Nvidia announces APX 2500, enters mobile CPU market.
Nvidia has announced the introduction of a new line of processors that they are aiming towards integrated devices. So-called “System on a Chip” units, under various names, offer an easier way to get lots of functionality in a small space. Nvidia's APX 2500 “Application Processor” will be designed to process... Read on »
New Panasonic batteries 'longest lasting,' says Guinness
Japan's Panasonic has created the world's longest-lasting alkaline battery, according to Guinness World Records. Panasonic promises its new Evolta battery cell — whose name is derived from "evolution" and "voltage" — will keep gadgets running 20 per cent longer than offerings from rivals Duracell and Energizer, as well as its... Read on »
Hitachi to form hard drive company with Toshiba, Fujitsu?
Japanese conglomerate, Hitachi, may be in talks with Toshiba and Fujitsu on forming a new company dedicated to hard drives and storage systems. The new company would combine the limping hard drive divisions of Hitachi and Toshiba as well as some of the storage systems technology from Fujitsu. Each would... Read on »
New Li-Ion Battery Holds 10x the Charge of Current Batteries
Stanford researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to reinvent the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries that power laptops, iPods, video cameras,... Read on »
DELL XPS M1730 World of Warcraft Edition Is Here!
In a quest to nail the greatest gaming experience ever, Dell and Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. have joined forces to bring gamers the... Read on »
Global cell phone use at 50 percent
Worldwide mobile telephone subscriptions reached 3.3 billion -- equivalent to half the global population -- on Thursday, 26 years after the first cellular network was launched, research firm Informa said. Since the first Nordic Mobile Telephony (NMT) networks were switched on in 1981 in Saudi Arabia, Sweden and Norway, mobile... Read on »
Nvidia Readies Geforce 9
nVidia is certainly planning on make lots of hay this Christmas, rolling out revisions to its mid-range GeForce 8 series and raking in the cash on the technology it has spent the last few years developing. But one thing is noticeably absent from the firm's Christmas lineup - any signs... Read on »
.LAT to become the new Internet Domain Extension for Latinos
It is official! eCOM-LAC and NIC Mexico, the organizations in charge of pursuing the Internet domain name for Latinos, announced that .LAT as the extension to identify this new domain. The decision for the extension .LAT was made in order to identify, differentiate and add value to the Internet resources... Read on »
HTC ships 1 Million HTC Touch Smartphones in Five Months
Sales of HTC Touch, the touch-controlled smartphone made High Tech Computer (HTC), surpassed one million units at the end of October after the phone was launched in June, according to HTC CEO Peter Chou. Total sales of the HTC Touch lineup, including the HTC Touch Dual and Touch Color, are... Read on »
Infineon, Intel to Develop High-Density SIM Card Solutions
Today at the Cartes Trade Show in Paris, Infineon Technologies announced a strategic technology collaboration for the development of optimized chip solutions for high-density (HD) SIM cards with Intel Corporation. Under the terms of the agreement, Infineon will architect modular chip solutions with Intel offering memory capacities from 4MB to... Read on »
Philips and Lite-on announce $199 Blu-ray drive for the PC
If price is the battleground where the war between Blu-ray and HD DVD will be fought, then Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions fired a new salvo on Tuesday, with the announcement of a $199 drive. Unfortunately, the internal PLDS DH-4O1S drive is not the official answer to the $99 Toshiba... Read on »
AMD announces FireStream 9170, first dedicated stream proces
AMD today announced the AMD FireStream 9170 Stream Processor and an accompanying Software Development Kit (SDK) designed to harness the massive parallel processing power of the graphics processing unit (GPU). AMD leveraged its unique collective expertise in both GPUs and CPUs to deliver the first integrated hardware and software development... Read on »
BenQ New English Name to be 'Qisda'
While BenQ just announced it will change its Chinese name from "Jia Da" to "Jias Da" (transliterated from Chinese) last week, the company recently stated the official English name for the new company will be Qisda, which stands for "quality innovation speed driving and achievements." The new names (Chinese and... Read on »
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