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Samsung Blue Earth Phone Powered by the Sun

Samsung Blue Earth Phone Powered by the Sun

In the run up to the Mobile World Congress 2009, Samsung has officially announced Blue Earth, a new all-touchscreen smartphone powered by sunlight. The front of the phone is one giant touchscreen interface, while the back boasts a solar panel which the company claims can generate enough electricity to keep the phone charged and ready to go. And Samsung’s environmentally-conscious efforts don’t stop there: the phone is made from recycled plastics from water bottles, and is free of toxic substances like phthalates, beryllium, and brominated flame retardants. The phone’s packaging will be made from recycled paper products and the phone’s charger—yes, it’ll come with a charger—consumes just 0.03 watts on standby

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Best Buy Launches Blue Label Products

Best Buy Launches Blue Label Products

Store brands aren’t just for socks, imitation mac and cheese and soda anymore. On Wednesday, Best Buy announced the creation of Blue Label, a new line of in-store consumer electronics products that the retailer will have some hand in developing using feedback from its customers.

Unlike true “store brands” that imitate name brands and attempt to cut down on cost, Blue Label products will be developed hand-in-hand with leading manufacturers, and still bear name brands. The first two Blue Label laptops, for instance, come from HP and Toshiba, but have been built to specs Best Buy cooked up with input from consumers.

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Verizon Gets Chocolates in Cherry and Mint

Although it might seem there are only a handful of people in the world who aren’t trying to set hands on an iPhone—or who don’t already have one—Verizon Wireless wants consumers to remember they really do have options, and is rolling out two new variations on the LG Chocolate music phone as proof. The new Chocolates are available in Black Cherry and Blue Mint, and sport all the features which not so long-ago made the Chocolate one of the most-watched phones on the market.  Read more...

IBM Develops World’s Fastest Supercomputer

There are desktop computers, and then there are supercomputers. And there are supercomputers, and then there is IBM’s Blue Gene/P – which should be able to run three computational laps by the time its closest opponent finishes one. IBM revealed the machine at the International Supercomputing Conference in Dresden on Tuesday.

The Blue Gene/P is the latest in IBM’s Blue Gene line-up of supercomputers. According to IBM, it’s able to perform one petaflops, meaning 1,000,000,000,000,000 floating point calculations every second. That’s one thousand trillion, if it helps. The previous-generation Blue Gene, and current record-holder for speed, was the Blue Gene/L, which could pull off 280 teraflops.  Read more...

Blue Raven MediaMates Offer 7-Inch Screens

Blue Raven Technologies has introduced its new MediaMate 7040 and 7080 all-in-one portable media players and DVRs, offering storage capacities of 40 and 80 GB (respectively) and large 7-inch screens designed to make viewing video content possible without holding the units up your the tip of your nose and squinting.

“Blue Raven designed this product by prioritizing the features consumers care about most: price, ease of use, and a clear, large picture,” said Blue Raven’s President Glen Kashgegian in a release. “By bringing these key features together into the MediaMate, we believe this is the first product to make portable media players a viable category for most consumers.”  Read more...

IBM Supercomputer Sets Another Speed Record

“IBM’s Blue Gene/L, being assembled for the department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, performed 135.3 trillion floating point operations per second running benchmark software, the NationalNuclear Security Administration said. The result eclipses the 70.72 teraflops that a smaller version of the system achieved running the Linpack benchmark program last fall.

Blue Gene, being assembled for the NNSA for simulating the performance and safety of nuclear weapons and other applications, became the world’s fastest supercomputer last September, surpassing a Japanese government-funded system. “

Anyone up for a game of DOOM3?

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NTT DoCoMo to market 3G N2102V videophone

The smallest in the FOMA series, the new model boasts a compact (98cc) and lightweight (109g) design that is on a par with 2G handsets. It also features an enhanced mail function and longer batterylife.

The N2102V’s enhanced Speed photo mail

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