Leica Stuns With M9 And X1 Cameras
There are cameras, and then there are Leicas. Those who use them swear by them, and those that don't typically wish they could afford them. There's no doubt that each and every Leica is pricey, but each and every Leica looks like a million bucks and generally performs equally well.In the midst of news flowing from the likes of Apple, Dell and Motorola, this camera company decided to go ahead and reveal two new offerings this week in the M9 and X1. The M9 is a full-frame "rangefinder," with an incredible 18MP
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Logitech Adds Wireless Game Controllers For Wii
Logitech introduced the Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for Wii and the Logitech Wireless Drum Controller for Wii. Both controllers are licensed by Activision Publishing and feature similar materials as you’d expect to see in real guitars and drums. “Logitech’s premium guitar and drum controllers have made it easier for Guitar Hero gamers to get into the music with even more realism,†said Ruben Mookerjee, Logitech’s director of product marketing for gaming. “Now if you love to rock out on Wii, you’ve got
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Dell Teases Adamo XPS: A 9.99mm-Thin Notebook
There isn't much to go on yet, but Dell's still-young Adamo lineup is about to grow by 1. Or by 9.99, depending on what measure you're looking at. Just a few months after Dell introduced the standard Adamo--which was amazingly sleek and thin in its right--the company has now confessed that another Adamo is on the way.The Adamo XPS, as it will be called, hints at high performance and slim size, with a chassis that measures just 9.99mm thick. The tease was timed to launch on 9/9/09, though Dell won't say when
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Hitachi Serves Up Two New 1TB CinemaStar Hard Drives
It seems like announcing new hard drives is just "the thing" to do this month, so we guess we'll pocket our shock seeing yet another outfit introduce yet another hard drive. This time, it's Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) rolling out the CinemaStar family of 3.5" hard drives, which is based on 500GB per platter technology and definitely makes a mark in the desktop HDD space.The lineup consists of the 1TB CinemaStar 7K1000.C and the 1TB CinemaStar 5K1000 CoolSpin, with each engineered to "handle
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T-Mobile Expands Android Lineup With Motorola CLIQ
Touted as “the first phone with social skills,†Motorola's new CLIQ smartphone is the company’s first Android handset. The CLIQ is headed to T-Mobile in the fourth quarter, so it should be here in time for the holidays. The CLIQ will utilize MOTOBLUR, which was also announced today. MOTOBLUR is designed to sync contacts, posts, messages, photos, and much more from sources such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Gmail, work and personal e-mail, and LastFM and automatically deliver it to the home screen. Recognizing
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Toshiba's New HDD Will Store Up To 45,000 Digital Photos
Talk about a brag book. Toshiba is releasing a new line of credit card-thin hard disk drives, with up to 160GB of capacity — enough to store upwards of 45,000 digital photos, 42,000 digital music files or 130 digital videos. The smallest is 60GB - remember how just a few years ago, 1GB seemed like unending storage space? The MKxx34GAL family are 1.8-inch, single-platter hard disk drives and Toshiba claims they will have the "best power consumption efficiency, most durability and quietest seek operation of any
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AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology In Action
By now, many of you are probably aware that the launch of AMD's next-generation, DirectX 11-compliant graphics cards is imminent. Rumors about the launch and the products themselves has been trickling out for quite a while now and lots of information--some right and some wrong--is already available at various places around the web. While we can't disclose any detailed specifications or product specifics just yet, we do have some information about a new feature being implemented in the next-gen Radeons that we
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AT&T, Sprint Announce New Plans To Convince You They're The Best
Sprint and AT&T have announced dueling phone plan changes geared toward making you feel you as if you can call anyone, anywhere, anytime and not pay an extra cent.Sprint's plan is moving past its "calling circles" and is called the Any Mobile, Anytime plan. Basically, it's unlimited calling between mobile phones, no matter the service provider, within the United States. The marketing tag is that users can "cut the cord and save money," implying this is how and why consumers should finally get rid of their
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Gmail Integrates Google Voice Voicemail Playback
Google continues to try to make Gmail its centralized location for all things Google. The latest addition to Gmail, via Google Labs, is Google Voice integration into Gmail.Google Voice, nee GrandCentral and purchased by Google, is a service that allows users to give out one number and have it ring another, "real" number, or even multiple number, or even go straight to voicemail. Certain features allow you to SMS or call using that number. Previously, or without the Labs feature, called "Google Voice player
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Navigon Adds Text-To-Speech, iPod Functions To iPhone GPS App
While everyone seems to be talking about TomTom's GPS application for the iPhone, it's little-known Navigon that is really stepping up to the challenge. Today, the company is introducing its second major update for its MobileNavigator app, and it's definitely one worth checking out.For starters, the update makes the app the first on the iPhone to add text-to-speech. In case you've never used a dedicated navigator with this, said feature allows the program to announce street names in addition to turn-by-turn
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Radeon 5870/5850 rumours?
http://www.hardware-infos.com/news.php?news=3184&sprache=1
http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=11135
http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/15433/1/
So it seems that AMD are taking their lovely 4870 and doubling its power for the 5870. Even the 5850 should provide a solid lead over the 4890 considering it's massive amount of shaders.
This may be the most interesting link if true though. Crysis finally playable maxed out on a single GPU?
http://bbs.chiphell.com/viewthread.php?tid=53938&extra=page%3D1
More news should come later today or tomorrow with AMD's event being today. But I still think we'll have to wait a week before official internet articles come up. At any rate, it looks like AMD will be brining the pain to Nvidia at the end of this month. GTX 295 performance in a single GPU for less money... bring it.
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Google Ad Sense Message Boards Fraud
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Google Ad Sense is when a web site owner opens an account with Google to place advertisement on their web site. When a person clicks this advertisement, the web site owner gets an average commission of .45 cents. A web site that gets a lot of traffic, they can easily make $150,000 per month.
There are message boards claiming to be informing the public about scams being done by companies or individuals. These web sites have individuals working for them for the sole purpose of targeting companies or individuals in order to generate traffic to the web site. This method is artificially generating traffic to the web site, this is FRAUD as outlined by Google. The higher the traffic, the higher the percentage of individuals that will click onto the Google advertisements.
Additionally, Individuals post copy right information about a company on these types of web sites; this is against the policy of the Google Ad Sense program.
If you believe that you are being targeted by individuals on a particular web site; simply click the Ads by Google in the bottom right hand corner of the advertisement on the web site. You will be taken to a Google page, click onto: Report a policy violation regarding the site or ads you just saw
File a report and the Google Fraud Department will investigate
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XFX...2118 A.D.!!!
Take a look at what those whacked-out guys at XFX sent me today. They have been smokin' something, obviously!:
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AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology In Action
The feature is called Eyefinity and what it does in essence, is allow for multiple monitors to be used as a single display. As it stands today, for the most part, when multiple monitors are connected to a single PC, those monitors are recognized as independent displays and can be configured for desktop spanning or mirroring, etc. With Eyefinity, however, the displays are arranged in a single group (or in multiple groups) and they are treated as a single display by the OS.
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AMD Eyefinity Multi-Display Technology In Action
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Eyefinity is enabled through a combination of hardware and software being developed by AMD. On the hardware front, AMD's upcoming Radeons will sport between 3 and 6 display outputs of various types, DisplayPort, DVI, HDMI, etc. And those outputs will be managed by software currently dubbed SLS, or Single Large Surface. Using the SLS tool, users are able to configure a group of monitors to work with Eyefinity and essentially act as a single, large display.
11,520 x 4,800 - 55.3 megapixels, Four Cardsآ - High res?آ Got that...
We had a chance to experiment with Eyefinity earlier and came away impressed. In a private demo, representatives from AMD configured a group of six, 30" Dell 3008WFP panels as a single display, in a 3 x 2 arrangement, with a resolution of 7680 x 3200--that's about 24.6 megapixels if you do the math.آ Powering the displays was a SINGLE graphics card, with a SINGLE GPU. The Windows desktop functioned as one monolithic surface, with all of that expansive resolution available to the user. What was more impressive than that though, was gaming on the six screens. We had a chance to play an upcoming DX11 racing game, Dirt 2, at 7680 x 3200 with perfectly acceptable frame rates--a hint at the power of AMD's upcoming next gen Radeon graphics cards. We also spent some time gaming across three 30" displays in a 3 x 1 configuration with Left 4 Dead and have to say it absolutely changes the experience for the better. Even Francis would like it.
Upcoming Samsung Thin-Bezel Displays
At the time of launch, Eyefinity will support single-GPU configurations for gaming, but we're told CrossFire support will be coming at some point in the future as well.آ The technology will require that at least one of the displays be equipped with a DisplayPort connection.
We've also been informed that AMD has partered with some display makers, like Samsung for example, that will be introducing new displays with ultra-thin bezels, designed with Eyefinity in mind.
We will have more news regarding AMD's next-gen Radeons in the not too distant future, so stay tuned to HotHardware for the full scoop.
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Dell Teases Adamo XPS: A 9.99mm-Thin Notebook
There isn't much to go on yet, but Dell's still-young Adamo lineup is about to grow by 1. Or by 9.99, depending on what measure you're looking at. Just a few months after Dell introduced the standard Adamo--which was amazingly sleek and thin in its right--the company has now confessed that another Adamo is on the way.
The Adamo XPS, as it will be called, hints at high performance and slim size, with a chassis that measures just 9.99mm thick. The tease was timed to launch on 9/9/09, though Dell won't say when this beauty will be fully revealed and shipped. Those interested in signing up for future details can visit the teaser page and input their e-mail address, but we would assume something this slick will cost quite a bit.
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Gmail Integrates Google Voice Voicemail Playback
Google continues to try to make Gmail its centralized location for all things Google. The latest addition to Gmail, via Google Labs, is Google Voice integration into Gmail.Google Voice, nee GrandCentral and purchased by Google, is a service that allows users to give out one number and have it ring another, "real" number, or even multiple number, or even go straight to voicemail.آ Certain features allow you to SMS or call using that number.
Previously, or without the Labs feature, called "Google Voice player in mail," when you would receive an email from your Google Voice account alerting you to a voicemail, along with an automated transcript of the voicemail, there would be a link to play the message. However, that opened a new page or tab in your web browser.
Now, when you click "Play message," the player appears below the message and viola!
Obviously, this is not a deal-breaker, but it's still nice to not have to work in a different tab or window to listen to your voicemail. To enable the feature, in Gmail, click Settings, Labs, look for "Google Voice player in mail," select the appropriate radio button, and save. In most cases, that's it, but we've noticed sometimes that Gmail requires you to logout, and back in again to enable a Labs feature.
Of course, Google Voice is still available only via invitation, which limits how many people can use, or test this Labs feature. Still, they are rolling out new invites at a decent pace, so if you want, you can request one here.
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Toshiba's New HDD Will Store Up To 45,000 Digital Photos
Talk about a brag book.Toshiba is releasing a new line of credit card-thin hard disk drives,with up to 160GB of capacity — enough to store upwards of 45,000digital photos, 42,000 digital music files or 130 digital videos. Thesmallest is 60GB - remember how just a few years ago, 1GB seemed likeunending storage space?
The MKxx34GAL family are 1.8-inch, single-platter hard disk drives and Toshibaclaims they will have the "best power consumption efficiency, mostdurability and quietest seek operation of any HDD on the market." Inother words, they'll use less energy, handle drops and dings and bumpsand bruises better and operate more quietly than anyone else.
The HDD's "ruggedness and durability" should tolerate up to 1,500G ofshock when it's not in operation and 600G when it is. The size of theHDDs isn't new - Toshiba's shipped more than 70 million since 2000 andrules the market in the size. Toshiba quoted industry analyst firm IDCas saying it held 68 percent of the market in the size in the secondquarter of 2009.
The specs:
Model Number: MXX34GAL
Maximum Capacity: 160GB / 120GB // 80GB / 60GB (Formatted)
Number of platters: 1
Areal density: 467 Gb/in(2)
Average seek time: 15 ms
Rotational speed: 4,200 RPM
Buffer memory: 8 MB
Interface Parallel: ATA
Interface transfer: 100 MB/sec rate
External dimensions: 54.0 mm x 71.0 mm x 5.0 mm
(WxDxH; mm)
Weight: 48 g (max)
Energy consumption efficiency: 0.0019 / 0.0025 // 0.0038 / 0.0050 W/GB
Shock resistance:
• Operating 5,880 m/s(2) (600 G, 2ms)
• Non-operating 14,700 m/s(2) (1,500 G, 1ms)
Acoustics:
• Idle 14 dB
• Seek 15 dB
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Logitech Adds Wireless Game Controllers For Wii
Logitech introduced the LogitechWireless Guitar Controller for Wii and the Logitech Wireless Drum Controllerfor Wii. Both controllers are licensed by Activision Publishing and featuresimilar materials as you’d expect to see in real guitars and drums.“Logitech’s premium guitar and drum controllers have made iteasier for Guitar Hero gamers to get into the music with even more realism,â€said Ruben Mookerjee, Logitech’s director of product marketing for gaming. “Nowif you love to rock out on Wii, you’ve got the gear to match your level ofcommitment to the game.â€
The Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for Wii features amaple neck, rosewood fingerboard, and metal frets. It has a white finish with aglossy-black pick guard on a one-piece wood body. To help minimize audiodistraction, the strum bar and fret buttons are built with a noise dampeningdesign so you can focus on the music. To help you rack up points by tappingnotes, the guitar controller also incorporates a touch-sensitive slider on thefret board.
The Logitech Wireless Drum Controller for Wii has threefully adjustable drum pads and two cymbal pads. Each piece can be positioned tobest suit your style and reach. The quiet and responsive drum pads are designedto give a lively feel without distracting from the music.
The Logitech Wireless Drum Controller’s recessed rim designhelps you score points and avoid accidental rim shots for better game play. Tohelp you enjoy a durable, responsive drumming experience, the kick pedal uses astainless steel surface and an adjustable spring.
Both the Guitar Controller and Drum Controller are licensedfor Wii so all you have to do is snap the Wii Remote into the controllers. Bothproducts also feature an analog stick for navigating menus.
The Logitech Wireless Guitar Controller for Wii and theLogitech Wireless Drum Controller for Wii are expected to be available in theU.S. and Europe in October for a retail price of $199.99 (U.S.) and $229.99(U.S.) respectively.
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Hitachi Serves Up Two New 1TB CinemaStar Hard Drives
It seems like announcing new hard drives is just "the thing" to do this month, so we guess we'll pocket our shock seeing yet another outfit introduce yet another hard drive. This time, it's Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) rolling out the CinemaStar family of 3.5" hard drives, which is based on 500GB per platter technology and definitely makes a mark in the desktop HDD space.The lineup consists of the 1TB CinemaStar 7K1000.C and the 1TB CinemaStar 5K1000 CoolSpin, with each engineered to "handle the most demanding high definition (HD) video streams and offer reliable performance, large capacity, quiet operation, advanced AV features, and low power and temperatures that help manufacturers meet design, price and performance objectives for their consumer electronics devices."
As for the latter drive in particular, the new CinemaStar 5K1000 family features the company's CoolSpinTechnology, which relies on motor speed optimization to provide abalance of performance, power utilization and acoustics. By tuning themotor to make the drive spin slower, thereby reducing harmonicresonance, theCinemaStar 5K1000 is nearly silent at 2.4 bels during operation, draws 3.3 watts or less idle power and generates less heat, but in doing so it takes a hit on performance.
In addition to SmoothStream, the new CinemaStar family integrates a few other features that are found on all Hitachi drives:
- SMART command transport to optimize the drive settings for best video streaming performance
- Advanced auto power management with multiple power mode options so that performance requirements can be achieved using the lowest possible energy expenditure
- Expanded temperature range of 0-70oC (CinemaStar 5K1000) and 0-65oC (CinemaStar 7K1000) in operating mode to enable fan-free, quiet DVR designs, which is important for drives that often “live†in a consumer’s bedroom
- Intelligent idle time functions that maintain customer data signal quality for reliable long-term storage
- Advanced drive mechanics, resulting in a drive rating of 1.2 million hours MTBF2, for the grueling 24x7 operation that is commonplace among music- and movie-loving consumers
- Hitachi patented load/unload ramp mechanism that helps prevent disk wear and protects the disk during non-operation
- Thermal fly-height control for enhanced drive reliability during lengthy video encoding/decoding sessions; especially relevant today when HD movies can reach more than three hours in length
The CinemaStar 7K1000.C and 5K1000 will be available in volume starting Q4, but pricing has yet to be revealed.
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295gtx Vs 2x285gtx vs 2x 280gtx
So I am thinking of building a new i7 rig, about the only thing I cant decide on at the moment Is what gfx configuration I want to run, I plan on only WC'ing the CPU\NB. I want to stick with Evga since I think they are a great company. So for the price over all what would you chose and why? A single 295GTX, a sli 285GTX (FTW), or a SLI 280GTX? the price of a 295 is $499, the price of a 285 (FTW) is $379, and the price of a 280 is $265. input and Ideas are appreciated....
As for the rest of the system: Cost with out GPU and WC setup $1700
Also any one want a Evga 8800gtx $65 + shiping?
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Hi new here and have a question...
Hello All,
I am new to this forum and I just would like some of your opinions about my next computer build.
I am in the middle of getting all the parts together for a new PC. I use it for gaming, web surfing, video stuff, etc. The parts I have so far are as follows:
case: COOLER MASTER COSMOS
CPU: intel core I7 920
RAM: 6GB OCZ Plat.
DVD RW: SAMSUNG 20X w/ lightscribe
It is not much, but it is a start. What I am asking mainly is I am not sure where to go on the video cards. I would like an SLI/Crossfire setup, but which does everyone like as far as bang for the buck? I am thinking about 2x 4850 or 4870's
I am going to order the HX series 850 Watt power supply by corsair and I am using 2x 36gb 10k rpm raptors in RAID, I like them so I am going to get 2X 150GB velociraptors this time.
My rig now is a P4 2.4 that I run at under 3.0. I am not going to overclock this one that much, but maybe a bit. So that is my story, let me know if you have any suggestions.
Thanks,
Mike
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AT&T, Sprint Announce New Plans To Convince You They're The Best
Sprint and AT&Thave announced dueling phone plan changes geared toward making you feelyou as if you can call anyone, anywhere, anytime and not pay an extracent.
Sprint's plan is moving past its "calling circles" and is called the Any Mobile,Anytime plan. Basically, it's unlimited calling between mobile phones,no matter the service provider, within the United States. The marketingtag is that users can "cut the cord and save money," implying this ishow and why consumers should finally get rid of their landlines. Nosmall point, seeing as Sprint used to hold a relatively major portionof the landline long distance market. While it still offers residentiallong distance service, its share of the mobile market is its main focusthese days. Plus, the company has offered long-distance via theInternet.The Any Mobile, Anytime plan is part of the SprintEverything Data plans, which start at $69.99 (for 450 minutes ofcalling time - want 900 minutes? That'll cost you another $20.). Theyhave unlimited text, picture and video messaging, as well as unlimiteddata services, which include email/Internet service, Sprint TV,streaming music and exclusive apps such as NFL Mobile Live and NASCARSprint Cup Mobile. There are rates, too, for families. A family of fourwould pay the equivalent of $42.50 per person, after adding in theextra two phones, for 1,500 minutes.
And just to keep track ofsuch things, Sprint's works on the Palm Pre and the soon-to-come HTCHero, as well as the Blackberry Tour.
Not to be outdone,AT&T launched its "A-List with Rollover," which gives you theability to choose five numbers in the U.S. you can call and not use upany of your minutes, whether or not they're on AT&T. The "Rollover"part is the reminder that any minutes you don't use, you don't lose, soyou can sort of double-dip, the company said. Anyone with an individualNation plan costing $59.99 or more can use this plan.
Families with AT&T plans of $89.99 or more can designate 10 numbers domestically for their VIPs.
You have to create your A-List on AT&T's web site.Fortunately, the numbers can be changed online whenever you want, so ifyou break up with your significant other, you can take him or her offthe list and put on your new sweetie. Or put your best bud back on thelist.
AT&T also announced the rollout of its High Speed Packet Access 7.2 technology, which is supposed to "provide a considerable speed boost"to the company's 3G mobile broadband network.
Basically, theHSPA will add capacity to support what is a now sometimes overloadedmobile data network and supposedly will meet the demands of a future 4Gnetwork. Six cities will be the beneficiaries of the HSPA for starters:Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles and Miami. Initialservice should be available there by year's end. By the end of nextyear, 25 of the nation's largest 30 markets will have the service, and90 percent of AT&T's network will have it by the end of 2011.
Theoretically,the upgraded network will have peak speeds of 7.2Mbps, but AT&Tsays customers typically will experience slower speeds, depending inpart on location, device used and network traffic at that time.
AT&T also will have six smartphones and two LaptopConnect cards compatible with the new technology by the end of this year.
TheHSPA rollout will be accompanied by an additional "backhaul" to thewireless network, beefing up the network's connections and backbone,the company said. That backhaul will support not only HSPA but also 4GLTE, which is scheduled for trials in 2010 and release in 2011.
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