Jim Gray, founder and managing the Research Center of Microsoft Corporation in San Francisco, January 28, went to sea on his yacht and never returned. 63-year-old scientist was heading to the islands of Farallon, which are located about 43 miles from San Francisco, and was to return in the evening. At about 20:00 local time, [...]

Recently, sell cell phones are becoming more and more companies, and those who have not yet picked up this business, has plans for varying degrees of ambition. Earlier this year, a “mobile phone” announced Apple (with support from Cingular), but on the company’s list of newcomers to the market does not end there. As it [...]

Company Shuttle, famous producer of computer form-factor SFF (Small Form Factor), announced the start of sales of a new line of compact systems are optimized to work with Windows Vista. The new series consists of six models – three of them have a fixed configuration, the three it is user selectable. The only thing that [...]

Sony Ericsson has introduced a special card RS300 Sony Ericsson mobile computers that can support four most popular worldwide wireless technologies – HSDPA, UMTS, EDGE, GPRS. The device provides high-speed broadband access. According to the developers, this card is ideally combines elements of thoughtful design and intuitive interface and simple configuration, making the RS300 a [...]

Have recently adopted a PCI Express 2.0, but now there are still waiting for manufacturers will mass introduce products that meet the requirement of the new specification. One of the pioneers will be the company NVIDIA, which may soon present its new chipset nForce MCP72. Novelty is the first product of the company that supports [...]

Organization PCI Special Interest Group (PCI-SIG) formally adopted a specification PCI Express External Cabling 1.0 for external connection cards. It is a logical addition to the information submitted in the middle of last month’s base PCI Express specification version 2.0. Interestingly, in the new specification are given only general recommendations concerning the length of the [...]

All motorists are looking forward to spring. No, not just because the road will get rid of the ice cover, and travel will be safer. The thing is that it is spring in the Geneva auto show opens annual, collecting tens of thousands of onlookers and experts from around the world. According to authoritative sources, [...]

The well-known Taiwanese company Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) announced its intention to get rid of the one-sided image of the manufacturer of motherboards and proceed to the balanced development of all three main components of their business: the production of motherboards, notebooks and desktop systems. As the official representative of the company, ECS will focus [...]

China has long maintained the development of processors, known as Godson. The first generation of Godson was released in 2002. It became known today about the new processor Godson-2F, which are already the fourth generation (third generation – the 64-bit processor Godson-2E, now manufactured by STMicroelectronics), will have an excellent “performance per watt.” Their performance [...]

Almost every businessman is trying to make my office this hallmark of the firm or company. Accept, dear classic, modern and other styles of buildings, though pleasing to the eye, but every time I feel like saying – “somewhere we’ve already seen.” native of Britain, Clay Jenkins (Glynn Jenkins), are probably already tired of every [...]

Apple and Cisco are to address issues relating to trademark iPhone, without having to visit the courtroom, but that representatives of both companies needed more time. In early February, Apple has officially announced that he was going to continue to play for time, spending more and more talks with Cisco, which now owns the rights [...]

Which tricks do not come only manufacturers to develop an effective cooling system for laptop – it is understandable for small portable devices are not suitable bulky cooling systems used in desktop computers. Another sample of the original engineering solutions presented recently the company Thermaltake Technology, proposing to use to cool the bottom of the [...]

In a study on energy efficiency in the network area is where the “Energy-Efficient Ethernet Study Group” (EEE) to the result that inefficient networks squander annually in the U.S. alone $ 450 million cost of electricity. Worldwide, experts estimate that the consumption of one three times as high. Alone cause this thing is not the [...]

The Taiwanese company Tyan Computer Corporation, a manufacturer known platforms for servers and workstations, announced the release of new motherboards for non-x86 systems designed to work with processors Raza Microelectronics (RMI). The American company RMI specializes in the development of semiconductor products for a wide range of electronic devices, from network equipment and storage systems [...]

Encouraged by the release of Windows Vista, the company Quanta Computer, a leading manufacturer of mobile computers, in January 2007 and has shipped over 2 million laptops. Taking into account that the laptops with the new operating system from Microsoft started to ship in November 2006, said he could not figure greatly exceed the number [...]