Archive for ‘June, 2008’

UK Times online archive opens

UK Times online archive opens

The British daily Times has made its archives in digital form to the public. Interested now be found on the website of the newspaper over 20 million articles from the past 200 years. The Times-stocks were almost entirely digitized. All contributions are roughly similar to the original appearance. As the Guardian reported, the use of [...]

ATI Radeon HD 3870: Now for the “Macs”!

ATI Radeon HD 3870: Now for the “Macs”!

The company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) officially announced the release of the graphic adapter ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac & PC Edition, specially optimized for use in desktop computer systems, Apple Mac Pro. According to the developers, their offspring will provide the followers of the Mac platform with all the necessary processing power to be [...]

Published by Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RC0

Published by Microsoft SQL Server 2008 RC0

Microsoft has a first release candidate (RC0) of its SQL Server released in 2008. The data platform, according to Microsoft solutions for business intelligence, data warehousing, online transaction processing, application development and server consolidation. SQL Server 2008 will include many new features over the previous SQL Server 2005. A list of additions can be found [...]

Stylish UMPC from Gigabyte for $ 750 in July

Stylish UMPC from Gigabyte for $ 750 in July

Portal UMPCPortal told some very interesting facts about the cute UMPC M528 from the company Gigabyte. Well-informed journalists say that the model appears in the Taiwan market by the end of July 2008 for $ 750 (estimated). Product specifications have not changed since it was a demonstration during the exhibition Computex. Cute “slider” is equipped [...]

Robots will be able to feel the shape of objects at a distance

Robots will be able to feel the shape of objects at a distance

Engineers research lab of Intel introduced the robotic arm, capable to feel the shape of things to interact directly with them. To make this possible, Intel engineers have equipped the fingers of Mechanics and electronic hand two-way solenoid modules. These modules are sending around a weak electromagnetic impulses. Based on the analysis of reflections of [...]

Price and the first reviews of ASUS Eee PC 901

Price and the first reviews of ASUS Eee PC 901

Not long ago, editors Whioam to please you review a cute mini-notebook MSI Wind U100, but the network has already appeared the first review for a similar device ASUS Eee PC 901. Moreover, it became known to the official price of the product that works with Linux or Windows XP (Model 1000 and 1000H). In [...]

Review of the GeForce GTX 280 in the magazine PC Gamers

Review of the GeForce GTX 280 in the magazine PC Gamers

When in our news or in the pages of our colleagues there is information or test results not yet announced products is one thing. Since, as a rule, these data come to us from the depths of a foreign forum, or news columns with serious and reputable sites where there is almost always the phrase [...]

T-Mobile called official prices for iPhone 3G

T-Mobile called official prices for iPhone 3G

T-Mobile has announced the official prices for the iPhone 3G announced. The 11th from the Available July 8-gigabyte version of Apple’s new phones will cost depending on the tariff 1-170 €. As it was revealed at the weekend, the UMTS iPhone with 8 GB of memory in conjunction with the minimum wage “Complete S” for [...]

Siemens plans more job cuts

Siemens plans more job cuts

Siemens has announced plans to save at least € 1.2 billion in administrative costs. “Over the next few weeks, employees receive clarity on the impact on jobs”, quoted by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Personnel Officer Siegfried Russwurm. How many jobs disappear because of the austerity measures is yet to be decided, says the report. The [...]

Oklick 420 M and 440M – Orange Revolution

Oklick 420 M and 440M – Orange Revolution

The range of keyboards brand Oklick there were two positive summer novelty. Stylish model Oklick 420 M will satisfy fans of the elegant things. Plain black body – a good classic, and orange stripes will add a positive color in the office everyday. Novelty is equipped with two blocks of extra keys for direct access. [...]

BMW made a car made of cloth

BMW made a car made of cloth

Often, concept cars surprised us with some unearthly shapes and features, but the BMW in this case has managed to outdo the original in all its competitors. Designers created a car that changes the shape of the body. Instead of steel, aluminum or carbon fiber in the model, a special waterproof GINA flexible fabric stretched [...]

Pictures of the GeForce GTX 280 from Gigabyte and XFX

Pictures of the GeForce GTX 280 from Gigabyte and XFX

Nearer the date of the official announcement of top-end graphics card GeForce GTX 280 from NVIDIA. And the less time remains until June 16, the more networks are trained on information to be released leading manufacturers of video cards based products, this high-performance solution. That’s in our network resource VR-Zone we have seen photos of [...]

Hewlett-Packard has launched a business notebook series EliteBook

Hewlett-Packard has launched a business notebook series EliteBook

HP conducted a large-scale update of its notebook product lines, consists of 16 new models. The presented models were created taking into account the impact on the environment and using energy-saving systems and legkopererabatyvaemyh materials. Laptops are available with backlit displays, diodes, mercury-free. By 2010, HP plans to completely eliminate the use of mercury in [...]

Toyota makes all its vehicles with hybrid

Toyota makes all its vehicles with hybrid

Japanese automaker Toyota plans to seriously be the most “green” producer of passenger cars. The company intends to produce 1 million vehicles with hybrid, offering the buyer the “electric” version of any existing model. In the short term, producers intend to equip their cars more refined gasoline and diesel engines, and intends to promote alternative [...]

Shoes with Wi-Fi-opoznovatelem

Shoes with Wi-Fi-opoznovatelem

«A Step in the Right Direction» – the so-called interesting project, under which was created by a pair of shoes, who can recognize the network Wi-Fi. In footwear built a special electronic circuit. Scanning starts every time you take a step (at the base of a special sensor). scanning results are displayed on special LED-indicators: [...]