The market is literally flooded with different types of portable navigation systems. However, a majority of them look alike and offer the same kind of functions such as voice and text guided directions, important milestones, etc. They differ only on one front- the price tag. Some innovation is urgently required, not only to grab the attention of the customers, but also to keep up with the ever advancing GPS technology. TomTom GO 720 is one portable navigation system that dares to be different from its counterparts.

The Design of TomTom GO 720

Apple’s Logic Studio is the most futuristic suite of specialized tools that provides musicians everything they need to create, present and record their superlative piece of music.

“From GarageBand, a miniature digital audio workstation, to Logic Studio, Apple has certainly come a long way. Logic Studio has the power to transform an ordinary Macintosh computer into the best musical instrument of the world,” says Rob Schoeben, Vice President of Applications Product Marketing at Apple. Logic Studio derives its strength from Logic Pro 8, MainStage, SoundTrack Pro 2, and a vast array of Studio Instruments and Studio Effects.

Last week, Google AdWords released a new easy-to-use ad format called Google Gadget Ads, which is an interactive, rich media ad format that provides advertisers the capability to create and update their ads in a flexible and timely manner.

Susan Wojcicki, Vice President of Product Management at Google, states, “We at Google are always on a lookout for ways and means to make Google AdWords as straightforward as possible and Google Gadget Ads is our latest attempt in this direction. Gadget ads provide advertisers a dynamically creative way to interact with their customers.”

In a bid to streamline their business processes, companies spend a major portion of their profits on business management applications. However, instead of alleviating the business problems, most of the time, these applications tend to aggravate them due to their complicated nature. Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server 2007 is a revolutionary business application that has been specifically designed to assuage all the business problems of entrepreneurs. Basically, it is a performance management application that enables entrepreneurs to improve the financial and operational performance of their organization.

Way back in 2005, Microsoft and Samsung introduced a new kind of hard disk drive that could record data even while idling. The new hard drive, called Hybrid Hard Drive (HHD), contained 1GB flash memory chip, which functioned as a data cache.

Typically, the disks in the traditional hard drives rotate at a very high speed so as to allow the head to read/write data quickly. In the case of HHD, the disks rarely spin because all the incoming data was stored on the chip.

In February 2008, ImageStation, the official online photo-finishing and photo-sharing service of Sony Electronics Incorporation, will disappear forever. Sony will initiate the winding up process on November 12, 2007 and on February 1, 2008 the website will be closed permanently. After Connect Music Store that was closed down, in August this year, in US and Europe, ImageStation is the second online service that Sony has decided to shut down. “We want to concentrate on our key products, services and businesses, and that’s why we have decided to pull the curtains down on ImageStation,” said the spokesperson of Sony.

With the launch of ThinkCentre A61e desktop PC, Lenovo has become a leading manufacturer of eco-friendly computers. ThinkCentre A61e desktop is the first Lenovo product to get the prestigious EPEAT Gold Status.

The Green Electronic Council imparts the EPEAT ranks after weighing up an electronic product on a wide array of environmental attributes such as recyclability, energy efficiency, etc.

The two outstanding features that helped ThinkCentre A16e to get this highest designation are; first, use of almost 90 percent of recyclable material and second, presence of solar panel as an alternate means of power