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Peripheral Vision Sony has opened a lithium-ion battery plant in Singapore, where it plans to produce eight million batteries for cellular handsets each month. The plant, which cost $105 million, is expected to reach full capacity by 2010. PC World SanDisk Launches SDHC Card for New DSLRs SanDisk has released the SanDisk ExtremeIII 30MB/s Edition, a high-capacity SD flash memory card aimed at high-end DSLR cameras. The card, which is the first of its kind on the market, is able to reach file transfer speeds of 30MB per second, or 50 percent faster than the market’s fastest cards. Digital Trends New Dell PCs Target Emerging Markets Dell unveiled four new PCs aimed at the emerging markets in China, India, Russia and Brazil, offering the notebooks and desktops at a low-price point. Dell expects 20 to 30 percent annual growth in these markets over the coming years. San Jose Mercury News TiVo and Entertainment Weekly Announce Partnership TiVo has announced a partnership with “Entertainment Weekly” to provide TiVo customers with the publication’s selections and content as early as this fall. Customers can choose to have their TiVo equipment automatically record shows featured in “Entertainment Weekly”, and additional content from EW.com will be provided. ChannelWeb The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing attracted a record number of viewers online, with NBC’s NBCOlympics.com and Yahoo!’s Olympics section taking the gold and silver. NBCOlympics.com alone offered 2,200 hours of live streaming of the event, and served audiences with 72 million video streams as of Saturday. The New York Times Intel to Sell Solid State Drives Intel will enter the solid state hard drive (SSD) market with the release of its X25-M and X18-M drives, offered in 80GB and 160GB capacities. While most SSDs are intended for use in laptops, Intel claims these drives are also aimed at the desktop and server market. InternetNews Internet Explorer 8 to Include Privacy Features Microsoft’s IE8 will include a privacy browsing feature, according to Microsoft, where users can choose to suspend the browser’s history, cookies and other personal information. The new feature, titled InPrivate, will be available in IE8 Beta 2, while the browser’s final version is expected in November. CNET News Google May Power Search on Verizon Handsets Internet search giant Google is nearing an agreement with Verizon that would make Google the default search provider on Verizon handsets. Google is interested in being more involved in the mobile sector. The first phones based on Google’s Android technology will soon be appearing on the market. Reuters Comcast Offers Details on New System for Internet Traffic Throttling In response to FCC demands that it not focus on peer-to-peer protocols, Comcast is developing a new, protocol-agnostic approach to limiting the bandwidth of heavy users. The new throttling method would “deprioritize” the data of heavy users for 10 to 20 minutes during periods of high network congestion. Ars Technica |
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