Archive for ‘October, 2009’

Brother shows portable virtual retinal display

Brother shows portable virtual retinal display

The virtual retinal display now shown is much smaller and lighter than the prototype from 2008 (image: Brother) Brother has a prototype of its virtual retinal display (Virtual Retinal Display) now improved enough so that a first portable version. could be shown. With the market still wants Brother begin within the next five months. A [...]

Smartphones HTC Hero in short supply?

Smartphones HTC Hero in short supply?

According to the vice-president of Asia-Pacific division of the company High Tech Computer (HTC) Tonga Jack (Jack Tong), new smart phones based on the Hero of Android in high demand in the markets of Asia and Europe. This popularity has led to the HTC Hero that they are becoming a scarce commodity. According to Tong, [...]

Apple completed its most profitable quarter

Apple completed its most profitable quarter

The fourth quarter of fiscal year 2009 came to Apple by the end September 26. The period under review was the most profitable – $ 9.87 billion with a net profit of $ 1.67 billion year earlier Apple reported sales of $ 7.9 billion and net income of $ 1.14 billion Gross margin also increased [...]

Motorola Droid and Android 2.0 – first impressions

Motorola Droid and Android 2.0 – first impressions

Google’s efforts do not go in vain – the Android platform on everyone’s lips, and many producers are willing to touch it. Motorola has a few years ago struck a crisis, and its leadership sees as a strategy to return to former position output “guglofonov.” To date Motorola has officially revealed the same model on [...]

Sun releases another 3000 employees

Sun releases another 3000 employees

Sun Microsystems plans to release a further 3,000 employees, about ten percent of employees worldwide. The layoffs are to be issued next year. This is clear from documents that Sun has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Sun founded the step with the delays in the planned takeover by Oracle, and the [...]

WordPress Blog layout adjusts automatically to mobile devices

WordPress Blog layout adjusts automatically to mobile devices

WordPress has improved the appearance of blogs on mobile devices. The company published layouts that are used automatically when a user accesses a mobile phone to your WordPress blog. The presentation adapts to suit any smartphone and without regard to the design that the author has set for his blog. On devices with a touchscreen, [...]

EU approves Nokia’s Bochum ex-employees help millions

EU approves Nokia’s Bochum ex-employees help millions

The European parliament has approved a proposal by the European Commission to send a 1300 former employees of the Nokia plant in Bochum closed funds from the 2006 Globalisation fund established. With nearly 5.6 million euros, the EU takes about half of the required support measures to reintegrate into the labor market in the amount [...]

Barnes & Noble announces e-book reader with Android

Barnes & Noble announces e-book reader with Android

The largest U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble has introduced under the name “Nook” an e-book reader. He is expected to feature Google’s Android operating system. The reader has a 6-inch monochrome display from E Ink and a 3.5-inch touchscreen. Nook to hide, for example, search queries, or a virtual keyboard on the device displays the [...]

Inconspicuous announcement of Intel Core i7-960 (3.2 GHz)

Inconspicuous announcement of Intel Core i7-960 (3.2 GHz)

Back in mid-July with the filing of an information resource Fudzilla.com we learned about the plans of Intel’s successor to release the CPU Core i7-950. Then colleagues predicted the approximate time of announcement modelCore i7-960, designated it as the fourth quarter of 2009. They were right. clicking on thislink, you can find specifications of the [...]

Yahoo reports 244-percent leap in profits in the third quarter

Yahoo reports 244-percent leap in profits in the third quarter

Yahoo has earned a third-quarter GAAP net income of 186 million dollars. This represents an increase of 244 percent over the prior year quarter. The non-GAAP surplus is 213 million, or $ 0.15 per share. Analysts had expected $ 0.07 to $ 0.10 per share. In terms of sales could not exceed Yahoo last year’s [...]

Intel releases quad-core processor Core i7-960

Intel releases quad-core processor Core i7-960

Intel has extended its introduced last year-Series CPU Core i7 Socket LGA 1366 for a model. The Core i7-960 is now available on the market. On orders of 1,000 units, the CPU costs, according to Intel’s price list (PDF) 562 dollars. He is just as expensive as the Core i7-950. However, he does not like [...]

LG Electronics raises sales and earnings substantially

LG Electronics raises sales and earnings substantially

LG Electronics has increased in the third quarter of its revenues and profits significantly. Between July and September put the surplus to 807.2 billion won (458.1 million euros). A year earlier, net income had amounted to 24.9 billion won (€ 14.1 million). Revenue increased over the prior year quarter by 16 percent from 12 to [...]

Samsung is participating in the Fusion-io SSD manufacturers

Samsung is participating in the Fusion-io SSD manufacturers

Samsung has participated in the Fusion-io SSD specialists. The investment, according to David Flynn, CTO of Fusion-io, a volume of several million dollars. An exact sum he did not name. The two companies jointly develop technologies for future SSD products. Samsung will receive according to Flynn, no place on the board of Fusion-io. “For the [...]

Professional 600x: “lightning” CF-cards from Lexar

Professional 600x: “lightning” CF-cards from Lexar

Specifically for professional photographers and advanced amateurs with high-speed digital cameras, the company Lexar Media introduced its new memory cards CompactFlash Lexar Professional 600x CF. Speed ​​Rating 600x minimum guarantees established recording speed 90 Mb / s, if you use data transfer mode UDMA 6. guaranteed minimum sustained speed reading new memory card is 533x, [...]

Flickr confirmed several hours of outage

Flickr confirmed several hours of outage

Yahoo Flickr daughter has confirmed one more hour service outage of their images. He started yesterday against 17.50 German time clock and lasted nearly two and a half hours. This affected the site and the application programming interface (API) of the company. As a result were no longer displayed on web applications, embedded images. The [...]