Archive for ‘May, 2010’

PlayStation 3 took 31% market share game consoles

PlayStation 3 took 31% market share game consoles

research company Strategy Analytics has summed up I quarter and based on them made the forecast for full year 2010. Analysts have found that Sony continues to grow in the market consoles, removing the September 2009 model PlayStation 3 Slim. A price reduction, which took place at the same time, allowed Sony to take in [...]

Apple iPad now available in Germany

Apple iPad now available in Germany

Apple iPad is to have since this morning, also in Germany and eight other countries outside the U.S.. The first pre-orders shipped yesterday. Apart from the official Apple stores also Gravis, Media Markt and Saturn Mediamax the tablet computer, sell the latter but not in all stores. The wireless model with 16 GB of memory [...]

Off-syanka, sir!

Off-syanka, sir!

Barrymore, with tousled hair, scruffy, bursts into the room of Sir Henry so that he almost tore off the door hinges and a heart-rending cry announces: – Sir! Thames burst its banks! All the neighborhood flooded! After three minutes the water will be here! Save yourselves, sir !!! Henry looks at the butler’s withering look [...]

In Russia, will operate an emergency mobile operator

In Russia, will operate an emergency mobile operator

All-Russian GLONASS satellite system is one of the priority national projects. At the end of March 2010 the output into orbit three satellites has brought the total number to 23. Recall that the total number of GLONASS satellites – 24, two of which – back. Thus, the system is already capable of operating at full [...]

Pac-man on google.com – Langoliers-eater free time

Pac-man on google.com – Langoliers-eater free time

One feature of the Google search engine is case-design logo on the front page. As we recall, May 21, the company surpassed herself – instead of static images gave us a full level of the legendary game Pac-Man thirty years ago. Then some more in jest said that day in all corners of the earth [...]

Built-in electronics, too, can man “sick”

Built-in electronics, too, can man “sick”

We live in interesting times. Robots are committed to marry couples in love, space travel slowly turning to ordinary people, and cars and motorcycles are transferred from ICE to tarahtyaschih electric motors. As usual, the progress is a dark side – for example, can safely be called the name of the first-person, electronic implant is [...]

Cheap Taiwanese chip will allow Android smartphone for $ 100

Cheap Taiwanese chip will allow Android smartphone for $ 100

The Taiwanese manufacturer Mediatek processor unveiled a chip that contains all the silicon out of memory components of a UMTS-smartphone. An Android device on this basis would not cost more than $ 100, writes the China Times. The processor is currently tested in small numbers in the fourth quarter and then goes into series production. [...]

ASUS R.O.G. Rampage III GENE: first photos and specs

ASUS R.O.G. Rampage III GENE: first photos and specs

In anticipation of the opening international exhibition Computex 2010 the company decided to ASUSTeK Computer to lift the veil of secrecy over it prepared for a demonstration in Taipei on the new motherboard ASUS Rampage III GENE proprietary product line of ROG (Republic Of Gamers) Series for the most demanding gamers. This platform is Micro-ATX [...]

A series of new LCD monitors, HP

A series of new LCD monitors, HP

company Hewlett-Packard, this week introduced four new glossy widescreen LCD monitor: 20-inch 2010i, 21,5-inch 2210m, 2310m 23-inch and finally a 27-inch 2710m. The first has a screen resolution of 1600×900, all the rest – Full HD 1920×1080. Monitor Hewlett-Packard 2010iModel 2010i screen contrast is 1000:1 (dynamic – 15 000:1), brightness – 250 cd/m2, Response Time [...]

“Light up” Acer Tablet with QWERTY-keyboard

“Light up” Acer Tablet with QWERTY-keyboard

At yesterday’s event Acer Source Home, 2010, held in Beijing, together with the flagship smartphone Acer Stream and a whole series of new products, executive director of Acer Lanci (Gianfranco Lanci) was shown a prototype tablet based on Android. Unfortunately, the head of the Taiwanese company did not go into details about technical specifications yet [...]

AT & T: Four out of ten iPhones go to business customers

AT & T: Four out of ten iPhones go to business customers

As All Things Digital reports that AT & T sells iPhones in four out of ten business users. That’s what Ron Spears, president and CEO of Business Solutions at AT & T, said at an investor conference. “Came out as the iPhone, heard many people between 2007 and 2008 as the first ‘Oh my God, [...]

Google Closes Acquisition of AdMob

Google Closes Acquisition of AdMob

Google has completed its acquisition of AdMob officially. This tells the search provider with a blog entry. Late last week Google had received the required approval by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). “We are now starting to bring together our products and teams to jointly develop new services and features,” writes Susan Wojcicki, vice [...]

Novell continues to write black numbers

Novell continues to write black numbers

Novell wrote after returning to profitability in the first quarter of 2010 in the second quarter (to 31 April) the black. GAAP net income for the year from 16 to 20 million dollars, the share of profit of 0.05 $ 0.06. This is evident from the figures published yesterday (PDF) of the Linux distributor. Net [...]

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 3.1 Release Candidate released

Mozilla’s Thunderbird 3.1 Release Candidate released

Mozilla has released the first release candidate of Thunderbird 3.1. Developed under the code name Lanikai e-mail client is available in several languages, including German, for Windows (2000), Mac OS (version 10.4 Tiger) and Linux. The Release Candidate 1, which is based on version 1.9.2 of the Gecko rendering engine, among other things, improved toolbar [...]

Podmoskovnaya broadband subscribers base has grown to one million

Podmoskovnaya broadband subscribers base has grown to one million

company J’son & Partners Consulting released a study of the market of broadband wired Internet access in the Moscow region in 2009. Analytical studies have shown that the penetration rate of broadband wired Internet access (broadband) in Moscow at the end of 2009 amounted to 37%, 11 percentage points higher than last year. At the [...]