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Google to bring 250yrs newspaper archives online

Google to bring 250yrs newspaper archives onlineLondon, September 9 : Google Inc. has undertaken a new project to make archives of the world-famous newspapers available on the Internet.

Making an announcement in this regard, the company said that its newspaper-scanning project would begin with a handful of North American newspapers, including the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph, considered to be the continent’s oldest newspaper.

Sony’s VAIO Notebook Range Encounter Battery Problems

Sony will have to change the batteries of their own VAIO line of notebooks, as they are giving troubles to the users. Just two years before, the company had to recall 4.1 million laptop batteries which were placed in Dell, Apple and Lenovo notebooks due to the same reasons.

The company will have to change the batteries of the VGN-TZ100, VGN-TZ200, and VGN-TZ300 and VGN-TZ2000 series, due to “irregularly positioned wires near the computer's hinge and/or dislodged screw inside the hinge,” as there is a risk of the batteries getting overheat and also short-circuit thus also resulting in fire. The incident was experienced by a user of VAIO, when she got her arm injured while using her VAIO laptop.

Motorola ‘MOTOJEWEL’ Phone Unveiled

Leading mobile manufacture, Motorolla Inc released new mobile phone, Motorola MOTOJEWEL in the market.

Now Get iPhone At Easy Installments!

Leading telecom company, Airtel is planning to sell its 3G iphone on monthly installment Now Get iPhone At Easy Installments! basis. The company had launched much hyped iPhone last month. Its price was fixed at Rs 31,000 which is quite high for middle income families.

Servers To Get Low-Power Chips Launched By Intel

New server processors are soon to be shipped by Intel, which are thought of consuming as little as 12.5 watts per core. Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are of the viewpoint, that in the present era, it is very important to get a device that delivers maximum performance with minimum consumption.

Intel said in a statement, “New additions to the Xeon 5000 Series include the L5430 and X5270 processors, the fastest of which boasts a clock speed of 3.5GHz.”

According to Intel, the new L5430 consumes only 50 watts of power or just 12.5 watts per second, whereas the dual-core Xeon X5270 uses only 80 watts.

Sharp Launches Two AQUOS BD-HP21U and BD-HP50U Blu-ray players

Sharp has launched two new AQUOS Blu-ray players, named BD-HP21U and BD-HP50U in the market.

The newly launched Blu-ray players’ offer full 1080p HD and plays anything from audio CDs to Blu-ray discs.

These Blu-ray players have some exclusive features like full 1080p HD at 24fps with HDMI 1.3 outputs, x.v.Color, 7.1 channel surround sound, Dolby TrueHD, DTS HD, Dolby Digital Plus and Quick Start. The users can link several sharp devices for control with its AQOUS-LINK.

While watching a movie, these players can support Profile 1.1 Blu-ray discs and picture-in-picture as well.

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