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Monday, October 06, 2008
Lite-On today officially introduced its 6X internal Blu-ray Disc Combo drive, iHES206. The new Blu-ray Disc reader / DVD-writer provides an all-in-one solution to playback high-definition content, while maintaining the capability of archiving data onto CD and DVD.
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Sony has unveiled a prototype OLED (organic light emitting diode) television that's less than a millimeter thin. The actual size of the TV is 0.9mm thick while the panel is 0.3mm thick which is two thirds smaller than their 11" OLED TV which is currently on sale in the USA, Europe and Japan.
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Elpida Memory, Inc., Japan's global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory announced today that it has developed a shrunken version of its 1-gigabit DDR2 SDRAM that delivers 20% more chips from a single 300mm wafer.
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Japanese Taiyo Yuden had on display at the Ceatec show in Japan the industry's first LTH Blu-ray media that support recording at 4x.
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Friday, October 03, 2008
Xbox 360 outsold PlayStation 3 in Japan in September, beating the rival machine in monthly unit sales for the first time in Sony's home market, a game magazine publisher said.
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Nokia launched its "Comes with Music " free music package on Thursday, issuing a challenge to Apple's dominance of the digital music market.
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Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. has developed a new blue laser diode powerful enough to offer multi-layer recording on Blu-ray discs at speeds of up to 12x.
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Thursday, October 02, 2008
Kingston Technology Company, Inc. today announced the release of 2GHz HyperX DDR3 memory modules, the fastest-performing DDR3 available to date.
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LG announced the official launch of its LG-KC910, a slim yet feature-packed full touchscreen 8 megapixel multimedia phone. This artistic new handset, known as Renoir, goes on sale in Europe in early October and has a large palate of features like Wi-Fi, Dolby Mobile from Dolby Laboratories, Inc., and camera capabilities that even surpass those found on standalone digital cameras.
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InstaPort port switching technology by Silicon Image will be featured in Samsung's next generation DTVs and is currently under evaluation at nine ten DTV manufacturers for next year's models.
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AMD hopes to regain a competitive edge later this year with the release of its first 45nm server chip code-named Shanghai next month.
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NEC announced today the launch of its new 24" MultiSync EA241WM widescreen LCD monitor and 19" MultiSync EA191M standard-format LCD monitor. These are the 3rd and 4th MultiSync EA Series products to be introduced, following the launch of the 26" EA261WM in June and 22" EA221WM in September.
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EVGA released today the latest EVGA-designed addition to its line of high-performance 3-Way-SLI-ready mother-boards, the EVGA nForce 790i SLI FTW DIGITAL.
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Five Hollywood studios have agreed to help for the deployment of digital projection systems to nearly 20,000 movie theatre screens across North America, capable of showing movies in 3-D.
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GEAR Software today officially release of GEARWorks SDK version 3.55 for Mac OS X.
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Fujitsu is reportedly in talks with Wstern Digital to sell its hard-disk-drive business the Nihon Keizai Shimbun newspaper reported on Wednesday.
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Five years after the Recording Industry of America (RIAA) began its massive litigation campaign against music fans suspected of sharing copyrighted music files over the Internet, the campaign has failed to get artists paid or reduce peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing.
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Shuttle announced today the XPC Barebone SP35P2, a Mini-PC that is targeted at enthusiastic users and gamers.
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Nintendo announced today the release of the DSi, a new version of its popular DS handheld console next month, which comes with a built-in camera and enhanced audio capabilities.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Creative Technology Ltd. today announced the new Creative Inspire T3200 and Creative Inspire T6200 speaker systems.
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BenQ's new S6 Mobile Internet Device (MID) offer notebook-grade surfing in the palm of your hand.
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WD today introduced its new WD ShareSpace high-speed network storage systems that provide cost-effective, centralized storage for small office and home networks.
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Blu-Con 1.0, a one-day summit for Blu-ray developers, marketers and producers, will be held December 8 at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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Effective today, October 1, 2008, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. has become Panasonic Corporation and its ticker symbol on the New York Stock Exchange has been changed to PC from MC.
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I-O Data Device Ltd. today announced the internal BRD-SH8B and the external BRD-UH8 8x Blu-ray burners, both scheduled to retail in Japan by the end of October.
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RealNetworks and Hollywood studios on Tuesday entered into a legal battle over RealDVD, a software that allows consumers to make computer copies of DVDs that the studios claim is illegal.
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
TSMC , the world's biggest contract chip maker, said on Tuesday it would start using advanced 28-nanometer technology in early 2010 to produce CPUs, graphic processors and chips used in gadgets.
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The stocked HD DVD players and HD DVD movies in the inventory of some retailers in the U.S combined with their very low price have breathed new life into Toshiba's HD DVD format.
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LG Electronics announces the launch of LG KP500 with an affordable introduction price never offered before. This attractively-priced full touch screen handset is complete with the latest touch technology and features found in the existing high-end full touch screen handsets currently available on the market.
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Corsair today expands its Flash Voyager USB family lines with a new 64GB capacity offering.
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The SCSI Trade Association (STA), a member-run industry association established to support and promote SCSI technology, announced today that the next generation of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is ready to enter the enterprise storage market after five years of research and development.
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Fulfilling demand for users that require a motherboard able to achieve high overclocking capability, Asus has unveiled the new ASUS P6T DELUXE motherboard.
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At Ceatec 2008, Japanese Pioneer Electronics has on display a new half-height Blu-ray bunrer prototype, the company's first to support 8x recording for Blu-ray.
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AT&T, Viacom, NBC Universal, Cisco, Microsoft and the songwriters Guild of America are among the founding members of a organization that will encourage the development of legal content in the internet.
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SanDisk is bringing to market its 16GB microSDHC and Memory Stick Micro (M2) mobile memory cards - the world?s largest removable storage capacity for mobile phones.
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IBM, Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd. Samsung Electronics, Co., Ltd., and ARM will develop a 32 nanometer (nm) and 28nm Systems-on-a-Chip (SoCs) design platform based on high-k metal-gate (HKMG) technology from the IBM-led joint-development alliance.
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Super Talent Technology today launched a pair of new high quality SATA-II SSDs that shatter previous price barriers.
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Sprint Nextel opened its new wireless network to customers in Baltimore on Monday, offering Internet service for laptops for $45 per month.
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Microsoft today provided the first look at the next version of its developer tools and platform, which will be named Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0.
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Sharp will introduce into the Japanese market two new models in the AQUOS X Series of LCD TVs that feature Sharp?s newly developed, next-generation MegaASV LCD technology.
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AMD today announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 4550 and ATI Radeon HD 4350 graphics cards, providing mainstream-class PC game performance at a value price.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
The term "cloud computing" is being loosely applied and defined differently, and it's creating a lot of confusion in the market, according to Gartner, Inc.
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MSI brings a new Gaming Notebook to the market: the GX630.
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Roxio today announced the retail availability of Roxio Creator 2009 Ultimate Edition, a premium version of the company's digital media suite.
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Nokia is expected to release its first touch-screen phone code-named "Tube" next week in a direct challenge to Apple's successful iPhone
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Nintendo reportedly plans to launch a new model of its DS handheld device that will be equiped with a digital camera will play music, the Nikkei business daily reported on Sunday.
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Victor Company of Japan, Limited (JVC) expands its line of D-ILA home theater projectors with the launch of two new full high-definition models.
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Apple is offering an unlocked version of the iPhone 3G in Hong Kong, allowing consumers to use it with any mobile phone carrier.
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Nero debuts today two new additions to its product portfolio: Nero Move it and Nero LiquidTV | TiVo PC. In addition, Nero launches Nero 9, the latest version of the popular digital media sui
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Samsung announced today that it is sampling the 50nm 2Gb DDR3 devices, which enable use of up to 16 gigabyte (GB) of registered in-line memory modules.
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Friday, September 26, 2008
Fujifilm announced a radical departure from current imaging systems with the development of a completely new, real image system (3D digital camera, 3D digital photo frame, 3D print).
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Oracle will start selling computer hardware for the first time, signaling an ambition to become more than a one-stop shop for business software.
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OCZ Technology Group today unveiled the "HydroFlow" HF-MK1 Waterblock for CPU watercooling.
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The Blu-ray format will live on despite the recent reports of its imminent demise, Sony struggled to comment today, following the recent reports that predicted the near-term demise of the Blu-ray Disc format.
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Asus will be adding 3.75G connectivity to its popular series of Eee PC netbooks, enabling high-speed access to the Internet anywhere.
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Toshiba today announced enhancements to its line-up of NAND-flash-based solid state drives (SSD) with the addition of a 256GB SSD and the launch of a series of small-sized Flash Modules for netbook computers ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs).
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Hitachi Ltd claims that it has developed a new software-based technology that can enhance the resolution of video making comparable to high definition.
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
MySpace, the world's largest social networking site, on Wednesday unveiled a long-expected joint venture with all four major music companies.
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Wireless chipmaker Broadcom won a patent battle on
Wednesday, as a U.S. appeals court affirmed that
Qualcomm Inc infringed two patents used to make some
of the world's most sophisticated cell phones and
upheld an injunction.
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Google has released a kit for software developers to
create programs for the "G-phone" due out next month
in a direct challenge to Apple's hot-selling iPhone.
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Toshiba today expanded its 1.8-inch lineup with the MKxx29GSG series which include three new high-capacity, Serial ATA HDDs for mobile PC applications.
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S3 Graphics today announced the Chrome 400 Ultra Low
Power (ULP) mobile graphics processor series, boasting a low power draw.
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Nvidia released a new WHQL-certified graphics card driver, the GeForce 178.13.
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Lite-On IT has reportedly obtained orders from Japan-based Plextor to manufacture a 20x DVD burner, the PX-806SA, with shipments to begin in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to industry
sources in Taiwan.
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Hitachi has made available anti-counterfeiting functionalities on memory chips without microprocessor such as memory cards, tickets or cartridges.
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Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Record labels, music publishers, songwriters and online music services have reached an agreement on how to compensate music creators for online distribution of their content, they said.
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At Photokina 2008, companies announced the Metadata Working Group, an organization formed in 2007 dedicated to solving interoperability issues that make finding, organizing and searching for digital photos a challenge.
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Sony today took the wraps off an ultra-light computer with Blu-ray Disc technology - the VAIO TT Series notebook. Housed in a lightweight carbon-fiber chassis, this new model weighs just 2.87 pounds and is less than 1-inch thin.
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Panasonic has developed the world's first 3D full HD Plasma Theater System, which enables the viewing of 3D images by using a 103-inch plasma television and a Blu-ray Disc (BD) player, distributing full high-definition images to
left eye and right eye.
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Adobe released the Adobe Creative Suite 4 product family, which includes includes Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design editions, Creative Suite 4 Web editions, Creative Suite 4 Production Premium, Creative Suite 4 Master Collection, as well as 13 point products, 14 integrated technologies and seven services.
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Research In Motion is preparing to launch the long anticipated touch-screen version of its BlackBerry smartphone, according to an official promotion e-mail from U.S. carrier Verizon Wireless.
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