Lenovo Launched Its First MultiTouch Netbook Tablet

At CES 2010, Lenovo has launched its first convertible netbook tablet.

The newest addition to Lenovo's netbook line is the Ideapad S10-3. In Ideapad S10-3, the most noticeable thing is, it's improved, isolated one, and significant improvement in key pitch from 89% to 98% than traditional keyboard, which will makes typing experience better.

Ideapad S10-3 comes with 10-inch widescreen and 1024-by-600 resolution, thou remain untouched. Powered with Intel newest Atom N450 processor, even the N470 is available. Primary memory can be extend up to 2GB, and both 4 cell and 8-cell battery options will be available. Lenovo’s Ideapad S10-3 will price about $500.

Next comes, The Ideapad S10-3t which is one of the major attractions, since it is Lenovo's first convertible netbook tablet, which will integrate a multitouch capacitive screen.

Even S10-3t comes with 10-inch widescreen, which can swing 180 degree and be laid flat against keyboard. When it comes to keyboard it differs from S10-3, and it's a traditional keyboard instead of an isolated one. It includes Intel Atom N450 and N470, a hard disk of 320GB, and similar battery option as S10-3. The Ideapad S10-3t is available for $500.

Since both lies in same price range the only big difference to me is swinging screen.

Microsoft Unveiled Office 2010 Price

On Tuesday, Microsoft revealed pricing plan for its upcoming MS Office 2010 desktop productivity suite. Thou, it is not low in price, but Microsoft is offering a big discounts to consumers willing to download the software from site.

Office 2010 is schedule to ship out later this year. As pervious versions, suite consist popular app like MS Word, Office, and PowerPoint.

Office 2010 will be available in four different editions.

First comes, The standard Office Home and Student Version it is available at $149, or consumers who are will to download and activate it from site itself have to pay much less, that is $119.

For small businesses and for home Office workers can have suite for $279 or for a key card it is $299. For enterprise environment, Office 2010 Professional is best since there are number of tools which can make work more easy and sophisticated.

A good news for college students and professors, because Office Professional Academic will be available at $99 and will be available at campus bookstores and other selected retailers.

All four editions of Office 2010 will let in to Office Web, a pared down Internet-based version of the software. As per Microsoft plans, company is willing to make Office Web for free to the public through its Windows Live portal.

Last month company confirmed that Office 2010 will be available in stores, in the middle of this year, but no specific date was provided.

Social Networking Sites Are Possible Targets: McAfee

In a report, McAfee Inc said that social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter are easy targets for cybercriminals in the year 2010.

Recently, as seen their is flood like situation in apps world on Facebook and in other services too, like Orkut, Hi5 and many more like them are a perfect medium for cybercriminals, who can take advantage of person trusting person to click links they might other wise treat carefully. Since web users generally trust on friends who sends links to them by their contacts.

In an press release, Senior Vice President of McAfee, Jeff Green, said that “We’re now facing emerging threats from the explosive growth of social networking sites, the exploitation of popular applications and more advanced techniques used by cybercriminals, but we’re confident that 2010 will be a successful year for the cyber security community.”

When it comes to figures, till date Facebook have 350 million registered users which are easy targets. McAfee also said that URL shorteners, which are widely used over Twitter due to 140 character limitation, are easy takes for cybercriminals.

Another security company, Symantec, reported that, In 2010, URL shortener services will "become the phisher's best friend."

Other soft target for cybercriminals is Adobe applications such as Acrobat reader and flash, this applications are widely used all over world, expected by McAfee lab.

McAfee also predicated that, In 2010 will be good year for law enforcement's fight against cybercrime.

Google To Sell It's Own Mobile Phone In 2010?

According to infomation, Google hopes to take their first step in world of mobile telehony, it is like to see its own high-end phone in 2010, according to press report.

In a blog post, Mario Queiroz, Vice President, Product Management at Google wrote "We recently came up with the concept of a mobile lab, which is a device that combines innovative hardware from a partner with software that runs on Android to experiment with new mobile features and capabilities, and we shared this device with Google employees across the globe. This means they get to test out a new technology and help improve it,".

In an another report by the Wall Street Journal Indicating that the company is expecting to realese a new phone called the "Nexus One" which will run on Google's Android operating system and will be manufacturing by a Taiwanese phone maker HTC.

Inconclusive as to outcome, Apple's iPhone, Blackberry, and current makers of Android phones as well, will come in way of Google as competitors.

In an blog post Google itself relived that it was letting some of its workers to test a new mobile devies, but there were no futher details on it.
So just wait and watch what is going to come out from Googles end.