IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 16/07/2010

Friday, July 16, 2010

IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 16/07/2010

Velocity Micro rolls out new laptop and desktop for back-to-school season
Velocity Micro has started firing some new rounds to take advantage of the back-to-school buying season and introduced two Intel-powered machines - the T30 Italia ultra-thin notebook and the Vector Campus Edition micro tower desktop.

Amazon slapped with a (new) patent lawsuit over Kindle
Amazon's popular e-book reader, the Kindle, is the subject of a brand new complaint filed in a Delaware district court which claims that the device infringes two patents granted to Discovery Communications in 1999 and 2007 and now assigned to Discovery Patent Holdings LLC.

Getac V100 rugged convertible tablet gets 32nm Core upgrade
Getac Technology has now made its rough and tough V100 fully rugged tablet PC more powerful by swapping its older Core Duo ULV processor with a shiny, new 1.2 GHz Core i7-640UM which can reach 2.26 GHz when Turbo Boost kicks in.

Zowie Gear reveals the EC-series gaming mice
After one year of work, Huntington Beach-based peripheral maker Zowie Gear and professional Counter-Strike player Emil 'HeatoN' Christensen have finally finished work on the EC1 and EC2 high-end optical gaming mice.

Next-gen MacBook Air to have 11.6-inch display, says analyst
Already thin enough to slice cake and enter envelopes, Apple's MacBook Air ultra-light notebook is allegedly going to shrink in volume some more as Digitimes Research senior analyst Mingchi Kuo claims the next version will have a 11.6-inch display and not a 13.3-inch one as the model selling now.

Logitech announces the Z506 $100-priced 5.1 speaker system
Bringing more surround sound to the masses, Logitech has today revealed the Z506, a 5.1 speaker system which is aimed to be connected to a multitude of devices, including PCs, consoles, Apple iPod or a DVD player and provide top audio for games, movies and music on the cheap.

MSI readies new low-profile GeForce GT 220 card
HTPC owners will soon be served by MSI a new low-profile graphics card that would power their compact system, a GeForce GT 220 featuring a custom design with a red PCB and a single-slot active cooler installed on its 40nm GT216 GPU.

Opera Mobile 10.1 beta available for Symbian S60 phones
Opera Software has just let loose a first beta version of Opera Mobile 10.1, its newest full-featured smarthphone browser which makes use of the Presto rendering engine, Vega graphics library and Carakan JavaScript engine already included in the desktop-prone Opera 10.50/60.

Buffalo readies new hardware encryption-equipped portable HDDs
Buffalo Technology is currently prepping the release of a new storage solution for on-the-go, the HDS-PXU2 family of portable hard drives which can keep your data safe thanks to the use of automatic, hardware-based AES 256-bit encryption.

SkypeKit SDK for Windows and Mac released in beta form
Released for Linux last month, the SkypeKit SDK which enables hardware and software makers to integrated Skype functionality into their products, has now also become available for Windows (x86) and Mac OS X platforms.

Verbatim debuts Gran Turismo-themed portable hard drives
Ignoring Tour de France for no apparent reason, Verbatim has taken inspiration from Gran Turismo sports cars for its latest portable hard drive which features the classic white racing stripes on a glossy red or black background.

ViewSonic NexTV VMP75 HD media player shipping in the US
Announces one month ago with a price tag of $149.99, ViewSonic's NexTV VMP75 HD media player has now begun to ship in the US at a lower cost ($129.99) which should make it more attractive to people looking for something to play 1080p video content on their big, shiny HDTV.

PC market jumps 22% in Q2, Asus enters the top 5
IDC's latest Worldwide Quarterly PC Tracker report says that in Q2, the PC market has been doing very well and grew by 22.4% on-year, with total shipments reaching 81,505,000 million units thanks to strong growth in the EMEA and Asia/Pacific regions.

LG E2350VR LED-backlit monitor comes packing an upscaling chip
Trying to stand out of the crown, LG Electronics has developed and announced in Europe a new LCD monitor which, beside the shiny look and LED-backlit, includes a 'Super Resolution' chip that will upscale low-resolution multimedia content so that it looks a lot better on a Full HD panel.

Dell Streak said to go on sale in the US, from AT&T, next week
Claiming to have been tipped by an AT&T source, Boy Genius Report is saying that the iPhone carrier will begin selling Dell's Streak MID (mobile internet device) on Monday, July 19. This is somewhat in-line with previous reports that Streak would reach the US this month.

Bing grabs more of the US search market while Google drops
According to the latest data provided by digital marketing intelligence firm comScore, June has seen Microsoft's Bing 'decision engine', rise in US search market share to 12.7% (from 12.1% in May), while arch-rival Google, slipped to 62.6% (from 63.7%).

GeForce GTX 460 effect - Radeon HD 5830 slipping to $199
The introduction of Nvidia's first real DirectX 11 mainstream card, the $199 - $239 GeForce GTX 460, seems to have sparked a nice competition-flavored move in the graphics market as AMD's Radeon HD 5830 has began to shed some dollars and can now be found as low as $200.

Renesas starts sampling new, low-power USB 3.0 controller
Renesas Electronics, the company born out of the NEC Electronics / Renesas Technology merger, has developed a brand new USB 3.0 host controller (ÂµPD720200A) which consumes up to 85% less power than its popular predecessor (ÂµPD720200).

Apple schedules iPhone 4 press conference for tomorrow, recall to be announced?
Apple has called on its more or less favorable press to be available for a little "out-of-schedule" get-together tomorrow, July 16. The Cupertiono company only said that the conference will be about the iPhone 4 and it's probable it will focus on the smartphone's reception problems.

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