Archive for October, 2007
Three new liquid-crystal monitors from Asus: 19, 20 and 22 inches
16 October 2007Asustek has announced three new liquid-crystal monitors display image size in 19, 20 and 22 inches.
The first model - VW198 - supports resolution 1680 x 1050 pixels (WSXGA +), is equipped with built-in stereo loud speakers with capacity in 1 watt, interfaces VGA and DVI. In the monitor firm technology ASCR (ASUS Smart Contrast Ratio [...]
Samsung has created tiny high resolution OLED-display
15 October 2007Samsung SDI, which is a member of Samsung Group, has developed 3 inches light-emitting diode display, which can support the resolution in 800 x 480 pixels. For comparison, resolution of modern OLED-displays with such sizes makes 320 x 240 pixels that is approximately four times less. An increase of resolution became possible due to compression [...]
New eight-color photoprinter A3 + from Epson
11 October 2007Epson represents a new photoprinter - Stylus Photo R1900, with new technology of image processing and economic system of separate cartridges Epson UltraChrome Hi-Gloss2.
Besides blue, purple and yellow inks, UltraChrome Hi-Gloss2 contain matte black, photo black, red and orange cartridges, and also a cartridge with colorless glossy polymer - that is eight colors. It [...]
Hitachi has developed 100 GB Blu-ray-disk
10 October 2007The Japanese manufacturer of electronics, Hitachi has informed about the development of four-layer Blu-ray-disk, containing 100 GB that is twice higher than capacity of the standard drive, informs PCPRO.co.uk.
Companies TDK and Panasonic have informed earlier, that they have managed to achieve similar recording density, but developed by them disks demanded special optical heads for reading. [...]
Microsoft has started to create updates for pirate Windows
9 October 2007Microsoft for the first time has created updating for the programs available for owners of pirate Windows copies.
Updating to browser Internet Explorer 7 will not check legality of the operational system. Thus, the company is going to reduce number of the users, who prefer competing programs.
Microsoft has created an update to the browser Internet [...]
The pocket translator will teach Japanese
8 October 2007Companies Sharp and IBM have presented the English-Japanese translator with the function of speech recognition. The device similar in appearance to a pocket computer, works simply. If you have arrived to Japan, speak only English and need urgently to learn something from local people, you will need only to say the question in a microphone [...]
Mobile Crossing Waypoint 200 - the automobile pocket computer-based GPS-navigator
5 October 2007The novelty is constructed on the basis of a usual pocket computer equipped with Intel XScale PXA260 processor with clock frequency in 400М Hz, 64MB RAM and 128MB ROM, 3,5-inch touch TFT-display (resolution 320х240 points), video controller nVidia MQ1188 and CF, SD and MMC memory slots. Waypoint 200 is supplied with an external GPS Bluetooth-module, [...]
Samsung has produced cell phone with two SIM-cards
4 October 2007Samsung has presented phone DuoS (D880) which can work with two SIM-cards simultaneously.
Both cards can be used simultaneously for receiving and making calls, sending of text messages. At the same time the user can choose at any moment, which from 2 SIM-cards to use.
Main feature of Samsung DuoS (D880), which favorably distinguishes it from [...]
The hybrid of a mouse and a keyboard
3 October 2007Japanese company Sanwa has produced a mouse with built-in digital keyboard NT-MA2.
The device looks as the medium-sized manipulator (53 Ñ… 108 Ñ… 33 millimeters) with a scroll wheel and two standard buttons.
On free surface of a mouse there are 19 buttons similar to those of the additional digital keyboard.
NT-MA2 is intended for the [...]
Laptop ASUS W5Fe: hundreds of hours without additional charge
2 October 2007ASUS has recently produced a line of laptops W5. Version W5A is equipped with processors Pentium-M, and W5F is constructed on Core Duo nucleus. Now you will learn about one more unusual novelty in W5 line.
Model W5Fe is equipped with the external LCD-display. Even if this laptop is turned off, the screen can:
Give out the [...]
