Google has just introduced two enhancements to its mobile service to provide users a faster mobile search experience through a fast loading mobile homepage and better iGoogle gadget management.

First, they updated their mobile homepage to make mobile access faster than before. When users visit google.com using their mobile browser, Google will cache the homepage so that when users bookmark the homepage, they will have quicker time when loading it during their next visit. This is possible no matter where users came from, whether through the mobile browser or through Google’s mobile search plug-in.

The second enhancement has to do with the mobile version of iGoogle. Google has linked the iGoogle gadgets that appear on a user’s mobile home page to the iGoogle page on their desktops. This means that users can now rearrange the gadgets that display on the mobile iGadget from their desktop, allowing for easier iGoogle gadget management.

In addition to these two new features of Google mobile, a read “more” option was also added on any RSS gadget. This makes RSS reading easier and quicker while users are doing it through their mobile phone.

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It looks like the G810 from Portege will become available shortly, the reported date being June 20. As we have learned in the past, the G810 will be a Windows Mobile 6.1 based smartphone. In addition it will also feature a 2.8-inch 320 x 240 touchscreen display, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, built-in GPS & A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, a 3-megapixel camera, an FM radio with RDS and a microSD card slot with support for up to 4GB of additional storage. The G810 will also have support for both HSDPA and HSUPA. We have the launch date, we have the specs, however we are still missing the price as Toshiba has yet to announce that detail. Overall the G810 should make for a nice higher end smartphone.

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by Paul Miller, posted Jun 14th 2008 at 5:10PM
This certainly isn’t the first time anyone has mounted a video camera to an RC car and taken it for a spin, but the new system from Fat Shark to do so is certainly the most comprehensive yet. A set of wireless VR goggles provide the display, and there’s a built-in accelerometer in the goggles to control the tilt and pan of the camera installed on the car. You can buy the system with the car, or purchase the components separately to hook onto a plane or for some other nefarious purpose. No word on price, but we would’ve traded our NES and two good tubs of Legos for a shot at this growing up. Somebody has to keep that up-to-no-good sister of ours and her dastardly playmates. Video is after the break.

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This certainly isn’t the first time anyone has mounted a video camera to an RC car and taken it for a spin, but the new system from Fat Shark to do so is certainly the most comprehensive yet. A set of wireless VR goggles provide the display, and there’s a built-in accelerometer in the goggles to control the tilt and pan of the camera installed on the car. You can buy the system with the car, or purchase the components separately to hook onto a plane or for some other nefarious purpose. No word on price, but we would’ve traded our NES and two good tubs of Legos for a shot at this growing up. Somebody has to keep that up-to-no-good sister of ours and her dastardly playmates in check. Video is after the break.

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It looks like the G810 from Portege will become available shortly, the reported date being June 20. As we have learned in the past, the G810 will be a Windows Mobile 6.1 based smartphone. In addition it will also feature a 2.8-inch 320 x 240 touchscreen display, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, built-in GPS & A-GPS, Bluetooth 2.0, USB 2.0, a 3-megapixel camera, an FM radio with RDS and a microSD card slot with support for up to 4GB of additional storage. The G810 will also have support for both HSDPA and HSUPA. We have the launch date, we have the specs, however we are still missing the price as Toshiba has yet to announce that detail. Overall the G810 should make for a nice higher end smartphone.

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by Paul Miller, posted Jun 14th 2008 at 3:53PM
Microsoft pushed out its Origami Experience 2.0 to OEMs in January, but the purtied up interface for Vista-based UMPCs is finally available to all in the form of a free download. It’s mainly meant to put a touch-happy skin on top of many existing Vista features, and includes Picture Password, Weather, RSS, email, calendar and other widget functionality in the new Origami Now screen.

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by Paul Miller, posted Jun 14th 2008 at 2:45PMRemember middle school? These guys do. NVIDIA, AMD, VIA and now SiS (only two capital letters? Not trying hard enough) have all teamed up in a fight against Intel of truly pubescent proportions. Intel has denied accusations of hiding the USB 3.0 spec, since it’s not their spec to hide, and claims it has no obligation to disclose its actual host controller specification before it’s ready. This apparently has the other chip makers scrambling to make their own host controller, so they aren’t beholden to Intel’s schedule. That could cause problems for the end product — if they don’t build theirs exactly like Intel’s, and with Intel’s already being on the market by the time they’re done, they’ll have to return to the drawing board and possibly delay their release by nine months. They claim this could give Intel two years of zero competition in the USB 3.0 space, but Intel figures since it plans to release the spec for free, is investing heavily in its development, and isn’t done yet anyways, it doesn’t owe those companies a thing. This just gets better and better.

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by Darren Murph, posted Jun 14th 2008 at 12:24PM
Yeah, travel routers are still a rare breed, but when the entire family (or team, for you suits) needs to hop online in the hotel which conveniently provides absolutely no WiFi, it’s a real gem to have around. CradlePoint’s recently introduced 3G-ready CTR500 was taken for a test drive over at PC Perspective, and all in all, the unit performed as advertised. For those unfamiliar, it simply enables USB or ExpressCard-based WWAN modems to be connected, and from there, a variety of computers can retrieve WiFi from it. Better still, the unit did equally well when acting as a traditional WLAN router. The only real dig was the $179.99 price tag, which seemed a bit steep for the majority of folks who “probably would not need the functionality it offers.” Give the full writeup a look in the read link below.

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A semiconductor is basically a solid material that has electrical conductivity in between the conductivity of a conductor and that of an insulator. We live in a world where technology is growing at a very fast rate as new devices are introduced at regular intervals. Semiconductors are a very important part of ever evolving technology as they’re used in many popular devices which include computers, mobile phones and even audio players. So, semiconductors are used in a number of gadgets.

Technology has evolved at a fast rate and a lot has changed in semiconductor industry as new semiconductors have been introduced with enhanced properties. As a result, some of the semiconductors are hard to find and some devices require these hard to find semiconductors for efficient performance and for repairing purpose. The energy band properties of semiconductors make them very special and specific semiconductors are required for specific devices.

Like semiconductors, integrated circuits are found in almost every gadget and electronic devices and a lot of development has taken place in this area as well. Even hybrid integrated circuits have been introduced in the market. Basically, an integrated circuit is an electronic circuit which consist several semiconductor devices and passive components. A thin substrate of semiconductor material is used to manufacture an integrated circuit. Technological advancements have made some of the integrated circuits obsolete and sometimes, these obsolete integrated circuits are required to repair some electronic devices. Like semiconductors, specific integrated circuits are required for specific devices.

Now, if you’re stuck with a broken gadget and need these hard to find semiconductors, obsolete integrated circuits then you should try searching then on electronic parts catalog available on Internet. Finding these parts could be difficult and so, it is advisable to look for these hard to find parts on Internet stores.

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We saw the official release of Opera 9.5 earlier in the week, and now Opera fans can rejoice as it has also been ported over to run on your USB drive. Dubbed Opera 9.5 USB it offers all the wonderful features that you will find on the regular desktop version, and only takes up 15MB of space on your flash drive. The USB version will also not leave any data on the computer you choose to use it with, meaning no history will be left behind showing off the odd things you may have searched for.

The only drawback that I can see, is that this USB version will run on Windows only, otherwise it should be nice to take a good browser and not get stuck using IE or without your favorite bookmarks when away from your main computer.

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Boy, this is amazing. The Bootplug P2 comes from the house of CramWorks (a Japanese company) boasting built-in Linux 2.4 kernel operating system. In under 10 seconds this baby is ready to push the limits; it loads Kernel, drivers, LAN, PPP, VPN, X Window System, Firefox, Notepad, OpenOffice, PDF viewer and a remote desktop client. What’s more, the drive also includes Real Player 10 and Flash Player 9.
The drive supports AES encryption and provides a special read-only mode that prevents accidental writes by guest users. Also, an automatic back-up feature is provided so that you can backup your data.

The 2GB drive is now available in the Japanese market for about $120.
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