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No sooner had AT&T announced they were making a massive leap onto the Android bandwagon than Dell went and announced their part in the plan.

Just as we’d guessed in our post on the matter earlier, Dell’s contribution to AT&T’s Android endeavour is the Mini 3. We knew this long-available-elsewhere handset would be launching stateside sooner or later, but it’s nice to see a carrier finally take it under its wing.

No word yet on pricing or availability, outside of the previously disclosed “first half of 2010″ window.

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TVS Motor Company will also have on display the TVS QUBE 2.0, carrying forward the iconic minimalistic DNA of the award winning QUBE that uses an electric-hybrid motor, as it gets closer to reality.

These products are in alignment with TVS Motor Company’s stated mission to produce environment friendly vehicles that exceed prevalent emission norms and create good value proposition to customers. These products further emphasize TVS Motor Company’s commitment to pursue green technologies that will lead to substantial reduction in CO2 levels from a portfolio of products.
About Auto expo 2010

Auto expo 2010 is the premier event of Automobile and Auto components industry closely watched by media and industry experts. It is the most prestigious event related to automobile industry in India.

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So what are you waiting for – if you are in New Delhi – register online for Auto expo 2010 and just go to visit Auto expo 2010.
January 5 to January 11, 2010.Auto Expo is the Complete Automotive Show organized jointly by Automotive Component Manufacturers Association of India (ACMA), Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM). To get tickets and more info and details you can check out the website below.

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Google Nexus One Claimed to be “superphone” by the company, it is the search giant’s latest attempt to grab a share of the booming smartphone market popularised by Apple iPhone. Aimed at protecting its online advertising, the phone challenges the likes of Apple, Blackberry and.
nexus1

Google phone Nexus Specifications:

* Operating system: Android 2.1
* Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHZ.
* Quad-band GSM and 3G support.
* WVGA high resolution touch screen with accelerometer and other sensors.
* On screen keyboard and Trackball navigation.
* Google mobile applications.
* 5 mega pixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash.
Nexus One has a 5-megapixel camera which includes an LED flash and takes MPEG 4 videos. The device also has a trackball which pulses light to alert users of events like new emails or SMSes.The phone also has light and proximity sensors, besides a compass and accelerometer. The light sensor will automatically dim the display when a bright light is not needed.

The proximity sensor also dims the display light when a user moves the phone to the ear to talk. The phone has two microphones — one in the front and one at the back — enabling noise cancellation (especially useful if you’re in a noisy place). The software, Android version 2.1, builds on Android 2.0, and users can place widgets across five home screens instead of three. Android 2.1 voice enables every text field in the device. That means users can speak Twitter messages, Facebook posts and email messages andthe phone will convert them to text to send.

Nexus One also includes a 3D photo gallery and live wallpapers (the background images sit behind widgets, and are animated. For instance, Quieroz gave a demo of a photo of a small lake with leaves floating in the water. Touching it created ripples on the water). The device also supports popular Google applications such as Gmail, Google Voice and Google Maps Navigation.

The building market momentum behind Android is unmistakeable. “In-Stat believes new OSs such as Android will cut away at Symbian’s market share,” says Allen Nogee, In-Stat analyst. “Although there are relatively few open source OS-based smartphones in the market today, the open source OS momentum is difficult to ignore. After years of hype, it is easy to see that 2010 will be the year of Android.”

In-Stat believes the stakes are high. Gone are the days when the basis of competition was solely defined by hardware. Software is becoming the key in determining the user experience. If, however, a particular OS does not garner developer support, then the result could be disastrous, according to In-Stat analysts.

Google, say analysts, has also upset telcos which cut three-way deals with phone makers and operating system vendors to sell phones exclusively on their network. They attempt to sign-up users with two-year contracts and data services. However, Google, on its part, offers carrier-independent models, too, which implies that telcos would have to compete on pricing and the quality of their networks rather than exclusive deals for hot phones.

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Copia, a new e-book platform, plans to take on the big players in the market by launching its own e-book store and a set of touchscreen e-readers. Copia also wants to combine numerous social networking features with its e-book platform and plans to sell its services to original equipment manufacturers (OEM). Copia’s e-book store will offer over 250,000 books from over 1,500 publishers, as well as 1,400 newspapers and over 750,000 free books from Google Books.

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Copia’s private, limited-invitation beta will launch this month. The company plans to expand this beta in March.

Copia bills itself as a hybrid solution, as the company plans to offer both consumer-facing e-book solutions as well as an open platform for OEMs.

Focus on Social Networking Features

On the consumer side, Copia wants to differentiate itself from its competition by giving its users a number of social networking tools. Community profiles on Copia, for example, are linked to Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. In addition, the service will offer collaboration tools that are mostly geared towards students. Users can highlight and annotate books, for example, and share these annotations with other users. Copia will also implement a rating system for book reviews.

OEM’s will be able to offer all of these features to their users as well. OEMs will also be able to integrate Copia’s e-book store into their own devices.

Copia’s E-Readers: Ocean and Tidal

Copia plans to offer six different e-readers with prices ranging from $199 to $299. The Tidal will offer a six-inch ePaper display and the Ocean will come in a basic six-inch version and two advanced versions with a nine-inch screens. Both of these models will come in three different variations. The most basic models will not offer any wireless connectivity besides Wi-Fi and won’t offer a touchscreen. The intermediate models offer touchscreens, and the high-end versions will offer touchscreens and 3G connectivity. All models come with tilt sensors and 4GB of internal memory.

These devices will go on sale on Copia’s site in April.

Can This Work?

We still have a lot of questions about Copia. We don’t know at what price the company plans to sell books and what DRM-solution Copia plans to implement. At the same time, though, the company’s plan to sell both e-books and compatible e-readers looks a lot like Amazon’s strategy and there can be no doubt that Amazon has been quite successful with this model. Copia, however, doesn’t have any name recognition yet and the e-book market is currently dominated by big companies like Amazon, B&N and Sony. If Copia is successful in getting enough OEM partners, though, it could establish itself as another major player in the market. The company’s e-reader lineup also looks like a potential winner.

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Google Nexus One Claimed to be “superphone” by the company, it is the search giant’s latest attempt to grab a share of the booming smartphone market popularised by Apple iPhone. Aimed at protecting its online advertising, the phone challenges the likes of Apple, Blackberry and.
nexus1

Google phone Nexus Specifications:

* Operating system: Android 2.1
* Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 1GHZ.
* Quad-band GSM and 3G support.
* WVGA high resolution touch screen with accelerometer and other sensors.
* On screen keyboard and Trackball navigation.
* Google mobile applications.
* 5 mega pixel autofocus camera with dual LED flash.
Nexus One has a 5-megapixel camera which includes an LED flash and takes MPEG 4 videos. The device also has a trackball which pulses light to alert users of events like new emails or SMSes. The phone also has light and proximity sensors, besides a compass and accelerometer. The light sensor will automatically dim the display when a bright light is not needed.

The proximity sensor also dims the display light when a user moves the phone to the ear to talk. The phone has two microphones — one in the front and one at the back — enabling noise cancellation (especially useful if you’re in a noisy place). The software, Android version 2.1, builds on Android 2.0, and users can place widgets across five home screens instead of three. Android 2.1 voice enables every text field in the device. That means users can speak Twitter messages, Facebook posts and email messages and the phone will convert them to text to send.

Nexus One also includes a 3D photo gallery and live wallpapers (the background images sit behind widgets, and are animated. For instance, Quieroz gave a demo of a photo of a small lake with leaves floating in the water. Touching it created ripples on the water). The device also supports popular Google applications such as Gmail, Google Voice and Google Maps Navigation.

The building market momentum behind Android is unmistakeable. “In-Stat believes new OSs such as Android will cut away at Symbian’s market share,” says Allen Nogee, In-Stat analyst. “Although there are relatively few open source OS-based smartphones in the market today, the open source OS momentum is difficult to ignore. After years of hype, it is easy to see that 2010 will be the year of Android.”

In-Stat believes the stakes are high. Gone are the days when the basis of competition was solely defined by hardware. Software is becoming the key in determining the user experience. If, however, a particular OS does not garner developer support, then the result could be disastrous, according to In-Stat analysts.

Google, say analysts, has also upset telcos which cut three-way deals with phone makers and operating system vendors to sell phones exclusively on their network. They attempt to sign-up users with two-year contracts and data services. However, Google, on its part, offers carrier-independent models, too, which implies that telcos would have to compete on pricing and the quality of their networks rather than exclusive deals for hot phones.

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I really don’t know if Google’s Nexus One is the “best Android phone yet,” but Om seems to think it is after 10 days of use. He points out some glaring challenges with the software keyboard and lack of seamless interaction after you leave the native apps, but I decided to take the plunge anyway.

Yesterday, I ordered an unsubsidized, unlocked Nexus One for $529 and it will arrive here in Vegas tomorrow. I’m heading to a local T-Mobile store later today for a SIM card. Here’s a couple of thoughts of why I went this route, based on some reader questions.

• Why unlocked? Although the term “unlocked” doesn’t have much value here in the U.S. thanks to two GSM carriers using different data frequencies, it should help with the resale value of the handset itself. Not everyone wants a contract, so I paid the full price, thinking that if I don’t keep the phone it will be easier to sell later, and for more money than a locked phone.
• Isn’t $529 a lot? Yes it is, but aside from the freedom of using any SIM card, there’s another benefit to pay the full price if I keep the phone for 18 months or more. Here’s the math: it’s a $350 difference between the subsidized phone and unsubsidized price. The T-Mobile plan for the subsidized, contract phone is $79.99 a month. That same plan with no hardware purchase is $59.99 a month. Both net you 500 minutes of voice and unlimited texting and web access. So my contract-free SIM will save me $20 a month over the same plan if I paid less for the phone up front. That means I’d be ahead of the game in the 18th month.
• What if Palm brings big news for webOS at CES? Great question since I’ll be dumping the Pre for the new Nexus One. Hey, it’s not like I didn’t give fair warning. Buying the unlocked phone gives me cheap insurance in case I decide to keep the Pre. I can still sell the Nexus One and only lose a little money. I don’t anticipate this happening, but I’m covered. In fact, I can even return the phone to Google for a minimal fee if hot webOS news breaks this week.
• Why now? Although I reviewed the T-Mobile G1 when it came out, I haven’t bought an Android device yet. I wanted to see how the platform evolved and I’m now comfortable with where it’s at and where it’s going. It didn’t hurt that T-Mobile is in the process of making their network faster either.
• Why not wait for the device on Verizon? That’s probably the best question since I’ve always found Verizon’s coverage to be top-notch. In fact, I’ve used their EVDO service since my first CES in 2005. But T-Mobile’s coverage in my area has expanded quite nicely and I don’t do too much traveling beyond the sticks I live in. And then there’s the SIM vs no-SIM argument. By going with T-Mobile, I have the flexibility to use one SIM card in any number of devices. I’d lose that flexibility with Verizon and I’m also anticipating that the device won’t be contract-free when it arrives.

Although I don’t have the device in hand yet, I already know it’s not perfect. But it is Android evolved and I think there’s enough software and other tools to make it part of my daily productivity kit, based on my needs. Plus, I’m inclined to agree with Om — on paper for now, anyway — that in my opinion, this might be the best Android phone yet.

Opel ha decidido sacar esta versión para el Opel Corsa tras los 111 años de la marca tras su fundación. También hay otras dos versiones para el Astra y el Zafira. Tenemos el equipamiento de serie, que mejora un poco la relación calidad precio respecto a la versión base vendida en España.

El precio empieza en los 13.870 €, algo más de dos millones de las antiguas pesetas y eso es decir mucho para un compacto como el Opel Corsa, si bien es cierto que este segmento ha mejorado muchísimo. Sin embargo uno esperaría verle partir de algo más abajo y con algún extra quedar en un precio cercano. Equipamiento y motorizaciones, tras el salto.

Equipamiento de serie:

• ABS + EBD
• Dirección asistida
• Elevalunas eléctricos
• Cierre centralizado con mando
• Ordenador de viaje
• Radio CD MP3
• Volante multifunción forrado en piel
• Aire acondicionado
• Cristales tintados
• Seis airbags

Motores disponibles:

• 1.2i 16v 85 CV
• 1.2i 16v Aut. 85 CV
• 1.4i 16v 100 CV
• 1.3 CDTI 75 CV
• 1.3 CDTI 95 CV
• 1.3 CDTI 95 CV Aut

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While UK may be blessed with the HTC HD2 already, if you after a smaller form factor Snapdragon device and were lusting after the LG eXpo, up till now you were pretty much out of luck.

LG’s official twitter account may have gives Uk readers some hope however, stating the handset may be coming to Uk after all.

So far no further details are available yet.

See the tweet here.

A new report on sustainable biofuels points out that the U.S. government spent $4 billion in 2008 on subsidies to replace just 2% of the U.S. gasoline supply.

The average cost to taxpayers for the substituted barrels of gasoline was roughly $82 per barrel, or $1.95 per gallon on top of the gasoline retail price. 

The use of corn-based ethanol, the report suggests, will not only be difficult and expensive to reach congressionally mandated levels for renewable fuels, but the produciton itself comes with a slew of negative consequences for humans and the environment.

From the report:

• The addition of ethanol to gasoline poses a great risk for human exposure to toxic constituents present in underground storage tank leaks.

• Increases in corn-based ethanol production in the U.S. Midwest could cause an increase in detrimental environmental impacts, including exacerbating damage to ecosystems and fisheries along the Mississippi River and in the Gulf of Mexico and creating water shortages in some areas.

• Any clearing of forests and grasslands to grow biofuels will add to the release of carbondioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere.

…

It is uncertain whether existing biofuels production provides any beneficial improvement over traditional gasoline, after taking into account land use changes and emissions of nitrous oxide. Legislation giving biofuels preferences on the basis of greenhouse gas benefits
should be avoided.

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Filed under: Software, Cool tools

I discovered AppZapper years ago. It was a huge boon for me, helping me keep my support folders a little cleaner as I began the early stages of my habit of installing 2 or more new apps a day, trying them, and usually deleting them. It let me drag an application to its interface, and would then search for related files that application may have left around the hard drive. A quick double-check (by me) to make sure it wasn’t mistaken, one click and poof, all traces removed.

I’ve tried other, similar applications over the years … CleanApp has some great features, and Amnesia is pretty cool, but AppZapper “just worked.” I managed to stay loyal to it long after I had assumed its development had gone dead. Then, to my pleasant surprise, a major update dropped yesterday. My AppZapper is not only freshened up, it’s bursting with some very cool features.

The standard drag and drop panel of old is still around, and its automatic search is snappier. Up at the top corner of that first panel, though, is a switch flips the panel around, revealing the “Hit List.” This clever screen lets you sort a grid of all your applications, plugins, preference panels and widgets (all together or individually) based on their last-opened date and file size. You can, for example, see all the apps on your drive that are larger than 50MB and haven’t been touched in the last two months. From there, you can click on one, see its related files in the bottom bar, and click the “Zap” button to say goodbye. You can also launch apps directly from this screen, which is helpful for those moments when the apps name sounds familiar, but you can’t for the life of you remember what it does. These are 90% sha-na-na-na, hey hey for me, but it’s always nice to be sure.

Random warning: the new version of AppZapper makes a rather loud, somewhat grating zapping sound when performing a delete. I recommend you jump straight into preferences and disable that (before it scares the whole house in the middle of the night because you forgot to turn your speakers down when you were testing it out).

Lastly, there’s a whole license management section built into AppZapper now. It’s not just for apps you hate anymore, but the ones you love. Just drag items from Finder or out of the Hit List to indicate you own them. It will create a card for the app, and clicking the card flips it around and allows you to enter purchase info, license details and attach files. Not as full featured as something like 1Password or LicenseKeeper, but it’s a really well-executed touch on this new incarnation of an old classic.

My license of old seemed to upgrade fine, so I believe existing owners of AppZapper can enjoy the upgrade for free. New users can try out a free download, and pay $12.95US if you love it.

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What kind of company gets a drug through the FDA? If you’re a Japanese company, it seems to help if your main business isn’t prescription pharmaceuticals.

Perusing the list of FDA new drug approvals from Washington Analysis, we found four that originated in the labs of Japanese companies. A new drug for gout came from Teijin, a major textile maker. (Teijin licensed U.S. rights to Takeda.)

The Otsuka group of companies, best known in some circles as the maker of the Pocari Sweat sports drink, came up with approval for a niche product for certain patients with low sodium levels in plasma.

Then there’s Kowa, which won approval for a cholesterol-lowering statin called Livalo. We’re somewhat at a loss to describe its core business. Its Web site mentions professional broadcasting equipment, apparel, textiles, home fashion, “bioarchitectural research” and a few other areas in addition to medicines.

Less successful at getting drugs through the FDA were the pharmaceutical giants that spend billions of dollars each year for precisely that purpose. Pfizer and Merck were among the big names that struck out for the year. That’s food for thought as the pharma industry tries to survive a wave of patent expirations and growth in U.S. prescription-drug spending slows sharply.

To be sure, some of the bigger names did get new drugs through the FDA in 2009, including Tokyo’s Daiichi-Sankyo, which won approval for the clot-buster Effient (co-marketed with Eli Lilly).

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As much as BoomTown likes a good computer tablet face-off, sources with knowledge of the situation said that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will not be whipping out the secret slate PC that the company has been noodling on in his keynote speech opening the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas tonight.

Last night, the New York Times reported that the software giant would do so in a blog post titled: “Microsoft and H.P. to Reveal Slate PC Ahead of Apple.”

Apple will be launching its much-heralded slate at an event in San Francisco on January 27, as All Things Digital has previously reported.

The Apple (AAPL) device is garnering the expected flood of hype, of course. So, don’t expect Ballmer to pointlessly go against the tide on this particular tsunami, thereby painting its slate efforts as also-ran.

Instead, his speech is more likely to focus on its new Windows 7 operating system, cloud computing, portable and mobile devices and Microsoft’s “software plus services” motto.

While he might talk about a range of products related to Microsoft (MSFT) and there will be multi-form hardware shown, including multi-touch, tablet-type devices, there will be no grand showing of the one called the Courier, which Microsoft is reportedly working on with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ).

Hence the possible confusion over the PC slate.

Now, please go back to gushing over the Apple iSlate ad nauseum!

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A couple of the hotter video games released in Japan later this month, as reviewed in this week’s issue of Famitsu magazine:

– Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (10/9/9/9, 37 points): Nothing negative was said at all in any of the four reviewers’ boxes for Nomura’s latest Disney-fied action RPG. “Each stage has different story and event bits to it, so it always seems really fresh,” one wrote. “A lot of innovation is in the battle system, and once you get to grips with it, it becomes really exhilarating. The graphics and sound are excellent, and the minigames are great, too. No complaints at all from me.”

Other reviewers added comments on the size of the game (”The sheer volume of the story, as told from three different perspectives, is amazing”) and the way battles get deeper over time (”It’s nice how new battle tactics gradually make themselves known as you learn new battle commands”).

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Filed under: Coupe, Performance, Etc., Chevrolet

Lee Noble has risen from the ashes of his former company, the eponymous Noble Automotive, and launched a new supercar under the Fenix Automotive banner. The company’s first new product is a clean sheet design that owes little to the old M12 and M400 cars that were sold in the States as component vehicles. While it shares similar specs and general shape with the new Noble M600, it has nothing else in common with the latest vision-warping supercar to bear his name.

Where the M12 and M400 were stripped-down flyers powered by various versions of the European Ford 3.0-liter V6, the Fenix will be powered by a choice of Chevrolet V8 powerplants. Customers can specifiy either the 480 horsepower LS3, or the 638 horsepower LS9 from the Corvette ZR1. With a projected curb weight of just 2,645 pounds, the supercharged Fenix should be able to sprint from 0-100 mph in under seven seconds and reach a top speed of around 200 mph.

The first prototype will be undergoing development around the company’s manufacturing facility in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. The Fenix supercar will go on sale in the UK in the second half of 2010 and U.S. sales are a possibility. The Fenix is expected to offer a level of performance and sophistication that would rival $240,000 thoroughbred sportscars while costing about half as much. No official pricing has been announced yet, but the company did issue a press release, which you’ll find after the jump, and a pair of photos in the gallery below.

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