Archive for ‘July, 2009’

Nokia once again registered massive sales and profits slump

Nokia once again registered massive sales and profits slump

Nokia in the second quarter of fiscal 2009 have again suffered a drastic decline in sales and profits. Group sales fell compared to the same period the previous year by 24.6 percent to 9.912 billion euros. This is evident from the figures released today (PDF) of the world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer. Operating profit declined [...]

Overclock the Intel Atom N270

Overclock the Intel Atom N270

PC users have long been accustomed to the notion of “acceleration”. There are all reasons. Almost any video card or processor review contains a section describing the work to excessive relative to the nominal frequencies. Component manufacturers welcome the acceleration and try to make it more accessible to the user. To do this, they release [...]

Created a vehicle for the Blind

Created a vehicle for the Blind

Physically limited people find it very difficult to fully integrate into society – many of the usual joy that are available for most, they are impossible. Especially difficult have the blind, which before the invention of Braille could not even read the book yourself. However, progress does not stand still and do not shy away [...]

Mirrors on the Moon helped prove Einstein right

Mirrors on the Moon helped prove Einstein right

Every night when the sky is covered with clouds and the moon shines bright the earth’s surface, a team of astronomers in New Mexico are looking to our nearest cosmic neighbor and “shoot” it repeated pulses of high-power laser. Their goal – the size of a suitcase reflectors left on lunar surface expeditions Apollo (Apollo) [...]

IBM Magen – masking sensitive data on the fly

IBM Magen – masking sensitive data on the fly

IBM is based on the original concept of technology to protect not meant for prying eyes data, such as, for example, medical information about the patient, without modifying existing applications. The development, called Magen (masking corporate gateway, Masking Gateway for Enterprises), designed to intercept the data before they reach the user’s screen. Complex created IBM [...]

New Speakers Logitech: omni-directional sound

New Speakers Logitech: omni-directional sound

A few days ago, Logitech announced the completion of its line of multimedia speaker systems with four new: Logitech Speaker System Z320, Z323, Z520 and Z523. Unlike conventional PC speakers that focus sound in one direction, all four systems, multimedia technology, Logitech implemented omni-directional sound that can significantly extend the range of optimum listening. Thanks [...]

Intel relies on “Ultra Thins” instead of netbooks

Intel relies on “Ultra Thins” instead of netbooks

example of an “ultra-thin” laptop: Acer Aspire (Picture: Acer) Intel CEO Paul Otellini has called for a new category of laptops: “Ultra Thins”. By this he means devices with 13-inch screen and ultra-low voltage (ULV) processor. They would offer everything from missing users netbooks in their devices, he said at the edge of the announcement [...]

Google offers tool for migrating from Lotus Notes to Google Apps

Google offers tool for migrating from Lotus Notes to Google Apps

Google has a data migration tool for Lotus Notes released. It allows users to move their e-mail, calendar and contacts from Notes to Google Apps. The migration tool, Google Apps is Google, according to a native Lotus Notes application. The data migration was taking place on the server side, and be managed centrally. In a [...]

BlackBerry App World launches in July in Germany

BlackBerry App World launches in July in Germany

Even in July, will also German and other European users access to Research in Motion’s (RIM) online marketplace for BlackBerry applications received. This was confirmed by RIM’s vice president of Global Alliances, Jeff McDowell, in an interview with Bloomberg.com. To date, the BlackBerry App World is only available to users in the U.S., Canada and [...]

Samsung T939 Behold2 – another Android-phone?

Samsung T939 Behold2 – another Android-phone?

InsideWeb found evidence that Samsung is developing a cell phone based on Android for T-Mobile. Information contained in the UAP-profile model T939 on the site of South Korean company. Business name Samsung T939 for the American market may look like Behold2. Behold the first has a touch screen and slide-out keyboard, it can boast of [...]

IBM leads list of most fuel-efficient supercomputers

IBM leads list of most fuel-efficient supercomputers

A supercomputer from IBM won the first of a list of energy-efficient supercomputers in the world. According to the scale of Green500.org directory 18 of the top 20 fuel-efficient supercomputer manufactured by IBM. Crucial to the calculation of energy efficiency is the number of arithmetic operations performed per watt. That is based on IBM’s BladeCenter [...]

RilakKuma – netbook for children with a “grown-up” performance

RilakKuma – netbook for children with a “grown-up” performance

If you look at the company Bandai RilakKuma front and in the closed position, may give the impression that the nose – a children’s toy case, which is located inside a set of pens and paper support. However, this is a real notebook, with a very “adult” characteristics. Judge: Atom N270 1,6 GHz, 1 GB [...]

ECS and ASRock increased revenue

ECS and ASRock increased revenue

Motherboard manufacturers Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) and ASRock have on the growth of its revenues in June from the previous month. consolidated revenues of ECS in June totaled $ 198.91 million, which is 7.49% better indicators for May and 7.67% less than in June last year. Comprehensive income for the first six months totaled nearly [...]

Researchers: DDoS attacks on U.S. sites came from Great Britain

Researchers: DDoS attacks on U.S. sites came from Great Britain

researchers at the Vietnamese security company BKIS have determined the origin of the beginning of the month running DDoS attacks against Web sites in South Korea and the United States. According to them, the server that is coordinating the attacks, has in the UK. The designated by researchers as the main server computer has eight [...]

BFG GeForce GTX 285 “supershustroy” version OCFU

BFG GeForce GTX 285 “supershustroy” version OCFU

Wanting to please the most demanding lovers of virtual battles, the company BFG Technologies has released a new version of the graphic adapter NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285, which operates at an impressively high frequencies that are equal to 712 MHz, 1620 MHz and 2664 MHz for the GPU, 240 stream processors and 1024 MB of [...]