Archive for August, 2008
Friday, August 22nd, 2008
E- BOOK READER
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Are you amongst those who worry about the number of books piled on the shelves at home, but still can’t stop buying new ones? Here comes a solutio from Sony. Its LIBRle E- ink Reader is a slim, pocket-sized electronic devices that can store up to 200 megabytes (about 160 books of average size)
accounting to [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Yahoo launches iPhone-optimized search site
Earlier this week, Yahoo rolled out a new mobile search site designed specifically for use on Apple’s iPhone and iPod Touch devices. Some background information was provided by Yahoo developer Ryan Grove on his blog.
Grove explained that he wanted to make as few concessions and compromises as possible when it came to bringing Yahoo search [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Hitachi announces a new storage services platform
Hitachi Data Systems on Friday introduced Universal Storage Platform V (USP V), an all-new storage services platform with a 3.5 million input output operations per second (IOPS) of maximum performance. The platform increases virtualized storage port performance for external storage by up to 500 percent over its predecessor.
“The USP V takes performance to [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Intel Nehalem – Not built for gaming
IDF has started and the first benchmarks of Nehalem are going to start popping up. It is without a doubt an impressive architecture with a much better platform to run on, but this CPU is not about giving you better frames per second in your favorite game than the Penryn family. [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
Wi-Fi in cable set-top boxes coming
Cable TV providers are planning to add wireless to their set-top boxes, according to panelists at a recent Connect event sponsored by Park Associates and the CEA.
A report in EE Times say cable companies like Cox Communications are planning to deliver signals to home via coaxial cable, and then add a wireless link for [...]
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Friday, August 22nd, 2008
BlackBerry Bold debuts in North America
The long-awaited BlackBerry Bold, or BlackBerry 9000, made its North American debut Thursday on Rogers Wireless in Canada.
The Bold is a souped-up version of the BlackBerry Curve model, which has sold well in the U.S. on all four major carriers. This new and improved BlackBerry is supposed to have a superior screen resolution [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
PEN-LIKE USB FLASH DRIVES
Sony’s Micro Vault “Click”USB drives have no caps to lose and do not expose the USB connectors when not in use. Their unique design employs a clicking action similar to that of a retractable pen.
When clicked, the USB connecter is extended for easy use with computers, televisions or any electronic device that utilises USB port [...]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
IBM, University of Toronto To Build Canada’s Most Powerful Supercomputer
In a joint effort, IBM and The University of Toronto SciNet consortium are creating Canada’s most powerful supercomputer, capable of processing up to 360 trillion calculations per second and storing 60 times more data than the Library of Congress Web archive.
The supercomputer is expected to be among the top 20 fastest supercomputers in the [...]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Intel Releases USB 3.0 Interface Specifications
Intel has released a draft specification revision 0.9 for the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI). The revision, released Wednesday, comes in support of USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB. The draft specification provides a standard method for USB 3.0 host controllers to communicate with the USB 3.0 software stack.
One important factor in [...]
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Sunday, August 17th, 2008
Intel Sticks With ‘Core’ Competency For Nehalem Branding
Intel made it official Sunday—the upcoming Nehalem microarchitecture “tock” will retain the successful Core brand with the first Nehalem processors for PCs to be called Core i7, including an “Extreme Edition” chip due out before the end of the year, according to Intel.
Intel’s metronomic “tick-tock” technology road map includes die shrinks like last year’s [...]