Archive for ‘August, 2007’

Earthlink dismiss 900 workers

Earthlink dismiss 900 workers

A few days ago the representatives of the notorious player of the IT market, the company Earthlink, announced a series of layoffs, which would entail the resignation of more than 900 employees of the company. This policy is claimed to be part of a restructuring plan Earthlink. Thus, the reshuffle will take place at the [...]

Foxconn opened two factories in Vietnam

Foxconn opened two factories in Vietnam

Taiwanese company Foxconn this week opened two factories in Vietnam, and this is only the first stage of the investment plan, with investment of several billion dollars over the next few years. So far, the organization of the two industries in the industrial area in KBE (Que Vo Industrial Zone), located in northern province of [...]

iRiver B20: TV receiver and media player

iRiver B20: TV receiver and media player

iRiver continues to delight music lovers with high quality and attractive portable media players. This time the company has demonstrated an original model of iRiver B20, which is likely to become the main competitor straight from the tin and the new Creative ZEN Walkman from Sony. The device is equipped with 2.4-inch TFT LCD screen, [...]

AMD announced details of a new project Fusion

AMD announced details of a new project Fusion

During the event, Asia Analyst Tour, AMD has decided to share with the public their plans on running her project, codenamed Fusion, whose essence is to create a new class of chip x86, combining the CPU and graphics core on one chip. The developers emphasized that the decisions made by technology Fusion, can then be [...]

Openness musical innovations from Sony

Openness musical innovations from Sony

At a press conference IFA 2007 (Internationale Funkausstellung), Sony is not just presented several music players, but also went on a number of important steps in the future must still make these devices more and more popular. The first, that the producers, because it refused to ATRAC. Secondly, along with support for WMA DRM, players [...]

Microsoft patch stops distribution through third-party

Microsoft patch stops distribution through third-party

for four years active Autopatcher Project has announced that it has closed its website for Windows updates and patches to a request by Microsoft. Microsoft is once again the only distributor of software updates for its products. “We now have an e-mail from Microsoft, in which we were asked for the immediate closure of the [...]

Google is preparing a mobile operating system

Google is preparing a mobile operating system

Site Engadget, citing its true sources, argues that the U.S., Google is planning to seriously break into the market for mobile platforms. It’s not just the release of a mobile phone, and the establishment of a fully functional operating system. According to experts, the work as long as that mythical OS started in 2005 when [...]

Canonical specified support plans for Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Canonical specified support plans for Ubuntu Hardy Heron

Ubuntu Developer Jono Bacon has called in a blog entry first details of long-term support for the version of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron). Accordingly, Canonical will support the desktop version of Hardy Heron for three years and the server version for up to five years. In support, the provision of security updates is included. Bacon [...]

GA-X38-DQ6: matplata based on Intel X38 from Gigabyte

GA-X38-DQ6: matplata based on Intel X38 from Gigabyte

On the eve of the official announcement of chipset Intel X38 Express, scheduled for September 9, 2007, a number of motherboard manufacturers slow to advance to please their fans with new models based on the specified chipset. Not help the company Gigabyte, presented to the public computer a new motherboard GA-X38-DQ6. New designed to support [...]

Portable player Daewoo: DVD + iPod + 8 “LCD display

Portable player Daewoo: DVD + iPod + 8 “LCD display

The company Daewoo has announced a portable DVD-player, called DPC-8099PD-I. Interestingly, the novelty and a docking station for iPod. Thus, this device can play multimedia files from the media as DVD / VCD / CD-R / RW, as well as with the iPod. Daewoo player is equipped with 8 “LCD display, integrated stereo speakers, a [...]

IFA: Exhibitors reported record attendance

IFA: Exhibitors reported record attendance

The 47th International Radio Exhibition (IFA) in Berlin is the organizer according to 31 August started with a record attendance. At approximately 104,000 square meters, will present in 1212 exhibitors from 32 countries presented their products from the area of ​​consumer electronics and information and communication technology. “With a share of more than 60 percent [...]

DX10-chips from S3 Graphics will be launched before the end of the year

DX10-chips from S3 Graphics will be launched before the end of the year

According to DigiTimes articulated network resource information, a Taiwanese company S3 Graphics, owned by VIA Technologies, plans to announce the end of the year edition and mass-produce two new graphics processors, namely the mainstream model range Chrome 460 and Chrome solutions, entry-level 430. reportedly Chrome 460 graphics chip will be produced on 90 nm process [...]

Sansa Clip as an alternative to iPod nano

Sansa Clip as an alternative to iPod nano

Today, SanDisk announced a miniature MP3-player, which, despite its compact size, has all the features full-size devices. obvious advantage of the new player is a 4-line OLED-screen, an integral part of modern players. Moreover, Sansa Clip is equipped with a burner FM-tuner, microphone, and the familiar, iPod-like, the control panel. peak benefits are lasting battery [...]

HIS brings silent Radeon HD 2600 graphics card

HIS brings silent Radeon HD 2600 graphics card

HIS graphics cards has expanded its portfolio with two ATI Radeon HD 2600 models with silent cooling technology, Zalman. The passively cooled I-Silence-3 versions of the HD 2600 Pro and the HD 2600 XT is available now for € 109.90 or € 119.90. The cooling system of the new DirectX 10 card has two heatpipes [...]

Photo of the Day: Winchester trash

Photo of the Day: Winchester trash

Designers have come up with enough original concept of an external hard drive, designed entirely for the deleted computer files. The idea is extremely simple: you do not accidentally lose an important file, the device must make a backup of all data that you delete from your PC. The most interesting thing is that apparently [...]