Archive for ‘2006’

SED-TV: CES 2007 boycott and new promises

SED-TV: CES 2007 boycott and new promises

Taiwanese sources said the decision of the American branch of Toshiba refuse to show 55-inch SED-display at CES 2007, which will be held in Las Vegas from 8 to 11 January next year. What was the reason for this decision, the official party, unfortunately, is not specified. We only know that the reasons for the [...]

Zune now compatible with Vista

Zune now compatible with Vista

The new portable Zune player from Microsoft was unable to gain popularity and budge the iconic iPod. Quite an interesting device has not yet compete with the illustrious Apple products because of the many problems associated mainly with the design and software failure. For example, when the device only went on sale, it became clear [...]

Opinion AMD-ATI: All you need is now DirectX 10?

Opinion AMD-ATI: All you need is now DirectX 10?

In November of this year, well before the release of Windows Vista and the emergence of 3D-applications are created in DirectX 10, NVIDIA released the GeForce 8800 GTX / GTS to support the new API. Undoubtedly, the new product is not only a brilliant advocate in modern DX9-games, but have a good stepping stone for [...]

“The Godfather” by Sapphire: dual-chip Radeon X1950 Pro

“The Godfather” by Sapphire: dual-chip Radeon X1950 Pro

For all pending products based on the R600 Sapphire company decided to offer an alternative to pass the time with a face card with two chips on Radeon X1950 Pro board. Demonstrated the functionality of “The Godfather» (The Godfather), and it was called as an extraordinary product that was outside the company. Despite the presence [...]

Femtocells extrude VoWi-Fi

Femtocells extrude VoWi-Fi

According to the estimates of ABI Research by 2011 the market will be delivered approximately 300 million two-mode Wi-Fi/GSM-terminalov. Many experts believe that Wi-Fi quickly find application in mobile phones, especially in high-end models. But this perspective VoWi-Fi (Voice over Wi-Fi) is not as rosy as it seems at first sight. We touch femtosotovoy communication [...]

An amendment to the list of “outgoing” from the ranks of Intel Pentium 4

An amendment to the list of “outgoing” from the ranks of Intel Pentium 4

A couple of days ago we reported that the program began to lift from the production of two box-and two tray-Intel Pentium 4 524 / 541. Today, Intel has published an amendment to the appropriate document. It turns out, Intel Pentium 541 will still live, but instead a list of “leaving” brought the Intel Pentium [...]

Phone-Cobra from Vertu for $ 310 000

Phone-Cobra from Vertu for $ 310 000

The largest producer of luxury and extremely expensive phone company Vertu (a division of the Finnish giant Nokia) announced a new mobile phone Signature Cobra, the cost of which is over a $ 310 thousand dollars (for the less affluent buyers are more “accessible” version for $ 115 thousand). The first thing that catches your [...]

Exit the AMD 690 postponed again

Exit the AMD 690 postponed again

The new ATI RS690 chipset with integrated graphics for AMD AM2 platform was originally planned to appear in mid-2006. After infusion of a Canadian company in the structure of AMD, this product has been renamed the AMD 690, that has not stopped him again not to leave on time. It is reported that currently work [...]

KEIAN GAIA XP-1100W – 1100W PSU with six lines of +12 V

KEIAN GAIA XP-1100W – 1100W PSU with six lines of +12 V

Increasing “appetite” of modern computer systems, mainly due to more powerful video cards, forcing manufacturers to increase the range of power supply products ranging from 700-800 watts to kilowatts or more. Only in the last 2-3 months we have covered several solutions power more than 1 kW, and this is just what got into our [...]

Radio Control Helicopter Fly LX800 Sapphire for connoisseurs

Radio Control Helicopter Fly LX800 Sapphire for connoisseurs

Domestic representatives of the British brand Fly (Meridian Group) announced the first in the Russian market model in the line of luxury phones from this manufacturer – Fly LX800 Sapphire. The appearance of an expensive device in our stores will be held in January next year. Fly to the Russian branch will be the first [...]

China does continue to DVD production

China does continue to DVD production

The DVD format will be supported in the future of Chinese manufacturers. After the nearly 20 members of the Chinese EVD Industry Alliance had announced in early December to set up 2008, production of DVD players and recorders (ZDNet) reported that this statement has now been withdrawn. The intended as a substitute Enhanced Versatile Disc [...]

Beholder is preparing for stand-alone tuner 2007

Beholder is preparing for stand-alone tuner 2007

In early 2007, Beholder (unit InfoNetwork) is going to please us with self-TV / FM-tuner Behold TV SOLO. Previously, manufacturers were mainly creation of a separate PCI-tuners for the PC, but this time decided to release a standalone unit with a number of useful features (POD (Picture On Desktop), 16-channel preview, etc.). As you know, [...]

PHProjekt is available in version 5.2

PHProjekt is available in version 5.2

The system Mayflower House has released version 5.2 of open source groupware suite PHProjekt download. The company has redesigned the user interface and partially integrates the Dojo JavaScript toolkit. Further steps will follow in the next release. In addition, we have ported the latest version of the database solution of IBM DB2. The help desk [...]

Siemens specialists have established a record speed of data transmission

Siemens specialists have established a record speed of data transmission

Today, many leading companies in the world are working to improve communication channels. Their task – to ensure maximum data transfer rate of the minimum time and maximum distance. Engineers German company Siemens is once again stunned the world of digital statement that broken a new record speed of data transmission over fiber optic cable. [...]

Chipsets Intel 8xx/910/915: date of “death”

Chipsets Intel 8xx/910/915: date of “death”

Intel is gradually getting rid of obsolete products. In recent months, it’s a few reports of withdrawal from the production of a number of processors. The victims are not only reducing the CPU. Intel decided to get rid of some of the chipsets to support AGP, do not meet the requirements of Windows Vista. So, [...]