Microsoft has made release candidate 1 of its Hyper-V virtualization software available for download. The final is scheduled for the second half. The latest pre-release will bring improvements in the areas of security, stability, speed and compatibility. After installation, the components can not be removed. Further details about the new features and notes about the [...]

Hitachi has announced a combined burner Blu-ray DZ-WR90, producing a record without a computer. The main advantage of the new drive is the ability to record video to disc away from the PC, having at hand only outlet AC line. This solution will help to record Blu-ray discs directly from your hard drive camcorders equipped [...]

The company has announced a range of digital Schlage locks, controlled by a wireless standard Z-Wave. Z-Wave – this is the first open wireless standard for home automation system, under which the equipment can produce any interested manufacturer. This standard is widely used in the so-called “smart homes” that can, for example, to heat the [...]

NovaStor has released version 10 of its security solution for desktops and servers, NovaBACKUP. With the complete package can also save data locally and online on all available storage media and retrieve worldwide via the Internet. Featuring free online storage NovaBACKUP 10 offers a new disk-imaging function for the reconstruction of complete systems, and easier [...]

At the conference Dow Jones Environmental Ventures in California, eBay has a market place for fair trade announced. “World of Good” is operated by eBay, along with World of Good Inc., the commercial arm of the same non-profit organization. The launch is planned for this summer. Under Worldofgood.com is already a community portal where interested [...]

Asus has expanded its VW-Series monitor is a model with a screen size of 21.6 inches. The VW221D offers a native WXGA resolution of 1680 by 1050 pixels. The widescreen achieved according to the manufacturer, a contrast ratio of 5000:1. The brightness is 300 candelas per square meter. The reaction time is 5 milliseconds to [...]

Google has introduced a new layer for Google Earth, which is collected at any location to display news from Google News. The layer, which, if necessary in the “gallery” can be activated, provides display the current map view with small icons in the form of a newspaper, on the retrieve the messages. Google currently uses [...]

Sony is pleased to music lovers these days the announcement of a very original sound system GIGA JUKE NAS-E35HD, which differs from the present solutions on the market a built-in hard disk capacity of 80 GB. Now music can be stored easily without a computer. There is also provided Speed ​​Dubbing with the built-in CD-player [...]

Bundesdruckerei and Samsung SDI have in common an e-passport with a thin, AMOLED display built-developed. On it can be if needed passport photos and video represent more in the e-passport data stored. The prototype is currently shown at the exhibition SID Display Week 2008. The polycarbonate data page of the new e-passport is thick, according [...]

According to studies by market research firm NPD Group, Apple has dominated in the first quarter of 2008, the U.S. market for computers in the price range of $ 1000 with a share of 66 percent clear. On the whole U.S. market, the manufacturer now holds a stake of 14 percent. The U.S. magazine eWeek [...]

American and Romanian law enforcement authorities have announced the dismantling of a Bucharest Romanian-American phishing ring. Mark Filip, Deputy U.S. Attorney General, and the Romanian Prosecutor General Laura Kövesi said that nine people in the U.S. were arrested and several houses were searched in Romania. A total of up to 38 people have been involved [...]

Napster is now offering its entire music catalog of some 6 million songs without copy protection DRM. With the launch of version 4.5 of the Napster stores now all titles are available either as a monthly subscription for a fixed price of 12.95 dollars in protected WMA format or as an MP3 file at a [...]

As soon as we move away from a long saga with the purchase of internet giant Yahoo by Microsoft, as the network there are new rumors associated with this “deal of the century.” Previously, the creators of Windows offered per share of about $ 33 Yahoo, which involved a total of $ 47.5 billion this [...]

According to information announced by the network resource Fudzilla, the company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are ready to test samples of the new chip RV770 PRO. It also notes that the graphics core frequency is 625 MHz. Another source said that an engineering version of the video cards based on this decision, will the memory [...]

Mozilla has released a first release candidate (RC1) of its browser, Firefox 3. The preliminary version is based on the published 33 months in development version 1.9 of the rendering engine “Gecko”, according to the release notes contains more than 14,000 changes over its predecessor. According to Mozilla is the release candidate of the final [...]