Archive for ‘November, 2008’

Netbooks are becoming cheaper again

Netbooks are becoming cheaper again

In early October, we reported on the reduction of prices on a number of different models of netbooks. And after one month, Taiwanese consumers have another reason to celebrate – manufacturers, including ASUSTeK Computer, Hewlett-Packard and Acer, again spent some devaluation of their products. Model Eee PC 901 dropped in price from $ 515 to [...]

SAP meets customer support in the dispute

SAP meets customer support in the dispute

The German-Speaking SAP User Group (DSAG) is in talks with SAP, the enterprise support apparently made some initial progress. There are now quality guidelines are developed, where SAP plans to align its offerings. Nevertheless, the feedback from user companies from German-speaking DSAG encourage them to adhere to the requirement for an optional support model. “We [...]

Photo of the Day: Nokia XpressMusic 5800 – the game on the strip

Photo of the Day: Nokia XpressMusic 5800 – the game on the strip

According to the latest information, the mobile phone Nokia XpressMusic 5800 will go on our market 5 December this year. Come soon, but especially for the techno-maniacs, who nevertheless can not wait to get to know and feel the novelty of its “innards”, offering several photos of the Nokia 5800 disassembled. If you have the [...]

Report: Siemens creates new jobs in Germany 5000

Report: Siemens creates new jobs in Germany 5000

Siemens has created in the past fiscal year (Sept. 30), 5,000 new jobs in Germany, even worldwide, there were 17,000. The Handelsblatt reported, citing Siemens Chief Personnel Officer Siegfried Russwurm. “We streamline the administration and build on, especially in research and development,” said Russwurm the newspaper. In July announced reduction of nearly 17,000 jobs the [...]

Artificial heart: the ability to live for $ 192 000

Artificial heart: the ability to live for $ 192 000

Along with the bright achievements in science and technology in the twenty-first century, mankind has reached fantastic heights in the field of medicine – we have learned to heal themselves from many deadly diseases, to prevent development of disease, giving an opportunity to live and enjoy life to millions of terminally ill people. The last [...]

Cooler XQ MicroEngine with micromotors: in Russia

Cooler XQ MicroEngine with micromotors: in Russia

Representatives of the company XILENCE recently announced the release of the Russian market of the new cooler XQ Cooler Series, equipped with built-in fan XQ micromotors XQ MicroEngine. Frameless design and special form of the micromotor can improve the efficiency of the cooler, but because of the increased area of ​​the fan provides a significant [...]

Preliminary announcement Spire coolers for Intel Core i7

Preliminary announcement Spire coolers for Intel Core i7

Press Service Spire announced its readiness to release two new low-noise coolers are compatible with Socket LGA775/1366 (Intel) and Socket AM2/940/939 (AMD). As stated in the published official report, both solutions are built using advanced technology HDT (Heat-pipe Direct Touch), which provides direct contact with the surface of the chip available three U-shaped copper heat [...]

Seagate updates enterprise hard disk drive with 15,000 U / min

Seagate updates enterprise hard disk drive with 15,000 U / min

Seagate has unveiled its second generation of rotating at 15,000 rev / min 2.5-inch enterprise hard drives. The new Savvio 15K.2 will have a 70 percent lower power consumption, and higher up to 115 percent power density than conventional 3.5-inch drives. The SAS 2.0 Hard Drive is available in capacities of 73 or 146 GB. [...]

AMD will cut 500 jobs

AMD will cut 500 jobs

Company Advanced Micro Devices announced a reduction of 500 jobs from the present 15 500 located throughout the world. To comment on what exactly the post will fall under this action AMD representative abstained. This event is seen as part of the program «asset light», aimed at improving the company’s financial condition by reducing costs. [...]

Hanwang N510: 5 “beech-reader with a pen-

Hanwang N510: 5 “beech-reader with a pen-

The Chinese company Hanwang Technology (Hanvon), specializing in the production of products for handwriting recognition, introduced its first 5-inch electronic “reader”, based on technology E Ink Vizplex Display. The compact new system combines an electromagnetic pen input technology and “electronic ink” and is aimed at the mass market segment. According to the source, model N510 [...]

Study: Only the first three search results are relevant

Study: Only the first three search results are relevant

As one of the Bundesverband Digitale Wirtschaft (BVDW) conducted survey showed users of search engines initially be based solely on the first three search results. In addition, advertisements received in the upper left corner of the search results page, a far greater attention than those on the right. Only later did other elements are perceived. [...]

Lexware Taxman 2009 brings

Lexware Taxman 2009 brings

Lexware Taxman 2009 will soon launch a new version of its tax software on the market. The program will be available in late November 2008 for € 29.90. The update also costs € 29.90. Taxman 2009, which is aimed at private users, self-employed, liberal professions and small businesses, is now said to have an even [...]

Intel rejects 50 percent of its shares in VMware

Intel rejects 50 percent of its shares in VMware

Intel has reduced its share of the virtualization specialist VMware. A message to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, according to the chip manufacturer pushes a total of 50 percent from its VMware’s shares. For a total price of about $ 26 million, Cisco and VMware’s parent EMC 30 October 500,000 each shares at a [...]

Fujitsu LifeBook N7010: DTR-notebook with a 4 “touch screen

Fujitsu LifeBook N7010: DTR-notebook with a 4 “touch screen

Fujitsu Computer Systems Company introduced a powerful notebook LifeBook N7010, positioned as a desktop replacement (DTR, Desktop Replacement). According to the developers, N7010 is the industry’s first full-sized laptop, equipped with auxiliary touchpad. The main display is a 16-inch LCD screen with 16:9 aspect ratio and technology Crystal View. A second LCD panel has a [...]

Sharkoon Flexi-Drive S2S – SSD-drive with their hands

Sharkoon Flexi-Drive S2S – SSD-drive with their hands

SSDs based on integrated flash memory chips are still too expensive to become a valuable alternative to traditional mobile, and not just mobile, hard disk drives. However, the benefits of solid-state drive – low noise level during operation, low power consumption, etc. – none of the users would not mind, moreover, that this possibility is [...]