April 17, 2012 Featured, Internet, Technology
Some days ago Mozilla announced its plans to add video chat functionality to Firefox. According to LiveSide Microsoft also works on an in-browser version of Skype. That app will not require any additional software like Silverligh or Flash and will be based on HTML5 and JavaScript. There is no information about release date but it [...]
According to LG’s officials the company has been already ready to ship first batch of 6-inch 1024×768px flexible e-ink displays. In Europe the first e-books equipped with these displays will become available in April. Besides of flexibility these screens are very lightweight and thin – 14g and 0.7mm respectively. In near future LG also plans [...]
Last week Commodore officially announced new compact computer – Amiga Mini. In spite of the tiny size it has very impressive specifications. The computer has 3.5GHz Sandy Bridge Core i7 processor, 16GB RAM, NVIDIA GeForce GT 430 graphics accelerator, 1TB hard drive, Wi-Fi, two DVI ports, DisplayPort, HDMI, USB 3.0, 7-chanel audio output. The [...]
March 1, 2012 Featured, Technology
As it was expected today Microsoft released public beta-version of its new operating system. Windows 8 Consumer Preview has been already available to download here. The build works with x86 systems, but till the moment of release Windows 8 will get ARM architecture support. This version will be optimized for tablet computers and will have [...]
Raspberry Pi Foundation has just announced its computer to be released in next few weeks. Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer combining small size with good price. It is equipped with 700MHz ARM processor, 256MB RAM, SD memory card, Wi-Fi, HDMI, Ethernet, two USB ports. The operating system is Linux. Raspberry Pi has been already [...]
February 6, 2012 Tablet, Technology
This year AMD is going to start shipping of processors for tablet computers. In 2012 AMD will release Hondo chip. It is built on the 40nm node and has two Bobcat cores, built-in Radeon HD 6000 graphics accelerator with DirectX 11 support. This processor will feature extremely low power consumption – TDP will not exceed [...]
Some month ago Microsoft promised to release a version of Kinect controller compatible with Windows. Today this device became available in 12 countries – Australia, UK, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Canada, Mexico, New Zeeland, US, France and Japan. Moreover Microsoft released a final version of SDK for this controller. In US Kinect for Windows series operating [...]
December 8, 2011 Featured, Technology
Microsoft announced that right after the release of Windows 8 beta that is scheduled on February, 2012 it will launch Windows Store online apps shop. Windows Store will be integrated into Windows 8 and will be translated into 100 languages. The UI of this apps shop will be designed in Metro style that is used [...]
November 23, 2011 Android, Smartphone, Technology
According All Things Digital Facebook is working on its smartphone. The device will be produced by HTC that has been already released two smartphones featuring multifunctional Facebook button – HTC Salsa and HTC ChaCha. This code name of this device is Buffy. It will run on a modified version of Android OS and will be [...]
November 9, 2011 Featured, Tablet, Technology
Today NVIDIA officially introduced its new system-on-chip platform. NVIDIA Tegra 3 features four 1.3GHz cores and one additional 500MHz core used for not resource-intensive tasks. Moreover to optimize power consumption the system can switch of one, two or three main CPU cores if they are not needed. New generation Tegra platform has 12 GeForce graphic [...]
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