May 16 news, according to foreign media reports, a top executive from Lenovo said that the company is cooperating with chip makers Intel to develop the ThinkPad Tablet PC which will be equipped with Microsoft Windows 8 operating system.

ThinkPad business unit general manager and vice president of Dilip Bhatia said in an interview, the release date of the built-in Intel chips ThinkPad Tablet PC depend on when Microsoft to release Windows 8. Windows 8 is expected to launch later this year.
X86-based chips can give business users a lot of convenience, just as Intel processors. Business users are the target consumer groups of Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet PC. “In the x86 architecture, you can compatible with previous versions.” Bhatia said. Windows 8 Tablet PC will be equipped with Intel chips, support for Windows systems, existing and previous application. Windows is the dominant operating system on the PC computer market.

Intel plans to launch later this year a tablet computer chip, code-named Clover Trail, which will be released in the launch of Windows 8. The only potential competitor to Intel on Windows 8 ARM. The ARM processor has been built into most of today’s Tablet PC. This support the touch features of Windows 8 will appear in three versions: based on the ARM chip Windows by RT based on x86 chips, Windows 8 and Windows 8 Pro,.

Windows is developed based on x86 chips, which people cannot help but question the ARM processor is compatible with existing Windows applications. Intel CEO Paul said last week that the traditional x86 applications can not be based on the ARM chip on Windows work. Meanwhile, Microsoft also said that the traditional x86 applications cannot be applied to Windows by RT. Bhatia did not disclose the association will launch Windows by RT equipment, but he said that in the development of products, all of the selection will take into account. Lenovo has launched the ARM processor-based tablet PCs, including ThinkPad Tablet PC can run the Google Android operating system.

In addition, Lenovo is still building a cloud service, the company’s PC and mobile devices through private or public cloud access or exchange data. Similar to Apple’s mobile device strategy, Lenovo hopes to content, infrastructure, access devices and middleware together as part of its cloud strategy. The cloud service will be launched later this year.

Bhatia, vice president of Lenovo said the ThinkPad notebook and tablet computers will become part of the company’s cloud strategy. Bhatia said: “Microsoft cloud services have a set of plans.”

Ma 16 news, Sony just announced the latest improvement of VAIO S and VAIO Z series. Two versions of the VAIO S are 13 and 15 inches and all pre-installed the third-generation Intel quad-core processor i7-3612QM which clocked at 2.1GHz, and equipped with 8GB of memory, the GeForce GT 640M LE discrete graphics and Intel HD 4000 graphics card, the maximum 1TB hard drive (optional SSD) storage. The new product also supports Bluetooth 4.0 connection, contains two USB3.0 and USB2.0 interface, the IPS display can support 1080p display, the screen resolution is 1600×900 and can optional to choose DVD or Blue-ray.

The VAIO Z model is used ultra-thin design, it also built-in Ivy Bridge processor, 256GB the SSD AMD Radeon HD 7670M graphics card. As part of the carbon fiber material, its weight is reduced to 1.36 kg. At present, the price information on these two new products is unclear yet.

May 15 news, the flexible thin film solar battery and module manufacturer SoloPower has announced that the company will display its next-generation energy and distributed generation in the 13th annual Verona in Italy SolarExpo .

“SoloPower’s mission is looking for the main source of energy for the world’s commercial and industrial rooftop solar power generation. We look forward to sharing one of the leading countries in the Italy SolarExpo solar, one of the top of the solar industry events is our latest products and technologies this will help us there, “said Rob Campbell, senior vice president, SoloPower’s customer-centric solutions which is powerful, lightweight, flexible, and can be easily installed in the traditional module. we can easily cover the roof area and help to maximize energy efficiency, while providing an attractive total installed capacity of 90% of the cost of our customers. ”

Following the recent news, former presidential candidate Gen Wesley light Clark joined SoloPower’s board of directors of independent directors and that the company’s future generation panel reached 113.4% aperture area efficiency in SolarExpo to flexible copper, indium, gallium and selenium (CIGS-type “), the record of the basic module. SoloPower’s the most advanced countries, which will begin later this year in Portland, Oregon commercial production of large quantities of production facilities, construction and employ in SoloPower’s operations are in Portland eventually expected to have a 400MW capacity, and bring 450 jobs to the local community.

May 15 news, Samsung has cooperated with operators AT&T to launch a smartphone – Samsung Focus 2, this phone has used Windows Phone 7.5 operating system, but this is not Samsung’s first WP smartphone,now,Samsung electronics released anoter new WP smartphone: Samsung Omnia M.

The digital model of Samsung Omnia M is GT-S7530, this phone uses the same touch screen candy bar design, compared to the Samsung Focus 2,this phone’s body lines is more tough. On the configuration, it uses a 4-inch WVGA (480 x 800 pixels) level Super AMOLED touch screen, built-in 1GHz single-core processor and 384MB of RAM and running Windows Phone 7.5 operating system.

In addition, Samsung Omnia M is equipped with 30-megapixel front camera and the five million pixel camera (with LED fill light) and a 1500mAh battery, and the body thickness is 10.5 mm. The phone will be the first to visit Europe, and subsequently in other countries and regions.

May 14 news, NEC launched its Ivy Bridge platform new laptop products, as a Japanese century enterprise – Panasonic also introduced the new Let’s Note B11 Series notebook, as a follow-up models of the B10 series, the new Let’s Note B11 also used Intel’s latest generation of Ivy Bridge core processor.

The new Let’s Note B11 Series notebook will be listed first Japanese on May 18, it will use 15.6-inch 1920×1080 resolution Full HD screen, and Core i7-3615QM processor and offers an optional 750GB regular hard drive or 256GB SSD solid state hard drive. If choose ordinary hard drive, then with optional 8GB memory, if select the SSD hard drive, the maximum optional is 16GB memory.

Depending on its different configuration, the price is different which from 170,000 yen to 250,000 yen.