Toshiba plans to participate in some of ESN’s leading projects

Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502) today announced its participation in the Energy Systems Network (ESN), a non-profit organization that is taking the lead in advancing diverse Smart Community initiatives in the U.S.A.. Mr. Norio Sasaki, Toshiba’s President and CEO will spearhead the company’s involvement in ESN, and was elected to the NPO’s board of directors.

Based in Indianapolis, Indiana, ESN is an industry-driven organization focused on realizing the potential of next generation clean energy technologies and the Smart Community concept through Indiana-based projects. ESN already has over 30 members in the U.S., Europe and Japan – leading enterprises, universities and other organizations with expertise ranging across power generation, electric vehicles (EV), renewable energy sources and energy control and supervisory technologies.

The flagship verification and commercial projects promoted by ESN have a strong emphasis on business and will fully exploit industry-leading technologies in drive systems for EV, renewable energy sources, bio fuels, rechargeable batteries and smart meters. Participation in ESN will allow Toshiba to hone its expertise in the Smart Community and to expand its presence in related businesses in North America. Toshiba will also promote collaboration with other project participants, toward realizing innovative business models that advance Smart Community development and promotion.

Toshiba plans to participate in some of ESN’s leading projects:

A project to evaluate real-world infrastructure for EV, including diagnosis of the residential life of rechargeable batteries, and to point the way to the future of urban commuting.
A project to develop and establish an industry standard interface for rechargeable batteries for smart grids.
A project to evaluate turning malls into Ecomalls, environmentally friendly commercial hubs.

Toshiba sees smart grids and the overarching Smart Community concept as an essential approach to clean technologies that offer much more efficient power generation and delivery, more efficient power management and consumption, and as the way forward to environmentally friendly communities offering greater amenity. The Company is already participating in Smart Grid verification projects in the U.S., including one in New Mexico sponsored by Japan’s NEDO (New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Corporation). By joining ESN, Toshiba will further enhance its level of commitment and cultivate the Smart Community market in North America.

Toshiba positions the Smart Community Business as a priority growth area where it aims to achieve sales of 900 billion yen in FY2015.

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You can say all kinds of nice things about Google’s Chromebook laptop concept. You can say it’s ahead of its time. Or that it’s thinking way, way outside the box. Or that, as failures go, at least this one swung for the fences.

Last year, Google made limited quantities of the CR-48, a gorgeous, sleek, prototype black laptop that it sent to journalists and bloggers, seeking feedback. Its hope was that, eventually, real laptop companies would manufacture Chromebooks. Tomorrow, the first one goes on sale: the Samsung Series 5 ($500 with cellular, $430 Wi-Fi only).

So what is the Chromebook concept? Assumption 1: These days, you can get online almost anywhere. Assumption 2: Google’s free online software can do almost everything regular software can do — e-mail (Gmail), Web browsing (Chrome), chat (Google Talk), photos (Picasa), word processing, spreadsheets, slide shows (Google Docs).

Conclusion: A laptop doesn’t need a hard drive. Doesn’t need programs on it. Doesn’t need Windows or Mac OS X. Doesn’t need a desktop, files or folders. Everything you need is online, so all the laptop needs is a Web browser.

It’s a sexy idea. No hard drive? That means no moving parts and long battery life (8.5 hours on a charge). That also means lighter weight (3.3 pounds). The Samsung has only a 16-gigabyte SSD drive (basically a big memory chip, like on the iPad or iPhone).

No Windows? That means no viruses or spyware. No serial numbers or copy protection. No payments to Microsoft for upgrades every couple of years. No two-minute start-up process; a Chromebook starts up in under 10 seconds.

No files stored on the laptop? That means you don’t care if your Chromebook is lost or stolen. (Well, not as much.) You don’t have to worry about backups. You can log into any other Chromebook, and find your whole software world waiting for you.

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The Samsung itself is beautiful, with a sparse, uncluttered MacBookish feel. The rounded edges of the black plastic body (and the white or silver top panel) make it a joy to hold — and to behold.

The typing feel is fantastic. The simplicity and purity of this laptop is refreshing and unthreatening; it’s like an iPad with a keyboard (and no touch screen).

Samsung/Google may, in fact, have gone a little too far in the pursuit of spartan elegance. Instead of a row of function keys at the top, you get dedicated keys for brightness, speaker volume and Web browsing (Back, Forward, Refresh, Full Screen, Next Window). There’s no Forward Delete key, Fn key, menu key, Print Screen key or Windows key (duh).

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Apple’s $60 billion in cash will be put to use to build out cloud offerings

Lucky for us, they are missing out on the fomenting of the new new thing: the cloud bubble.
Even if you paid extra special attention in social studies, you probably can’t name a single gold company that prospered in the mid-19th century and is around today. But you’d hard pressed to find someone who hasn’t heard of Levi Strauss & Co., who made the miners’ work apparel of choice. To belabor the point, you want to be positioned agnostically as possible for the cloud buildout; Cisco Systems Inc. and Riverbed are the two best names in the pick-and-shovel trade.
Recently, the world has become obsessed with what I’ll refer to collectively as “hard assets.” The dollar is tanking as Prof. Ben Bernanke brings academia to monetary policy. University endowments are hoarding gold on the advice of their alumni. Central banks, master market-timers that they are, are accumulating (or refusing to sell) bullion at these record levels. Farmland has seen more bubbles this century than almost any other asset in America, but yet again prices in the heartland are seeing double-digit gains — per quarter. After a brief interruption in 2008, investors of all stripes have come barreling back in to anything that they think is getting scarcer.
For instance, lithium consumption in batteries was up dramatically from 2002 to 2010, and is projected to climb fourfold over the next 10 years, according to the TRU Group’s estimates. Impressive, right? Commercial lithium-ion batteries didn’t even exist a few years back.
Bubbles happen because investors love to extrapolate charts like this ad infinitum. Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA
the company with the highest lithium output, had a market capitalization of $35 million in 1993. Today SQM is worth $8.47 billion, rough 227 times what you could have bought the whole company for in the Clinton years.
In investing the price you pay matters, and all commodities have been in a secular boom for some time now. The real money was made before the world knew what a lithium battery was. The time to get long commodities was before Jim Rogers created an index for retail investors, not when he is advising MBA students to become farmers.
Apple already has eliminated optical drives on its MacBook Air model. Chief Executive Steve Jobs has been building out Apple’s data centers and cloud pipelines (buying music-streaming service Lala.com) in preparation for a full-scale cloud rollout.
Apple-branded cloud services, where you can watch any TV episode or listen to any song you’ve downloaded on any mobile Apple device, is the company’s next step in keeping the iPod/iPhone/iPad train rolling. The advantage that Apple has enjoyed with iTunes is beginning to erode, as music services like Pandora and Spotify have been changing consumption habits, with users migrating from single downloads to all-inclusive streaming services.
You better believe that Apple’s $60 billion in cash will be put to use to build out its cloud offerings, in the name of widening its competitive moat. The cloud will allow Apple to couple the ability to consume media anywhere with the Apple hardware cum user experience.
Not that Amazon and Google Inc. are going to let Apple have a free pass. Amazon recently introduced a free, 5-gigabyte “music locker,” where users can upload audio files and listen to them on any computer.
When Google rolled out Gmail as an invite-only service and offered a paltry 1GB of email storage, it inspired a frenzy. Now that Gmail storage is up to 7GB, when Google launches its own music-storage service (it’s trying for later this year), can it really start out with less than 10GB? All this data floating around in the cloud, which will multiply every few years, require the switches and cables and hardware made by Cisco and Riverbed.
The next few years will be an arms race, with companies trying to position themselves as cloud-competent. Research firm Gartner expects worldwide cloud-services revenue will grow from $46 billion in 2008 and $56 billion in 2009 to more than $150 billion in 2013.
It is recommended that you fully charge(generally recommend an overnight charge) and discharge the new Apple a1281 laptop battery two to four times to allow it to reach its maximum rated capacity. It is normal for a battery to become warm to the touch during charging and discharging.
When charging the Apple a1281 battery Pack for the first time, the device may indicate that charging is complete after just 10 or 15 minutes. This is a normal with rechargeable batteries. New Apple a1281 is hard for the device to charge; they have never been fully charged and not "broken in".Sometimes the device's charger will stop charging a new battery before it is fully charged. If this happens, remove the battery from the device and then reinsert it. The charge cycle should begin again. This may happen several times during the first battery charge. Don't worry, it's perfectly normal.


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Lithium Batteries Future Will be Controled by ALPA

Lithium batteries being shipped by air have long been a concern for the National Transportation Safety Board and federal transportation authorities, and ALPA has supported fully regulating them -- including increased marking, labeling, and packaging requirements; conducting employee training; and notifying the pilot-in-command that these shipments are aboard the aircraft -- since 2004.

"While paint and dry ice shipments aboard aircraft are currently regulated as dangerous goods, shipments of lithium batteries are not, despite the aircraft incidents and fires linked to the unsafe shipment of these batteries and their ability to self-ignite when improperly packaged or mishandled," Moak said in his statement to the U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee's Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.

The statement says presario cq40 battery can spontaneously catch fire, emitting sparks, flames, and large amounts of smoke. If packaged or handled inappropriately, the batteries can self-ignite and, once ignited, the fire can quickly spread from battery to battery and be extremely difficult to extinguish.

"While the International Civil Aviation Organization requirements serve as a regulatory foundation, they don't go far enough in ensuring the safe transport of lithium batteries as cargo," it says. "The gaps that result seriously threaten the safety of airline passengers, crews, cargo, and even individuals on the ground who could be harmed in an incident." ALPA supports U.S. regulations that go beyond the ICAO requirements by:

• Mandating notification of the pilot-in-command that lithium batteries(Hp pavilion dv4 batteries) are being transported. Knowing that hazardous materials are aboard the aircraft can affect pilots' decisions, including which airport to choose in an emergency diversion and what information to provide so that first responders are prepared with equipment necessary to fight a fire on board.
• Limiting the total quantity of lithium batteries permitted to be shipped aboard a single aircraft. While the number of batteries per shipping package is limited, there is no limit to the number of packages that may be shipped aboard a single aircraft.
• Restricting lithium battery shipments to specific cargo compartments. Lithium ion batteries are proven to respond favorably to the Halon system in a Class C cargo compartment. The batteries need to be fully regulated to ensure they are loaded only in cargo compartments that are equipped with the most effective fire suppression systems.
• Banning shipment of lithium-metal batteries on all aircraft. While the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration banned shipments of lithium-metal batteries(Hp pavilion dv9000 battery) on passenger aircraft in 2004, they are still allowed on cargo aircraft.
• Requiring dangerous-goods labels. A dangerous-goods label requirement would increase awareness on the part of the ground personnel who load and unload aircraft and potentially reduce the likelihood that damaged shipments would be loaded on aircraft.
• Mandating training for lithium battery shippers and handlers. Safety would be enhanced by raising awareness among shippers and providing training on the safe handling of lithium batteries. With regulatory training requirements, lithium battery shippers, handlers, and facilities would be subject to oversight and inspection to ensure that training and packaging provisions are met.

Did you know that detaching your main laptop battery from your laptop would increase your laptop's battery life up to 75%? Our experience and testing have shown that even when you are plugged in with your laptop ac adapter and your battery is fully charged, the laptop will still use the laptop battery resources in small increments. This will put unnecessary charge cycles to your battery. Since typical li-ion laptop batteries have 375 charge cycles, having a fully charged Hp presario cq60 battery,Hp mini 1000 battery inserted will put unnecessary charge cycles. The downside to removing your laptop battery maybe a loss of power when the ac adapter is accidentally unplugged or when there is a power outage.

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