GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470,W860CU-3D, multimedia notebooks from Clevo

GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470, Nvidia-based graphics chip directly presenting their Fermi architecture in the form of GeForce GTX 480M.Upper-class chip, the Nvidia mentioned on his official blog, as the fastest notebook graphics chips in the world.As the available chip similar to a desktop PC platform, the chip supports many commonly available features including 3D Vision, PhysX, Cuda, two-way SLI, and supports DirectX 11.

To guard the chips stay cool to the size of a notebook, Fermi mobile version is only set at 425MHz speed. A total of 325 stream processors are set to operate at 850MHz, as for GDDR 5 memory used by running at 1200MHz frequency.Compare with the GeForce GTX 480 core version of its desktop that runs at 700MHz and memory speed of 1848MHz.

Currently no information on the consumption of power used. Although it seems notebooks with GeForce GTX 480M is not for users who need a notebook with a long active period, but the notebooks are certainly attractive to the user segment of the media editing and gaming.As quoted from Hexus, May 26, 2010, the first notebook manufacturer to take advantage of GeForce GTX 480M is a Clevo, the manufacturer from Taiwan notebook makers.

Ferrari sports car super necessarily identical with the high speeds that can stimulate adrenaline

BEIJING-range Ferrari sports car super necessarily identical with the high speeds that can stimulate adrenaline. Hence cars like this so every man’s dream. hold on! It turned out that not only men who could have dreamed of for Ferrari, because the woman was actually fond of collecting sports cars ” the Prancing Horse”. Just ask the women in China. In China’s Domestic womenfolk starting to buy a Ferrari four-fold more than women from the western world.

Italian manufacturer was noted, from the Ferrari 220 that were sold in mainland China last year, 44 units purchased by women or equal to 20 percent of total sales. “I am very impressed with the women in China, 20 percent of women there to buy our cars, this figure is greater than the worldwide sales,” said Ferrari CEO, Amedeo Felisa, as quoted from Autoevolution, Tuesday (04/27/2010).

He also revealed, many women in that country who operate businesses in a very tough so they have a lot of money and can afford to buy a Ferrari. “It is surprise for us since we never expect the sale can be fueled by women, but in my opinion, this is a condition in China,” said Felisa.

Ferrari also saw sales growth in China is much better than in the United States (U.S.) and Europe, where the two regions are stagnating sales even before the global financial crisis. Even in honor of this country, intentionally pointing a Ferrari event in 2010 Beijing Motor Show to introduce the Ferrari 599 GTO which is the fastest road car Ferrari which is only produced as many as 599 units. In addition to the Panda Affairs, Taiwan and Hong Kong is also the largest market in Asia-Pacific Ferrari. More than 220 units were sold through 10 dealers Ferrari in China with 150 units sold in Hong Kong and 50 units in Taiwan.

President Barack Obama will seek to build momentum with China in his push for sanctions on Iran as world leaders assemble in Washington on Monday

Obama will hold talks with Chinese President Hu Jintao before hosting high-level delegations from nearly 50 countries for the opening of the global conference, where the focus will be on how to prevent nuclear terrorism.In the one-on-one meeting with Hu, Obama hopes to cement China’s commitment to help ratchet up pressure on Iran over its nuclear program after Beijing agreed to join serious talks about possible new U.N. sanctions on Tehran.

The two leaders will also try to nurture a thaw in Sino-U.S. relations after tensions spiked in recent months over a range of issues. Financial markets will be seeking further signs of China giving ground over its currency valuation.The Washington summit is the culmination of a hectic week of nuclear diplomacy for Obama and comes a year after he laid out a vision of a world free of atomic weapons.It follows close on the heels of Obama’s unveiling of a revamped U.S. nuclear doctrine limiting the use of atomic arms and the signing of a landmark post-Cold War treaty with Russia pledging to cut their nuclear arsenals by a third.

At home, Obama’s conservative critics say his arms-control strategy is naive and could compromise U.S. national security.Despite that, the two-day summit the biggest U.S.-hosted assembly of world leaders in six decades — will be a test of Obama’s ability to rally global action on his nuclear agenda.Speaking on the eve of the conference, Obama said he expected it to yield “enormous progress” toward the goal of locking down loose nuclear materials worldwide.

“We know that organizations like al Qaeda are in the process of trying to secure a nuclear weapon, a weapon of mass destruction that they have no compunction at using,” Obama told reporters, calling it the biggest threat to national security.A draft final communique shows leaders will pledge to work toward safeguarding all “vulnerable nuclear material” within four years and take steps to crack down on nuclear smuggling.

NOT ON AGENDA BUT ON SUMMITEERS’ MINDS

Iran and North Korea are not on the guest list or the summit agenda. But their nuclear standoffs with the West are sure to figure heavily in Obama’s talks with Hu and other leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who will sit down with the U.S. president on Tuesday after the summit is over.With Obama pushing to get new sanctions in place against Iran within weeks, China — after months of delay — reluctantly agreed to join in crafting a U.N. resolution. But Obama has yet to completely overcome Beijing’s skepticism.

The West wants to deter what it sees as a covert drive by Iran to develop nuclear weapons, while Tehran says it has only peaceful intentions, focused on generation of electricity.The list of leaders in attendance will range from heads of state of traditional nuclear powers like Russia and France to nuclear-armed foes like India and neighboring Pakistan.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani assured Obama in talks on Sunday his government has “appropriate safeguard” for its nuclear arsenal. Experts say Pakistan’s stockpile of weapons-grade material poses a high risk because of internal security threats from the Taliban and al Qaeda.

Missing will be Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who withdrew fearing Muslim leaders would use the summit as a forum to demand Israel give up its assumed nuclear arsenal.Still, nuclear-defiant Iran will be the summit’s sub-text.In Prague last week, Obama persuaded President Dmitry Medvedev to keep pressure on Iran, but the Russian leader made clear there remain limits to Moscow’s support for sanctions.

For its part, a defiant Iran has dismissed the summit’s chances for success “as long as some nuclear-armed countries … are constantly preoccupied with the idea of depriving other countries of the peaceful use of nuclear technology.”Hu’s decision to attend the summit is seen as part of a two-way effort to get relations back on track after months of bickering over China’s currency, its Internet censorship, U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and Obama’s meeting with the Dalai Lama.

Days after Beijing announced Hu’s participation, Washington said it would delay a decision scheduled for mid-April on whether to declare China a currency manipulator.China, meanwhile, has signaled it may be close to revaluing its yuan currency. In a pivotal congressional election year, the Obama administration has pressured Beijing to scrap its currency peg, saying it hurts U.S. business and jobs.(Reuters)

Eight account electronic mail Yahoo belonging foreign journalists working in China and Taiwan hacked (hack) during recent weeks

Eight account electronic mail Yahoo belonging foreign journalists working in China and Taiwan hacked (hack) during recent weeks. This causes Yahoo forced shut access entering inbox accounts these.

“Us confirming eight cases peretasan account electronic mail belonging journalist in China and Taiwan, several accounts Blocked by Yahoo on March 25 ago,” Thus conveyed club Correspondent Foreigners China (FCCC) via official assertion like quoted pages PCWorld.

Beside in-hack, settings in one accounts modified so letter incoming forwarded to address electronic mail other. FCCC said Yahoo yet answer their questions associated attacks hackers these.

This group appealed members to changing keywords to unlock their inbox. “Members also should use other ways making appointments interviews or affairs other sensitive,” said FCCC.

Parties Yahoo itself yet give comment.

Beginning March ago, account electronic mail foreign journalists in China become soft target malware. Attacks disguised in promissory from press section Shanghai World Expo and contains PDF document dangerous.

Similar attacks occurs told Gmail account belonging fighters human rights in China on December ago. This, plus with rules sensors search results, makes Google interesting self from China mainland and run operating from Hong Kong.

Asia and Australia braced for a tsunami after a devastating earthquake hit the coast of Chile on Saturday

TOKYO Wide swaths of the south Pacific, Asia and Australia braced for a tsunami after a devastating earthquake hit the coast of Chile on Saturday.Officials in Japan and Australia warned a tsunami from the earthquake was likely to hit Asian shorelines within 24 hours. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a tsunami caution for areas across the region.”Sea-level readings confirm that a tsunami has been generated which could cause widespread damage,” the center said in a bulletin after the magnitude-8.8 quake. “Authorities should take appropriate action to respond to this threat.”

The center noted that the first waves after a quake are not necessarily the largest and said tsunami wave heights are difficult to predict because they can vary significantly along a coast due to the local topography.Earthquakes across the Pacific have had deadly effects on Asia in the past.A tsunami after a magnitude-9.5 quake that struck Chile in 1960, the largest earthquake ever recorded, killed about 140 people in Japan, 61 in Hawaii and 32 in the Philippines. That tsunami was about 3.3 to 13 feet (one to four meters) in height, Japan’s Meteorological Agency said.The tsunami from Saturday’s quake was likely to be much smaller because the quake itself was not as strong.

Japanese public broadcaster NHK quoted earthquake experts as saying the tsunami would likely be tens of centimeters (inches) high and reach Japan in about 22 hours. A tsunami of 28 centimeters (11 inches) was recorded after a magnitude-8.4 earthquake near Chile in 2001.The Meteorological Agency said it was still investigating the likelihood of a tsunami from the magnitude-8.8 quake and did not issue a formal coastal warning.Australia, meanwhile, was put on a tsunami watch.

The Joint Australian Tsunami Warning Center issued a warning for a “potential tsunami threat” to New South Wales state, Queensland state, Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. Any potential wave would not hit Australia until Sunday morning local time, it said.The Bureau of Meteorology said a tsunami had already been observed off the coast of Chile that may threaten Australia.The earthquake struck early Saturday in central Chile, shaking the capital for a minute and a half.The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a warning for a swath of territories across the Asia-Pacific, also including New Zealand, Samoa, American Samoa, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Philippines and Taiwan. (AP)

World markets fell Friday after the U.S. Federal Reserve unexpectedly raised interest rates for emergency bank loans

LONDON  World markets fell Friday after the U.S. Federal Reserve unexpectedly raised interest rates for emergency bank loans, triggering fears that regular borrowing costs could also move higher soon, slowing the recovery in the world’s largest economy.The central bank said Thursday it will bump up the “discount” lending rate by one-quarter point to 0.75 percent effective Friday, part of a pullback of the extraordinary aid it provided to fight the financial crisis.Although the Fed said the step should not be seen as a signal that it will soon boost interest rates for consumers and businesses, markets were spooked.After sharp drops in Asia, Germany’s DAX stock index was down 0.2 percent at 5,671.28 and Britain’s FTSE 100 was flat at 5,326.84. France’s CAC-40 fell 0.2 percent to 3,742.09.Wall Street was also expected to fall on the open. Dow Jones industrials futures were down 50 points at 10,325.00 and Standard & Poor’s 500 futures were 8.2 points lower at 1,097.40.

Growing optimism about the strength of the U.S. economy had helped boost the Dow Jones industrial average rise by 3 percent over the past three days. But the surprise Fed announcement after Wall Street trading closed left traders wondering whether the so-called “exit strategy” from a loose monetary policy could come faster than expected and stifle U.S. consumer demand.”It begs the questions of why this was not done, or at least signaled at a regular Federal Open Market Committee meeting,” said Marc Ostwald, strategist at Monument Securities in London.”It certainly is the case that the Fed wants to see how money markets function without so much of the liquidity life support that the Fed has been providing, and as such one can term this a form of ‘kite flying’,” said Ostwald.The Fed move, which doesn’t change consumer borrowing rates, also helped boost the U.S. dollar and push the euro below nine-month lows – a sign traders may be turning away from higher-risk investments, analysts said.The euro fell to $1.3504 from $1.3529 late Thursday after trading at nine-month lows below $1.3400. After rising against the Japanese yen, the dollar was flat at 91.75 yen.

The euro has been under pressure in recent months over worries about the debt problems of Greece and other countries in Europe, such as Portugal and Spain. Although the EU said it was committed to helping Greece in case of a default, it did not provide any concrete plans for a bailout but limited itself to demand more spending cuts.Economic data in Europe, meanwhile, failed to shore up investor sentiment. The purchasing managers’ survey of the eurozone, an economic indicator published by Markit research group, was stable in February, suggesting the recovery from recession has stagnated somewhat.A rise in the manufacturing reading offset a drop in the services sector, providing “little hope that the much-needed domestic recovery is beginning to materialize,” said Ben May, European economist at Capital Economics in London.Markets in China and Taiwan are closed this week for the Lunar New Year holiday.Earlier in Asia, Hong Kong’s Hang Seng stock index led decliners, diving 528.13, or 2.6 percent, to 19,894.02 while Japan’s Nikkei 225 stock average dropped 212.11, or 2.1 percent, to 10,123.58.”As the dollar strengthens, we see less appetite for riskier assets such as Asian stocks.” said Jit Soon Lim, head of equity research for Southeast Asia for Nomura in Singapore. “We’re bullish on the region’s economic growth, but bearish on risk.”

South Korea’s Kospi declined 27.29, or 1.7 percent, to 1,593.90. India fell 1 percent and Indonesia dropped 0.5 percent.Singapore’s stock measure retreated 0.9 percent despite an increase of the government’s 2010 economic growth forecast to between 4.5 percent and 6.5 percent from 3 percent to 5 percent.In the U.S. on Thursday, the Dow rose 83.66, or 0.8 percent, to 10,392.90 while the broader Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 7.24, or 0.7 percent, to 1,106.75. The Nasdaq composite index rose 15.42, or 0.7 percent, to 2,241.71, its fifth straight advance.Oil prices slid to near $78 a barrel after the Fed’s rate hike sent the U.S. dollar higher.Benchmark crude for March delivery was down 90 cents at $78.16 in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract added $1.73 to settle at $79.06 on Thursday.(AP)

SYDNEY Energy giant PetroChina Co. Ltd. has pulled out of a $40 billion deal to buy natural gas from a project off Australia

SYDNEY Energy giant PetroChina Co. Ltd. has pulled out of a $40 billion deal to buy natural gas from a project off Australia, leaving Woodside Petroleum Ltd. looking for new customers.Reasons for letting the preliminary agreement lapse were not given, but analysts said Tuesday it was probably because PetroChina had become dissatisfied with the cost in the two years since the deal was signed.Woodside informed Australia’s stock exchange on Monday that an early stage agreement for the Browse Basin liquefied natural gas project off Western Australia state had not been settled by a Dec. 31 deadline and had now lapsed.A spokesman for PetroChina Ltd. in Beijing, Liu Weijiang, said on Tuesday he had no information on the deal and asked a reporter to call again later.Under the September 2007 agreement, PetroChina would potentially buy up to three million metric tons (3.3 million tons) of LNG per year from the project for up to 20 years.At the time, it was one of Australia’s largest export deals with an estimated worth of AU$45 billion ($40 billion).Since then, deals between prospective developers of the massive gas reserves on Australia’s so-called Northwest Shelf and customers have accelerated, with companies in China, Japan and South Korea signing on to multibillion dollar, two-decade agreements last year.The lapse of the PetroChina deal means that the terms, including price, for a large chunk of the Brown Basin gas are once again fully open to negotiation.

“The deal was good at the time, but in the past two years things have been changing rapidly,” said Peter Kopetz, energy analyst with Western Australia-based State One Stockbroking.PetroChina would probably look for other sources of gas, said Yang Wei, an oil industry analyst at Guotai Junan Securities in Shanghai.”I think it’s probably that the price is not right. It’s too expensive,” he said.PetroChina in August reached a $41 billion deal to buy natural gas from another project in the same region, that is being developed by Chevron.Chinese energy companies have signed a multibillion-dollar string of deals to import oil and gas from the Gulf, Africa, Central Asia and elsewhere to feed the demands of the country’s rapidly growing economy.Woodside had hoped the Browse project would be in production by 2012, but the company said Monday this timeline was no longer realistic, and a final investment decision by partners including Woodside, Chevron, BHP Billiton and Royal Dutch Shell would not be made until mid-2012.

Woodside said an agreement for CPC Corporation Taiwan to buy up to three million metric tons (3.3 million tons) of LNG per year for up to 20 years from the Browse project was still in place, and the company was looking for more customers.”Woodside remains in ongoing discussions with other Asia-Pacific LNG customers in relation to potential sales from its portfolio of Australian LNG developments, including the Browse project,” Woodside said in a statement.Woodside shares closed just shy of 1 percent higher on Tuesday at AU$47.97.(AP)

Apple iPhone marketed 45 Million in 2010

Apple's iPhone.

For iPhone image sensor, the company Apple was always purchase from suppliers in Taiwan. OmniVision Technologies (OVTI), the name of this company, used to make the 3.2 megapixel sensor for mobile phone iPhone 3GS series.Last Wednesday, the newspaper reported that OmniVision Digitimes had orders to make the chip the iPhone as much as 40-45 million for the year 2010. This Order increases than 20-21 million orders in 2009.The newspaper is based in Taipei was also reported, for the next generation, the iPhone has a camera with 5 megapixel camera capability. Advanced mobile phone output is going to sell Apple Apple Stores in the second half of 2010.Indeed the last three years since Apple is always introducing new iPhone every summer. AppleInsider reports that San Francisco’s Moscone West, where you would normally be the Apple WWDC event, has been booked for 28 June to 2 July 2010. The event was an annual conference for developers at Apple.Apple to sell 16.4 million iPhones in the first three quarters during 2009. According to some reports, the figure is in line with other sales as much as 9 or 10 million more before the year ends.

Tech blog, Singapore startup feud by tablet PC

Fujitsu P1610 tablet

About 18 months ago, a technology blogger got fed up with the industry and forged an alliance with a start up to make his dream computer. It almost worked.The touch-screen “tablet” device will be available for pre-order Saturday – from the start up. The blogger is out of the picture, back to producing posts rather than PCs.But this is Michael Arrington, the often caustic front man of the Tech Crunch blog, and he’s determined not to let the story end there. He filed suit in federal court on Thursday, saying the $500 JooJoo tablet is the fruit of his Crunch Pad project.

For its part, start up Fusion Garage says Arrington’s contribution was minimal, and he didn’t manage to fulfill his commitments to the project. Tired of waiting for him to come through, the start up went ahead on its own.
The story begins in July 2008, when Arrington, one of Silicon Valley’s best-connected bloggers, posted a manifesto on Tech Crunch.”I’m tired of waiting – I want a dead simple and dirt cheap touch screen Web tablet to surf the Web,” wrote Arrington, calling for collaborators to step forward.

The post caught the attention of Chandrasekhar Rathakrishnan, the young founder of Fusion Garage, which had been working for a few months on software that might power such a tablet. Like Arrington, Rathakrishnan envisioned a system that was based on a Web browser rather than a desktop operating system such as Windows. That would allow the tablet to start up quickly and would keep hardware requirements – and thus costs – down.

In September 2008, Rathakrishnan tracked Arrington down after a conference. Arrington agreed that Fusion Garage’s software might solve part of his tablet puzzle, and said he’d want to acquire Fusion Garage. Arrington said they settled on Fusion Garage owning 35 percent of a joint Crunch Pad venture.

“I thought that was exciting. Here we had the guy who had a blog with a lot of reach, suggesting we’re something exciting,” said Rathakrishnan, now 29 years old. “I know how hard building hardware is, how much money you need for that. Having Arrington by our side (would) help us get there faster.”

Between September 2008 and February 2009, the new partners worked on a prototype designed by Crunch Pad’s small team and a circle of consultants, running Fusion Garage’s software.

From here, the stories diverge and the partnership of two scrappy entrepreneurs sours.

Rathakrishnan said in an interview that looking at the February CrunchPad prototype made him think twice about the project.

“It looks like a tablet built in 2000. It is huge, it doesn’t look like it could go to market,” he said. “That’s when we realized this is not going to go where he thought it would go.”

Rathakrishnan said Fusion Garage went back to the drawing board and designed a new prototype with a better touch screen and new software, and brought it to Arrington in April.

By Arrington’s account, for the next three months Rathakrishnan worked out of TechCrunch’s office. Arrington said his team was working on the hardware, talking to potential suppliers, and working directly with Rathakrishnan’s team on the software and user interface. There was no formal contract in place, despite Arrington’s past career as a lawyer, but he was comfortable with the arrangements worked out verbally and over e-mail.

“Did his team do most of the work? Sure. But we were paying a lot of the bills,” Arrington said, estimating Crunch Pad spent between $300,000 and $400,000 for parts and to help build prototypes.

Crunch Pad employees also went to Singapore and Taiwan to work with Fusion Garage and the manufacturers working on the tablet, Arrington said.Arrington had also been in touch with Ron Conway, a seasoned angel investor in the valley who made early bets on companies like Google, Facebook and Twitter.

In an interview, Conway said he put together a small group of investors ready to raise $1 million to $2 million to be used for the first manufacturing run of the CrunchPad. He said was on call all summer, just waiting for Arrington to say the product was ready to go.

Rathakrishnan remembers these months much differently. He said Crunch Pad’s team didn’t contribute a line of code or a dollar of funding. There was never agreement on the terms of an acquisition. Rathakrishnan said he was bewildered that neither the funding nor the buyout deal Arrington promised were materializing, and so he and Fusion Garage were the ones out raising money and finding manufacturing partners.

In late November, the tablet computer was almost ready to make its debut when the project dramatically imploded. It’s impossible to say now what, exactly, went down between the two sides, but Arrington wrote in a Nov. 30 post on TechCrunch that Fusion Garage and its investors had suddenly decided to dump the Crunch Pad team and sell the product on their own, even though Arrington believed neither side owned rights to the product.

Rathakrishnan gave a live press conference by Web video Monday to refute Arrington’s version of the story and to introduce the JooJoo.

Since then, he’s taken the device on a whirlwind tour to show it off to gadget bloggers and technology journalists. The 12.1-inch tablet-style computer boots up into a screen of shortcuts to popular Web services like Facebook and Twitter, boasts a 5-hour battery life and faithfully plays back high-definition video.The device is reminiscent of a giant iPod Touch – something Apple Inc. itself is rumored to be working on.

While Rathakrishnan was showing off the JooJoo, Arrington’s lawyers filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California to keep Fusion Garage from ever selling it. Arrington says he doesn’t think Fusion Garage has enough money to build the device; Rathakrishnan said he’s on the verge of closing a round of funding not just for the JooJoo, but for follow-up devices.

The drama has cast a pall over what Rathakrishnan had hoped would be a successful launch. But the relationship with the blog, particularly now that it’s turned into a high-tech divorce case, has generated far more buzz than Fusion Garage could have hoped for had it tried to build and launch such a gadget on its own.