Good news for those who believe that cell phone should be not only a tool for everyday active communication, but expensive and exclusive accessory that speaks volumes about the high social status of its owner. It is so demanding customers, no shortage of financial resources, the company Gresso, a Russian producer of elite mobile phones, [...]

“Spiegel Wissen” (wissen.spiegel.de) will mirror the group launch a knowledge portal that comes with Wikipedia and Google’s “Knol” in competition. From spring 2008 to be published on the new platform, the content from the magazines and the online edition of Der Spiegel and the entire contents of Bertelsmann’s encyclopedias and dictionaries. This is made possible [...]

Intel, the planned for early 2008 release on the world market for high-performance chipset X48, can bear the official release at a later date, according to a network resource DigiTimes. But this time it is not technical in nature, and marketing – a leading manufacturer of motherboards in stock at the moment there is a [...]

Siemens AG has covered up in 2006, according to testimony of an employee of accounting firm KPMG dubious payments. As the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports, the employees towards the Munich prosecutor had testified that at that time a group internal audit had been stopped for no apparent reason. Further investigation of KPMG had been stalled by [...]

Japanese Toshiba company recently expanded the range of 1.8-inch drives on the hard disk drive. The first of the models, MK1214GAH, is the new flagship of hard drives for subnotebooks and ultra-mobile PC (UMPC). Its capacity is 120 GB, thickness – 8 mm, even for use in the construction of two magnetic plates. The thickness [...]

In the debate about the prospects of the two video formats to high quality HD DVD and Blu-ray to the last frequently heard criticism of the powerful support of the PlayStation 3, “without which the case for Blu-ray would be going not so good.” And what about the opponents in the camp? Which part of [...]

Singapore becomes the first state to offer its residents a high-speed 100-megabit Internet access, according to a recently adopted by the government’s new long-term plan of development of network infrastructure. It is reported that the new core network, called Next Generation National Broadband Network (national broadband network next generation) will provide each subscriber of an [...]

Korean engineers and researchers have developed an autonomous robot that is designed to patrol the areas of large industrial projects or building complex. Created robot, designated Securo (SECUrity RObot), a group of employees of Korean scientific and technological institute, headed by Dr. Kang Sun-chul. The main advantage of the device – the possibility of self-selection [...]

Representatives of the press service of the Matsushita Electric announced the sale of the CIS 10 millionth phone Panasonic standard DECT. At a press briefing on the event, managers summed up 8 years on the market the brand Panasonic DECT, analyzed trends in the segment in Russia and the CIS, and also presented their plans [...]

Since the formal submission of a reference sample of the GPU NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS, based on a set of 65-nm technology and equipped with a core D8P GDDR3-memory with 512 MB with 256-bit interface, it took only a few days. However, we are already familiar with many innovations from the leading manufacturers of video [...]

Citing an anonymous Dane told reporters on the mythical Engadget GPS-module for the iPhone, which allegedly depicted in the accompanying illustration. Believe it or not this pixelated photos – a private matter. We still feel that this development from TomTom is fiction, but we can not exclude that the next version of iPhone will be [...]

AMD has been faced Wall Street analysts’ errors in the launch of its first quad-core server processor, Barcelona. “The wide-scale production can start only after the redesign, which will be the end of the first quarter of 2008, the case,” said Mario Rivas, AMD’s vice president. Looking back over the past year we have but [...]

The creators of modern robotic devices often aim to develop their projects aids that would according to his ability not inferior counterparts – insects, fish, mammals, etc., often are the prototypes for robots. One of the latest developments was an artificial model of skaters that can move through the water. Like its living prototype robot [...]

On 17 December release bit-side, the new version of its photo software for panoramic shots, PanoMan 3.0,. It facilitates the creation of high-resolution panoramic pictures with your camera phone. PanoMan 3.0 will allow for 30 megapixel high picture compositions and improve image quality. Who wants to hold a camera phone with a panorama or a [...]

In recent years, companies that produce processors are focusing efforts more on the number of cores than on increasing the operating frequency of the chips. However, this does not mean that work to create more high-speed components thereof. Thus, the company Northrop Grumman announced the development of the transistor, the frequency of which can reach [...]