cool), so PhoneGap — which indeed sticks to HTML, CSS and Javascript — is totally safe. Now developers can get back to having their apps rejected for any number of other silly reasons.

Apr 09 2010

what you can do with an Asus Eee netbook Keyboard

Asus has been teasing us with a computer-in-a-keyboard called the Eee Keyboard since early last year. The computer has yet to make it to market, but Asus did put out a short promotional video this week that shows just what you would do with a device like the Eee Keyboard.

Basically, the Eee Keyboard is a home entertainment computer. It doesn’t have a powerful processor or graphics for playing hardcore video games or transcoding video. Instead, it features netbook-like specs that are good enough for surfing the web and performing other light weight tasks, including watching web video or streaming local video over a home network.

The Eee Keyboard connects to a TV or monitor over a wireless HDMI connection, which makes it easy to sit on a couch or bed and watch YouTube on your TV set. The keyboard also has a built in touchscreen LCD, but it’s not large enough to function as a primary display. Instead, it’s a secondary display that you can use to launch applications and load widgets such as a weather app.

Asus has said that the Eee Keyboard should be available soon… and the release of this video shows that the company is at least getting ready to start marketing the unusual device. But there’s still no word on retail availability.

Apr 01 2010

Malta PC-91013 new netbok

You don’t see a lot of Malata netbooks in the US. This company typically sells computers in China. But the US Federal Communications Commission has posted documents related to the Malata PC-91013 today, which means there’s a chance this little guy could end up in the US at some point.

The netbook has a 10 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor which isn’t really enough to make it stand out from the crowd. It also packs 802.11b/g/n WiFi, a 1.3MP webcam, and measures 10.3″ x 7″ x 1.5″. The netbook weighs about 2.9 pounds.

Wireless Goodness predicts that the netbook will be rebadged and sold under a different brand name before it goes on sale in the US, and that seems like a reasonable assumption.

You can find more photos after the break,

Mar 29 2010

The battery industry, technological upgrading and environmental pressures increase

China Battery Industry Association pointed out that the past two decades, the rapid development of China’s battery industry has now become the world’s largest battery producer and consumer countries, but faces a difficult technological upgrading and environmental pressures.

In 1988, China’s annual output of 5.984 billion batteries, battery exports 947 million and exports worth 038 million U.S. dollars, by 2007, China’s battery production reached 33.7 billion, exports amounted to 25.168 billion and exports 8.046 billion U.S. dollars . Battery output has more than half of world production. Lithium-ion battery, Ni-MH batteries, solar cells and other new energy sources to form industrial battery products, fuel cells, super capacitors to achieve the rapid development of the study. 2007 sales reached 164 billion yuan of China’s battery, the battery number of firms over 3000, has formed a complete battery industry in the national economy has an important position and role. travelmate 290 battery , travelmate 4000 battery .

However, the battery industry currently faces a larger domestic and international pressure. As countries around the world to improve environmental protection requirements, and some developed countries have stopped the lead, cadmium, nickel and other nonferrous metal production in the country, resulting in soaring prices of some products, so that the lower the cost of battery production enterprises increased substantially.  travelmate 2300 battery , aspire 1680 battery .

In addition, from 2004, the export tax rebate rate of the battery began to drop year by year, starting in 2006, lead-acid batteries, mercury oxide battery was canceled the export tax rebate policy, which also reduced the export competitiveness of the battery business.

In recent years, in order to meet environmental requirements, manufacturers increase
Canadian investment in environmental protection, resulting in operating costs.  aspire 1410 battery ,travelmate 4500 battery.

China Battery Industry Association said the association will actively guide the enterprises to adjust product structure, the direction of the development of diversified, and actively improve the production process, speed up the pace of eliminating backward production capacity as soon as possible transition to the production of efficient, environmentally friendly and energy-saving battery direction, promote the sustainable development of the battery industry.  acer lcbtp03003 ,acer aspire 1300, acer btp-aqj1 , acer btp-arj1 ,asus a42-a3.

Mar 29 2010

Economic crisis, the unemployment problem in the battery industry

After the global financial crisis, it is generally an important issue of concern is that the financial crisis and the ensuing economic crisis will not be transmitted to the community, will not lead to social crises? This is the most important issue is unemployment. fujitsu laptop battery,fujitsu fpcbp80 , fujitsu fpcbp77 .

Financial crisis, the unemployment problem is occurring in our employment pressure is already a great background. The present case, the migrant workers and university graduates has become a deteriorating employment situation in two of the largest group of victims. In fact, the coastal export large volumes of business failures, unemployment, migrant workers as early as in the global financial crisis began before the outbreak of large-scale, owing mainly to the dollar, yuan appreciation, export tax rebate cancellation, in particular the tightening monetary policy, corporate lending tension. The impact of financial crisis on China after the occurrence and further critical of the situation. It is estimated that by the end of 2008, the number of returning migrant workers may be more than 10 million people. Fresh college graduates in 2009 will reach 6.1 million, plus there is no employment in the calendar year, more than 7 million graduates need to address the unemployment problem. fujitsu fpcbp68 , fujitsu fpcbp63 , fujitsu fpcbp95.

White-collar or middle class than the unemployment problem appears to migrant workers with the focus, the size of the former is not as big, but because these people a unique position in society, their social impact of unemployment may be even greater. Of particular note is the white-collar or middle class One of the characteristics of unemployment is the unemployment caused in the course of their job instability and job insecurity, a sense of far more than the actual unemployment situation, therefore, this part of the unemployment caused by occupational panic and crisis of confidence, it will be even more serious, and may thus lead to serious social problems. The image that, eventually, employment is reduced by one position, there may be 10 people going through short-term unemployment or job changes, 100 people produce work of insecurity. Linked with this is that the confidence of the community received a heavy blow. In China, as middle-class household debt ratio is generally high, many people have a large need for a monthly mortgage repayment, so the impact of the instability of work would be enormous. acer laptop battery
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Governments, in response to the economic crisis, one must consider the important question is how to protect employment, at least not overly worsening the unemployment problem. The Chinese government recently introduced a series of response measures, one of which is to solve the employment problem.

Generally speaking, the problem of unemployment depends on two factors: First, population structure and the annual entry into the labor age population ratio; Second, economic growth. Experts have been in accordance with national demographic situation in order to guarantee economic growth, employment growth in labor force based on the needs to define a recession over the critical point of national economies: China 8%, India 6%; other developments in China 3% -5%, Europe and the United States and other developed countries 0%. at home, but also the formation of such a general consensus that China’s economic growth rate must protect more than 8%, otherwise the problem of unemployment would be worse. There is a saying that economic growth fell by 1% each, it will be an increase of about 10 million unemployed people. Therefore, to maintain growth response to the problem of unemployment has become the most important measures. acer btp-58a1 , ace btp-60a1 , travelmate 240 series battery.

However, the relationship between economic growth and employment, not just depend on the rate of economic growth, but also depends on economic growth model. Sometimes, the impact of the latter is even more important. Thus, 8% economic growth and employment, there is no fixed relationship between the. Data show that the marginal increase in the different industrial sectors input 1 million, can be formed is not the same employment opportunities, commercial drink industry to improve employment 0.247, while including metal manufacturing, electric power, machinery manufacturing, chemicals, etc., re – chemical industry are less than 0.05. Strengthening entrepreneurship and SME financing, policy support would mean the creation of many employment opportunities. Therefore, how to deal with the financial crisis, measures to ensure the growth of the real implementation of the expansion of employment up, is currently an urgent problem to be solved.  ace btp-52ew , ace btp-63d1 ,acer batcl50l.

Mar 26 2010

Sanyo Electric released the ground when riding rechargeable electric bicycle, driving distance to extend the 53%

Sanyo Electric has released the ground when riding through the recovery of the electricity generated by the motor for the lithium-ion rechargeable battery,Sony for electric bicycle (Figure 1). According to this model, called “energy-saving charge mode” and the auxiliary power larger “power mode (Power Mode)” compared to extend the driving range of approximately 53% (Figure 2). The car with 26-inch “CY-SPL226″ and 24-inch “CY-SPL224″ two, prices are ¥ 157,290. Will be held April 21, 2010 on sale.

Of the original model can be recovered during braking or downhill power. However, Teng Chiao pedal on the ground when the charging function is not available. This time the newly developed energy-saving charging mode, even in the plains on the road can also be charged (Figure 3). Under normal circumstances, driving in the plains state of charging, the pedal is more heavy, so the rider will increase the burden,VGP-BPS2VGP-BPS2A, but the new car “in order to minimize the impact on the feeling of driving, will monitor the driving status, and to ms for the to determine the timing recovery unit “(consumer electronics company Sanyo Electric Appliance Division, including the Ministry of Planning and Manpower Planning, Minister of two-wheelers of goods Tetsuya Taniguchi).

Charge condition is to prevent the shaking in 5 seconds after the start, but also to achieve the speed of 7km / h or more. Of course, even in energy-saving charge mode, if the start uphill and speed up the auxiliary power is required, the same can be automatically switched to motor-assisted drive mode. Traveling time and help regeneration switching, VGP-BPL2VGP-BPL2C,can embed crank torque sensor to detect the pedal pedal power, the use of motor speed calculated by the speed and acceleration through the speed calculated to determine and control (Figure 4). For example, the hard phases of acceleration will not carry out electrical regeneration. “As hard phases of acceleration when the acceleration will be increased, this time in order to avoid electrical regeneration, would limit the recovery of power following an acceleration carry out the” (consumer electronics company Sanyo Electric Appliance Division, Department of Manufacturing Technology 2 omnibus Minister of dry self-denial) .

In addition to saving outside the charge mode, this new additional features include battery power is left to inform the rider with less “Electricity Storage (Power Reserve)” function (Figure 4). Battery remaining capacity is about 1Ah, they will stop using the auxiliary power provided by the motor driving mode. If, after a long press the power button, can use the remaining 1Ah capacity. According to reports, in energy-saving charge mode, it can be riding around 6km. In addition, lithium-ion rechargeable battery with a rated capacity of 7.6Ah.VGP-BPS8VGP-BPS8A,VGP-BPL8, VGP-BPL8A.