Thursday, November 26, 2009

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 26/11/2009


InsideHW
Wireless Internet frame
Giant International has rolled out its Intouch IT7150 wireless Internet frame which could very well be one of the more suitable gifts this coming Christmas season. What makes the Intouch IT7150 so interesting is that he is not only capable of displaying a bunch of your favorite photos captured digitally in a slideshow format, it is also connected to the Internet via Wi-Fi for added functionality. This is the first all touch multimedia wireless Internet frame from the manufacturer, where it allows one to access content on their PC and Internet using the Intouch IT7150 from virtually anywhere in their home.
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IE 9 to be GPU accelerated?
Microsoft has been giving developers and curious journalists a very early peek into its IE 9 progress at PDC, with its stated ambitions including faster Javascript, HTML5 support, and hardware acceleration for web content. By harnessing DirectX and your graphics processor, the new browser will offer improvements in text readability and video performance, as well as taking some of the load off the CPU. The idea to use a computer's graphics processor unit (GPU) to accelerate their browsers is also being looked at by Mozilla, which makes Firefox, and Norwegian developer Opera.
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Slim, nice, new WD My Passport Elite
This ultra-portable USB drive is packed with smart features: WD SmartWare software for automatic, continuous backup, password protection, an illuminated capacity gauge and a grab-and-go USB dock. It is WD smallest portable drive ever – but capacity is up to 640GB. Visual backup displays your content in categories and shows the progress of your backup. This automatic, continuous backup will instantly make a second copy whenever you add or change a file.
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Third Generation of VADO HD is out
Creative announced the third generation Vado HD Pocket Video Cam, combining a sleek design with stunning HD video quality. Vado HD line is already known for HDMI out and a wide-angle lens, the third generation Vado HD keeps them and adds some more. Most welcomed is improved quality of video in low light or brightly lit conditions with manual exposure adjustments. And if you wanted better quality audio recording, external stereo microphone should help you with that.
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Seven Cheap Full HD 22-inch Monitors
In the times when CRT monitors (displays) were only choice, if you cared about your health and especially eyesight you needed to buy good and expensive monitor. Back then, when someone wanted to buy a good PC we always recommended him to buy good monitor first and then the rest of the configuration with money that remained from initial budget. With TFT monitors is different story, and in most cases it does not matter how much you spent on your TFT monitor since most of them won’t hurt your eyesight. Nowadays, you can buy a decent TFT monitor for around 100€ (except few exceptions) but we will offer you few very good arguments to spend slightly more – around 150€. For that difference in price, you can get monitor signed by well-established brand, with contemporary design, format and high resolution. Since monitor is, in most cases, long-term investment (because it is a component that is rarely upgraded), it makes sense so go for slightly better solution. Problem is that even in this low price range, there are differences between various models and manufacturers.
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First Wireless USB external HDD
Imation has announced that it has released the first ever Wireless USB external hard drive. Named Pro WX, the product provides 1.5TB worth of storage space, is capable of WUSB transfer speeds of up to 15 MB/s, features one-to-one connection that makes it hard for the signal to be 'messed with', and has an integrated stand enabling both vertical and horizontal installation. While connection really been wireless, power adapter is still wired and very much needed, so it is actually half way there.
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Anonymous USB3.0 SSD
OCZ's solid state drive department seems really busy these days, as we recently seen with Colossus line announcement, and now continues with plans to unveil its first SSDs equipped with SandForce controllers, and, at CES 2010 (early January), will showcase a USB 3.0-supporting external SSD. It doesn't have a name yet but the USB 3.0 drive certainly looks good in the rendering below, slim figure, metal casing, two NAND rows on the visible side. OCZ hasn't said anything about the SSD's capacity options, controller, speed, but that's the case with these teasing moves.
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New ION EeeBox is out in December
Asus is going to release new nettop based on the ION platform next month. Coming in black or white, the EeeBox EB1501 packs a 1.6 GHz Atom (dual-core) 330 CPU, up to 4GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, a GeForce 9400 IGP, a slot-in DVD writer, and runs Windows 7 Home Premium. The nettop will offer D-Sub and HDMI outputs, has Gigabit Ethernet and WiFi, a 2-in-1 card reader, is bundled with a VESA mounting kit, and is expected to debut on December 7th with a starting price of $479.
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Terry Makedon آ“CatalystMakerآ” Interview
Did you ever ask yourself how ATI drivers are made, and who makes them? Well, first of all, there are three teams that work on the same driver code at the same time! Why? Continue reading this interesting interview that we had opportunity to conduct with Terry Makedon, Catalyst drivers maker for AMD/ATI graphics cards, and you will found out.
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ThinkPad with Chiclet keyboard, AMD based
True to form Lenovo's X100e is in the works and it's an ultra-portable based on an AMD platform. It should use a 1.6GHz Athlon Neo, an 11.6-inch 1366x768 display and a multi-touch trackpad. Configurations will vary but should hold up to 4GB of RAM, a 3- or 6-cell battery, and between 160GB and 500GB of hard drive space. 320GB drive will come in two flavors, 5400 and 7200 rpm, so look what you are buying.
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