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AppleInsider Apple Computer manufacturing partner Foxconn is reported to have landed a contract to deliver 1.5 million of the Mac maker’s MacBook Pro notebooks in calendar year 2007. Meanwhile, Toshiba has introduced a “short” 1.8-inch form factor hard disk drive that may pave the way for a 100GB iPod.
Foxconn to build 1.5m MacBook Pros

Foxconn Electronics, the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry, is expected to ship 3.2 million notebooks in 2007 after recently adding Apple Computer and Lenovo to its list of notebook clients.

According to the Taiwan-based Topology Research Institute (TRI), Foxconn will start building notebooks for Apple in 2007, with the total shipments expected to come in at 1.5 million for the calendar year.
Based on a recent series of reports, it’s believed the orders to Foxconn are for Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks.

Following the resounding success of its consumer-oriented 13-inch MacBook line, rumors are abound that Apple is looking to push sales of its professional 15.4-inch widescreen models in the new year.

In August, the Mac maker began shopping around for a third notebook manufacturer after facing some supply issues a bit earlier in the year. It was reported that Foxconn answered the company’s call, expressing a willingness to help build its 15.4-inch MacBook Pro models.

ScienceNow Apple Computer manufacturing partner Foxconn is reported to have landed a contract to deliver 1.5 million of the Mac maker’s MacBook Pro notebooks in calendar year 2007. Meanwhile, Toshiba has introduced a “short” 1.8-inch form factor hard disk drive that may pave the way for a 100GB iPod.

Foxconn to build 1.5m MacBook Pros
Foxconn Electronics, the registered trade name of Hon Hai Precision Industry, is expected to ship 3.2 million notebooks in 2007 after recently adding Apple Computer and Lenovo to its list of notebook clients.

According to the Taiwan-based Topology Research Institute (TRI), Foxconn will start building notebooks for Apple in 2007, with the total shipments expected to come in at 1.5 million for the calendar year.
Based on a recent series of reports, it’s believed the orders to Foxconn are for Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Pro notebooks.

Following the resounding success of its consumer-oriented 13-inch MacBook line, rumors are abound that Apple is looking to push sales of its professional 15.4-inch widescreen models in the new year.
In August, the Mac maker began shopping around for a third notebook manufacturer after facing some supply issues a bit earlier in the year. It was reported that Foxconn answered the company’s call, expressing a willingness to help build its 15.4-inch MacBook Pro models.

Washington Post Microsoft forecast on Wednesday that sales of its Zune music player will exceed one million units by the end of June 2007 despite a tepid start for the device.

Earlier this week, a report from market research firm NPD Group showed that Zune’s share of the U.S. digital music player market fell to 2 percent and fifth place in the week ended November 25, the second week of sales since its release.

Zune was second with a 9 percent market share in the first week after launch.

“While this is expected, our focus is less on week over week numbers, and more on the incremental sales that are leading to overall growth of the category,” said a Microsoft spokeswoman in a statement.

arstechnica MySpace is known for both atrocious Web design and young people, and sexual predators have shown themselves willing to put up with the former in order to get to the latter. This has turned into something of a public-relations nightmare for MySpace, which is now the subject of several books and countless (and breathless) media articles. In an attempt to address the problem, MySpace today announced a partnership with Sentinel Tech Holding Corp. to do real-time screening and filtering of MySpace members—but glaring problems remain.MySpace will use technology called “Sentinel Safe” that will allow it to match user profiles against sex offender databases in real-time. Sentinel Safe is, in effect, one large database made up of all the smaller, local databases kept on sex offenders by police departments and governments around the country. When a registered sex offender signs up for a MySpace account, helpfully providing his (or her, I suppose) real name, MySpace will promptly ban the person.

SCIAM Deposits formed in Martian gullies during the past seven years suggest that liquid water exists on Mars today. Researchers have observed two downhill tracks of light-colored material that were not present in images taken by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft before 1999.These tracks follow narrow ravines present on the downward sloping walls of craters, and they branch and flow around obstacles like a liquid or watery sediment would, researchers report in the December 8 issue of Science. “The Mars exploration program has been following the water since the mid-’90s, and now we have found it,” said the program’s lead scientist, Michael Mayer of NASA, at a press conference today.

Indian Express  At least 60 participants of the ‘Swayamsiddha’ self-defence camp took ill with “mild food poisoning” late on Tuesday night. They were taken to the Dhanvantari hospital at Baner. While two of them were admitted to the hospital, the rest were discharged.

These participants are part of the Statewide 10-day camp organised by the Directorate of Sports and Youth Welfare at the Krida Prabodhini at Balewadi.

“They were taken to the hospital after suffering from stomach pain and vomiting,” Kavita Navande, in-charge of the camp, told Pune Newsline. There are 172 people participating in the camp.

“It’s a case of mild food poisoning,” Krida Prabodhini medical officer Chandrakant Garudkar, who treated them at the hospital, said.

Indian Express Vikas and Ramesh are among the 1,900 patients who have adhered to the ART offered free by the government at the centre set up two years ago. On Wednesday, the centre moved out of its cramped location in room number 88 to six large rooms at the Infosys superspecialty hospital building in the same campus. ‘‘HIV medicine is a superspecialty and what more befitting place than the Infosys building,’’ said project in-charge and head of the department of medicine B J Medical College Dr A L Kakrani.Of the 1,900 patients taking treatment, 1,052 are men, 703 are women, 89 are boys below the age of 14 and 56 girls, said senior medical officer Dr Mukund Pennurkar. So far, a total of 6,400 people living with HIV and whose CD 4 count is less than 200 have been screened. From this month on, the government has included the paediatric formulation in their list of medicines. ‘‘So far, we have received stocks for 200 patients and the medication is a dispersible tablet which also does not require refrigeration,’’ added medical officer Dr Bharat Purandare.

Indian Express Water, even if it is for just two hours, is what residents of fringe areas from Katraj, Dhankawadi, Pune-Satara Road, Wadgaon Dhayari and Sinhagad Road want which fall in the Khadakvasala constituency. These areas, which were merged with the Pune Municipal Corporation nine years ago, still get insufficient water. “We live in flats, but have to carry water to the third floor. The pressure is so low that water does not reach the first floor,’’said Dhankawdi resident Archana Ghadge. Water was among the promises elected representatives made five years ago. The supply depended on the completetion of Katraj water works, Taljai water project and the Wadgaon water works. “We pay water tax, but get almost no water,’’ said Sanjay Limban. The problem is acute in Katraj and Ambegaon where new settlements have come up on hill tops and slopes. Other areas like the Pune-Satara Road, Balajinagar, Parvati, Padmavati, Bibvewadi, Upper and Lower Indira Nagar too have huge water problems.

Indian Express In 2002, people like us in Humbolt county, California put up a year-long struggle to stop the Pacific Lumber Company from cutting down Redwood trees and save the forests. However, the lumber company finally had its way. But people’s resistance to wanton ecological damage became legendary as the Struggle in the Woods. Cut to Pune 2006 whencivic body decided to construct the Balbharati-Paud Road cutting through green spaces on hills. Hundreds of environmentalists protested and moved courts to oppose . The environmentalists called their struggle ‘Destruction in the name of development’. Both these agitations to protect environment have been captured on film and will be showcased at the Better Transport, Better Environment film festival on Saturday and Sunday where Lokayata hall, on Law College Road.

Indian Express When the Volvo buses of Pune Municipal Transport (PMT) rolled out on the Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) lane on Satara Road on Wednesday, it was a smooth ride for the passengers — and the buses — although the ongoing work caused bottlenecks on a couple of stretches. The buses heading towards Katraj were seen packed to capacity. J B Pardeshi (65), a regular commuter by PMT buses, referred to the trip as “very comfortable”. “It is very easy for the senior citizens to board and alight from these buses,’’ he said and wanted to know from the conductor if he would get to same bus back to his house at Balaji Nagar. “Will the bus be operational in the evening?’’

PMC officials said the signals at Surana chowk and Padmavati pumping station chowk were yet to be synchronised. “There are no bus shelters at these chowks. We have to ascertain the distance of sensors from the chowks. The problem will be sorted out in the few days,’’ an official said.