Western Digital (WD) have today introduced their "My Passport Essential" portable USB drives. These new drives are designed to complement WD's 'My Book' family of external drives. They introduce a sleek new form that WD claims feels good in your hand, as well as fits neatly into your pocket or purse. "My Passport Essential" portable drives sport a glossy black finish, and put nearly a third of a terabyte of digital storage into the palm of your hand.
At less than five ounces of weight, the drives are truly light and portable; they also don't need an external power adapter as they're bus-powered. They come equipped with Windows only-compatible sync and encryption software. Despite their dimunitive size, they are capable of securely carrying thousands of songs, videos, and photos, WD claims. With WD sync software, consumers can carry desktop content along with them by way of simplified synchronization of essential personal files and Microsoft Outlook data on PCs. In the event drives are misplaced, data remains protected with 128-bit encryption. The drives have Google software allowing users to quickly locate files with Google Desktop Search, manage photos with Picasa photo organizer software, and simplify Web searches with Google Toolbar search bar. Speaking at the launch, Sharad Srivastava, director sales (India and South Asia) of Western Digital, said, "The newly designed 'My Passport Essential' drives are the perfect travel-friendly storage device to hold the rich media content generated by higher resolution photos and HD videos and music."
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Jumper Review
The story begins with a shy high school boy, David Rice who has a crush on Millie (AnnaSophia Robb). He gives her a snow globe with the Eiffel Tower inside and soon after, bully Mark (Jesse James) takes it from her and throws it far onto an iced-over lake. Devastated, David chases after it and as expected, falls through the ice. Suddenly, he finds himself catapulted through the water, winding up in the Ann Arbor public library with books, debris and water all around him. Returning home, he is desparate to leave his life, miserable father (Michael Rooker) and “jumps” to freedom with empty pockets and a chance to change his life.
A couple of years later, Rice, (now played by Hayden Christiansen) has perfected the art of jumping and after stealing a lot of money from a bank vault by teleporting himself has the means to enjoy life. From his swanky apartment to travels around the world: Surfing in Fiji, napping atop Mt Everest, and lunching at the Sphinx in Cairo amidst the Great Pyramids of Giza, he has found an idealic life.
Yet the journey is just beginning…Rice finds that he is not the only Jumper when he encounters Griffin (Jamie Bell) and the two evade the Paladins, those who are sworn to kill all the Jumpers. Roland (Samuel L Jackson) is the main goon and is sensational looking with his platinum hair and grimacing face. Roland has been determined to capture and kill Rice since the bank vault heist and through countless trips to Italy, New York, Michigan and everywhere in between, it is Jumper vs. Paladin. In the end, of course Rice is victorious and the answers that he seeks are his next chapter: The search for his mother who left him as a young child. He comes across her in his travels, but her appearance is not yet explained.
Yet the journey is just beginning…Rice finds that he is not the only Jumper when he encounters Griffin (Jamie Bell) and the two evade the Paladins, those who are sworn to kill all the Jumpers. Roland (Samuel L Jackson) is the main goon and is sensational looking with his platinum hair and grimacing face. Roland has been determined to capture and kill Rice since the bank vault heist and through countless trips to Italy, New York, Michigan and everywhere in between, it is Jumper vs. Paladin. In the end, of course Rice is victorious and the answers that he seeks are his next chapter: The search for his mother who left him as a young child. He comes across her in his travels, but her appearance is not yet explained.
Google DoubleClick Merger
The deal was given a clean chit by the regulators based on several factors
After the acquisition of DoubleClick -- a company that offers online ad-serving and management technology to advertisers, Web publishers, and ad agencies -- Google Chairman and CEO, Eric Schmidt, said, "We are thrilled that our acquisition of DoubleClick has closed. With DoubleClick, Google now has the leading display ad platform, which will enable us to rapidly bring to market advances in technology and infrastructure that will dramatically improve the effectiveness, measurability, and performance of digital media for publishers, advertisers, and agencies, while improving the relevance of advertising for users." On the flip side, the merger will bring along a definite reduction in headcount -- in the US and in other regions as well, as Schmidt published on the Official Google Blog yesterday.
Sonny Ericsson's K800i
Sony Ericsson's Cyber-Shotrange of phones have been a massive hit. K 800i is a good one to check outThe looks. Looks like Sony Ericsson were determined to restyle the phone. It's definitely less bricklike in its looks, and it's slimmed down a lot since the K800i days, which is a welcome change. It has a funky blue gizmo on the front and side, which you may or may not like.
Samsung L74W
Also know as the L74 Wide, the L74W specialises in taking wide-angle shots. Its 3.6x zoom lens starts at a 28mm-equivalent angle of view, letting you fit more into your shot, which tends to be much more useful in everyday situations. For example, a 28mm-equivalent lens can get more people into a group photo, or frame a tall building without forcing you to step back as far as you would with a 35 or 38mm-equivalent lens. In an attempt to help keep your shots steady, the L74W includes Samsung's Advanced Shake Reduction, an electronic image stabilisation system that boosts ISO sensitivity and speeds up the shutter for high-speed and zoomed-in shots.
The solid-feeling L74W is actually rather slim, measuring approximately 25mm thick. Its metal body is a nick magnet, though; the black surface seemed to pick up scratches at the slightest tap. The camera itself feels quite durable, but you won't keep it in pristine shape for long. A 3-inch touch screen LCD takes up the entirety of the camera's back. It serves as the camera's primary control interface, supplemented only by two buttons and the zoom rocker. Every setting, from flash to white balance, must be changed through the touch screen menus. As with most touch screen interfaces, navigating with the L74W's screen feels awkward and unresponsive, and repeated taps are often necessary to access the right function.
The solid-feeling L74W is actually rather slim, measuring approximately 25mm thick. Its metal body is a nick magnet, though; the black surface seemed to pick up scratches at the slightest tap. The camera itself feels quite durable, but you won't keep it in pristine shape for long. A 3-inch touch screen LCD takes up the entirety of the camera's back. It serves as the camera's primary control interface, supplemented only by two buttons and the zoom rocker. Every setting, from flash to white balance, must be changed through the touch screen menus. As with most touch screen interfaces, navigating with the L74W's screen feels awkward and unresponsive, and repeated taps are often necessary to access the right function.
For jet-setting photographers, the L74W offers a unique feature, a useful little on-camera guidebook called the World Tour Guide. While it contains information for countries and cities all over the world, it's far from comprehensive; it mostly lists landmarks and places to visit, with a small snapshot and a short text blurb to go with each place. Unfortunately, the details are pretty sparse; descriptions of landmarks like the Empire State Building and the Bronx Zoo don't even list their addresses, never mind helpful details such as hours and events.
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