Archive for ‘January, 2006’

Olympic notebook computers from IBM

Olympic notebook computers from IBM

Just two “special version” of laptops, IBM is going to prepare for the commencement of the Winter Olympics in Turin. Models of ThinkPad Z60t/Z60m will have a specially developed design, as well as a good iron “stuffing”. Both laptops are based on technology, Intel Centrino. Apparatus is installed inside a Pentium M 740 (1.73GHz), 512MB [...]

Happy Birthday, Mac!

Happy Birthday, Mac!

Macintosh computer 22 years old. January 24, 1984, the year Apple has issued a press release, which is the first personal computer with a mouse. It spoke of the benefits of advanced 32-bit architecture, the 64 Kbytes of ROM and 128 Kbytes of RAM needed to run office applications – notepad, calculator and file folders. [...]

3D bar code can store video

3D bar code can store video

Barcode – a label that each of us had seen in a variety of food and manufactured goods. However, as it turns out, the most common type in the barcode can conceal something interesting. The company invented the Content Idea dimensional bar code, which is twenty-four layers of different colors, so it can store from [...]

RD480-A939 CrossFire ispolenii in ECS

RD480-A939 CrossFire ispolenii in ECS

Company Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) announced a new motherboard RD480-A939 CrossFire. It is easy to guess that the new product is designed to work with Socket 939 processors (Athlon 64 / Athlon FX / Athlon 64 X2/Sempron) and allows you to combine two graphics cards in CrossFire mode according to the formula 8 + 8. [...]

Lower prices for processors AMD Athlon, Sempron and Turion

Lower prices for processors AMD Athlon, Sempron and Turion

AMD today announced price reductions on most medium and high-end models of processors for desktop systems. On a mobile high-level model ML-44 prices have fallen by 33% (from 525 to 354 dollars), high-performance dual-core Athlon64 X2 4800 + fell by 20% (from 803 to 643 dollars), the mobile Athlon 64 4000 + and 3400 + [...]

GeForce 7300GS in performance Chaintech

GeForce 7300GS in performance Chaintech

Already sprawling party graphics cards based on GeForce 7300GS chip a few days ago got a new fighter. At this time, a map prepared for battle an elite unit of the company Chaintech. Father – father rigged the young “warrior” with all necessary uniforms – memory type DDR II and actively cooled GPU. For services [...]

Dell notebooks will be released to the Internet via 3G

Dell notebooks will be released to the Internet via 3G

Mobile users in the first place requires a quality wireless Internet access. Popular Wi-Fi, but still not very common, especially as the radius of the access point is not that big. Dell has announced that in cooperation with the operator Vodafone, will provide laptops with integrated cellular third generation Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) in [...]

Sharp will take more seriously the LCD

Sharp will take more seriously the LCD

Sharp, appears to refuse to produce projection TV (RPTV) and completely switch to LCDs. Despite the previously reported 56 and 65 inch new projection screens in the future, the company engaged in the sector will not. The world market is growing very slowly RPTV, and demand for projection TVs with large diagonal also leaves much [...]

Mobile operators aim at the children

Mobile operators aim at the children

As the world’s adult population is almost all acquired its mobile phones, mobile operators are forced to find new markets for their products. Under assumptions of analysts in the next few years the attention of mobile phone manufacturers and service providers will be directed at children aged eight to 12 years. In English they are [...]

IEEE 802.11n approved

IEEE 802.11n approved

The working group which was formed within the organization IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers) to develop a new standard specification Wi-Fi, unanimously voted to adopt the standard 802.11n. were working on it for a long time now until the approval of the standard left quite a bit [...]

ABIT lived, ABIT is alive, ABIT will live!

ABIT lived, ABIT is alive, ABIT will live!

At 16:00 Moscow time, ending the veto on disclosure of closed from time to time information, so from this point of our readers have the opportunity to learn the fate of the first companies ABIT. It’s no secret that in recent years by ABIT experienced some difficulties with further positioning its brand in the market. [...]

Low-profile GeForce 7300 GS from MSI

Low-profile GeForce 7300 GS from MSI

Almost immediately after the official announcement by NVIDIA of their new low-end card GeForce 7300GS, many manufacturers have begun to present their solutions based on it. MSI is no exception, although its product a few stands out thanks to their design features. GeForce 7300 GS from MSI is a low profile card, which, however, did [...]

FCC with a 2.7 “display brightness 1200 cd/m2

FCC with a 2.7 “display brightness 1200 cd/m2

In the compact digital camera models have played a major role, as the number of megapixels is not the matrix as diagonal LCD display. The new camera EXILIM ZOOM EX-Z600 Casio from the company for example provides 2,7 “LCD TFT display (153,600 pixels) Brightness 1200 cd/m2 glow. Specifications Casio EXILIM ZOOM EX-Z600: Image Sensor: 6-megapixel [...]

TD-SCDMA – the official standard 3G-connection in China

TD-SCDMA – the official standard 3G-connection in China

The Chinese Government has finally given a “good” introduction to communication standard TD-SCDMA. China’s Ministry of Industry said that the technology is fully ready for practical use. Communications equipment for 3G-standard TD-SCDMA was developed Datang Mobile and other local companies, so that China’s telecom operators are exempt from royalties Qualcomm and other manufacturers of equipment [...]

3G will gain popularity in Europe by 2010

3G will gain popularity in Europe by 2010

Currently in Europe there is an active process of introduction of third generation networks, the number of different services that require the subscribers of UMTS-tubes, that is, everything is done to persuade consumers to purchase the device with support for 3G. However, according to analysts, until 2010, GSM and GPRS will remain the dominant technology [...]