>>> July 29, 2009
**** Surveys: 10 Most Coveted Technologies ****
Solution providers will join two to three vendor partner programs this year, mostly to gain access to new technologies and products, according to the Channel Insider/Motorola Partnership Study.
Here are the 10 technologies most desired by solution providers.
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* * * TOP STORIES * * *
COMPACTPCI BOARD SUPPORTS NEW PLUSIO STANDARD
MEN Micro announced an SBC it says is the first to follow the forthcoming PICMG 2.30 PlusIO standard. The F19P uses an Intel Core 2 Duo SP9300 processor, offers up to 8GB of DDR2 RAM, features multiple PCI Express links, and has five SATA ports with RAID support, the company says.
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MOTION CONTROLLER RUNS WINDOWS XP EMBEDDED
Advantech has announced a embedded motion controller targeting machine automation and testing applications. The PEC-3240 runs Windows XP Embedded on a 1.0GHz Intel Celeron processor, has a four-axis motion control port, and includes 16 digital I/Os, according to the company.
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POSREADY GETS CHINESE CUSTOMER WIN, NEW ONLINE FORUM
eFuture Information Technology, a major provider of software and services to retailers in China, says it has entered into a "strategic relationship" with Microsoft, aimed at providing a standardized POS-ERP (point of sale/enterprise resource planning) system for its customers. The system will be based on Microsoft's Windows Embedded POSReady 2009 operating system, eFuture says.
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T-MOBILE USA GETS HTC FLAGSHIP
T-Mobile has announced a flagship Windows phone featuring a WVGA (800 x 480) screen, a touch-sensitive "zoom bar," and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard. The HTC Touch Pro2 has a 528MHz processor, dual cameras, GPS, WiFi, and a built-in speakerphone, according to the company.
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TECH FIRMS PARTNER ON 32/28NM SOC DESIGNS
Synopsys has joined a partnership that includes ARM, as well as "Common Platform" members IBM, Chartered, and Samsung, to reduce the cost of SoCs fabricated using 32- or 28-nanometer technology. The group is showing off early results from test chips at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) show this week in San Francisco, according to eWEEK.
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ONLINE MARKETPLACE KICKS OFF WITH DEVELOPER CONTEST
Microsoft announced that it is now accepting application submissions for its online store, Windows Marketplace for Mobile. The company also said that at the end of the year, it will give away four Microsoft Surface tables to developers as part of a "Race to Market" challenge.
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ISLAMIC E-READER BASED ON WINDOWS CE
Enmac Engineering Limited has announced what it says is the first Islamic e-reader and PMP (personal media player). The "E-Alim EL1000" runs Windows CE 5.0, has a seven-inch touchscreen display, includes stereo speakers, and has a microSD expansion slot, according to the company.
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$8 ARM CHIP TOUTED FOR DDR2 SUPPORT
Atmel announced a new member of its Windows CE-compatible, ARM9-based SAM9G family of industrial-focused embedded processors. Touted for supporting DDR2 memory and 100Mbps+ data rates, the "AT91SAM9G45" clocks to 400MHz, supports LCD touchscreens and 3.3V power, and offers a 480Mbps USB interface, says the company.
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CORTEX-A8 CORE RUNS FASTER, SIPS POWER
Samsung and Intrinsity say they have created "the industry's fastest mobile processor core implementation" of the ARM Cortex-A8 architecture. SoCs based on the implementation -- code-named Hummingbird -- will use a 45-nanometer (nm) production process, run at 1GHz, and feature extremely low power leakage in sleep mode, the companies say.
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HP PLANS MESSAGING-ORIENTED WINDOWS PHONE
HP is preparing to launch a messaging-oriented Windows Mobile phone with a QWERTY keyboard, GPS, WiFi, and a 2.4-inch OLED (organic light emitting diode display). The iPAQ K3, code-named "Obsidian," will be offered in the U.S. by AT&T, according to several reports.
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GAMING BOARD HAS VIA CPUS, ONBOARD FPGA
Win Enterprises announced a new motherboard intended to run Windows XP Embedded or CE inside a gaming console or slot machine. The MB-64000 supports dual displays, has an onboard stereo amplifier, includes cryptographic memory, and includes an FPGA (field programmable gate array), the company says.
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MICROSOFT PINS HOPES ON WINDOWS 7
Announcing results for the fourth quarter of its 2009 financial year, Microsoft reported a 17 percent decline in year-over-year revenue, with every business division lagging. Total revenue for the quarter, $13.1 billion, was $1 billion below what analysts had forecast.
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ION NETBOOK HAS HDMI OUTPUT
The Dutch company Point of View has announced a 10.2-inch netbook that uses Nvidia's Ion companion chip. The "Mobii Ion" comes with Intel's Atom 230 processor, an HDMI output, a 160GB hard disk drive, 802.11b/g wireless, and a choice of three- or six-cell batteries, the company says.
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* * * OTHER NOTEWORTHY ITEMS FROM THE PAST WEEK * * *
* Little panel PC runs Windows CE or XP Embedded
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* PICMG board sports six SATA II ports
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* Rugged portable computer runs Windows CE or Mobile
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* Smart cameras run Windows CE on Atom
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* VPX board steps up to Penryn processors
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* Rugged panel PC runs Windows CE
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