Dhaka – 13 April, 2010 – A leader in the world’s consumer electronics and IT market, Samsung has launched three new models in its award-winning range of netbooks and notebooks. The new models are named as Samsung N210, N148 and R428. Among them, Samsung N210 is capable of providing up to 12 hours of continuous battery back up. The N148 provides up to 8.5 hours and R428 can provide more than 3.5 hours of battery backup. This is made possible mainly because the overall power consumption has been reduced by their energy efficient LED display. Other reasons behind this impressive battery power include optimized processing performance and Samsung’s proprietary Enhanced Battery Life solution.

In order to celebrate the launching of new products, Samsung organized a press meet, prior to the launching event. In the press meet, the Samsung officials like, Managing Director of Samsung Dhaka Branch Office, Mr. Kanghyun Lee, Sales and Marketing Manager of IT, Mr. Sydur Rahman, Mr. Jahirul Islam, Managing Director, Smart Technologies and Mr. Asheq Ul Islam, Director-Finance & Strategies, Index IT Limited, attended an Q&A session with the media. They primarily talked about the key features of the new product and also the future plan of Samsung regarding Bangladesh market.

The officials said that apart from impressive battery back up, there are also a few other interesting features included in the TCO Certified and ECO RoHS compliant Samsung netbooks. Both the netbooks have 10.1″ LED anti-reflective display that enables you to get the sharpest details and boldest colors, while watching movies and images. The integrated Easy Resolution Manager tools of the new netbooks help change the screen resolution easily.

The new Samsung N210 and N148 netbook also offer a range of tools that ensure easier usage and security of your PC. Both the netbooks are powered with Intel’s latest processor, the Intel Atom N450 as well. Above all, the Samsung N210 and N148 also offer an integrated Digital LiveCam for video-conferencing or live messaging.

Samsung also launched a notebook namely Samsung R428. Powered with Intel’s top quality Pentium Processor T4400, the Samsung R428 notebook has a 14.0 inch LED HD display and weighs only 2.26 kg. The software like Adobe Reader, Easy Battery Manager, Easy Display Manger, Easy Network Manager, Easy Speedup Manager, Samsung Support Center, Samsung Update Plus, etc. are installed in all three new products of Samsung. In fact, the experience of the netbook users is further simplified with the new Samsung N210, N148 and R428.

Battery life is determined based on Battery Mark test scores that can vary according to configuration.

The T1800 comes standard with a 20-MHz 386SX CPU, 60 MB hard disk drive, 2 MB RAM, (expandable to 10 MB), while theTl850 features a 25-MHz 386sx with a choice of 80 MB or 120 MB hard drive, 4 MB RAM (expandable to 12 MB). Both 6.8 lbs notebooks have a 9.5 inch VGA compatible black and white LCD screen with 64 gray scales.

if this is a company that you should be doing business with and talking with about your information technology needs of the future.”

Wang’s Renewal Strategy

In this way Rick Miller closed the keynote address that launched   the  OFFICE    2000   Exclave. He introduced his audience to a new company called “Wang Laboratories, “presented the company’s new strategy and development focus, and concluded with reasons for choosing Wang as a partner in achieving the goal of the 90′s: productivity.

Miller positioned Wang as a leader in information systems with products and services already in place to improve productivity in the office.

Anticipating his audience, Miller addressed several concerns that customers might have.

Commitment to VS

Concerning the VS midrange systems, Miller told his audience, “the VS plays a key role in Wang’s OFFICE 2000 strategy.”

He reassured his audience that Wang is heavily committed to the VS, strategically and in terms of resources dedicated to it. There are 35,000 VSs installed around the world, and the OFFICE 2000 strategy is aimed at preserving and enhancing value. In this calendar year alone, he noted, Wang would bring to market a new top-of-the-line system, the VS 12000, and over 30 products and enhancements for the VS product line.

Citing a Compuler world survey where users rated the VS as the best image server in the industry, Miller continued: “Certainly, image is one of the key, if not the most important technology for the 1900s, and a technology in which we have world leadership.”

Productivity First

Wang’s OFFICE 2000 strategy is to increase the productivity of those engaged in paper-intensive tasks at the work group/departmental level where results are most effective and easily measured.

Productivity is the No. 1 information technology issue for the 1990s, and Wang’s goal is to be No. 1 in that segment of the industry. Over the past 20 years, our industry and our users failed to achieve the gains in productivity that technology should have produced. Tasks were simply automated rather than modified to take full advantage of the technology. The OFFICE 2000 strategy is to help customers re-engineer these processes and to deliver innovative technologies, solutions, and professional services for significant gains in productivity. Most industry analysts confirm that Wang is a leader in the critical technologies for offices of the ’90s. These include imaging, document management, work flow, electronic mail and networking. Wang has the products, services and technology in place to help its customers reach their goals.

Open Systems

Also, Wang is committed to international industry stan-Jards and multivendor products for solutions. In some cases, the best solution for a customer may include some technology from outside the Wang environment. Wang, has formed relationships with other companies in order to make its technologies available on industry-standard platforms for the open environments of the future. Rather than spend precious development resources inventing our own RISC-based UNIX system, we chose to enter an alliance with IBM in order to provide our customers with the best commercial UNIX platform for our open systems offerings.

This was the first such alliance in our industry. Now, hardly a week goes by without news of other companies following our lead by entering into alliances of their own. People are beginning to understand that, in the future, the most effective vendors in our industry will be those able to work together with other companies to bring about the best solutions for customers.

Wang Can Deliver

Ask our customers. Prognostics, an independent company that surveys customers of the top 10 companies in the industry, reports that in 1989, Wang was considerably below average in customer satisfaction. Today, thanks to our introduction of Operation Customer and quality leadership training which involves every single employee at Wang, we are running ahead of the industry. The Wang culture is changing for the better.

New Wang Labs

Miller concluded by urging his audience to keep an open mind, “to forget everything you know about Wang Laboratories” and hear about a brand new company – called Wang Laboratories.

Texas, June 1— Texas Instruments, Inc. and Tandy Corp. have jumped into the 486 notebook saddle, with pricing aimed at pushing 386 notebooks off the fast track.

Both TI and Tandy’s Intel Corp. 1486SX-based notebooks are priced around $3,000, a point below the list price for 80386SL-based notebooks from companies such as Compaq Computer Corp. and Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc. TT’s machines are slated . for availability next month; Tandy’s machines are expected to ship next week.

“What would you buy, a 486 or a 386, if the price on the 486 was less?” asked Nassir Ahmed, TI’s portable products marketing manager.

At least one user said a 486 would not be enough for a sale. “What we want in the next generation is the 486, but we also want upgradabil-ity,” said Kevin Maloney, manager of technology planning and office automation support at Pepsi-Cola International, Inc. in White Plains, N.Y.

While TI’s TravelMate 4000 line does not feature upgradability, analysts said the 5.6-pound Trav-elmate 4000 WinSX/16, WinSX/25 and WinDX/25 were innovative. “I’m impressed with what they’ve done,” said Richard Zwetchken-baum, senior personal computer analyst at International Data Corp. in Framingham, Mass.

He saiaTI’s BatteryPro power management software made its claim of four to five hours of battery life seem believable, its display is much improved over the good display of the TravelMate 3000 and optional small local-area network and peripheral adapters are a good idea.

Zwetchkenbaum also said TI had done a good job of tailoring the products to run Microsoft Corp.’s Windows 3.1. These include TI’s Drag N Go utility, which lets users move a file from one application to another by clicking on icons.

Race is on

While Ahmed said TI believes its pricing and features will give it as much as an eight-month window of opportunity in the fledgling market for 486 notebooks, analysts disagreed. “It is a window of opportunity for TI, but other vendors will be there,” said JoeAnn Stahel, president of Stahel & Co. in Piano, Texas.

TI’s advantage could be shortlived. Compaq is expected to introduce two notebooks based on 33-MHz 486DX chips next month, and Zfiiith Data Systems is close behind with a 486-based notebook, analysts said. Both companies refused to comment.

Analysts said Tandy’s notebooks were impressive as well but that their 60M-byte hard drive maximum, in this configuration, might be a drawback for the market.

The Tandy 4800 HD uses a 20-MHz 486SX and will sell for $2,999, the same price as Tandy’s recently announced 386SL-based 3330 notebook. The $3,499 Tandy 4860 HD books were impressive as well but that their 60M-byte hard drives and 4M bytes of random-access memory, expandable to 20M bytes.

Some analysts said 486 notebooks may well become the standard for corporations purchasing new notebooks by 1993.

—Michael Fitzgerald.

Analysts predict that most notebook PC makers will offer wireless options by the third quarter of next year. Yet despite the promise, sending data over cellular networks still poses some daunting challenges in terms of product development, cost, reliability and standards.

Of the three main wireless technologies — infrared and radio frequency (RF) arc the other tow – cellular is the most similar to the land-line connections many notebook computer users use today, analysts noted.

“Right now, cellular has some advantages over the other types of wireless communications,” said David Mack, business development director at WorkGroup Technologies Inc, a market research firm. For example,

Cellular networks cover nearly the entire country in uniform frequencies, analysts said. RF networks, on the other hand, are not as well-established. However, despite its advantages over other wireless technologies, linking a notebook and a cellular phone today often means a tangle of equipment: a notebook, a phone, batteries and a separate interface unit to provide the necessary “handshake” connection, since cellular phones have no dial tone. To address the problem, IBM has announced a 10MHz 186-bascd 9075 PCradio, a 5-pound notebook with an integrated cellular modem and cellular phone capabilities.

Other haven’t gone as far. NEC Technologies Inc’s Cellular workstation bundles its UltraLitc notbook with a P200 cellular phone. AT&T Computer systems is developing a package that will include its Safari notebook, a cellular phone and a single “smart” cable to link them, said AT&T officials

In February, Microcom and Mitsubishi. International Corp plan to ship the Cellular Data Link, which combines a Mitsubishi cellular telephone with a Microcom cellular MNP Class 10 modem, according to official of both firms.

Toshiba America information Systems Inc, meanwhile, is shipping a US$359 T24D/X modem capable of both land 1 inc and cell ular connections, and officials at the company.

Sending data over cellular networks is aslo expensive. Even if users can afford the cost, there is no guarantee of a stable connection, because existing celluar networks use analog, rather than digital technology. Pauses in cclu-lar connections can garble data or cause the modem to tcrminiatc the transmission.

Transferring small, separate volumes of data is not as effective, however, because call setup takes upto 1 minute, said Ira Brosky, president of Datacomm Research Co.

“Cellular is optimized to carry voice, but it’s not yet there for data” said WorkGroup’s Mack.

- Neal Boudettc and Steven Loudermilk