Archive for ‘October, 2008’

Android source code is completely open source

Android source code is completely open source

in time for today’s launch of the first Android phone “G1″ have Google and the Open Handset Alliance (OHA) announced that the complete source of Android is released as open source. Google expects this step to attract a wide community of developers. “An open source mobile platform, which is continuously improved by the community and [...]

Stylish 3G Smartphones HP iPAQ Data Messenger and Voice Messenger

Stylish 3G Smartphones HP iPAQ Data Messenger and Voice Messenger

The company announced a Hewlett Paccard stylish Smartphone iPAQ Data Messenger and iPAQ Voice Messenger, sustained in a single design style. Data Messenger is made in the form factor side slider and has a touchscreen and QWERTY-keyboard, and Voice Messenger form factor single candy bar. Both new products are running Windows Mobile 6.1 and have [...]

Samsung refused to buy SanDisk intentions

Samsung refused to buy SanDisk intentions

Samsung has announced its decision to stop trying to acquire the company SanDisk, which continued for the past six months. SanDisk offered 5.85 billion dollars, but she did not accept such conditions. Now Samsung SanDisk describes the situation as “too risky”, mentioning the “unexpected” operating loss in the amount of one billion dollars last quarter, [...]

Platform for low-cost musical photo frames

Platform for low-cost musical photo frames

Company Express Logic and Renesas Technology have reported the successful joint development of a new reference platform for multi-functional and thus inexpensive media players. As noted, the hardware is designed based on a microcontroller architecture Renesas SuperH SH-2A, and is responsible for program management operating system real-time Express Logic ThreadX RTOS, which allows to get [...]

Eee PC model 2009

Eee PC model 2009

On plans to release its first netbook company ASUSTeK Computer officially announced at Computex Taipei 2007. Pioneer industries, the Eee PC 701 started to be issued October 16, 2007, so recent netbooks exactly a year. On the occasion of this momentous event of our colleagues from the Internet resource LAPTOP decided to interview the president [...]

Unidym is where colored e-paper in A4 format

Unidym is where colored e-paper in A4 format

Unidym has presented at the International Meeting on Information Display, a colored e-paper with a screen size of 14.3 inches. It is a prototype. The basis for this work in cooperation with Samsung Electronics has developed e-paper transparent electrodes made of carbon nanotubes. Due to the molecular structure are so-called “Color Active Matrix Electrophoretic Displays” [...]

President of Elpida Memory was left without salaries

President of Elpida Memory was left without salaries

The protracted crisis in the DRAM-chips had a negative impact on the company’s financial position Elpida Memory, which is already suffering consecutive quarter of huge losses. In this situation, a decision the board of directors of Elpida substantial reduction in wages top executives seem to be quite logical and justified, because they bear the greatest [...]

Leadtek WinFast GTX 260 EXTREME +: more shaders and accelerated!

Leadtek WinFast GTX 260 EXTREME +: more shaders and accelerated!

Oddly enough, but now the company Leadtek Research has posted on its website a description of his own version of an improved graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 with an upgraded chip G200-103-A2, which has 216 stream processors, 72 texture units and 28 ROP units. As disclosed in the specifications, the model Leadtek WinFast GTX [...]

Core 2 Quad Q9400 with an extended support phase

Core 2 Quad Q9400 with an extended support phase

Especially for developers of embedded systems and industrial computers, Intel has decided to release a version of the Core 2 Quad Q9400 with support for an extended seven-year life cycle. The manufacturer recommends using Q9400 with Intel Q45 Express chipset and the Intel 3210. recall, this quad-core processor is a 45-nm process technology, runs at [...]

“Glove of Mickey Mouse” – USB-flash drive for the original

“Glove of Mickey Mouse” – USB-flash drive for the original

Fans of extravagant stuff company A-DATA Technology introduces a new and very unusual design portable flash drive with an interface USB 2.0, designed in the form of the famous cartoon hero gloves of Mickey Mouse. According to the developers, the model A-DATA T807 Mickey Glove, a proprietary product line additions to Disney Series, will allow [...]

The official announcement of ASUS ROG board Rampage II Extreme

The official announcement of ASUS ROG board Rampage II Extreme

Press office of ASUSTeK Computer has prepared an official report about the market launch of a new motherboard ASUS Rampage II Extreme, which will join popular among gamers and PC enthusiasts the product line ROG (Republic Of Gamers). By the way, regular readers of our news has previously had the opportunity to become acquainted with [...]

Robots will colonize Mars first

Robots will colonize Mars first

Mars Exploration carried out by a number of scientific expeditions to the fourth planet in the solar system, have convincingly proved that the surface water is present, albeit in the solid state, and the Martian soil has properties very similar to the soil of the earth. This makes the “red planet” is a tempting target [...]

Samsung withdraws bid for SanDisk

Samsung withdraws bid for SanDisk

Samsung has withdrawn its bid to take over the memory card maker SanDisk for $ 5.85 billion. “After nearly six months of unsuccessful negotiations, we withdraw our bid,” said Yoon Woo Lee, CEO of Samsung. “We are disappointed that we could not reach an agreement.” SanDisk had only yesterday when announcing its latest financial data [...]

HP Pavilion w2558hc: 25,5 “Full HD Monitor with Webcam

HP Pavilion w2558hc: 25,5 “Full HD Monitor with Webcam

If you’re still in the way of selecting Full HD monitor, the list of potential candidates to fill a purchase may well be new from the company Hewlett-Packard – 25,5-inch LCD Pavilion w2558hc. For fans of online video, you may have in mind is built into the upper part of the body 1.3-megapixel Web camera, [...]

Verbatim comes to gaming mice market: Rapier V1 and V2

Verbatim comes to gaming mice market: Rapier V1 and V2

The well-known developer of storage media, the company Verbatim, recently announced the launch of the market game accessories. Evident from the announcement of two models of manipulators – Rapier V1 and Rapier V2, as well as mat Rapier Gaming Precision Pad. Mice Rapier boast sensor sensitivity up to 3200 dpi, providing acceleration up to 20G [...]