Microsoft latest mouse products with BlueTrack Technology

            Microsoft Hardware, on 24^th February 2010, has introduced its three latest mice that feature with the BlueTrack technology. Microsoft is extending its award winning line of BlueTrack Technology mouse products with Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500; Wireless Mouse 2000 and Comfort Mouse 4500.

The BlueTrack Technology is the world most advanced tracking technology, the light beam emanating from the bottom of the mouse is four times larger than the common laser beam used in most of the standard mice.

With this technology, it enables to capture a larger image and offers better reflection of the surface over red light and laser. It also works on virtually any surface including carpet, wood table, armrest at the airport, granite kitchen counter except on the clear glass or mirrored surfaces.

            The Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 comes with a Nano transceiver stick, which is less than a centimeter from the USB port. It is a bit smaller in size and convenient the users to pick and best fit in any compact environment. It is available in two colors, which are gray and dragon fruit pink.

              The Wireless Mouse 2000 comes with a mini-transceiver that placed into the bottom of the mouse when on the go. It is a full size mouse and best to use on larger space such like on the table, bed and so on. It is available in gray color.

             The Comfort Mouse 4500 has been designed with an ergonomic shape and it is the first wired mouse with BlueTrack technology. The wired Comfort Mouse 4500 helps to eliminate the trouble on frequent battery changes. It is available in three fresh colors, which are sea blue; poppy red and strawberry pink.

            These latest BlueTrack technology mice are available for per-sales and both Wireless Mouse 2000 and Comfort Mouse 4500 are expected to be shipped in March for $29.95 and $24.95 respectively.

             Microsoft Hardware, on 24th February 2010, has introduced its three latest mice that feature with the BlueTrack technology. Microsoft is extending its award winning line of BlueTrack Technology mouse products with Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500; Wireless Mouse 2000 and Comfort Mouse 4500.

              The BlueTrack Technology is the world most advanced tracking technology, the light beam emanating from the bottom of the mouse is four times larger than the common laser beam used in most of the standard mice.With this technology, it enables to capture a larger image and offers better reflection of the surface over red light and laser. It also works on virtually any surface including carpet, wood table, armrest at the airport, granite kitchen counter except on the clear glass or mirrored surfaces.

           
               The Wireless Mobile Mouse 3500 comes with a Nano transceiver stick, which is less than a centimeter from the USB port. It is a bit smaller in size and convenient the users to pick and best fit in any compact environment. It is available in two colors, which are gray and dragon fruit pink.

The Wireless Mouse 2000 comes with a mini-transceiver that placed into the bottom of the mouse when on the go. It is a full size mouse and best to use on larger space such like on the table, bed and so on. It is available in gray color.

                The Comfort Mouse 4500 has been designed with an ergonomic shape and it is the first wired mouse with BlueTrack technology. The wired Comfort Mouse 4500 helps to eliminate the trouble on frequent battery changes. It is available in three fresh colors, which are sea blue; poppy red and strawberry pink.These latest BlueTrack technology mice are available for per-sales and both Wireless Mouse 2000 and Comfort Mouse 4500 are expected to be shipped in March for $29.95 and $24.95 respectively.

About BlueTrack Technology

These mice will track on everything from a granite countertop to the carpet in an airport terminal.

Love your laptop computer but hate using the trackpad when you are out of range of a traditional desk? Now, you can use a mouse on more surfaces than ever before, with Microsoft BlueTrack Technology.1

Exciting, exceptional accuracy

Use a mouse with BlueTrack Technology that outperforms laser and optical mice. The large, blue beam, combined with an image sensor and pixel geometry designed by Microsoft, generates a high-contrast picture of the surface that allows exceptional tracking accuracy.

Track on just about anything

Navigate your computer by using a BlueTrack Technology mouse on a picnic table, your living room floor, the armrest of a lobby chair or even your trouser leg. With BlueTrack Technology, you can use the mouse on almost any type of surface.

Stronger sensitivity

See that blue light coming from under the mouse? The BlueTrack Technology light beam is more than four times larger than the average laser beam used in other laser mice, so you can point, click and scroll with precision, no matter where you are.

Watch Future Technology  Mouse Video on :http://youtu.be/j4CxVrQTsSo

Dell Introduces De-dupe Appliance, Moves Compellent To 64-bit Software

         Dell has introduced its de-duplication appliance based on its Ocarina technology and upgraded the software for its enterprise-class Compellent storage line with 64-bit technology.

The moves, along with others including a new storage solution for Microsoft SharePoint and new storage support for its own Force10 and for Brocade technology, were unveiled at the Dell Storage Forum in London.

The updates to Dell's storage lines came in the wake of several acquisitions in the last couple of years which have turned Dell from a developer of low-end storage and a reseller of EMC's enterprise storage to one of the top providers of enterprise-class storage based on its own intellectual property.

“As a result, Dell now has a number of different technologies which it can start applying across its multiple storage lines,” said Mike Davis, Director, Product Marketing, NAS and Back-up Storage Products, Dell.

"It will be a long process to bring these together with a common management platform. It is part of our five-year storage roadmap," said Davis.

Dell has already taken its first step toward unifying its storage technologies. The company in October started integrating networking technology from its August acquisition of networking vendor Force10 Networks into its Dell vStart virtualization infrastructure offering and added compression technology from its July, 2010 acquisition of Ocarina Networks into its DX Object storage platform.

At the London event, Dell unveiled Compellent Storage Center 6.0, the first major upgrade of the Compellent storage array's operating system since Dell acquired Compellent last year.

“The biggest change is transition from the previous 32-bit architecture to a new 64-bit architecture,” said Bob Fine, Director, Product Marketing, Dell Compellent.

“The new code base is also more agile than in the past with the ability to upgrade to new protocols such as SAS and FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) via plug-in cards,” he added.

Dell has also added integration with CommVault's data protection software to provide improved resiliency of data stored on Compellent hardware.

“Also new with Dell Compellent is enhanced integration with VMware for virtualized data center environments. This includes the addition of VMware vSphere storage APIs to speed up the deployment of virtual machines and significantly improve storage performance for data volumes shared by multiple virtual machines,” said Fine.

“The arrays also now support VMware's Site Recovery Manager (SRA) 5 for automated failback from a disaster, as well as VMware technology for managing Compellent virtualized storage pools,” he added.

Dell also used the London event to introduce its first de-dupe appliance based on its Ocarina technology. That device, the DR4000, decreases disk capacity requirements by up to a factor of 15 times, and provides inline de-dupe and compression and replication of de-duped data. It provides backup storage for as low as 25 cents per GB list price, Dell said.

“The DR4000 targets the backup needs of remote and branch offices as well as traditional businesses,” Davis said. “Therefore, it is really focused on the channel.”

The DR4000 is not Dell's first de-dupe appliance. The company also offers the DL2200, an appliance built around CommVault's Simpana de-dupe application.

“Going forward, Dell plans to increase the capacity of the DR4000, and integrate its capabilities with Dell's EqualLogic and Compellent product lines and the Dell cloud,” said Davis.

Dell also unveiled its new Dell solution for Microsoft SharePoint Infrastructure Optimization, which combines Dell DX storage appliances; Dell Microsoft SharePoint assessment, design, and deployment services; and the AvePoint DocAve software for managing migration and other features.

“The result is an integrated solution for SharePoint lifecycle management and migration that improves capacity utilization, performance, business continuity, and compliance,” said Davis.

Dell also validated its Dell Force10 S481010-Gbit Ethernet switch and its deep-buffer S60 1-Gbit/10-Gbit Ethernet switches for its EqualLogic storage appliance line, giving the EqualLogic auto-recognition and auto-configuration features.

Dell also integrated support for its Dell PowerConnect 8024 10GB switches and M8024-k Blade IO modules in its Compellent array lines to integrate them in the field in a single step.

Also new is support for Brocade's new 16GB Fibre Channel infrastructure with its Compellent line.

Dell's new Compellent Storage Center 6.0 software and DR4000 dedupe appliance are slated to be released sometime this calendar quarter.

Oracle's latest Java moves frustrate users and vendors

The company is under fire for modularization, licensing, and security issues

Oracle, which officially took on the big job of shepherding Java two years ago this month, is traveling bumpy roads lately, with its modularization and licensing plans for Java raising eyebrows and security concerns coming to the fore as well.

Plans for version 8 of Java Platform Standard Edition, which is due next year, call for inclusion of Project Jigsaw to add modular capabilities to Java. But some organizations are concerned with how Oracle's plans might conflict with the OSGi module system already geared to Java. In the licensing arena, Canonical, the maker of Ubuntu Linux, says Oracle is no longer letting Linux distributors redistribute Oracle's own commercial Java, causing difficulties for the company. Meanwhile, security vendor F-Secure views Java as security hindrance. (Oracle declined to discuss these issues with InfoWorld.

Jigsaw's inclusion draws ire

With Jigsaw, Oracle intends to provide an approachable and scalable module system for large legacy software systems in general and the JDK (Java Development Kit) in particular, said Mark Reinhold, Oracle's chief architect of the Java platform group, in a recent blog post.

But some see conflict between Oracle's Jigsaw effort and OSGi, a long-standing dynamic module system for Java adopted by organizations like the Eclipse Foundation (of which Oracle is a member) for open source tools. "The major risk inherent in Project Jigsaw is that it is attempting to supplant an incumbent Java modularity system that has already seen a great deal of success," says Eclipse representative Ian Skerrett. "OSGi is widely used across the Java ecosystem in the implementations of IDEs, enterprise service buses, and application servers. Project Jigsaw must not only support the modularization of the Java platform, it also must provide seamless integration with the existing OSGi ecosystem."

Rather than benefiting Java, Jigsaw will only complicate matters, says Peter Kriens, technical director of the OSGi Alliance: "Jigsaw is inventing something that doesn't really fit very well in Java."

Help may be on the way, however.

Floated in an OpenJDK online discussion group is a proposed effort called Penrose to implement interoperability between Jigsaw and OSGi implementations. This project would enable cooperation between Jigsaw and OSGi to show how OSGi implementations would run on the OSGi runtime and how to load Jigsaw modules into OSGi frameworks.

Both Skerrett and Kriens see great benefits to Oracle's goal of adding modularization to Java. "It dramatically improves the robustness and flexibility of software systems, especially large software systems.... By reducing the complexity of software, modularity allows greater reuse and easier deployment, which in turn allows systems to adapt to change in easier and safer ways," Skerrett says.

Java's licensing change troubles CanonicalOracle also is raising dander over a recent license change limiting distribution of Oracle's commercial Java. Canonical says that Oracle has retired its license that permitted Linux distros to redistribute Java. Under the new Oracle license, users now must download Java directly from Oracle's website.

"That left us in a pickle, because the current version of Java that we're distributing had known security issues that were being exploited," says Canonical CEO Jane Silber. Security problems in Java 6 include problems with remote exploits enabled through the Java browser plug-in, she says. To address the security issue, though not solve it, Canonical is pushing out an update that will disable part of the Java version on users' machines.

Canonical can still distribute the open source OpenJDK version of Java, but it is not equivalent to the commercial Oracle implementation, Silber says. Canonical's troubles date back to Oracle's announcement last summer that OpenJDK would become the reference implementation of Java, which resulted in the discontinuance of the "non-free" operating system distributor license for Java used by Canonical. The bottom line is that Oracle wants Linux distributions to migrate to OpenJDK, even if a distributor believes the commercial version is better for its customers.

Java's security questionedOracle also has been receiving flak elsewhere over the security of Java. F-Secure Security Labs recently posted a notice, "Java considered harmful," that advises people to remove the Java plug-in from their browsers. "The risks of Java are nicely illustrated by the recent Java Rhino vulnerability (aka CVE-2011-3544). If you're running Java, but not the latest version, you're vulnerable. So either you have to check at all times that you have the latest version of Java -- or get rid of it altogether," F-Secure writes.

Keeping Java secure is no mean feat, as it is a popular target for hackers. "Java is currently the lowest-hanging fruit of the third-party software that gets attacked," says Sean Sullivan, an F-Secure security advisor. While Java is a great platform on back-end systems, Java on Windows PCs facilitates the running of undesirable code, he says.

Oracle's thankless jobOracle has numerous Java projects to maintain and update, such as last week's release of theNetBeans 7.1 IDE equipped with support for the JavaFX 2.0 rich Internet application platform. With Java being such a ubiquitous technology after 16-plus years, whoever is in charge of it is sure to upset some folks with how the platform is proceeding. In fact, disagreements over Java are nothing new: The Apache Software Foundation's efforts to get proper certification for its Apache Harmony implementation of Java have spanned both the Sun and Oracle reigns over Java, for example.

Oracle, however, perhaps should cut back on the heavy-handedness, perceived or actual, if it hopes to preserve and maximize its substantial investment in Java. Otherwise, Oracle risks sending users looking for alternatives.

This story, "Oracle's latest Java moves frustrate users and vendors," was originally published atInfoWorld.com. Follow the latest developments in application development and Java at InfoWorld.com. For the latest developments in business technology news

Android device makers chase Apple with cloud strategies

                   At CES, Acer and Lenovo lay out cloud and hosting services that make it easier to synchronize and access content across Android devices and Windows PCs

              The importance of bundling services and software with mobile devices is finally resonating with Android device makers as they compete with Apple, and some of them outlined their cloud strategies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

Acer and Lenovo, which make Android-based tablets and smartphones and Windows PCs, will offer cloud and hosting services that make it easier for people to synchronize and access content and documents across PCs, smartphones, and tablets.

Acer will load its devices with AcerCloud, a hosting service on which users can push documents and files that can be shared across its tablets, smartphones and PCs. Lenovo provided some details about its upcoming cloud service, which will allow content and files on its TVs, tablets, smartphones, and PCs to be accessed and shared through private or public clouds.

The companies are following a mobile device blueprint laid down by Apple, which wraps software and services with its wildly successful iPad and iPhone products. Apart from Amazon, Android device makers are mostly hardware makers and have so far struggled to offer a cohesive set of software and services to complement tablets and smartphones, analysts said.

Lenovo and Acer already provide a full range of hardware but lack the full range of applications and services for consumers, said technology industry analyst Patrick Moorhead of Moor Insights and Strategy.

"I expect they will fill in those gaps in the next 18 months through a combination of partnerships and in-house development," Moorhead said.

Personal cloud services like Apple's iCloud are also "stickies" that help retain customers when hardware sales are weak, Moorhead said. Building out monetizable personal cloud services are crucial to Lenovo's and Acer's future.

"Lenovo and Acer see this and recognize they must ramp up their capabilities," Moorhead said.

Though desirable, a cloud offering is not an absolute necessity for hardware vendors, especially given the cost and complexity of mounting such an operation and keeping it up and running, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.

"But with the right plan and investments and, perhaps, partners, it's possible for a vendor to use cloud services to its long-term advantage," King said.

Apple represents the lottery all vendors would love to win, but it may take a lot of effort for Android device makers to catch up, considering the fragmentation of the hardware and software community, King said.

"The characteristics that have helped drive Android community's massive success -- namely its sheer diversity and diffusion -- also means that few individual vendors have the size or scope to truly take on a homogenous entity like Apple," King said.

Differentiating cloud services is key for the Android community particularly because the hardware features tend to be common.

"Cloud services can provide new, ongoing revenue streams that are particularly attractive to vendors of devices with ever thinner profit margins," King said.

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