TECHNOLOGY, Intel Ships a New Generation of Atom Chips

Intel on Monday started shipping new low-power Atom chips built on the platform code-named Cedar Trail, with numerous improvements to boost graphics and application performance over their predecessor.
The two new Atom chips are targeted at entry-level desktops and all-in-one PCs for Internet surfing and basic multimedia and productivity applications, an Intel spokeswoman said. The new dual-core Atom chips run at clock speeds of up to 2.13GHz and are able play Blu-ray movies.
The Cedar Trail chips succeed the previous generation of Atom processors built on the platform code-named Pine Trail, which was criticized for poor video performance. Netbooks with the new Atom chips will ship in the fourth quarter, the spokeswoman said. Netbooks based on Cedar Trail chips were on display at this month's Intel Developer Forum.
Netbook shipments have been hurt by growth in tablets, but Intel is keeping the Atom chip for low-cost PCs alive in an effort to offer low-cost computing options. Intel is also promoting ultrabooks as a new class of thin and light laptops with tablet-like features. While the netbooks and desktops are for basic computing, the feature-rich ultrabooks are based on Intel's much faster Core processors and currently cost around $1,000, with prices expected to drop.
The Atom D2700 processor runs at a clock speed of 2.13GHz, is priced at $52 and can run two threads per core. The D2500 processor operates at 1.86GHz, is priced at $42 and can run one thread per core. The chips have 1MB of cache, and support the HDMI (high-definition multimedia interface) and DisplayPort interfaces. The chips will support up to 4GB of memory.
The new chips are made using the 32-nanometer process, while the predecessors were made using the 45-nm process.

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TECHNOLOGY, Nokia ships the N9, his first and last MeeGo phone

Shipping the N9, his first and last Smartphone is based on the operating system has started MeeGo Nokia, the company said on Tuesday.
MeeGo is one of the operating systems, Nokia decided to leave in February when it announced plans to use Microsoft's Windows phone as the primary operating system for smartphones. The other operating system, the Nokia nixed was Symbian.
Move four months after the announcement of Windows phone, Nokia announced the N9. It has no physical buttons and relies instead on the 3.9 inch AMOLED touch screen for navigation.
The N9 interface has three home view-applications, events and live applications. Users download applications from a Nokia store, can that be called Ovi store, the company said.
Can the phone with HSDPA (high-speed download packet access) to 14.4 1 m of bps (bits per second) or Wi-Fi Internet access. Other features include A-GPS, an 8-megapixel camera that can shoot video in 720 p and an HTML5 compatible browser, Nokia.
The N9 weighs 135 grams and is 12.1 mm thick.
The estimated retail price is €480 (US$ 650) for the version with 16 GB memory and €560 for the model that can be stored to 64 GB. The prices are before taxes or subsidies.
Even though Nokia Windows phone decided on MeeGo for their future phones, the company users leave will not decide N9, buy, the company said. It the Nokia N9 2015 at least, will support including software updates, support and service support, said a spokesman for email.
On a Nokia website, consumers in some 20 countries-including China, Russia and Portugal, but not France, Germany, United Kingdom or the USA-can be notified when the telephone is available.
Sweden, operator three hopes the first units to 6 get Oct., a spokesman said.
Nokia is expected 26 on October to its first Windows phone Nokia World Conference, beginning to start shipping before the end of the year.

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TECHNOLOGY, Mozy Ships Hard Drives to Cloud Backup Customers

In an attempt to spur adoption of its MozyProcloud backup service, Mozy today shipped external hard drives to many of its small- to medium-sized business customers to speed initial system backups.
The new service, called Mozy Data Shuttle , is not dissimilar to what many enterprises do when creating offsite backups: the initial full backup is made to local hard drives, and then those drives are shipped to a disaster recovery site where the data is ingested by a storage array or tape library.
Mozy's Data Shuttle consists of a bright green 2TB Iomega hard drive with both USB 2.0 and eSATA connectivity.
After a customer orders the service, Mozy ships the customer a hard drive. As soon as the hard drive is connected to a system, it prompts the MozyPro customer to perform an encrypted full backup of the system. The customer can then use a pre-printed shipping label to ship the drive back to Mozy where the data is downloaded onto its servers.
As soon as the Data Shuttle drive is unplugged from a customer's system, incremental backups of the system data are automatically sent to Mozy's data center . When the backup drive's data is downloaded, it is automatically joined with the incremental backups to create a full data copy.
"In the last 12 months, more and more people are opening up to backing up data to the cloud. At the same time, the amount of data in organizations has grown. Those two things converging is what prompted us to bring out this service," said Gytis Barzdukas, director of product management at Mozy.
Barzdukas said about two-thirds of Mozy's business comes from SMB customers. When a growing number of those customers reported having at least 100GB of data to store, it became a barrier to backing up online because it was taking weeks in some cases to complete.
"While their data was growing, their network bandwidth wasn't necessarily staying on par," he said.
Mozy is targeting organizations with 100GB to 8TB of data or five to 30 desktop users.
Jamie McKenzie, Mozy's Data Shuttle product manager, said the service can handle up to four 2TB drives for ingestion at a time.
Each drive has two layers of encryption. The first encryption key can be chosen by the customer either through a default key or by creating a unique personal key. Then the Data Shuttle drive generates a second encryption key used for additional security while the drive is in transit. The one-time key is used to unlock the encrypted data so that Mozy can then store a customer's encrypted data at rest.
Mozy never has both keys, so it is unable to see a customer's data.
The retail price for the first Data Shuttle drive is $275, and $100 for each additional drive, according to Barzdukas.
Lucas Mearian covers storage, disaster recovery and business continuity, financial services infrastructure and health care IT for Computerworld. Follow Lucas on Twitter at @lucasmearian or subscribe to Lucas's RSS feed .

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