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Imation’s USB 2.0 Micro Hard Drive, which can store up to 2-gigabytes of data, has been recognised by the Guinness Book of World Records for having the world’s smallest hard drive spinning head.

Features as follows:-

• Multi-gigabyte storage capability
• Small, lightweight design – 1.61in x .66in x 3.3in
• Fast read/write speeds (Read 5MB/second, Write 3MB/second)
• Reliable and durable form factor
• Requires no additional power supply or USB cable
• LED lights up when drive is in use

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“The Imation Micro Hard Drive is one of the first applications to incorporate Toshiba’s 2GB 0.85-inch HDD,” said Scott Maccabe, vice president and general manager, Toshiba Storage Device Division. “When you have the world’s smallest hard disk drive combined with a stylish and practical application like this one, users truly can realize the power of mass mobile storage. As the need to access large amounts of data substantially increases in our daily business and personal lives, the Imation Micro Hard Drive is well-positioned to become a must-have personal technology device.”

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2005 World’s Smallest Hard Disk Drive

After just a few days we heard the news Motorola expanding use of Linux to its midrange phones, device platform vendor PalmSource this week clarified that the company is moving quickly to transition the Palm platform to Linux in the future.

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“3G devices can be expensive to develop, so handset vendors are looking for a total Linux offerings,” McVeigh said. He added that carriers are also interested because they can more easily customize Linux devices to meet their specific needs.

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PalmSource To Use Linux Soon

Another critical bug in Microsoft ‘s Internet Explorer (IE) browser has been found by researcher at Austrian security consulting firm SEC Consult. This IE bug can cause the software to crash, in turn, could possibly be used to let an attacker run unauthorized software on the IE user’s computer system. Microsoft has confirmed that the bug exists and is investigating the matter.

By loading HTML pages that make use of certain ActiveX components, researchers were able to overwrite registers on the computer’s processor, said Martin Eisner, CTO with SEC Consult. This technique could theoretically be used to fill parts of the computer’s memory with malicious code, creating what is called a “heap-based buffer overflow,” he said.

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“It’s possible to crash Internet Explorer,” Eisner said. “Executing arbitrary code might be possible; we could not confirm that now.”

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IE Bug Might Crash Browser

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Motorola E895 is the latest Linux phone released, after Motorola announced on Friday, July, 2005, their plan to remake most of its mobile phone line with Linux, expanding use of the open-source operating system to midrange phones.

To use Linux is their midrange phones are the second wave since Motorola began selling Linux-powered mobile phones in 2003 in high-end phones. Motorola expects to change that as software makers slim down Linux and hardware makers bulk up cell phone computing power, Chin said.

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The E895 is a flip-phone design that uses a version of Linux from MontaVista Software, said Cheryln Chin, vice president for Motorola mobile phone marketing. Motorola expects to begin shipping it in Asia in the fourth quarter of the year and in other parts of the globe after that.

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Latest Motorola Linux Phone – E895

Opera Software has just released on Friday, July 1, 2005, the latest version of the Opera Web browser, Opera 8, is now available to be running on Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphones. With the mobile version of Opera 8, smartphone users to surf the Web with speed and ease on their mobile devices.

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“Originally, we had not planned to make Opera available on the Windows Mobile platform, but users kept asking for it because they were disappointed with the far from satisfactory performance of the browser that came shipped on their devices,” says Jon S. von Tetzchner, CEO, Opera Software.

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Opera Now Runs On Windows Mobile 2003 Smartphone

Google has just unveiled on Wednesday, June 29, 2006, a beta version of its newly developed Personalised Search service. Personalised Search allows the serch engine searched results based on what’s most relevant to the user.

For example, by using Personalised Search to search the word “tackle” might give different results for a footballer and a guy who is looking for ways to tackle a girl. :D The service builds on the Google My Search History feature launched as a beta in April. The service ‘remembers’ past searches, allowing users to quickly retrieve a recently visited page.
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Google Personalized Search