Archive for ‘January, 2011’

Akasa Helix: an effective “climate control” laptop

Akasa Helix: an effective “climate control” laptop

The range of products manufactured by Akasa is a new active air cooling system, called Helix, designed for effective removal of excess heat from laptop computers with screens up to 17 inches. This cooler is made in the form of an ergonomic design stand with a perforated top panel made of aluminum, has dimensions of [...]

Facebook launches service bargain ‘deals’ in Germany

Facebook launches service bargain ‘deals’ in Germany

Facebook has its location-based service bargain ‘deals’ made available in Europe. In Germany, he starts with the name “offers.” Thus, members receive discounts in certain shops, cafes and restaurants as soon as they checked in via Places at each location. About touch.facebook.com or via Facebook app shows after clicking on “Locations” and then “Where are [...]

Mobile Phone Market: Chinese vendor ZTE overtaken Apple

Mobile Phone Market: Chinese vendor ZTE overtaken Apple

According to the latest figures from IDC, the Chinese manufacturer ZTE in the fourth quarter of 2010 reached 16.8 million phones sold and a global market share of 4.2 percent. Thus it creates the first company in the top five of the largest mobile phone manufacturer and replaced immediately by Apple in fourth place. According [...]

Amazon Germany named a price for LG Optimus 2X and Optimus Black

Amazon Germany named a price for LG Optimus 2X and Optimus Black

Earlier this year, LG has announced the first dual-core smartphone based on the NVIDIA Tegra processor 2. New items were named Optimus 2X and Optimus Black. In Germany, the first model indicated otherwise – Optimus Speed. Amazon taking pre-orders on powerful smart phones based on Google Android 2.2 (Froyo). The company asked for samples of [...]

Bitkom: Majority of Germans are against mobile phone use in aircraft

Bitkom: Majority of Germans are against mobile phone use in aircraft

55 percent of Germans oppose the use of mobile phones on the plane. Only 19 percent are for unlimited phone calls over the clouds, like some airlines offer it. This is the result of a survey by research institute under the 1000 Federal Aris citizens aged 14 years on behalf of Bitkom. 15 percent voted [...]

AMD introduced a version of the Fusion with the power of 5 W

AMD introduced a version of the Fusion with the power of 5 W

During the event, held last week in Singapore, AMD introduced to the public for a new dual-core chip with integrated graphics family of Fusion. The device is an economical version of the chip Ontario C-50 and has reduced to 5 W power consumption, making it suitable for use in multimedia tablets and other mobile solutions. [...]

RIM PlayBook volumes reached commercial scale

RIM PlayBook volumes reached commercial scale

According to sources from the environment component suppliers, production Tablet PC RIM PlayBook in Taiwan’s Quanta Computer at the company already accounts for 150-200 thousand per month. Bulk deliveries of new products will start in February. As noted, a prerequisite for RIM is that all plates should be issued in PlayBook Taiwanese factories. According to [...]

China-Egypt censored comments in the network

China-Egypt censored comments in the network

The Chinese government filters all comments to the revolution in Egypt from the net. Who online for news on the term “Egypt” is looking for, receives an error message since Saturday, as Spiegel Online reports. The blockade is true of the micro-blogging service of Sina and Sohu, China’s social networks. According to research by Reuters [...]

Photo of the Day: Android 3.0 Honeycomb will support smartphones

Photo of the Day: Android 3.0 Honeycomb will support smartphones

still unclear to many was the question the next version of the operating system Google Android Honeycomb created exclusively for the tablets, or will also support Smartphones? All official news and demonstrations only spoke about the new interface, Android 3.0, optimized for tablets. is now clear that this can not be. Of course, the plates [...]

12 fascinating cases for PC

12 fascinating cases for PC

Discovering creative and original modes of the computer is always very interesting. The resource offers a compilation of Toxel 12 most unusual examples. Computer from a keg of beer for player and modder Ben Lzitsar (Ben Lzicar) converted to a barrel of beer in a case for your computer. Computer-piano old piano body was turned [...]

GIGABYTE T1005P: 10,1 “notebook-transformer with Atom N550

GIGABYTE T1005P: 10,1 “notebook-transformer with Atom N550

Despite the fact that many analysts are pessimistic about the future of netbooks, a Taiwanese company GIGABYTE Technology is not going to cover this area and continues to develop new and exciting model. Soon a manufacturer will launch a 10-inch notebook with a rotating display in two planes, which can easily be turned into a [...]

Google seeks developers for its own Android Apps

Google seeks developers for its own Android Apps

Google seeks developers write the applications for its mobile operating system Android. Reports such as The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing anonymous sources, Google product manager Benjamin Ling is currently recruiting programmers, specialists in user interfaces, and product manager for the company. The goal is to do with Apple’s own applications, including applications running IOS [...]

The next update will offer PS3 online saving?

The next update will offer PS3 online saving?

already become a habit that Sony updates the firmware for the PlayStation 3 game in the first place, in order to prevent cracking. But this time the upgrade can bring a very useful function. Resource Kotaku claims that the firmware 3.6 for the PS3 will give players the ability to cloud storage of the game. [...]

Intel Completes Acquisition of Infineon’s mobile phone division

Intel Completes Acquisition of Infineon’s mobile phone division

Intel has announced that its acquisition of Infineon’s wireless business (Wireless Solutions WLS) is completed. The division will continue under the name Intel Mobile Communications (IMC) as an independent business unit within the Intel Architecture Group. Worldwide change around 3500 employees of Infineon Intel. IMC is headquartered in the former premises of WLS in Neubiberg [...]

Globalfoundries mass start 20-nm production in 2012

Globalfoundries mass start 20-nm production in 2012

Contract manufacturer of semiconductor Globalfoundries represented by its Executive Director Douglas Grossa (Douglas Grose) at a press conference in Tokyo announced plans to mass produce in compliance with the 28-nm and 20-nm process rules. As a 28-nm standards, it expects to receive Globalfoundries sample design (the version of tape-out) from the first customer in April-June [...]