Archive for ‘April, 2009’

OLED market will grow by 2015 to $ 5.5 billion

OLED market will grow by 2015 to $ 5.5 billion

According to DisplaySearch, in 2008, the market for OLED-screens is $ 0.6 billion Taking the average market growth rate of 37% (obtained in the first quarter of 2009), in 2015 the market could grow to $ 5.5 billion market growth will be fueled by an active application in a number of devices, displays, active matrix [...]

Survey: employees are open for bribery

Survey: employees are open for bribery

As SC Magazine reported, have called for a survey of employees at the Infosecurity Europe conference in London 37 percent of the participants as corrupt. 63 percent of the possible secret traitors would sell their employer’s sensitive data, if that means at least one million British pounds (1.11 million euros) received. Another 10 percent would [...]

Benq Siemens agrees with buyers Qisda

Benq Siemens agrees with buyers Qisda

Siemens BenQ Mobile has closed the chapter for good. After the group had agreed last November, already with the liquidator of the former mobile phone division to a settlement, and now the dispute with the Taiwanese buyers Qisda is settled. Which agreement the two companies have entered into, not shared with Siemens. A provision in [...]

Microsoft makes Windows 7 Release Candidate into the net

Microsoft makes Windows 7 Release Candidate into the net

Microsoft announced today as the release candidate of Windows 7 available for download. However, first come only from MSDN and Technet subscribers to benefit from the almost finished operating system. For the general public to download from the 5th Possible of May. With the final version is expected in about July. The launch is unlikely [...]

Buffalo brings portable DVD burner for netbooks

Buffalo brings portable DVD burner for netbooks

The Portable DVD multi drive Buffalo Technology has presented a portable DVD drive that allows the notebooks and netbooks with no internal optical drive to burn CDs and DVDs. The power of multi-drive is via a Y-USB cable. The external drive supports DVD ± RW, DVD-RAM and CD media. DVD-R Single Layer, DVD + R [...]

PowerColor HD 4890 PCS +: powerful acceleration, plus cooler

PowerColor HD 4890 PCS +: powerful acceleration, plus cooler

About two weeks ago, TUL, known for its products under the brand PowerColor, has released an overclocked version of the Radeon HD 4890 accelerator with a copper water-block EK Water Blocks included. Liquid cooling is not only made the card virtually silent and has reduced its operating temperature of about 20 C ˚, but also [...]

Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring released

Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring released

Mandriva has released version 2009 Spring (2009.1) of its eponymous Linux distribution. It uses the Linux 2.6.29 kernel, which provides with Btrfs and SquashFS two new file systems and WiMAX support. As desktop environments are Gnome 2.26.1, KDE 4.2.2, Xfce 4.6, LXDE and used on the XO laptop project OLCP the Sugar desktop. For graphical [...]

Verlagsgruppe Weltbild selling e-book reader “Cybook”

Verlagsgruppe Weltbild selling e-book reader “Cybook”

Weltbild Publishing Group today launched an e-book offer. The book and media retailer is now offering an e-book reader called “Cybook” and in cooperation with Ciando opens a download store with initially 30 000 electronic books by over 400 publishers. By the end of the catalog should grow to 100,000 titles. The manufactured from Bookeen [...]

Fujitsu slips deep into the red

Fujitsu slips deep into the red

Fujitsu has in the past fiscal quarter (1 April 2008 to 31 March 2009) accounted for the decline in prices for memory chips and the fall in demand for electrical appliances a net loss of 112.3 billion yen ($ 1.147 billion). This is evident from the balance sheet released today by the Japanese electronics company. [...]

Parallels Announces High-end virtualization solution

Parallels Announces High-end virtualization solution

Parallels Workstation presented under the name Extreme is a high-end virtualization solution. According to the manufacturer’s Extreme Workstation, the world’s first software to a virtual machine is almost full graphics performance of the host computer is available. Instead to emulate the graphics in the virtual environment using Parallels Workstation Extreme called FastLane architecture that incorporates [...]

The meeting of two friends: Athlon X2 7850 and Pentium E5300

The meeting of two friends: Athlon X2 7850 and Pentium E5300

The recently announced CPU Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition has replaced the rather successful Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition. Recall that the novelty is based on Quad-crystal and has two active nucleus. Operating frequency is 2.8 GHz, while the Athlon X2 7750 BE, it was just below 100 MHz. Cache in the third level is [...]

Report: Apple developing chips themselves in the future

Report: Apple developing chips themselves in the future

As the Wall Street Journal reported that Apple will continue to develop on their own custom chips for its products in order to equip them with exclusive features. Especially for the iPhone, the company need powerful and extremely energy-efficient chips. Apple wanted to do so regardless of the currently available processors. In addition, the Group [...]

LG calls for the design of mobile phones

LG calls for the design of mobile phones

American representation in conjunction with LG crowdSPRING announced the start of the competition design phones. Enthusiasts are encouraged to create the appearance of the device, which may be available for sale in the distant and not very future. The prize fund is $ 80 000. Phones will be evaluated by a competent jury on four [...]

Infineon continues to report large losses

Infineon continues to report large losses

Infineon continues to suffer from the economic crisis and the bankruptcy of its memory chip subsidiary Qimonda. In the second quarter of fiscal 2009 (March 31), sales broke over the same period last year, up 29 percent to 747 million euros. Compared to the already weak first quarter, sales declined by 10 percent. This is [...]

DVD copy protection cracked by RealNetworks

DVD copy protection cracked by RealNetworks

RealNetworks CEO Rob Glaser has presented at a hearing in the legal dispute over DVD copying software RealDVD the prototype of a DVD player. The software of the “facet” referenced device creates duplicates of copy-protected DVDs and stores it on an internal hard drive. According to Glaser, Real wants to develop the next generation with [...]