Police Iowa (USA) is now conducting regular raids to identify fans of sending SMS-messages while driving. Instead of the traditional receipt of the notice of the fine violators receive a plastic ring to be worn on the thumb with the inscription «TXTNG KILLS» (Typing kills). law banning sending SMS-messages while driving came into effect in [...]

Amazon has the third-quarter sales growth reached 39 percent (Image: Amazon). Amazon has implemented in the third quarter of $ 7.56 billion (5.4 billion euros). This represents an increase of 39 percent over the $ 5.45 billion a year earlier. The net profit rose 16 percent from 199 to 231 million dollars (166 million euros) [...]

So the could look Nook Color (Image: GeekTonic.com) According to information provided by ZDNet, the U.S. bookseller Barnes & Noble next Tuesday, 26 October, introduce a new version of its e-book reader Nook. The reader will bear the name “Nook Color”, a 7-inch color touch screen and have to work with Google’s mobile operating system [...]

with Google – saved tax tricks in the past three years, $ 3.1 billion – quite legally. This has researched Bloomberg Business Week. This group uses the Irish tax laws with a technique known as “Double Irish” method. “Double Irish” in this case is not a double whiskey, but a process with two Irish subsidiaries. [...]

low popularity of netbooks based on the ARM-processor has not stopped the company from Archos to market 10.2-inch “Web Devices» Arnova. Novelty is already available in the UK at a price of 127 pounds (about $ 200). netbook is designed based on a 533 MHz processor Samsung, includes 128 MB RAM, 2 GB of flash [...]

Adobe has released a security warning for Shockwave Player. In version 11.5.8.612 and earlier for Windows and Mac OS X puts an unpatched flaw, which the manufacturer describes as “critical”. The error can cause a crash according to the company. It’ll possibly be exploited in order to take full control over the system. The software [...]

As CBS and NBC and ABC currently blocked access to the Internet via Google TV series retrievable consequences (Picture: Sarah Tew / CNET). The U.S. television channel ABC, CBS and NBC have blocked access to their broadcasts available on the internet via Google TV. Compared to the Wall Street Journal confirmed representatives of the three [...]

The media gradually begins to leak information indicating that the scanners installed at airports to check passengers for the presence of banned shipping and the prevention of terrorist attacks, it is not as safe as claimed by government officials. With these scanners, X-ray emitting low-power, creates three-dimensional image of passengers without clothing that allows you [...]

Nokia has announced plans to have future application development only to the Qt framework, and to support HTML5. This should be compatible for both mobile applications for upcoming versions of Symbian and the MeeGo operating system. This means that developers can write applications that run on both platforms. Nokia’s N-series phones are based for example [...]

a few hours before the new generation of DirectX 11-compatible graphics cards series HD 6850/6870 from AMD it was reported that the green giant NVIDIA has decided to reduce prices for GeForce GTX 460 and GeForce GTX 470. According to our colleagues from the resource Digitimes, the prices for GeForce 460 series will be reduced [...]

Press Service Patriot Memory has announced the expansion of product line Extreme Performance by producing high-performance 240-pin DIMM-DDR3 memory modules of the new series Viper Xtreme, aimed primarily at gamers and PC enthusiasts demanding. To maintain optimum temperature in the data memory strip applied teplorasseivateli advanced design with an aluminum outer shell and inner insertion [...]

British company Angelbird presented an interesting solution – SSD-drive with the ability to upgrade. The basic module is a PCI Express x4 card with flash chips with total capacity of 16 GB, which has four connectors for connecting additional flash drives. drive named Wings provides the connection of expansion cards based on the controller SandForce [...]

Head maretinga Dell’s Paul-Henri Ferrand, made a statement that the company plans to invest hundreds of millions of dollars to strengthen the image and to strengthen the position Dell to compete with Apple. The funds primarily will be spent on advertising campaigns, as well as improving the qualities of consumer products. «We plan to make [...]

Hewlett-Packard has announced the successful acquisition of ArcSight before the financial statements. It could buy 33.1 million shares – and 92.1 percent of all outstanding shares of ArcSight. The group had to take over eventually spend $ 1.5 billion (1.2 billion euros) or $ 43.50 per share – about 23 percent more than ArcSight at [...]

Researchers from the University of California (University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA) are going to expand the range of applications already become ubiquitous lithium-ion batteries. The purpose of development, funded by the Advanced Research U.S. Department of Defense (DARPA), is the creation of subminiature rechargeable batteries, the size of a grain of sand that could [...]