Microsoft has announced the acquisition of enterprise-risk-management software (ERM) provider specializing Prodiance. On the purchase price was not disclosed. Prodiance intention, according to Microsoft productivity applications to expand its compliance functions. “Microsoft plans to the technologies in future versions of Office and SharePoint to integrate,” it says on the Microsoft website. The schedule and the [...]

AMD has officially announced that Nintendo has selected its graphics accelerator for its upcoming home console Wii U. The company noted that it has created a special version of the Radeon HD with a “modern and powerful video core”, and also support output to multiple displays. Unfortunately, no details were reported. Earlier rumors pointed to [...]

Apple has bought 2010 more than any other semiconductor original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide. The latest figures from IHS, according to iSuppli, the company gave out of Cupertino in the past year $ 17.5 billion for chips, 79.6 percent more than in 2009. In that year, Apple was only the third largest buyer behind Hewlett-Packard [...]

Focusing on the needs gamers and enthusiasts, PNY Technologies company has released two original versions of the execution of a graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580, equipped with closed liquid cooling system from Asetek, Inc .. By the way, the announcement of these cards was held at the international exhibition E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) 2011 [...]

Google is testing its NFC payment wallet service is currently in the U.S. (Image: Google). 2014 users are doing purchases totaling approximately $ 50 billion (34 billion euros) to mobile NFC payment systems. The forecast by the analysts at Juniper Research. Near Field Communication (NFC) allows users to pay for goods and services with their [...]

A week since the APU-CPU AMD Z-01, based on the use of tablet PCs, some manufacturers have already declared their intention in the near future to present their solutions based on the new chip. Thus, according to sources from the environment component manufacturers for laptops, Acer, AMD has ordered 80 thousand APU-chip Z Series. As [...]

Modern mobile devices are becoming more productive, they are rapidly gaining luggage advanced features, and at some point mobile computers that belong to different segments, suddenly become competitive. Frail netbooks have long supported the work with high-definition video, and on Tablet PCs and even Smartphones appears reading Windows 7. Artists Studio Beau Designs attempted to [...]

Two U.S. senators have asked the Attorney General Eric Holder to close the online marketplace Silk Road. There could be purchased with virtual currency Bitcoin drugs – including cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and marijuana. Applicants Charles Schumer of New York and West Virginia Joe Manchin from both belong to the Democratic Party. Their letter, they have [...]

chance, maybe not, confirmed the existence of the phone Nokia C2-06 ​​(according to some C2-02) – the first representative of a family dvuhsimochnogo touch phones Touch and Type. New lit in an official blog of the Finnish company Nokia Conversation on the image to an article on the support of IPv6 browser Ovi Browser. Incidentally, [...]

HP touchpad Hewlett-Packard has announced its first Tablet WebOS touchpad for the first week in July, confirming the rumors circulating since March. The retail price is 479 € for the 16-gigabyte version and 579 € for the 32-gigabyte version. The 740-gram device was officially unveiled in February. It has a 9.7-inch display and WebOS as [...]

Taiwan resource Digitimes, citing sources close to the supply chain, reports that Microsoft is considering the possibility of release by the end of 2012 the tablet under his name, running on Windows 8. Reportedly even said that the partner is likely to Texas Instruments, and production is planned to transfer some of Taiwan’s OEM / [...]

For a long time ago, there were persistent rumors that AMD will revive the name of the FX processor for its high-end, but until recently, say it must have been impossible. During the game show E3 the company has officially confirmed that the FX brand is back and will be used to refer to products [...]

this week took the Russian announcement player iriver T9. According to the company, the device is easy to charge, it is reliable and can survive in conditions of continuous music playback for days. Case dimensions T9, made of aluminum, is 82 x 25,5 x 12 mm. Control through accelerometer (shaking) and a flat panel with [...]

Company Mushkin official press release informed the public about the release of its first solid-state drives with high-speed interface SATA III. At the Court of consumers vendors offer product lines and Chronos Series Chornos Deluxe Series, which included a 2.5-inch hard drives 120 GB and 240 GB on the established 25-nm technology of multi-level (Multi-Level [...]

Google has released approximately four weeks after publication of the first beta of Chrome Final 12th It supports hardware accelerated 3D CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), which enables 3D effects on websites. In addition, the stuffed version 12.0.742.91 total of 14 holes. The security improves in April, which was introduced Download filter based on Google’s Safe [...]