Archive for ‘April, 2007’

New Aldi laptop with an AMD CPU and Vista

New Aldi laptop with an AMD CPU and Vista

The discounter Aldi has in a few days a new bargain laptop offer. The MD 98 300 is for 699 € from 2 May at Aldi Nord have to, in the south it is a day later in the offer. The mobile computer is powered by an AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-50 processor at 1.6 [...]

Vmware will fetch $ 100 million in the stock market

Vmware will fetch $ 100 million in the stock market

a 153-page filing with the SEC, the EMC subsidiary VMware has now given details about the planned IPO business known. Then the company made last year a net gain of 87 (67) million dollars and a turnover of 704 (387) million dollars. EMC had been reported earlier this year that it wants to bring ten [...]

“100-dollar laptop” is getting expensive

“100-dollar laptop” is getting expensive

responsible of the OLPC project (One Laptop per Child) have released some new information on the 100-dollar laptop. The project is entering a decisive phase: The production should commence in the fall. “Now, however, have the countries that have expressed an interest, we preach,” said Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the IT development project. Bad news [...]

DoCoMo D904i: phone with motion sensor

DoCoMo D904i: phone with motion sensor

Oddly enough, but in the near future to the Japanese market, users can purchase the latest models of mobile phones equipped with motion sensors that allow consumers to make the phone into a gaming console like the legendary Nintendo Wii. One of the family of such devices – fashion phone D904i from the developers of [...]

Nokia turns phones into credit cards

Nokia turns phones into credit cards

The company Nokia – the largest supplier of mobile phones – has become part of a global program to transform mobile devices into “credit card”. Thanks to the initiative of the operators (KPN, Maxis Communications, Mobilkom Austria, O2, Orange, SFR, SingTel, SKT, Wind, etc.), supported by powerful manufacturers in the near future mobile communication devices [...]

Acer recalling 27 thousand batteries for laptops

Acer recalling 27 thousand batteries for laptops

Company Acer, one of the most influential collectors of PCs in the world, recently announced the recall of a forced 27 thousand batteries for laptops, becoming the last developer of all notebook manufacturers, drawn into the “battery” scandal Sony, when the world market hit millions of faulty batteries. known that since last year and up [...]

Wii shortage to last until 2009

Wii shortage to last until 2009

Specialists NPD and IDC noted that during the first quarter of 2007, sales of gaming hardware can not keep up with growing sales of software. Interest in the Xbox 360 and PS3 practically does not increase, but cheap and appeals to the masses is never a Wii in stores because of high demand. It is [...]

Quanta Computer: 7 million laptops this quarter

Quanta Computer: 7 million laptops this quarter

According to the company’s plans, Quanta Computer, in the second quarter of 2007 it hopes to increase sales of their laptops. It is expected that this quarter will be sold over 7 million mobile PCs, which corresponds to 10 per cent increase (compared with the second quarter last year). As the president of the company, [...]

Cameo will ship half a million devices in 802.11n-1H 2007

Cameo will ship half a million devices in 802.11n-1H 2007

Taiwanese manufacturer of networking equipment company Cameo Communications has recently increased its commitment to the amount shipped in the first half of 2007 communication devices supporting IEEE 802.11n protocol to half a million units. In addition, according to the General Manager Wang Evelyn (Evelyn Wang), Cameo intends to maintain the momentum in the second half [...]

Compal Communications began shipping Motorola W510

Compal Communications began shipping Motorola W510

The Taiwanese company Compal Communications Inc. (CCI) plans to start producing cell phones for Motorola W510 in the second quarter of this year, namely in late April – early May. Model W510, outwardly similar to the KRZR K1, Motorola is a representative of the series with index «W», previously published by CCI to the U.S. [...]

The number of access points, Wi-Fi will grow by 25%

The number of access points, Wi-Fi will grow by 25%

According to the forecast of the analytical agency ABI Research, the number of hot-stop Wi-Fi will grow in 2007 by 25% to reach 179 500. At the same time, almost three quarters (72%) of all access points are located in North America and Europe. The pace of development of Asian countries do not allow us [...]

Apple expects half a NAND-chips from Samsung

Apple expects half a NAND-chips from Samsung

Despite the crisis, which is observed in the market of flash memory such as NAND, many analysts predict a stabilization of the situation in this segment in the third quarter of 2007. The reason for optimism is the information on increasing sales of portable devices that use NAND-memory. Also associated with certain hopes have not [...]

“Optimus Maximus” was a step closer

“Optimus Maximus” was a step closer

“Lebedev Studio” has finally figured out with their suppliers and in the near future will begin accepting a limited number of orders at the keyboard “Optimus Maximus”. However, before parading to the site developers, it is worth remembering that the official cost of a such an unusual product is over a $ 1536. The authors [...]

Xbox 360 does not make Microsoft money

Xbox 360 does not make Microsoft money

When Microsoft has just appeared on the gaming market, the multi-million dollar losses Entertainment and Devices division were seen as a necessary evil. Prepare a decent area was not easy and it requires considerable resources were. However, now that since the release of the original Xbox’s been more than 6 years old, look at the [...]

New technology to create inexpensive, high quality lenses

New technology to create inexpensive, high quality lenses

Through the efforts of researchers from the National Institute of new industrial technologies in Japan (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, AIST) have developed a technology for mass production of inexpensive plastic lenses enlightened. In the development of the company was also involved Ito Optical Industrial. The essence of a new method lies [...]