Brando creates USB 3.0 HDD enclosure
Brando has started selling a 2.5-inch HDD/SSD enclosure that features the new connectivity standard capable of maximum theoretical transfer speeds of 5.0 Gbps. The new enclosure measures 135 x 82 x 15 mm and weights 111 grams, has an aluminum shell providing durability and better heat dissipation, supports USB 3.0/2.0/1.1 connectivity and can be loaded up with one 2.5-inch SATA hard or solid state drive.
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Wal-Mart increases Blu-ray market share
It appears that giant retailer Wal-Martآ’s aggressive Blu-ray sales over the last quarter has paid off, with the company now about tied with Best Buy for BD market share. The numbers, via the NPD Group, show that Wal-Mart now commands 30 percent market share of Blu-ray disc sales, about even with Best Buy at 35 percent. In May, Wal-Mart had around 20 percent while Best Buy had an impressive 45 percent.
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Mobile Firefox coming within days
According to Jay Sullivan of Mozilla, mobile Firefox will be available "within days" for the Nokia N900 and later for a wider variety of handsets. The browser is currently in final testing and should be available by the end of the year.
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Apple tablet a reality
After word spread that Apple had rented a stage for a "major" announcement in January, the rumor mill was at full speed that the oft-rumored Apple-branded tablet may finally be a reality. The Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal and Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster all had stories over the past few days, claiming that a major product announcement was set for January. Munster gives it a 50/50 chance of being the tablet, while the WSJ says Apple is already debriefing media companies on how their content would work on the devices.
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Kodak and Samsung settling their patent problems
Kodak and Samsung have agreed to try to reach a settlement regarding their patent disputes. Making the first big step towards ending the courtroom fighting, Samsung has committed to making a non-refundable payment to Kodak this year that will be credited toward its future royalty obligations to Kodak.
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YouTube gets the URL shortening service
YouTube this week introduced youtu.be, an URL shortener that will cut down to size links to YouTube clips. With youtu.be visitors of Google's site will be able to move quicker when sharing videos they like, while developers are enables to do things like provide thumbnails, embed the video directly, and track how a video is spreading in real-time.
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Unreal Engine 3 running on iPhone
AnandTech is reporting that the Unreal Engine 3, the technology behind games such as Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War 2 and Batman: Arkham Asylum, has now been successfully run (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzts8tsKuHs) on an iPhone 3GS and a 3rd generation iPod Touch.
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ATI wins 2009. in graphics
The year 2009 was really slow, unusually so when it comes to new product announcements and the better part of the second half of the year was spent waiting for new DirectX 11 parts. In early 2009 Nvidia launched its Geforce GTX 295, something that has dominated the high end graphics market all the way until November 2009. Nvidiaآ’s GTX 285 and GTX 260, both in 55nm were usually the best choice. In the mean time AMD had HD 4870 and HD 4850 cards and letآ’s not forget the dual-GPU HD 4870 X2, but all of them usually ended just slightly slower than Nvidia offering. The first part of year was clearly in Nvidia favour.
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Two new Foxconn H55 motherboards
For the upcoming launch of the 32nm Core i3/i5 processors, Foxconn has prepared two micro ATX motherboards, the H55MX-S and H55MXV. Both powered by the H55 chipset, the boards have a 6-phase power design, support for 45nm/32nm LGA 1156 CPUs, two DDR3-1333 memory slots, a PCI-Express x16 slot and six SATA 3.0 Gbps ports.
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