IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 27/05/2010

Thursday, May 27, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 27/05/2010

HP rolling out for more widescreen monitors
Top mobile PC maker HP is this week expanding its monitor offer with four new, glossy widescreen LCDs, the 20-inch 2010i, 21.5-inch 2210m, 23-inch 2310m and 27-inch 2710m, the former featuring a native resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels while the other three are Full HD (1920 x 1080).

Samsung P80, P30 notebooks and NB30 Pro netbook make their US debut
Samsung Electronics America has today announced a trio of mobile PCs that are targeted towards business users and are based on Intel platforms, the P80 Premium and P30 Essential series notebooks, and the NB30 Pro netbook.

Nox comes up with the TG1 thermal compound
Nox Xtreme Products has recently introduced a little something to help your CPU withstand the hot summer days and night, a performance thermal paste that goes by the codename TG1 and is claimed to have low resistance and high heat wave conductivity.

MSI X-Slim X360 ultra-thin laptop to reach Europe next month
Since Intel has finally outed its 32nm ULV chips on Monday, MSI has thought about reminding us that it is preparing an X-Slim series ultra-thin laptop that makes use of the 1.06 GHz Core i5-520UM processor, the 13-inch X360.

McAfee buying Trust Digital to expand its smartphone offer
Security specialist McAfee has announced that it has inked a deal through which it will be acquiring Trust Digital, a Virginia-based privately held firm that provides enterprise-grade management and security software for mobile devices likes smartphones and PDAs.

Buffalo to release 12x Blu-ray writer with USB 3.0 interface
Buffalo has today announced a couple of new 12x Blu-ray burners, the BR3D-12FBS-BK internal drive which has a SATA interface and the BR3D-12U3 featuring, like the title says, USB 3.0 aka SuperSpeed USB connectivity.

VIA sampling VL800 4-port USB 3.0 host controller
VIA Technologies, through its subsidiary VIA Labs, has today announced that it has begun shipping samples of the VL800 USB 3.0 host controller which enables the connection of up to four SuperSpeed USB devices, double what's possible with current solutions.

LaCie serves up Rugged Safe drive with hardware encryption
For those in need of some sense of data security the LaCie team has rolled out the Rugged Safe, a portable hard drive that, in addition to being quite shock-resistant, can protect precious files via its built-in automatic 128â€“bit AES hardware encryption.

Eurocom mobile workstations get GTX 480M, HD 5870 CrossFireX options
Ready to put a smile on our faces and a dent in our credit cards, Eurocom has now announced that two of its mobile workstations - the 17-inch D900F Panther and 18.4-inch X8100 Leopard are getting some sweet new (DirectX 11) graphics options.

Cooler Master intros the HAF X full tower chassis
Taiwan's own Cooler Master has today finally taken the veil off its highest-end HAF (High Air Flow) series PC case which is known as HAF X and is targeted at enthusiasts, gamers and overclockers that want their system to both look and perform good.

Concrete flash drive is a rockin' concept
Throughout the years multiple companies have come up with super-solid flash drives that can withstand great abuse but all seem to pale in comparison to the concrete-made models designed by Shu-Chun Hsiao.

Sony makes OLED panel that can wrap around its finger
Claiming a new innovation badge, Sony has today proudly announced that it has managed to develop a super-slim (80Î¼m in thickness) 4.1-inch full color OLED display that can be repeatedly wrapped around a cylinder with a radius or 4mm and still work like a charm.

Microsoft sells Expression Media line to Phase One
Beside shaking up the Entertainment and Devices Division, Microsoft has this week confirmed the sale, for an undisclosed sum, of the Expression Media product line to Copenhagen-based medium format camera supplier Phase One.

Marvell brings shiny 10-inch Android tablet to Netbook Summit
Present at the Netbook Summit in San Francisco, Marvell has taken advantage of the event to showcase a slim, sexy and likely not $99-targeting 10-inch tablet that is based on its Moby design and is powered by the ARMADA 610 chip.

mySN adds GeForce GTX 480M option to three notebooks
Announced yesterday, Nvidia's first Fermi-based mobile solution, the GeForce GTX 480M has already found its way among the graphics options of three mySN gaming notebooks, the 17.1-inch QXG7, 17.3-inch XMG7.c and 18.4-inch XMG8.c.

Trillian 4.2 for Windows released
After a good few months of public betas, Cerulean Studios has now let loose the final build of Trillian 4.2 for Windows which includes over 100 fixes as well as a few new features like a new Instant Lookup, simultaneous sign-on support for Windows Live, and the assets view for history.

Kingston intros the HyperX blu memory line
Kingston Technology has now expanded its well-known HyperX series of memory by rolling out the 'blu' family of entry-level but still gamer and enthusiast-oriented DDR2 and DDR3 modules/kits. The blu RAM features a newly-designed blue-colored heatspreader and is backed by a lifetime warranty.

Sub-$150 VIA-powered tablets expected to debut in 2H
Being a promoter of low-power and more or less mobile computing, VIA Technologies is certainly not going to skip on the tablet trend and says that up to five such devices, powered by its hardware, will be coming out in the US in the second half of this year.

Folding@Home GPU3 beta client comes with Fermi support
Stanford's Folding@home distributed computing project has embraced Nvidia's Fermi architecture as its first GPU3 client (a beta release) is now available and it can take advantage of the hot, heavy and powerful GeForce GTX 480 and GTX 470.

Larrabee's discrete future is rocky as Intel focuses on integrated graphics
Intel's return to the discrete graphics card market is taking the back seat again as the chip titan has revealed that its resources will be going towards improving the graphics core in its processors and in HPC (high performance computing) solutions based on a many-core architecture.

Analysts predict SSD market to grow 90% till 2015
Whilst it is clear that SSDs will have a stronger market in the future, it has now been predicted that based on ever increasing sizes and falling prices, we could see a growth of 90% every year in the market to 4.1 million units as early as 2015.

IBM acquire Sterling Commerce for $1.4bn
Big Blue has bought up AT&T subsidiary Sterling Commerce for a whopping $1.4 billion (USD) this week. The company is a specialist in the handling of transactions between businesses, including the purchasing of supplies and manufacturing materials, as well as partner transactions.

Half of the planet online by 2015, says ITU
Sami Al Basheer Al Moshid, Director of the International Telecommunications Union (the ITU) has announced that half of the world's population should have broadband access by the year 2015, in the organization's 2010 World Telecommunication/ICT Development Report.

Apple's Steve Jobs to take center stage at WWDC
As one would expect, and in true Apple fashion, the company's celebrity CEO Steve Jobs is now officially set to deliver a keynote address at the Apple World Wide Developer's Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco on Monday June 7th at 10:00 in the morning.

Techconnect Review Round-up 25/5/10
Today's review round-up...

Microsoft confirms management tweaks, Bach and Allard departures
Productivity software ruler Microsoft has today outlined multiple modifications to the management of its Entertainment and Devices Division, the most significant being the retirement of Robbie Bach, the president of the E&D arm.

Chrome Stable jumps from v4.1 to v5.0, Flash not yet included
Google has made another Chrome leap today by updating the browser's stable build to 5.0.375.55 to provide users with even more speed and stability, less bugs, plus extra HTML5 features like geolocation, file drag-and-drop in Gmail, App Cache and web sockets.

No comments:

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)