DirecTV will soon join TiVo and Dish on the market of portable media content. According to rumors, the next week the two companies will conclude a partnership agreement with another unknown manufacturer and a telecommunications company NBC, with what, in fact, and begin the “delivery” of television programs, TV series, etc. on mobile media players. [...]

Linksys released a set Internet Telephony Kit (CIT200) allows you to use service Skype, using this device for the usual “everyday appearance” – a wireless phone standard DECT. Completely without the computer, however, do not yet work – the base station will need to connect via USB to the computer running the client on its [...]

Hardware manufacturers already being prepared for the announcement of the new operating system from Microsoft called Vista, gradually introducing products to market with support for this operating system. Basically it refers to the manufacturers of graphics cards, but they have this tendency is not restricted. Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and VIA Technologies in the next [...]

Company Option, following the announcement of a modem for 3G cellular networks in the form factor of PCMCIA, introduced the 3G HSDPA modem GTM351E, designed to the specifications PCI Express Mini Card. The device can transmit up to 1.8 Mbit / s and works in networks UMTS / WCDMA at 2100 MHz and EDGE / [...]

The company XM Satellite Radio announced plans to demonstrate at the next exhibition CES, which opens in Las Vegas very soon – January 5, 2006, a concept car Lexus LX 470, “charged” voice controlled system for receiving satellite digital audio and broadcast video, get weather reports, information about available parking places and other services. In [...]

Known for its system units, power supply and cooler, the American company Cooler Master introduced the thermal grease NanoFusion, meeting the environmental requirements of RoHS. By a bold statement of representatives, the matter is downright revolutionary and easy to bypass the competition. Recall that the thermal compound is used for a better fit chip to [...]

Company Asustek Computer and Advantech Computer founded a joint venture, called Advansus Computer. The amount of seed capital is 30.4 million dollars, the distribution of shares among the participants – 50/50. The head of the newly formed company will be Ki-Chang Liu (Ke-cheng Liu), currently the president of Advantech. Specialization of the joint venture will [...]

How to get the honorary title of Commander of the British Empire (Commander of the British Empire) by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (Queen Elizabeth), hitting the New Queen of Great Britain Award list (Queen’s Honours List)? To do this, it is not necessary, as in former times, to distinguish themselves in battle. You can, for [...]

According to analysts in 2006, Asustek has the potential to overtake Sony in the supply of laptops. Economic Daily News said that Asustek will release to the market next year, three million laptops, while Sony will overcome “only” 2.4-2.8 million Sources of such information is not called, but Asustek declined to comment until the data. [...]

OCZ Technology company is known to any more or less advanced due to its excellent overclocker memory modules, demonstrating an enviable performance, and having excellent overclocking potential. The range of modules, added a new series Gamer eXtreme XTC DDR2, representing a dual-channel memory kit PC2-4200 and PC2-5400 up to 2 GB. The name of the [...]

The company Micronas announced that at CES 2006, which will be held from 5 to 8 January, will present the HD-image stabilization in dynamic videos. Real Motion technology aims to use the HD-TVs with large diagonal and a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels. Modern movies are removed and mounted in a format of 24 [...]

ASUS has unveiled two graphics cards and EAX1800XT TOP/2DHTV/512M EAX1600XT TOP/2DHTV/512M. Accelerators are built, you guessed it, the chip Radeon X1800 XT and Radeon X1600 PRO and equipped with a variety of software, adapters, games, and gamepad. Senior of the announced accelerators running with elevated, compared to a conventional map, frequencies, but requires an external [...]

The financial problems that began the company Abit in the past year, pursue her still. Recall that in November 2004, the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taiwan Stock Exchange, TSE) opened an investigation regarding the financial situation, Abit, and demanded to review the results from 2003 to 2005 and provide new data for February 2006. Otherwise, Abit [...]

According to Chinese publication Economic Daily News, the company Asustek Computer is preparing to sell a laptop with a 12.1 inch LCD display with backlight white LED. Supply LEDs to Asustek will be the company Everlight Electronics. Using LED in LCD panels will reduce energy consumption, dimensions of the screen and, unlike conventional cathode lamps, [...]

The company runs Novogo «V» line of GPS-navigators. Within each of these devices is perched 400-MHz processor from Intel, 64MB RAM, memory card support SD/CF-2, SiRF Star III GPS receiver. Besides all the above and a 3.5-inch touch panel LCD screen, the system from Novogo involve a system voice control (which is infinitely useful for [...]