Archive for ‘January, 2008’

Federal government wants to protect against aggressive direct marketing

Federal government wants to protect against aggressive direct marketing

The Federal Government is considering new rules for an effective consumer protection against aggressive direct marketing of telecommunications companies. This question was under consideration, the government wrote in its response to a request from the FDP. The Liberals had been advised of the consumer information centers, public acknowledgments that allegedly ordered DSL connections would be [...]

CES 2008: parade of thin LCD TVs from JVC

CES 2008: parade of thin LCD TVs from JVC

Catch up on the size of “plasma” monsters, such as the 150-inch TV company Panasonic, LCD panels can not afford, but the LCD can quite compete with them on the thickness. Evidence of this is the latest development companies Sharp, Hitachi and JVC. In fact, today we just pay attention the achievements of one of [...]

Shuttle XPC Barebone brings with X38 Express Chipset

Shuttle XPC Barebone brings with X38 Express Chipset

Shuttle XPC Barebone announced one, which is based on Intel’s X38 Express Chipset. The SX38P2 Pro supports Intel’s 45-nanometer dual-and quad-core processors up to 1333 MHz front side bus. He is the first XPC Barebone which is designed for two PCI Express 2.0 graphics cards in Crossfire configuration. In the black, brushed aluminum enclosure can [...]

Photo of the Day: USB 3.0 connector

Photo of the Day: USB 3.0 connector

At the CES 2008 show USB 3.0 – a modified version of a universal standard that is used in numerous devices. New items shown out of order, but that did not stop a journalist captured in photos, and connectors of the new format. USB3 connector. USB3 connector. Mini-USB3 connector: USB 3.0 (SuperSpeed ​​USB) promises to [...]

CES 2008: SSD-new OCZ SATA hard SATA2

CES 2008: SSD-new OCZ SATA hard SATA2

At International CES 2008 in Las Vegas, booth OCZ Technology abounded many very interesting exhibits, among which were the new SSDs based on flash memory chips such as NAND, performed in a 2.5-inch form factor. devices, presented in versions with a capacity of 32 and 64 GB are positioned by their creators as more reliable [...]

Asustek targeting the mass market of laptops in the U.S.

Asustek targeting the mass market of laptops in the U.S.

Asustek Computer Company will increase its presence in the U.S. market in the segment of mass notebooks, reducing the average sales price of approximately $ 200 – said general manager commercial division of the company in the United States, Mr. Xu (YC Hsu) while being held in Las Vegas at CES 2008. So far, this [...]

CES 2008: slim and beautiful laptop Fujitsu LifeBook P8000

CES 2008: slim and beautiful laptop Fujitsu LifeBook P8000

For many developers, laptops in January 2008 and was associated until now been associated with two significant events – the time when the mobile Penryn chips, and the International Consumer Electronics Show CES 2008. And while most companies proudly boast of already-date, expensive and powerful Penryn-series systems, Fujitsu engineers decided to focus on light and [...]

Matsushita will celebrate 90 years and turn into …

Matsushita will celebrate 90 years and turn into …

Japanese company Matsushita Electric Industrial, is well known to us its brand Panasonic, announced its intention to rename itself Panasonic Corporation. It is reported that the changes should come into force on 1 October this year. In addition, the company plans to merge their corporate brands under one common name – Panasonic. decision to rename [...]

CES Shuttle on 199-dollar Linux computer

CES Shuttle on 199-dollar Linux computer

Shuttle has unveiled at CES its model CCP. It is a Linux PC, which costs only 199 dollars. With this device follows the company Asus and Everex, which offer models with the Eee or Cloudbook also open source-based low-cost systems. The PC features an Intel Celeron, Intel 945GC chipset, 512 MB RAM and 60 or [...]

CES 2008: data do not drown or be burned along with SentrySafe

CES 2008: data do not drown or be burned along with SentrySafe

It’s no secret that sometimes the information stored on your hard disk or flash drive standard, can cost tens or hundreds of times more than the same drive, optical drive, or all the room in which the information is present or stored. It is for the owners of the data is the importance and value [...]

American provider accused of blocking BitTorrent

American provider accused of blocking BitTorrent

During the annual Consumer Electronics Show CES 2008 Federal Communications Commission USA (FCC) made a small gift distributors of unlicensed content. The official representative of the commission, said an investigation against U.S. service provider Comcast, associated with the charge of obstructing free passage of traffic peer to peer clients, primarily, BitTorrent – the most popular [...]

Media Player with 0,44 “OLED-screen from Dreamax

Media Player with 0,44 “OLED-screen from Dreamax

The Korean company has recently introduced Dreamax new portable media player (PMP) Indicube i-800, equipped with 0.44-inch OLED-display with user-the-head in the form of original “video glasses”. According to the developer’s video presentation with the help of this screen is equivalent to that of a 54-inch screen from a distance of seven feet (slightly more [...]

Google Sky adds new features

Google Sky adds new features

Google has released a new version of its space expansion Sky for Google Earth. The update provides the latest cosmic events such as comets and asteroids, historical maps of the sky and virtual space flights. Google Sky users can now also access images from satellite observations in different wave lengths of the room, including X-ray [...]

Stylish slider Oak from Hewlett-Packard

Stylish slider Oak from Hewlett-Packard

Thanks to Vodafone’s network leaked information about a new smartphone from the company Hewlett-Packard (HP). According to available data, the model is equipped with HP Oak sliding QWERTY-keyboard and the usual set of digital buttons on the front panel. The device supports GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GSM / GPRS / EDGE, HSPDA (7.2) and runs on [...]

Traffic jams in Moscow, an analytical study on Yandex

Traffic jams in Moscow, an analytical study on Yandex

Traffic jams – that’s problem number one, most exciting of Muscovites. But back in 2003, this issue occupied only the fifth-most popular among the capital’s residents (according to the Levada Center). The next version of its “portrait of the Moscow traffic jams,” released Yandex, analyzed the data SMILINK news agency, accumulated in the system Yandex.Maps. [...]