“Hewlett-Packard” has been successful in developing an innovative technological process that will use recycled plastic for manufacturing the cartridges for its ink-jet printers.
With this technology, the company made use of more than 5 million pounds of old plastic during the previous year. It was on a pilot basis that the company was able to produce more than 200 million such cartridges with this process. “The company now has plans to use twice as much recycled plastic in cartridges this year” said the company executive in a statement.

This technologically advanced recycling process of HP involves a combination of multiple sources and grades of old plastic. The source of plastic includes generally used water bottles and the old ink-jet cartridges. Counting after its first phase of test production of the ink cartridges, the company has been successful in recycling enough plastic to fill more than 200 tractor-trailers.

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‘Hewlett Packard (HP)’ launched its first mobile thin client, a notebook this week. This exclusive notebook has been enabled to store data and access several wireless applications on a centralized server.

In addition to the ‘Compaq 6720t’, HP also rolled up the two desktop thin clients, the ‘Compaq t5730’ and’ t5735’. The 6720t and t5730 notebooks run’ Microsoft Windows XPe’ while the ‘t5735 notebook’ is based on the ‘Debian Linux Operating System’. This model is also capable of supporting other open source applications.

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Many new and improved updates to the ‘BlackBerry Platform’ were introduced by the “Research In Motion (RIIM)” this week. These new additions include improved messaging, enhanced security, and simplified device management.

The’ BlackBerry Enterprise Solution’ comprises of various tools that facilitate business professionals with an access to the wireless information and communication network. This facility also includes features like messaging and collaboration. This can be achieved with e-mail, instant-messaging, calendars, address books, and many other tasks. The system also provides an access to the enterprise data, and personal productivity tools. A key element of the RIM’s enterprise platform is the “BlackBerry Enterprise Server” is an important element of the RIIM. This enhances the capabilities of device management and “push” wireless e-mail on BlackBerrys.

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IBM has recently introduced a new version of its data center automation software and has added many new features and enhancements to the existing software.
IBM’s “Tivoli Provisioning Manager 5.1.1”, the software performs many functions and also automates the discovery, deployment, configuration, and management of operating systems, patches, middleware, and applications on physical and virtual servers.

The ‘Trivoli’ software is capable of managing various applicable virtualization technologies. It can also manage the SAN and NAS based storage resources. The network devices acting as routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers are some more features that can equally be managed with this software, according to IBM sources.

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Samsung in a tie–up with LaCie has introduced an innovative development of 1.3 inch large capacity hard drive specifically for smaller devices. The duo will be bringing the new 30 GB and 40GB small drives as an addition to its ‘Little Disk’ range of products.

An updated version of its existing ‘credit–card-size USB Key Max Drive’ is also on the cards. Both of these products can be easily connected to any computer with a USB 2.0 arrangement.
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Logitech recently launched a new innovative” Logitech diNovo Mini palm-sized keyboard” with media remote and Click Pad. This mini keyboard has been specifically designed for the people who wish to connect their PC to their TV. The stylish ‘diNovo Mini keyboard’ facilitates its users to have an easy control on their PC entertainment in the way they want.

Along with the easy navigation, the ‘diNovo Mini keyboard’ also features backlighting and an innovative Click Pad that can be used by the users as a touch pad to point scroll and click. It can also be used as a directional pad to navigate between menus and select destination channels and other targets. Consumers have an added advantage with its combined ‘Bluetooth 2.0 wireless technology’ to facilitate them with its use from anywhere in their living rooms.

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Google, with its one more advancement, has made one of its latest facility service,’iGoogle’ available on the iPhone. Users of the ‘iPhone’ will now have an access to the popular iGoogle customizable web page.

Those who have already spent some time in customizing iGoogle would definitely like the way it’s laid out on their PC. Such users might also be interested in using iGoogle on their iPhone.

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Sony introduced a high-definition TV in the U.S. markets this week. Sony has manufactured this product with an ‘emerging display technology’ that delivers images far better in quality and sharpness in comparison to the currently popular LCD and plasma TVs.

Sony’s high definition TV is based on “Organic Light-Emitting Diode Technology (OLED)”. Currently popular HDTVs are having only 11-inch models. The mainstream television models on the other hand have popular models ranging from 37 inches to 42 inches display.

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