Archive for ‘May, 2006’

Apple and Softbank make phone?

Apple and Softbank make phone?

Cruising the Net rumors about the upcoming mobile phone from Apple confirmed. According to Nikkei, the Japanese company Softbank in conjunction with the aforementioned Apple Computer has announced the joint development of a special phone model with built-in the iPod. It is reported that the new unit will “carry” both brands. Probably, Softbank, recently bought [...]

BD-cinema from Amex Digital

BD-cinema from Amex Digital

Amex Digital has decided to go beyond conventional BD-players and presented the MPC-505 – the world’s first “home theater” based on Blu-ray. The Center supports both DVI because HDMI, which will allow all the benefits of HD when connected to a TV with high resolution. The model is also equipped with a special tuner that [...]

MSI Launches First Laptop with Turion X2

MSI Launches First Laptop with Turion X2

MSI Mega Book S271 is the first notebook introduced with the dual-core processor from AMD. It is to be delivered in late May. MSI uses the 64-bit Turion 64 X2 chip along with the ATI RS485M chipset, with the CPU model is selected with clock speeds from 1.6 to 2.0 GHz. When price is € [...]

nForce 590 is compatible with Intel Conroe

nForce 590 is compatible with Intel Conroe

Past failures NVIDIA, had led to limited support for nForce 4 Intel Edition Some processors Intel, gave rise to much speculation and concern about adequate support for a new generation of chipsets, promising new Core 2 Duo, which should begin to conquer the market this summer. Fortunately all fears dispelled the public itself NVIDIA, had [...]

Continues to develop UWB

Continues to develop UWB

Despite the slowdown in the standardization of UWB (UltraWide Band), development of the standard is not terminated. The well-known agency ABI Research has recently published a report which is expected to increase release of UWB products to 300 million units by 2001. Nevertheless, many experts there is no single global standard called UWB as the [...]

GeForce 7950 GX2 for $ 600?

GeForce 7950 GX2 for $ 600?

Even in the moment of the G71 GPU, NVIDIA has made it clear that no competitor will quietly take a breath, and will aggressively promote their solutions to market. In recent years in many countries it was noted that the price of GeForce 7900 GTX / GT seriously came down, in some regions of lower [...]

Google Video service is faster

Google Video service is faster

Google wants to make its video service grip, thereby facilitating adjustment of videos for the user. So far, an extra software needed to be downloaded, which took over the uploads of the movies in the future should be possible to upload directly through the website. In addition, users can instantly view video clips, Peter Chane, [...]

In Britain, allowed to copy music

In Britain, allowed to copy music

As everyone knows, until recently, the U.S. recording association, very vehemently against copying music, released on optical media. The fight against unauthorized distribution of intellectual property rights of famous artists and conducted in European countries, but according to recent reports, the situation may change somewhat for the people of Britain. According to BPI, the organization [...]

Prices for NAND flash memory continues to grow

Prices for NAND flash memory continues to grow

Samsung Electronics again raised contract prices for NAND flash memory, as well as informed partners that he has no stock 1Gb NAND chips to supply the market. Source notes that the nominated company prices exceed the current average market prices: the chips 2Gb – $ 6 (with an average price of $ 5.45), 4 GB [...]

Radio with manual charging from Sony

Radio with manual charging from Sony

Everyone who is going to the summer recreation, Sony is offering a new model of MFP ICF-B01. It includes a radio receiver operating in the AM and FM, flashlight, and charging for mobile phones. Move it from place to place is very convenient because it is very light and weighs 285 grams. The device can [...]

Acer all the “chocolate”: results of sales, new products

Acer all the “chocolate”: results of sales, new products

Boast of its activities for the first quarter of this year, came to Moscow himself president Gianfranco Lanci. And what is the boast. Total turnover for the first three months of this year totaled $ 2.56 billion and net income of – $ 123.88 million, which is 26.3% (of turnover) more than the same period [...]

17 May – World Information Society Day

17 May – World Information Society Day

Today, May 17 is World Day for the first time on the Information Society – a resolution on this at number A/RES/60/252 UN General Assembly adopted a little earlier, March 27, 2006. Earlier this day was celebrated as World Telecommunication Day – in honor of the establishment in 1865 of the International Telecommunication Union. This [...]

The new processor ARM Cortex-R4

The new processor ARM Cortex-R4

Production of ARM is widely used in mobile konsyumerskoy electronics (PDAs, mobile phones) – a 16/32-bit RISC-processors, 3D-processor, built-in memory, etc. Recently, the company’s portfolio supplemented processor Cortex-R4, which is designed for mobile phone (as a 3G-modem), automatic devices running OSEK, printers and hard drives. In total, according to company representatives, the processor may find [...]

Water as a source of information storage

Water as a source of information storage

Water has an infinite number of properties that distinguish it as a unique and invaluable nutrients. On the property of water to remember the information talked about recently in the concept of a single energy-field of the Universe. It seems that some scientists are trying to direct research in more applied direction, the most useful [...]

Philips: LCD TV cost reduction

Philips: LCD TV cost reduction

Inexorable decline in retail prices are concerned TV manufacturers and forces them to seek new maneuvers to ensure the profitability of production. It is reported that at the moment most companies are concerned about the reduction of production costs, namely a decrease in the total cost of the required components to build LCD TV. Leaving [...]