GeIL unveils DDR3 Gaming series EVO ONE memory line-up
GeIL has just announced a whole new family of DDR3 dual and triple channel memory kits, the Gaming series EVO ONE. As the name suggest, the 2, 3, 4 and 6GB kits make use of modules equipped with the EVO ONE heatspreader which feature Maximized Thermal & Conduction Dissipation (MTCD) technology. The fresh memory goes from 1066 MHz to 2000 MHz (dual-channel kits) and reaches 2133 MHz (triple channel offer), and is offered with a lifetime warranty.
The specs of the Gaming series EVO ONE kits can be seen below, no prices though as they have not been revealed.
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Nokia announces Point & Find info service
Finnish mobile phone heavyweight, Nokia has today launched Point & Find, a service which enables people to find information on various topics by simply pointing their phone to objects and taking a photo. Accessible in beta form in the US and UK, Point & Find uses image processing and recognition technologies to provide information on the things captured - for example taking a picture of a movie poster will quickly give the user links to trailers, cinemas playing it and such. Nokia's service also recognizes bar codes, integrates GPS positioning technology, and supports category-specific text-entry search so as to deliver even more relevant content.
"With Nokia Point & Find, businesses are able to target engaging experiences and calls-to-action to consumers. We believe that this first Nokia Point & Find-based service for movies will add something special to the cinema experience. Simply by pointing their camera phone at a poster for a new movie, people can watch the trailer, read reviews, and find the closest cinema where it is playing," said Philipp Schloter, General Manager, Nokia Point & Find.
To give Point & Find a try check out this page.
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ArcSoft offers CUDA-enhanced video upscaling
ArcSoft has just released the retail version of SimHD, a plug-in for the TotalMedia Theatre media player which enables users to upscale standard-definition video to near high-definition quality. Featuring CUDA support, SimHD is able to utilize GeForce GPUs to give more power for its post processing algorithms and thus speed up the upscaling process.
"Our newly released upscaling technology, ArcSoft SimHD, is available now in retail to allow viewers to obtain an HD-like viewing experience on the PC from the existing standard DVDs,أ¢آ€آ said George Tang, ArcSoft Vice President and General Manager of Video and Home Entertainment Group. "The partnership with Nvidia is an important step for us in delivering such an extraordinary experience to users with extremely sufficient power usage.أ¢آ€آ
The SimHD plug-in weights in just 5MB but costs $19.95.
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Silicon Power unveils Touch 820 flash drive
Memory maker Silicon Power has just revealed its newest Touch series flash drive, the Touch 820. Seen below, the drive comes in 2, 4 and 8GB capacities and features a 360أ‚آ° swivel-guard lid that protects the gold fingers of the USB connector. The Touch 820 weights just 1.5 grams and measures 36.2 (L) x 12.5 (W) x 4 (H) mm thanks to the use of the Chip-On-Board technology, is waterproof, vibration-proof and dust-proof, and is RoHS compliant.
Yet unpriced, Silicon Power's Touch 820 is backed by a lifetime warranty.
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Buffalo readies 1.5, 2, 4TB external drives
Buffalo has just revealed that it is preparing to update its external hard drive line-up with seven high-capacity models. All set for a release later this month, the new models are:
- 2TB HD-CEU2 series USB 2.0 drive (priced at $427)
- 1.5TB HD-CEIU2 series USB 2.0/FireWire 400 drive ($234)
- 2TB HD-CEIU2 series USB 2.0/FireWire 400 drive ($450)
- 1.5TB HD-CELU2 series USB 2.0/Ethernet 10/100Mbps drive ($244)
- 2TB HD-CELU2 series USB 2.0/Ethernet 10/100Mbps drive ($460)
- 2TB HD-MIBSU2 series USB2.0/eSATA/FireWire 400/FireWire 800 drive ($524)
- 4TB (2 x 2TB config) HD-WSU2 series USB 2.0 drive ($858)
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Firefox 3, IE7 play tag at the top of the European browser market
According to the statistics provided by StatCounter, last week Mozilla's Firefox 3 managed to surpass Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 and be the number one browser in Europe. Firefox 3 reached the top spot on Saturday when it had a market share of 36.16%, as opposed to IE7's 35.1$, and increased its lead by going to 37.15% on Sunday. Of course, putting together the market share of IE6, 7 and 8 makes Internet Explorer the top dogg again but it's still a great win for Mozilla's open source browser.
Moving to this week, Firefox 3 went down, with yesterday's numbers putting it at 34.32%, while IE7 held strong at 34.01% and the statistics for today show FF3 slipping to 33% and IE7 jumping to 36%. Nothing to worry about, the Old Continent has a lot of love for open source (and IE alternatives in general).
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Super Talent intros RAIDDrive PCIe solid state drives
Hot on the heels of OCZ, Super Talent has now announced the RAIDDrive family of PCI-Express-based solid state drives. Coming with PCIe x8 connectivity, the RAIDDrives make use of MLC (multi-level cell) or SLC (single-level cell) NAND flash memory, support up to 2TB in storage, have onboard DRAM memory as cache and are said to offer sequential read and write speeds of up to 1.2 GB/s and 1.3 GB/s.
The RAIDDrive line-up is broken down in three:
- RAIDDrive ES - Enterprise Servers performing compute intensive applications such as database transaction processing, business intelligence, and virtualization.
- RAIDDrive WS - Workstation users performing tasks including animation, video editing, oil and gas exploration, CAD/EDA simulation, and scientific computing,
- RAIDDrive GS - Gamers looking to supercharge their IO Subsystem
... and for now, has no release date, not to mention price tags.
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Wikia Search dies in vein
The creator of Wikipedia attempted to start up a new search service, Wikia Search a while back. But, as of yesterday, the man himself, Jimmy Wales pointed out that it's just not working for him, so he's shutting down the service, basically because he feels he just can not compete with the search goliath Google. "It's not working" so he says on his blog.
Some people have attempted to claim these new search services such as "Wikia Search" as Google Killers, but it seems that none of these so-called Google Killers can kill the beast.
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Lenovo shuts down ThinkVantage update service
In a rather insipid way, Lenovo has announced their PC customers that ThinkVantage System Update (TVSU), the automatic update service which has been live since before IBM sold its PC business to Lenovo, will be discontinued. Once TVSU is down people will be able to get software updates for their system via the Lenovo support site yet the company is saying that it is "pursuing alternative solutions for system updates" so the launch of a new update service is, at least in theory, possible.
Lenovo PC owners have expressed their disappointment towards the shut down of TVSU and have actually started a petition in hopes of changing Lenovo's mind.
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Zotac GeForce GTX 275 AMP! Edition gets listed
Set to be launched tomorrow, the GeForce GTX 275 is not expected to arrive in stores for almost two weeks but that hasn't kept the relatively elusive GT200 card to appear in stores. The latest 'sighting' is that of the Zotac GeForce GTX 275 AMP a factory-overclocked model which is listed at just under 276 Euro, quite in-line with reports that put GTX 275 prices in the $229 - $279 (229 - 279 Euro) range.
Unfortunately the card's specs are not provided but since it is 'AMP' you know it will have GPU, shader and memory clocks higher than the stock 633, 1404 and 2268 MHz respectively. Other than that, Zotac's GTX 275 AMP! Edition will feature 896MB of GDDR3 memory, a 448-bit memory interface, a dual-slot cooler, PhysX, CUDA, DirectX 10 support and 3-way SLI readiness.
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