Archive for ‘2006’

ATI loses market share

ATI loses market share

According to the study of the market share of ATI graphics in the PC market fell from 28% in the second quarter of 2006 to 23% in the third quarter. In just three months, which was announced a merger with AMD, a former Canadian company lost five percentage points, who gladly shared NVIDIA, SIS and [...]

Experts warn of careless hard drive sale

Experts warn of careless hard drive sale

has had its day, the old PC once, many owners try one last time to make capital out of the “old crate”. Via Ebay, and classifieds are the systems in the hands of strangers. Who’s data on the disk not previously removed safely and completely, could get a nasty surprise, warns of data recovery specialist [...]

MP3-player X-Cube X-405 is available 24 hours a day

MP3-player X-Cube X-405 is available 24 hours a day

Soon the Russian market will be another portable digital music player from the “Golder Electronics” and New Media Entertainment (NME) – X-Cube X-405. The device is small in size (33 x 70.5 x 18.2 mm) and a modest weight (only 42.5 grams). With these dimensions the new model boasts a series of Disco wide range [...]

WiMAX Connection 2300 – a new chipset for mobile devices

WiMAX Connection 2300 – a new chipset for mobile devices

Intel is taking place at the Hong Kong 3G World Congress presented to the public a new WiMAX Connection 2300 chipset, designed to create wireless controllers for mobile devices. By combining its latest development – monopolosny WiMAX-chip – a multi-band radio frequency has released a module WiMAX / Wi-Fi, the company received a functionally complete [...]

SiI9034: let’s Super Audio CD via HDMI

SiI9034: let’s Super Audio CD via HDMI

The company Silicon Image has announced the addition line of HDMI-transmitter chip new VastLane SiI9034. The development is notable that supports the transmission of sound in a format Super Audio CD. VastLane SiI9034 transmitter belongs to the class of HDMI version 1.2 and includes a large family of controllers designed for use in home electronics, [...]

The high-tech form of advertising for the basketball show

The high-tech form of advertising for the basketball show

Developers of high-tech “stuff” that in one way or another our lives easier or make it brighter, have long been used as a platform for the clothing of their development – that shirt with sensors for music comes out, then tech backpack for storing players, hard drives present. But the manufacturers of sports shorts and [...]

Terabyte on an optical disc: another embodiment of the

Terabyte on an optical disc: another embodiment of the

Make it possible to record on a single optical drive about 1,000 Gb promise new development at the University of Central Florida (University of Central Florida, UCF), led by head of department and professor of chemistry at Kevin D. Belfildom (Kevin D. Belfield). The researchers suggested the use of a multilayer recording simultaneously with two [...]

New bars of Kingston DDR2 PC9200/9600

New bars of Kingston DDR2 PC9200/9600

The other day on sale there were high Modules DDR2-RAM Series HyperX, presented by Kingston Technology. Model HyperX PC9200 runs at 1150 MHz and PC9600 – 1200 MHz. Prior to that, the fastest in the line of HyperX strips were PC8500, running at 1066 MHz. As noted by Raymond Chen (Raymond Chen), vice president of [...]

Software unmasks eBay fraudsters

Software unmasks eBay fraudsters

U.S. researchers from Carnegie Mellon University have developed software that revealed the fraudulent accounts at online auction houses on the basis of analysis of the assessment profile can be. “Netprobe” (Network Detection via Propagation of Beliefs) handles the transaction data of the user under the magnifying glass and examines it to typical patterns of suspicious [...]

VIA chipsets for AMD and Intel platforms ready for Vista

VIA chipsets for AMD and Intel platforms ready for Vista

Recently, the influx of products bearing the logos of a-la “is ready for Vista” is simply amazing. Each manufacturer tends to quickly announce that its product is also tested for compatibility with new operating system. It has recently become known that the chipset K8M890 and P4M900 IGP, VIA Technologies successfully tested Vista 32bit/64bit Basic logo [...]

Ultra-light external hard drive from Verbatim

Ultra-light external hard drive from Verbatim

Verbatim has announced the expansion of product lines a series of Store ‘n’ Go – one-inch external hard drives connected to your computer via USB 2.0. Weighing in at 28 (!) Programs and capacity of 12 GB, presented the novelty will be able to meet the needs of users who need to transfer large amounts [...]

Axis introduced the “transport” network camera

Axis introduced the “transport” network camera

The company Axis Communications introduced a camera with a network interface AXIS 209FD-R, saying that it was the first model of such devices, designed specifically for use in buses and trains. Specialization is reflected in the specific performance – the camera vibration, moisture and dust, her body is resistant to mechanical stress, moreover, it is [...]

OCZ Technology entered the market of graphics cards

OCZ Technology entered the market of graphics cards

OCZ Technology Company at one time famous for high-performance memory modules. Later spread to the scope of the cooling system and computer power supplies. Now, according to the latest data from the Singapore site VR-Zone, the company’s development strategy for OCZ Technology in the near future provides access to the graphics card market. attempt to [...]

New 2-GB modules from G. Skill

New 2-GB modules from G. Skill

Company G. Skill International, a well-known Taiwanese manufacturer of memory modules, announced the release of two new sets of 240-pin modules, DDR2-800 (CL6) and DDR2-667 (CL5) 2 GB. As stated in a press release, the new items are intended to support the new demanding to memory the operating system Microsoft Windows Vista and will be [...]

Mobile phones do not harm health

Mobile phones do not harm health

A new study conducted by the Danish Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, suggests that mobile phones do not contribute to the formation of cancerous tumors, as previously thought. Moreover, the presence of a human cell phone on the contrary it shows a lesser predisposition to the development of the disease: according to statistics people who have [...]