Archive for ‘August, 2010’

Adobe Lightroom 3.2 allows picture synchronization with Facebook

Adobe Lightroom 3.2 allows picture synchronization with Facebook

Adobe has released the final version of Lightroom 3.2 and Camera Raw 6.2. The updates that were previously available as release candidates and extend the raw file support for image processing and conversion of the module by 16 camera models including the Canon EOS 60D and the Sony Cyber-A55V. The developers have also improved some [...]

Microsoft does not spare money on advertising Windows Phone 7

Microsoft does not spare money on advertising Windows Phone 7

Microsoft tries to fall to gain a foothold in the smartphone market with the new Windows Phone 7. It will have to compete with the iPhone and Google Android, which over the past few years managed to become the locomotives of the direction. Deutsche Bank analyst Jonathan Goldberg (Jonathan Goldberg) argues that the marketing costs [...]

Samsung has sold 1 million smartphones in the U.S. Galaxy S

Samsung has sold 1 million smartphones in the U.S. Galaxy S

flagship smartphone by Samsung Galaxy S is quite popular in the U.S., although still noticeably inferior to “apple» iPhone 4. The South Korean company has announced that after a month and a half after the launch of Americans have purchased more than 1 million smartphones Galaxy S. In comparison, only the first weekend after the [...]

Wider testing of the Radeon HD 6870

Wider testing of the Radeon HD 6870

Participants Chinese Forum PCinlife again posted the tests have not yet released a new generation of graphic card – Radeon HD 6870. This time the tests were carried out with the new driver 8.14.10.0786 in 3D Mark Vantage Extreme modes and Performance, in Crysis at Very High settings and the package Unigine Heaven. The results [...]

Samsung has introduced an inexpensive phone Bada-Wave 723

Samsung has introduced an inexpensive phone Bada-Wave 723

Samsung gradually expanding the range Wave, consisting of the Bada-phones. After the Wave 525, Wave 533 and the first ever company announced Wave Wave 723, which will take place between them. Wave 723 with a metal lid will be equipped with a leather sheath. The thickness of the smart phone – only 11.8 mm. In [...]

News Search: Google reaches agreement with Associated Press

News Search: Google reaches agreement with Associated Press

Google and the news agency Associated Press (AP) have settled their dispute continued for months. Both parties agreed to renew their license agreements to ensure current AP news again be accessed via Google News. Earlier this year, the agreement between Google and AP had expired, because the companies could not agree on further cooperation. The [...]

Microsoft invests half a billion dollars in new data center

Microsoft invests half a billion dollars in new data center

Microsoft has confirmed plans for a new data center in Mecklenburg County in the U.S. state of Virginia. According to a press release from the governor of Virginia, the company plans to spend up to $ 499 million for the construction of the new site. The data center is located near the town of Boydton [...]

NEC: PC nuts in 2013

NEC: PC nuts in 2013

Every day computers have become not only productive but also “greener”, that is purer. This concept, engineers are trying to follow the Japanese company NEC, recently announced a unique technology to produce bioplastic from the shell of the cashew nut. According to experts, plastic, made with walnut shells, has all the qualities and properties (strength, [...]

IFA: LG introduces thinnest LED TV

IFA: LG introduces thinnest LED TV

With the LG introduces LEX8 claims to have the world’s thinnest TV with a full LED display at the IFA (Hall 11.2) from. The shallow depth of only 7.8 millimeters achieved through the use of nanotechnology and manufacturer of the relocation of the electronics in the stand. The frame width is 11.6 millimeters. A very [...]

Nokia and Siemens are looking for investment for Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia and Siemens are looking for investment for Nokia Siemens Networks

Nokia and Siemens have confirmed that talks with private equity firms about a possible investment in the Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN). The amount of the required investment is about $ 1 billion. Most likely, this need has arisen in connection with the recent acquisition unit of Motorola, which manufactures equipment for operators, for $ 1.2 [...]

Microsoft distributes new beta of Windows 7 SP1 to selected testers

Microsoft distributes new beta of Windows 7 SP1 to selected testers

Microsoft has released an updated beta of Service Pack 1 for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2. It is only some PC manufacturers and partners of the Technology Adoption Program (TAP) is available. This was confirmed by a Microsoft spokesperson on demand from ZDNet. Build 7601.17077 is therefore already spent since Friday. So far the [...]

Poll: 60 percent of Germans think the license fee was too high

Poll: 60 percent of Germans think the license fee was too high

Nearly two thirds of Germans find the monthly fee of € 17.98 for the public television and radio stations too high. This is the result of a representative survey by the Forsa research institute on behalf of Bitkom, the 1000 citizens aged 14 and over were interviewed. “This is a clear signal: We must stop [...]

HP board approves share buyback

HP board approves share buyback

Hewlett-Packard (HP), as previously announced buy back shares worth 10 billion dollars. The Supervisory Board has approved this measure. You should reassure shareholders, who fear that HP offers in competition with Dell too much for 3PAR. “The balance of HP is very strong,” says Cathie Lesjak, the CFO and currently serves as interim CEO. “We [...]

Toshiba announced the launch of mass production of 24-nm

Toshiba announced the launch of mass production of 24-nm

August 31, Toshiba began mass production of NAND flash memory in compliance with the advanced 24-nm process. While this process technology mass produced only a 64-Gbitnye flash memory chips based on 2-bit cell (MLC). Toshiba will also produce 32-Gigabit chips with three bits per cell (TLC) on 24-nm process technology, but the exact date until [...]

Motorola introduced three new Android-smartphone

Motorola introduced three new Android-smartphone

Motorola introduced three new models of smartphones running operating system Android. All of them are members of the series and are designed for MING Chinese market. Model MT810 is designed for operator China Mobile and its network of TD-SCDMA, XT806 – for China Telecom CDMA network and 2000, and A1680 – for China Unicom and [...]