Archive for ‘June, 2006’

New iPods come with delay

New iPods come with delay

The US-based analyst Shaw Wu of American Technology Research fueled the rumor mill to the next generation iPod. Peddled a new widescreen video iPod nanos and new iPods will double capacity. “So far we have assumed that the new devices in the third or fourth quarter of this year on the market”, Apple Insider quotes [...]

Western Digital will be responsible for HDD capacity

Western Digital will be responsible for HDD capacity

Western Digital Corp. will have to provide free software to backup data to the court decision on the claim of collective purchasers of hard drives. Last year, the company sued for what it advertises its hard-disc drives with a capacity of 80 GB, while their real capacity – only 74.4 GB, as is known, one [...]

Another device for the blind

Another device for the blind

Another interesting device to make life easier for blind and partially sighted people, presented the American inventor Ray Kurzweil, working with the National Federation of the Blind. The device, tentatively called the “talking camera” helps articulate any text. To use it enough to scan any printed document, wait a few seconds, then the text will [...]

Blue Omni player from Titan

Blue Omni player from Titan

Laurels iTunes and iPod do not give to live in peace for many companies, but so far no one has really failed to repeat the success of Apple. Probably that’s why the company Titan Global Entertainment has decided to beat ahead of announcing that in the near future intends to significantly expand the site Titan [...]

LG brings light 1.1 pound subnotebook

LG brings light 1.1 pound subnotebook

LG has unveiled a 1.1 kg lightweight subnotebook with 12.1-inch display. The TX-ADGAG is now available for 1999 €. Than one processor clocked at 1.3 GHz Pentium M is used. Otherwise, the device has 1 GB of RAM, a 60-gigabyte hard drive, WiFi 802.11a/b/g and Bluetooth 2.0. The included dual-layer DVD burner is connected externally [...]

Motherboard for Woodcrest and the follower will

Motherboard for Woodcrest and the follower will

A few days ago was announced a new line of server processors Intel-based micro-Core, which received the name Xeon 5100 (core Woodcrest). The new architecture has brought a drastic reduction in processor power. The older model series Xeon 5100 clocked at 3 GHz and a TDP 80 Tues All other models have 65W TDP, while [...]

Failure of Intel in the mobile market segment

Failure of Intel in the mobile market segment

As you already know, Intel has sold its business to create a processor for mobile phones Marvell «all» for $ 600 million in an attempt to cover up the failure of the announcement of the server processor Woodcrest. Shame, really, what is, after all, despite vast investments, to break into the market, sulivshy a lot [...]

Competition articles on 3DNews

Competition articles on 3DNews

Competition articles on Whioam Dear friends! We are glad to announce you the launch of the competition articles, which will last 2 months and will end on August 25. Participants waiting for the mass of the prizes that will be presented in person or, for those who live far away from Moscow, sent by mail [...]

Qimonda develops 75-nm process

Qimonda develops 75-nm process

The company Qimonda, a separate unit for the production of memory Infineon Technologies, the beginning of the introduction of 75-nm process technology at its manufacturing facilities. It is expected that mass production of microchips on advanced process technology will begin in the fourth quarter of 2006. It is reported that the company will extend parallel [...]

Downloading music on the radio!

Downloading music on the radio!

In England, decided to review the work with music downloads. Instead of running another Internet service, UBC Media Group, one of the UK’s largest independent radio company, has decided to organize the service of buying songs via DAB-channels. course, complete analog iTunes should not wait. The system proposed by UBC, only allows the listener to [...]

Radeon Xpress 1250: ATI RS600 gets a name

Radeon Xpress 1250: ATI RS600 gets a name

This summer ATI is going to present the first integrated chipset RS600 with full support for Avivo. Today we can say with confidence that the platform for Intel LGA 775 chipset will be named Radeon Xpress 1250. Recall that the integrated graphics performance equivalent to the new Radeon X700. Radeon Xpress 1250 also has support [...]

Stand-alone player Samsung DMB-

Stand-alone player Samsung DMB-

Samsung Electronics has released the South Korean market for portable DMB-player, allowing you to view digital TV on a 2.4 “screen resolution of 320 x 240 pixels. SMU-D110 is one of the few players with a fixed DMB-receiver. Media Player is equipped with an expansion slot for cards TransFlash, built-in stereo sound system, recording the [...]

Microsoft: More musical chairs in the top management

Microsoft: More musical chairs in the top management

Microsoft has announced the replacement of several leadership positions known. The company is currently in the process to restructure in response to new rivals such as Google. Senior Vice President Orland Ayala, previously responsible for sales to small and midsize companies, will in future take care of the exposure to emerging markets. In his new [...]

NEC GSTORAGEFS – file system for supercomputing

NEC GSTORAGEFS – file system for supercomputing

NEC has released a new set of software that allows the use of high-performance file system for high-speed GSTORAGEFS disk drives for use in conjunction with high-performance computers (Class High Performance Computers, HPC). The first installation will be performed on 72 SX-8 (576 processors) in Stuttgart High Performance Computing Center. Key features GSTORAGEFS (GFS), according [...]

Contactless credit cards Visa

Contactless credit cards Visa

Visa plans to launch in Europe a new type of contactless credit cards to pay for low-cost services worth up to U.S. $ 20, for example, such as “fast food”, mail, etc. The first cards will appear this fall in London, where all shopping facilities will be equipped with special RFID-readers. technology called Visa Contactless [...]