Archive for: August 22, 2007

August 22, 2007

Greenhouse offers up 22-inch widescreen LCD in Japan

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

Filed under: Displays
Though you may be apt to link Greenhouse’s name with incredibly small DAPs, the firm’s TIG223SDB-L proves that it understands a thing or two about displays, too. Rockin’ a 22-inch widescreen format, that sleek, all-black monitor touts a 1,680 x 1,050 resolution display, HDCP-co…

Palm Foleo delayed amid criticism on development

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

Filed under: Cellphones, Laptops
According to a Barron’s report published nowadays, Deutsche Bank analyst Johnathan Goldberg has released a short note claiming that the Foleo — Palm’s much-derided quasi-laptop — is headed for production delays. Goldberg states in the note that “In a round of check…

Pentax announces new Optio Z10 and S10

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

Pentax has a couple of new digital cameras nowadays, check it: the Z10 features an 8 megapixel CCD (up to ISO 2100), 7x zoom, and 52MB of internal memory. The S10 has a 10 megapixel CCD with up to 3x zoom, 22MB internal memory, and can shoot DivX MPEG-4 videos. Both share digital anti-shake, 2.5…

HP’s MediaSmart domestic Servers get a release date

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

whether you’re keeping abreast of the Windows domestic Server proceedings (and we suspect you are) thereupon you’re probably somewhat familiar with the HP EX470 / EX475. Furthermore, whether you’ve been eyeing the two, drive-filled towers and been hoping to know when you might get your hands on …

Windows domestic Server System Specs, Prices, Launch period Leaked

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

“Details about the first OEM systems equipped with Windows domestic Server are leaking out on to the ‘net, and it looks like HP is going to get the ball rolling with its MediaSmart domestic Server. Prices for the units were accidentally posted on several sites, such as PC Mall and onSale.com, and it…

Phantom Entertainment returns, aims to infiltrate hotel rooms

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

Those terribly saddened by the recent drought of Phantom Entertainment news now have something to celebrate, as the current king of vaporware has seemingly inked an utterly worthless marketing agreement with ProGames Network to “place the Lapboard and Phantom Game Service composition in [select]…

DragonflyBSD 1.10.1 Released

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

DragonflyBSD 1.10.1 has been released. It includes several bugfixes. “DragonFly is an operating system and environment originally based on FreeBSD. DragonFly branched from FreeBSD in 2003 in order to develop a radically different approach to concurrency, SMP, and most other kernel subsystems.”Origin…

2007 Desktop Linux Survey Results Revealed

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

It is not too surprising that Ubuntu came in first in DesktopLinux.com’s 2007 Desktop Linux Market Survey, or that Firefox was the topmost browser by far. increasingly interesting is that for the first duration ever in the site’s annual surveys, GNOME surpassed KDE among desktop environments (45% by…

HD video: Roomba 560 vs Discovery

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

Anyone at all interested in domestic robots — particularly those too lazy to hoover their own floors — will want to see just how well iRobot’s new Roomba 560 fares against its predecessor, the Discovery. Well, we’ve pitted the two against one another in noise, speed, cable management, docking,…

AMD’s chief sales and marketing officer resigns

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

According to an composition recently put out by The Wall Street Journal, Advanced Micro Devices’ chief sales and marketing officer Henri Richard is stepping down. Reportedly, AMD’s top sales exec “decided to leave AMD considering of another job opportunity,” although we aren’t told where precise…

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Ageia announces PhysX 100M processor for gaming laptops

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

Although it’s been well by a year since the Ageia PhysX processor made any noise at all by on the desktop front, the firm is taking full advantage of the exposure provided at the Games conference in Germany to unveil the PhysX 100M processor for “high-performance” gaming lappies. According to th…

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Intel readying slew of 45nm Penryn mobile CPUs?

Filed under: Review - 22 Aug 2007

Hot on the heels of Intel’s mobile Core 2 Extreme X7900 comes word that the chip maker has eleven 45-nanometer CPUs in the backroom just waiting to take the laptop scene by storm. DigiTimes has it that Intel will indeed launch the five Penryns we heard about recently “in the first quarter of 200…

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