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Submission + - Nokia N95 or 5 standalone devices?

Submitted by Milton Gosandro
Milton Gosandro writes: CNET.co.uk has written an article on whether or not it's better to buy the Nokia N95 super all-in-one cell phone or buy five separate devices. "The Nokia N95 is a convergence fanboy's dream — there's a built-in sat-nav, a 5-megapixel camera, a media player, a PDA and of course, a mobile phone. But is it better than the standalone competition or is it a jack of all trades and master of none?" I personally think it's a jack of all trades since it looks like most of the standalone alternatives perform better, but I still tip my hat to Nokia for putting so much into this relatively small device.
Portables

Submission + - Samsung launches R55, the first laptop with hybrid

Submitted by
John Pope
John Pope writes: "Do you remember hybrid hard-drives? If you don't get a quick look here,it about those special hard disks Microsoft promised a few years agoto increase performance and lower consumption inWindows Vista. Time passed, Vista saw the light of day, but no hybrids in sight. That changed today, when Samsung (today's pioneer in IT industry) launched the R55 laptop, the first production model fitted with a hybrid hard drive.

Samsung promises bit thing with the 80 GB hybrid hard drive under the hood: 26% improvement on data reading and 71% improvement of data writing speed, 32% lower power consumption and increased HDD longevity by 10% (that's when you use small blocks of data, under 10 MB). The rest of the specs are pretty non important, as you get the same Core2Duo treatment, 15.4 " wide screen, multistandard optical drive and Windows Vista Premium.

What's different is the price: 1923 $, pretty steep for 80 gigs storagespace (the 256 MB OneNAND flash is for buffer purposes only, so you won't touch it).

Source: Gizmodo (via PC Joint)"
Linux Business

Submission + - IBM reveals new virtual Linux environment

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jenwren1010
jenwren1010 writes: "http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry1428.html IBM has just announced the availability of an open beta version of its virtual Linux environment to enable x86 Linux applications to run without modification on POWER processor-based IBM System p servers. Designed to reduce power, cooling and space by consolidating x86 Linux workloads on System p servers, it will eventually be released as the roles off the tongue 'IBM System p Application Virtual Environment (System p AVE).'"

India and NASA to Explore Moon Together 208

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the everybody-has-an-angle dept.
hotsauce writes "NASA administrator Griffin on a visit to Indian space facilities in Bangalore has signed an agreement to explore the moon with the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO). This agreement will see NASA instruments on a 2008 Indian moon mission, and further cooperation is being explored. An Indian paper has a different take on the visit. Interesting answer by Griffin on NASA outsourcing to ISRO."

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