Archive for ‘2002’

Creative with three speakers for gaming consoles

Creative with three speakers for gaming consoles

Creative and its subsidiary Cambridge Soundworks have interpreted existing PC speaker systems for game consoles. New are the Inspire 2.1 Console 2400 and the Inspire 5.1 Console 5500D. This presented some time ago PS2000 Digital was for the Playstation 2 reduced the price. The Inspire 2.1 Console 2400-system is available in three versions for the [...]

Gyration introduces first wireless mouse hovering

Gyration introduces first wireless mouse hovering

are now the mice not only without cable and ball control, but also without stopping. The American technology company Gyration intends to present at the Photokina fair in Cologne with the “Ultra Professional Optical Mouse” is a wireless optical mouse for presentation professionals, which requires no more than table support surface. The user should be [...]

Free spam filter for private users

Free spam filter for private users

The Berlin software company offers home users now with Eleven “Expurgate” a free anti-spam service. The service identifies annoying advertising e-mails much more reliable than any previous filter of its kind and even recognize dangerous items, the manufacturer promises. The filtering process takes, according to the provider typically only fractions of seconds. Then be commercial [...]

TDK Introduces DVD / RW drive for 400 €

TDK Introduces DVD / RW drive for 400 €

The Japanese electronics giant TDK has the “DVW-A020106″ presented a DVD burner. The internal EIDE device will cost around 400 € at the store. The DVD / CD combo burner can burn to CD-R discs at up to eight times the speed and CD-RW discs with four times the pace. For the amount the customer [...]

Study: digging cell phones digital cameras from the water

Study: digging cell phones digital cameras from the water

More and more phones come with built-in digital camera on the market. Nokia 7650, Sony Ericsson T68i or T39m with Quickcam soon or Samsung’s “Camera Phone”. But while pleased D2 Vodafone and T-Mobile cell phones sold over 15 000 each way to see the digital camera manufacturers, the development with concern. If you believe the [...]

Innovation: Cipher PC Bilschirm

Innovation: Cipher PC Bilschirm

Who unobserved by colleagues in the office or personal e-mails confidential wants to write business letters, for a Japanese company Iizuka Denki Kogyo a solution to this problem: A computer screen, where nobody can see anything except the user. Become visible only with special glasses, which is on the screen, a representative of the company [...]

New approach for speech input

New approach for speech input

“voice input” was one of the dot-visions of the past century. So far the results are known, however, failed more than meager. The programming of video recorders or computers, for many still an annoyance tip end. Presented by the Federal Ministry for Education and Research, project EMBASSI yesterday in Hamburg latest solutions. In the “electronic [...]

Metabox has once again filed for insolvency

Metabox has once again filed for insolvency

Metabox AG (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MBX) has requested the local court in Hildesheim bankruptcy for the second time. The provider of set-top boxes had given as a reason that all rescue attempts have failed in recent months. The company was able to find either a suitable investor, nor the company last year by the state [...]

Samsonite luggage combines with cell phone

Samsonite luggage combines with cell phone

With simple tricks and sophisticated electronics designers try the briefcases and handbags to protect their customers from thieves: The U.S. manufacturer Samsonite has about at Paris Leather Goods Fair, the world’s first electronic luggage-monitoring system. A chip in your pocket, wirelessly connected to the mobile phone of the owner. Removes the good bit more than [...]

Intel cuts CPU prices by up to 52 percent

Intel cuts CPU prices by up to 52 percent

last week by Intel (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: INL) newly presented Pentium 4 processor at 2.8 GHz has initiated further price reductions in its own product portfolio. The world’s largest chip maker, continued in almost all areas of his chips on the red pencil. The strongest of the AMD-rival turned the desktop Pentium 4 2.4 GHz. [...]

Windows Media Player 9 dominated radio-transmission

Windows Media Player 9 dominated radio-transmission

Microsoft (Frankfurt Stock Exchange: MSF) and Tandberg Television are already developing on version 9 (code name: Corona) of the Windows Media Player for Windows. The software Palyer, on 4 September in Hollywood as a “public beta” will be presented to the public will be able to transfer content via wireless technology. The platform for audio [...]

Expensive phone calls again by 0.5 percent

Expensive phone calls again by 0.5 percent

after 4.7 percent in July, is phoning in August have risen by another 0.5 percent over the same month last year. According to the Federal Statistical Office in Wiesbaden took the price index for telephone services in August by 1.4 percent compared to the previous year. Even when the connection and rental prices were screwed [...]

Bluetooth will soon be past

Bluetooth will soon be past

presented only recently new wireless technologies 802.15.3 (known as UWB, Ultra Wide Band) and 802.15.4 (code name: Zigbee) are very likely to soon replace Bluetooth, estimates of Gemtek Technology analyst and technical advisor Kevin Yang. The clear advantage of UWBs transmission technology lay in the speed. According to Yang transmits ultra-wideband data at up to [...]

According to survey results: Crisis at SonyEricsson

According to survey results: Crisis at SonyEricsson

has not so far, the Sony Ericsson symbiosis brought so much success, as initially hoped. Ericsson CEO Kurt Hellstrom therefore sees in April together with Sony bundled mobile activities is not currently under such a lucky star, writes the “Wall Street Journal.” The Swedes are now questioning the alliance. “If set in the next few [...]

Panasonic DVD Video Recorder with 40 GB hard disk

Panasonic DVD Video Recorder with 40 GB hard disk

Matsushita, known by its Panasonic brand, has announced the DMR-HS2 (English site), a digital video recorder with built-in DVD drive. There are also no data on the German site to the device, the player but according to Panasonic in October 1499 for about € go on sale. The recorder should be able to hold up [...]