Archive for ‘March 31st, 2008’

Toshiba ApriPoko: a robot instead of the remote control

Toshiba ApriPoko: a robot instead of the remote control

Japanese engineers have developed a new Toshiba’s robot named ApriPoko. It weighs 2.3 kilograms miracle robotics, its dimensions are 21 x 27 inches. The main objective ApriPoko – remembering and recognizing voice commands. Picking up the TV remote (or any other electronics), ApriPoko asks you what to do, he will remember your story (for that [...]

Modules Apacer ECC FB-DIMM DDR2-800 for Apple Mac Pro

Modules Apacer ECC FB-DIMM DDR2-800 for Apple Mac Pro

Specifically for use in workstations, Apple Mac Pro, built on Intel 5400 and staffed by established 45-nm technology multi-core Intel Xeon processor 5400, announced recently designed by Apacer Technology new 240-pin Memory FB-DIMM DDR2-800 using the mechanism of ECC (Error Correcting Code) to monitor the transmitted information and bug fixes. As reported in the published [...]

HIS HD3850 graphics card brings AGP

HIS HD3850 graphics card brings AGP

HIS has AGP versions of its ATI Radeon HD3850 and HD3850 graphics cards announced three Ice-Q Turbo. Both boards have 512 MB of graphics memory and 320 stream processors for the pixel and vertex processing. The models support the AGP with the Service Pack 1 of Windows Vista introduced DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.1, up [...]

A couple of silent case fans from Akasa

A couple of silent case fans from Akasa

The range of products offered by Akasa appeared two new case fans under the symbol AK-190-BL and AK-190-SM, differing primarily only the color of the blades of the impeller, which in the first model, dark blue, while the second tender gray. Both “propeller” sizes are 80 x 80 x 25 mm and are designed for [...]

Professional Graphics ATI FireGL V7700, officially

Professional Graphics ATI FireGL V7700, officially

AMD has officially announced the release of new professional graphics cards ATI FireGL V7700, which are the first decisions of this level, supporting work with the interface DisplayPort. main advantage of the devices are called high performance in today’s applications to work with two-and three-dimensional graphics. This determines the positioning of the adapter as components [...]

Wikipedia articles exceeds ten million mark

Wikipedia articles exceeds ten million mark

The Wikimedia Foundation announced on Friday that the online encyclopedia Wikipedia last week has exceeded the ten million mark articles. Than ten millionth post a review written in Hungarian language biography of English painter Nicholas Hilliard was released. “It’s hard to believe that we have evolved from a single English Wikipedia to a dictionary with [...]

WordPress 2.5 is available for download

WordPress 2.5 is available for download

the weekend, the WordPress developers have greatly revised version 2.5 released their blogging software, which offers many innovations in user-friendliness. The dashboard of WordPress is now using a range of customizable widgets that can be made easier online content and images for a gallery feature was integrated through multi-file uploads. Also there are new features [...]

OZ: 5.1-megapixel clamshell phone from LG

OZ: 5.1-megapixel clamshell phone from LG

South Korean company LG announced a mobile phone called LG OZ. The prototype model can be called from a famous W53CA Japanese manufacturer of electrical Casio – at least, resemblance is undeniable. If we talk about “stuffing”, there are more similarities with the model LG LH2300, which, incidentally, also was announced recently. LG OZ boasts [...]

Comfortable reading books with jetBook

Comfortable reading books with jetBook

Company ECTACO, Inc., Known as the world’s leading manufacturer of high quality electronic translators and electronic dictionaries, reported on the sales of new devices for reading books. It was called jetBook. For comfortable reading device has a screen diagonal is 5 inches, to increase the same amount of memory will be through the purchase of [...]

Retro News: Welcome to the era of modern computers

Retro News: Welcome to the era of modern computers

1939, March 31 between IBM and Harvard University concluded an agreement for the construction of the first American programmable computer Mark I, which later became the symbol of the beginning of the era of modern computers, even though he was half mechanical. Designed and built this machine was a young mathematician Howard Aiken (Howard Aiken, [...]

StarForce hold a round table dedicated to the protection against piracy

StarForce hold a round table dedicated to the protection against piracy

StarForce Technologies together with the organizers of GDC-2008 announced a roundtable on “The problem of piracy in the XXI century through the eyes of developers.” It will be held at the annual Game Developers Conference 2008 (GDC 2008), which will be held from 18 to 20 April 2008 in Moscow. Developer popular copy-protection offers the [...]