Archive for 'General'
Fujitsu promises 320 GB winchester for laptops by February
6 December 2007Fujitsu has announced 320-GB HDD for laptops which is expected to be put on sale in February, 2008, informs Reg Hardware.
Winchester MHZ2 BH weights about 100 g, is equipped with 8 MB of buffer storage and SPI SATA with throughput in 3 Gbit/second.
HDD is capable to carry load impact in 900g in the [...]
At the beginning of 2008 Nvidia puts on sale new generation videocards
4 December 2007Corporation Nvidia next February is going to put on the market new generation videocards - GeForce 9, informs Internet-edition Digitimes.
Videocard D9E from the line of GeForce 9 will be created according to 65-nanometer technological process. It will support DirectX 10.1 and shaders of 4.1versions.
Cheaper version of GeForce 9 - D9P, will appear on sale [...]
Europeans give preference to Blu-ray
30 November 2007Europeans, as well as Americans, give preference to Blu-ray High Definition format, which has been shown by the statistical data. From the beginning of the year more than 1 million Blu-ray-disks (BD) has been sold in Europe, that has made about 73 % of all sold high definition carriers. HD DVD sales have made 27 [...]
Nokia patents new technology of slider’s opening
28 November 2007Nokia develops a new way of mobile phone’s opening with side displacement of the display (so-called Sidekick).
Unlike existing solutions, for example, communicators HTC Shift or TyTN II, in Nokia’s concept the display doesn’t need all surfaces above the keyboard. At the left and to the right of it there are free areas. The area [...]
New Norton for smartphones: for Symbian OS and Windows Mobile
27 November 2007On Tuesday, November, 20, 2007, Symantec has declared release of the protective product for smartphones, Norton Smartphone Security. The software package – common for Symbian OS 9 and Windows Mobile 5 and 6 – includes an antivirus, a fire wall and spam filter for SMS.
The product is offered at the price of $29,99. In [...]
BBK represents the first Full HD-TV
26 November 2007BBK Electronics has declared the beginning of production its LCD-TV with support of resolution 1920 Ñ… 1080 pixels - LT4233HD with diagonal in 42 inches.
The device supports Full HD-resolution and can reproduce HDTV. The TV is equipped at once with two universal digital interfaces HDMI that allows to connect simultaneously two sources of [...]
Mobiles phone: “Super 3G” approaches
23 November 2007In 2012 almost 1,5 billion cellular phones will be sold throughout the world, and the most marketable devices will be “Super 3G” which will support HSDPA, HSUPA, HSOPA and other newest technologies in the networks of the third and the subsequent generations. In 5 years such phones will take 35,8 % of all mobile market [...]
LG works above Full HD-TV with built-in Wi-Fi
19 November 2007LG has promulgated some information about one of its LCD-TVs. Engadget informes that the new 52-inch model 52LG71 will be “the first-ever Full HD-TV with integrated Wi-Fi-module” - declare in the company. Built-in Wi-Fi- module will allow to accept streaming video from a computer or POP in the house or an apartment.
Besides Wi-Fi, the [...]
AMD has announced the new graphic processor: FireStream
16 November 2007AMD has presented the new graphic processor intended for complex calculations in scientific-industrial sphere, installation to workstations, servers and high-end personal computers of various assignment.
The new chip named FireStream is based on 55-nanometer tech-process, includes 660 million transistors and 320 computation modules and works with a speed 500 GigaFLOPS (Billion Floating-Point Operations per Second). [...]
InFocus PlayBig IN1: budgetary projector for gamers
14 November 2007American manufacturer of projectors, company InFocus has presented the new product - PlayBig IN1.
The new compact and inexpensive DLP-projector is mainly intended for game devices. Weighting about 6 lbs, it is able to display the image in 315 x 210 inches with resolution 640 x 480 pixels. As an entering signal there can be [...]
