IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 05/04/2011

Wednesday, April 6, 2011

IT News HeadLines (TechConnect Magazine) 05/04/2011

Nvidia adds the Quadro 400 to its professional graphics card line-up
Nvidia has now let loose a new professional graphics card, the entry-level Quadro 400 which costs just $169 but promises up to 5X faster performance over the GeForce GTX 580 in CAD/CAM applications. This latest Quadro has a low-profile design, a single-slot cooler and consumes under 35W.

New Viking Modular SATADIMM solid state drives reach 520 MB/s
Viking Modular Solutions today announced its second-generation SATADIMM solid state drives which are aimed for enterprise use and come in a DDR3 module form factor. These RAM-resembling SSDs are available in 25mm and 18.75mm (VLP) heights and support 6Gb SATA and SAS interfaces.

Seagate rolls out the GoFlex Slim USB 3.0 portable hard drive
Expanding its storage offer, Seagate has now released the GoFlex Slim, a sleek portable hard drive which measures 124 (L) x 78 (W) x 9 (H) mm, weights 280 grams, features USB 3.0 connectivity and has platter working speed of 7200 RPM (rotations per minute).

Nexus unveils the SM-8000 silent mouse
Nexus Technology has just revealed the SM-8000 wireless mouse that can pretty much be described as the bigger brother of the November-introduced SM-7000. Like its sibling, the SM-8000 makes use of a patented silent switch technology which makes button clicking sounds disappear.

Thunderbird team to be integrated into Mozilla Labs
After almost four years of standing on its own two feet, Mozilla Messaging, the wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation, is up for retirement. Don't worry though, this doesn't mean the Thunderbird open source email client is a goner, not at all, in fact, it will live on.

Dell's Alienware M14x laptop gets handled, looks good enough for probing
Remember last week's rumor regarding the arrival of a Sandy Bridge-powered Alienware M14x gaming laptop? Well, that's been pretty much confirmed, but not by Dell who's yet to make an announcement, no, the assurance comes from a Chinese site who managed to grab a hold of the machine.

Texas Instruments to acquire National Semiconductor for $6.5 billion
Dallas-based Texas Instruments dug deep into its pockets and managed to convince the Board of National Semiconductor to accept a takeover worth $6.5 billion. TI will pay $25 in cash for each NS share, the aim being to strengthen its position in the analog semiconductor market.

Green House debuts the PicoDrive F3 USB 3.0 flash drive
Green House has sent a shout out all the way from Japan (we're pretty far off but we got the message) to announce a trio of flash drives with USB 3.0 connectivity and a four-channel interface, the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB PicoDrive F3.

Nikon announces the D5100 DSLR camera
Nikon Corp. has just revealed the successor of its D5000 DSLR (digital single-lens reflex) camera, a model called D5100 which targets both DSLR newbies and accustomed users and features a 16.2 megapixel CMOS sensor, a vari-angle 3-inch (921k-dot) LCD screen) and an EXPEED 2 image processor.

Psyko Audio intros the Psyko Carbon and Psyko Krypton gaming headsets
Psyko Audio Labs is going release crazy this week as it's going to introduce not one but two gaming headsets which utilize its patent pending PsykoWave technology (which promises 'true 3D surround sound'), the Psyko Carbon and Psyko Krypton.

Dell 'sources' say 10-inch Windows 7 slate will arrive this fall
Bad news for supporters of Windows-based tablets/slates as a report claims that Dell won't be releasing its 10-inch Windows 7-based device until this fall. A roadmap leaked in February suggested that Dell would release the 'Rosemount' Windows 7 slate in May/June but apparently those plans are done.

AMD Radeon HD 6790 launched, brings Barts down to $150
Three weeks have passed since Nvidia introduced its GeForce GTX 550 Ti and AMD is retaliating through the release of a $150 Radeon HD 6000 series card, the Bart-powered Radeon HD 6790.

Apacer coming up with the AC230 USB 3.0 external drive
Taiwanese company Apacer Technology has recently announced its newest USB 3.0-enabled storage solution, a sleek 2.5-inch external hard drive which delivers read and write speeds of up to 92 MB/s and 85 MB/s, respectively.

AMD starts shipping Llano APUs, availability planned for this quarter
Have the masses asked for more Fusion? Let's say yes and congratulate AMD on beginning shipments of its second APU (Accelerated Processing Unit) line - Llano. Coming to desktops, all-in-ones and notebooks, these new APUs are made by GlobalFoundries and are the first 32nm chips in AMD's offer.

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Hynix develops 2400 MHz DDR4 DRAM and memory module
South Korean company Hynix Semiconductor has one-upped fellow countryman Samsung and managed to make 2Gb DDR4 chips and 2GB ECC-SODIMMs (Error Check & Correction Small Outline Dual In-line Memory Modules) that operate at 2400 MHz (in January Samsung unveiled its 2133 MHz DDR4 module).

Buffalo debuts the CloudStor Pogoplug-enhanced shared storage device
Buffalo Technology today introduced the 'first and only' Pogoplug device with integrated storage, a network attached storage (NAS) device called CloudStor which will store your data and make it available (in a secure manner of course), from almost anywhere there's an internet connection.

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