Archive for September 2006

Sony Cyber-Shot DSC-T50 (black)

Lately, it seems as if Sony is putting out a new T-series camera every other week. The newest addition to this hip line of snapshooters is the Cyber Shot DSC-T50. Like the T30, it features a 7.2-megapixel CCD sensor; optical image stabilization; a 3X optical, 38mm-to-114mm (35mm equivalent), f/3.5-to-f/4.3 zoom lens; and sensitivity of as high

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Top 5 Reasons why ipod and Zune could Kill Blu-ray, HD DVD and even The DV

Are we assisting to the birth of the real battle for the next generation of movies for our home theaters? With the announcement by Apple of the availability of movies on their itune library and the release this fall of the Zune from Microsoft, we have the right to believe so.

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HP iPaq rx5900 Travel Companion

It’s been a while since we were excited about any handheld device from HP; don’t get us wrong, the company has produced a solid line of PDAs over the years, but they’ve all been pretty status quo–until now. Today, the company introduced its HP iPaq rx5900 Travel Companion–a sexy and sleek handheld that not only offers the benefits of a Windows Mo

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Alan Wake Quad CPU Tech Demo

The guys from Remedy Entertainment (Max Payne, Max Payne 2) demo their new game, Alan Wake, on an overclocked Quad-Core Intel platform during the Intel Developers Forum. A must see for all gamers and hardware heads.

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Intel admitted the existence of SSE4 instructions

Current Intel Core architecture supports part of it, but not all.

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TV Screens and computer screens might be replaced by thin air(Helio Screen)

A Chad Diner creates a Helio Display display which projects images on to condensed air and the future might bring an interactive capability (a virtual touch screen.)

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Is the WiFi Revolution Underway?

“The explosion of YouTube has shown that consumers really are going to be viewing content over the Internet,” said ABI Research Director for Digital Home Mike Wolf. “It makes sense to get that content from the PC to the TV.” That bridge between PC and TV is seen by some as a key driver of WiFi’s expansion into consumer electronics products.

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Sun building fastest supercomputer with AMD cpus for University of Texas.

A system built by Sun Microsystems Inc. with microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will be part of a supercomputer the University of Texas at Austin will build using a $59 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

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Engine on a chip drives laptops

Batteries and fuel cells are established contenders to power laptops and mobile phones, but now researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have come up with a novel approach to the power conundrum - by building an engine on a chip.

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Intel announces plans to launch 4-core microprocessor in late 2006

Intel Corp. plans to begin shipping microprocessors that have four computing engines on a single chip - products that analysts say will help it win back market share from rival Advanced Micro Devices Inc.

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