President of Nintendo Satoru Iwata (Satoru Iwata) has announced that in January 2007, will start selling the popular portable game console DS Lite in South Korea. By the end of next year there will be special and localized versions of Wii. Support for local development is guaranteed. According to the Korean site JoongAng Daily, earlier [...]

The American company Microsoft suit a special presentation of its new Windows Vista and indispensable software package Office 2007 in New York in Times Square, January 29, 2007. Event is called Wow Starts Now (of course, nothing to do with the computer game World of Warcraft (WoW), this event has not). The main purpose of [...]

Company Acorp Electronics Corp said on updating ADSL-modem line Sprinter @ ADSL. To the public were presented three new models: Sprinter @ ADSL LAN122 – modem with one Ethernet-port, 4-port router Sprinter @ ADSL LAN422 and Sprinter @ ADSL W422G, which is a wireless access point Wi-Fi (802.11b / g). All models are designed for [...]

The company Nichia recently announced a new LED white light (LED) light output with an efficiency of 150 lumens / 1 watt. Claimed efficiency is about 11.5 times higher than that of incandescent lamps (13 lyumen/1vatt) and 1.7 times higher than that of LEDs used in the present in the production of TFT-screens and projectors [...]

Taiwanese memory manufacturers Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) and ProMOS Technologies have announced the purchase of land in the Central Taiwan Science Park (Central Taiwan Science Park, CTSP) for the construction of six new plants (two to four for ProMOS and PSC), intended for the production of memory chips using 300-mm wafers. This statement may be [...]

Familiar domestic consumers, MSI has expanded its notebook series model S300 Crystal Collection, which is decorated with housing 120 crystals Crystal SWAROVSKI, are inserted by experienced jewelers, knowing how to successfully combine the skill and the latest technology. The appearance of the advantages of this device does not end there. Developers have tried to equip [...]

The Russian company ETegro Technologies has announced two new servers in the rack, built on dual-core AMD Opteron 2000 series. Both models support the installation of up to 48 GB ECC Registered DDRII 667 MHz. Arranged in the housing height of 1U Hyperion RS160 G3 has two expansion slots PCI-Express and two integrated Gigabit Ethernet [...]

FujiFilm Company and IBM today announced the immediate availability of the cartridge capacity of 700 GB of storage on magnetic tape, created through the joint efforts of researchers and developers of both partners. In May of this year, the company demonstrated a prototype of the drive and media with a record density, 6.67 megabits per [...]

The Taiwanese company HannStar Display plans to double its supply of LCD monitors under its own brand Hanns.G and implement in the future, at least four million copies. Moreover, a major player in the industry of LCD panels plans to significantly expand its presence in the market monitors in Europe and the United States. According [...]

The Taiwanese company High Tech Computer (HTC), a well-known as a manufacturer of smartphones, plans to release its first UMPC (ultra-mobile PC, UMPC) Athena in the first half of 2007 – this according to sources. Argued that the HTC hurry to take a promising niche devices that fill the gap between laptops and smartphones. According [...]

Toshiba has announced the release to market two new models of DLP-projectors: ET10 and ET20, based on proprietary technology, “sverhblizkogo projection” (Super Close Projection, SCP). Through the use of wide-angle short-focus optics, new items can be used in very limited space – the minimum projection distance of 200 mm and a distance of 500 mm [...]

The company Light Blue Optics Ltd., (LBO) engaged in the development of color projectors for handheld devices, announced the acquisition of a license from Cambridge Enterprise – Unit, University of Cambridge, busy commercial implementation of invention – the production of full-color holographic laser projectors. This technology was invented by Edward Buckley (Edward Buckley), Chief Technology [...]

Next year will be “hyper-destructive” for the IT-industry due to the fact that new business models and technologies will lead to rupture of the existing market relationships – say analysts IDC. In this regard, they limit the annual growth forecast for the IT-market quite a modest 6.6%, expecting that the leaders carried out in 2007, [...]

The Japanese company Elpida Memory, a well-known manufacturer of dynamic RAM (DRAM), today announced the start of mass production of memory chips, according to the norms of the 70-nm process. The first light will see chips with a capacity of 512 Mbps and 1 Gbps. transition to the new production rate provides a reduction in [...]

Many analysts and journalists who argue about the fate of those or other data storage formats, often refer to these drives as a set of disks, differing only in higher capacities and write speeds. Meanwhile, for the average user, or that the format is much more valuable phenomenon, primarily because of the data that is [...]