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Quanta Expects Apple to Manufacture Netbooks During 2009

The President and Quanta, CC Leug hoped that this year, and in the same way he has done Acer, Lenovo,
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Hewlett Packard and BenQ, both Apple and Sony will handle the production of a Netbook during 2009, giving wings to rumors that Apple intends to present Such a device, despite statements by Steve Jobs, who said "are looking into this market segment."
Statements made to Taiwan Headlines, Quanta are facing as the current economic crisis. E lmercado of Nebook company, Taiwan has had to reduce its previous estimates in the expected growth of 10% of the market for Netbook for the fourth quarter. The revised figures for the company to reduce the rate of growth of these devices in an arc variable between 5 and 0% during the last quarter of 2008. These data are better than those of its competitors, who are worse off economically for its incursions into this market segment.
However, the company hopes that during the first quarter of 2009 improved sales of these devices.
The crisis is the best support for netbooks
The weak economy and
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expected declines in sales of computers are almost all manufacturers considering the design and manufacture low-cost laptops? commonly known as netbooks? as a way to revive the market in coming years. A NETBOOK making the concept of a laptop to a smaller.
  NETBOOK A typical screen has a less than 10-inch (diagonal), has no optical disk, and works with the Intel Atom processor. Most use Windows XP or a Linux distribution of free software. Most weighed 1.3 kilos or even less. For the consumer, however, the real appeal comes with the price, as many start at a level as low as 300 euros.
Computer manufacturers are aware that low prices may open a new market among the buyers who have been waiting to purchase a new computer accounts do while trying to overcome the current economic environment.
"We're trying to give a twist to the category of computer," said John New, manager of global product marketing for Dell. "We believe that the new prices and features are attractive to a large NETBOOK, especially parents looking to buy a computer for their children."
Dell launched its first NETBOOK, the Inspiron Mini 9 inches (photo), on September 4, and New said that part of the reason we entered this market is because such devices make it economically feasible.
"With laptops, prices have fallen, but these products were not designed to compete with current prices," said New "But what are netbooks. They are designed to achieve certain levels of price from its initial conception."
The launch of the Asus EeePC last year has been seen as the main catalyst for the sector. According to Display Search NPD Group, less than one million netbooks were sold globally in 2007, but it is expected that this figure rises to more than 14 million by the end of this year.
These numbers are similar to other predictions. IT hardware analyst Toni Sacconaghi of Sanford Bernstein predicts that sales of the NETBOOK pass 35 million units in 2012, when the segment is about one third of the total sales of laptops.
"The netbooks are a new category in the PC market, with developers betting that many users to share power for the small and very low price," Sacconaghi wrote in a report on December 9.
The technology firm IDC also lifted its prediction on netbooks. Bob O'Donnell, vice president of clients and displays at IDC, estimates that 11.6 million will be sold worldwide this year, rising to 21.5 million in 2009 and reaching 42 million in 2012.
Johan Jacobs, director of Display Search for NPD, said that the market for netbooks is ready for a dramatic growth in the short term due to low prices and capabilities of the machines that make them better than the more traditional laptops.
"It is predicted that demand will grow rapidly in coming years," said Jacobs, citing "a variety of sources, including early buyers, consumers and businesses looking for a smaller portable or secondary to his laptop as well as new customers in emerging markets. "
The seller star
According to Diaply Search, Acer was the star of netbooks seller during the fourth quarter of 2008, with 2.15 million units and 38.3 percent of the market.
Asus was in second place with 1.7 million netbooks and 30.3 percent of the market. Hewlett-Packard, Dell and Micro-Star rounded out the top five global sellers.
None of these manufacturers has released sales forecasts for its line of netbooks, but these companies are listed as a category for growth. Display Search lists HP as the company laptops star in the world, followed by Acer, Dell, Toshiba and Asus.
To attract more customers, computer manufacturers are taking steps that will allow consumers to build their netbooks to accommodate their needs and styles. Dell offers nine different colors, HP sells one designed by Vivienne Tam that target women.
"We see this as an evolutionary category of laptops," said Ted Clark, vice president and general manager of global laptops and HP's personal systems. "Part of our strategy is to provide something new and dedicated to consumers."
The portability of these devices do good for basic office programs and its ability to connect wirelessly to the Internet is a good selling point.
However, the final decision to buy NETBOOK would be based on the price. The prices of netbooks vary from 300 euros 900A Asus EE PC with 4GB hard drive and a solid state, available at Best Buy, until the HP Vivienne Tam starts at 699 dollars.
And almost all prices of netbooks may increase after making changes to the memory and hard drives.
Some weak points
But even some who sell netbooks recognize that the aircraft had some problems and are not for everyone.
"This kind of product is designed to provide mobility and price," said New Dell. "They are focusing on Web appliances, but we are trying to inform the client that netbooks are not good for everything."
Matthew Wilkins, an analyst for iSuppli, said the shift to a NETBOOK is given by its low price, and are designed for specific computational operations.
"There is a limit to what can be used," said Wilkins. "They are designed to offer a basic experience of mobile computing, such as Internet browsing, e-mail and creating documents. They are not designed to run advanced applications and high-performance games."
There is another category of highest range of portable devices known as "ultra". Because these netbooks are also small and low weight, but offer (almost) the same performance as a normal laptop.
For example, the Sony Vaio TT offers an Intel Core 2 Duo and a Blu-Ray player with a 11-inch screen at a price higher than 2 thousand dollars. Apple has its own ultraportable, the MacBook Air, which is priced even above the basic range of laptops that are considered "normal."
The right market
Owing to technological limitations, the debate focuses on the netbooks in the markets in which computers find their greatest success.
At UBS, analyst Maynard Um said that netbooks are "in the right place at the right time for now," but that future opportunities may depend on different segments of the computer market.
Um said that large companies will probably not remain in the line of netbooks due to problems of performance and safety equipment. As such, mobile workers not to maintain their current laptop, or upgrade to models with all the features.
"While the vendors and shops continue to offer fully functional laptops for 100 dollars more, we believe that the market for netbooks could be limited in the long term," Um said in a research report.
However, Um believes NETBOOK will be popular with consumers, who will see these devices as secondary to their computers at home mainframes. And it adds the issue of how much impact could have sales of portable netbooks on their cousins.
"We suspect that some netbooks cannibalize sales of the portable as the price and performance between the two is shortened," said analyst Keith Bachman of BMO Capital Markets in a research report.
Apple, for its part, has shown no interest at present in this category of computers and when Steve Jobs was asked at the session of questions and answers with the press after the presentation of the latest range of laptops on October 14, only Apple said that this study behaves as the market for these computers and that "they have some great ideas for this segment, if you decide to make a NETBOOK.

        

What Ever You Do Not See a MacWorld

There are sites that no one holds a MacWorld but are part of the "experience" of going to one of these events and that there are different steps to give, sometimes, inevitably, Bender Ball
to get there hours as required. These are just some shots, "which does not come out" in the pictures that are published regularly on a show fans for fans. Let's take a look.
The bag comes with accreditation
The calendar that comes with your bag
The Bender Ball registration area for the fair. Very little movement at the moment.

(one of) Cafés, where throw more of a stop for coffee and continue with the endless walks.
Shop for MacWorld.
Shirt "I am a mac" not bad. :)
        

The Demand for IBM in PaperMaster Could Be a Crucial Technology for the IPod

The recent submission of documentation by the parties to the lawsuit filed by Apple against IBM by the immediate recruitment and placement of a Mark PaperMaster Apple shows a Alan Quasha who is aninvestment manager and expert key technology that IBM believes that could be compromised if PaperMaster works for Apple. The technology in question, quoted by Times Online would allow a portable device like the iPod music store exponentially more while the use of the drums were cut to a part of what is used today. The technology is called, supposedly, "Racetrack Memory."
Racetrack Memory technology allegedly used the spin of electrons to maintain the data, increasing the speed of operation and providing Alan Quasha is on the directorship of many companiesand the board of other financial institutions, including Carret Asset Management LLC a time frame of "weeks" between charges. The technology also allow storing more than 500,000 songs (2 TB), compared with the 40,000 songs on the iPod 160 GB.
The technology does not share the problems of Flash memory in terms of write cycles, thus, its useful life is much longer.
More information on the case in PaperMaster www.faq-mac.com
         

Bags to Fall Back

After two days that made us think that the worst could have happened, new U.S. government data indicating that the country is in recession or about to enter has led Aerobic exercise with the Bender ball to shape your figure to Wall Street took a sharp downturn in the early hours of sitting.

The study by the government which indicated that retail sales suffered a decline of 1.2% in September, well above the 0.7% estimated by analysts, increasing the idea that consumers will be unwilling to spend much money in the coming months worried about the economic instability Fitness Bender ball method muscles and sweat exercises.

This report from the Department of Commerce has a devastating effect on investors and the economy in general, because it believes that consumer spending amounts to more than two thirds of total economic activity in the United States.

Calderon Brings to the G-8 Proposal and Concern for Green Food

AP - Sapporo, Japan (AP) - The president of Mexico, Felipe Calderón, on Tuesday began its activities on the Japanese island of Hokkaido , Hosted the summit of the eight most industrialized countries, which respectively raised a proposal and a concern: The creation of a "Green Fund" and the hike in food prices.

Wario Bejeweled 1.2

Bejewled Wario is a game in which players help Wario to find their lost jewelry. The system requirements are higher or PowerPC and Mac OS X 10.3 or later. Wario Bejewled is published by escMac Software and is free.
        
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Microsoft AutoCollage, a Tool to Create Compositions Photos

As a rule, almost all the things coming from Microsoft Research tend to be products that leave us pleasantly surprised, and Microsoft AutoCollage is no exception to this rule. This is an application that, as its name suggests, allows us to create collages with our photos, quickly and easily.


When you open AutoCollage, immediately detect all the photos that we have in the folder of images, and hence we can choose what we want to incorporate collage. We have the option to define the quantity of photographs with which shall consist collage, you can also specify the size and format of the final image (depending on whether we want to wallpaper or for a portaretratos).


And because it could not be otherwise, Microsoft AutoCollage includes so popular feature of recognizing faces, automatically dialing the faces of people who find, and avoiding those that are hidden by gradients of collage. In addition, if the application does not recognize the faces of the first, we can dial manually.


Perhaps the only AutoCollage but Microsoft is that this is an application for payment ($ 19.95 dollars) and is available only in the Windows Marketplace USA or the Microsoft Online Store in Europe, but we can access free of charge to a Trial 30 days with limited functions, where the selection of images to compose is less granular, and where the final image appears with a watermark.


The official website of the application can see precious few examples of the results we delivered AutoCollage, within which emphasizes this:





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Danholt4mac Prepares Its Launch in Spain and Latin America with Castilian Versions of Your Software

danholt4mac The German company will offer from this September and with a timetable covering launches until the first quarter of 2009, versions of their programs in Castilian ....

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The NAP Responds to Criticism of Reform Petroleum Surveys

Reuters - Mexico, July 31 (EFE) The ruling National Action Party (PAN) of Mexico today responded to criticism by the opposition to his proposed energy reform with the publication of five surveys indicating that this plan is supported by most Mexicans.
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The EU Offers a Larger Cut Its Agricultural Tariffs, 60%

AFP - Geneva (AFP) - The European Union (EU) offered to cut an average of 60% the level of its agricultural tariffs, against 54% of the project under discussion so far, reported on Monday Peter Power, spokesman for the trade bloc, opened after a ministerial meeting of WTO in Geneva.
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