Iridium Satellite deploys the U.S. campaign called «Test Your Satellite Phone», under which subscribers will be trained to use modern satellite phones. According to organizers, this initiative may well purchase an annual nature. Note that the event coincided with a week of preparation for possible hurricanes in the U.S. (US National Weather Service’s National Hurricane [...]

The concept of “solar energy” is associated more with silicon semiconductor panels that allow light to transform our light directly into electricity. The disadvantages of this method of transformation are well known – it is not too high efficiency and strict dependence on weather conditions. Start-up Ausra was interested investors an alternative design of solar [...]

Total sales of multiservice routers Cisco 12000 series a little less than 10 years has exceeded $ 10 billion – with deserved pride of said manufacturer. During this time it was established more than 35 thousand units. The choice of a set of customers, “Voters purse” for the very expensive solution, confirms the reputation of [...]

Analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, Sony promise the greatest losses in 4-year period. According to specialists’ forecasts, the total loss of the largest companies for the fiscal fourth quarter ended 31 March this year amounted to ¥ 75,8 billion ($ 630 million). Presumably the sale of products grew by 9.5%, generating a ¥ 2,02 trillion revenue. [...]

Xpert Vision has introduced the HD 2900 XT graphics card based on ATI’s R600 GPU. It supports DirectX 10 and is available now for 379 €. The card has 512 MB of GDDR-3 memory. The Avivo HD technology accelerates the decoding of the video formats H.264 and VC-1, coming on HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs are [...]

A team of Japanese researchers have succeeded in using bacteria to store data. The scientist Masaru Tomita of Keio University in Fujisawa, according to his team has bacteria with Einstein’s formula of the equivalence of mass and energy “E = mc ²” and the publication year “1905″ program. The information was stored in the genetic [...]

The company introduced a rather unusual Callpod charger Chargepod, already understands simultaneously charge up to six devices, including cell phones, PDAs, MP3-players, etc. Certainly, many fans of portable devices will be appreciated by the proposed decision, because often you can just get lost in the dozens of reel stands. The best part is that customers [...]

The next week in some U.S. stores can be purchased HD DVD-player HD-A2 from Toshiba for $ 300. This significant cost reduction due to the special initiative, Toshiba, under which the price of all the HD DVD-players from this manufacturer is reduced by $ 100. Discount period will last until June 9, 2007. Note that [...]

Korean company Samsung Electronics has developed an 8-gigabyte memory card microSD (Secure Digital), is an ideal solution for storing large amounts of data in portable devices (particularly mobile phones). In such a medium can be written about two thousand of MP3-files, 4 of thousands of digital photos or five movies in DVD-quality. The read speed [...]

According to a study of Waterford Technologies, a specialist in e-mail archiving is more than half of all archived e-mails never accessed again. The flood of often unnecessarily stored electronic messages causing a growing cost burden for companies, said Waterford Sales Director Gary Cosgrave. “While falling hardware costs per gigabyte of storage, the financial expenses [...]

In a networked USB-Hub F5L009, released by Belkin, realized an interesting opportunity to emulate the direct connection to the computer devices actually connected to one of five new USB-ports. Of course, with the hub and the computer must “see” each other over the network. Argues that by caching provides the use of full bandwidth high-speed [...]

As we know, at Computex 2007, AMD will showcase its first quad-core Opteron (Barcelona). But the exact date of the announcement is still unknown, according to Taiwanese makers of server solutions. Previously, some sources reported that the debut of server CPU Barcelona could take place in June, possibly at Computex 2007. But the website Digitimes [...]

The Taiwanese company Behavior Tech Computer Corporation (BTC), one of the largest manufacturers of computer peripherals, presented to the public wireless multimedia keyboard BTC 9029URF III, combines keyboard, mouse and remote control. Keyboard BTC 9029URF III is elegant, compact and easy to use. 16 “hot” keys allow for quick and easy to operate TV, DVD [...]

Adobe will publish according to an official FAQ document (PDF) any new versions of Freehand drawing program for Windows Vista or Intel-based Apple systems. “After a long and illustrious career Freehand Adobe is at the end of its development. We are not planning any further, either patches or updates for new operating systems or hardware,” [...]

Podcasting now speaks to more people from older generations. According to a recent Comscore study, more than 50 percent of all podcasts in iTunes can be downloaded by persons over 35 years. Overall, about half of all podcast downloads back at users aged between 35 and 54 years. The findings are likely to call the [...]