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Thursday, August 21, 2008
AMD will reportedly release three more graphics cards for the mainstream and value market segments in September.
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The Hi Def disc markets in both the USA and Europe continue to perform in line with expectations, a recent report says.
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To give a more realistic driving experience on Wii, Logitech announced the Logitech Speed Force Wireless racing wheel ? the first force feedback wheel for the popular gaming platform.
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Starting in 2009, all of DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc's films will be in next-generation 3-D.
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AMD released Catalyst 8.8 and introduces new Avivo video features and Hybrid Graphics support for Windows XP.
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Apple has issued a software update for the latest iPhone to help fix connection problems that led to a flurry of online complaints from customers.
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Sony has developed a high-power, short-wavelength red semiconductor laser array diode, ideal for use as a light source in projection devices.
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Palm unveiled a Treo smartphone Wednesday based on Microsoft software to compete for business users against rivals such as RIM's BlackBerry.
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Yahoo said on Wednesday it is working with Intel to create Web computer channels that run alongside TV shows.
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Sony announced a new version of its Playstation Portable handheld games console that can be used as a telephone, to go on sale in Europe and the United States in mid-October.
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The U.S. based DPHI, Inc. dba DataPlay has received the approval to purchase the assets and intellectual property of DaTARIUS worldwide and resume operations immediately.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Internet users suspected of sharing music, films and games over the Internet will be pursued through the courts for damages, lawyers for entertainment companies said on Wednesday.
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Electronic Arts set a launch date of February 20, 2009 for the latest installment of its biggest-selling franchise, the Sims, on Wednesday.
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A new specification for the popular Serial ATA storage interface will double the maximum transfer speed from three to six gigabits per second (Gb/s).
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Toshiba Matsushita Display Technology working in joint development with Idemitsu Kosan completed a new organic EL element featuring low power consumption and extended lifetime.
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Tuesday, August 19, 2008
IBM and its joint development partners - AMD, Freescale, STMicroelectronics, Toshiba and the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) - today announced the first working static RAM (SRAM) for the 22 nm technology node, the world's first reported working cell built at its 300mm research facility in Albany, NY.
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OCZ Technology Group, Inc. today unveiled the newest addition to their industry-leading OCZ Core Series SATA II 2.5" Solid State Drives. The Core Series has established OCZ as a pioneer in the SSD market by offering consumers the benefits of solid drive technology at an affordable price.
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Philips & Lite-On Digital Solutions (PLDS) is introducing a new generation of 4 different DVD writers, all with 22X writing speeds and a unique data erasing feature for DVD±R (DL) and CD-R discs.
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Toshiba announced its new video enhancement technology for DVD with the introduction of the XD-E500. XDE, or "eXtended Detail Enhancement," a technology that offer more than just DVD upconversion, the company claims.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Fujifilm today announces the introduction of the FinePix S2000HD, a compact and lightweight 10 megapixel digital camera with an incredible 15x optical zoom lens and HD movie recording and output.
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Elpida Memory today announced that it had developed the world's first 2.5Gbps (bit per second) 1-gigabit DDR3 SDRAM. The new memory device has an optimized design based on a copper interconnect process and new circuit technology that not only enables faster speeds but also an ultra-low voltage operation of 1.2V while conforming to DDR3 specifications.
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Intel's latest chips will conserve more power than the company's current processors and deliver vastly faster graphics images as the chipmaker seeks to push its technology beyond just PCs.
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AMD today announced the world?s fastest graphics card, the ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2, advancing visual computing ever closer to eye-definition computing gaming and cinematic experiences and delivering a whopping 2.4 teraFLOPS of processing power.
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Thursday, August 07, 2008
Toshiba Corporation today announced the launch of 32GB embedded NAND flash memory modules that offer the largest density yet announced plus full compliance with the e-MMC and eSD standards.
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OCZ Technology Group, Inc. today announced all new "P45 Special" 4GB modules, a module density optimized specifically for Intel's latest chipset.
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Nikon UK announced its new top-of-the-line Performance series COOLPIX model, the P6000, Nikon's first camera with built-in GPS.
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After the release of 8x Blu-ray burner BRD-SP8, I-O Data released an external version (BRD-UXP8 ) that also provides a burning speed of 8x.
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Microsoft Corp. today announced the release to manufacturing of Microsoft SQL Server 2008, the new version of the company's acclaimed data management and business intelligence platform.
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Dell has met its carbon neutral goal ahead of schedule, achieving a major milestone in its commitment to be the 'greenest' technology company on the planet.
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Wednesday, August 06, 2008
Elpida Memory, Inc. (Elpida) announced today that it is ready to launch 16-gigabyte Fully Buffered DIMM (FB-DIMM), the world's largest capacity FB-DIMM.
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Olympus and Panasonic today announced joint development of technologies and devices for the "Micro Four Thirds System standard," a new standard that extends the benefits of the 4/3 System standard for interchangeable lens type digital camera systems by enabling dramatic reductions in size and weight.
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New widescreen modes provide maximum triple-display desktop space for gaming enthusiasts and professionals
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AMD today announced the availability of the industry's preeminent performance desktop platform, the AMD 790GX.
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008
Intel is presenting a paper at the SIGGRAPH 2008 industry conference in Los Angeles on Aug. 12 that describes features and capabilities of its first-ever forthcoming "many-core" blueprint or architecture codenamed "Larrabee."
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Micron Technology, Inc., today introduced its next-generation RealSSD solid state drives (SSDs) for enterprise computing and notebook applications.
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Sony Ericsson is launching a limited edition Titanium silver C902 Cyber-shot phone as used by James Bond in the eagerly awaited QUANTUM OF SOLACE which will be released worldwide November 2008.
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Monday, August 04, 2008
NEC Electronics announced that it had developed the world's first single-chip LSI to integrate the main functions of Blu-ray Disc players.
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Nvidia has released an official statement refuting the recent Digitimes story claiming that the company is planning to quit its chipset business.
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The latest next-generation BDP-S350 and BDP-S550 Blu-ray Disc players from Sony provide movie fans with the ultimate full HD home cinema experience and incorporate an amazing range of innovative new features.
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Friday, August 01, 2008
Verbatim is presenting a host of new products in the optical, flash, USB, external HDDs and accessories sectors at IFA 2008.
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Nvidia has reportedly decided to throw in the towel and quit the chipset business, sources close to the situation at one of Taiwan's top motherboard makers have revealed.
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Blu-ray players are not flying off retailers' shelves, at least not in the numbers the industry might hope for.
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Gigabyte has officially unveiled EP45-Extreme motherboard series targeted to overclocking enthusiasts.
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SanDisk launched the new Cruzer Pattern flash memories, available in 1 GB (gray) and 2 GB (black) capacities, which can support U3 technology.
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IEEE has approved IEEE 1394 "Standard for High Performance Serial Bus," offering speeds up to 3.2 Gigabit/second.
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Facebook and Intel announced today that they would work together to optimize Facebook's hardware and software as the company builds out its datacenter infrastructure.
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Hitachi have demonstrated the technical feasibility of magnetic recording at 610Gbit/in2, considerably exceeding the previously demonstrated capabilities of current perpendicular recording technology found in current HDDs.
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Intel's low-cost laptop initiative got a boost Wednesday from Portugal's government, which is pledging to provide elementary school students with 500,000 computers based on the chipmaker's Classmate PC
design.
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Yahoo and Intel and Hewlett Packard on Tuesday announced an alliance to advance "cloud computing," backing a trend that would reduce reliance on packaged software.
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The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) on behalf of the major Hollywood movie studios filed lawsuits in federal court in Los Angeles yesterday against Fomdb.com and Movierumor.com - websites that facilitate copyright infringement on the Internet.
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Nintendo and 54 game software makers on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against distributors of devices that allow unauthorized copies of games to be played on the DS portable game console.
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Imation Ltd. will release its first 6x BD-R and BD-R DL media in Japan next month, under the TDK brand.
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Yahoo will offer coupons or refunds to users who find songs they bought inaccessible after Sept. 30, when the company shuts its Yahoo Music store.
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LG Electronics on Wednesday said this fall it will start selling a new Blu-ray DVD player that will allow Netflix members to watch as many as 12,000 films and TV episodes streamed directly from the Web to their TV sets.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Dell has launched its new line of colorful Studio Hybrid desktop PC that's meant to fit anywhere in the home, packing a small footprint, high-def video, and price tags starting at $499
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Dell has been testing a digital music player that could go on sale as early as September, the Wall Street Journal newspaper said, citing several Dell officials.
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Researchers have presented a method of recording up to 1TB of data in three-dimensions throughout the volume of a standard-size (120mm x 1.2mm) optical disc, which has hundreds of layers.
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Hitachi Global Storage Technologies today introduced two new CinemaStar hard drives optimized for use in digital video recorders (DVRs) and set-top boxes.
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I-O Data is the second Japanese company that plans to ship a 8x Blu-ray burner this month, the new BRD-SP8, based on the Panasonic SW-5584 BD drive.
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LG Electronics and Dolby Laboratories announced that LG would be the first handset maker to incorporate Dolby Mobile into handsets bound for the global market.
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The Americas version (GSM 850/900/1800/1900, HSDPA 850/1900) of the Nokia E71 released in the Nokia Flagship Store in midtown Manhattan on the evening of Thursday, July 24th.
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Nvidia today announced the immediate availability of three new desktop GeForce 9 Series graphics processing units (GPUs) that
bring support for NVIDIA PhysX technology and CUDA
general-purpose parallel computing to mainstream PC computing
markets.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
NewTech Infosystems, Inc. (NTI) released NTI Shadow v4.0, a convenient data backup solution for PC, Mac and network users.
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NXP and STMicroelectronics today announced the closing of the deal bringing together key wireless operations of both companies into ST-NXP Wireless, a deal they announced on April 10th, 2008.
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Intel invites developers and analysts to join the company's Developer Forum that will be held Aug. 19-21, 2008 in Moscone Center West, San Francisco.
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Pioneer's R&D Department has been rewarded at the International Symposium on Optical Memory and Optical Data Storage (ISOM 08) for its successful development of the world's first 16-layer, 400GB optical disc.
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Monday, July 28, 2008
Samsung announced today the addition of HDTV monitors to its recently launched family of "Touch of Color" (ToC) desktop monitors.
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Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC ) announced that it will not start operations in its newly established polycarbonate resin production facility.
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Following the success of the PCI express Xonar DX soundcard, ASUS has responded to audiophile requests for a PCI version with the same exceptional features and value.
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Anna Patterson, the developer of the Internet search technology that Google bought in 2004, released "Cuil", a new search engine that goes live today.
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The Motion Picture Association of America is expected to release a new website that will offer information on where to find legit sources of movies for purchase or rent.
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Friday, July 25, 2008
Hitachi has announced the successor to the DZ-BD9H camcorder, the DZ-BD10H.
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After strong plasma display panel (PDP) shipment growth in Q1?08, units increased 1% Q/Q to 3.5 million units in Q2?08, relatively soft growth due to weaker demand in North America and China in Q1?08, according to the latest DisplayS |