2009 is coming, are you ready? With a couple of weeks away from the New Year, many people should be busy planning their New Year’s resolutions, e.g. planning behavioral changes, career improvement, etc. To thank users for their support and usher in the new year with fun, Google wants to invite its supporters to do the countdown to 2009 by presenting daily tip and trick on how to use its various services and products.

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LG, the famous Korean telecommunication company has demonstrated a new modem chip prototype that is claimed to be compliant with 3GPP LTE (Long Term Evolution) wireless technology standard, a next generation cellular network technology after 3G or HSDPA with even higher bandwidth allocated for mobile users. LTE is a favored 4G technology by most majority of mobile service providers since it is based on WCDMA that make the upgrade and migration effort simpler with less cost involved.

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Intel Atom processor has gained much traction after its successful launch back to April time frame. While Intel is still pushing hard to get all its current processors volume up especially in current economic situation, it has never stopped in investing and providing all the next generation processors targeted for huge netbook or nettop market shares. Previously we talked about Pineview as a next follow on product after Intel Atom Z or N-series, some may wonder what will be the next? A recently release roadmap from Intel Mobile Division has unveiled an even newer version of Intel Atom product that is planned on 2010. Codenamed as Medfield, it is claimed to be even more powerful and much more thermally efficient as compared to current and next release Pineview processor.

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There is always a trade off to have a high performance chips added into mobile device. Those power hungry processors will definitely drain out your mobile device battery faster enough before you can really enjoy the benefits . Now, Broadcom has a great solution with the upcoming communication processor in its roadmap. Named as BCM4329, it is a newly re-architected processor that can break technical barrier by able to add 802.11n capability into your mobile devices without significantly increase the power consumption.

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How about some Gmail-themed stickers to enlighten your gloomy days and warm your heart in this holiday season? The Gmail team has designed some cute and funny stickers to be given away to users for free. Some are just for fun and some have specific functions. For instance, the little shining red Gmail logo sticker can be stacked on your favorite belongings such as books, computers, skateboard, speakers, etc. The functional stickers such as keyboard shortcut stickers can be stuck onto your keyboard to remind you of the hotkeys. These stickers can be easily peeled off if you decide to remove them. Other than that, the Gmail team has also designed three different interesting bookplate-style stickers with a “This belongs to ____@gmail.com” space for your own inscription. The three designs are old-school computer design, email with unicorn design and happy robot design.

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The leading company in television services for digital video recorders (DVRs), TiVo Inc. has announced that consumers who subscribe to both Netflix and TiVo services (TiVo Series3, TiVo HD, or TiVo HD XL) can now access over 12,000 movies and TV episodes instantly streamed from Netflix directly to their televisions via wired or wireless broadband connection, with no additional costs beyond the existing Netflix and TiVo service charges.

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Smart Switch, as the name implies, is an intelligent home control system that can help to monitor and control power usage in digital home effectively with only minimum installation. It is the latest product designed by Avery Holleman, a designer who has worked on improving the system with the objective to re-use whatever in your house without much construction work required.

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Not long after the finalization of USB 3.0 specification followed by Express Card 2.0 that aims to boost up transmission speed of device communication, now seems that the Bluetooth SIG (Special Interst Group) has also shown interest upgrade its famous Bluetooth standards to next high level. Named as Bluetooth 10x and Bluetooth 100x, it is expected to scale up its transmission rate by 10x and 100x respectively as compared to existing Bluetooth 2.0.

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