BT CEO Ian Livingston expected by March 2012 the rollout of ten million fiber connections in the UK – some nine months earlier than planned. The fiber infrastructure is expected to reach 40 percent of the buildings in the country. The majority of fiber optics is available in cities. The coverage of rural areas is [...]
O2 parent company Telefonica acquires VoIP provider Jajah for 145 million euros. So that reports from earlier in the week to be officially confirmed. The purchase still depends on the formal approval of the Spanish competition authority CNC. Founded in 2005, start-up offers free calls between members and discount on international calls. It claims to [...]
E-Plus wants to upgrade its network in the coming years with further HSPA. Currently the technology is found only at a few sites. For the expansion of the Dutch E-Plus’s parent company KPN signed a contract with the Chinese network equipment supplier ZTE has closed. Their technique allow a low-cost and rapid deployment. The new [...]
Twitter has acquired the provider of localization services for GeoAPI Twitter messages Mixer Labs. The CEO has informed Twitter Williams in his blog. Financial details of the acquisition are not known. The mixer was developed by Geo-Labs API service easier for programmers to use spatial data in their applications. The services will be integrated into [...]
Samsung has communicated on request from ZDNet.de that are delivered since week 49, the SSD models of the PM800 Series with capacities of 64, 128 and 256 GB with a firmware (revision VBM19C1Q) that the built-in Windows 7 TRIM feature supported. For models sold before the manufacturer wants to put in the first quarter of [...]
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requested additional information from Google on the proposed purchase of specialized equipment to mobile advertising provider AdMob. This tells the search party with his blog. The 750 million dollar transaction will not be completed immediately. It is however confident that the FTC will approve the purchase. Even after the takeover [...]
In the New Year’s Eve, BenQ introduced two new LCD monitors with Full HD 1080p resolution and LED backlight. The model is equipped with G2222HDL 21.5-inch panel and G2420HDBL – 24-inch. Both models are designed based matrices TN with 1000:1 contrast ratio (5,000,000:1 dynamic reaches), a brightness of 250 nits, 5ms response time. The display [...]
Some time ago we wrote about a short film, shot by Vincent Laforet at the camera Canon EOS 1D Mark IV. Work Laforet was proof that in our time, small blockbusters can be removed without the use of bulky cameras and expensive equipment. However, the full potential of a unit under the force of a [...]
On the eve of the opening of the January 2010 International CES in Las Vegas, the company has created a special Thermaltake Technology mini-site dedicated to products that it had prepared for a demonstration at the event. As it turned out, among other items the developers plan to show many visitors their new CPU cooler, [...]
According to sources from the environment component manufacturers for laptops, a South Korean company Samsung Electronics has a chance next year, ahead of the netbook market by volume deliveries of its Taiwanese competitors, the company ASUSTeK Computer. Some component suppliers believe that Samsung will ship in 2010, only 7 million laptops. Others are more optimistic [...]
According to a report in the Financial Times, Apple has rented rooms at the end of January 2010 for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA). Apple analyst Gene Munster of Piper Jaffray sees a 50 percent chance that Apple will announce the long awaited tablet computer in January. However, he assumes that the model [...]
Panasonic, which finally gained control of 50,27% Sanyo after many months of the approval process for transactions worth $ 4.6 billion by the regulatory authorities of different countries, plans to release in 2011, lithium-ion battery for use in domestic purposes. Rather ambitious goal: in the words of President Fumio Otsubo Panasonic (Fumio Otsubo), stored in [...]
The high-resolution HD private channel RTL, Sat.1 HD, HD ProSieben, kabel eins and VOX HD HD will also be possible to receive some already on the market are HDTV receivers with conventional CI interface. This has informed the agency responsible for the operation of the HD + platform of the satellite operator SES Astra HD [...]
The new flagship model of the Audi A8 has become the first car with a satellite navigation system that provides access to the service Google Earth and the detailed three-dimensional models of European cities. The option will be available from mid-2010. The company has integrated graphics chip NVIDIA (according to some, it’s Tegra) in electronic [...]
It is projected to industry sources, prices for 32-inch LCD TV panels will grow from the beginning of next year, that would be caused by increased demand in the Chinese market. Also, the situation will exacerbate deficit glass substrates associated with the problems of a Japanese factory Nippon Electric Glass (NEG). Some panel makers plan [...]