September 26, 2008
Panasonic’s new Toughbook: stronger, faster…smaller?
Wired
Brian X. Chen takes a look at Panasonic’s new Toughbook F8 product built for “rugged” use.
“Weighing only 3.7 pounds, the F8’s the lightest in Panasonic’s Toughbook line. The 14.1-inch F8 contains a 3G chip, too. The F8 features a 2.26 GHz Core 2 Duo processor and 1GB RAM (expandable to 4GB). It’s got a 160GB hard drive and a battery that lasts up to six hours. Shipping in November for $2,500.”
Rejected from college because of your Facebook profile?
Techdirt
Mike Masnick writes about the power of Facebook and how it can effect your next potential employer, school, and the like.
“We’ve all seen the stories about potential dates or employers scanning your social network profiles to decide what they think of you, but what about your potential university? Slashdot points us to a study suggesting that 10 per cent of universities now examine social network profiles as part of their efforts to evaluate applicants. And, in some of those cases, the profiles hurt candidates to the point of having admissions directors change their minds.’”
Oracle enters hardware market; launches storage server to ride shotgun with database
ZD Net
Larry Dignan highlight’s Oracle’s latest hardware rollout with HP.
“Oracle CEO Larry Ellison on Wednesday unveiled its first ever hardware product–a storage server with embedded software designed to work with the company’s databases and be used in a grid. The Exadata programmable storage server aims to put database intelligence next to each drive. Oracle and HP also launched a ‘database machine.’ The hardware rollout, which was cooked up in a partnership with HP, is aimed the emerging problem of moving data from hard drives to database servers.”
