The shareholders of Navteq, a provider of digital map data for vehicle navigation and location-based solutions, have adopted at an extraordinary meeting of shareholders the offer from Nokia. More than 75 percent of the voting stock or more than 99 percent of represented at the AGM, shareholders voted for the offer. One of the conditions [...]

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 [...]

A few days ago the experts of the Federal Commission for the United States (FCC) has certified a mobile phone Samsung SCH-U940. According to foreign news sources, at Christmas, users will receive a modified version of the U.S. phone Samsung SGH-F700, which will differ from its predecessor the opportunity to work in a network Verizon [...]

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 [...]

Practice of issuing company exclusive OCZ Technology memory module, suited for a specific platform or vendor-specific products, has become a favorite tradition. At this time the mouth of the press service noted the emergence of new flagship rods DDR3-1800 (PC3-14400), intended for enthusiasts of extreme overclocking and adapted for use with motherboards based on chipset [...]

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 [...]

Despite the fact that the market for some manufacturers already are several models of portable 32-gigabyte flash drives with interface USB 2.0, the company Buffalo Technology at the announcement of its new products of the same capacity with undisguised pride, named her the best solution for those users who need roomy, high-performance and reliable handheld [...]

The decision to transfer engineers NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS on a set of 65-nm technology core D8P and use 512 MB of GDDR3 memory and 256-bit interface found broad support among the leading manufacturers of video cards. A case in point was a whole series of high-profile announcements of new products based on this high-performance [...]