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Posted on July 29th, 2010 | 0 Comments
Augen has been churning out some nifty products lately. Earlier this month, the company had announced ‘The Book’ ereader that comes with an LCD display, a 400MHz ARM CPU, Linux platform and an SD slot with storage capacity of up to 8GB. Also, last week saw the announcement regarding the new Augen tablet that will bring a 7-inches display along with a 256MB RAM and 2GB internal memory for $149.99 on KMart.
Now, the company has announced yet another new product; this time in the netbook space. The new Augen Genbook 74 should be among the cheapest netbooks out in the wild. At $99, the latest from Augen features a 7-inches display, a 400MHz processor, a 128MB RAM on an Android 1.6 powered machine to offer something that’s value for money. Of course, the specs are not the best out there, but for the price, I can tell you, we will see a lot of people excited. Are you one? Then, head over to Kmart. The retailer is now stocking this latest netbook from Augen.
Posted on July 29th, 2010 | 0 Comments
As noted earlier, Samsung has recently unveiled two new ultra thin netbooks that are now already available in the South Korean market and should, in all probability, become available elsewhere over the next few weeks. The two netbooks – Samsung X180 and Samsung X125 are pretty similar in specifications. So which one should you go for?
Primarily, both devices come with a 11.6-inches screen with a high resolution 1366×768 display. They are run on a RAM with a capacity of 3GB and offer a storage space of 320GB. Also, with support to Bluetooth 3.0, Wi-Fi b/g/n and a webcam, most of your requirements from a netbook are fulfilled from either of these two devices.
The basic difference between the two however lies in the processors. The Samsung X125 is equipped with an AMD Athlon II Neo processor that is enhanced with an ATI Radeon HD 4225 graphics card. On the other hand, the Samsung X180 is powered by an Intel Core i3-330UM processor with an Intel GMA HD graphics card.
There is not much to choose between the two, but personally though, I would prefer the Core i3 processor of X180 over AMD. How about you?
Posted on July 29th, 2010 | 0 Comments
It is common for publishers to choose textual presentation of content over rich media format simply to make their content more search engine friendly. A new patent application filed by Adobe Systems back in March of this year and made public only recently describes an annotation-based functionality that will make such content discoverable by search engines.
In the application, Adobe writes (text in bold for emphasis) ,
“According to embodiments of the invention, a developer annotates portions of the procedural code of a rich Internet application to facilitate exposing particular content to a search engine. Such annotations may comprise information describing the content to be identified by a Web crawler. Additionally or alternatively, such annotations may comprise a state name, or other identifier and/or information, facilitating direct, or semi-direct, access to the identified content.”
Embodiments of the invention provide a translation module for interfacing between a Web crawler and a rich Internet application annotated according to an embodiment of the invention. For example, a translation module may interact with a Web crawler to respond to Web crawler navigation instructions and access declarative code associated with different states of a rich Internet application, providing responsive information identifying content in a structure that is compatible with a search engine associated with the Web crawler. According to embodiments of the invention, the structure of the content provided by the translation module comprises declaratory code, such as HTML page code or pseudo HTML page code.”
The patent application is interesting because a successful implementation of this technology will incentivize more publishers to take the RIA format to create beautiful websites that can consequently make Apple’s war against Flash all the more difficult.
Your thoughts?
