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Amazon New Kindles
Source: Amazon.com
Dear Customers,
Today we’re excited to introduce the all-new Kindle Fire HD.
Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ 4G isn’t just the best tablet for the price, it’s the best tablet. $499 now gets you a large-screen HD tablet with a stunning 8.9″ display, exclusive Dolby audio, dual stereo speakers, the fastest Wi-Fi, ultra-fast 4G LTE wireless, plus our new unprecedented $49.99 one-year 4G data package. Customers save hundreds of dollars in the first year compared to other 4G tablets. Kindle Fire HD 8.9″ is also available in a Wi-Fi only model for $299.
Kindle Fire HD is the world’s most-advanced 7″ tablet, with a stunning HD display, plus the same exclusive Dolby audio, dual stereo speakers, the fastest Wi-Fi, and 16 GB of storage. Kindle Fire HD is just $199.
We are also introducing the world’s most advanced e-readers, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Paperwhite 3G.
You’ll do a double take when you see Kindle Paperwhite—we’ve added 62% more pixels and increased contrast by 25%, so whites are whiter, and blacks are blacker. We’ve also added a revolutionary built-in front light for the perfect reading experience whether you’re out at the beach or at home in bed. Kindle Paperwhite starts from just $119. Kindle Paperwhite 3G is available for $179 with free 3G wireless—never pay for or hunt for a Wi-Fi hotspot. We’ve also updated our smallest, lightest Kindle with improved fonts and 15% faster page turns—it now starts at just $69.
Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Paperwhite are each in a class by themselves when it comes to hardware—there’s nothing better. But the real magic is that they are also a service. When combined with our enormous content ecosystem, unmatched cross-platform interoperability and standard-setting customer service, we hope people will agree these are the best tablets and e-readers anywhere, at any price.
Thank you for being a customer,
Jeff Bezos
Founder & CEO
Supermarket Scanner Recognizes Objects
Toshiba has created a new scanner that recognizes any item in the store, meaning barcodes are not necessary. The object recognition system uses pattern and color recognition to identity the product, including fruits and vegetables.
Old Sony vs New Samsung
It all started during 1988 or 1989 (cannot remember exactly), when i read a book called Made in Japan by Akio Morita who became an idol for a young boy who wanted to make it big in this world. Morita was a Japanese businessman and co-founder of Sony Corporation along with Masaru Ibuka.
Sony was a big name in the electronics world and was proudly making all their products in Japan and announcing it also very proudly on all their products, and i still remember one of the TVs we got at our parents home with that big sticker on the front, that you had to remove and which remained in your head that you are buying pure Japanese quality.
That also brings me down the memory lane, with my 1st Sony Walkman, which gave me exactly the same excitement people are having for the last decade every time Apple was and is still launching a new product.
So what happened to Sony? Why happened to the world leader who never managed to catch up with the rest of competition, on TVs, music players, tablets, digital cameras, game consoles and the full other line of products which most of the production moved outside Japan in order to cut cost and be competitive?
Why the new Walkman is an iPod, the TV a smart Samsung TV, the tablet a Kindle, the camera a Fuji? And why they never learned from the Betamax experience since 1975?
Sony announced net losses of 159 billion yen ($2.04 billion) for the third quarter on Thursday, while Sir Howard Stringer defended his record as CEO as he handed over the reins to Kazuo Hirai, the company blamed the floods in Thailand, unfavorable foreign exchange rates and a failed venture with Samsung for its woes.
Sony became the old heavy sick company, while Samsung is prevailing as the new global leader of electronics. An example about it, Procter & Gamble was the No.1 FMCG supplier of Carrefour stores in the UAE for many consecutive years, in 2011 Samsung got on top of the list pushing P&G to No.2
Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go USB 3.0 Flash Drive
Tapping into the high performance potential of the USB 3.0 interface with the convenient form factor of a standard flash drive, the Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go USB 3.0 Flash Drive offers extreme speed, large capacity and plug-and-play operation. The unit supports transfer rates of up to 70MB/sec Write and 120MB/sec Read on USB 3.0 host systems. Verbatim Store ‘n’ Go USB 3.0 Flash Drive is available in capacities of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB.
It is available in stores in April 2011.
Car-Driver Relationship
It may look like a simple urban vehicle, but the all-electric Pivo2 is a spectacular example of cybernetics, the robotics agent creates a new car-driver relationship. The cabin can rotate 360 degrees and the wheels 90 degrees.
More info: http://www.nissan-global.com/EN/PIVO2/
