In addition to the luxury ENVY series, HP presents the ProBook 5310m business notebook, the world’s thinnest full-performance notebook, that measures 0.9-inch thin and weighs 3.7 pound. The laptop is powered by up to an Intel Core 2 Duo SP9300 processor and gets a 13.3-inch LED-backlit display.
The ProBook 5310m combines durable, black anodized aluminum with a magnesium frame wrapped in soft-touch paint. When equipped with an Intel Celeron dual-core, ultra-low-voltage processor, the new business laptop is an affordable step up from companion or netbook devices. Gobi’s HP Mobile Broadband module is also available as an option.
The HP ProBook 5310m starts at $699 with an Intel Celeron dual core and $899 with Intel Core 2 Duo. It will be available on 22 October with Windows 7 OS.
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HP introduces the ENVY 13 and ENVY 15 notebook PCs, that is “building upon the Voodoo ENVY legacy“. HP Metal Etching on the lid and palmrest of the ENVY 15, and on the palmrest of the ENVY 13, subtly signals luxury. You may find these new notebooks look a lot like Apple’s Unibody Macbook/Pro. Their bodies are magnesium coated with aluminum.
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The ENVY 13 features the brightest display in its class, according to HP. Its 13.1-inch HP Radiance LCD display has 410-nit brightness and 80% color gamut. The ENVY 13 is boosted by Intel’s Core 2 Duo processor and ATI’s Switchable Graphics technology that dynamically switches between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4330 discrete graphics and the Intel integrated graphics processor. The laptop can be equipped with optional Slim Fit Extended-Life Notebook Battery offering up to 18 hours of battery life.
The ENVY 15, on the other hand, packs Intel Core i7 processor, up to 16GB DDR3 RAM, dual SSDin a RAID-0 setup and a dedicated ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4830 graphics with 1GB video memory. It comes with a 15.6-inch Brightview LED backlight display with up to 300-nits brightness. There are also a Nightvision VGA webcam. It gets an optional Slim Fit Extended-Life Notebook Battery as well, providing up to 7 hours of use. ENVY 15’s full metal case features a sleek, subtly crafted, laser-etched metal design on the lid that is repeated on the palmres.
HP ENVY 13 and ENVY 15 will be available on 18 October staring at $1699 and $1799 respectively.
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LG announced the GW620 (aka Etna), the Korean company’s first Android smartphone. The new LG GW620 features a 3-inch touchscreen display and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. It has also a 5 Megapixel camera.
As LG’s first Android phone, it looks like the GW620 is an entry-level phone. It gets a pretty standard Android OS without much modifications, unlike Motorola’s CLIQ and HTC’s Hero. The Android handset will be available in Q4 in select Europe markets.
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Open Innovation Network (OIN) CEO Keith Bergelt enjoyed my recent analogy of his work to that of a bomb disposal team. He also liked Paula’s story.
But his motive for talking was to push the story forward, and to say that the Obama Administration is going to give us patent reform on-the-fly. He said we can be a part of it.
Yes, we can, because the new Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property is David Kappos.
Besides having a nice hair line (so much like my own) Kappos “gets it.” He came to the government from IBM. IBM is a co-founder of OIN.
You can help through a group OIN calls Linux Defenders. Here is how:
- Peer to patent, examining newly published patent applications to identify prior art and lead to the applications being rejected.
- Post issue peer to patent, identifying poor quality patents held by trolls OIN can crowd-source prior art on, leading to re-hearings.
- Defensive publications, writing up inventions as prior art for posting on ip.com, a database patent examiners will look at.
“We want to develop more rigor about codifying what we know so others can’t invent around what we already know. Patent only those things that are truly unique and wrap them with defensive publications.”
Kappos fits in because his mantra is patent quality. “You can’t have overly broad patents issued. This will change what the industry does, the interpretation of the legislation, and what is happening in courts.”
There’s a warning here, however. “We have to meet that change halfway and if we don’t mobilize the community we’re contributing to the negative future we want to avoid.”
About the earlier stories. I was right. The company that bought the patents from Microsoft and passed them to OIN, called AST, is a “white hat” in the patent litigation game. But it’s a white hat of a particular type. It buys patents for its owners, licenses them for those owners, then releases them into the wild.
Paula was right, too. Microsoft packaged the 22 patents to make them tasty for trolls, offering hints on who to sue and how. It also pointedly did not offer the portfolio to OIN, the biggest player in the market.
This is the game Microsoft played, Bergelt thinks. “If you are looking for the most elegant way of putting time and distance from the sale and repercussions of a sale directly to a troll, sell to a good guy who releases to the market rather than selling directly to trolls.”
Fortunately, in this case, AST and OIN worked together. Problem solved.
Those days could end, but it will take work. The patent office can’t do this alone. With your help, however, it’s finally willing to move in the way Linux wants.
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Google News is much, much better, in many ways, than Google’s new FastFlip.
So why bother? Because, by giving publishers control over what content a user browses with the software, they can deliver Google a business model.
Google News has long been controversial with publishers for several reasons. The most important is that it uses a Google bot as its editor. All competing outlets are in the same vat of news, so you may end up seeing a second-hand iteration of the story, or a comment on it, before the actual reporting.
Google News has been around for several years, yet to this day there are no ads on its main page. It delivers revenue and links to publishers but no revenue to its maker. And the publishers still claim the site is “stealing” from them by adding lead paragraphs and thumbnail pictures.
In the past Google has sought to respond by doing deals with major news services like AFP and AP, hosting their stories on ad-soaked pages, passing along the bulk of the revenue. But this has cut the market for AP stories on partner Web sites. The solution just creates a new problem. Publishers scream louder.
FastFlip tries to solve this by limiting the number of outlets available. A page on politics culls just a dozen sources, each a scaled “professional” publishing organization willing to sign a business agreement.
Google hosts publisher pages on FastFlip, including ads, so there’s a defined business model and a benefit to publishers in faster page loads. Users can click through to “inside pages” so there’s a second publisher benefit, increased traffic.
The main benefit of FastFlip is that it keeps out the riffraff. Scaled, complete, “real” news sources, magazines, and publisher-owned sites only, please. If you’re not big enough to negotiate a contract with Google for your content, you’re not big enough to get on FastFlip.
By building a high barrier to entry against blogs and new entrants, and by having signed business agreements defining benefits and limiting Google’s interference with their product, FastFlip is a godsend to publishers.
And if you look at Google News itself, you’ll see a second bow to power. Click on a story claiming, say, 587 links and you’ll get an intermediate page highlighting the stories of “reputable” news services and publisher-owned blog sites.
By raising barriers to entry against individual blogs and open source news sites, Google hopes to get publishers off its back. But I doubt that will happen, because once the other side knows it can move you, it will keep moving you until you’re off the board.
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