Archive for ‘November, 2008’

Bundesrat rejects BKA Act

Bundesrat rejects BKA Act

The controversial BKA law has not in today’s vote in the Bundesrat receive the necessary absolute majority of all votes. The voted by the FDP, the Greens and the Left helps rule of law or countries abstained. As in the chamber of the federal states for the invocation of the mediation committee also found no [...]

Fee JW-X58EXTREME-SLI for gamers and enthusiasts

Fee JW-X58EXTREME-SLI for gamers and enthusiasts

The official website of J & W Technology Limited has a description of a new top-end motherboard JW-X58EXTREME-SLI, focused on how avid fans of modern 3D-games, and to disperse supporters of computer systems. ATX- This platform is based on the best chipset Intel X58 Express south bridge ICH10R, is based on high-quality capacitors Samxon X-CON [...]

IBM releases Lotus Forms 3.5

IBM releases Lotus Forms 3.5

IBM has introduced version 3.5 of its software, Lotus Forms, the user can create electronic forms without any technical experience. So IBM wants to reduce the cost incurred by printing and filling out paper documents into business. “Paper is the enemy of e-business,” said IBM Vice President Larry Bowden. “All departments, from HR to sales [...]

Cowon S9 Curve – Player dual-core processor

Cowon S9 Curve – Player dual-core processor

Extremely extravagant Cowon S9 Curve player was introduced in August 2008. Judging by recent reports, by mid-December and the model will be available in the U.S.. Price is not yet known. The device will be available with 8 or 16 GB of memory. The player handles playback of audio and video, is equipped with a [...]

Foxconn is preparing a nettop motherboard based on Intel Atom chip with 230

Foxconn is preparing a nettop motherboard based on Intel Atom chip with 230

The network has information that the company Foxconn is planning next month to bring to market new nettop under the symbol R11S2MI-BA, which will be the basis for the motherboard 45CTP, complete with established 45-nm single-core processor technology, Intel Atom 230 clocked at 1 6 GHz and 533 MHz system bus. New “packed” in an [...]

MSI brings entry-level notebook with 12-inch format

MSI brings entry-level notebook with 12-inch format

MSI has launched an entry-level notebook with 12.1-inch display on the market that provides a WXGA resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. The VR220YA (model T3325VHP) measures 30.3 times 22.5 times 3 inches and weighs 2.1 kg. The notebook is powered by a 2 GHz Intel processor Dual-Core T3200 series. He has 2 GB of [...]

Nokia is building “smart home”

Nokia is building “smart home”

The Finnish company Nokia has announced that is working on a platform of Nokia Home Control Center, designed for so-called “smart homes”. According to the creators, their new product will be the beginning of the next era in the development of such services and solutions. The proposed platform is completely open and allows third-party developers [...]

Carl Icahn buys 6.7 million Yahoo shares

Carl Icahn buys 6.7 million Yahoo shares

As the Silicon Alley Insider reports, Carl Icahn, another 6.7 million Yahoo shares purchased. Thus keeps the billionaire, who has been in early August on the board of Yahoo, about 75.6 million shares of the company. This represents a share of around 5.4 percent. With less than ten dollars per share, Icahn’s papers has risen [...]

Apple’s new MacBook video issues examined

Apple’s new MacBook video issues examined

Apple examined according to a report by the AppleInsider two different graphics problems encountered so far only in the most recent versions of the MacBook and MacBook Pro models. Several MacBook Pro users had complained that her laptop freeze a few minutes after the start of a computer game while the screen going black. This [...]

AMD “cut down” the price of some desktop processors by 10-20%

AMD “cut down” the price of some desktop processors by 10-20%

The company Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has announced the next cost reduction of some of its manufactured processors for desktop computer systems. It is learned that the manufacturer instructed his partner, starting next month, to reduce the retail price of certain chips Phenom X4, Phenom X3 and the Athlon X2 by about 10-20%. In numbers, [...]

Five new drives from Plextor complete with PlexUTILITIES

Five new drives from Plextor complete with PlexUTILITIES

This fall, a division of Plextor, develops and manufactures optical drive, worked very productively. For the three months managed to produce some interesting patterns. For example, in the range Plextor came her first external Blu-ray recorder, as well as some of the industry’s first DVD-recorder with support for Qflix. Recently the company introduced a whole [...]

Sharp LCD with a diagonal of 108 “had come to Russia

Sharp LCD with a diagonal of 108 “had come to Russia

Huge LCD display of Sharp, which has a diagonal of 108 inches, more than once became the hero of the news feed. In June of this year’s novelty, finally got to the buyers. From now on same display Sharp LB-1085 is now available to domestic consumers. recall, LB-1085 is the largest to date, commercially available [...]

Green House introduced the 21,5 “Full HD-Monitor

Green House introduced the 21,5 “Full HD-Monitor

The first in the industry 21.5-inch monitor with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels BenQ E2200HDA joined by a new GH-ACJ223SHB display from the company Green House. Judging by the performance, both models are based on the same LCD panel. GH-ACJ223SHB different 1000:1 contrast ratio (20,000:1 dynamic reaches), a brightness of 300 nits, viewing angle 160 [...]

EU Commissioner calls for more money for IT research

EU Commissioner calls for more money for IT research

EU Commissioner Viviane Reding has called on the ICT 2008 conference for more investment in IT research. In the lay public and private sector research spending for Information Society and Media, significantly lower than those of the United States, said Reding. The Commissioner also criticized the fragmentation of European research institutions. Despite the high quality [...]

Samsung brings in Armani luxury TV design

Samsung brings in Armani luxury TV design

Samsung has unveiled a designed by Giorgio Armani LCD TVs. According to the company, the Italian designer in the design of the TV at the design of its latest furniture collection, Armani Casa is oriented. The Armani-Samsung TV has a frameless windshield made of black glass, a back of black acrylic and a high-gloss, black [...]