December 15, 2009
The real Google phone coming in January
ZD Net
Garett Rogers writes about Google’s new phone, which is set for release next year.
“Based on pictures floating around, the HTC manufactured phone looks quite sexy. It sports a 1GHz processor, a beautiful large capacitive touch screen, and features the Android 2.1 operating system. Here are a list of specs: Google Android 2.1 OS, 1 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, 320MB RAM and 512MB ROM, 4.3-inch capacitive touchscreen, etc.”
Seagate’s Momentus Thin to ship in 160GB / 250GB sizes this January
Engadget
Darren Murph writes about Seagate’s new 7mm-thin laptop hard drive, set to launch at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in 2010.
“The Momentus Thin will make its official unveiling at CES here in just a few weeks, where it’ll be available in 160GB and 250GB capacities and with 8MB of cache, a 5400RPM spin speed and a SATA 3Gbps interface. We’re also told that it’ll be far less expensive than similarly sized 1.8-inch HDD options, which means this bugger could soon be planted into Atom D410 / D510-based netbooks. The drive is slated to ship to OEM and integrator partners next month, though specific price points have yet to be mentioned.”
Amazon creates cloud computing spot market
ZD Net
Larry Dignan writes about Amazon’s cloud computing offering, which is better known as Spot Instances.
“Dubbed Spot Instances, Amazon customers can bid on unused Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) capacity and run those instances as long as their bid exceeds the spot price. The rub is that you can be outbid. In a statement, Amazon says Spot Instances ‘are well-suited for applications that can have flexible start and stop times such as image and video conversion and rendering, data processing, financial modeling and analysis, Web crawling and load testing.’”
