Archive for ‘August, 2006’

Apple and Creative have reconciled

Apple and Creative have reconciled

Apple has agreed to pay Creative Technology hundred million dollars to settle all legal disputes between the companies relating to infringement of patents. In response, Creative announced its decision to join the program “Made for iPod” and produce accessories for the player from Apple under this brand. First Creative filed a lawsuit against Apple on [...]

The colorful VAIO notebooks from Sony

The colorful VAIO notebooks from Sony

Increasingly, manufacturers of portable electronics products provide their individual features. This is done mainly in order to cater to consumers who are considering the acquired technology as a means to emphasize their own individuality. Specialists at Sony have long noticed this trend and recently launched a special edition notebook VAIO FJ in an unusually bright-colored [...]

IBM bought the company Internet Security Systems

IBM bought the company Internet Security Systems

In the past few years, computer security market is one of the most promising and rapidly developing. Apparently, wanting not to miss the chance to take it in its place, the company is a company IBM acquired Internet Security Systems. The transaction amount is estimated at 1.3 billion dollars company ISS has been providing services [...]

Dell finally gone off the market MP3-players

Dell finally gone off the market MP3-players

After the February posts on termination of MP3-players with hard drives, Dell now also left the market players to the flash cards. Rumors of a cease selling Dell Ditty crawled after the player has disappeared from the August catalog company. On Wednesday afternoon references to the player also disappeared from the online catalog company. Dell [...]

Google in Brazil just before closure

Google in Brazil just before closure

The search engine giant Google has fight in Brazil with significant problems. The authorities of the country’s push for a closure of the online service. Because several drug dealers in the past year, the Google owned social networking service Orkut had abused for their businesses, the authorities are now demanding the release of user data. [...]

New MP3-player Panasonic

New MP3-player Panasonic

The Japanese company Matsushita Electric Industrial (Panasonic) promises to soon start selling the new audio player D-snap SV-SD800N and SV-SD400V, having the ability to integrate with home stereo systems. SD-players do not have a built-in memory, while at the micro-stereo systems have hard drives to 80-160 GB. According to the plan the company, the entire [...]

Nikon COOLPIX S10 – ultrazoom with swivel design

Nikon COOLPIX S10 – ultrazoom with swivel design

Apart from the two cameras ultra S7c and S9, Nikon also announced the unusual device COOLPIX S10, which is a ultrazoom with swivel design. Camera resolution is 6 megapixels and built-in zoom lens Zoom-Nikkor has a focal range of 38 to 380 mm (equivalent to 35mm film cameras), and 10x optical zoom. Thanks turning the [...]

Microsoft agrees to provide discounts on new PCs

Microsoft agrees to provide discounts on new PCs

Microsoft has announced plans to conduct pre-holiday stock at the end of the year and offer discounts on computers that will be ready to install the new operating system. Step corporations is clear: retailers and computer manufacturers are afraid that people will not buy new computers in the pre-holiday period, as they usually do it, [...]

Nikon Coolpix L5 and L6 – disposable cameras for life

Nikon Coolpix L5 and L6 – disposable cameras for life

In addition to the three digital camera series S, Nikon has also updated the range camera series L (Life), introducing two cameras L5 and L6. Lens with five-time zoom, bright 2.5-inch LCD monitor and improved mechanism for shift VR lens originally designed for the line of SLR cameras, Nikon, along with ease of operation make [...]

Trade unions are not willing to forgive Apple

Trade unions are not willing to forgive Apple

After a recent inspection of production facilities in remote China (also known as factory «iPod City», owned by Foxconn) produced by the commission Apple, the situation around the inhumane working conditions, the surrounding snow-white players, slowly calmed down. But only briefly. The head of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (International Confederation of Free [...]

Fan Controller from Logitech

Fan Controller from Logitech

Driven by the hot summer days in California designers, Logitech introduced the game controller with built-in ventilation system. Novelty has been designed to provide comfortable conditions for gamers. The technology ChillStream, which is used in the controller, went to the fans (diameter 40 mm blades), creating an air flow and operating virtually silently. Together they [...]

Foxconn has continued to market the aggression

Foxconn has continued to market the aggression

As we reported, December 1, completed the merger of the largest Taiwanese OEM manufacturer of opto-electronic kits and digital cameras to Premier and Foxconn. The deal is estimated at 293 billion New Taiwan dollars. Premier = Foxconn Premier, as a brand is not very well known in Russia and we need some clarification. To date, [...]

Hide their notebooks!

Hide their notebooks!

Malaysian police have encountered a new problem: the culprit take laptops out of cars. To locate the device attackers used some unknown device. Get access to the machine law enforcement agencies have not yet succeeded. owners laptops have to worry about: for this year in the region were recorded 255 thefts of laptops from cars. [...]

PowerShot A710 IS, A640 and A630: More news from Canon

PowerShot A710 IS, A640 and A630: More news from Canon

Today’s announcement of the EOS 400D DSLR, Canon has not limited itself and introduced several new products for amateurs and those who in addition to a large “SLR” want a portable “soap box” for trips and picnics. PowerShot A710 IS (7,1 million pixels), A640 and A630 combines good functionality and compactness, in fact, Canon has [...]

Unusual media player from Newman

Unusual media player from Newman

The Chinese company unveiled its brand new Newman portable audio player M790 with a large 2.5-inch screen. Unfortunately, networks are not too many authentic details of the apparatus, although some things we still know. In addition to the above-mentioned TFT-display (260k, 320 x 240 pixels), the machine has 512 MB of internal memory slot, SD [...]