Sunday, July 25, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 25/07/2010


InsideHW
Myspace loses half of its members
Social networking site MySpace has lost half of its members. The new figures reveal that MySpace’s audience numbers dropped by 49 per cent over the last year, falling from 6.5 million visitors in May 2009, to just 3.3 million in May 2010. The site’s major rival, Facebook, announced that it hit 500 million registered users this week.
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NEC USB 3.0 chips to get cheaper
NEC is planning to cut prices for its first and second generation USB 3.0 chips in the fourth quarter, and will launch its next-generation models with a price below $2 in the first quarter of 2011. Market watchers expect USB 3.0 chip shipments to reach 20 million units in 2010 and over 40 million units in 2011. ASMedia Technology, a subsidiary of Asustek, has cut its USB 3.0 chip prices down to $1.7-1.8 for batch orders recently, but NEC has a bit of time before its rivals make any significant impact.
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GeForce GTS 450 PCB schematics leaked online
GeForce GTS 450 is supposed to come out next month, which is the first Nvidia card to be powered by the 40nm GF106 GPU. Unfortunately there are no images of the upcoming model but a pair of images showing what appears to be the GTS 450's PCB have hit the internet.
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White iPhone 4 to arrive later this year
It seems that Apple's problems with manufacturing of white iPhone 4 still haven't been resolved, so the company today announced a second delay for the smartphones, which are now expected to become available later this year.
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ASUS NX90JQ: A New Category of Infotainment Notebook
A large portion of devices we review don't generally stand out with their design and performance in the class they belong to, but from time to time, some of the manufacturers surprise us with something unique and never before seen. This time, it was ASUS. The not-so-uncommon cooperation between well-known manufacturers and not by any means lesser known designers has produced class-redefining devices in the past, both in terms of appearance and characteristics, and the unusual notebook we’ve received for testing this time around carries the mark NX90JQ.
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