SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — Palm introduced ‘Treo Pro’, an effortlessly usable smartphone for businesses that want to simplify their IT infrastructures and lower costs, and for users who want to stay on top of their professional and personal lives.

With its streamlined design and Palm shortcuts layered on Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional, Treo Pro is a unique combination of sleek simplicity and robust productivity, including email, Wi-Fi and GPS capabilities.

Treo Pro’s thin design blends a flush, high-resolution color touch screen and a full qwerty keyboard with a removable battery that packs up to five hours of talk time and enough strength for the business user’s needs, offering a powerful yet effortless mobile experience.

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — YuKyung Technologies has presented its Atom-based MID ‘viliv S5′ at the IDF(Intel Development Forum) San Francisco 2008.

(Picture: ‘viliv S5′ photo quoted from UMPC Portal)

Running on Intel Atom 1.8GHz processor and Linux/Windows Vista/XP OS, the viliv S5 is equipped with a 4.8-inch LCD screen with 800*480 resolution, 1GB of RAM and 30GB/60GB HDD. Offering 6 hours battery life, it supports Bluetooth/WiFi/HSDPA/WiBro.

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — Meritech(www.meripmp.com) launched its low-end mini PMP ‘M35 Touch’ in Korea market.

AS an upgraded model of ‘M35′, the M35 Touch is equipped with a 3.5-inch touch screen, DMB antenna, and built-in dual speakers. Featuring a slim design, the M35 Touch supports various music formats (MP3, WMA, ASF, OGG, APE, and FLAC), SRS WOW HD technology, electronic dictionary function, flash game, and more.

Suggested price is 189,000(KRW) for 8GB model and 229,000(KRW) for 16GB model.

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — Olympus expects to roll out its new entry-level digital camera ‘CAMEDIA FE-370′ in Japan market, which will be available on August 28th.

Adopting 8M CCD sensor with a 5x optical zoom lens and a 2.7-inch LCD screen, the CAMEDIA FE-370 supports up to ISO 1600, face detection for up to 16 people, and a ‘Smile Shot’ scene mode.

Measuring 94.7*25.3*56.7mm at 128g, it comes in three different colors including silver, blue and pink.

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — Dell is going to release its eco-friendly mini desktop pc ‘Studio Hybrid’ in Japan market on Thursday, which can be stood vertically or horizontally. Designed with a bamboo-clad concept, the Studio Hybrid comes in six different colors.

Measuring 72×211×197mm at 1.8kg, the Studio Hybrid is powered by Intel Pentium Dual Core T2390 processor, Windows Vista Home Basic/Premium, up to 4GB of RAM and 320GB HDD. It also supports WiFi, five USB ports and HDMI/DVI ports.

Suggested price is between 69,800(JPY) and 119,800(JPY).

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — GMC launches its 67mm-thick HTPC case ‘AVC-S7′ in Korea market, which features slim design that looks like a high-end audio system.

Adopting a VFD screen and various card slots on the front panel, the AVC-S7 is compatible with Windows XP Media Center Edition as well as Windows XP and Vista.

Suggested price is below 300,000(KRW).

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — Fujitsu expects to launch its new 5.6-inch UMPC ‘FMV-BIBLO LOOX U series’ in Japan market on August 29th.

Running on Intel Atom Z530(1.60GHz) processor and Windows Vista Home Premium OS, the FMV-BIBLO LOOX U series adopts a 5.6-inch touch screen with 1,280*800(WXGA) resolution and a 1.3M webcam. Measuring 171*135*26.5~33mm at 565g, it also offers 11.1-hour battery life and Bluetooth connectivity support.

SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Micrel Inc.,
(Nasdaq: MCRL), an industry leader in analog, high bandwidth and Ethernet IC
solutions, today announced that Balda Solutions Malaysia, has chosen Micrel’s
MICRF112 and MICRF211 QwikRadio(R) IC solutions as its devices of choice for
inclusion into new TPMS systems for aftermarket applications. The system
consists of a minimum of four sensor transmitters (MICRF112 used) and a
Receiver Display system (RF211 used). The application senses the tire pressure
and temperature continuously and then alerts the driver when any of the tires’
pressure or temperature reaches beyond a specified set level, potentially
saving the driver significant gas and associated tire “wear and tear” costs.

“We are pleased to have chosen Micrel’s RF solutions for use in our most
advanced applications,” stated Mr. Y.M. …

UNIVERSITY PARK, Ill., Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Federal Signal
Corporation’s Safety and Security Systems Group, a leader in advancing
security and well-being, today announced that its PIPS Technology subsidiary
has entered into a cooperative marketing agreement with 3M Corporation to
provide an electronic vehicle registration (EVR) solution to the
transportation market segment.

“3M is committed to delivering innovative solutions to complex problems
that our customers are facing,” said Terry Griffith, international marketing
manager and EVR program manager for 3M’s Traffic Safety Systems Division.
“Partnerships like this enable our 70 plus subsidiaries around the world to
work with customers to develop and deploy comprehensive systems that improve
the safety of a country’s infrastructure.”

By Andrew Liszewski

A few months ago I wrote about a couple of pairs of limited edition Puma Disc Blaze sneakers that featured a Tetris design, complete with a blinding 90’s neon color scheme. I have no idea how well the shoes sold, but given how rabid some sneaker collectors can be, I have to assume they were quite popular. And that’s probably why Puma is releasing another custom pair of Disc Blaze sneakers that feature a more subtle design inspired by the 1985 film, The Goonies. In reality the shoes can only be considered ’subtle’ when compared to the Tetris kicks, since these also feature a pretty crazy design with skulls and treasure map patterns, and what looks like hemp loops on the tongue and heel. They even appear to come in a Puma/Goonies-themed burlap sack, and like the Tetris versions before them, they’ll only be available in limited numbers when they go on sale in December.

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I normally don’t tend to cover video games too often, I’m just too busy playing them with my work and all… yeah… work. Well, along comes the oddly named, ZzangOnline by Korean gaming company, MuhanGame.

By their own accord, it’s a “casual MMORPG” easy enough for most anybody to pick up, get into, play, kick butt, and have fun… ok, I’m interested. And for once, a cool looking game that didn’t originate from either Europe, the USA or Japan will finally be made available to the gaming populace worldwide.

In an interview with MuhanGames…

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SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — LG Hitachi presented its biometric module ‘Vein ID’ in Korea market during Security World Expo 2008, which uses light projected through the skin of an individual’s finger to enable high-contrast vein pattern matching.

Such patterns are unique to each person and not visible to the naked eye, enhancing the system’s privacy and security. In addition, this highly accurate tool can read vein patterns regardless of such skin problems as cuts, scrapes, dirt, sweat or sores.

The Vein ID module is expected to be available for 2,500,000(KRW).

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — LG Electronics announced a strategic business partnership with Honeywell. This agreement covers intelligent building systems, in which Honeywell possesses world’s leading technology.

The partnership agreement embraces comprehensive cooperation across sales, marketing, training, product development, and technology services for building solution systems. Through this collaboration with Honeywell, LG expects to establish an exclusive solution for spec-in sales activities, expand its capability in relevant technologies and improve its engineers’ skills through training.

LG marked this business partnership agreement with a ceremony held today at the Grand Hilton Hotel in Seoul, Korea. Executives attending from both companies included…

SEOUL, Korea (AVING) — With global sales of 3,961,629 units in 2007 the Hyundai-Kia Automotive Group has emerged as the world’s fifth largest automaker moving up from sixth place in 2006, according to Automotive News’ 2008 Global Data Book published yesterday.

“We are extremely proud of having achieved this goal in such a short period of time,” said Ik-Hwan Kim, Vice-Chairman and CEO of Kia Motors. “We have been stressing the value of our products over the last few years and our efforts have not gone unnoticed by the public or the industry, neither quantitatively or qualitatively. Kia will continue to focus on producing a new generation of quality vehicles with distinctive design for those who are young-at-heart to keep the momentum of our brand growing. As a …

LAS VEGAS, USA (AVING) — Google released an application ‘Google Media Server’ that enables a Windows PC to show videos and photos and play music on a digital television.

The Google Media Server can connect a PC to any device that supports Universal Plug and Play, or UPnP, a set of computer network protocols that enable devices to share data across a home network.

The Media Server, which only works on Windows machines, requires the user install Google Desktop applications on the PC. The server uses the technology for its administration tool and leverages Desktop Search to locate media files on the PC and on the Web, where the most popular video site is Google-owned YouTube.

In releasing the software, Google moves closer to an area of the home…