Archive for ‘November, 2010’

La Boite LD120 – fashion “sound table” for the laptop

La Boite LD120 – fashion “sound table” for the laptop

Traditionally one of the “bottlenecks” in the notebook is acoustics. The manufacturer saves on this component as it may, with the result that the user is listening or quiet pischanie of a pair of built-in body-dollar speakers, or connect to external systems. The most interesting representatives of the latter is a conceptual “sound table» LD120 [...]

Iran confirms damage Stuxnet worm

Iran confirms damage Stuxnet worm

Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, according to a report by the New York Times for the first time publicly acknowledged that the Stuxnet worm has disrupted the Iranian nuclear program. Even in September, the Iranian government had called the virus attack on its nuclear facilities as a “propaganda ploy of the West”. The Iranian president said [...]

Bing: “Facebook” is top search term 2010

Bing: “Facebook” is top search term 2010

“Kim Kardashian” 2010 was the most searched for Bing (Image: Microsoft). Microsoft has unveiled the most searched terms of its search engine for Bing in 2010. Stand on the podium in Germany “Facebook”, “YouTube” and “eBay”. Last year was ranked “Facebook” not even among the ten most-searched words. Landed in fourth place, “GMX”. Behind him, [...]

GeForce GTX 570: something in between the GTX 470 and GTX 480

GeForce GTX 570: something in between the GTX 470 and GTX 480

According to preliminary information the announcement of the GeForce GTX 570 can take place 7 or 8 December. The basis for this graphics card will be somewhat truncated in the core functional units GF110. On the credit side we see the GTX 570 480 CUDA cores and 1280 MB of local memory. It is logical [...]

For the consumer market renamed NEC tablet LifeTouch in Smartia

For the consumer market renamed NEC tablet LifeTouch in Smartia

Recently, we reported in our news about the announcement of a mobile tablet LifeTouch from the company NEC, based primarily on the corporate market segment of portable electronic devices. Now it became known that the manufacturer is going to offer this product and a wider range of consumers, but under the name Smartia. This unit [...]

Microsoft: selling more than 2.5 million Kinect

Microsoft: selling more than 2.5 million Kinect

justifying expectations Kinect controller for a gaming console Xbox 360 breaks records in sales. He was named one of the most purchased items in the “Black Friday”, rivaling the popularity of Apple iPad tablet and smartphone Apple iPhone 4. According to Microsoft, the first 25 days after the start of the selling over 2.5 million [...]

Mozilla-manager criticizes Apple, Google and Microsoft

Mozilla-manager criticizes Apple, Google and Microsoft

Asa Dotzler, Director of Community Development at Mozilla, has attacked in a blog entry Apple, Google and Microsoft. The company installed Firefox plug-in without being asked and not even informed about the user. “In my opinion this is exactly the behavior of a Trojan horse,” Dotzler wrote. “Why do Microsoft, Google, Apple and others, it [...]

Attack on Google and Apple: Microsoft is planning TV service for the Xbox

Attack on Google and Apple: Microsoft is planning TV service for the Xbox

Microsoft is apparently planning an Internet-based television program for Xbox customers. The software giant has taken, according to a report by news agency Reuters had talks with American television networks. So that the group would, at least, the Google TV, Apple TV and Netflix make competition. According to Reuters, Microsoft could offer a “virtual cable [...]

Microsoft launches Final Visual Basic for Windows 7 Phone SDK

Microsoft launches Final Visual Basic for Windows 7 Phone SDK

Microsoft released Visual Basic for the Windows Mobile Developer Tools. This allows applications for Windows Mobile 7 now write in Visual Basic. Previously, only the C # development was possible. The operating system puts the expansion of Windows 7 or Vista requires at least 3 GB of memory. Also, the Windows Mobile Developer Tools installed. [...]

Video of the day: a prototype of a curved touch screen

Video of the day: a prototype of a curved touch screen

future becomes the present without fail. What had seemed a lot of fiction, now used everywhere. Another example of a “future technology” can serve as a huge multi curved table. device developed by a group of multimedia computing Rheinisch-Westphalian Technical University of Aachen in Germany, consisting of three people, and is currently at the prototype [...]

MSI X58A-GD45 – a new fee category Military Class on Intel X58

MSI X58A-GD45 – a new fee category Military Class on Intel X58

The official website of Micro-Star International (MSI) has a description of the motherboard MSI X58A-GD45 ATX format on Intel X58 Express chipset with Southbridge ICH10R, made under the original concept of MSI Military Class Concept with high quality components. novelty is equipped with energy-saving technology with the functions of MSI DrMOS GreenPower, XpressCool, RapidBoost and [...]

Android overtake Symbian mobile operating systems on the market in 2011

Android overtake Symbian mobile operating systems on the market in 2011

analytical division Taiwanese publication DigiTimes – DigiTimes Research by the end of this year was forecast future changes in the OS market for smartphones. By the end of this year, the market for smartphones running the final share as follows: first place will get out of inertia Symbian – 35,5%. Android operating system entrenched in [...]

Spy affair: Former Telekom manager sentenced to prison

Spy affair: Former Telekom manager sentenced to prison

The district court has sentenced the Bonn process to the spying scandal at Deutsche Telekom, the former head of the department of internal corporate investigations, Klaus Trzeschan to three and a half years in prison. Has in the opinion of the judges of today’s 60-year-old hurt the secrecy and the infidelities and guilty of fraud [...]

Hylas 1 satellite will provide Europe with broadband access

Hylas 1 satellite will provide Europe with broadband access

rocket Ariane-5 launched from Kourou in French Guiana, placed into orbit a British satellite Hylas 1 is designed to provide broadband Internet access and broadcast high-definition video inhabitants of Europe. Rocket was launched at 21:39 Moscow time. After 34 minutes 2,6-ton Hylas 1 was in orbit and its antenna to transmit signals to Earth. A [...]

American XM25 rifle got to Afghanistan

American XM25 rifle got to Afghanistan

always surprised when you see the fantastic ideas embodied in the real world, but even more surprising to see them outside of research laboratories, in the case. So, the first copies of the rifle entered service XM25 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Recall XM25 system includes not only the special design of the rifle, but the [...]