Archive for ‘August, 2008’

University plans 12-dollar PC for developing countries

University plans 12-dollar PC for developing countries

students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), according to a report by developing an APC-based 8-bit 12-dollar computer technology for emerging markets. The project, called Educational Home Computing Initiative (EHCI) is drawing inspiration from a computer game available in India, which is offered there for the equivalent of $ 12.50 along with various computer [...]

Expenditures for TVs to rise despite falling prices

Expenditures for TVs to rise despite falling prices

German consumers will spend, according to calculations by the industry association Bitkom this year, on average € 809 for a TV. Although the prices of flat screen televisions and CRT devices last year fell by about one-third, but because consumers increasingly prefer tube gear instead of flat screens with very large aspect ratios, the average [...]

Toshiba brings XGA projector with 4000 ANSI lumens

Toshiba brings XGA projector with 4000 ANSI lumens

Toshiba has launched three DLP projectors with XGA resolution (1024 by 768 pixels) on the market. The new T-series leverages Texas Instruments’ BrilliantColor technology, which should provide a more natural color representation. The approximately 34 times 28 times 13 centimeters wide and just over 4 kilograms models T360, T420, and according to the manufacturer tw420 [...]

Panasonic LF-PB371JD writes BD-R discs at 8x

Panasonic LF-PB371JD writes BD-R discs at 8x

Panasonic has recently added to its range of products it offers new writer optical drive, Blu-ray, received index LF-PB371JD and able to “burn” discs BD-R and BD-RE at 2x and 8x respectively. device is designed as a plug-in interface with SATA, has 8 MB buffer and has dimensions of 146 x 41,1 x 190 mm [...]

Acer Aspire One in Russia for 11 990 rubles

Acer Aspire One in Russia for 11 990 rubles

During the presentation, the recent Acer, representatives of the Russian subsidiary of the developer were quick to share the information with reporters about the imminent start of sales of Aspire One notebook based on Intel Atom. Thus, in the next two weeks as expected by many alternative Eee PC will in many stores across Russia. [...]

Notebook manufacturers have summed up in July

Notebook manufacturers have summed up in July

Became known to the financial results in July the first echelon of laptop manufacturers – companies Quanta Computer, Compal Electronics, Wistron and Inventec. Results from all of them look quite optimistic, since the amount of income exceeded that of last month. Compal has the gross income amounted to 1.19 billion dollars, 23% more than a [...]

German market for game consoles grows by 30 percent

German market for game consoles grows by 30 percent

In the first six months of 2008 have been sold in Germany 1.7 million game consoles, representing an increase of 30 percent or 400,000 units over the previous year. The findings of a survey by market research company GfK on behalf of the Association of Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media (BITKOM) forth. In parallel [...]

Dream rich: Case for iPhone for $ 15,000

Dream rich: Case for iPhone for $ 15,000

There is a category of products for consumers, which includes special products, products not for everyone. Such products are, oddly enough, people produce very different emotions to someone they seem to be another stupid, some are dreaming about them for years. Company Noreve, specializing in the production of accessories for mobile phones, recently delighted the [...]

DFI LANParty JR R790GX-M2RS: pictures of finished product

DFI LANParty JR R790GX-M2RS: pictures of finished product

Thanks to the efforts of staff of network resource Fudzilla have with you an opportunity to look at the final version prepared for the release of the DFI motherboard LANParty JR R790GX-M2RS, which was based on recently officially presented chipset AMD 790GX, working in conjunction with the South Bridge AMD SB750 (must noted that in [...]

Mini-ITX motherboard Zotac nForce 630i-ITX with VGA and DVI outputs

Mini-ITX motherboard Zotac nForce 630i-ITX with VGA and DVI outputs

The product range offered by Zotac motherboards appeared in new form factor Mini-ITX, built on a combination of chipset NVIDIA GeForce 7100 + NVIDIA nForce 630i and is designed to work with Intel processors for Socket LGA775 with FSB up to 1333MHz, as Core 2 Extreme, Core 2 Quad, Core 2 Duo and Pentium. model [...]

The new Olympic competition on Allsoft.ru 3DNews

The new Olympic competition on Allsoft.ru 3DNews

Friends! conjunction with an online store software license Allsoft.ru, belonging to one of the largest Russian software vendors – the company SoftLine, offer you a new contest timed to coincide with the beginning of World Olympic Games. The task for him to be more complicated than in the previous contest, but the more interesting it [...]

Smartphone sales grow

Smartphone sales grow

Worldwide smartphone sales grew by almost 40% in the second quarter of 2008 – far more than a 15 percent increase in handset sales during the same period. According to analysts, this is a sign of increased interest of buyers to this kind of products. total number of phones sold during the second quarter totaled [...]

Exhibition Softool: IT in Russian

Exhibition Softool: IT in Russian

In the period from September 30 to October 3, 2008 in Expocentre on 19 th Exhibition of Information Technologies Softool. Along c the final product on «Softool’e» will be presented to scientific developments and technologies of the future. The exhibition will continue its work project “CAD Expo.” The program includes master classes, CAD-show, press conference, [...]

Familiarity: Sparkle GeForce 9800 GT 55nm

Familiarity: Sparkle GeForce 9800 GT 55nm

The transition to more advanced process technology in addition to all of its advantages allows the manufacturer to reduce the cost of solutions produced with its help. Resulting in the ability to successfully compete. And no matter what was going on, the processors or graphics cards, are one. ATI is already reaping the benefits of [...]

NVIDIA bought the rights to use Transmeta technology

NVIDIA bought the rights to use Transmeta technology

California developer of graphics processors and chipsets NVIDIA has concluded license agreement with Transmeta, at which receives the right to use proprietary power management technology. At the same time NVIDIA will pay for the acquisition of a large sum of $ 25 million under the contract the buyer is able to use technology and the [...]