Archive for ‘2007’

Motorola to increase purchases of mobile phones in ODM-producers

Motorola to increase purchases of mobile phones in ODM-producers

The company Motorola, which this year is having problems on the mobile phone market, is planning the next year to increase the volume of orders for the production of “tubes” from third parties. For example, if today is about 40% of the total number of units placed on the market are made ODM-partners of the [...]

Intelligent control systems in the Nissan Fuga

Intelligent control systems in the Nissan Fuga

Nissan has announced its intention to December 2007 to offer cars of the class Fuga in trim with intelligent systems that control the throttle and cruise control (Intelligent Pedal and Intelligent Cruise Control). We claim that Fuga will be the first production car, which will be installed at the same time both systems. Both options [...]

Sony Mylo is preparing a successor

Sony Mylo is preparing a successor

According to information received from the fathomless depths of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Sony is located half-way to release the successor handheld Mylo. new design will largely resemble that of its predecessor: the location of the stickers can be seen that we are dealing with a slider QWERTY-keyboard. In addition, the device is equipped [...]

MSP430hh: cost controller from TI

MSP430hh: cost controller from TI

Company Texas Instruments (TI), a tireless inventor of powerful and compact solutions for mobile communications devices and embedded applications, announced recently the launch of five new families of high-performance microcontrollers MSP430F2xx – 16-bit general-purpose devices with industry’s lowest power consumption. MSP430F2xx MCUs have their own memory up to 120 kb, 20-bit addressable memory increases the [...]

Canon will release a new DSLR-camera January 24

Canon will release a new DSLR-camera January 24

This time, let the wave of information the vice-president of the Swedish unit of Canon Robert Westin (Robert Westin), whose interview was posted recently on the pages of a national Internet resource Kamerabild.se. According to Westin said, the next announcement of a new digital SLR (DSLR) will be held January 24, 2008 one week before [...]

Sony Ericsson patented self-cleaning cell phone screen

Sony Ericsson patented self-cleaning cell phone screen

Sony Ericsson has filed a patent for technology that cleans the screen slider and clamshell phone like a windshield wiper when opening and fingerprints removed. The reports Unwired View. If the mobile phone opened or postponed, a slider moves across the screen and removes stains and dust. The same happens when you close the phone. [...]

Sony-Ericsson is preparing ultra-thin “clamshell” Z660i

Sony-Ericsson is preparing ultra-thin “clamshell” Z660i

According to available information, Sony Ericsson is preparing to release a mobile phone Z660i, made in the form-factor “clamshell”. Apparently, the novelty will be the spiritual successor to the extremely thin models W890i – in the closed position its thickness will not exceed 14 mm. The phone will be equipped with an external LCD screen [...]

In anticipation of the announcement of the Phenom 9600 Black Edition AMD cuts prices on quad-core processors

In anticipation of the announcement of the Phenom 9600 Black Edition AMD cuts prices on quad-core processors

In the latest situation, AMD is hardly stable: its market value dropped to $ 5 billion, the company is having problems with the supply of its quad-core processors because of the presence of these errors, and the family was disappointed a few HD3800 cards to its low performance relative to competitors. In this situation, the [...]

Acer Aspire 2920: laptop for mobile mods

Acer Aspire 2920: laptop for mobile mods

Press office of Acer announced sales in Russia of a new model laptop Aspire 2920, which differs from competitors’ products a solid design, advanced multimedia capabilities and a much-needed mobility to many – the weight of the device is less than 2 kg. models of the new series are certified in accordance with the standards [...]

Ribbit platform combines telephone and Web Applications

Ribbit platform combines telephone and Web Applications

With a softswitch and a Flash or Flex-based programming Ribbit has introduced a technology that will enable the mediation between the Web and telephony networks. The open, offers Flash and Flex-based programming, according to Ribbit and developers who do not come from the telephony sector, the possibility of language elements to be integrated into all [...]

“Black diamonds” in the collection of Gresso Avantgarde

“Black diamonds” in the collection of Gresso Avantgarde

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, [...]

Mirror launches knowledge portal

Mirror launches knowledge portal

“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 X48 release may be postponed

Intel X48 release may be postponed

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: Internal audit has been prevented in 2006

Siemens: Internal audit has been prevented in 2006

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 [...]

Toshiba has introduced a 120 GB HDD for subnotebooks

Toshiba has introduced a 120 GB HDD for subnotebooks

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 [...]