No.1 in Battery Industry for 1,000-time Rechargeability and 4.4-time longer usability
SANYO (Thailand) Co., Ltd., would like to introduce the latest “eneloop” rechargeable battery pack, which comes in 8 stylish colors : purple, pink, orange, yellow, light green, green, light blue, and blue. The batteries can be used immediately right out of the pack without charge needed. The “eneloop” helps camera to take more pictures than conventional battery for 4.4 times. It is eco-friendly with 1,000-time rechargeability. Electricity can be kept for 2 years without use.
Above all, SANYO has also launch a cute dog-shaped battery checker, “eneloopy”, which can be simply used. By setting a battery in the dog’s body and pressing the switch on the chest, the LED on the nose indicates the remaining battery level using 4 different colors: green, orange, red, and light off. It is suitable to be taken long with user in order to help camera in any unmissable moments.
The latest “eneloop” innovation by SANYO is now available. An “eneloop” rechargeable battery pack is priced 1,990 Baht. The “eneloopy”, bundled with 2 AA-sized batteries, is priced 990 Baht.
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
TANDBERG First to Demonstrate Immersive Three-Screen Telepresence Interoperability with Cisco TelePresence
TANDBERG Total Telepresence solution delivers additional immersive third-party telepresence interoperability capabilities for expanded company-to-company collaboration.
TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA.OL) announced it has successfully demonstrated telepresence interoperability between TANDBERG Telepresence and the Cisco CTS 3000. This demonstration, the first of its kind, was enabled by integrating Cisco's new Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) into the award-winning TANDBERG Telepresence Server. With this integration, TANDBERG now adds Cisco TelePresence solutions to the list of third-party telepresence solutions it can seamlessly interoperate with while maintaining the three-screen, high-definition telepresence experience.
"As we build a global video community, it is imperative that organizations are not locked in by technology," said Fredrik Halvorsen, TANDBERG CEO. "Our Total Telepresence solution is interoperable with a broad range of third-party solutions, including those from Polycom and Microsoft. We are very happy to now deliver even greater value to our customers by bringing participants on TANDBERG Telepresence and Cisco TelePresence together with an immersive, three-screen experience. Today's demonstration reflects TANDBERG's continued commitment to open standards, providing scalable solutions and protecting our customers' video investments for the future."
According to Frost & Sullivan, although many companies initially think of telepresence as a substitute for the corporate jet, the technology holds even more value when it can seamlessly link to other video conferencing solutions - within and outside of an organization - to ensure all necessary participants can attend any meeting. TANDBERG customers have seen the exponential value of interoperability between third-party telepresence and video conferencing for company-to-company collaboration while maintaining the best experience possible. TANDBERG is consistently the first to deliver the most advanced interoperability solutions to the market, demonstrated by:
* TANDBERG first to demonstrate a multi-screen, high-definition telepresence call with Cisco TelePresence CTS 3000 (see video).
* TANDBERG first to deliver a telepresence solution that can interoperate with third-party telepresence systems while maintaining the immersive telepresence experience.
* TANDBERG first to enable high definition video between Microsoft Office Communicator and immersive multi-screen telepresence.
* TANDBERG first to deliver a complete portfolio of HD telepresence and video conferencing solutions that can interoperate with any other standards compliant systems both within an organization and company-to-company.
Interoperability with Cisco CTS 3000 and other Cisco systems will be available through a software upgrade to the TANDBERG Telepresence Server later this year. For more information about the TANDBERG Total Telepresence solution, visit http://www.tandberg.com or call or contact moreinfo@TANDBERG.com .
About TANDBERG
TANDBERG is the leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and mobile video products and services with dual headquarters in New York and Norway. TANDBERG designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data. The company provides sales, support and value-added services in more than 90 countries worldwide. TANDBERG is publicly traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker TAA.OL. Please visit http://www.tandberg.com for more information.
TANDBERG is a trademark or registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names here in may be trademarks of their respective owners.
TANDBERG (OSLO: TAA.OL) announced it has successfully demonstrated telepresence interoperability between TANDBERG Telepresence and the Cisco CTS 3000. This demonstration, the first of its kind, was enabled by integrating Cisco's new Telepresence Interoperability Protocol (TIP) into the award-winning TANDBERG Telepresence Server. With this integration, TANDBERG now adds Cisco TelePresence solutions to the list of third-party telepresence solutions it can seamlessly interoperate with while maintaining the three-screen, high-definition telepresence experience.
"As we build a global video community, it is imperative that organizations are not locked in by technology," said Fredrik Halvorsen, TANDBERG CEO. "Our Total Telepresence solution is interoperable with a broad range of third-party solutions, including those from Polycom and Microsoft. We are very happy to now deliver even greater value to our customers by bringing participants on TANDBERG Telepresence and Cisco TelePresence together with an immersive, three-screen experience. Today's demonstration reflects TANDBERG's continued commitment to open standards, providing scalable solutions and protecting our customers' video investments for the future."
According to Frost & Sullivan, although many companies initially think of telepresence as a substitute for the corporate jet, the technology holds even more value when it can seamlessly link to other video conferencing solutions - within and outside of an organization - to ensure all necessary participants can attend any meeting. TANDBERG customers have seen the exponential value of interoperability between third-party telepresence and video conferencing for company-to-company collaboration while maintaining the best experience possible. TANDBERG is consistently the first to deliver the most advanced interoperability solutions to the market, demonstrated by:
* TANDBERG first to demonstrate a multi-screen, high-definition telepresence call with Cisco TelePresence CTS 3000 (see video).
* TANDBERG first to deliver a telepresence solution that can interoperate with third-party telepresence systems while maintaining the immersive telepresence experience.
* TANDBERG first to enable high definition video between Microsoft Office Communicator and immersive multi-screen telepresence.
* TANDBERG first to deliver a complete portfolio of HD telepresence and video conferencing solutions that can interoperate with any other standards compliant systems both within an organization and company-to-company.
Interoperability with Cisco CTS 3000 and other Cisco systems will be available through a software upgrade to the TANDBERG Telepresence Server later this year. For more information about the TANDBERG Total Telepresence solution, visit http://www.tandberg.com or call or contact moreinfo@TANDBERG.com .
About TANDBERG
TANDBERG is the leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and mobile video products and services with dual headquarters in New York and Norway. TANDBERG designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data. The company provides sales, support and value-added services in more than 90 countries worldwide. TANDBERG is publicly traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker TAA.OL. Please visit http://www.tandberg.com for more information.
TANDBERG is a trademark or registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names here in may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Top IT/Storage Investment Priorities for 2010
While global economic recovery is still uncertain looking ahead to 2010, the growth rate of storage and the demand on storage infrastructures continue to intensify. Therefore, IT departments are tasked with staying ahead of the exponential growth of data in the enterprise. IT professionals are operating their businesses with very limited existing capital, making it difficult for them to acquire new technologies. Instead of continuing to add more storage systems, capital or operational investments must be maximized to the fullest extent and be more cost-effective and sustainable.
Below are some of the most critical investment priorities for IT professionals in 2010 according to Hitachi Data Systems:
Data Center Virtualization: Virtualization is a critical enabler of the dynamic data center of tomorrow. Data center virtualization presents many benefits, but also presents new challenges. Overall power consumption will be lower, but highly variable. There will be fewer servers, but each one will be more critical and will place a higher demand on storage resources than ever before. Applications can be dynamically reallocated at will, and the support infrastructure must be able to do the same. The data center footprint will be smaller, but overall efficiency might still be suboptimal. The good news is that there are practical and affordable ways to address these challenges and improve data center efficiency in the process.
As more workloads are virtualized onto multi-core processors and network bandwidths increase to 8 Gbps on FC and 10 Gbps on Ethernet, the strain on the underlying storage infrastructure increases from both a capacity and a performance standpoint. It’s important that the storage infrastructure supporting the virtualized environment can scale up and out depending on performance and capacity requirements. A scale up storage system that can add more processing power, access ports, cache, and disk spindles for wide striping performance to meet the peak requirements of large server virtualizations. Scale out is required to lower the cost and disruption of adding new capacity or upgrading to new technologies. In 2009, we have seen the trend towards lower cost modular storage that scales out, through loosely loose coupling around a switch technology like Ethernet or RapidIO. The shortcoming of scale-out modular storage is the inability to scale up. In 2010, we expect to see demand for storage systems that both have the ability to scale-up as well as scale-out out in order to meet the increasing demands of faster networks, processors, and virtual operating systems such as, VMware and Hyper V.
Cloud Storage: Cloud computing is often used as a metaphor for the Internet. Cloud storage serves to mask the complexity of the IT infrastructure and enables access to storage capacity as “a pay as you grow” service. The cloud will continue to grow in awareness into 2010, with a continued focus by private cloud builders and public cloud service providers on elasticity, reliability, multi-tenancy and security. Key to the success of cloud providers, as with the dot.com services providers of earlier days, will be the ability to leverage their resources and be more efficient in managing the growth of storage compared to their end users. Storage virtualization and the ability to dynamically scale up and scale out will be key drivers to adoption. We expect an increasing adoption of cloud storage as advancements are made on key capabilities such as, security, multi-tenancy, and payment models.
Automated Tiered Storage: As the difference in price and performance widens, with the introduction of Flash drives and TB SATA disks, the adoption of tiering becomes more attractive. The addition of automated tiered storage management eliminates the enormous staff overhead associated with moving and copying data minimizes the cost of expensive disk drives, leverages lower cost storage for inactive data and copies, and optimizes the use of high performance Tier 1 storage. Many IT organizations are moving towards tiered storage management automation that is policy-based to achieve economic efficiency while maintaining service level objectives for the business. Combining automated tiered storage management with storage virtualization and dynamic, thin provisioning will provide the greatest reduction in capital and operational costs.
Managed Services: Managing data storage infrastructure requires experienced and costly full time staff. At one time, a pool of in-house resources was available to manage these routine functions, but not anymore. In today’s IT organizations, provisioning for new apps or SAN performance reporting are now being managed through remote managed services. As this demand grows, expect new service offerings to be adopted as an efficient and cost effective alternative for fully managed, 24/7 real time storage expertise where resource skill sets gap or head count constraints exist. Utilizing services also eliminates the need to pull experienced staff away from revenue generating projects for critical, yet administrative tasks.
Sustainable IT: IT agendas are already full, especially given the added burdens imposed by the downturn. But executives and managers should be wary of using this as an excuse to delay engaging with top management on the sustainability initiatives. Sustainable IT practices offer significant opportunities for creating value and competitive advantage. 2010 will see greater rationalization of green IT projects. IT managers face internal competition for limited investment available, and will find that green IT projects are gaining more support from corporate programs. There will also be a new role within IT organizations – the Sustainable IT manager – responsible for identifying and managing Green IT programs. In addition, data center managers are likely to start putting greater focus on power consumption. With closer scrutiny on energy measurements, more IT managers will ensure the appropriate procedures are in place for documenting power consumption. At a technical level, this will result in increased focus on server, storage, and data center virtualization as well as cloud.
Security: IT managers must strike a balance between mitigating security risks and delivering the best infrastructures in terms of throughput, availability, scalability, cost and complexity. Each organization must make its own trade-off decisions based on its unique situation (e.g., deployed infrastructure, legal and regulatory requirements, and due care expectations) and the importance of its data. IT managers planning storage investments or use of third party services in 2010 will need to take into account key priorities including data confidentiality, privacy, sanitization/eradication and security.
Ethernet Convergence in the Data Center (FCOE/DCIB): The industry is moving to a dynamic infrastructure networking model that has highly utilized servers running many VMs per server and uses high bandwidth links to communicate with virtual storage and virtual networks. Over time, this technology has the potential to:
- Lower capital expenses through higher server, storage and network utilization and converged fabrics (which means less cabling and consolidation of HBAs and NICs.)
- Lower operational expenses through higher utilization of data center real estate
- Lower power consumption.
Adoption on the server side with FCoE to the switch will be first as the price for CNA’s and 10 Gbps infrastructure decreases. We expect to see adoption on the storage side of the switch pick up as additional industry standards are formed to enable multi-pathing and network decongestion. There is also a huge investment in Fibre Chanel (FC) infrastructure which will be transitioning to 8 Gbps FC. Since transition to 8 Gbps FC is less disruptive than the transition to 10 Gbps FCoE, the adoption of FCoE on the storage side, we expect may take longer before being widely adopted.
Improved Performance with Flash-based Drives or SSD: While flash-based drives are considered cost-prohibitive compared to traditional hard disk drives, they do offer advantages in performance – specifically very low latency and very fast I/Os -- and have the added advantage of superior energy efficiency. Expect to see more flash-based technologies integrated into solutions portfolios as customer awareness and potential demand grows, but adopters should look for the added security of data encryption capabilities at the SSD drive level before moving forward.
Content Archive Platform Continued Growth: IDC estimates that content data will be the fastest growth area of data with a compounded annual growth rate of 121%. This is not hard to imagine since this is the data that accumulates year after year. In addition to content data, as much as 60 to 80% of structured and unstructured data in a data center may be stale data that could be moved to a content archive to reduce the working set of data that needs to be managed on a daily basis. While content data is the fastest growing data type, it may be the easiest to manage due to its static nature. Once it is ingested in a content archive platform there is no need to back it up as long as you have at least two copies and its life cycle can be managed automatically. When it is ingested it can be indexed so that it can be directly accessed, compressed, de-duped and stored on low cost large capacity disks, while also being encrypted to ensure privacy. Since this is the fastest growing type of data, a content platform must be able to scale to tens of Petabytes and be able to support multiple data formats, and we expect to see growing demand for Content Archive Platforms that meet these requirements.
Greater adoption of dynamic (thin) provisioning: The single greatest tool for reducing operational costs is dynamic (thin) provisioning. Thin provisioning can:
- Eliminate the waste of allocated unused space
- Reduce the cost of moving and copying fat volumes by eliminating unused space
- Reclaim up to 40% or more capacity from existing fat volumes
- Reduce the provisioning of storage from hours to minutes
- Facilitates wide striping to increase performance by spreading the I/O across more disk spindles
Given all of these advantages, we expect dynamic (thin) provisioning technology to be a top investment priority for customers with capabilities such as, zero page reclaim, dynamic rebalance of storage pools as capacity is added, multi-vendor storage support – while also boosting performance.
Below are some of the most critical investment priorities for IT professionals in 2010 according to Hitachi Data Systems:
Data Center Virtualization: Virtualization is a critical enabler of the dynamic data center of tomorrow. Data center virtualization presents many benefits, but also presents new challenges. Overall power consumption will be lower, but highly variable. There will be fewer servers, but each one will be more critical and will place a higher demand on storage resources than ever before. Applications can be dynamically reallocated at will, and the support infrastructure must be able to do the same. The data center footprint will be smaller, but overall efficiency might still be suboptimal. The good news is that there are practical and affordable ways to address these challenges and improve data center efficiency in the process.
As more workloads are virtualized onto multi-core processors and network bandwidths increase to 8 Gbps on FC and 10 Gbps on Ethernet, the strain on the underlying storage infrastructure increases from both a capacity and a performance standpoint. It’s important that the storage infrastructure supporting the virtualized environment can scale up and out depending on performance and capacity requirements. A scale up storage system that can add more processing power, access ports, cache, and disk spindles for wide striping performance to meet the peak requirements of large server virtualizations. Scale out is required to lower the cost and disruption of adding new capacity or upgrading to new technologies. In 2009, we have seen the trend towards lower cost modular storage that scales out, through loosely loose coupling around a switch technology like Ethernet or RapidIO. The shortcoming of scale-out modular storage is the inability to scale up. In 2010, we expect to see demand for storage systems that both have the ability to scale-up as well as scale-out out in order to meet the increasing demands of faster networks, processors, and virtual operating systems such as, VMware and Hyper V.
Cloud Storage: Cloud computing is often used as a metaphor for the Internet. Cloud storage serves to mask the complexity of the IT infrastructure and enables access to storage capacity as “a pay as you grow” service. The cloud will continue to grow in awareness into 2010, with a continued focus by private cloud builders and public cloud service providers on elasticity, reliability, multi-tenancy and security. Key to the success of cloud providers, as with the dot.com services providers of earlier days, will be the ability to leverage their resources and be more efficient in managing the growth of storage compared to their end users. Storage virtualization and the ability to dynamically scale up and scale out will be key drivers to adoption. We expect an increasing adoption of cloud storage as advancements are made on key capabilities such as, security, multi-tenancy, and payment models.
Automated Tiered Storage: As the difference in price and performance widens, with the introduction of Flash drives and TB SATA disks, the adoption of tiering becomes more attractive. The addition of automated tiered storage management eliminates the enormous staff overhead associated with moving and copying data minimizes the cost of expensive disk drives, leverages lower cost storage for inactive data and copies, and optimizes the use of high performance Tier 1 storage. Many IT organizations are moving towards tiered storage management automation that is policy-based to achieve economic efficiency while maintaining service level objectives for the business. Combining automated tiered storage management with storage virtualization and dynamic, thin provisioning will provide the greatest reduction in capital and operational costs.
Managed Services: Managing data storage infrastructure requires experienced and costly full time staff. At one time, a pool of in-house resources was available to manage these routine functions, but not anymore. In today’s IT organizations, provisioning for new apps or SAN performance reporting are now being managed through remote managed services. As this demand grows, expect new service offerings to be adopted as an efficient and cost effective alternative for fully managed, 24/7 real time storage expertise where resource skill sets gap or head count constraints exist. Utilizing services also eliminates the need to pull experienced staff away from revenue generating projects for critical, yet administrative tasks.
Sustainable IT: IT agendas are already full, especially given the added burdens imposed by the downturn. But executives and managers should be wary of using this as an excuse to delay engaging with top management on the sustainability initiatives. Sustainable IT practices offer significant opportunities for creating value and competitive advantage. 2010 will see greater rationalization of green IT projects. IT managers face internal competition for limited investment available, and will find that green IT projects are gaining more support from corporate programs. There will also be a new role within IT organizations – the Sustainable IT manager – responsible for identifying and managing Green IT programs. In addition, data center managers are likely to start putting greater focus on power consumption. With closer scrutiny on energy measurements, more IT managers will ensure the appropriate procedures are in place for documenting power consumption. At a technical level, this will result in increased focus on server, storage, and data center virtualization as well as cloud.
Security: IT managers must strike a balance between mitigating security risks and delivering the best infrastructures in terms of throughput, availability, scalability, cost and complexity. Each organization must make its own trade-off decisions based on its unique situation (e.g., deployed infrastructure, legal and regulatory requirements, and due care expectations) and the importance of its data. IT managers planning storage investments or use of third party services in 2010 will need to take into account key priorities including data confidentiality, privacy, sanitization/eradication and security.
Ethernet Convergence in the Data Center (FCOE/DCIB): The industry is moving to a dynamic infrastructure networking model that has highly utilized servers running many VMs per server and uses high bandwidth links to communicate with virtual storage and virtual networks. Over time, this technology has the potential to:
- Lower capital expenses through higher server, storage and network utilization and converged fabrics (which means less cabling and consolidation of HBAs and NICs.)
- Lower operational expenses through higher utilization of data center real estate
- Lower power consumption.
Adoption on the server side with FCoE to the switch will be first as the price for CNA’s and 10 Gbps infrastructure decreases. We expect to see adoption on the storage side of the switch pick up as additional industry standards are formed to enable multi-pathing and network decongestion. There is also a huge investment in Fibre Chanel (FC) infrastructure which will be transitioning to 8 Gbps FC. Since transition to 8 Gbps FC is less disruptive than the transition to 10 Gbps FCoE, the adoption of FCoE on the storage side, we expect may take longer before being widely adopted.
Improved Performance with Flash-based Drives or SSD: While flash-based drives are considered cost-prohibitive compared to traditional hard disk drives, they do offer advantages in performance – specifically very low latency and very fast I/Os -- and have the added advantage of superior energy efficiency. Expect to see more flash-based technologies integrated into solutions portfolios as customer awareness and potential demand grows, but adopters should look for the added security of data encryption capabilities at the SSD drive level before moving forward.
Content Archive Platform Continued Growth: IDC estimates that content data will be the fastest growth area of data with a compounded annual growth rate of 121%. This is not hard to imagine since this is the data that accumulates year after year. In addition to content data, as much as 60 to 80% of structured and unstructured data in a data center may be stale data that could be moved to a content archive to reduce the working set of data that needs to be managed on a daily basis. While content data is the fastest growing data type, it may be the easiest to manage due to its static nature. Once it is ingested in a content archive platform there is no need to back it up as long as you have at least two copies and its life cycle can be managed automatically. When it is ingested it can be indexed so that it can be directly accessed, compressed, de-duped and stored on low cost large capacity disks, while also being encrypted to ensure privacy. Since this is the fastest growing type of data, a content platform must be able to scale to tens of Petabytes and be able to support multiple data formats, and we expect to see growing demand for Content Archive Platforms that meet these requirements.
Greater adoption of dynamic (thin) provisioning: The single greatest tool for reducing operational costs is dynamic (thin) provisioning. Thin provisioning can:
- Eliminate the waste of allocated unused space
- Reduce the cost of moving and copying fat volumes by eliminating unused space
- Reclaim up to 40% or more capacity from existing fat volumes
- Reduce the provisioning of storage from hours to minutes
- Facilitates wide striping to increase performance by spreading the I/O across more disk spindles
Given all of these advantages, we expect dynamic (thin) provisioning technology to be a top investment priority for customers with capabilities such as, zero page reclaim, dynamic rebalance of storage pools as capacity is added, multi-vendor storage support – while also boosting performance.
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Supercharge Your iPhone With icloud and 100 GB Storage
icloud, the Online Computer, Today Rolls Out icloud Premium -- a Massive 100 GB of Secure Cloud Storage for Only $39.99 / Year
Everybody Can Now Access All Their Content Anytime and Anywhere
icloud Basic With 3 GB is Available for Free, and Open for Sign-Ups at http://icloud.com
Today's launch of icloud Premium and the 100 GB Super Drive will greatly extend all the amazing capabilities of icloud to the iPhone. The new premium service lets everyone store, access and easily share files through any smart phone or browser. It gives you 100 GB of storage right in your pocket. You will never again feel that you have forgotten to bring important files with you. icloud securely stores files like music, photos, videos, documents, and provides a full management interface and virtual desktop through a browser to organize and share all your content.
icloud launch movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQgdceh66EQ
Daniel Arthursson, icloud's Founder and CEO, says, "Having 100 GB directly accessible in your pocket through an iPhone or smartphone will definitely change how we use and interact with data. With the massive storage of the icloud Super Drive, everything will always be accessible, no need to bring your computer to do a quick PowerPoint presentation, just present it straight out of the cloud."
Facts about the icloud online computer:
* Secure cloud storage with backup accessible from any computer,
iPhone, Android or Windows Mobile phone
* Free basic version includes 50 applications like Office, Mail,
Music, Video, Instant Messaging and Games
* icloud Premium with 100 GB Super Drive now available for $39.99/year
* Community (my.icloud.com) and email @icloud.com
* Zero installation, runs within browsers
* Available worldwide in 26 languages and used in 170 countries
About icloud
Founded in 2001 by Daniel Arthursson, Xcerion provides the free icloud.com service, the world's leading "Cloud OS", a groundbreaking technology with 22 pending patents. Developers have API and tools to build their own cloud applications.
Xcerion is based in Sweden, privately held and funded by Northzone Ventures. Investors include Lou Perazzoli, architect of Windows NT and former Manager Microsoft Core OS and John Connors former CFO Microsoft. Xcerion is a Red Herring Global 100 winner.
Everybody Can Now Access All Their Content Anytime and Anywhere
icloud Basic With 3 GB is Available for Free, and Open for Sign-Ups at http://icloud.com
Today's launch of icloud Premium and the 100 GB Super Drive will greatly extend all the amazing capabilities of icloud to the iPhone. The new premium service lets everyone store, access and easily share files through any smart phone or browser. It gives you 100 GB of storage right in your pocket. You will never again feel that you have forgotten to bring important files with you. icloud securely stores files like music, photos, videos, documents, and provides a full management interface and virtual desktop through a browser to organize and share all your content.
icloud launch movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQgdceh66EQ
Daniel Arthursson, icloud's Founder and CEO, says, "Having 100 GB directly accessible in your pocket through an iPhone or smartphone will definitely change how we use and interact with data. With the massive storage of the icloud Super Drive, everything will always be accessible, no need to bring your computer to do a quick PowerPoint presentation, just present it straight out of the cloud."
Facts about the icloud online computer:
* Secure cloud storage with backup accessible from any computer,
iPhone, Android or Windows Mobile phone
* Free basic version includes 50 applications like Office, Mail,
Music, Video, Instant Messaging and Games
* icloud Premium with 100 GB Super Drive now available for $39.99/year
* Community (my.icloud.com) and email @icloud.com
* Zero installation, runs within browsers
* Available worldwide in 26 languages and used in 170 countries
About icloud
Founded in 2001 by Daniel Arthursson, Xcerion provides the free icloud.com service, the world's leading "Cloud OS", a groundbreaking technology with 22 pending patents. Developers have API and tools to build their own cloud applications.
Xcerion is based in Sweden, privately held and funded by Northzone Ventures. Investors include Lou Perazzoli, architect of Windows NT and former Manager Microsoft Core OS and John Connors former CFO Microsoft. Xcerion is a Red Herring Global 100 winner.
Eurocopter inaugurates new maintenance center in Bangkok
Eurocopter announced today the inauguration of a new maintenance center in Thailand. Located near Suvarnabhumi International Airport, the center has received official certification from Thailand's Department of Civil Aviation (DCA).
Eurocopter South East Asia (ESEA), Eurocopter's subsidiary in Singapore, has made an initial major investment in the new center, covering new facilities, specialized tools and qualification training for personnel. Further investments may be on the horizon as the center's activities increase and this includes the possible hiring and training of local Thailand technicians.
"The inauguration of this maintenance center celebrates the latest link in the network that Eurocopter continues to build throughout Southeast Asia," declared Dr. Bernhard Brenner, president of ESEA. "We are continuously developing our service offer to satisfy our customers by providing them with products perfectly suited to their current needs."
The maintenance center, registered as Eurocopter Thailand Branch, is currently certified for the EC120, AS350, EC130, EC135 and EC155 helicopters. The main activities include helicopter maintenance and training for Thai pilots and technicians. A branch of Eurocopter South East Asia, this center has been set up since June 2009. Being the pioneer and sole helicopter manufacturer with facilities in Thailand (Bangkok), Eurocopter is capable to provide turnkey solution to local customers with prompt service and support.
The first customers to entrust their helicopters’ maintenance to Eurocopter Thailand Branch are the operator Advance Aviation, with their two EC130s and EC135 and the Royal Thai Police with their two EC155s. Royal Thai Police fleet will reach 5 EC155B1 end of 2010.
Eurocopter has been present in Thailand for nearly 20 years. Approximately thirty helicopters from Eurocopter's civil range are currently operating in Thailand.
About Eurocopter South East Asia
Eurocopter South East Asia (ESEA) is the Regional Headquarters of Eurocopter, the world’s leading helicopter manufacturer. Established in 1977 in Singapore, ESEA is in-charge of the sales and customer support activities of 14 territories in the region. In 2008, ESEA achieved a turnover of 85 million euros. With a staff-strength of nearly 200 professionals, the company has developed a successful commercial network of regional sales managers and technical representatives.
About Eurocopter
Established in 1992, the Franco-German-Spanish Eurocopter Group is a Division of EADS, a world leader in aerospace, defence and related services. The Eurocopter Group employs approx. 15,600 people. In 2008, Eurocopter confirmed its position as the world’s No. 1 helicopter manufacturer in the civil and parapublic market, with a turnover of 4.5 billion Euros, orders for 715 new helicopters, and a 53 percent market share in the civil and parapublic sectors. Overall, the Group’s products account for 30 percent of the total world helicopter fleet. Its strong worldwide presence is ensured by its 18 subsidiaries on five continents, along with a dense network of distributors, certified agents and maintenance centres. More than 10,000 Eurocopter helicopters are currently in service with over 2,800 customers in more than 140 countries. Eurocopter offers the largest civil and military helicopter range in the world.
Eurocopter South East Asia (ESEA), Eurocopter's subsidiary in Singapore, has made an initial major investment in the new center, covering new facilities, specialized tools and qualification training for personnel. Further investments may be on the horizon as the center's activities increase and this includes the possible hiring and training of local Thailand technicians.
"The inauguration of this maintenance center celebrates the latest link in the network that Eurocopter continues to build throughout Southeast Asia," declared Dr. Bernhard Brenner, president of ESEA. "We are continuously developing our service offer to satisfy our customers by providing them with products perfectly suited to their current needs."
The maintenance center, registered as Eurocopter Thailand Branch, is currently certified for the EC120, AS350, EC130, EC135 and EC155 helicopters. The main activities include helicopter maintenance and training for Thai pilots and technicians. A branch of Eurocopter South East Asia, this center has been set up since June 2009. Being the pioneer and sole helicopter manufacturer with facilities in Thailand (Bangkok), Eurocopter is capable to provide turnkey solution to local customers with prompt service and support.
The first customers to entrust their helicopters’ maintenance to Eurocopter Thailand Branch are the operator Advance Aviation, with their two EC130s and EC135 and the Royal Thai Police with their two EC155s. Royal Thai Police fleet will reach 5 EC155B1 end of 2010.
Eurocopter has been present in Thailand for nearly 20 years. Approximately thirty helicopters from Eurocopter's civil range are currently operating in Thailand.
About Eurocopter South East Asia
Eurocopter South East Asia (ESEA) is the Regional Headquarters of Eurocopter, the world’s leading helicopter manufacturer. Established in 1977 in Singapore, ESEA is in-charge of the sales and customer support activities of 14 territories in the region. In 2008, ESEA achieved a turnover of 85 million euros. With a staff-strength of nearly 200 professionals, the company has developed a successful commercial network of regional sales managers and technical representatives.
About Eurocopter
Established in 1992, the Franco-German-Spanish Eurocopter Group is a Division of EADS, a world leader in aerospace, defence and related services. The Eurocopter Group employs approx. 15,600 people. In 2008, Eurocopter confirmed its position as the world’s No. 1 helicopter manufacturer in the civil and parapublic market, with a turnover of 4.5 billion Euros, orders for 715 new helicopters, and a 53 percent market share in the civil and parapublic sectors. Overall, the Group’s products account for 30 percent of the total world helicopter fleet. Its strong worldwide presence is ensured by its 18 subsidiaries on five continents, along with a dense network of distributors, certified agents and maintenance centres. More than 10,000 Eurocopter helicopters are currently in service with over 2,800 customers in more than 140 countries. Eurocopter offers the largest civil and military helicopter range in the world.
TeliaSonera and Huawei Launch World’s Fastest Commercial Mobile Broadband Network with Huawei’s 4G/LTE Solutions
TeliaSonera and Huawei Launch World’s Fastest Commercial Mobile Broadband Network with Huawei’s 4G/LTE Solutions
Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, and TeliaSonera, the largest telecoms operator in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, today jointly announced the deployment of the world’s first LTE commercial network in Oslo, Norway. These 4G services offer maximum speeds of up to 100 Mb/s and are approximately 10 times faster than existing 3G networks.
TeliaSonera’s customers will be the first in the world to enjoy simultaneous mobile broadband services such as high definition (HD) video conferencing in mobile environments and a variety of HD video programs via multiple terminal devices; applications that cannot be realized in current 3G networks.
Mr. Kenneth Karlberg, President and Head of Mobility Services TeliaSonera, said: “We are very proud to be the first operator in the world to offer our customers 4G services. Thanks to the successful cooperation with Huawei, we can offer 4G to our customers in Oslo earlier than originally planned.”
As a leading provider of end-to-end 4G/LTE solutions, Huawei delivered both network infrastructures and services to TeliaSonera, such as access network, core network, operation support system, and network planning and optimization. Its field proven fourth-generation base stations and SAE (System Architecture Evolution) solution ensure the stability of the network and enable fast deployment.
Yu Chengdong, President of Huawei Europe, said: “In partnership with TeliaSonera, Huawei began this journey eleven months ago to introduce the world’s most advanced mobile broadband technology to the residents of Oslo. This milestone, which was achieved in a short period of time, reflects Huawei’s unwavering commitment towards accelerating the commercialization of LTE/SAE solutions. Operators such as TeliaSonera, are now able to to fully realize economic benefits from the many new applications that can only be made possible with ultra broadband services.”
To date, Huawei has constructed over 25 LTE commercial and trial networks and has made more than 3,300 LTE/SAE contributions to 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project).
About Huawei
Huawei is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks, and now serves 36 of the world’s top 50 operators, along with over one billion users worldwide. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth potential for its customers.
Huawei, a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, and TeliaSonera, the largest telecoms operator in Scandinavia and the Baltic countries, today jointly announced the deployment of the world’s first LTE commercial network in Oslo, Norway. These 4G services offer maximum speeds of up to 100 Mb/s and are approximately 10 times faster than existing 3G networks.
TeliaSonera’s customers will be the first in the world to enjoy simultaneous mobile broadband services such as high definition (HD) video conferencing in mobile environments and a variety of HD video programs via multiple terminal devices; applications that cannot be realized in current 3G networks.
Mr. Kenneth Karlberg, President and Head of Mobility Services TeliaSonera, said: “We are very proud to be the first operator in the world to offer our customers 4G services. Thanks to the successful cooperation with Huawei, we can offer 4G to our customers in Oslo earlier than originally planned.”
As a leading provider of end-to-end 4G/LTE solutions, Huawei delivered both network infrastructures and services to TeliaSonera, such as access network, core network, operation support system, and network planning and optimization. Its field proven fourth-generation base stations and SAE (System Architecture Evolution) solution ensure the stability of the network and enable fast deployment.
Yu Chengdong, President of Huawei Europe, said: “In partnership with TeliaSonera, Huawei began this journey eleven months ago to introduce the world’s most advanced mobile broadband technology to the residents of Oslo. This milestone, which was achieved in a short period of time, reflects Huawei’s unwavering commitment towards accelerating the commercialization of LTE/SAE solutions. Operators such as TeliaSonera, are now able to to fully realize economic benefits from the many new applications that can only be made possible with ultra broadband services.”
To date, Huawei has constructed over 25 LTE commercial and trial networks and has made more than 3,300 LTE/SAE contributions to 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project).
About Huawei
Huawei is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks, and now serves 36 of the world’s top 50 operators, along with over one billion users worldwide. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth potential for its customers.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Samsung Electronics Appoints New Executive Leadership in Major Organizational Realignment
Geesung Choi is Named CEO; C-Suite Strengthened with New Positions of COO and CFO; Businesses Divisions Empowered as Stand-Alone “Companies”
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., one of the world's leading technology companies, today appointed Geesung Choi as its new CEO, as part of an organizational restructuring aimed to increase operating efficiencies and strengthen the independence of the company's business divisions.
Samsung also enhanced its C-suite by appointing Jay Y. Lee to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer and Ju-Hwa Yoon as Chief Financial Officer. Yoon-woo Lee, currently Vice Chairman and CEO, continues only as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
In order to establish greater autonomy at the operating level, Samsung also announced it will be adopting a “company system” in which each business unit is managed similarly to a stand-alone company. The new alignments, both organizationally and at the executive level, create a more focused and responsive business structure.
“Samsung has recovered well over the past year, thanks to Yoon-woo Lee's leadership and a measured response to the global financial crisis,” said Mr. Choi, the incoming CEO. "With this forward momentum, we believe now is the time for us to make these important organizational changes to prepare for the challenges and opportunities ahead."
Samsung's consolidated operating profit for the first nine months of this year has reached 7.22 trillion Korean won (US$6.08 billion as of end of September 30) on sales of 97.05 billion won (US$81.69 billion as of end of September 30). This compares with a full year 2008 consolidated operating profit of 6.03 trillion won (US$4.8 billion) on sales of 121.29 billion won (US$96.5 billion).
Strengthened C-Suite
Effective immediately, the heads of all Samsung Electronics business divisions report to Mr. Choi and the C-suite. The new C-suite provides a more unified and efficient management team, consistent with global business models, and reflecting the executive structures of many leading multinationals.
“Our renewed profitability enabled us to think long-term - to make sure we can continue leading the market,” Mr. Choi said. “As a result, we've strengthened the C-Suite and created a new executive position - the COO - to help expedite decision making, improve efficiency, and mediate between our business units, ensuring that they work well together in meeting our customers' needs.”
Specifics on the executive appointments announced today are:
- Geesung Choi, named President and CEO of Samsung Electronics; previously President and head of the company's Digital Media and Communications Business.
Previous positions held by Mr. Choi include President of the Telecommunications Networks Business, and President of the Digital Media Business.
- Jay Y. Lee, named to the newly-created position of Chief Operating Officer; was promoted to Executive Vice President from Senior Vice President.
Previous positions held by Mr. Lee include Chief Customer Officer and Vice President-Strategic Planning.
- Ju-Hwa Yoon, named Chief Financial Officer; previously President and head of the Corporate Auditing Team.
Previous positions held by Mr. Yoon include head of the Management Support Team.
Independent Company Organizational Structure
Samsung's new organizational structure enhances the independence of the company's business divisions. The new alignment introduces a "company system" in which each business unit is managed similarly to a stand-alone company, with its own President and CFO. Outside Korea, subsidiaries responsible for components such as semiconductors and LCD panels will continue to operate as fully independent entities separate from Samsung’s IT and consumer electronics subsidiaries.
Previously Samsung had 10 operating divisions organized into two principal businesses - Digital Media & Communications and Device Solutions. The reorganization today replaces the two-business structure with seven independent companies under a single corporate entity and unified C-suite.
While creating greater autonomy at the operating level, the benefits of the new structure also include reducing the company's decision-making hierarchy from three to two stages, and supporting stronger focus and speed of execution in business and investment strategy. Customers will gain from increased independence in decision-making and faster speed to market.
From the first quarter 2010, Samsung will also adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), global accounting principles established by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and practiced by many global corporations.
About Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2008 consolidated sales of US$96 billion. Employing approximately 164,600 people in 179 offices across 61 countries, the company is recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands. Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.
Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., one of the world's leading technology companies, today appointed Geesung Choi as its new CEO, as part of an organizational restructuring aimed to increase operating efficiencies and strengthen the independence of the company's business divisions.
Samsung also enhanced its C-suite by appointing Jay Y. Lee to the newly created position of Chief Operating Officer and Ju-Hwa Yoon as Chief Financial Officer. Yoon-woo Lee, currently Vice Chairman and CEO, continues only as Chairman of the Board of Directors.
In order to establish greater autonomy at the operating level, Samsung also announced it will be adopting a “company system” in which each business unit is managed similarly to a stand-alone company. The new alignments, both organizationally and at the executive level, create a more focused and responsive business structure.
“Samsung has recovered well over the past year, thanks to Yoon-woo Lee's leadership and a measured response to the global financial crisis,” said Mr. Choi, the incoming CEO. "With this forward momentum, we believe now is the time for us to make these important organizational changes to prepare for the challenges and opportunities ahead."
Samsung's consolidated operating profit for the first nine months of this year has reached 7.22 trillion Korean won (US$6.08 billion as of end of September 30) on sales of 97.05 billion won (US$81.69 billion as of end of September 30). This compares with a full year 2008 consolidated operating profit of 6.03 trillion won (US$4.8 billion) on sales of 121.29 billion won (US$96.5 billion).
Strengthened C-Suite
Effective immediately, the heads of all Samsung Electronics business divisions report to Mr. Choi and the C-suite. The new C-suite provides a more unified and efficient management team, consistent with global business models, and reflecting the executive structures of many leading multinationals.
“Our renewed profitability enabled us to think long-term - to make sure we can continue leading the market,” Mr. Choi said. “As a result, we've strengthened the C-Suite and created a new executive position - the COO - to help expedite decision making, improve efficiency, and mediate between our business units, ensuring that they work well together in meeting our customers' needs.”
Specifics on the executive appointments announced today are:
- Geesung Choi, named President and CEO of Samsung Electronics; previously President and head of the company's Digital Media and Communications Business.
Previous positions held by Mr. Choi include President of the Telecommunications Networks Business, and President of the Digital Media Business.
- Jay Y. Lee, named to the newly-created position of Chief Operating Officer; was promoted to Executive Vice President from Senior Vice President.
Previous positions held by Mr. Lee include Chief Customer Officer and Vice President-Strategic Planning.
- Ju-Hwa Yoon, named Chief Financial Officer; previously President and head of the Corporate Auditing Team.
Previous positions held by Mr. Yoon include head of the Management Support Team.
Independent Company Organizational Structure
Samsung's new organizational structure enhances the independence of the company's business divisions. The new alignment introduces a "company system" in which each business unit is managed similarly to a stand-alone company, with its own President and CFO. Outside Korea, subsidiaries responsible for components such as semiconductors and LCD panels will continue to operate as fully independent entities separate from Samsung’s IT and consumer electronics subsidiaries.
Previously Samsung had 10 operating divisions organized into two principal businesses - Digital Media & Communications and Device Solutions. The reorganization today replaces the two-business structure with seven independent companies under a single corporate entity and unified C-suite.
While creating greater autonomy at the operating level, the benefits of the new structure also include reducing the company's decision-making hierarchy from three to two stages, and supporting stronger focus and speed of execution in business and investment strategy. Customers will gain from increased independence in decision-making and faster speed to market.
From the first quarter 2010, Samsung will also adopt the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS), global accounting principles established by the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and practiced by many global corporations.
About Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2008 consolidated sales of US$96 billion. Employing approximately 164,600 people in 179 offices across 61 countries, the company is recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands. Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.
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