Archive for ‘September, 2009’

Other media companies are planning paid content for iPhone

Other media companies are planning paid content for iPhone

The American news channel CNN and the British political magazine The Spectator has announced to provide future paid content for the iPhone. According to a report by the BBC leads the Spectator up a subscription model: Pro Edition requires the weekly equivalent of 0.65 euros, the same amount is also unique due to the required [...]

The first information about the LG GD510

The first information about the LG GD510

South Korean manufacturer LG catalog will soon expand to include another affordable touchscreen phone: the company is working on a model GD510. According to the Brazilian resource Celularcafe, LG GD510 gets touchscreen with a resolution of 400 x 240 pixels, FM-radio, HTML-browser, Bluetooth, microSD, FM-radio and a camera (the resolution is not called). With dimensions [...]

Hacking tool software circumvents China’s censors

Hacking tool software circumvents China’s censors

A security researcher at the University of Michigan has released a tool, the Internet users in China will help the censorship functions of filtering software controversial “Green Dam – Youth Escort” to get around. The Jon Oberheide developed “Dam Burst Utility” smuggled code into running applications, and thus solves the connections to Green Dam. This [...]

Mozilla’s vice president criticizes Google’s Chrome Frame

Mozilla’s vice president criticizes Google’s Chrome Frame

Mike Shaver, vice president of engineering at Mozilla, has criticized Google’s Chrome frame. The extension for Internet Explorer is in his view, not suitable for users to bring the benefits of alternative browsers such as Chrome, Safari, Firefox or Opera closer. The system developed by Google browser plug-in allows you to run the Chrome browser [...]

Japanese phones build wooden

Japanese phones build wooden

NTT DoCoMo prototype has the Touch Wood (above) and one in SH-04A (bottom) tinkered-based model (Image: NTT DoCoMo). The Japanese phone company NTT DoCoMo mobile phone number with two prototypes of a wooden cabinet has called Touchwood presented. The concept is that the chassis remains of cedar are used exclusively incurred in the forest maintenance. [...]

Photonic temporal lens will provide a link to 270 Gbit / s

Photonic temporal lens will provide a link to 270 Gbit / s

Researchers from Cornell University (Cornell University) have developed a simple silicon device for increasing the capacity of optical channels. It includes a silicon chip, called “time lens” optical fiber and laser and works as follows: breaks the data stream encoded at 10 Gb / s, brings it up again and the output speed is already [...]

Chaintech APOGEE Links: create string of three flash drives!

Chaintech APOGEE Links: create string of three flash drives!

Press office of the company Walton Chaintech announced the release of the original functionality of USB-device called APOGEE Links, which is a symbiosis of portable flash drive and means for reading / writing microSDHC-cards. Another feature of this model is that these products can be connected to each other along the chain (up to three [...]

Microsoft Security Essentials is available for download

Microsoft Security Essentials is available for download

Microsoft has released its free anti-virus software for home users. The final version of Security Essentials (MSE) can be downloaded in eight languages ​​since yesterday afternoon. The nearly 10-MByte program is compatible with Windows XP SP2 (32 bit) and the 32 – and 64-bit compatible versions of Vista and Windows 7. Registration is not required. [...]

HD Flash on a netbook: a comparison of Intel and NVIDIA

HD Flash on a netbook: a comparison of Intel and NVIDIA

Aware of the high computing capabilities of modern graphics processors, more and more software developers are trying to introduce their products in support of the acceleration means GPU. Adobe has already introduced several products with support for GPU CUDA, and is developing a version of the Flash-player, which can accelerate video playback using the GPU. [...]

Founder of IDS Scheer left the Supervisory Board

Founder of IDS Scheer left the Supervisory Board

Founder August-Wilhelm Scheer and Alexander lay down their Pocsay the Supervisory Board of IDS Scheer AG with immediate effect. Scheer had been chairman of the board, Pocsay his deputy. The move had been announced prior to the acquisition by Software AG. He is now, after both had sold their shares to IDS Scheer, Software AG. [...]

Report: HP to combine printer and PC business again

Report: HP to combine printer and PC business again

Hewlett-Packard apparently planning to merge its PC and printer business again. As the Wall Street Journal reported, citing company-related stakeholders, working CEO Mark Hurd is currently the plans for the restructuring. Give a timetable for the merger is not yet. As is clear from the report, to lead the former head of the computer division, [...]

HTC Leo three times faster than its ancestor

HTC Leo three times faster than its ancestor

In the Western press performance results of the new smartphone HTC Leo. According to these data, the new product with the help of a 1-GHz processor Qualcomm Snapdragon literally smashed his ancestor HTC Touch HD. For example, when playing videos with a resolution of 640×480 HTC Leo was able to achieve the bit rate 3.77 [...]

100 Pbit / SCM optical fiber made Alcatel-Lucent

100 Pbit / SCM optical fiber made Alcatel-Lucent

Alcatel-Lucent company has announced a new record for data transmission over optical links, the efforts made by the research division of Bell Labs. The result – 100 petabit per second per kilometer (equivalent to 100 million Gb / s SCM). The experiment involved the transfer of data volume of 400 DVD, a second at a [...]

29 “OLED-TV to appear in 2010

29 “OLED-TV to appear in 2010

In its latest analyst firm DisplaySearch says that the profits from global sales of OLED set a new record – $ 192 million in the second quarter of 2009, up 32% over the previous quarter and by 22% – the same period the previous year. According to the forecast, the market displays based on organic [...]

Samsung Instinct HD – so whether it was good?

Samsung Instinct HD – so whether it was good?

Updated Samsung Instinct with letters «HD» in the title was released for sale recently. Phone has not received a new software version, but it is more than offset a significant upgrade to the “iron” part. Owners have the opportunity to take new 5-megapixel photos and record video in HD-720p. In addition, the device has finally [...]