Archive for ‘July, 2005’

IBM presents dual-core version of the Power PC 970

IBM presents dual-core version of the Power PC 970

IBM Power PC 970FX with the dual core version of the announced, among other things used in Apple computers 970 MP. When the chip will be available, but currently not known. Both cores of the 970FX access a separate L2 cache with 1 Mbyte, and can be independently put into a sleep mode to save [...]

Antec with additional graphics card cooling

Antec with additional graphics card cooling

VCool Antec has introduced a cooling solution that is designed to complement on a graphics card attached fan. VCool is now available for 19 €. The cooling solution takes up two slots from the outside and directs the air flow drawn directly on the graphics card. This will depend on the setting cooled by five [...]

IBM relies on the internet from the socket

IBM relies on the internet from the socket

According to “New York Times,” IBM and Centerpoint Energy in Houston to establish a joint technology center, where the possibilities of the Internet through the outlet should be further developed. First center point target in Houston was there to test new chips, which can triple the speed of connection, the paper wrote. This is a [...]

Digital camera boom weakens

Digital camera boom weakens

The growth rates on the German market had slowed down in the photo first half of 2005, but are still at a high level. Growth will be driven, as in the previous year of the great demand for digital cameras. In the past half expected the digital camera market in Germany have grown by more [...]

Sipgate now offers nationwide emergency

Sipgate now offers nationwide emergency

Sipgate VoIP provider now offers its customers nationwide the opportunity to emergency numbers 110 and 112 use. The solution is automatically available and need not be activated separately. Sipgate fulfills the laid down in Section 108 TKG legal obligations for providers of publicly available telephone services. When you select the numbers 110 or 112 the [...]

LG Philips LCD with profit slump

LG Philips LCD with profit slump

Because of the strong lower prices of TFT-LCD panel maker LG Philips LCD in the past fiscal second quarter, has suffered a tidy profit slump. Compared with the previous year’s net profit fell by 94 percent to 41 billion won (32.7 million euros). In the previous year, the joint venture of the Dutch Philips group [...]

Phone call forwarding: T-Com 2.59 cents per minute to write well

Phone call forwarding: T-Com 2.59 cents per minute to write well

T-Com offers its customers under the program “Switch & Profit” is now the opportunity to redirect their phone calls are free to forward a maximum of two fixed lines. Per minute, then writes the T-Com 2.59 cents on the telephone bill well. This only works when a call from a landline telecom is going on. [...]

“Small” Trojans, big impact

“Small” Trojans, big impact

The British e-mail security provider Black Spider warns of a new Trojan that is spreading since yesterday more than 2.6 million e-mails to European companies. The e-mails containing the Trojan “Downloader.Win32.Small.arf” pose as spam warning of an IT team, whose system was infected and then allegedly sent spam messages. In the appendix of the e-mail [...]

Music streaming via Bluetooth to car stereo

Music streaming via Bluetooth to car stereo

Samsung and Audi have introduced a solution for playing music files via Bluetooth in the car. Here comes the “Advanced Audio Distribution Profile” (A2DP) is used, which was re-recorded in the Bluetooth standard. On the A2DP compatible Samsung SGH-D600 stored music is streamed via Bluetooth in stereo-quality hi-fi system for an Audi A6. The music [...]

Toshiba Announces LED projector for the IFA

Toshiba Announces LED projector for the IFA

Toshiba at IFA preview in Munich showed a projector that works instead of a lamp using Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs). According to Toshiba, they produce less heat and are energy efficient. For the IFA to the first devices will be presented. The LED projector can be operated with rechargeable batteries for two hours and have [...]

USB Camera as a remote monitoring system

USB Camera as a remote monitoring system

The U.S. security specialist Digi International has introduced a new high-performance USB camera for mission critical applications. The “Watchport/V2″ includes new features for easy integration into commercial applications and can be used with Digi’s motion detection software as a remote monitoring system. The “V2″ includes new features such as a DirectShow WDM driver that enables [...]

Toshiba plans to present at the IFA SE displays

Toshiba plans to present at the IFA SE displays

As part of the IFA-Preview Toshiba has given a preview of its technology developed in conjunction with Canon “Surface Conduction Electron emitter display” (SED), which is intended for the manufacture of screens in many sizes and resolutions to be good. Toshiba has explicitly mentioned the HDTV resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels. The official unveiling [...]

Microsoft: Patches for Windows and Office on the march

Microsoft: Patches for Windows and Office on the march

Microsoft plans as part of its monthly patch day next Tuesday include a total of critical vulnerabilities in the Windows and Office products. Two of the vulnerabilities affect Windows, one of which is classified with the highest severity “critical”, as the Office chess site. Microsoft has given no details on the impact of known vulnerabilities, [...]

Broadband in the U.S. grew strongly in 2004

Broadband in the U.S. grew strongly in 2004

In the U.S. the number of high-speed access to the Internet last year has grown by 34 percent to 37.9 million accesses. This was announced by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in a report. The agency counts all Internet access points that have a transfer rate of more than 200 kilobits per second, for high-speed [...]

Chip industry is not in motion

Chip industry is not in motion

In the semiconductor industry is no end to the slump in sight. Many producers currently sell far fewer chips than last year. This meant that the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSMC) in June sales decreases of more than ten percent over 2004, the company said yesterday. Even worse, it looks at United Microelectronics (UMC) from. The [...]