Video: Intel's four-screen laptop prototype hands-on

Well, here's something you don't see every day: Intel's got a concept laptop here at IDF that features three OLED touchscreens below the 15-inch screen. In keeping with the hype of the moment, the primary idea is to run widgets and other passive apps on the little screens, but they're actually integrated with the main screen, so you can flick content up to view it full-size, and even use the mouse to interact with the widgets instead of your fingers. It's definitely cool, but it's also definitely a little odd in practice -- although Intel says they're talking to OEMs, things will have to be significantly refined before this can hit production. More pics in the gallery, video after the break.

Intel unveils Light Peak 10Gbps optical interconnect for mobile devices

USB 3.0 might be one of the big stories here at IDF, but Intel just showed off a glimpse of the future: Light Peak, an optical interconnect for mobile devices that can run as fast as 10Gbps. That's fast enough to do everything from storage to displays to networking, and it can maintain those speeds over 100-meter runs, which is pretty astounding. Intel says the idea is to drastically reduce the number of connectors on mobile devices, which should allow them to get even smaller -- but the demo was on a huge Frankenrig, so don't expect to see Light Peak devices shipping any time soon.Update: We just snapped a quick pic of the connector -- it's a connector, that's for sure. Check it after the break.

Entelligence: The Muddled MID market

Entelligence is a column by technology strategist and author Michael Gartenberg, a man whose desire for a delicious cup of coffee and a quality New York bagel is dwarfed only by his passion for tech. In these articles, he'll explore where our industry is and where it's going -- on both micro and macro levels -- with the unique wit and insight only he can provide.

There's a growing category of devices that fall in the space below laptops and above smartphones. It's not a new space, there have been various incarnations over the years, most recently Microsoft's Ultra Mobile PC devices, originally known as Origami. These days, Intel's the one talking about this space, pushing what it calls MIDs, or Mobile Internet Devices. Well that's all well and good -- but what's a MID? Frankly, MID is an Intel marketing term coined around 2008. In a 2008 Engadget post Intel's Dan Monahan described MIDs as having the following attributes:
Consumer-class lifestyle devices
Runs a 'lightweight" OS with quick startup like Linux
Optimized for things like media playback and web surfing
In 2009 (or so) Moorestown-based devices will be classed as MIDs only And Intel is aggressive about MIDs -- the company was showing off so many of UMID's devices at IDF last week you would have thought they were among Intel's most strategic and largest customers. But it's clear that the definition has changed over time, as the MIDs at IDF didn't match the specs Mr. Monahan talked about in 2008. These devices all ran Windows and were really scaled down models of netbooks. And although they were impressively tiny, let's be honest -- I'm really skeptical about the future of this class of device, Intel's aspirations aside.
For one thing, this class of devices -- often called 'tweeners -- have never done well historically. For years folks have attempted to bridge the laptop and the phone with something in the middle and it just hasn't worked. I'm not seeing anything in any of these MIDs that might change that.Second, there's a limit to the number of device consumers will carry. For most consumers, it's two, and the max three. A MID therefore must dispalce something else in a user's hierarchy of functionality. If MIDs are just one more thing a user has to carry, they're not going to carry it. New generations of MIDs running Windows might look like they're designed to replace your laptop, but unless they can actually replace it, they're going to fail.Let's not forget price is also huge issue. Dynamism sells the UMID mbook M1 for $599. That's for an Atom processor, 512MB of RAM, and 16GB of storage for a machine that doesn't run Windows at high levels of performance or usability. Other versions are going to sell for close to $900. Seriously, who's going to buy one of these things, except a gadget enthusiast? And not very many of them.
Consumers don't want a device that is too big for the pocket, provides less functionality than a netbook, and is priced like a laptop.In the US, we don't pay a premium for small things with fewer features because the device is smaller. As a culture, we pay a premium for bigger stuff. (Japan is generally the opposite, to be fair -- that's partly how Sony can bring an 11" OLED TV to market with a price tag of $2,500). One of my long-standing laws of consumer electronics is that there's a worldwide market for 50,000 of anything when it comes to gadgets. In the case of MIDs, however, it doesn't even appear that there's a for even that many. DigiTimes recently reported sales of just 30,000 MIDs worldwide compared to the 150,000 - 200,000 units Intel had estimated. Intel claims that the weak sales were due to the global economic downturn but I agree with Thomas Ricker's opinion: consumers don't want a device that is too big for the pocket, provides less functionality than a netbook, and is priced like a laptop. Adding telephony to the mix, as Intel announced with Moblin 2.1. won't change that at all.Of course, a lot depends on how you define a MID. I think there's actually millions of MIDs out there, but it depends on whether you count devices that essentially are MIDs in terms of functionality (pocketable, connected, designed for web, email, media and other apps) as opposed to being branded as MID or running an Atom processor. What am I referring to? It should be obvious. The most popular MID on the market isn't called a MID.It's called an iPod Touch.

Revolutionary digital cameras to see in gigapixels

A Duke University scientist will soon be developing futuristic digital cameras that could capture images in giga or even terapixels.
Working with the U.S. Department of Defense's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, David Brady is designing and building a camera that could achieve resolutions 1,000 or even 1 million times greater than the technology on the market today.
And Brady has said that his goal to reach giga or terapixels is currently being held back by the difficulty of designing a spherical lens that will not distort small areas of a scene.
He not only wants to modify the shape of the camera lens, making it aspherical, but to link together thousands of microcameras behind the main lens too.
Each of these cameras would have its own lens optimised for a small portion of the field of view.
"Now, when you use a camera, you're looking through a narrow soda straw. These new cameras will be able to capture the full view of human vision," said Brady.
And his three-year project would result in a device about the size of a breadbox.
However, Brady is hoping to scale the technology down to create a single-lens reflex camera with a resolution of 50 gigapixels.
Brady presented his innovative technology at the Optical Society's (OSA) Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics (FiO) in San Jose, Calif.

HTC Hero voted Gadget of the Year

HTC Hero, the phone that uses technology developed by Google, has been voted Gadget of the Year at a ceremony organised by Stuff magazine.
The device has a five-megapixel camera and a 3.2in screen.
It uses the Android operating system that allows users to access emails, the internet and texts easily, reports The Independent.
Fraser Macdonald, one of the judges at the 2009 Stuff Gadget Awards, said: "With the HTC Hero, we've finally got a phone that fully exploits the potential of the Android OS to be as clever and as sexy as the iPhone."
Apple's iPhone 3GS picked up awards for Phone of the Year and Readers' Gadget of the Year.
The award for Audio Gadget of the Year went to the Spotify website. The site allows users to access any song they want legally and for free.
The Sony KDL-40WE5 television was crowned Eco Gadget of the Year, thanks to its energy-saving features.

Now, a lamp that uses 'human blood' to create light

An English designer based in The Netherlands has come up with a lamp that uses "human blood" to create light.
Mike Thompson's lamp contains a chemical called luminol that reacts with the iron in blood, and creates a bright blue glow.
To use the lamp, according to Thompson, one has to first mix in an activating powder, break the glass, cut oneself, and drip blood into the opening.
He conceived this idea, recently reported by New Scientist magazine, a few years ago while he was studying for his masters at the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands.
While researching chemical energy for a project, he came across luminol-the same chemical that forensic scientists use to check for traces of blood at a crime scene.
"It kind of triggered this thought in my mind, that if energy somehow came at a cost to us, then maybe it would make us think differently about the way we use it," LiveScience quoted him as saying.
Thompson said that his lamp was intended to "challenge people's preconceived notions about where our energy comes from."
He said that it would force the user "to rethink how wasteful they are with energy, and how precious it is."
He described his invention as a single-use light.
"You have to really decide when to use this lamp because it's only going to work once. So it makes it kind of a poignant moment," Thompson said.
Thompson designed and produced the lamp in 2007, and made a video of his project this year.

Female hormone drives male aggression in mice

The female hormone oestrogen seems to drive male aggression in mice with the help of certain nerve cells in the brain, a new study led by an Indian American has found.
The study, conducted by University of California San Francisco (UCSF), suggests a pivotal role for oestrogen -- as well as the enzyme aromatase that is responsible for oestrogen synthesis -- in male territorial behaviour.
Oestrogen's role in the mating behaviours of these mice, however, was less clear, which indicates that territorial and sexual behaviours are likely influenced by distinct and separate connections in the brain, according to Nirao Shah, assistant professor of anatomy at the UCSF and senior study author.
'This really changes the way we view male and female behaviours,' said Shah, who also is affiliated with the UCSF programs in neuroscience.
'What we previously looked upon as a single unit of gender-related behaviour, we now see as a collection of separate behaviours controlled at least in part by distinct neural pathways.'
Males and females across all sexually reproducing species display gender-specific behaviour in many areas, including mating, territorial marking, aggression and parental care, Shah explained.
Collections of cells form circuits in the brain, referred to as neural pathways, that control these and other behaviours. Shah said that both oestrogen and the male hormone testosterone are known to be essential in developing these circuits and in sex-specific behaviour.
But the precise role of these hormones and how they may interact genetically to control these behaviours has been unclear, says an UCSF release.
The current study fills in at least one piece of the puzzle, he said. The study suggests that the conversion of testosterone in the brain to oestrogen by the enzyme aromatase is critical to developing and activating brain circuits that control male territorial behaviour.
These findings were published in the journal Cell.

Computer model of brain can help victims of anxiety disorder

The brain is a complex system made of billions of neurons (nerve cells) and thousands of connections that relate to every human feeling, including one of the strongest emotions, fear. Researchers have started using computer models of the brain to study the connections.
Most neurological fear studies have been rooted in fear-conditioning experiments. Now, University of Missouri (U-M) researchers are using computational models to study the brain's connections.
Guoshi Li, U-M electrical and computer engineering doctoral student, has discovered new evidence on how the brain reacts to fear, including important findings that could help victims of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD, an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events).
'Computational models make it much easier to study the brain because they can effectively integrate different types of information related to a problem into a computational framework and analyse possible neural (bearing on nerve cells) mechanisms from a systems perspective,' Li said.
From previous experiments, scientists have found that fear can subside when overcome with fear extinction memory, but it is not permanently lost.
Fear extinction is a process in which a conditioned response to a stimulant that produces fear gradually diminishes over time as subjects, such as rats in auditory fear experiments, learn to disassociate a response from a stimulus.
One theory has concluded that fear extinction memory deletes fear memory, and another concluded that fear memory is not lost, but is inhibited by extinction memory as fear can recover with the passage of time after extinction, says an U-M release.
For PTSD victims, the fear circuit is disrupted and they cannot retrieve the fear extinction memory. However, the fear extinction memory exists, so the fear memory dominates every time victims get a fear cue.

Scientists detect chink in virulent stomach bug's armour

Scientists have detected a crack in the armour of the Helicobacter pylori, a common microbe that infects the stomachs of one-sixth of the world's population, causing gastritis and ulcers.
They identified a group of substances that block a key chemical pathway that the bacteria need for survival. Their study could lead to new, more effective antibiotics to fight these hard-to-treat microbes.
Javier Sancho, biologist at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, and colleagues note in the new study that Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) bacteria infect the stomach lining.
Treatment with broad-spectrum antibiotics can cure H. pylori infections. However, an estimated one billion people remain infected worldwide because of the cost of existing antibiotics and the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains of the bacteria, the researchers say.
The scientists know from past research that blocking flavodoxin, a key protein that H. pylori needs for survival, could be the key to developing narrow-spectrum antibiotics that specifically target H. pylori.
Sancho's team screened 10,000 chemicals for their ability to block flavodoxin and identified four that showed promise. They then showed that three of the four substances killed H. pylori in cell cultures and did not have any apparent toxic effects in lab animals.
'These new inhibitors constitute promising candidates to develop new specific antibiotics against H. pylori,' the study states, according to a Zaragoza release.
These findings are slated for publication in the Oct 16 issue of American Chemical Society's (ACS) Biology.

Software for better data on immunisation

Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad is not happy with data on the outcome of immunisation drives and his ministry is developing a software which will keep a thorough record of all such health campaigns.
'The outcome of immunisation drives is not satisfactory. I asked my officers how they arrive at these figures and the reply was not very convincing. I have told them to have a new software which will help us in getting the authentic figures,' Azad said.
'These software will be provided to all blocks under the National Rural Health Mission as they already have computers and a person to man it. The data will be collected at that level.
'All the kids will have their name, father's name and telephone number (in the database). If someone does not have a telephone number then his neighbour's telephone number will be there. This will help monitoring the immunisation drive better,' he said at a diabetes conference organised by the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
'By the end of this year, you may see this happening.'
He said his ministry spends a lot on surveys and he would like to 'do away with them'. 'I have respect for NGOs. But what the so many people in government cannot do, how can three-four people (of a NGO) do?'
India has been carrying out several immunisation drives - some universal and others targeted. However, at least half of the children do not get vaccinated for various diseases.

Correlation In Forex Trading and Profiting

Looking on the internet at comments about forex trading, one wonders how people expect to make money without having a basic grasp of the principles involved in trading. People tend to rush in, with promises of easy money, but they then discover that it is a lot harder than it looks. This article seeks to identify a fundamental principle that leads to creating a successful trading model, it is founded on the idea of correlation.Correlation exists where there is a mutual relationship of interdependence between two entities. Why is it that people feel so sure that they can earn money in forex? Surely the reason is that they immediately see that there are patterns, that is, correlation in the graph that can be exploited to make money. For example, consider AUDUSD (15 mins, 19th March) in the graph below:We can see that there is correlation between the graph and the yellow line and is is tempting to think that, as a consequence this can be easily traded. The problem is that there are too many unknowns. How could anyone foresee that the price would bounce off of this line? How can we know how high the price will bounce off the line? How can we tell when the price will stop bouncing?I would suggest that the reason that the majority lose money in currency trading is that although there is correlation in the graphs, yet people fail to realize that the nature of the correlation is very complicated. There is not only a relationship of interdependence between the price and the line on the graph above. Below is the graph with the inclusion of the stochastic (5, 3, 3) oscillator:We can see that there is correlation between these two graphs. Although the price doesn't move directly proportional to the stochastic graph, yet the former generally turns at similar times to the latter. The result is that we have another tool to contribute to our understanding of how the price moves.I would suggest that this is the nature of currency trading; it involves the accumulation of indicators that correlate with the price and as a consequence contribute to creating a successful trading method.

Forex scalping Success - 5 Key Facts You Need to Know

Forex scalping and day trading is more popular than ever and is the choice of most new forex traders but is it the right one and how do you enjoy forex scalping success - lets find out.1. Short Term Volatility is RandomMillions of forex traders trade trillions of dollars in currency each day and to say that you can measure what this diverse number of traders will do in a few hours, or a day is laughable you cant.2. Support and Resistance Levels are MeaninglessTo trade any market you need to have valid levels of support or resistance to key off however with all volatility being random in short term trading, prices can and do go anywhere and support and resistance cannot be used - as the data simply isn't valid.3. No Trading system Will WorkIt doesn't matter how good or well thought out the trading system is - if volatility is random and support and resistance not valid it wont work!In any financial market to win you need to trade the odds and if you cant, you are going to lose longer term. It's a bit like being in a casino - if you can count the cards in a game such as blackjack you win but in a game of pure chance like roulette, play long enough with the odds against you and your going to lose and it's the same in forex scalping.You cant get the odds on your side and you cant win - PERIOD4. Forex Scalping Systems Don't have Track RecordsYes they do many traders will say - I have seen them. Sure they have and written all over the track record will be "hypothetical" or "simulated" This means it wasn't traded in the market but done on paper knowing the closing prices!How hard is that?You could do it and so can I and even my 10 year old daughter could - but the markets don't work backwards its harder - You have to trade going forwards!5. Why is it So Popular?Because it makes a good story and vendors know this.Most of them have never traded in their lives - but the story of small regular profits and low risk is an easy one to sell, to naive or greedy investors who are looking for an easy way to get rich in forex.Of course there is no easy way to get rich in forex and you wouldn't expect there to be, with the rewards on offer.THE GOOD NEWS!The good news is you can make money in forex trading if you avoid forex scalping and concentrate on trading the odds. This means valid data where you can get the odds in your favour with your forex trading system and trade them for profit.You can swing trade, looking for trends of a few days to a few weeks, or trend follow looking for trends that last weeks, months or even years. In both forex methods you can trade the odds - the key to a successful forex trading strategy.Forex scalping is not the only myth in currency trading - but it's a popular one and you need to ignore it and concentrate on getting the right forex education to win.So leave forex scalping and day trading to the dreamers and greedy traders, who think forex trading is simply a walk in the park and concentrate on building your own forex trading strategy based around trading the odds.Learn the odds, learn how to trade them and there is nothing to stop you enjoying currency trading success.

Forex Fundamentals: Knowledge You Can Profit From

An in-depth knowledge of macroeconomics or international trade isn't necessary to trade the Forex. But knowing how these forces affect currency pairs can only make you a more savvy trader. Here are a few highlights.When a country raises its interest rates, often their stock market will go down as investors move their funds to greener financial pastures. This tends to weaken the internal economy of the country, but strengthens it in relation to other countries. Which effect will have the most impact on that nation's currency pairs is often discussed well in advance by the "talking heads," and each Forex trader has to decide for herself who to believe!Crude oilCanada is an oil-producing nation. Exporting crude oil raises their GNP and improves the balance of trade, strengthening their economy.As the price of crude oil goes up, the USD/CAD goes down. (That's because the Canadian dollar, the cross currency, has appreciated against the base currency, the U.S. dollar.) At this point, the Canadian dollar is almost at parity with the U.S. dollar, a situation not seen since the 1950s.As an interesting exercise, try laying the chart of the USD/CAD over the chart of crude oil prices for the same time period. The two charts are almost a flipped image of each other.Japan, on the other hand, is an oil-consuming nation, strongly industrial but with no real energy reserves of their own. Importing crude oil at increasingly higher rates to power their economy raises the cost of production and slows or reverses their economic growth.The change in the USD/JPY has not been as dramatic as that in the USD/CAD, and the correlation between the charts not as impressive, but that's because the cost of crude oil has affected the USD half of the equation as well as the JPY side.Precious metalsDuring troubled political or economic times, investors tend to move their capital from speculative investments to something more conservative and solid. Precious metals, particularly gold, tend to go up in value at these times. When the situation returns to normal, gold tends to decline as investors seek higher returns from their money.The Swiss franc, like gold, is considered a safe harbor for capital. As the U.S. dollar has depreciated (mainly due to the government deficit, a large trade deficit, and low interest rates when much of the rest of the world is raising theirs), investors have moved much of their capital to these harbors. Therefore, as the price of gold rises, so does the franc in relation to the dollar.Like the Canadian dollar discussed above, the USD/CHF (Swissie) has declined because of the pressure of the cross currency against the base. Again, lay a chart of the USD/CHF over one for gold with the same time interval, and see how one reflects the other like trees in a lake.Australia is a major gold and copper producer. Copper is not only a precious metal, it's also a substantial element in the housing market (copper plumbing, wiring, etc.). As demand for copper rises on both fronts, the Australian dollar climbs against the U.S. dollar. This is also a reflection of high Australian interest rates versus the low ones in the United States.

Forex Fundamentals: Knowledge You Can Profit From

An in-depth knowledge of macroeconomics or international trade isn't necessary to trade the Forex. But knowing how these forces affect currency pairs can only make you a more savvy trader. Here are a few highlights.When a country raises its interest rates, often their stock market will go down as investors move their funds to greener financial pastures. This tends to weaken the internal economy of the country, but strengthens it in relation to other countries. Which effect will have the most impact on that nation's currency pairs is often discussed well in advance by the "talking heads," and each Forex trader has to decide for herself who to believe!Crude oilCanada is an oil-producing nation. Exporting crude oil raises their GNP and improves the balance of trade, strengthening their economy.As the price of crude oil goes up, the USD/CAD goes down. (That's because the Canadian dollar, the cross currency, has appreciated against the base currency, the U.S. dollar.) At this point, the Canadian dollar is almost at parity with the U.S. dollar, a situation not seen since the 1950s.As an interesting exercise, try laying the chart of the USD/CAD over the chart of crude oil prices for the same time period. The two charts are almost a flipped image of each other.Japan, on the other hand, is an oil-consuming nation, strongly industrial but with no real energy reserves of their own. Importing crude oil at increasingly higher rates to power their economy raises the cost of production and slows or reverses their economic growth.The change in the USD/JPY has not been as dramatic as that in the USD/CAD, and the correlation between the charts not as impressive, but that's because the cost of crude oil has affected the USD half of the equation as well as the JPY side.Precious metalsDuring troubled political or economic times, investors tend to move their capital from speculative investments to something more conservative and solid. Precious metals, particularly gold, tend to go up in value at these times. When the situation returns to normal, gold tends to decline as investors seek higher returns from their money.The Swiss franc, like gold, is considered a safe harbor for capital. As the U.S. dollar has depreciated (mainly due to the government deficit, a large trade deficit, and low interest rates when much of the rest of the world is raising theirs), investors have moved much of their capital to these harbors. Therefore, as the price of gold rises, so does the franc in relation to the dollar.Like the Canadian dollar discussed above, the USD/CHF (Swissie) has declined because of the pressure of the cross currency against the base. Again, lay a chart of the USD/CHF over one for gold with the same time interval, and see how one reflects the other like trees in a lake.Australia is a major gold and copper producer. Copper is not only a precious metal, it's also a substantial element in the housing market (copper plumbing, wiring, etc.). As demand for copper rises on both fronts, the Australian dollar climbs against the U.S. dollar. This is also a reflection of high Australian interest rates versus the low ones in the United States.

Forex Trading - Blackjack and Poker Players Make Great Forex Traders Why?

There are numerous poker and blackjack players who have made the transition from professional card playing to forex trading and made millions. Why are they so successful? Because the skills needed are very similar.There is an old gamblers saying:"There's a time to hold them a time to fold them and there's a time to get out of town fast"If you think about this saying, it's the perfect introduction to succeeding in card playing and forex trading.Forget the gurus and the mentors (most who have never traded in their lives) who tell you that you can predict forex prices in advance or that they move to a scientific theory - they don't.Just like card playing forex is a game of odds not certainties - but just like the professional card player, you can play the odds and win."A time to hold them"By studying the cards that come out of the deck the successful card player knows the odds of the cards coming next, he's not certain but by counting the cards he knows the probability and this is true with forex.In card playing you hold and play in forex trading when the odds are in your favour you execute you're trading signal."A time to fold them"If a card player has junk hands, he folds and passes the hand by.Compare this to forex traders - many of them want to trade low odds scenario's because they think they will miss a move if their not in the market, while others trade when the odds are never in their favour i.e. day traders and they lose.The card player knows his winnings are not based upon how many hands he plays - but how good the hands are and how he bets only then and it's the same in forex trading.In forex trading you get paid for being right not how often you trade.When you feel you have a high odds hand - bet and bet big.You will see poker players back high odds hands with a cool head and large amounts of cash and you must do the same.Forget about the myth of betting small 2% per trade which is a common accepted figure - this is ridiculous!On 2% on a $10,000 account that's risking just $200.00!You won't win much doing that- bet 10 - 20% if you have the odds on your side and have the courage of your conviction."A time to get out of town fast"This applied to the old west and when your life was in danger - get out quickly!In forex trading to preserve your equity you need to cut and run.I heard a trader once say that if you want to win:"You need to bet but you can't, if you're not at the table"To stay at the table or trading, you have to preserve your equity.That means rigid stops preferably placed before you enter the trade - no hoping a trade will turn around - if you life or position are in danger get out!DISCIPLINEAll card players have this and you must to, as a forex trader.Even the greatest card players have to lose hands to win longer term.However if they can stay at the table and keep betting and play the odds, they can bet big on the high odds hands and win.Of course you can do this to as a forex trader.If you want to read an excellent interview with blackjack player come multi millionaire trader Blair Hull which expands on the above points get the excellent book "Market Wizards" By Jack Schwager which interviews Blair and a whole host of top traders - its essential reading for all forex traders.

Forex2u Forex Strategy On Successful Forex Trading

The essence of the FX2u Forex strategy is that it does not have any Forex trading system but could forecast the market trend accurately.Every set of Forex trading system available has its disadvantages. The market trend could not be forecasted. If the market could be forecasted, by depending on the RSI, PAR, MOM analysis techniques and some other theories, Forex traders could easily make a fortune.Many Forex traders could not obtain the anticipated outcome by using these analysis tools, and suffer huge losses. The main reason is relying on some imperfect tools to forecast the unpredictable market trend is just a waste of effort. Therefore the FX2u Forex strategy spirit is to abolish the entire subjective analysis tool.To survive in the market is to follow the market trend, following the market trend is the essence of the FX2u Forex strategy. By using the opposite theory to enter the market, will only lead to lost. The reason is that if the market rises, it may continue to rise. If the market drops, it may continue to drop. No one is able to forecast when the market trend will stop.By following the market trend, the market risk could be reduce to the lowest, the FX2u Forex strategy will advance the following the ten principles:fully understand the how market function and the market trend, else don’t tradeAfter entering the market, the Forex trader MUST immediately put a market stop.If the stop order has been hit it MUST be executed immediately, NEVER make changes by lowering the stop order price.If the forecast is wrong, Forex traders should leave the market immediately, then analyze again.If the forecast is wrong, Forex traders should stop loss and should not increase trading.Forex traders should admit mistakes, do not continuously make mistakes.All analysis tools are imperfect, mistakes could always occur.If the market rises Forex traders should buy, if the market drops Forex traders should sell, always follow the market trend.Forex traders should not forecast the market price because such forecast will not be as easy as forecasting the market trend.If the forecast is wrong, once the loss reach 10%, Forex traders must stop loss immediately, do not let it surpasses 10%, otherwise it would be difficult to recoup the capital again.

New Windows Live Writer Adds Easy Image Editing

Windows Live Writer, your favorite blog editing software, just got better.
You can now crop pictures and screenshot images right inside Windows Live Writer without requiring external software. There’s a new tilt feature that lets you rotate pictures by a custom angle.
The new version also adds some new visual effects for your photos including Reflection and Rounded Corners. They are simple things but definitely help in making your blog entries more appealing.
With the new Windows Live Writer, you can also upload videos directly to MSN soapbox though we would like to see support for YouTube as well.
Available at Writer Zone. It’s a technical preview but pretty stable. I also find this release a bit faster than the previous version.

More Efficient Blogging with Windows Live Writer

They say the best things in life are free and Windows Live Writer, the wonderful blog editing software from Microsoft, definitely proves that saying.
The software is available for Windows Vista and XP only but you may run Writer on a Mac as well via VMWare Fusion. Not sure about Linux support though.
Now if you are a Windows Live Writer fan already, let’s explore some simple hacks and tools that will make you even more efficient with Windows Writer.
1. Insert Screenshot Images
You don’t need a third-party screen capture program to insert regular screenshots in your blog articles. Minimize Windows Live Writer, press Print-Screen and then paste that image from Clipboard into WLW using Ctrl+V. You can also crop and scale the screenshot in Writer itself before publishing.
2. Backup Windows Live Writer Settings & Drafts
If you are moving data across computers and like to make a copy of all your Live Writer settings and draft posts, get this Live Writer Backup utility. You can also move drafts manually.
3. Improve the speed of Live Preview
The live preview feature in WLW provides a good idea about how your stuff will look once it gets published online. The problem is that Writer downloads your blog homepage for creating a local preview template and thus you always see more than one post in the preview tab.
The fix is simple – change your blog default settings to show just one post on the main page. Then refresh the theme in Windows Live Writer and once that’s done, switch to the original setting of ‘n’ posts on the main page.
4. Quickly Spread the Word
If you want FeedBurner and Blog Search engines to pick articles as soon as you hit publish, go to Tools –> Options –> Ping Servers and copy-paste this list of URLs:http://ping.feedburner.google.com/
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://blogsearch.google.com/ping/RPC2
http://www.bloglines.com/ping
5. Search Your Windows Live Writer Drafts
You were writing an article on productivity last week but had to abandon it half-way because something urgent turned up. Now you want to resume that story but where’s the draft?
Luckily you can add the wpost filter to Windows Desktop search and finding drafts becomes as simple as searching a text document.
6. Windows Live Writer Dictionary
While terms like Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed, etc. are common jargon, most word processing software (Writer included) are not smart enough yet to recognize them correctly.
If you like to avoid seeing that red line under such common terms, simply open your Live Writer dictionary and copy the words in bulk.
7. Autolinking in Windows Live Writer
If you frequently link to certain web pages from your blog articles, always use autolinks as you’ll save lot of time. So the moment you type Live Writer in your blog article, that phrase will automatically link to the homepage of Live Writer.
8. Upload files to Amazon S3
If you are hosting images on Amazon S3, the S3 Explorer plugin may come handy. It’s an S3 uploading tool with a visual GUI that is invoked from within Live Writer but you may use it to upload any binary file including documents, executables, MP3s or images.
9. Variables in Windows Live Writer
This is for geeks. Using Dymanic Templates, you can do lot of cool stuff in Live Writer like insert the current date in your article with a click, let user input data, convert text selection into HTML and more.
10. Favorite Windows Live Writer Plugins
The old list of Live Writer plugins is slightly outdated as lot of functionality is now built-in plus so here’s a fresh list of favorites.
a. Zemanta – This lets you find images related to content that you are currently composing in Live Writer. (see Zemanta review)
b. Twitter – Notify your twitter followers as soon as you publish a new blog post.
c. TinyMCE – This a more powerful HTML editor for Windows Live Writer with a WYSIWYG interface.
d. Source Code – This plugin lets you insert source code with syntax highlighting.

Symantec: Posted code enables VoIP spying

Along with keyloggers that track what you type, now we have to worry about malicious software that listens in on our voice over Internet Protocol conversations.
A Symantec security blog on Thursday disclosed a new Trojan horse, Tojan.Peskyspy "that records VoIP communications, specifically targeting Skype." The posting, based on analysis from Symantec's Karthik Selvaraj, pointed out that "its existence isn't due to any problems with Skype itself" but that Skype may have been targeted "simply because it has such a large install base."
Gerry Egan, Symantec's director of security response, says the Trojan is capable of "hooking...through some Windows APIs into some audio streams" that "can be intercepted, turned into MP3 files, and then sent over a remote channel to a remote electronic eavesdropper."
A PC can be infected through the usual channels for malware, including an executable file in an e-mail you click on and a "drive by download" that's automatically triggered when you visit an infected Web site. The most recent trend, Egan said, "is a shift toward socially engineered attacks like a fake video site."
The code has been published on the Web by a Swiss researcher, Egan said, adding that "we've not seen any indications of it being used maliciously, but the published code opens up endless possibilities in the mind of a hacker."
The code would affect Skype or any other VoIP software on a Windows PC that uses an audio stream, Egan said.
Unlike most malware, Symantec does not anticipate the code being used to launch widespread attacks.
"To do this en masse really isn't practical," Egan said. Even if a "piece of malware gets on the machine of someone who is using (VoIP), and they are talking about interesting things, finding those interesting things among the many hundreds of thousands of hours of phone calls would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack." He said it might be more valuable in a targeted attack against a specific individual.
Eavesdropping is a risk, when it comes to industrial espionage, prying spouses or significant others, and political campaigns, as well as political dissidents. U.S. law requires a court order before a phone or a computer can be legally tapped by government or law enforcement officials.
The best way to avoid being infected with this or any other malware is to use good up-to-date security software and to be sure that your operating system and browser are updated. It's also a good idea to avoid clicking on e-mail attachments and consider using security software that warns you when you're about to visit a potentially malicious Web site.

INTEL PROCESSORS

Intel® Core™2 Duo Processors
Based on Intel's revolutionary Intel® Core™ microarchitecture, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processors were designed from the ground up delivering the best system level overall performance per watt. To meet the needs of the embedded platforms, there are multiple processors in offering: the new Intel® Core™2 Duo processor T9400, the Intel® Core™2 Duo SL9400, SL9380, SP9300, SU9300 and the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E8400, E7400 based on industry-leading 45nm process technology, as well as the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E6400, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor E4300, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processors T7500 and T7400, the Intel® Core™2 Duo processors L7500 and L7400, and the Intel® Core™2 Duo processor U7500. These processors utilize the Intel® Core™ microarchitecture along with the following key features:
Intel® Wide Dynamic Execution enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency.
Intel® Intelligent Power Capability designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance. The 45nm process technology delivers a new super shuffle engine, which improves existing SSE instructions while enabling significant gains on the latest SSE4 instruction set. As a result, SSE4-optimized applications such as video editing and encoding in high-definition resolution will see additional performance improvements.
Intel® Smart Memory Access improves system performance by optimizing the use of the available memory data bandwidth.
Intel® Advanced Digital Media Boost accelerates a broad range of applications, including video, speech and image, photo processing and encryption.
Intel® Advanced Smart Cache Provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystemIntel® Xeon® Processor 5000/3000 Sequence
Breakthrough performance, energy efficiency, extended lifecycle support and common socket Intel Xeon processor-based systems make them the ideal choice for compute-intensive embedded, storage and communications applications.
Lower thermal design power (TDP) and higher Tcase temperature Intel Xeon processor options are ideal options for low power consumption and/or compliance with the AdvancedTCA* form factor and NEBS level-3 thermal specifications*.Intel Pentium M Processor
The Intel® Pentium® M processor utilizes a new microarchitecture to meet the current and future demands of high-performance, low-power embedded computing, making it ideal for medium-to-large enterprise communications applications, transaction terminal, interactive client, and industrial automation applications. While incorporating advanced processor technology, it remains software-compatible with previous members of the Intel® microprocessor family.Intel® Pentium® Dual-Core Processor E2160The Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor delivers great performance, low power enhancements, and multitasking for embedded computing. The Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor E2160Δ with a thermal design power of 65 watts delivers energy-efficient dual-core performance for cost-sensitive embedded designs. Intel® 65nm process technology makes it possible to integrate two complete execution cores in one physical package, providing advancements in simultaneous computing for multi-threaded applications and multi-tasking environments.
This dual-core processor is well suited for a wide range of performance-intensive, low-power embedded applications in smaller form factors such as interactive clients (i.e., point-of-sale terminals and ATMs), gaming platforms, industrial control and automation, and print imaging. While incorporating advanced processor technology, these processors remain software-compatible with previous IA-32 processors.
The Intel Pentium dual-core processor E2160 is validated with the Intel® Q35 Express Chipset and Intel® Q965 Express Chipset. The Intel Q35 Express Chipset platform brings a new level of power reduction in idle and maximum power, making it an ideal choice for embedded applications meeting high-performance, low-thermal specifications.Intel® Xeon® Processors LV and ULVThe Intel® Xeon® processor LV and Intel® Xeon® processor ULV are members of Intel’s growing product line of multi-core processors. Each dual-core processor combines the benefits of two high-performance execution cores with intelligent power management features to deliver significantly greater performance-per-watt over previous single-core Intel Xeon processor-based platforms. The dual-core/dual-processor capabilities are ideal for a wide range of low-power communications and embedded applications.Features
Transform complex and visually intensive data into actionable information enabled by up to eight computational cores of pure performance.
Enjoy optimized visualization by balancing processing, memory and bandwidth resources to deliver rich visual experiences.
Do more in less time with up to 6X the throughput¹ so you can mega-task your way through parallel workflows