Apr 30, 2008

2008 will mark the first year in which shipments of high-speed USB devices will surpass shipments of low- and full-speed USB-enabled devices, reports In-Stat (www.in-stat.com). But the most significant development over the past year in the USB market has been the announcement of SuperSpeed USB, the third ...
Feb 28, 2008

NVIDIA Corporation today announced that the Enthusiast System Architecture (ESA) extensions have now officially been adopted by the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF), paving the way for widespread industry adoption. As a result, the ESA protocol, which details the way PC peripherals can communicate with each other, will ...
Feb 20, 2008

ARM today announced at the Game Developers’ Conference, San Francisco, Calif., the ARM® Mali-JSR297™ software for 3D graphics, the first product to enable developers of Java applications to take advantage of the latest hardware graphics features found in OpenGL ES 2.0 graphics processing units (GPUs), such as ...
Feb 11, 2008

BenQ today announces the exhibition of its various next-generation mobile devices at this year’s Mobile World Congress. Visitors to the event can expect to see BenQ's maiden Mobile Internet Device (MID) which combines the advantages of a notebook and a smartphone to give users a full interactive ...
Feb 8, 2008

Microsoft has bought Caligari, a developer of 3D modeling software, in a move that could help enrich the graphics experience in Microsoft's Virtual Earth mapping system.
Caligari started making 3D modeling and animation software for the Amiga computer in the mid-1980s. Its signature tool, called trueSpace, has ...
Jan 21, 2008

Intel and Cisco announced today that they have opened a High-Performance Computing (HPC) Center, expanding IBM’s existing HPC facility here. The expanded state-of-the-art HPC center will offer customers, business partners and independent software vendors the ability to test and benchmark analytic software, engineering, aerospace design and other ...
Jan 21, 2008

LG Electronics (LG) announced today a new Dark Silver colour option for its popular LG Viewty professional-level camera phone, which has now sold over 550,000 units.
LG will begin offering the LG Viewty in Dark Silver in addition the current black. LG chose this new colour to ...
Jan 20, 2008

Here the first 100 tips and tricks of the 1000 list, I have collected them from all over the internet to my own usage, but found it interesting to let you master them while I upload the next 100. Some of them work fine ...
Jan 15, 2008
As Canada's Industry Minister Jim Prentice prepares to import the US's failed DMCA copyright regime to Canada, Michael Geist has a counterproposal. Geist wants all of Canada's members of Parliament to take a pledge not to undermine fair dealing (the Canadian analog to the US's fair use):
The pledge is simple:
I ...
Jan 15, 2008

In addition to the world debut of its all-new X6 Sports Activity Coupe at the 2008 Detroit Auto Show, BMW will also present the North American debut of an innovative hybrid concept like no other in the world -- the BMW Concept X6 ActiveHybrid. The vehicle is ...
Dec 27, 2007

Panasonic is currently developing a 150-inch plasma display that it will claim is the world's largest screen. The paper cites anonymous sources that claim Panasonic's new screen will measure 150-inches diagonally and will easily eclipse the current world's largest screen - JVC's ...
Dec 27, 2007

“maid taxi service for the disabled” that started in Kanzawa, Ishikawa Prefecture just three months ago, has been forced to close its doors due to the large number of otaku feigning physical problems in attempts to get close to ...
Dec 18, 2007

Intel Corporation announced its latest entry into the solid-state drive market with the Intel® Z-P140 PATA Solid-State Drive (SSD), one of the tiniest in the industry aimed at handheld mobile devices. Smaller than a penny and weighing less than a drop of water, these 2 Gigabyte (GB) ...
Dec 6, 2007

Here's a build of Mousey the Junkbot where the builder reused more of the mouse by creating wheels out of scroll wheels and using the cord as a tail on the power switch.
At this year's Bay Area Faire, several people asked me, in the spirit ...
Dec 6, 2007

Remember the teaser photos of the new 2008 Dodge Challenger SRT8 from the presales brochure that got posted to the web this week? Well, here they are, officially released from Chrysler in glorious hi-res. We are still loving that grille ...