Q4 2011, WD Prepare 54 Million Hard Drive

JAKARTA – Western Digital Corp. (WD) reported earnings results for fiscal 2011 and fourth quarter ended July 1, 2011.

For this quarter recorded a revenue of $ 2 WD, 4 billion, net income of USD 158 million, or USD0, 67 per share, and shipping the hard drive as many as 54 million units.

Results quartal including the expenditure of $ 35 million related to the acquisition of Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced on March 7, 2011, and for litigation-related accruals. Without counting the costs associated with acquisitions, non-GAAP net income amounted to USD193 million, or USD0, 81 per sheet saham.1

WD generate USD447 million in cash from operations during the June quarter, bringing total cash and cash equivalents held to be $ 3, 5 billion.

For fiscal year 2011, WD posted a revenue of USD9.53 billion and net income of USD726 million, or $ 3, 09 per share, compared with fiscal 2010 revenues of USD9.85 billion and net income of $ 1, 38 billion, or $ 5, 93 per share.

“In quartal June, we were able to meet higher demand than expected, especially for our OEM customers,” said John Coyne, president and chief executive officer, told through official statement on Monday (08/01/2011).

“We believe that strong demand driven by increased use of sea transport in the second half of this year as the availability of supplies after the earthquake in Japan,” he added.

Apple Already Have 10 Million iPhone 5?

BEIJING – The issue of the presence of 5 continues to burst the iPhone, Apple’s latest news as a producer has appointed Pegatron manufacturing the smart phone. No half-hearted, 10 million units will be ordered as a first step.

Digitimes sources at the company also said that production of the iPhone 5 will be done in the near future, targeting shipments will occur in September. This means that the phone was phenomenal will arrive in the consumer no later than October.

Reported Legal, Wednesday (08/03/2011), the presence of the iPhone 5 in the near future more and more apparent after one of the workers in Pegatron have seen the design of the Apple phone, not only that he even had time to use it.

In addition, the rumored iPhone 5 is said to have dual-core processor will run the A5 and the new IOS 5. Smartphone said for a larger screen and has an 8 megapixel camera that can record 1080p video resolution.

Even the PriceGrabber survey found that 46 percent of respondents wanted the iPhone 5 will have access to the 4G network. While 55 percent expect this brand-new phone is cheaper than previous models.

Love of U.S. citizens against Apple is not in doubt. When asked their favorite smartphone operating system, 48 percent answered IOS. Meanwhile, another 19 percent prefer Android, 7 percent said Windows (Microsoft) and 6 percent choose RIM’s BlackBerry.

source:okezone.com

Intel: Ultrabook’ll Dominate Computer Market

Intel Ultrabook

LONDON – Computer Ultrabook new generation of Intel’s allegedly going to dominate the computer market, thanks to all the advantages compared to tablet PCs and smartphones.

The statement Intel Corp. Senior Vice President. Tom Kilrov quoted by the Telegraph, Friday (07/22/2011). “Ultrabook is a new way of thinking about computers. That is, this computer can do whatever you need, be mobile, and in a small and lightweight packaging. Besides these computers also have a good battery life,” said Kilrov.

Last May, Intel announced a project ultrabook last May, where the computer is a promising new generation of best-in-class performance and increased responsiveness and security in the shape that is sleek and elegant. Intel ultrabook even claimed 40 percent of consumers would look for laptops by the end of 2012.

The conviction was again delivered by Kilrov, who insisted that the era of the laptop will not end any time soon, despite the popularity of tablet continue racing. Kilrov claimed it had even received many requests for ‘super computer’ from various manufacturers throughout the world.

“We get many requests from manufacturers around the world because, although the tablets and mobile phones are great devices, they do not have the same capabilities as a laptop,” he explained.

“We believe the demand for traditional computer equipped with a keyboard would still increase. Users like to create things and most devices with touch screens are less suited for writing long documents or presentations and other jobs are similar,” added Kilrov.

Kilrov acknowledged some early computer products ‘super’ will be priced quite expensive. But he insisted that the price will come down after a lot of manufacturing production.
(Van)

 

First Windows ‘Mango’ Phone Finally Unveiled

The first smartphone running the long-awaited Windows Phone “Mango” operating system was unveiled this morning in Japan. The manufacturer: Fujitsu-Toshiba, who plans to bring the device to Japanese stores and carriers in September. It’s not expected to come to the U.S.

The phone, known as the IS12T will be the first device to run the major revamp of the Windows Phone operating system to version 7.5, an update codenamed “Mango.” Coming about a year after the original launch of of Windows Phone, Mango brings with it several new features (Microsoft claims 500), including multitasking and a Groups feature that has deep integration with social networks like Facebook and Twitter. It also has powerful voice-to-text features.

The IS12T has other features that go beyond the new OS. The phone is said to be water- and dust-proof, and boasts both 32GB of storage as well as a camera with a whopping 13.2 megapixels. Its processor will be a 1GHz Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm. Users will also be able to use the phone to work on Microsoft Office documents as well as share data through Microsoft’s cloud service, SkyDrive.

Microsoft officially unveiled Mango in May. The market share of Windows Phone is relatively small compared to other major OSes like Apple’s iOS, Google’s Android, and RIM’s BlackBerry, pegged at only 2 percent of all smartphones in use, according to data from Millenial Media. However, IDC predicts that Windows Phone will capture 20 percent of the market by 2015.

Other partners making Mango Windows Phones include HTC, Samsung, Acer, ZTE, LG, and of course Nokia, which announced a major strategy shift to Windows Phone in January. Nokia is expected to unveil its first Mango phone, possibly called the “Sea Ray,” in October.

As for the IS12T, it’ll be on Japanese carriers KDDI and Okinawa Cellular. No prices were announced. The unveiling comes a day after Microsoft said it had sent the final Mango code to manufacturers. You can watch a video report on the Tokyo launch event from Network World below.

source:http://www.pcmag.com/

Google+ Users Translucent of 10 Million

JAKARTA l SURYA Online-Only two weeks in the announcement, Google + users already touched the figure of 10 million, it is a remarkable achievement considering the previous Google has failed to make social media pages.

Ancestry.com founder Paul Allen, who estimates the number of Google users + reached 10 million, despite the readiness of the social networking service itself is not maximized.

Allen expressed based on analysis of data from the Census Bureau calls the name of the United States. In a posting on Google +, he writes, “By using the 100-200, for example the family name, I was able to accurately estimate the total percentage of U.S. residents who have signed up Google +. Then I use that figure and calculate the ratio between U.S. users with non U.S. users around the world to produce an estimate. ”

Google has not officially released figures that service users. Nonetheless, much evidence that shows high user interest against Google + by the number of users already tens of thousands of people at an early stage.

Although Google’s social networking pages have been well received, in Google + posts recently, Vic Gondotra, senir vice president of Google said, “there are a lot of criticism for Google +. We listen and work to fix it. Wait! changes in this week. ”

Currently, Google is still behind competitors other social networking such as Twitter and Facebook. Twitter has more than 300 million users and Facebook last week announced the number of users has more than 750 million, as quoted from the Telegraph.