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Hitachi Agrees With IBM For The 32-nm Chips
It looks like IBM has magical powers. They used their spells to attract a new partner for the chips which are using 32-nm circuitry. Hitachi is the latest company that signed a two-year deal and they joined the party consisting of AMD, Toshiba, Freescale, Sony, STMicroelectronics, Infineon, Chartered and Samsung. The only company that doesn’t [...]
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MetaRam Announces New MetaSDRAM Technology
MetaRam has presented a new technology for desktops which is supposed to accelerate DRAM densities by 2 to 4 years. The new technology is called MetaSDRAM and it consists of an increase of the memory. They aim to double or even quadruple the amount of memory with the help of the 8GB or 16Gb chipsets [...]
27Feb2008 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
The Largest Wireless Network In The World
The Duke University is set to become the home of the biggest 802.11n Wireless Network. It will feature 2,500 access points and the previous record was held by the Ohio State University with 1,700 access points. Tracy Futhey, Duke’s chief information officer, says that “Wireless on our campus is absolutely critical to our 24-by-7 population. [...]
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NVIDIA Has Strong Reasons To Buy AMD
Many analysts have said that NVIDIA might buy AMD, because lately they feel threatened by Intel and AMD, after their roadmap of integration of the CPU and GPU and now Doug Friedman, from the American Technology Research also affirms that. Now, if NVIDIA is really going to buy AMD, it’s Intel’s time to feel threatened [...]
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Regatta Luxury Complex Looks Like A Futuristic Space Station
A new luxury complex is being built in Jakarta, Indonesia, on the Java Sea coast and should include 11 buildings, along with an Aqua Park. The preview looks more than amazing, much interesting than Dubai is.
The new complex is called Regatta and should be finished in the next few years, including an aerodynamically-shaped hotel, 10 [...]
Toshiba To “Suspend” HD-DVD
Well another bad news for HD-DVD. Toshiba is expected to cut down this format in the coming weeks although Jodi Sally, VP of marketing for Toshiba America Consumer Products, thinks that HD DVD is the best option for consumers due to its provided quality.
According to Jodi Toshiba will watch how things go for now given [...]
Michael Bay: “I Told You!”
Michael Bay is a successful film director and producer - his best movies are Armageddon, Pearl Harbour, The Rock, Bad Boys I + II and Transformers. Also, he is one of the members of Propaganda Films, a music video production company.
He presented the award for animated character in a motion picture at the Visual Effects Society’s sixth [...]
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Demands $60.5 Million Back From Nokia
The state of North Rhine-Westphalia, from Germany, demands its subsidies of $60.5 million back from Nokia. The Economy Ministry said that Nokia has to pay them the subsidies used to change a TV plant into their factory. According to the Nokia spokeswoman, Arja Suominen, Nokia is astonished, because they’ ve exceeded all the conditions of [...]
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Samsung To Exclusively Distribute HydroGen’s Fuel Cell Plants
Samsung has signed a partnership with HydroGen, an US-based company that produces phosphoric acid fuel cell ( PAFC ) power plants. The Master Cooperation Agreement’s terms state that Samsung will be HydroGen’s power plants exclusive distributor in Asia, Middle East and also other regions.
HydroGen has also agreed to design a multi-megawatt PAFC plant to operate [...]
Apple Will Use Silverthorne For Multiple Devices
The rivalry between Apple and Intel seems to vanish. In the near future, the “fruit company” will be one of the numerous supporters of Intel’s “Menlow” Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform. Apple will use for many products on 2008 the 45nm Silverthorne chips. These mini-chips are as fast as the second generation of Pentium M processors, but they “need” between half-a-watt and [...]
21Dec2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Google Introduces Mobile Phone Locator
Google has unveiled a great technology, for those that doesn’t own a GPS-equipped cell phone, the phone locater. Unfortunately, this is not as precise as the GPS, but can locate the cell within 3 miles of it’s location. It has some good parts, in comparison with the GPS, it drains less battery and also works [...]
29Nov2007 | Martin J. | 1 comment | Continued
Google to pay $4.6 Billion for the 700Mhz spectrum
Wall Street Journal reported that Google is going to pay $4.6 Billion for the rights on the 700Mhz wireless spectrum. And it seems like Google is doing this business alone, with no partners, being possible to even borrow some money.Google is already tests the spectrum, as FCC released them a test license. They are already [...]
16Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Masi “Hiro” Oka chosen as OLPC global ambassador
Hiro, from the drama series Heroes has been chosen as global ambassador for the OLPC ( One Laptop per Child ) project.Masi Oka, the actor behind Hiro has been nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe and is the star of NBC. From now on, he will appear in online and TV public service announcements [...]
1Nov2007 | Martin J. | 0 comments | Continued
Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric car announced
More and more electric cars are being released and Mitsubishi couldn’t stay apart from this, so at the Tokyo Motor Show they announced the compact i-MiEV car. It will be powered by a pack of Li-ion batteries, that will offer the car an autonomy of 100 miles.
Unfortunately, the charging takes quite long, with 7 hours [...]
First plug-in hybrid luxury car announced
A great plug-in hybrid luxury car has been announced by Fisker Automotive to be released next year at the Detroit Auto Show in January. The company will produce about 15,000 cars annually, being priced at a bit less than $100,000.
The car uses the latest hybrid technologies, developed by Quantum Technologies, being produced exclusively for Fisker [...]