Archive for ‘June, 2006’

Alienware offers a PC with a Blu-Ray

Alienware offers a PC with a Blu-Ray

Recently joined the company under the wing of Dell Alienware decided to use the announcement of the platform AMD LIVE!, To propose solutions to the Blu-Ray drive. Positioning LIVE! as nothing else can go better for the promotion of a new generation of drives that can write to dual-layer disc to 50 GB of data. [...]

Cingular offers the smallest clamshell

Cingular offers the smallest clamshell

Pantech and Cingular today announced the sale of “the world’s smallest” clamshell GSM-phone. Apparatus C300 is unlikely to be for you a special revelation, because his announcement took place in April this year. A tiny baby has dimensions of 68 x 43 x 19mm and weighs only 70.9 grams. Inside, everything is arranged on the [...]

Gaming notebook from Pioneer “only” for $ 7,000

Gaming notebook from Pioneer “only” for $ 7,000

Pioneer has launched the sale of an updated series of notebooks on the platform Centrino Duo. The model was named the Dreambook Power M57U and may be based on different processors, an option can be ordered from the manufacturer’s website: new product is a multimedia gaming laptop with 17 “screen (you can choose from two [...]

Photo of the Day: GeForce 7950GX2 at Computex `2006

Photo of the Day: GeForce 7950GX2 at Computex `2006

As predicted, NVIDIA will present tomorrow, the first day at Computex its flagship new product – GeForce 7950GX2. The video card is a “sandwich” of two printed circuit boards with a modest cooling system. pictures were taken during the assembly of the stand Gigabyte and detailed specifications are not yet known. We are waiting for [...]

Overclocked GeForce 7950 GX2 from XFX

Overclocked GeForce 7950 GX2 from XFX

In the next few days, store shelves around the world must begin to fill with a new dual-GPU flagship GeForce 7950 GX2 graphics from NVIDIA. Traditionally, some brands will want to offer products with a capacity greater than recommended by a California company. Standard frequencies for the two G71 set at around 500 MHz, but [...]

Acer d150 will not get lost

Acer d150 will not get lost

Following the successful launch in automotive sales of GPS-navigator d100, Acer has produced a continuing and preparing the next model d150. New looks more like a PDA, but with limited opportunities. Navigator runs on 300 MHz Samsung processor and software Destinator 6. d150 allows you to play MP3-files, and display on your 2,8 “QVGA-screen photos, [...]

Pocket Office

Pocket Office

The latest models of smartphones the company ASUSTeK more reminiscent of top-end smartphones by Nokia, but this is only superficial resemblance, the functionality of your device often exceeds the capabilities of smartphones. Take, for example, the new ASUS P525 – quad-based operating system Windows Mobile 5.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition, a wireless interface supporting Wi-Fi [...]

ASUS P5W DH – motherboard with official support for Core 2 Duo

ASUS P5W DH – motherboard with official support for Core 2 Duo

Without waiting for the official announcement of motherboards, officially declaring support for Core 2 Duo, some people hastily half-baked products pribreli chipset i975X, the first revision of which, as it turned out later, with Conroe is not compatible. However, the new chipset is not so hopeless, with the light supply an updated version of the [...]

Intel earns less in the II quarter

Intel earns less in the II quarter

Some analysts have noticed certain trends that may indicate that Intel has dropped the idea of ​​maximizing their profits from the sale of the current generation of processors and decided to unleash the price will come from AMD. It’s no secret that the same amount of products you can sell at a time different prices [...]

Four core and two processors

Four core and two processors

To date, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is behind on Intel’s high-performance “gaming” systems, because the company is working on just design a new architecture and the transition to 65nm process technology is difficult to predict. In July, Intel will begin selling Conroe, the answer to this step will be the AMD platform dubbed 4×4. The [...]

German debut BlackBerry 8707

German debut BlackBerry 8707

Finally, the mobile device to third-generation networks BlackBerry 8707 officially reached the German shelves and available to all customers Vodafone. As anticipated earlier, the novelty of Research in Motion based on a model 8700 RIM, launched in November 2005. The older unit has worked with EDGE GSM / GPRS, but is also compatible with the [...]

AMD expands its cooperation with the Chartered

AMD expands its cooperation with the Chartered

We recently covered the AMD plans to fourfold increase in the production of processors for 30 months. To do this, the company intends to produce a complete modernization of the factory Fab30, after which it changed its name to Fab38, and plans to add several production lines at Fab36, increasing the peak performance of the [...]

Sales of semiconductors: Results in April

Sales of semiconductors: Results in April

Association for the semiconductor industry (Semiconductor Industry Association, SIA) summed up the sales of the products on the world market in April this year. Compared to the same period last year sales increased by 8.1% and reached 19.6 billion dollars, which, however, by 0.4% less than that recorded in March 2006, sales of microprocessors that [...]

Mouse-football

Mouse-football

List of computer accessories on the football theme continues to grow. Another novelty for fans of football – the optical mouse in a half a soccer ball. ergonomics of this device is in doubt – this form of the mouse is hardly comfortable to hold in your hand, it is no wonder mice usually oblong, [...]

Touch 4.3 “LCD panel for the GPS-navigators

Touch 4.3 “LCD panel for the GPS-navigators

Company NEC LCD Technologies introduced the touch 4.3-inch amorphous-silicon (amorphous silicon, a-Si) LCD Panel TFT (TFT), delivery of prototypes which will begin this month. First of all, the model NL4827HC19-01B is aimed at applications in portable satellite navigation systems. resolution of the new panel with 16:9 aspect ratio reaches 480 x 272 pixels, Brightness – [...]