HP launches the first world`s inkjet mobile all-in-one printer.

WorldWide Tech & Science. Francisco De Jesùs.        

HP launches the first world`s inkjet mobile all-in-one printer.

HP Officejet 150 Mobile All-in-One Printer

Printing specifications
Print speed black (draft, letter):	Up to 22 ppm
Print speed color (draft, letter):	Up to 18 ppm
Print speed footnote:	Either after first page or after first set of ISO test pages. For details see http://www.hp.com/go/printerclaims
Print languages, standard:	HP PCL 3 GUI
Print resolution, black:	Up to 600 x 600 rendered dpi (when printing from a computer)
Print resolution, color:	4800 x 1200 optimized dpi color (when printing from a computer on selected HP photo papers and 1200 input dpi)
Monthly duty cycle:	Up to 500 pages
Ink cartridges:	2 (1 each black, cyan/magenta/yellow)
Compatible cartridges:	HP 98 Black Inkjet Print Cartridge (~420 pages); HP 95 Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge (~330 pages); HP 94 Black Inkjet Print Cartridge (~480 pages); HP 97 Tri-color Inkjet Print Cartridge (~560 pages); HP 99 Photo Inkjet Print Cartridge (~130 pages). [Average based on ISO/IEC 24711 or HP testing methodology and continuous printing. Actual yield varies considerably based on content of printed pages and other factors. Some ink from included cartridge is used to start up the printer. For details see hp.com/go/learnaboutsupplies]
Processor speed:	220 MHz
Memory, standard:	64 MB

Paper handling
Input capacity, standard:	Up to 50 sheets (plain paper)
Duplex printing (printing on both sides of paper):	Manual (driver support provided)
Borderless Printing:	Yes (up to 4 x 6 in)
Media sizes, standard:	Letter, legal, statement, executive, envelopes (No. 10, Monarch), cards (3 x 5 in, 4 x 6 in, 5 x 8 in), photo (5 x 7 in, 4 x 6 in)
Media sizes, custom:	3 x 4 to 8.5 x 14 in
Media types:	Paper (inkjet, photo, plain), cards (greeting, index), envelopes, labels, brochures
Media weight, recommended:	20 lb

Connectivity
Connectivity, standard:	1 USB 2.0; 1 PictBridge; 1 Memory Card slot; 1 Bluetooth 2.0 + EDR

Power and operating requirements
Compatible Operating Systems:	Microsoft® Windows® 8, Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Windows® XP (32-bit) SP2; Mac OS X v10.5.8, v10.6, OS X Lion, OS X Mountain Lion; Linux (For more information, see http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html.)
Minimum system requirements:	PC: Microsoft® Windows® 8: 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 2 GB hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port; Windows® 7: 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 1.1 GB hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port; Windows® Vista: 800 MHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 1.0 GB hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port; Windows® XP (32-bit) SP2: Intel® Pentium® II , Celeron® or compatible processor, 233 MHz or higher, 600 MB hard disk space, CD-ROM/DVD drive or Internet connection, USB port. Macintosh: Mac OS X v10.5.8, v10.6, OS X Lion, OS X Mountain Lion, 1 GB HD, CD-ROM/DVD-ROM or Internet, USB
Operating humidity:	15 to 95% RH
Power consumption:	65 watts maximum, 22 watts (Active), 0.4 watts (Manual-Off), 6.4 watts (Standby), 3.2 watts (Sleep)
Acoustic power emissions:	5.0 B(A) (Best); 5.6 B(A) (Normal); 6.1 B(A) (Fast Draft)

Dimensions and weight
Dimensions (W x D x H):	13.98 x 6.95 x 3.52 in (350 x 171 x 90 mm)
Weight:	6.4 lb (6.8 lbs with battery) (2.9 kg (3.1 kg with battery))

What's included
Warranty:	One-year limited hardware warranty backed by HP Customer Care, service and support; one-year technical phone support
What's in the box:	HP Officejet 150 Mobile Printer; HP 98 Black Print Cartridge; HP 95 Tri-Color Print Cartridge; CD with printer drivers; User documentation; AC adapter; power cord; HP Lithium-ion battery; ADF Paper Path Cleaning Cloth. [Some ink from included cartridge is used to start up the printer. For details see http://www.hp.com/go/learnaboutsupplies.]
Cable included?:	No, please purchase USB cable separately.

HP

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Christmas Day 2012: iOS and Android new record of devices activations. Tablets overpassed smartphones.

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Christmas Day 2012: iOS and Android new  record  of devices activations. Tablets overpassed smartphones.

Christmas 2012 Shatters More Smart Device and App Download Records

More iOS and Android devices are activated on Christmas Day than on any other day of the year. This year was no exception. On this Christmas Day 2012, more iPhones, iPads, Galaxy's, Kindle Fires, and more, were activated than on any other day in history. Moreover, as soon as we could tear the wrapping paper off our cool new devices, we started downloading a record volume of apps.  Let’s get into the numbers.

How Did Santa Fit All Those Devices Into His Sleigh?

The chart below shows the number of new iOS and Android devices detected worldwide by Flurry on Christmas Day. With more than 260,000 apps using Flurry Analytics, Flurry detects over 90% of all new iOS and Android devices activated each day. The company regularly triangulates its device coverage with publicly announced figures from Google and Apple.

In order to appreciate the magnitude of new devices activated on Christmas Day, Flurry established a baseline using the average from the first 20 days of December. Over this period, daily activations averaged around 4.0 million per day, with variance of a few hundred thousand in either direction per day. On Christmas Day, activations soared to more than 17.4 million, a 332% increase over the December baseline. By comparison, Christmas Day 2011 held the previous single-day record, having reached 6.8 million device activations. Christmas 2012 is more than 2.5 times larger than Christmas 2011, which surpassed its own baseline by more than 300%.

With a record number of iOS and Android devices flooding the market, we next look at the surge in app downloads. For these figures, Flurry estimates its percentage penetration per platform to estimate total market app downloads. The company also benchmarks download volumes tracked in its system against publicly released app download milestones from Apple and Google.

More App Downloads Than Partridges in Pear Tress

 

The above chart shows that, compared to the baseline, app downloads more than doubled on Christmas.  Specifically, over the December 1 – 20 baseline, download volumes increased by 112% on Christmas. Despite the ever-growing installed base of existing smart devices, the influx of new devices on Christmas Day still helped deliver a record download day, besting that of any previous day in history.  

It Was Christmas All D*mn Day

For our next chart, we look at the distribution of downloads per hour across Christmas Day 2012. The shape of this curve looks like a table top, with downloads jumping early in the day to around 20 million per hour, when most of us were still in our pajamas, and remaining at this level for most of the day, even after the egg nog was gone. For perspective, we compare this to the average distribution of downloads per hour clocked between December 1 – 20.

More of Us Asked Santa for Tablets This Year

For our final chart, we drilled down into the split between smartphones versus tablets.  While smartphone activations typically outpace that of tablets by 4:1, on Christmas Day 2012, more tablets were activated than smartphones. The big winners were Apple iPads, Apple iPad Minis and Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7” tablets. In particular, Amazon had a very strong performance in the tablet category, growing by several thousand percent over its baseline of tablet activations over the earlier part of December.

Over the next week, up through New Year’s Day, app download rates will remain significantly elevated.  Flurry anticipates downloads to surpass more than 1.5 billion, and have a shot at breaking through the 2-billion download barrier for the first time ever. We look forward to accelerated growth in 2013, and continued success for developers.

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2013: Samsung may launch high-end smartphones with Tizen OS.

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Samsung is rumored to plan the launch of new smartphones in 2013, some of which might be based on the Tizen OS, in addition to running under Google’s Android platform. 

Samsung has started doing first software tests of its new flagship model of TIZEN or Android. GT-I9500 and GT-I9505.

Samsung i9500 is the developer model that the handset vendor has made available with Tizen on board, and it seems that it might become commercially available soon. 

According to SamMobile, there is also the possibility that Samsung will load Android on this new phone, and that it might release it as a successor for its Galaxy S III handset, with a different name but not as IV. (number 4 is believed to be bad luck in Korea)

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CES2013: Cloud Gaming is Now: G-cluster Debuts the Ultimate Cloud Gaming Machine.

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CES2013: Cloud Gaming is Now: G-cluster Debuts the Ultimate Cloud Gaming Machine.

From TV to mobile to the ultimate cloud gaming machine, G-cluster invites IPTV and wireless operators and game publishers to get in the cloud at CES 2013, January 8 – 11 in Las Vegas.

G-cluster, a fully-featured white label service offering the largest deployments at scale and the most deployed catalog of casual and AAA games, will debut its Game Machine platform allowing Operators to bring premium and casual games to the TV without the need for a gaming console.

The G-cluster Game Machine plugs into the HDMI port on HDMI-equipped televisions and connects to the home Wi-Fi network to access the service. Players can use a game pad with a wireless receiver, or smartphones or tablets, to control play on the Television, playing alone or with friends using other devices such as Personal Computers, smartphones, or tablets.

"With G-cluster's cloud gaming platform, operators can achieve high margin service revenue growth with marginal setup, maintenance, and operational effort commitments," said Taro Hashimoto, Chairman and CEO of G-cluster Global.

"The tiny game machine turns your TV into a massive cloud gaming experience. Smartphones and tablets are default controllers of the game machine. It will be a natural and exciting extension of your smartphone and tablet experience," he added.

Already a North American Tier One operator is trialing the G-cluster service. This is in addition to the more than eight million gamers worldwide who have access to G-cluster's multi-platform cloud gaming experience through IPTV set-top boxes and personal computers, in the near future on smart connected TV's, mobile devices and tablets, and now the G-cluster Game Machine.

G-cluster invites CES attendees to come play at CES 2013 in the G-cluster MGM Signature Suite. Media are invited to attend an event in the suite on Wednesday, January 9 at 4:30 p.m. For more information about the event and to obtain the entry passcode, contact Alexandra Crabb at alex@theinkstudio.com or Shannon Kite-Powell at shannon@theinkstudio.com.

About G-cluster Global Corporation

Founded in 2000, G-cluster is the first and largest cloud gaming platform accessible to more than eight million game players worldwide. G-cluster provides a fully-featured white label service offering casual and AAA games playable over broadband networks, regardless of the device used to access the service. The company's client base includes Broadmedia Corporation, SFR and Orange, and content partnerships with leading game studios such as Disney and Ubisoft. G-cluster is headquartered in Tokyo, with offices in Pittsburgh, PA; Espoo, Finland and Paris. For more information, please visit http://www.g-cluster.com/ or follow G-cluster on Twitter at @GclusterGlobal.

Media Contact:

Alexandra Crabb

ink Communications for G‐cluster

alex@theinkstudio.com

+1‐617‐956‐2214

Shannon Kite‐Powell

ink Communications for G‐cluster

shannon@theinkstudio.com

SOURCE G-cluster

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