Archive for November, 2009

Buffalo announced the new 1.5TB external hard drives

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Today Buffalo announced the latest HD-CLU2-WH series of external hard drives, the largest of the series of drive capacity is 1.5TB, it is a little poty that it is not equipped with USB 3.0 interface which is graduallyin-depth market.It still uses the current mainstream 2.0 (backward compatible with 1.1).

The new external hard drive size is 45 x 175 x 156mm, the weight is 1Kg with all-white design and it is divided into 500GB, 1TB and 1.5TB of three by volume , in environmental management with the assistance, the software can reduce idle power consumption nearly 75%.

Buffalo New External Hard Drive will be available later this month, 500GB/1TB/1.5TB are priced at 115 U.S. dollars, 174 dollars and 221 U.S. dollars.

Samsung provides Windows Mobile 6.5 Upgrade for Jack

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

Samsung yesterday released a software upgrade for Jack (SGH-i637). This upgrade includes Windows Mobile 6.5 system and a lot of software functional require which needs 5 to 10 minutes to complete. When a user upgrades,he needs to remove the SIM card of mobile phone, desktop System requires 32-bit Windows, run the WM Device Center 6.1 (Windows Vista and Windows 7 systems) or ActiveSync 4.5 (Windows XP), but also to turn off the firewall and antivirus software.

The software upgrade of the Windows Phone (Mobile) 6.5 Standard Edition, the elements are :

- Windows Marketplace for Mobile: you can directly access the Windows Mobile online store, fast search applications, safely and conveniently buy installments on mobile phones.

- IE Mobile 6: it offers the same experience with the desktop IE, including support for rich media content, such as Flash animations, YouTube and social networking sites, such as Facebook, Myspace.

- WiFi: Samsung Jack users can now use a WiFi hotspot the network operators offered to surf the internet.

- Vlingo: Samsung Jack can use Vlingo and voice controls to send text messages , telephone calls, search Web and open the local software.

Acer launches the first quad-core Core i7 Aspire Laptop

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009

Acer today quietly launched a high-end laptop “Aspire AS8940G-6865″, it not only has a resolution of 1920 × 1080 18.4-inch LED-backlit LCD screen, it is also equipped with Clarksfield Core i7-720QM 1.6GHz quad-core processors which though is only the new series of the most low-end models.

Other major configurations: PM55 motherboard, 2 × 2GB DDR3 RAM, 500GB 5400RPM 2.5-inch SATA hard drive, GeForce GTS 250M 1GB GDDR3 discrete graphics card, BD Combo drive, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11n wireless LAN, 5.1 channel sound card and 5 built-in speakers (Dolby Home Theater certification), ExpressCard/54 slot, Observing the card reader (SD / MMC / MS / MS PRO / xD), five USB 2.0 port, VGA / HDMI / eSATA port , multi-point touch pad … …

The powerful at the expense of size , the size or measurements reaches a size of 44.1 × 29.5 × 3.1-4.4 cm, weighs 4.58 kilograms there.

The laptop preloads with Windows 7 Home Premium Edition operating system and uses the 8-core 4800 milliamperes lithium-ion battery whose using life ups to 3 hours.

The Aspire AS8940G-6865 quad-core notebook has been selling on New Egg in the United States.The unit price is 1349.99 U.S. dollars.

Super-high-definition TV will be available in the earliest five years

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009

The current TVs and displays will put the high-definition as its own product promotion priority.The high-definition TV and movies have gradually become a potential requirement when people are viewing . However, development of new technologies are often ahead of the needs of users, super-high-definition television has begun to be referred to the people.

According to market research firm In-Stat’s forecast, super-high-definition TV will come out within 5-10 years, and now it sounds as though this time is a bit long, in view of the previous course of development of high-definition TV, and perhaps one day in the future when you look at to super-high-definition TV, you might feel a bit “sudden.”

It is learned that super-high-definition TV will have mainly two kinds of resolution: 7680 x 4320, and 3840 x 2160,We are in fact already touched 3840 x 2160 .AUO recently has demonstrated based on the resolution 65-inch panelat the international flat-panel display conference .

In-Stat believe that high-definition digital cinema experience will drive consumers to switch to super-high-definition TV, the European market penetration of super-high-definition television in 2021 initially up to 5% ,to reach 28% in 2025 .

However, if super-high-definition TV wants to achieve a breakthrough in the global market, it has to wait until 2023 or 2024, when super-high-definition television household share is only 10%.

Apple takes use of Google AdWords to fight back Microsoft Win7

Monday, November 2nd, 2009

According to today ’s report of foreign media , Apple are putting ads through Google AdWords on Google search engine to fight back Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system.

Using subtle ways to attack Microsoft which seems to have become a “favorite” of Apple’s marketing department. Apple had previously adopted a large number of television commercials and online advertising to compare Apple and Microsoft products. Google AdWords has become Apple’s new marketing position.

Currently, when the users search  “download windows 7″, or “windows 7 download” through the Google search engine, they will see Apple’s ads in the search results page sidebar. Entitled “Upgrade to Windows 7 it?”, While the subtitle is “Now is the best time to change to the Mac, please see the reasons.”