Archive for ‘June, 2010’

APOGEE AP102 and AP201 – Chaintech cell phones for elderly

APOGEE AP102 and AP201 – Chaintech cell phones for elderly

company Walton Chaintech, best known for the production of memory modules, video cards, and various drives, I decided to try their hand at the market of cellular phones, and those that are targeted primarily at users of a venerable age. According to the developers, the model APOGEE AP102 APOGEE AP201 and devoid of any ultra-modern [...]

EU aims to reduce high patent fees

EU aims to reduce high patent fees

drawing from a patent application of patent QualcommEin that will apply across Europe, is about ten times as expensive as a registered in the U.S.: It costs the applicant 20,000 euros. The European Commission wants to change that now with a new Patents Ordinance. As the Handelsblatt reported, wants to reduce the EU’s Internal Market [...]

Chrome blocked in future outdated browser plug-ins

Chrome blocked in future outdated browser plug-ins

Google Chrome working on a feature, the obsolete plug-ins blocked. It also automatically searches for updates. The company announced on Monday at the Chromium blog, without giving a timetable for the introduction. Chrome will also highlight future add-ons that are rarely used. “Some plug-ins are widely spread, but are not normally needed,” write Chris Evans, [...]

“Scartel ‘plans to deploy WiMAX network in Moscow metro

“Scartel ‘plans to deploy WiMAX network in Moscow metro

Company “Scartel” has decided to spend about three million dollars for deployment in the metro network of WiMAX. Already for a long time, the operator of wireless broadband coverage area extends its own, setting the base stations, including buildings owned by the Moscow metro. And soon, “Scartel” plans “go underground” and set the base directly [...]

IPhone Proximity Sensor 4 – still a problem?

IPhone Proximity Sensor 4 – still a problem?

To Top Apple iPhone 4 issues, chief among them – loss of signal at a touch, added another. Numerous users have complained that the proximity sensor, designed to lock the screen during a call when a person approached the owner, is unstable. «I can confirm that the sensor is functioning properly iPhone 4, when closing [...]

Apple forbids members to promise free cases for the iPhone 4

Apple forbids members to promise free cases for the iPhone 4

resource to journalists Boy Genius Report got instructions Apple, for its official use. It painted the order of the personnel actions “Apple” company in the event of a complaint on poor reception the iPhone 4. company instructs its representatives in any case not to try to calm the upset customer promise to provide free case. [...]

Yandex will close mapping software

Yandex will close mapping software

Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has approved the purchase of the company “Yandex” LLC “GIS technology.” The deal amounted to several million dollars, according to a representative of “Yandex” Ochir Mandzhikova, it will be completed within a month. The company “GIS Technologies” focuses on the development of mapping software and card supplies in 2008 “Yandex” for [...]

Nintendo 3DS, and Sony PSP-4000 will be released in 2010?

Nintendo 3DS, and Sony PSP-4000 will be released in 2010?

The game E3 2010, Nintendo introduced a portable console 3DS, which offers a 3D-game with no points. Its rival Sony has not revealed the new PSP, announcing instead a youth campaign and a few toys. Nintendo officials say that 3DS appears in the Japanese retail at the end of the current financial year, ie in [...]

Ford Curve Control will not allow the car to fly off the road

Ford Curve Control will not allow the car to fly off the road

U.S. carmaker Ford works not only on the economy of their new cars – engineers also no stranger to the word “security”. In the latest iteration of the Ford Explorer SUV in 2011 will be used by the electronic “assistant» Curve Control. The technology is designed to reduce entry speed into the turn, if it [...]

Acer announces 10-inch netbook with ten hours of battery life

Acer announces 10-inch netbook with ten hours of battery life

Acer expands its netbook range for a 10.1-inch model that will offer a 5600 mAh battery for up to ten hours of run time. The Aspire One 533 comes in mid-July at an introductory price of 329 € in the trade. Depending on the configuration of the notebook with an Intel Atom N455 processor of [...]

Report: Dell has shipped almost twelve million deliberately faulty PCs

Report: Dell has shipped almost twelve million deliberately faulty PCs

came In OptiPlex PCs from Dell is cheaper because 2003-2005 Capacitor regular problems (image: ZDNet). According to a report by the New York Times, Dell 2003-2005 aware OptiPlex 11.8 million PCs shipped with inferior capacitors. From some of the built in types of capacitors on the motherboards the manufacturers were aware that they are potentially [...]

Google is working on Social Network Google Me

Google is working on Social Network Google Me

Google wants the Internet, according to rumors, a new attempt at social networking venture. Digg founder Kevin Rose says, in a tweet from a service called the “Google Me” and will become a competitor to Facebook. In the same direction are comments from Adam D’Angelo, a former manager Facebook. On the site he founded Quora [...]

Foxconn to build Taipei into his “Akihabara”

Foxconn to build Taipei into his “Akihabara”

world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronics company Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision Industry) has signed a contract with the city of Taipei – Taiwan’s capital, according to which, in March 2011 should begin construction of a large information technology center Taipei Information Park. Under the agreement planned to create Infopark with developed infrastructure, including shopping pavilions [...]

Seagate Now Shipping the most capacious in the world HDD

Seagate Now Shipping the most capacious in the world HDD

With the growing needs of in storage capacity for home collection of videos, photos, movies and other files, so does the demand for external hard drives. This drive can perfectly complement the small portable laptop hard drive, since mobile computers are now preferred. Therefore, the appearance of the world’s trehterabaytnogo hard drive from Seagate is [...]

Aiptek introduced 3D-frame

Aiptek introduced 3D-frame

When about a month ago, Aiptek introduced to the public its miniature digital video camera i2, which has two 5-megapixel sensor and supports shooting in 3D, the company let slip a word that will soon be announced digital photo frame to display three-dimensional content. And they kept their word. A new product called the Portable [...]