GADGET

Desktop ThinkCentre M Series

2010-12-01T19:58:00.000-08:00

"The introduction of the ThinkCentre M Series desktops is enabling our customers to save space in style, but still enjoy the performance, capacity management and energy efficiency of enterprise desktop premium."

Bluetooth low energy

2010-12-01T19:53:00.000-08:00

The Bluetooth SIG follows the market demand for low energy consumption respectively lesser battery wear out. This 2007 Bluetooth SIG adoption move for the 2001 Nokia 'Wibree' proposal was necessary to include low battery consumption operational modes for newly designed devices to communicate with other Bluetooth devices yet deployed.
However, the compatibility depends on applications that run on existing Bluetooth devices and made capable for digesting the respective low energy transmissions with software updates. In addition to creating a market for sensors, watches and other existing devices, Bluetooth low energy’s ability to connect low power devices to mobile phones offers a great variety of new applications.
Comparable solutions with other industry standards (e.g. ZigBee) or international standards (e.g. IEEE 805.15.4) show the path.

Unicode 5.0

2010-12-01T19:38:00.000-08:00

Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Developed in conjunction with the Universal Character Set standard and published in book form as The Unicode Standard, the latest version of Unicode consists of a repertoire of more than 109,000 characters covering 93 scripts, a set of code charts for visual reference, an encoding methodology and set of standard character encodings, an enumeration of character properties such as upper and lower case, a set of reference data computer files, and a number of related items, such as character properties, rules for normalization, decomposition, collation, rendering, and bidirectional display order (for the correct display of text containing both right-to-left scripts, such as Arabic and Hebrew, and left-to-right scripts).