New HTC Touch Cruise With Revolutionary HTC Footprints Delivering Advanced Location-Based Experience

The leading company in mobile phone innovation and design, HTC Corporation (High Tech Computer Corporation) has announced an updated version of its popular HTC Touch Cruise smartphone - (same name) new HTC Touch Cruise, which boasts a new, more compact and sophisticated design, featuring a bundle of new capabilities, and revolutionary HTC Footprints geo-tagging application that allows users to permanently chronicle their special precious moments by capturing a digital postcard on their smartphone.

According to HTC, “Once captured, Footprints provides the ability to take notes and an audio clip of that favourite restaurant or special place while identifying its specific geographical location. In addition to identifying each postcard with its specific GPS co-ordinates, Footprints also auto-names each postcard with its general location or area.”

Key Specifications Of New HTC Touch Cruise:
528 MHz Qualcomm MSM7225 chipset
512 MB flash ROM, 256 MB RAM
2.8-inch TFT-LCD touch-sensitive screen with QVGA resolution
3.2 megapixel camera with geotagging and fixed focus
HTC TouchFLO, 4-Way navigation wheel with Enter and HTC Footprints buttons
GPS/A-GPS
Included car cradle transforms your smartphone into a simple to use turn-by-turn navigator
Bluetooth 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for stereo wireless headsets
Wi-Fi 802.11b/g
WCDMA/HSPA: 900/2100MHz. HSDPA 7.2 Mbps connectivity
Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS
microSD memory expansion slot
HTC ExtUSB interface
Talk time (GSM): up to 400 minutes ; Standby time (GSM): up to 2 weeks

“Just as we have seen GPS technology transform how people navigate to new places, we are now seeing location-based applications like HTC Footprints changing how we interact and carry our memories,” said Peter Chou, President and CEO, HTC Corporation.

The new HTC Touch Cruise personal navigation handset which measures 102 x 53.5 x 14.5mm and weights just 103 grams is expected to be available in spring 2009.

Watch product tour of the new updated HTC Touch Cruise below!

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Send Free Email Newsletters Via YMLP

Email newsletter is one of the efficient methods in web marketing. By sending out email newsletters to your subscribers, visitors, customers, etc, you will conserve contacts and get in touch with these people. On top of that, you can always refresh the recipients’ mind and remind them about your services, your website, your blog, your products, etc. You can also do promotion, product launching, etc via email newsletter. To send out email newsletter to the recipients in your contact list is not a really complicated or difficult task. However, if you use a regular email account to send these email newsletters, it will probably not achieve the results desired. Sending out an email to hundreds or thousands of people might cause your email be treated as spam mail. To overcome this problem, one way is to subscribe to service from email newsletter providers and they will do the job for you. Of course there will be costs or fees incurred.

Well, if you have just started a company and additional cost is a main concern for you, there are some free email newsletter providers you probably can try out if you believe in email newsletter as a web marketing tool. One of the free service providers you can check out is Your Mailing List Provider or YMLP in short. This free email newsletter provider offers users quite a competitive package to send out email newsletter for free. For this free package, users need to sign up with YMLP but without downloading or installing any application. Registered users can enjoy the following benefits included in the package for free:
Offers up to 1,000 subscribers
Able to send one newsletter per calendar day
Able to send up to 1,000 emails per month
Can send plain text or graphical (HTML) newsletters
Support mail merge function
Can schedule newsletter for a later date and time
Can send attachments
Offers embed images option
Create contact lists and import contact list
Features built-in HTML WYSIWYG editor
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Move, Transfer, Migrate and Switch from @msn.com or @hotmail.com to @live.com for Fresh Start

Microsoft has officially launched Windows Live ID which has the email address ending in @live.com in Windows Live Hotmail. For those who wants something ‘fresh’, Microsoft recommends that you get a fresh start by getting a brand new Windows Live ID, although users can still keep and use the old account with hotmail.com or msn.com email address or a Microsoft Passport, which already a Windows Live ID to use all Widows Live services. If you decide to migrate and switch from @msn.com or @hotmail.com to @live.com as your primary email address, Microsoft has prepared various tools and tips to make the moving process easier.............

Go to TrueSwitch at http://www.trueswitch.com/winlive

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Intel® Virtualization Technology

This significant statement by Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, kicked off his keynote speech at the March, 2005 IDF (Intel Developer Forum) .

Intel has vowed to bring it's higher end platform features such as greater management capabilities through it's "embedded IT architecture" and virtualization (formerly known as Vanderpool for desktop and Silvervale for server, into it's full line of processors, from their top of the line XEON and Itanium processors, down to their budget desktop chips. On November 14th, Intel continued to work towards that goal with the introduction of virtualization technology into their desktop PC processor line.

Virtualization Technology... What is it?

Virtualization Technology, in it's simplest form allows a computer to be partitioned so that it can run several types of software, applications, or even entire operating systems simultaneously in their own virtual space or "container". While Virtualization has been popular at the software level in the server market for several years now, (VMware first introduced their x86 virtualization product in February of 1999), the reality of bringing it to the hardware level and the desktop of everyday home users is an entirely new proposition. Microsoft has already incorporated the ability to use this technology into it's Enterprise edition of it's next Windows O/S, Vista, which will hopefully be saving us all many headaches down the road.

By using this model, each set of applications are protected from the next. In the event of a crash or other conflict the remaining processes continue running, oblivious to the catastrophe that could have been if the applications been running intertwined in the same space.

Virtualization will allow users to accomplish tasks such as browsing the web in a completely safe environment. By using a totally isolated browser window in which to net-surf, the act of closing the window would eliminate any trace of spyware, ad-ware, or malicious scripting which was picked up during the session. Virtual sessions could also allow IT departments to run PC backup, recovery, and update security software in the background while a user continues to perform his daily tasks uninterrupted.

Intel actually has different plans for users of VT based on the platform that you will be using. For server users, Intel Virtualization Technology makes system software called virtual machine monitor more robust and resilient. For desktop and laptop users, Intel Virtualization Technology enables a new deployment model, called appliances, to be run in isolated virtual machines.

Intel Virtualization Technology is part of a larger collection of premier Intel designed and manufactured silicon technologies that deliver improved computing benefits to home and business users, and IT Managers. These technologies called T's (or *T) are already being implemented into your daily computing experience. The idea behind these technologies is that the computing experience can be enhanced significantly by introducing technology to help organize and protect your computing environment. Intel's efforts to focus their development in this direction, instead of simply trying to chase Moore's Law, are much wiser and will work out much better in the long run than simply trying to increase the speed of their processor platform.

Other T's Technologies include:

* Hyper-Threading Technology
* Vanderpool Technologies (Intel's codename for VT)
* Intel® Extended Memory 64 Technology
* Intel® Active Management Technology
* LaGrande Technology (Intel codename)

Intel Virtualization Technology Enabled Processors

Even though the Pentium 4 processor 662 @ 3.6GHz. and the Pentium 4 processor 672 @ 3.8GHz.have been introduced, and are readily available, it will require more time for them to filter down through the distribution channel. System builders can expect to be shipping systems containing the new technology early in 2006. Intel is looking at a timeframe of around 2007 or 2008 before the technology is considered "mainstream". This time frame gives Microsoft, and any other developer, plenty of time to tweak their software to take full advantage of the technology and benefits of virtualization technology if they so desire

One of the speculations as to why Intel chose to release this new technology for the desktop in it's single core processors first was that some of their larger corporate and government clients are standardized on the single core processors and they wanted to give them the opportunity to work with Virtualization Technology without having to change their system configurations. Dual-core Pentium D processors based on the Presler core should be rolling out in Q1, 2005 and will probably be the main processors that early-adopters will be using while bringing VT to the desktop.

Intel has also already introduced VT into their XEON "Paxville" chips and plans to update Itanium server chips and their Pentium M notebooks within the 2006 calendar year. About the only Intel chips that don't look to be getting the VT benefit (at least at this time), are the XScale chip family members. Originally slated to coincide with the launch of Microsoft's "Vista" O/S, the entire process of bringing VT to the desktop has been accelerated from within Intel due to a wealth of positive feedback in it's initial testing phases

Components of Virtualization Technology

In order to use the Intel Virtualization Technology enabled processors, you will require a few key components.

A VT Enabled Processor
Choose one of the many upcoming and already released models from Intel
A VT Enabled Chipset
Desktop chipsets such as the 945 and 955
A BIOS which supports VT
Recent BIOS updates have a VT Enable/Disable option
VT Enabled Software
VMware, Xen, Microsoft Vista, Virtual Server, Virtual PC

A computer system with an enabled Intel® processor, a VT enabled motherboard BIOS, a virtual machine monitor (VMM) and for some uses, certain platform software enabled for it. Functionality, performance, or other benefits will vary depending on hardware and software configurations. Intel Virtualization Technology-enabled BIOS and VMM applications are currently in development.

Benefits of Virtualization Technology

In addition to the basic security enhancements provided by using Virtualization Technology, there are benefits, both in the desktop and server platforms, that will assure the success of this feature.

Desktop Advantages:

* Legacy Software Support (consolidation)
* Training / QA (consolidation)
* Activity Partitioning (isolation)
* Manageability (isolation, migration, embedding)

Server Advantages:

* Server Consolidation (consolidation)
* Failover Infrastructure (migration)
* Flexible Datacenter (migration)
* Manageability (isolation, migration, embedding)

Who's Invested in Virtualization Technology?

Microsoft, VMware, and XenSource are three companies closely watching the development of the mainstream VT market. Along with many others, these companies have long been working to bring secure computing to the mass market through their powerful Virtual Machine software. Prior to the introduction of the new VT chips from Intel and the upcoming "Pacifica" chips from AMD, the software had to perform the majority of the instruction set virtualization that is now handled at a hardware level.

Microsoft saw the benefits of virtualization technology and recognized that it would become a very important factor in the future of computing. This caused them to acquire Connectix Corporation who had originally written Virtual PC and Virtual Server for both the x86 platform and the Macintosh platform. Along with continuing new revisions of this software, the incorporation of the technology into their Vista Operating System shows the confidence that Microsoft has in it's future.

Final Thought on Virtualization Technology

To say that Virtualization Technology is going to be a big change in the way our computers work in our daily lives is probably a pretty big understatement. This technology has the ability to reduce or eliminate downtime due to malicious code, protect our valuable data, allow better usage of available computing resources, and reduce the amount of computers needed in any given location to do any number of specific tasks. Servers can be consolidated down from several machines running several operating systems, down to 1 machine running them all. Home PC's can be reduced down so you don't need a desktop machine, and a gaming machine, and a "Media Center" machine, since all tasks can be handled simultaneously within their own isolated environments.

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FREE Parallels Workstation for Windows and Linux Activation Key

Parallels Workstation is an easy-to-use, easy-on-the-pocket solution that lets you run Windows, Linux and more side-by-side on a single PC without rebooting.
Truly revolutionary, Parallels Workstation empowers users of any skill level — including computer professionals, sales executives and home users — to easily run multiple operating systems on a single computer. Completely networked. Stable. Secure.

Do more with your PC!

Parallels Workstation now installs on new Linux kernel (2.6.23).
Support up to 5 network adapters in VM simultaneously.
Parallels Workstation now supports Ubuntu 7.10 and Fedora 8 as primary OS and guest OSes.
Users upgrading to Windows Vista can run legacy software not fully compatible with the new OS in previous versions of Windows on the same PC.
Computer professionals can run multiple applications, optimized for different operating systems, all at the same time and reduce dependency on specific hardware and OS configurations.
Software engineers can test and support software, OSes and configurations in different use scenarios and set up a menagerie of testing environments on their preferred platforms.

Here the way you can activate it.

Go to http://www.parallels.com/getkey/lunarp/
Enter your name, email, company, phone number and Submit.
You can download the latest Parallels Workstation EXE format for Windows, and DEB, TGZ and RPM for Linux.
Check your email and copy the key.
Install Parallels Workstation and during installation, you’ll be asked to provide valid information to receive a free trial activation key. Click Skip registration button.
Enter the Parallels Workstation activation key. Username should be already there but if not, just enter anything.

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