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HP Pre 3 Phone Review – Elegance With The Original Gene Of WebOS

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The original Palm Pre was a big success and won a lot of respect within the mobile phone industry for its WebOS operating system. While many felt this was truly a real step forward in mobile phone operating systems which introduced new concepts such as true multitasking, it was not available on non-Palm handsets. By the time the Pre 2 was due for release, manufacturer Palm was experiencing a lot of difficulties and was eventually bought out by computer giant HP.

 

 

Since the acquisition HP has been keen to carry on Palm´s popular line of handsets and with the HP Pre 3 it seems they have remained true to the original design. While the Pre 3 may look slightly different to the two preceding Pre handsets it still comes with the same overall look and feel and the same award winning WebOS interface. Having said this, the WebOS interface has seen an upgrade since the Palm Pre 2.

 

 

Like the earlier Pre handsets, the HP Pre 3 features a sliding mechanism with a QWERTY pad revealed from behind the screen. This keypad is reminiscent of the sort of compacted keyboards found on BlackBerry phones and which are perfectly suited for faster message and email typing. The Pre 3 does come with excellent email and messaging features on board including threaded SMS. There is also 3G and Wi-Fi connections available so that you can virtually always have an online presence, with social networks like Facebook also coming with great support on this phone.

 

 

The HP Pre 3 has had an update in processing power, now featuring a 1.4GHz Scorpion CPU. While this is not as fast as some of the dual core processors currently making their way onto smartphones it still offers a considerable boost in speed from the 1GHz powered Pre 2. Internal storage space is limited to either 8GB or 16GB as there is no microSD slot, which is perhaps one of the biggest disappointments for this phone.

 

 

For most people however, this should provide plenty of storage for music and video and both of these are excellently supported by the Pre 3´s media player. With Adobe Flash 10.1 installed users can enjoy a great deal more entertainment from online video streaming websites, and the camera on the Pre 3 now supports 720p HD video recording.

 

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Nokia Stumbles In 2Q2011 Pushes It Out Of Smartphone Top Spot

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In the second quarter of 2011, Apple catapulted into the No. 1 position in the global smartphone market after Nokia posted a 31% decline in shipments, according to a new report by IHS iSuppli.

 

Nokia’s woes in the smartphone market are the result of a double whammy of rising competitive pressures on the outside—and struggles with its corporate strategy on the inside.

 

The Symbian software platform used by Nokia simply isn’t competitive against Apple’s iOS or the Android operating system used in phones from Samsung and HTC. Meanwhile, the company is facing major challenges throughout its entire mobile handset business—even outside the smartphone segment—which caused its sales to decline in most regions of the world in the second quarter.

 

Facing strong competition from Apple, Samsung and HTC, Nokia posted the worst performance among the leading smartphone brands, with its shipments falling to 16.7 million units, down from 24.2 million in the first quarter. Nokia’s shipments also were down 30.4 percent from 24 million one year earlier, in the second quarter of 2010.

 

With the overall smartphone market expanding by 7.5 percent sequentially, Nokia’s share of shipments declined to 15.1 percent in the second quarter, down from 23.6 percent in the first quarter. Nokia’s smartphone shipments have regressed to their level of two years ago. This caused Nokia to fall to third place, losing the No. 1 ranking for the first time in the history of the smartphone business, the report concludes.

 

 

University of Cape Town Is Looking For Full-Time Information Systems Lecturers

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The Department of Information Systems, situated in the Faculty of Commerce, is seeking to appoint up to three full-time permanent Lecturers/Senior Lecturers. The incumbents will be expected to conduct and support research, teach, have a strong work ethic and function as part of a dynamic and diverse team.

 

Key performance areas are:

  • Teaching: teach a cognate area in information systems. We are looking particularly for motivated people who can teach large classes in our service courses or have strong technical systems development skills (e.g. C# and ASP.net).
  • Research: undertake relevant research, ideally in the department’s research focus areas such as ICT and development, mobile technologies, green IS, IS education, management of IS and system development.
  • Supervision: supervise post-graduate student research projects.
  • Administration: coordinate up to two courses and serve on various committees.

 

Minimum requirements:

  • A Masters degree with progress towards a PhD in Information Systems or allied discipline.
  • Published research in at least one area of Information Systems.
  • For appointment at Senior Lecturer level:  experience in supervising postgraduate students.
  • Proven lecturing experience at a higher education institution.

 

An attractive remuneration package, including benefits will be offered. The level of the position will be determined according to the qualifications, skills, experience and research output of the successful applicant.

 

For further information regarding this position, please contact the Head of Department

Jean-Paul.VanBelle@uct.ac.za.

 

Departmental website:     (http://www.commerce.uct.ac.za/InformationSystems/)

 

Application process:

To apply, please e-mail the completed UCT Application form and all other relevant documentation as indicated on the form, to Mrs C Snyders, Staff Recruitment and Selection, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700.

 

E-mail: charlotte.snyders@uct.ac.za; Telephone: +27 21 650 2192

 

The application form can also be downloaded at http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/sapweb/forms/hr201.doc.

 

 

An application which does not comply with the above requirements will be regarded as incomplete. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

 

Closing date for applications:       9 September 2011                  Reference number: SR165/11

 

UCT is committed to the pursuit of excellence, diversity and redress. Our Employment Equity Policy is available at http://hr.uct.ac.za/policies/ee.php.

 

 

The Department of Computer Science is seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer or Associate Professor to start in 2012.

 

Requirements include:

The successful candidate should have a PhD, or expect to obtain their PhD by 2012. Candidates applying for a position at Associate Professor level should show evidence of high quality academic work in teaching, postgraduate supervision and research. Applicants for a senior lecturer post should provide clear information about their research and any teaching experience.

 

About the Job:

We seek a candidate with proven academic experience in Computer Science who will be expected to develop and teach courses, to carry out research, to contribute to departmental administration and to supervise postgraduate students in their area of specialisation. Our BSc and Honours degrees are accredited by the British Computer Society and we have a large cohort of MSc and PhD students. The Department hosts the UCT Centre in ICT for Development, and also specialises in telecommunications, visual computing, high-performance computing, digital libraries, artificial intelligence and security. Candidates whose fields are compatible with these research groups are encouraged to apply. The department values diversity amongst its staff and students.

The annual remuneration packages, including benefits for 2011 are as follows:

 

? Senior Lecturer: R544 188

? Associate Professor: R622 712

Application process:

 

To apply, please e-mail the completed UCT Application form and all other relevant documentation as indicated on the form, to Ms Zulile Ncayiyana, Staff Recruitment and Selection, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, 7700.

 

E-mail: zulile.ncayiyana@uct..ac.za; Telephone: +27 21 650 3003; Department website: www.cs.uct.ac.za

The application form can also be downloaded at http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/sapweb/forms/hr201.doc.

 

An application which does not comply with the above requirements will be regarded as incomplete.

Reference number for this position: SR137/11

Closing date for applications: 22 August 2011

 

UCT is committed to the pursuit of excellence, diversity and redress. Our Employment Equity Policy is available at http://hr.uct.ac.za/policies/ee.php.

 

EV Rechargeable Battery Market To Reach $54 Billion By 2020, Says IHS iSuppli

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The global market for rechargeable batteries in electric vehicles (EV) is expected to reach new heights in the next 10 years, growing to $54 billion by 2010, up from $35 billion in 2010, says IHS iSuppli.

By 2015, lithium-ion batteries will be the leading technology occupying 55 percent of the market. Lead-acid will have 31 percent of the market, NiMH batteries will be 6 percent of the market and 1 percent will be NaS batteries.

Looking ahead to 2020, lithium-ion will only gain in its lead over the other battery technologies taking market share away from lead-acid batteries while NiMH and NaS will maintain roughly the same presence in the market.

Lithium-ion batteries will grow in demand with automotive applications. The main commercial driver will be the need for aggressive cost reductions while maintaining safety. The cost of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries is much higher than any other. However,  the research notes that prices will need to drop 50 percent in order to achieve widespread market adoption.

The significant cost reductions should be possible through volume production and material improvements. As a result, lithium-ion batteries could become less expensive than standard lead-acid equivalents by 2020, concludes the study.

The World Wide Web Celebrated Its 20th Year Anniversary Last Saturday

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Last Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web  as it became a publicly available service on the internet.  On August 6 1991, Tim Berners-Lee (now Sir), posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. The message read:  “The WWW project aims to allow all links to be made to any information anywhere.”

 

The web of the last twenty years has since evolved. Many new policies are on rise to actually cripple the web. Think of the plan for a tier internet traffic which has the potential to enable telecommunication companies to control data throughput for their legacy customers. The open web structure was the major reason it was widely adopted and which consequently lead to a digital economy.

 

Previously the web was used to allow physicists at the CERN physics laboratory to share data, news and documentation, but Berners-Lee’s post released the technology to the general public.

 

By making the web openly available and royalty free, it quickly advanced to a globally used service, no longer the secret of the technologically minded. In the 20 years that followed, the web has become a daily part of modern life. The late 1990s and 2000s saw the boom and subsequent bust of dot-com businesses.

 

Sites such as Amazon and eBay were some of the few to survive. Since then, the web has grown further and is now included on most new phones and televisions. The ability to access email and other web services through mobile phones has proved unbelievably successful, with many now addicted to their smart phones.
In 2008 mobile access to the web exceeded desktop-computer-based access for the first time. John Domingue of the Open University predicted the future of the web:

 

“I see a number of trends and influences in the future of the web. “Five billion people are on the web on mobile devices, the dominant device will be the smart phone rather than the laptop.” Domingue also warned of the dangers in the fast advancing web services: “One problem that may arise in the future of the web will be privacy.  “This is already a problem for a number of sites that will only worsen as technology advances.”

 

However, the consensus appears to be that the only way forward for the web is upwards. Sir Berners-Lee may never have guessed what would become of the message he posted on a forum 20 years ago but there is no doubt that the web will continue to expand beyond any expectations in the next 20.

 

One thing is certain. The internet of today will indeed evolve to something more than linking computers to a platform for living. Human systems could become extensions of the web and in the next 20 years, we will all be altered.

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