Sony Expo 2008: Experience Beyond Compare

After the successful first-ever Sony Expo 2008 in Cebu, signifying the start of the Christmas Treasures campaign, Sony has invited consumers from all over the metro to the grand Sony Expo 2008 in Manila at the SMX Convention Center.

With the holiday season upon us, Sony has presented its customers with an array of Christmas gift ideas for their loved ones. The Sony Expo 2008 showcased as highlights the eight products with world breakthrough technologies launched just this year, all exclusively by Sony:

(1) BRAVIA Z450: the World’s First Motionflow 240Hz LCD TV
(2) VAIO T series:  the World’s First Noise Canceling Notebook Computer
(3) BRAVIA X450: the World’s First RGB LED Backlight LCD TV
(4) Cyber-shot T77: the World’s Slimmest Camera with Optical Image Stabilizer
(5) TG1: World’s Smallest, Lightest and Slimmest Full HD Camcorder
(6) Walkman S-Series:  the World’s First Noise Canceling Portable Music Player
(7) MDR-NC500D: the World’s First Noise Canceling Headphones and
(8) α900 DLSR Camera: the World’s First 24.6 MP Full Frame DSLR.

All the products on display are already available in the market and everyone can avail of the best deals and offers via the Christmas Treasures 2008. Promo period of which will run until January 18, 2009.

Medfield is the next Intel Atom Chip

Intel’s netbook roadmap reveals a 32nm Atom successor aka ‘Medfield’ to be released in 2010.

The roadmap indicated that Medfield will integrate the processor and chipset containing the memory and multimedia controllers on to a single chip.

Also, Medfield will incorporate an Intel-designed graphics chip, tailored specifically to the device being manufactured, whether that’s a handheld device, or beefier netbook.

With Medfield, the next generation of netbooks will evolve from basic web page consumption to multimedia consumption including high-definition video.

HP launches Virtual Client Essentials

Hewlett Packard has announced the launch of their rebranded desktop virtualization suite as the HP Virtual Client Essentials.  HP also added Linux support for its broker software Session Allocation Manager.

HP said that the improvements in this suite would allow the users to experience improved video playback in addition to support for USB peripherals such as webcams.  The new offering also comes with an enhanced version of Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol.

AMD announces 45nm desktop CPUs

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced the second batch of processors coming out of its 45nm process technology. The Phenom II is a quad-core family of desktop processors with up to 8 Mbytes of on-board cache.

The AMD Phenom II chips will run at data rates up to 3 GHz. They come both in 65nm versions in an AM2+ socket for DDR2 and 45nm versions using an AM3 socket for DDR2 DDR3 memories running at up to 1333 MHz. AMD said the new chip provide up to 20 percent improvements in performance over the original Phenom CPUs which ran at up to 2.6 GHz.

Facebook videos now embeddable

Facebook is now allowing users to share their videos on third party sites.   Another feature improvement is that the videos quality has been improved to up to 720p.  This enhances the quality of videos if the source is of higher quality.

Another thing about embedding videos is that they retain the privacy settings.  Users can limit on who can see the embedded videos on third party sites.