Intel has finally unleashed its new Centrino 2 mobile platform! There are two versions of it available: one for consumers, and the other (vPro) for professionals.
The Centrino 2 allows you to play Blu-Ray videos for up to 2 hours without needing to recharge the battery. This platform also supports Wi-Fi 802.11n, and five new processors, one of which is the Core 2 Extreme Mobile Processor X9100.

Wow, who could have thought! Tom’s Hardware's test results indicate that SSD drives don't actually save you any energy. If we judge logically, they don't have moving parts  - thus they must be more power efficient. But they're not... SSDs still consume too much power while in the idle mode. Plus, they don't boost the performance - contrary to what we originally thought.

We don't say that SSD's suck, they just need to be further worked on. Just remember that SSD's don't influence performance, and consume as much energy as a standard HDD.

A-DATA claims it has developed the fastest CF card to date. These cards are a part of the company's Turbo Series, available in 8GB and 16GB versions, and will provide unbelievable read/write speeds of 52MBps/47MBps. The price is yet unknown...

Samsung has announced a new 256GB Solid State Drive, "the world's fastest and largest capacity 2.5", MLC-based SSD with SATA II Interface." Read/write speeds are 200MB/s and 160 MB/s, respectively. It should be available in September, and will come into mass production starting next year, also in 1.8" version, We expect a price of around $4000 a piece in autumn.

According to Professor Min Gu of Swinburne University of Technology, in about 5 years we could see a CD that is 20,000 larger in capacity than a Blu-ray disk. This means approximately 1 PetaByte of storage on a single OD. A group of scientists is already working on it.
Wow, with this volume of memory it could hold a great big video library or a collection of all the songs ever recorded... Can you imagine? Sure, now it sounds fantastic, but we'll see what happens in 5 years... :)

Mobile devices, based on Windows CE platform are now vulnerable to a new threat called InfoJack. It is a Trojan, which copies the info about the infected handset (serial number, operating system, etc) and transmits it to the author of the malware. In addition, more malware can be injected into your device, as long as the Trojan remains active. It also has the capability to reproduce itself, so you won't be able to delete it by hand.

Supposedly, the InfoJack originated from China as it was first spotted there in circulation. It can be distributed with Google Maps, applications for stock trading, and games. Be aware!

New York, US and Espoo, Finland - Morph, a joint nanotechnology concept, developed by Nokia Research Center (NRC) and the University of Cambridge (UK) - was launched today alongside the "Design and the Elastic Mind" exhibition, on view from February 24 to May 12, 2008, at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Morph features in both the exhibition catalog and on MoMA's official website.
Morph is a concept that demonstrates how future mobile devices might be stretchable and flexible, allowing the user to transform their mobile device into radically different shapes. It demonstrates the ultimate functionality that nanotechnology might be capable of delivering: flexible materials, transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces...

Helio announced a new online search service for its subscribers that allows them to search for bars, clubs and restaurants, and offers real-time info provided by other users about what's going on at specific clubs, including pricing and events. The company also plans to add GPS functionality to the search so users will be able to track the location of the chosen bar/club from the search results list.

It looks like Skype is developing a VoIP application for the conceptional Intel MID (Mobile Internet Device) UMPC. The device runs on an open-source Linux OS, so when the application will be ready, we can expect phone functionality to be enabled on any other Linux-based UMPC.