Archive for ‘November, 2008’

Apple plans to offer more DRM-free music in iTunes

Apple plans to offer more DRM-free music in iTunes

Apple introduces according to several sources currently in talks with music labels Sony BMG, Warner Music and Universal Music on the introduction of DRM-free music downloads from the iTunes Store. So far, Apple only sells music from EMI without copy protection. According to sources, negotiations are still at a very early stage. Apple is only [...]

Sagem Orga and BlueSky Positioning intend to promote the A-GPS SIM

Sagem Orga and BlueSky Positioning intend to promote the A-GPS SIM

Company Sagem Orga and BlueSky Positioning announced a strategic partnership to jointly promote the market positioning technology for mobile phones. By refining their plans, associates said they intend to present the world’s first SIM-card, containing the components necessary to support technology A-GPS – a receiver and antenna. In general, A-GPS can be described as a [...]

Zypad WR1100 – Secure wrist computer for military

Zypad WR1100 – Secure wrist computer for military

The company has developed a special Parvus Corporation computer model Zypad WR1100 in the form of a bracelet worn on the wrist. Unlike the previous model WL1000, new Linux-based implemented and protected from shocks, dust and moisture body. In addition, WR1100 is equipped with more powerful processors (Marvell PXA 270 416 MHz), increased memory, touch [...]

Nokia phones to collect traffic data

Nokia phones to collect traffic data

Nokia during the Congress Intelligent Transport Systems in New York unveiled a technology that the company wants to collect and analyze traffic data in real time via GPS-enabled mobile phones, and. The jointly with Navteq and the University of California developed the project called “Mobile Millennium” is intended to improve the accuracy of traffic forecasts. [...]

I-Ball – a third eye for the military

I-Ball – a third eye for the military

Maybe people in the form will not necessarily rush into the thick of things, to consider the enemy at close range. Instead, they will throw in a place of interest I-Ball – the invention of a Scottish firm Dreampact, recognized a good idea for the contest UK Ministry of Defence in 2007 device is a [...]

Nvidia shows desktop supercomputer with four Tesla GPUs

Nvidia shows desktop supercomputer with four Tesla GPUs

Nvidia has introduced a so-called personal supercomputer, which is up to four Tesla C1060 GPU driven with 240 processor cores. Each graphics processor has 4 GB of memory and achieved according to the company with up to four teraflops of the 250-times the computing power of a desktop computer. “We have already heard from many [...]

Raytheon will show a new system to protect pedestrians

Raytheon will show a new system to protect pedestrians

Company Raytheon Company demonstrated the new system, which helps prevent the occurrence of accidents. Cooperative Pedestrian Warning System to significantly reduce the number of accidents involving pedestrians. According to the U.S. Department of Transportation in 2003 as a result of such accidents killed 8569 people and about 1.4 million were injured. Application of the new [...]

Fall Media Player Aria E4 from Rover Computers

Fall Media Player Aria E4 from Rover Computers

Press office of the national developer of digital devices, the company Rover Computers, recently announced the release to market a new model of player Aria E4, which will appeal not only exacting specifications to users, but also lovers of beautiful things. player connects to your computer via USB, more programs to work is not required. [...]

Study: Music sharing caused 69 billion dollars in damage

Study: Music sharing caused 69 billion dollars in damage

music being illegally distributed via filesharing causing a worldwide loss of about 69 billion dollars. This is the conclusion of the study “P2P: Content’s Bad Boy – Tomorrow’s Distribution Channel” of the market research firm MultiMedia Intelligence. To calculate the market researchers initially raised the number of songs that were brought over illegally sharing in [...]

LG SH460 – mobile phone for a winter mood

LG SH460 – mobile phone for a winter mood

LG Electronics has introduced a low-cost mobile phone SH460, symbolizing winter offensive. Design models in bright white colors should emphasize the joyous mood of the owner – skiers. Despite the extremity of this kind of leisure activities, advertised “clamshell” were not used any protection technologies (impact resistance, moisture protection, etc.). new product is a normal [...]

Navigators Lexand – one of the slimmest on the market

Navigators Lexand – one of the slimmest on the market

Laboratory “Leksand” recently announced the release to market a new brand of devices satellite GPS-navigation «Lexand» and the start of sales in Russia, his first navigators – Lexand ST-360 and Si-510. ST-360 Series Slim – currently one of the thinnest GPS-navigators with a screen 3.5 “. The thickness of the unit is 11.95 mm, which [...]

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 shows with advanced BI capabilities

Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2009 shows with advanced BI capabilities

Dynamics NAV 2009, Microsoft announced the new version of its enterprise software business, with effect from 1 December this year will be available in Germany. Price details are still not available. The new interface features 21 provide so-called “roll centers”, the employees with information, tools and task-relevant functions. These 21 centers correspond to the major [...]

Toshiba G450: telephone, modem, MP3-player

Toshiba G450: telephone, modem, MP3-player

Miniature mobile phone Toshiba G450, announced almost a year ago at WMC 2008, is an inexpensive (4,900 rubles), an alternative model of multiple devices. The manufacturer positions G450 as a substitute for an MP3 player, USB-modem and flash memory with functions on the phone. The role of G450 modem connects to a standard USB-port and [...]

ASRock SuperComputer: High-End motherboard for Core i7

ASRock SuperComputer: High-End motherboard for Core i7

ASRock has the most confident feeling in the budget segment, but in its range in recent years and appears regularly decision-level High-End. For example, today it offers a productive model based on the Intel X48, motherboard is based on a powerful IGP-chipset AMD 790GX. not deprived of attention and a new High-End Platform Intel – [...]

Novell and Microsoft announce beta of Moonlight

Novell and Microsoft announce beta of Moonlight

Microsoft and Novell have announced the first beta version of Moonlight. According to a blog entry by Miguel de Icaza, who heads the development of Moonlight from Novell, it should be available in the next few days. Moonlight is the open source version of Microsoft’s Silverlight, which enables a plug-in for Mozilla Firefox, the use [...]