The release of Android was not only makes the fans of Google applications products happy. Manufacturers of mobile phones were affected by the euphoria of this Android products.

In the United States, Android has spawned success stories achieved by Motorola. When Motorola brand was not well known as a producer of quality products smart phones, Motorola launched a product called Droid, as collaboration results of Google with Verizon.

Droid release as an answer for people expectation on quality Android product. Beautiful design, solid material, and booming Android images are makes CDMA based Droid discussed everywhere.

The result, according to Time magazine, Droid into the lines of “The Top 10 of Everything of 2009″, number one in the category of gadgets. Apple iPhone 3GS is on the fourth rank.

From this Droid success story, GSM version called Milestone released. Droid in the United States are sold by bundling packages Verizone with price 200 U.S. dollars.

With that price, Milestone Android compete Ericsson with a product called Xperia X10. X10 Xperia is Sony Ericsson’s first Android based product.

Xperia X10 became the first Android based phone that adopts 8.1 megapixel camera, the largest in its class and with 4-inch wide-screen full touchscreen. The brain of X10 is 1 Ghz Snapdragon Quallcomm processor that claims to be the fastest processor.

Xperia X10 face to face with competition against the Milestone. However, it is uncertain whether Xperia X10 is designed to follow the success story of the company’s Android Motorola. Clearly, Sony Ericsson was look confident because, they will release a similar product with different prices, the Xperia X10 and X10 Mini Mini pro, after the X10.

Milestone is believed to interest the fans who have waited a long time and heard Droid success stories.

Milestone still have some advantages, such as the thinnest slider QWERTY phone in the world, which relieved the display screen with a total of 3.7-inch 400,000 pixel resolution, multitouch, pinch and zoom feature, double-tap zoom, full speed web access with support for Flash 10 features, the 5 megapixel camera with dual-LED flash features, autofocus and image stabilization, plus the ability to record quality video DVD.

Embedded processor is a TI OMAP3430 256MB of RAM, a 550MHz CPU. With this processor, there should be no more complaints about slow applications. It also support connection with Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, microUSB port standard and GPS receiver equipped with A-GPS.

There is one competitor Milestone, the Nexus One, which is directly produced by Google. Because Google own its  production, of course, there are interesting features from Google itself.

Although not interested using Android, Linux still have a special place in Nokia. The world’s largest mobile phone vendor that based in Finland was specifically developed Linux as a platform next to his future Symbian.

“Linux has a different positioning with Symbian. Linux will be used for computing products and Symbian for smartphones. We’ll see progress of another platform, the S series in the future,” said Chris Carr, Vice President Sales Southeast Asia Pacific (SEAP) Motorola, in one series of Nokia 2010 Showcase event in Bangkok, Thailand, Tuesday (23/2/2010) evening. One of the computing-based products, the Nokia N900, which is the first handset with Linux Maemo 5, will bring the same experience of using a desktop or notebook computers with mobile devices.

Previously, Nokia strengthens his seriousness against Linux by strengthening cooperation with Intel. Both agreed to combine the development of Linux-based platform, Intel’s Moblin, and the Nokia Maemo to be one product named Meego.

Carr said, multiplatform is strategy for Nokia to enter all the segment with diverse product choice according to user needs. All three platforms now become the basis of Nokia and will eliminate each other in the future. Nokia also ensures Linux and Symbian as an open source platform and will hold the whole application developers in the world to participate in providing solutions for mobile-phone product.

However, he admitted, with so many platforms become challenge for Nokia to face the complexity for users and developers. To overcome this problem, Nokia trying to provide a tool for cross-platform application development so can be done more quickly. Carr says, Nokia has been providing solutions in the application layer and development tools that can generate cross-platform applications, among others, called Qt and Web Runtime.

“With the application layer, developers simply create an application with Qt, and it can be derived to all platforms,” explained Carr. Solutions like these that are now being spread around the world.

Motorola Inc. will split its business into two parts in the first quarter of 2011. One part will focus on the mobile phone business and television devices. The second part will emphasize the development of business networks.

Motorola says this corporate action aims to improve its position in the market different. “We believe that each business will get best position on each and managed to set a strategy to pursue opportunities and grow,” said Greg Brown, Co-CEO of Motorola.

Motorola mobile devices business had drowned in the fierce competition that mobile phone industry recently intensively offers new smartphone product. After the launch of Razr, Motorola did not have a flagship product that could rival smartphone products. In fact, the sliding Droid late last year, almost not heard anymore.

The same condition also found in the business of television devices hit by the global crisis. Meanwhile, the wireless network equipment business has become part of the Carrier business.

“It’s hard to work with a company when you did not know where they will be one year from now. So, this step eliminates the uncertainty,” said Mark McKechnie, an analyst with Broadpoint Gleacher. With the smaller divisions, Motorola operations can be more efficient.

Motorola got revenue from mobile phone business for U.S. $ 7 billion during the year 2009. While from wireless network equipment business, the company’s revenue reached 2 billion U.S. dollars.

After the last few years favoring dual core processors and four cores on the market for desktop and servers, Intel is currently preparing a six-core processors. In a statement on Wednesday (2/3/2010), Intel plans to release this year.

However, these processors will not be released for mainstream computers. For a while, the processor will be designed for desktop and server class. Chips that are used Westmere based architecture that provides better performance than previous generations and better power saving.

“The processor contains 1.17 billion transistors and has 12 MB cache,” said Intel spokesman as reported by PC World, Thursday (4/2/2010). The process of production using 32-nanometer technology as now used in Core processor I3, I5, and i7. Although essentially they have the same architecture, the six-core processor will not be equipped with integrated graphics chipset, so the user must still have a separate VGA card in the computer.

Intel six-core processor targeted for the desktop with Gulftown code name for the gamer market. This processor will be sold as one category with Core i7 and technically can be used with the same motherboard.

For servers, this processor will replace the six-core processors were released earlier in 2008 with the code name Dunnington. The name will be the same brand name, ie Xeon, although the performance is much better. Especially for the server, Westmere encryption technology is also equipped with the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is a new, both to support data security and server virtualization.

Google’s Web browser, Chrome, has been updated its version. Google says, there are more than 1,500 new features in version 4.0 is.

The new 1500 features mentioned Google was actually the extension files created by the developers to add functionality to Chrome. When in Firefox, this kind of extension number so many and never considered as something that stands out in the new version of the browser.

Although useful, extension really was not too special. Among the most useful is probably the bookmarks synchronization. This feature allows you to share bookmarks between multiple computers without the need to recreate all your bookmarks, or copied it from one system to another.

Google also mentioned, the performance of this 4.0 Chrome browser far faster. By using Mozilla’s DOM Core Dromaeo tests, the browser shows the increase in speed compared to 42 percent the previous stable release, and increased 400 percent compared to the first version.

One thing to remember, Chrome only works on Windows environment. So, if you use Apple or Linux, so please wait for about a year longer.

A number of Windows users complained that the computer displays a blue screen (blue screen of death) after they install the latest Microsoft security update. Most of these problems experienced by XP users, but a few also use Windows 7.

The user has to post repair (fix) at the site according to their work. But this makes people a little angry.

This problem occurs in one update that fix weaknesses in the kernel of Windows 32-bit. To fix this, you must provide the installation CD, which usually do not have the majority of users, especially users netbook.

Microsoft makes matters worse by telling some users that they would not provide improvements for netbooks, and that the user netbook users should seek support services from the device manufacturer.

A Microsoft spokesman said the company was investigating reports to determine the cause of your problem. Microsoft asked the affected merka blue screen to visit the consumer Web site security support at https: / / consumersecurity / support.microsoft.com.

Preliminary analysis, said Microsoft, suggests that the problem of blue screen occurred after update MS10-015 update (KB977165) installed. But Microsoft refused to confirm whether the problem is only for MS10-015 or a problem with the other components interoperasi or third-party software.

“Our team is working to solve this problem as quickly as possible. We also stop the offers this update through Windows Update as soon as we find problems restarting. But those who use the deployment of enterprise systems such as SMS or WSUS will still see and able to deploy these packages, “Microsoft said.

Less than a week after launching Nexus One, Google released a software development kit (SDK) Android 2.1. Nexus One is Google’s first mobile phone and the first devices using the Android operating system 2.1.

As written in the Android Developers Blog, Google’s development team is intentionally released SDK Android as early as possible prior to 2.1 used a lot of devices on the market. Thus, application developers can be tampered with to create a variety of applications that support.

Although Google calls Android 2.1 release only minor and not too different from 2.0, many additional features offered. Voice recognition, among others, live wallpaper, a new launcher, more home screen, and changes in WebKit. Its loading speed is also much faster than 2.0.

If it’s new Nexus One, other devices made by different vendors have warned using the latest version of the platform is based on open source. Motorola Droid is now using 2.0 also can use it immediately.

In addition to Android SDK 2.1, Google also announced the availability manager that supports USB Nexus One. This facility can be used later to facilitate communication with other devices and accessories such as docking station or PC.

Toward the grand exhibition CES (Consumer Electronic Show) in Las Vegas, USA next,January 7, Lenovo looks very busy. These Producers directly exhibited a series of new ThinkPad machines.

This time is IdeaPad turn. New IdeaCentre model is the A300, which was mentioned as a all-in-one the thinnest PC. With the ‘thickness’ 18.5 mm, 21.5” screen machine “is equipped with LDE 1080p panel, an Intel Core 2 Duo, Wi-Fi features and a keyboard / mouse Bluetooth.

In addition there are IdeaPad S10-3t. This is the first capacitive multitouch tablet netbook in the world. According to Lenovo, this machine can easily recognize the input from the fingertips of users. As a power, S10-3t use Intel Atom N470 processor. A 320GB hard drive was installed.

In the refreshing line there are Y460 (14 “) and Y560 (15.6″). Both offer a multimedia performance at an affordable price. While Lenovo C310 20 “is expected as the first multitouch all-in-one Lenovo desktop.

Gamers community will find IdeaCentre K320 that armed with Intel Core i7. While G460/G560 laptop targeted at “mainstream “ users that only needs the basics.

Price and availability of these new machines has not yet been released by Lenovo.

After a year of confirming mobile browser version of firefox will come, Mozilla completing the development of the Firefox mobile browser (code name Fennec). However, temporary, this software only available for Linux platform Maemo used Nokia N900.

Release Candidate version, which is the last stage before the final version is ready for download for free starting from January 1, 2010. Previously, the beta version of this software has been released since the beginning of 2009 and an alpha version for Windows Mobile.

Some of the features on the upgraded version of the RC include rendering text. Beside that, there are new features like synchronization between Firefox and  PC with Mozilla Weave and add-ons to customize the browser display.  Fennec also provides tab browsing, bookmarks, quick zooming, pop-up blocker, download manager, and browser standard features on your Computer.

Although not yet available for other mobile platforms, Fennec can still be tried without using Nokia N900. Preview for PC version can be downloaded using Windows, Linux, and Mac.

Intel has just announced the presence of new generation processors for netbook. These processors are promised to be able to extend the battery life, and improve system performance.

A new processor called the Atom N450 is 60% smaller than existing today. Power consumption was 20% less. According to the release of Intel, while working the chip only consuming power around 5.5 watts. But the new chip clock speed is the same as that used in N280 netbook, which is 1.66 GHz.

Smaller chip size makes the potential for inclusion into the netbook and tablet PCs that are thinner than they are today. The price of this chip itself has not revealed, but reportedly new PCs will be sold later for a netbook.

In the package was already integrated CPU memory controllers and graphics for multimedia processing more quickly and freeing bandwidth to the processor can communicate with other components. Integrated graphics processor in the N450 is capable of handling high-definition graphics 720p.

Netbooks that powered by Atom N450 will be combined with operating system Windows 7, Windows XP or Linux.

At the same time, Intel also launched two Atom processors that aimed for small-sized desktop PC (small form factor) at affordable prices. Both chips are single-core Atom D410 and D510 dual-core who work at 1.66 GHz clock speed and includes a respective cache 512KB and 1MB. D410 consume 10 watts of power, while the D510 consume power for 13 watts.