Archive for ‘June, 2011’

Icy Dock SSD Xpander Hybrid: adapter to create a hybrid HDD

Icy Dock SSD Xpander Hybrid: adapter to create a hybrid HDD

Icy Dock Company announced the availability of a new device called SSD Xpander Hybrid, which allows you to virtually increase the capacity of SSD-drive with a cheaper hard drive. Model MB882HX-1SB a Case for 2.5-inch SSD, through which the flash drive can be connected directly to the HDD. When the unit is connected to the [...]

Xbox 360 fiasco in Japan

Xbox 360 fiasco in Japan

no secret that in Japan, the birthplace of the PlayStation and Wii, Microsoft is having difficulty with the promotion of its video game console, starting with the first Xbox. In this region, the situation seems to have remained unchanged after the release of an updated version of the Xbox 360, so successful in the U.S. [...]

Yahoo outsources Hadoop development in an independent company

Yahoo outsources Hadoop development in an independent company

Yahoo has outsourced its international Hadoop development team in an independent company. In addition to Yahoo and Benchmark Capital in the newly founded Hortonworks invested. “With Apache Hadoop, companies can unite thousands of servers to process and analyze data – and the speed with supercomputing,” it said in a statement. “Yahoo has prepared the way [...]

Ericsson accelerates LTE-Advanced to 1 Gbit / s

Ericsson accelerates LTE-Advanced to 1 Gbit / s

mobile operators around the world have begun to gradually introduce the fourth-generation networks that provide high speed data transmission. Certain manufacturers produce and compatible phones intended for use in these networks. But the most interesting things happen in labs, where new specifications 4G, much success in this field has reached Ericsson. Swedish company actively develops [...]

Oracle acquires storage specialist Pillar Data Systems

Oracle acquires storage specialist Pillar Data Systems

Oracle acquires Pillar Data Systems. SAN specialist was previously majority owned by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison. Ellison initially flows to no money. Only if the company achieves certain goals, payments are due. Other financial details of the Group in the press release on the acquisition has not produced information. The transaction is expected to close [...]

Youth laptops Samsung 300V 305V and will appear in Russia

Youth laptops Samsung 300V 305V and will appear in Russia

Samsung has announced that the laptops 3-Series (model 300V and 305V), designed specifically for young people, appear in the Russian market in early July. The devices have a wide choice of colors (orange, raspberry pink, blue, jet black, smoky gray, and snow-white) and will be sold at a price of 18 thousand rubles. The models [...]

Lebedev Studio is preparing a keyboard “Little Six”

Lebedev Studio is preparing a keyboard “Little Six”

After a long silence Russian designer Artem Lebedev said his studio is preparing a product family of Optimus – Mini six. This control panel is equipped with, as its name suggests, three pairs of buttons on a design similar to those used in the Optimus Populyaris, ie, 15 × 15 mm with color LCD screen [...]

Imerj SmartPad: PSP hybrid smart phone and tablet

Imerj SmartPad: PSP hybrid smart phone and tablet

Company Imerj demonstrated so-called smartpad running Google Android, in fact it is a folding smartphone, equipped with a pair of 4-inch touch screen with Super AMOLED WVGA-resolution screens fit together as closely as possible, so far as can extremely small thickness rims. The device operates on a dual-core processor series TI OMAP, performance also provides [...]

Apple Releases Critical Java update for Mac OS X

Apple Releases Critical Java update for Mac OS X

Apple has released security updates for Mac OS X. They include eleven classified as critical vulnerabilities in Java on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard and Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. “Visiting a website containing a manipulated, untrusted Java applet may lead to the execution of arbitrary malicious code with the privileges of the user,” [...]

Microsoft aims to exit Windows 8 in April 2012 for the battle with the iPad?

Microsoft aims to exit Windows 8 in April 2012 for the battle with the iPad?

There is a possibility that Microsoft is going to present a version of Windows RTM-8 is not in the second half of 2012 as expected so far, and in April next year. It was assumed that Microsoft will release two beta build, some or RC-preview-version, and then towards the end of next year will present [...]

Plotting the mouse from MicroPointing

Plotting the mouse from MicroPointing

Israeli company has developed MicroPointing smallest in the world of a computer mouse, whose size is only one square millimeter. Although, in fairness, the mouse is a device called a purely conventional, in fact it is rather millimeter touchpad, with which you can control any digital system. Only three built-in sensor and a proprietary algorithm [...]

TAG Heuer introduced the Android-smartphone LINK worth 4900 euros

TAG Heuer introduced the Android-smartphone LINK worth 4900 euros

famous Swiss manufacturer of luxury watches, TAG Heuer, the not so given turned-mobile phones, unveiled its first smartphone running the operating system Android 2.2 Froyo, called LINK. Apparently, the new product is designed to continue the tradition of exclusive line of watches TAG Heuer LINK. As is the case with the clock, for body smartphone, [...]

ViewSonic VA1948m-LED for frugal and thrifty

ViewSonic VA1948m-LED for frugal and thrifty

the release of new “green” LCD budget category with a 19-inch screen, equipped with LED backlight, the company said ViewSonic. According to the developers, the model ViewSonic VA1948m-LED is suitable for use both at home and in schools or offices. This entry-level solution is characterized by a resolution of 1440 x 900 pixels, contrast ratio [...]

Quey Phone mobile phone for older people

Quey Phone mobile phone for older people

older generation with great difficulty, acquire skills in working with electronic devices and choose the most simple gadgets. Another problem of modern electronics are small size devices, the elderly person is difficult to see the inscriptions on the keys, so even the reception and hang up the call to create certain difficulties. All these shortcomings [...]

Facebook Ceglia plaintiff loses his lawyer

Facebook Ceglia plaintiff loses his lawyer

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Image: ZDNet) Facebook plaintiff Paul D. Ceglia has come his attorney lost. He is now no longer represented on the firm DLA Piper, as is apparent from a document filed in court. The New York lumber merchant attempts since July 2010, to sue a 84-percent share of the social network. Ceglias [...]