Engineers construct 220 million pixel computer display August 25, 2007

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world – with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels.
The system located at the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is also linked via optical fiber to Calit2’s building at UC [...]

Engineers construct 220 million pixel computer display August 25, 2007

Engineers at the University of California, San Diego have constructed the highest-resolution computer display in the world – with a screen resolution up to 220 million pixels.
The system located at the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) is also linked via optical fiber to Calit2’s building at UC [...]

Via announces one-watt processor August 25, 2007

Via Technologies has unveiled its 500MHz Eden CPU which it claims is the most power-efficient x86 processor yet produced.
The new chip draws a single watt of power when in use, and just 0.1 watt when idle, and joins Via’s ultra-low voltage processor family designed primarily for ultra-mobile applications.
Because of its very low power draw the [...]

Fujitsu’s ‘Nanohole’ Tech Could Triple Hard Drive Capacity August 11, 2007

Last November, we reported on Fujitsu’s efforts to overcome a curious problem with the physics of hard disk drives: storing magnetic data at densities that are smaller than the grains of the underlying ferromagnetic medium should physically allow. The company’s solution involved a combination of lasers to locate precise locations on the drive, and also [...]

AMD’s War with Intel Becomes a Street Brawl August 4, 2007

The war between Intel and AMD this week became almost entirely rhetorical, following the European Commission’s action last week, charging Intel with abuse of its dominant power status on that continent. While US antitrust law holds companies to a higher standard of conduct once they have attained monopoly power through non-illegal means, EU law sets [...]

Apple Files New Wi-Fi iPod Patents July 14, 2007

 
Apple may be close to developing a Wi-Fi enabled iPod as a new patent application submitted recently by the company indicates it is developing a way for devices to talk to each other through a wireless network.
First reported by Macsimum News on Thursday, the patent sounds quite similar to what Microsoft is already doing with [...]

Wii outsells PS3 ’six to one’ in Japan July 9, 2007

Nintendo sold 270,974 Wii consoles last month while Sony sold 41,628 PS3s, according to Enterbrain, a Japanese publisher that tracks console sales.
Nintendo has sold about 2.76m Wii consoles in Japan since the launch last December, while Sony has sold 970,270 PS3s since it debuted last November.
About 17,616 Xbox 360 consoles were sold [...]

LG’s Google Phone Coming to Europe June 23, 2007

The Korea Times is reporting that LG Electronics has unveiled their new cell phone which offers a full range of services provided by Google, or as us bloggers like to call it, the Google Phone.
The Google Phone (LG-KU580) is expected to hit the European markets this week and cost about $350.
The LG-KU580 will be the [...]

Apple Posts 20-Minute iPhone Tour June 23, 2007

Apple on Friday provided the most in-depth look at the iPhone, one week before the device debuts at AT&T and Apple stores across the United States. A 20-minute guided tour posted to the company’s Web site showcases the various features of the iPhone and explains how to use the touch screen.
While the tour doesn’t disclose [...]

AMD to introduce 45nm process AM3 CPU family in 2H08 June 23, 2007

AMD schedules to launch its 45nm process socket AM3 family processors in the second half of 2008. The processors will support HyperTransport 3.0 and will have a built-in DDR2/DDR3 memory controller. The processors will be backward compatible with the previous AM2 and AM2+ socket motherboards, according to sources at motherboard makers.
AMD’s AM3 family will include [...]

Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000 (1 Terabyte) Hard Drive review June 23, 2007

The terabyte race for consumer desktop hard drives has been on for a long time, now the first generation of drives is here. On April 25th, Hitachi announced that it would begin shipping the Deskstar 7K1000, their latest series of consumer hard drives, weighting in at 750GB and a monstrous 1000GB (1TB). The 1TB version [...]

New MacBook Pro Offers a Dazzling Display June 23, 2007

What a difference 540,000 pixels make.
I’m talking in this case about the latest MacBook Pro to grace my desk, the top-of-the-line 17-in. model with a glossy 1,920-by-1,200-pixel high-resolution screen tricked out with a 7,200-rpm 160GB hard drive and 4GB of RAM added post-purchase. Oh, and it uses Intel’s new 2.4-GHz Core 2 Duo with a [...]

iPhone Delivers Up to Eight Hours of Talk Time June 19, 2007

Apple® today announced that iPhone™ will deliver significantly longer battery life when it ships on June 29 than was originally estimated when iPhone was unveiled in January. iPhone will feature up to 8 hours of talk time, 6 hours of Internet use, 7 hours of video playback or 24 hours of audio playback.* In [...]

Sony Ericsson shows shake-to-shuffle Walkman phone June 17, 2007

Sony Ericsson’s been busy, busy, busy this week: in addition to announcing an upgraded Cyber-shot camera phone, it debuted a pair of new Walkman music phones – once controlled simply by shaking, rattling or rolling it.

Sony Ericsson’s W960: Symbian runner
What really makes the W960 stand out is its foundation on the Symbian operating system – [...]

Sony CEO Howard Stringer Studying, Refining PS3 Price June 17, 2007

Sir Howard Stringer commends Nintendo on Wii’s “cheaper” business model
The issue of the PlayStation 3’s price tag is one that refuses to go away, at least until it is on-par with a competing console.
Sony executives have had a couple different stances on the topic. In the western world, SCEA CEO Jack Tretton said that PS3 [...]

Sony Ericsson intros 5Mp Cyber-shot phone June 15, 2007

Sony Ericsson’s K850: 5Mp snapper
Sony Ericsson is to beef up its line of Cyber-shot camera phones with a new five-megapixel model, but you’re going to have to wait until nearly Christmas to get your hands on it.
The K850 is set to go on sale early in Q4 – October, basically. When it arrives, it will [...]

SanDisk inks agreement to support DivX June 15, 2007

DivX and SanDisk have announced a licensing agreement allowing SanDisk to include DivX technology in SanDisk’s Sansa line of video-enabled products.
As a result of the partnership, future SanDisk video products can include interoperability with the DivX Stage6 video website. This partnership is designed to provide SanDisk consumers with seamless access to the growing library of [...]

Toshiba To Speed Up Flash Memory Expansion June 13, 2007

Japan’s Toshiba plans to speed up its flash memory expansion plans and boost production capacity by 70 percent by June 2008, six months ahead of schedule.
Toshiba, the world’s second-largest maker of NAND flash chips, and its U.S. partner SanDisk will push forward ramp-ups at a 600 billion yen ($4.9 billion) plant under construction in [...]

Apple and YouTube Alliance June 2, 2007

In addition of having the ability to play movies, TV shows, music, photos, and podcasts, the Apple TV will soon to have another superman power – search and play YouTube videos on your big screen.
Coming in June, you can watch YouTube videos in a whole new way — on the big screen. Enjoy thousands of [...]

80GB PlayStation 3 Bound for South Korea May 21, 2007

According to official information posted on the PlayStation Korea website, the territory will be getting an 80GB hard drive inside the PS3 when it launches June 16. Neither the 20 GB nor the 60 GB PS3 consoles will be available in South Korea. Aside from the 80 GB hard drive, the hardware of the Korea-bound [...]

Review about is my Phone May 17, 2007

Sony Ericsson k810i
 

Sony Ericsson’s latest Cyber-shot handset is a photo-fanatic’s best friend, cramming in a 3.2 megapixel camera with auto-focus and a top-notch Xenon flash, as well as super-smart editing features.
 

Packing Sony Ericsson’s Photofix software, the K810i lets you tweak pictures to your heart’s content, without ever offloading them onto a [...]