Think HD video is a no-go in the mobile world? Think again. Casio has developed a new mobile LCD screen with extremely small pixels, the result being a resolution of 960×540 on a 2-inch display.
By densely packing smaller pixels within a square inch, the ability to see each pixel diminishes and results in a smoother, more print-like view. Casio’s LCD has 546 dots per inch (DPI), which is significantly higher than today’s QVGA and VGA mobile displays.
via Electronista
Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday he still sees a “certain buoyancy” among technology and telecommunications customers worldwide, despite recent U.S. economic woes.
“Our industry is not immune to what goes on in the global economy. And yet as I travel…given the current circumstances, people still see a certain buoyancy in the market,” Ballmer told a meeting of Silicon Valley civic leaders. “At least, for now, people are feeling, I won't say optimistic, but better than you would be feeling if you are watching CNBC all day,” he said of the financial TV channel. Ballmer, the leader of the world's largest software maker, said he was speaking generally of industry demand rather than his own business.
Gigabyte Technology will not follow recent moves by rival Asustek Computer to cut its motherboard prices, according to Richard Ma, vice president of Gigabyte. Ma pointed out that if Gigabyte followed suit, it would only force Asustek to cut its prices further causing an impact on the whole industry. Gigabyte's strategy will be to focus on improving quality to attract consumers. Since Gigabyte already has a firm base in the motherboard channel market and most of the consumers who purchase mid-range or high-end motherboards put quality as their first concern, Ma believes these factors will help counter Asustek's price cut strategy.
Gigabyte is conservative about its motherboard shipments in 2008 due to falling demand and the new price competition, but will still maintain its original goal of 20 million units, an increase of 4.5% compared to shipments of 19.14 million units in 2007. Since profits from the company's OEM motherboard business are low, Gigabyte is continuing to reduce its proportion of total shipments. The brand business currently accounts for 80% of total shipments. Shipments in July and August did not meet the company's original expectations, but demand in September has started to recover. Sequential shipment growth in the third quarter will be around 10-15%, stated Ma, adding that he expects shipments in October to be better than in September, and, with Intel set to launch its Core i7 CPUs and X58 chipset in November, sequential shipments growth in the fourth quarter will be around 10%. Graphics card shipments will be around 3.5-4 million units in 2008.
On Thursday Webkit, the open source browser engine that is notably used in both Safari and Chrome, announced that it is the first browser engine to fully pass the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Acid3 test. In late March Webkit announced it had achieved “most” of the Acid3 test, with the only missing issue the fact that part of the Acid3 test is that the animation during the test must be “smooth.” That same month, another engine, Presto, achieved the 100/100 rendering below, but it still has not achieved “smooth”
Palm has begun shipping its new Treo Pro Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional Smartphone. The Treo Pro is sold unlocked and can be used with any U.S. GSM/GPRS wireless service including AT&T Mobile and T-Mobile.
You can order the Treo Pro from the Palm Online Store.
It appears that a bug in a network driver used in the kernel of the latest alpha release of the popular Ubuntu Linux distro is damaging Intel network controllers, sometimes irreparably.In bug #263555 on the bugs.launchpad.net website titled, “[intrepid] 2.6.27 e1000e driver places Intel ICH8 and ICH9 gigE chipsets at risk”, it is noted that the NVRAM on Intel 82566 and 82567 based LAN controllers is being corrupted, but the bug seems to have affected only notebook users at this point…”In some circumstances
NVIDIA has posted a fresh set of Forceware drivers for all of you GeForce owners out there. The new Forceware 178.13s are WHQL-certified drivers for GeForce 6-series, 7-series, 8-series, 9-series, and 200-series GPUs, including the recently released GeForce 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, 9500 GT and 9400 GT GPUs.In addition to a number of bug fixes, NVIDIA has updated support for PysX in these new drivers and they also allow for two- and three-way SLI configurations on the Skulltrail platform.A number of performance enhancement
With a low-power Intel Core 2 Duo processor under its hood, the Dell Studio Hybrid is capable in many mainstream user applications and could make for a decent Home Theater PC. Aficionados may scoff at the system’s integrated Intel X3100 graphics, however, the Studio Hybrid has more than enough power to playback full 1080p resolution content with its Core 2 Duo dual core processor, 5400RPM 160GB hard drive, and DDR2-667 system memory. As a minimalistic business-class machine, family computer or college-bound
Sunbeamtech is the parent company of Tunig, which develops high performance equipment for the computer enthusiast and modding market with products like power supplies and CPU coolers. The Tuniq Tower 120 CPU cooler series have proven themselves to be top notch coolers, so when Sunbeamtech released the Core-Contact Freezer we had high hopes for how it will perform. Read on to see how the Core-Contact Freezer does!
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