Archive for January, 2010

Li-ion battery electric vehicles practical concern in the economy

Sunday, January 31st, 2010

As the hybrid and electric vehicles are becoming increasingly close to the production of lithium-safety concerns ion laptop battery  have started to move from economic practice. At the recent meeting in making cars at a round table, several speakers said that once such an advanced battery to achieve mass production, cost reduction can be significant.
Members of the Security advanced batteries has not expressed concern over the battery in the past, electronic consumer products, there had been overheating and fire.

Johnson Controls-Saft Advanced Battery Systems for Hybrid Battery System of Public Affairs and External Relations director Michael Andrew, said that the company’s goal is to lithium-ion battery packs cost reduction of 50%.

He said, JCI-Saft batteries Inspiron 1501 battery,Inspiron 1520 battery into consideration not only cost but also consider a battery mode of production. He said that battery manufacturers can learn how other industries can be more effective production of lithium-experience ion battery.

Andrew said: “We now have an opportunity to review the production of these batteries.” “We believe we can learn from other industries used in process technology, to rapidly reduce costs.”

Par with gasoline

He said the objective of JCI is to produce for the use of batteries or hybrid electric vehicles, allowing consumers to spend and spend three years of the same gasoline engine.
Nissan North America manufacturing engineering and manufacturing engineering of the vehicle, said Mark Swenson, vice president of Nissan in 2012 to reduce the cost of sheet map of electric car involves the manufacture of batteries in the factory manufacture of vehicles will be assembled into battery packs.

A123 Systems Inc. Vice President, Business Development Ric Fulop said he believes the industry matures, the cost of the battery can be reduced by 9% per year. To perform a battery of higher power can save some costs, while also optimizing production processes and use high quality materials to reduce other costs.

More power

Dow Chemical Co. ’s Global Business Development Director of the Department of Ravi Ramanathan said that the cost of energy the battery can also make a stronger battery and more efficient, and quality control during production to be cut.

Automakers do not speak about the battery and hybrid electric vehicles used in packaging costs. However, according to some, to be Chevrolet Volt lithium-ion batteries used in the cost is estimated at about 8,000 U.S. dollars.

Ramanathan said, “the high cost of the battery, it must come down.” He said that the initial cost may be high, as automakers and car batteries for most designed to ensure that consumers do not seem on the technical loss of goodwill of mechanical failure.

Dell is making another round of jobs cuts at several locations this week

Friday, January 29th, 2010

A Dell Inc. spokesman confirmed reports that the computer maker is making another round of jobs cuts at several locations this week, including its local operations.

However, Round Rock-based Dell (Nasdaq: DELL) isn’t disclosing specifics such as the number of layoffs or the exact facilities affected by the job cuts.

“We’ve made a number of tough decisions, including some workforce reductions,” spokesman David Frink said. “We took additional action this week at various Dell Inspiron 1501 battery locations worldwide, including in Central Texas.”

Dell, the No. 3 computer maker in the world, employs 16,000 workers in the Austin area.

The job cuts as part of an ongoing strategy to reduce operating costs. In November, Dell Chief Financial Officer Brian Gladden said the company had reduced costs by $1.6 billion since 2008, but additional cuts were planned.

During 2009, Dell completed or announced 5,100 jobs cuts. It eliminated 1,900 positions in Ireland, then 900 in North Carolina, 1,600 in Poland and 700 in Malaysia.

In Poland, Dell Inspiron 1520 battery is tranfering the ownership of its Polish manufacturing plant to Taiwan-based Foxconn Technology Group. Dell will become a customer of Foxconn, which will produce its computers, servers and storage systems.

Last month, the company revealed plans to lay off 700 workers at its Malaysian lap-top manufacturing plant.

During Dell’s third quarter that ended Oct. 30, the company posted $337 million in profit on $12.8 billion in revenue versus $727 million in profit on $15.1 billion in revenue during the same period the previous year.

Do you know Apple Can Fix the iPad

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

It’s got so many teething problems. Even the product name, in one day, has become the butt of jokes on the interweb.

I’ve had the opportunity to sit down and talk to several analysts and industry professionals about their thoughts on the iPad. Views seem to be split, but everyone appears to think the same: the iPad could have been so much more PA3191U-3BRS.

Some people say that perspective needs to be had: the iPad isn’t supposed to be a full computing device, it’s supposed to be an iPod Touch on stereoids. Um… no. Even Steve Jobs himself compared it to a laptop, and said that it’s supposed to be better than a laptop at doing several key things, and is supposed to be better than an iPod Touch at doing everything.

So why then does the iPad fail miserably at doing some very fundamental things that even a cheap laptop, like a netbook, can do? I mentioned a few of those points in my previous iPad post, so let’s get straight to what Apple can do to make the iPad what it should have been–and could be:

1. Enable multitasking

The iPad needs to have multitasking. It’s practically begging for it. It’s understandable that on a screen/device size like the iPhone and iPod Touch that they can only run one application at a time, but even competing devices like Android phones can multitask. A device like an iPad, with a screen size of 10-inches, should not be doing less than an Android phone. Period. Apple needs to enable this. There’s no sense in not being able to have an IM application running while browsing webpages or reading an ebook PA3191U-4BRS.

The iPad has enough horsepower to support multitasking, so I’m sure that the limitation is merely in software. iPhone OS 4.0 is supposed to bring multitasking, and so this should be fixed by the time the iPad is actually available for purchase.

2. Open the OS / Make an iPad specific OS

Again, Steve Jobs compared the iPad to a smartphone and a laptop in his presentation. But developers are tied into the App store. If Apple wants to keep its app-ecosystem closed for the iPod Touch and iPhone to maintain “quality,” then fine. But let’s not gimp the iPad, eh? With Android devices on the rise, making an iPad specific OS that’s open to developers will be seen as a competitive advantage. If it’s going to be truly better than a netbook, then it’s got to support development like a netbook. Users want to be able to install their own stuff, it’s that simple.

Make the iPad support open software development, while still supporting the large number of App Store applications. What happens if you want to run Firefox or Chrome on your iPad? You can’t.

But I fully understand why the iPad isn’t going to support custom apps. Apple wants you to use their App store. It wants the App store to be the largest software distribution system in the world. It wants to take a cut of the money when you sell your iPad specific software too. It’s a very succesful business model and I doubt this will change.

3. Enable the full web experience

Where’s Flash support? Again, this is largely a software issue, and hopefully will be addressed down the line. Not everyone who uses a mobile computing device only cares about Flash for YouTube, and so many websites actually have Flash elements today. Perhaps HTML5 will change all that but that’s yet to be seen. The funny thing? During Jobs’s keynote where he demos viewing The New York Times website on the iPad, the areas with Flash showed an error box.

Jobs said that the iPad is the best web experience. It clearly is not. It doesn’t even have tabbed browsing.

4. Enable HDMI output or DisplayPort

We have 2 full months before the iPad is supposed to be available for purchase. Apple needs to have some form of high resolution digital video output. Boasting how amazing the device is for video playback, it’s criminal not to allow users to output video to their big screen TVs. Somehow we doubt this will get added before the iPad goes on sale PA3284U-1BRS.

5. Expandable memory

Why the iPad doesn’t have an expansion slot for flash memory boggles my mind. It should at least have an SD card slot. The iPad supports high resolution video playback, is supposedly your ultimate tool for viewing photos with people. Yet, I can’t stick in an SD card and see my photos.

Update: Users have commented that it should also have a built-in webcam. Apple just announced that it’s allowing VOIP over 3G, and that makes Skype and other VOIP apps a must have for the iPad. Apple should have launched the iPad with a built-in webcam as well.