Archive for ‘December, 2005’

New Year’s Radeon costs less

New Year’s Radeon costs less

Before the New Year is only two weeks, and choose to upgrade your computer video card of the appropriate set of models on the market, pretty easy. ATI has decided to help hesitant shoppers and contributed to the Christmas mood – the price of video card Radeon X1600 XT and Radeon X1600 Pro 180 and [...]

Blu-ray Pioneer’s in early 2006

Blu-ray Pioneer’s in early 2006

Soon the time comes to Blu-ray and HD-DVD, which means that the asset’s leading companies should be the appropriate drive. However, the approximate onset of the new DVD-only formats can be producers themselves than they do. Recently the company Sigma Designs announced the signing of the agreement with Pioneer, according to which will deliver multimedia [...]

Three phone from GigaByte

Three phone from GigaByte

Production of mobile phones is not the main focus of the company GigaByte, but has recently been presented some pretty interesting models. PhoneDaily published several photos of three new handsets under the title GigaByte Barbie, g-CAM and g-SMART. Barbie fully confirms its title appearance – shape, body color, the shape of buttons and a slider [...]

Intel and BMW enter into comprehensive partnership

Intel and BMW enter into comprehensive partnership

Intel and BMW have decided the future, far-reaching cooperation. The agreement includes sponsorship of the Formula 1 team Sauber BMW as well as cooperation in the fields of technology and co-marketing. As a part of the agreement, BMW will implement company-wide and in its worldwide dealer network, Intel technology. As part of the multi-year agreement, [...]

Offshoring: Study sees India’s leadership role in danger

Offshoring: Study sees India’s leadership role in danger

McKinsey and Nasscom, the Indian IT Organization warned that India could use its position as the leading offshore destination losing end of the decade. A joint study identified the lack of skilled manpower and poor infrastructure as major problems. “The skills and the quality of the workforce must be improved, since only 25 percent of [...]

Mobile TV from Philips – now and for the U.S.

Mobile TV from Philips – now and for the U.S.

On the announcement of solutions for mobile TV from Philips, we reported several months ago. Then the company introduced a complete solution, called DVB-H BGT210 to watch TV on your mobile phone. This development company focused on the European market for telephones. A few days ago Philips introduced a similar resolution, but for the U.S. [...]

DRAM market is unstable

DRAM market is unstable

On the DRAM market is currently experiencing a lull. During the fourth quarter the price of 256 – and 512-Mbitnye DDR SDRAM memory chips went down in value about 20%. As for the totals of 2005, the projected global supply chain iSuppli volume stood at USD 23.3 billion, or about 10% higher than the results [...]

The original phones from Newgen

The original phones from Newgen

Technical capabilities of mobile phones are progressing day by day, and the presence of the camera, MP3 support and removable memory card is difficult to impress someone – this is the de facto standard. Another thing – a phone with an original design that would stand out from the crowd of their competitors due to [...]

ULi will help NVIDIA to manufacture hi-end chipsets

ULi will help NVIDIA to manufacture hi-end chipsets

Yesterday’s acquisition of ULi NVIDIA has become one of the central events of the week in the IT market. The significance of this event is difficult to overestimate – its effects can significantly change the balance of power in the chipset market. There was a first information about future plans in light of the NVIDIA [...]

Robot helper from Honda

Robot helper from Honda

Honda has introduced an updated humanoid robot ASIMO (the previous version was also presented in December 2004). “Zhelezyachka” can run at 6 km / h, to communicate with people, to carry various objects and carry out simple requests. ASIMO can be, for example, a waiter, help the sick and elderly people, or just do housework. [...]

Intel: Processors 241 million in 2009

Intel: Processors 241 million in 2009

Despite the fact that AMD’s processors are now very popular in the market, production volume of Intel processors grows every year. And if last year was produced 153 million units in 2009, as predicted by In-Stat, Intel will deliver at least 241 million units of CPUs. Priority will be given to the production of multi-core [...]

Kazaa owners may end up in jail

Kazaa owners may end up in jail

The owners of Kazaa could be sentenced to a prison sentence if a judge confirmed the allegations of the music industry that a sentence was not implemented. Kazaa contradicts this representation. The court has ruled that Kazaa by 5 Keyword Filter December 3000 in order to prevent downloading protected content. Instead, the parent company Sharman [...]

Identification systems based on fingerprints are unreliable

Identification systems based on fingerprints are unreliable

In recent years all over the world there is an active transition to biometric identification systems, because they are considered the most reliable. The researchers of one of American universities have shown that such systems are also very easy to fool. The study cost of $ 3 million was supported by the Ministry of Defence, [...]

Elpida goes to the flash market!

Elpida goes to the flash market!

Care market with Renesas Technology flash memory marked the beginning of the expected rearrangement of power in this segment. A niche, analysts say, will not be empty for too long. The Japanese company Renesas suspend a new AG-AND flash memory, but will continue to manufacture and supply of currently existing flash-based products. Such a decision [...]

Quick announcement ATi Mobility X1800

Quick announcement ATi Mobility X1800

Performance graphics accelerator for mobile PCs are not so popular as part of normal desktop computers, but many manufacturers have in their arsenal of laptops, for which the latest toy – not a problem, and they can easily cope with them. In the near future the company intends to submit ATi mobile version of the [...]