Archive for ‘October, 2008’

Epson introduced a 3.5 “touchscreen display HVGA-

Epson introduced a 3.5 “touchscreen display HVGA-

Company Epson Imaging Devices announced the development of a 3.5-inch LCD display for mobile devices equipped with a protective coating made of tempered glass and built-in capacitive touch panel. Novelty is characterized by high-resolution HVGA (480×320 pixels) and uses a proprietary technology Photo Fine Vistarich Neo, which allows you to increase viewing angles. Make plans [...]

Electronic Arts announces layoffs

Electronic Arts announces layoffs

Electronic Arts (EA) held the publication of its latest quarterly results announced staff reductions of approximately six percent of its workforce. To save costs, the company plans to release up to 580 employees worldwide. Despite a 40 percent to $ 894 million increase in revenue in the second quarter EA has reported its fiscal 2009 [...]

Google launches Knol German version of

Google launches Knol German version of

Google is offering its online encyclopedia Knol now available in German at. Users can post now in German, French and Italian language and the web. Thus Knol is available in eight languages. Other new features include the use of gadgets like Picasa or Google Docs in contributions and a customized search engine on Knol. In [...]

Low profile SPARKLE GeForce 9400/9500 GT at PCI bus

Low profile SPARKLE GeForce 9400/9500 GT at PCI bus

To this day, the company SPARKLE Computer Co. has managed to market a lot of different design modifications graphics card NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT and NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT, but the developers seem that seemed enough. Now the court consumers, they have decided to offer a few models in the low-profile performance made under the [...]

Elegant portable media player, iriver NV mini GPS

Elegant portable media player, iriver NV mini GPS

Novelty called NV mini, announced recently by iriver, which belongs to the corporation Reigncom, an organic symbiosis of portable media players and handheld GPS-navigator. device weighing 135 g lies in a very attractive building with dimensions of 101.1 x 86 x 18.2 mm and operates under the operating systems Win CE 5.0. Thus the main [...]

Google and Yahoo advertising partnership reportedly quit

Google and Yahoo advertising partnership reportedly quit

planned advertising agreement between Google and Yahoo has apparently fallen apart. As the Wall Street Journal reports the two companies have struck again yesterday with representatives of the U.S. Department of Justice to discuss antitrust concerns. Here are Google and Yahoo have shown little willingness to compromise, according to the Wall Street Journal. Compared to [...]

Notebook manufacturers call back again Sony batteries

Notebook manufacturers call back again Sony batteries

Several computer manufacturers have re-built by Sony laptop batteries recalled due to an acute fire hazard. A total of 100 000 to be affected batteries that were built into devices from Dell, Toshiba and HP. 40 users have complained about over-heated batteries. Some reported a flash fire that blazed out of the notebook, even others [...]

Google takes scanned documents in its index to

Google takes scanned documents in its index to

Google has begun to digitized documents in its search index record. Using Optical Character Recognition (OCR) were recorded from the search provider immediately texts that were published as scanned images in PDF format on the Internet. “Thanks, we can OCR an image that contains a thousand words, convert into a thousand searchable words,” Google product [...]

Oxide e-shop is now also available as open source

Oxide e-shop is now also available as open source

oxide Freiburg E-Sales AG announced today the fourth generation of their e-shop solution provided under GPL v3. The license change and the availability of source code to create the basis for a close dialogue between users and the software manufacturer as well as enable the development of customizations and extensions. E-Shop oxide 4 is available [...]

Final Ubuntu 8.10 released

Final Ubuntu 8.10 released

The developers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution have released the final version 8.10 (codenamed “Intrepid Ibex” – “intrepid ibex”) released. New versions of the variants Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Mythbuntu and Ubuntu Studio were also published as scheduled. Ubuntu includes 8:10 version 2.6.27 kernel, the Gnome desktop environment 2.24, the Mozilla browser, Firefox 3.0.3, Gimp 2.6.1 [...]

Home darkroom Epson Stylus Photo TX700W

Home darkroom Epson Stylus Photo TX700W

The Russian division of Epson presented a multifunction device Stylus Photo TX700W, which is positioned as the perfect solution for home photo lab. The advantages of the new photo center (this is called its latest Epson) developers include high-quality photos, many additional features, the ability to connect to a computer via Wi-Fi or work offline. [...]

AMD updated environmental protection program

AMD updated environmental protection program

AMD has unveiled its annual budget for the eighth time as part of the environmental protection program “Global Climate Protection Plan” (GCPP). By 2010, the chip maker wants to reduce its emissions of climate-damaging gases compared to 2006 by 33 percent. Energy consumption should be reduced in this period by 40 percent. To achieve these [...]

Freenet-Mobilcom offers mobile data plan for 25 €

Freenet-Mobilcom offers mobile data plan for 25 €

Freenet-Mobilcom offers from 1 November, a mobile data plan for laptop users on. With the tariff “msurf discount” for customers 24.95 a month in the network of T-Mobile and Vodafone with a speed of up to 7.2 Mbit / s unlimited surfing on the Internet. For 5 euros a month there is to the right [...]

Samsung NC10 Netbook Review

Samsung NC10 Netbook Review

Began to appear first netbook reviews Samsung NC10 – the new mobile solutions from well-known Asian manufacturer. True, the staff Laptopmag.com used as a test specimen is not an American version of the machine, and copy imported from Korea (with an appropriate version of Windows XP and the keyboard with the characters). experts noted a [...]

The new king in the market of optical media?

The new king in the market of optical media?

The defeat of HD DVD, which marked the end of the format war, at least for a while made the Blu-ray the sole market leader in optical media in high definition. But rest easy partners Sony and its still early. Company Royal Digital Media (RDM) and DreamStream presented a new format, which, according to developers, [...]