Archive for ‘January, 2008’

G. Skill 4GB proposed high-speed DDR2-1066

G. Skill 4GB proposed high-speed DDR2-1066

The product range manufactured by G. Skill product, a new set of a pair of 2-GB memory DDR2, capable of operating in dual channel mode at 1066MHz 5-5-5-15 delays. How emphasize the developers in the set with a serial number F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK bars are based on an 8-layer PCB, which, they said, guarantees more stable devices. [...]

T-Systems draws for dumping tariff on trial

T-Systems draws for dumping tariff on trial

T-Systems has in front of the Cologne Administrative Court against the lawsuit filed yesterday by the Federal Network Agency imposed ban on a very affordable flat rate tariff for municipalities. They wanted to “use all legal means to clarify,” announced the Deutsche Telekom subsidiary. The Federal Network Agency had yielded to its decision yesterday to [...]

Clustered Storage Isilon

Clustered Storage Isilon

The company Isilon Systems announced updated its line of clustered storage systems Series IQ, a new modification of the received dual-core Intel Xeon 5100 instead of the previously used single-core, and an updated title – IQ X-Series. According to the manufacturer, the hardware upgrade provides 60% improvement in such indicators as the writing speed and [...]

The trio of compact “digital cameras” Panasonic Lumix new FS series

The trio of compact “digital cameras” Panasonic Lumix new FS series

Literally, just before the opening of an international exhibition of PMA 2008 in Las Vegas, Panasonic announced the release of three compact digital camera Lumix brand new series of FS, which in its functionality in many ways similar to the representatives of well-established line of FX. All of the devices different eye-catching design of its [...]

Sony reports 25 percent profit increase

Sony reports 25 percent profit increase

In the third quarter (to 31 December) of fiscal 2008, Sony increased its sales over the previous year by 9.6 percent to 2.859 trillion yen (about € 18.153 billion). The net profit increased year over year to 25.2 percent from 159.9 to 200.2 billion yen (1.272 billion euros). This is evident from the figures published [...]

Powerchip is included in the development of 32-nm process technology

Powerchip is included in the development of 32-nm process technology

Taiwanese chip manufacturer of DRAM and NAND company Powerchip Semiconductor Corporation (PSC) announced recently to join the project on joint development of technologies for production of memory chips on 32-nm process, the slave Belgian independent research center IMEC. Under the agreement, PSC will participate in projects concerning the development of methods for immersion and vacuum [...]

Vodafone boosts sales by almost 16 percent

Vodafone boosts sales by almost 16 percent

Vodafone has increased its sales in the third quarter (to 31 December) of fiscal year 2008 versus the same period the previous year by 15.8 percent to 9.163 billion British pounds (12.274 billion euros). The quarterly figures released today (PDF) of the mobile operator, according to the organic growth was 4.4 percent. The company had [...]

Displaybank: LCD panel market in anticipation of the boom

Displaybank: LCD panel market in anticipation of the boom

Happy New Year 2008 will be very profitable for the manufacturers of LCD panels, and especially good for companies who pay great attention to producing large-size models such as Samsung Electronics and LG.Philips LCD. As stated in the recently published report, the research firm Displaybank, the demand for LCD panels in large sizes during 2008 [...]

Apple updates iWork 08 components

Apple updates iWork 08 components

Apple has ever released an update to the individual components of its Office suite Iwork released ’08. The revised versions of Keynote 4.0.2, Pages 3.0.2 and Numbers 1.0.2 are now available for free download from the Apple website. The updates to the Pages word processor and spreadsheet Numbers should improve compatibility with Mac OS X. [...]

12 GB of memory for mobile phones as the SanDisk microSDHC-

12 GB of memory for mobile phones as the SanDisk microSDHC-

On the issue of the most capacious to date memory card standard microSDHC, able to accommodate as many as 12 GB of data, the company said SanDisk Corporation. According articulated in a published press release information, novelty should first and foremost interest holders are compatible with the format of cell phones, equipped with a digital [...]

Asustek is aiming to six of the leading laptop manufacturers

Asustek is aiming to six of the leading laptop manufacturers

Taiwan’s Asustek Computer plans to cash in on its own brand in 2008, about 10.5 billion U.S. dollars, up 50% more than it managed the company in 2007. Thus the main emphasis is on development of own business for the production of notebook computers. It is expected that this area will bring about half of [...]

Six versions of the GeForce 8800 GT with the new cooler SPARKLE

Six versions of the GeForce 8800 GT with the new cooler SPARKLE

Wildly popular graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT is a powerful incentive for manufacturers to produce cards more and more alternate versions of this accelerator is characterized by the presence of more efficient cooling system, the presence of more memory and better performance through overclocking. That company SPARKLE Computer Co., which has already keen to [...]

Virtual keyboard in Nokia smartphones

Virtual keyboard in Nokia smartphones

It’s no secret that in today’s mobile devices sorely lacking normal QWERTY-keyboard to work successfully with text and numerous applications. Proposed to solve this problem in different ways. One of the most interesting solutions is to use the virtual input when the keyboard is projected onto a hard surface, near the machine. Specialists Nokia, it [...]

Motorola has patented a flexible keyboard

Motorola has patented a flexible keyboard

Flexible displays have long appeared on the market and gradually experts think about how to use this exciting technology for the benefit of mobile phones. While manufacturers attempt to build something worthwhile in this vein are rather helpless. However, given the current movement in the market, we can assume that soon this technology will truly [...]

Xbox 360 started to make money

Xbox 360 started to make money

Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division (EDD), finally got a plus, marking the beginning of the profitability of the entire multi-million dollar gaming initiative Microsoft. As predicted by Robbie Bach (Robbie Bach), according to a fresh financial statements of the company, Xbox-division earned $ 524 million, considerably more than $ 423,000,000th loss a year ago. In [...]