Archive for ‘November, 2007’

Super Talent started serial production of USB-flash drives PICO-A, and PICO-B

Super Talent started serial production of USB-flash drives PICO-A, and PICO-B

Good news for those who would like to soon acquire a very compact size and striking design for a mobile device storing large amount of important information. Super Talent Company officially announced the start of mass production of new ultra-portable flash drive series PICO, which can not only be used as a stylish key ring, [...]

AMD Phenom: official prices

AMD Phenom: official prices

According to sources in Taiwan motherboard makers, models with quad-core Phenom processors clocked at 2.6 GHz and above there will be no earlier than 2008. As noted, the time constraints further increase the frequency associated with the transition to 65-nm design rules. Obviously, gradually improving with 65-nm process technology, these problems will be solved. In [...]

Two new Walkman-phone W890 and W380 for music lovers

Two new Walkman-phone W890 and W380 for music lovers

Sony Ericsson has unveiled two new phone models in the line of Walkman: W890 and W380. According to manufacturers, these devices are intended primarily for young people, which monitors new trends in contemporary fashion, and for music lovers. Consider the device in detail. One of the most interesting features of W890 can assume the presence [...]

Two GPS-conductor on the “concrete jungle” from Blaupunkt

Two GPS-conductor on the “concrete jungle” from Blaupunkt

Those motorists who want to always be able to easily and quickly reach the desired destination, avoiding traffic jams and not straying needlessly in a web of city streets, the company Blaupunkt offers two new portable GPS-navigator TravelPilot series under the name Lucca 5.3 and Lucca 3.5 Edition. Both devices are based on CPU Centrality [...]

HTC Omni into a “google phone” Dream

HTC Omni into a “google phone” Dream

Employees of Unwired View had a little investigation and came to a shocking conclusion – Dream mobile phone software platform Android from Google, which is actually a smartphone Omni, the existence of which we learned this summer. Matches not only the name of the manufacturer (HTC), but the size, design, availability of touch screen and [...]

Displaybank: an end to falling prices for flat panel market?

Displaybank: an end to falling prices for flat panel market?

Confidently, the systematic decline in prices for LCD and plasma panels, manufacturers pursuing over the past several years, strongly slowed down in the third quarter of 2007, according to a recently published analyst report from Displaybank. The news, which is unlikely to please the consumer, but definitely intended to inspire hope in the manufacturer of [...]

Folding @ home: PlayStation 3 team in the Guinness Book of Records

Folding @ home: PlayStation 3 team in the Guinness Book of Records

It has already been written about the achievements of participants in a distributed computing project Folding @ home, the computing power that researchers at Stanford University used to find cures for various ailments. Also wrote about the remarkable successes in this field owners gaming consoles PlayStation 3 hardware database that handles analysis of complex formulas [...]

HP wants to give up digicam division

HP wants to give up digicam division

Hewlett-Packard plans to divest its digital camera division. The computer manufacturer is currently investigating an OEM partner, the cameras in the HP license under the HP label designed developed and markets. Until it has found a partner, HP will sell the cameras on themselves, however. The Group expects that he can finish in the first [...]

SiCortex Catapult: cluster in table format

SiCortex Catapult: cluster in table format

Relatively young but already has several in-house development segment of supercomputers the company SiCortex has introduced a new, made in the format of a desktop computer system SC072, which has also a fun codenamed Catapult. In fact, such a modest-sized product is a multi-processor computer system with 72 chips at a price of less than [...]

Quanta began mass production of XO OLPC

Quanta began mass production of XO OLPC

Despite numerous delays in the issuance of “$ 100″ laptops, the mass production of computers, XO, developed in the framework of the One Laptop per Child (OLPC), started after November 6 this year. According to Taiwan’s online resource The Digitimes, to issue OLPC XO production facilities involved Quanta Computer, located in the industrial center of [...]

Gamer mouse Genius Ergo 555 Laser with the OLED-display

Gamer mouse Genius Ergo 555 Laser with the OLED-display

Especially for those days and can not live without the computer games company KYE Systems announced release of a unique new laser mouse that could, according to its creators, to be an effective tool for the extermination of all possible virtual bloodthirsty enemies. key feature of the “rodent”, as emphasized by the developers, is a [...]

Sony VAIO UX490N / C goes on sale

Sony VAIO UX490N / C goes on sale

About a month after the first rumors about the upcoming new specimen of the class of ultraportable PCs (UMPC) Sony VAIO UX490N / C, on the official website has information on the technical characteristics and price of new items. So, the computer will be equipped with an Intel Core 2 Solo U2200 ULV (1,2 GHz), [...]

New models from Art Lebedev keyboards this year

New models from Art Lebedev keyboards this year

Not so long ago in Moscow there was a demonstration of the keyboard Optimus Maximus – an ambitious product of “Lebedev Studio.” According to the creators, the first batch of devices already sold out. Deliveries will begin in December and January, depending on the speed of production. The next batch will appear not earlier than [...]

Xbox 360 goes to meet his parents

Xbox 360 goes to meet his parents

Have long been known that the Xbox 360 has a special feature that allows parents to block the launch of toys that are not put children (for reasons too high age rating, for example). However, Microsoft was not enough. According to unconfirmed reports, the company will soon enhance the ability of parental control with a [...]

Sharp increase the production of solar modules in 2008

Sharp increase the production of solar modules in 2008

Official representatives of Sharp announced the other day about plans to increase next year of production of thin-film silicon solar cells (thin-film silicon solar cells) at its own factory Shinjo No. 3, located in Nara Prefecture (Nara), Japan. increase in production is directly linked to global shortages of raw materials for industry, said in a [...]