Archive for ‘May, 2011’

Computex 2011: notebook from MSI’s Booth

Computex 2011: notebook from MSI’s Booth

At the booth of MSI, our journalists have met a lot of variety of notebooks based on the latest platforms from AMD and Intel. The most interesting and noteworthy models, they tried to capture in photographs. 14-inch notebook MSI X460 is distinguished by 128 – less than 1 inch thick, less than 2 kg weight [...]

Predictions regarding the supply laptops have become more pessimistic

Predictions regarding the supply laptops have become more pessimistic

According Taiwanese industry sources, global notebook shipments will rise this year, not more than 10%. Previously, analysts had forecast growth at 12-15%. At the same time, shipments of desktop PCs this year could grow by 7-8%, which is 3-4% higher than previous predictions. As the sources, the popularity of tablet PCs is growing rapidly and [...]

U.S. intelligence wants to analyze by computer metaphors

U.S. intelligence wants to analyze by computer metaphors

The U.S. Secret Service is working on software that you can use to analyze metaphors. The idea is that “the members of a culture to reveal the underlying ideas and world views,” as it says in a summary of the project. Heather McCallum-Bayliss of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) directs the first five [...]

Computex 2011: VIA system with 18-watt processor, QuadCore @ 1GHz

Computex 2011: VIA system with 18-watt processor, QuadCore @ 1GHz

In early May, VIA unveiled its first four-core processor, which was plain name QuadCore. He united under a single package of two processors and VIA Nano X2 runs at 1.2 GHz (up to 1.47 GHz with an automatic overclocking). The maximum power consumption of the chip was 27.5 Вт. At Computex the company demonstrated a [...]

Leica camera sold for € 1,32 млн

Leica camera sold for € 1,32 млн

The auction Westilicht Photographica Auction held May 28 in Vienna, was registered a record price for the camera Leica. An unnamed private collector from Asia paid for the model Leica 0-series € 1,32 million starting price of the lot is € 200 thousand. Bargaining lasted about 20 minutes Remarkably, the same camera was sold at [...]

Computex 2011: first computer category “3-in-1″ from GIGABYTE

Computex 2011: first computer category “3-in-1″ from GIGABYTE

In passing these days in Taipei Computex Taipei 2011 International company GIGABYTE Technology announced the release of allegedly the world’s first computer category “3-in-1″, which became the model GIGABYTE Booktop T1125P. virtue of its design features and the presence of a set of special docking station that allows you to connect via USB Optical Drive [...]

Computex 2011: beautiful girls in the various stands

Computex 2011: beautiful girls in the various stands

addition to the equipment, an exhibition of Computex 2011 has one more important point of interest: pretty girls, who smile and show the products of different companies. Our correspondent who attended the show, did not leave this moment without the attention and has photographed some of the beauties, and we decided to share pictures with [...]

Computex 2011: Mini-PC, video cards and motherboards on the stand Zotac

Computex 2011: Mini-PC, video cards and motherboards on the stand Zotac

Walking on display at Computex 2011, we could not ignore the well and stand Zotac. Its distinguishing feature is that there are many interesting compact PC that can not only put on the table, under the table, but also hang on the wall. In addition, attention is drawn to some motherboards based on the latest [...]

Computex 2011: ASUS Eee Pad MeMO receive 3D-IPS-screen and a headset for calls

Computex 2011: ASUS Eee Pad MeMO receive 3D-IPS-screen and a headset for calls

In the past there were rumors that the final version of 7-inch tablet of ASUS Eee Pad MeMO receive 3D-screen. It turned out that this is indeed the case: Johnny Shih, (Jonney Shih) from ASUS has officially confirmed that the tablet will now be called the Eee Pad MeMO 3D and get a quality autostereoscopic [...]

Computex 2011: Storage for every taste and color from Silicon Power

Computex 2011: Storage for every taste and color from Silicon Power

company Silicon Power, which specializes in designing and manufacturing storage, brought to the exhibition Computex 2011 a wide variety of memory cards, flash drive, memory modules, solid state drives and hard drives. interesting stand design emphasizes the refined appearance device. Also presented here are simpler in design solutions, for example, SSD Series E20, announced late [...]

Germany Schwerin and cable connects to the Kempten 100-MBit/s-Netz

Germany Schwerin and cable connects to the Kempten 100-MBit/s-Netz

From 1 June offers cable in Germany Schwerin (Meckelburg-Vorpommern) and Kempten (Bavaria) with high speed internet access. A total of 100,000 new households will be up to 100 Mbit / s downstream and 6 Mbit / s upstream can go online. From the introduction of the Euro-DOCSIS 3.0 data transmission standards also benefit households in [...]

Video of the Day: testing emergency landing rig Martin Jetpack

Video of the Day: testing emergency landing rig Martin Jetpack

mass production of personal aircraft is scheduled to start Martin Jetpack 18 months, but now that the trials are under way. During the last testing experts have been studying the Martin Aircraft flying at high for such a compact aircraft altitude, and also demonstrated the work of the emergency ballistic parachute. During the test pack [...]

Computex 2011: ASUS has officially announced PadFone

Computex 2011: ASUS has officially announced PadFone

In anticipation of the opening of the annual international exhibition Computex 2011, ASUS in Taipei held a press conference at which he introduced a number of new devices, including smartphones and tablet hybrid PadFone. Earlier, the Taiwanese company has promised that PadFone destroy an idea of ​​what should be the mobile device. Pictures PadFone fragments [...]

Computex 2011: 7 “tablet ViewSonic ViewPad 7x on Android 3.0

Computex 2011: 7 “tablet ViewSonic ViewPad 7x on Android 3.0

ViewSonic Corporation seized the international exhibition in Taipei Computex 2011 and officially announced, reportedly the world’s first mobile tablet operating system Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), equipped with a 7-inch touch screen (resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels). Model ViewSonic ViewPad 7x weighs 380g and is based on a progressive platform, NVIDIA Tegra 2. Among other things, [...]

Computex 2011: 10.1 “netbook” Changeling »GIGABYTE T1005M

Computex 2011: 10.1 “netbook” Changeling »GIGABYTE T1005M

In passing now in Taipei at Computex 2011 international company GIGABYTE Technology introduced a laptop-transformer GIGABYTE T1005M, built on a mobile platform Intel Pine Trail-M. Machine weighing 1.45 g is contained in a housing with dimensions of 265 x 214 x 41,4 mm, which is offered in color Latte Gold. It is equipped with a [...]