Archive for ‘August, 2008’

IDF SF 2008: Intel introduced dual-core Atom

IDF SF 2008: Intel introduced dual-core Atom

At the Intel Developer Conference taking place in working order, introduced the first dual-core Atom 330 processor and a new motherboard designed for use with the pair. Manufactured in 45nm 330-D applies to chips with lower voltage, and, judging by the absence of the N prefix in its name, is intended for use in desktop [...]

SATA 3.0 is close to ready

SATA 3.0 is close to ready

The SATA interface provides the bandwidth to 3 Gbit / s, which is still quite sufficient for the needs of today’s hard drives and optical drives. However, the advent of devices such as solid state drives with their high productivity, it may soon run out of given limit. This means that the development of a [...]

Spy Photos of the luxury Hyundai in history

Spy Photos of the luxury Hyundai in history

Rumours that next year Hyundai will please fans of expensive cars representation bright novelty, been around for quite some time. The only thing is that design engineers tried to hide much of interest to the media data, so future models of the sedan Hyundai VI we just heard, but the photograph, and to see the [...]

Personal navigation 90 years ago instead of GPS

Personal navigation 90 years ago instead of GPS

Interestingly, we can somehow find out what were the navigation system for vehicle owners 90 years ago? Were they at all? Or maybe you prefer traveling by the everlasting paper maps, tips, experts, and local passers-by? answers to these questions can give one of the pioneers of the personal navigation device Plus Fours Routefinder, developed [...]

IOC wants to block Pirate Bay

IOC wants to block Pirate Bay

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has asked the Swedish authorities to block the file sharing site Pirate Bay. The website should have provided links to illegal torrent recordings of the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in Beijing. The Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask has confirmed the requirement of the IOC. The Olympic organizers had [...]

Recycled PCB will be replaced by a tree

Recycled PCB will be replaced by a tree

Modern personal computers are developing at very high speeds, and a system with reasonable performance for most urgent tasks in a couple of years into being the older solutions. On the one hand, it allows you to maintain a high level of demand for personal computers, on the other hand, exacerbates the problem of recycling [...]

1,8 “MicroSATA Flash Drives Silicon Power up to 64 GB

1,8 “MicroSATA Flash Drives Silicon Power up to 64 GB

Mass-media company Silicon Power today announced the market launch of a new line of solid-state drives based on flash memory chips such as NAND, made in the form factor 1.8-inch, equipped with an interface MicroSATA (SATA I / II) and with a capacity of 8, 16, 32 and 64 GB. As noted in the published [...]

Games Convention adopted in record numbers

Games Convention adopted in record numbers

Ahead of tomorrow for the seventh and last time at Leipzig Games Convention start (GC), the organizers have announced the video game exhibition record numbers. Of 21 to 24 August total of 547 exhibitors will present products and services related to digital game experience in Leipzig. This represents an increase of nine percent over the [...]

E-TEN glofiish X610: GPS-communicator budget already in Russia

E-TEN glofiish X610: GPS-communicator budget already in Russia

Company E-TEN Information Systems has announced the start of sales in Russia glofiish X610 – the new budget smartphone based on OS Windows Mobile 6.1. A distinctive feature of the glofiish X610 is a new touch-screen standard-definition qVGA (240×320 pixels) and a new user interface control device. The front side of novelty is implemented as [...]

Google invested about ten million dollars in geothermal

Google invested about ten million dollars in geothermal

Google plans to invest more than ten million dollars in companies that have the prescribed energy production from geothermal energy. A Reuters report suggests that the Internet company wants to help make electricity from renewable energy sources cheaper than electricity from fossil fuels. The U.S. company AltaRock Energy and Potter Drilling will receive around 6.25 [...]

NVIDIA nForce 780a streamlines logic and is preparing to release nForce 770i

NVIDIA nForce 780a streamlines logic and is preparing to release nForce 770i

NVIDIA has informed their regular partner about the upcoming new chipset: chipset platform for Socket AM2 + nForce 780a with support for Advanced Clock Calibration (ACC), as well as logic nForce 770i processors from Intel. Let’s start a conversation with the model nForce 780a, has the support functions of ACC. Last is designed to give [...]

Marking required for power consumption of TVs

Marking required for power consumption of TVs

The Freiburg Institute for Applied Ecology and the Association for Environmental and Nature Conservation Germany (BUND) have criticized the lack of a clear identification of the power consumption of televisions. The current manufacturer’s specifications for power consumption are unreliable or not comparable, since no uniformly applicable measurement methods were used. The associations therefore demand that [...]

Weekly Digest overclocking. Issue number 5

Weekly Digest overclocking. Issue number 5

Hall of Fame continue to monitor the most relevant results, which has been achieved in some enthusiasts. As a measure we use the following tools, the Hall of Fame (Hall of Fame) on the resource to Futuremark for disciplines 3DMark’03’05’06 and site data for HWbot 3DMark’01, Aquamark as well as CPU-Z and SuperPi 1M. Also [...]

Search market, Yahoo and Microsoft losing share to Google

Search market, Yahoo and Microsoft losing share to Google

Yahoo and Microsoft have again in July lost market share in Internet search at Google. This is shown by recent figures (PDF) by Nielsen Online. Yahoo reported last month, 1.39 billion searches, representing a loss of eleven percent over the same period last year. Microsoft’s share fell by ten percent to 951 million requests. Google [...]

Telekom is reportedly close most of its call center

Telekom is reportedly close most of its call center

The German Telekom apparently wants to close up to two thirds of their total about 75 call centers. Like the “Bild” newspaper, citing insiders and municipalities reported a total of about 8000 of which 18,000 people were affected. The Bonn-based company wanted to offer each employee a new job in another call center, says the [...]