Blu-ray Disc

Blu-ray Disc (also known as Blu-ray or BD) is an optical disc storage media format. Its main uses are high-definition video and data storage. The disc has the same dimensions as a standard DVD or CD.

The name Blu-ray Disc is derived from the blue laser used to read and write this type of disc. Because of its shorter wavelength (405 nm), substantially more data can be stored on a Blu-ray Disc than on the DVD format, which uses a red (650 nm) laser. A dual layer Blu-ray Disc can store 50 GB, almost six times the capacity of a dual layer DVD.

Blu-ray Disc was developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association, a group of companies representing consumer electronics, computer hardware, and motion picture production. The standard is covered by several patents belonging to different companies. As of April 2008, a joint licensing agreement for all the relevant patents had not yet been finalized.

As of April 5, 2008, more than 530^] Blu-ray Disc titles have been released in the United States, and more than 250 in Japan.

During the high definition optical disc format war, Blu-ray Disc competed with the HD DVD format. On February 19, 2008, Toshiba — the main company supporting HD DVD — announced it would no longer develop, manufacture and market HD DVD players and recorders, leading almost all other HD DVD supporters to follow suit, effectively naming Blu-ray the victor of the format war.

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E-book

An e-book (for electronic book: also ebook: also ecobook) is the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. Such documents are usually read on personal computers, or on dedicated hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices.

An e-book is a specialised type of e-text.

 

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Play Station 3

 

PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system unleashes a brilliant, high-definition entertainment experience. As its digital soul, the Cell Broadband Engine™ represents a tour de force in parallel processing, which means a gaming experience that is beyond what you know today. Its built-in Blu-ray Disc™ drive delivers a whole new generation in high-definition gaming and unmatched digital media storage. Whether it’s gaming, Blu-ray movies, music or online services.

 

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Thuraya

Thuraya is a regional satellite phone provider, its coverage area covers most of Europe, the Middle East, North, Central and East Africa, Asia and Australia.

The company is based in the United Arab Emirates and distributes its products and service through authorized service providers. Its shareholders are a mixture of Middle Eastern and North African telcos (in which Etisalat is a major one) and investment companies.

The current number of subscribers is around 250,000 (March 2006). Some 360,000 Thuraya handsets have been put in service since launch in 2001. The subscriber growth has apparently slowed down during the last year, but Thuraya still made a net profit of US$80 million on revenues of $323 million in 2005 (compared to just US$26 million profit in 2004).

Services

• Voice communications with handheld (Thuraya SO-2510, SG-2520, Hughes 7100 (discontinued) / 7101 and Ascom 21 (discontinued)) or fixed terminals
• Short message service
• 9.6 kbit/s of data & fax service
• 60 kbit/s downlink and 15kbit/s uplink “GMPRS” mobile data service on SO and SG handsets
• 144 kbit/s high-speed data transfer via a notebook-sized terminal (ThurayaDSL)
• GPS is supported by all handsets
• A number of value-added services, such as news, call back, call waiting, missed calls, voicemail, WAP, etc.
• A one-way ‘high power alert’ capability that notifies users of an incoming call, when the signal path to the satellite is obstructed (e.g. inside a building)

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Safari (web browser)

Safari is a web browser developed by Apple Inc. and included in Mac OS X. It was first released as a public beta on January 7, 2003, and is the default browser in Mac OS X v10.3 and later. It is also the native browser on the Apple iPhone and iPod touch. A beta version for Microsoft Windows was released for the first time on June 11, 2007 with support for Windows XP and Windows Vista with a release version for Windows following on March 18, 2008. Safari has also been run unofficially on Linux under Wine, but the graphical user interface (GUI) and web graphics do not render properly.

Since the release of Safari, its usage share has been climbing. For the month of February 2008, TheCounter.com reports a usage share of 3.34% for Safari; while Net Applications records a usage share of 4.61% in April 2007 and 5.70% in February 2008.

Features

Safari offers most features common to modern web browsers. In addition, some of these features are implemented in distinctive ways, while it also includes some unique to the browser:

• A tabbed-browsing interface that allows dragging tabs to reorder them, move them between windows or create new windows.
• A bookmark management scheme reminiscent of the iTunes jukebox software.
• A resizable web-search box in the toolbar. This uses Google on the Mac and either Google or Yahoo! on Windows.
• Pop-up ad blocking.
• As-you-type text search.
• Spell-checking for all text entry fields.
• Expandable text entry boxes, which can be resized by the user to make entering long texts easier.
• Automatic filling in of web forms.
• Built-in password management via Keychain.
• Functionality for subscribing to and reading web feeds.
• Quartz-style font-smoothing even on Windows.
• Integration of Apple’s QuickTime multimedia technology.
• Support for user-specified style sheets.
• The Web Inspector, a DOM Inspector-like utility that lets users and developers browse the Document Object Model of a web page.
• A high level of standards compliance through its use of the WebKit framework, including partial, preliminary support for CSS3 and HTML 5.

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iPhone

 

The iPhone is an Internet-enabled multimedia mobile phone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It has a multi-touch screen with virtual keyboard and buttons. The iPhone’s functions include those of a camera phone and a portable media player (iPod), in addition to messaging and visual voicemail. It also offers Internet services including e-mail, web browsing, and local Wi-Fi connectivity. It is a quad-band mobile phone that uses the GSM standard, and hence has international capability. It supports the EDGE data technology.

Following the success of iPods, Apple announced the iPhone in January 2007. The announcement was preceded by rumors and speculations that circulated for several months. The iPhone was introduced in the United States on June 29, 2007, with releases in the United Kingdom, Germany and France in November 2007, and in Ireland and Austria in March 2008. It was named Time magazine’s Invention of the Year in 2007. A version of iPhone is expected to be introduced in 2008 that is capable of operating on faster 3G cellular networks.  

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Nokia N800

The Nokia N800 Internet Tablet is a wireless Internet appliance from Nokia, originally announced at the Las Vegas CES 2007 Summit in January 2007. The N800 was developed as the successor to the Nokia 770. It is designed for wireless Internet browsing and e-mail functions and includes software such as FM and Internet radio, an RSS news reader, image viewer and media players for selected types of media.

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