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Archive for the ‘Hardware’ Category
November 12th, 2008 LCD Price Fixer Get Fined
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Three major electronics manufacturers have agreed to plead guilty to a price-fixing conspiracy and pay $585 million in criminal fines for their roles in the pricing of LCD display panels, the Justice Department said Wednesday.
The department announced the charges following a settlement with Sharp Corp. of Japan; LG Display Co. (LPL) of South Korea and Chunghwa Picture Tubes of Taiwan.
The charges were filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, Calif., and announced by the assistant attorney general for antitrust at the Justice Department in Washington.
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November 12th, 2008 Dell in the ArtHouse
The latest Studio 15 and Studio 17 notebooks, with covers featuring original artwork from Joseph Amedokpo, Siobhan Gunning, and Bruce Mau, also support the fight against AIDS in Africa.
Dell (Dell) on Tuesday launched a line of artsy notebooks for consumers looking for an unusual cover design and a way to contribute to the fight against AIDS.
The latest Studio 15 and Studio 17 notebooks are available with original artwork from Joseph Amedokpo, Siobhan Gunning, and Bruce Mau. With each purchase, Dell will contribute $20 to the Global Fund, which is combating the spread of AIDS in Africa.
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November 6th, 2008 SanDisk ExtremeFFS “100x Faster” SSD Write
SSDs will apparently get a serious (extreme, if you will) upgrade in the coming year, with SanDisk’s announcement of a new technology dubbed ExtremeFFS (Flash File System). It is, as you can possibly guess, a new file system, but it’ll use page-based methods so that the data’s location on the drive won’t be tied to its physical space, as it is now. SanDisk says this means that random write speeds are going to be 100 times faster than they are on drives using current technology. The company hopes that this advance, coupled with other upcoming standards, will lead to widespread adoption of SSDs in PCs (and much, much more money in their pockets). That should fit in nicely with news we just heard that Microsoft’s Windows 7, unlike Vista, will include optimization for use with the drives. While actual drives that carry ExtremeFFS have yet to be announced, SanDisk expects them to ship in 2009. Fun times.
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November 6th, 2008 Intel Core i7 Launch Date Set
Intel will launch the Core i7 “Nehalem” microprocessor on Nov. 17, according to an emailed invitation sent Wednesday to reporters.
Intel’s invitation claims that the chip will be “the fastest processor on the planet”. Intel has based its claim on the SPECint_rate_base2006 benchmark, which will apparently be highlighted at the event, to be held in San Francisco.
The quad-core Core i7 architecture is Intel’s first microprocessor design since the original Core architecture succeeded the Pentium family in 2006.
The Nehalem/Core i7 architecture has already been extensively benchmarked. Intel has also released the prices it will charge for the Core i7, which are aggressive enough so that the low-end Core i7-920 will dip into the sub-$300 range. The complementary X58 chipset, which will be used in motherboards tied to the Core i7, has also been reviewed.
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November 6th, 2008 Sony Ericsson Release Two New Products
Building on an array of innovative launches in 2008, Sony Ericsson announces two new products into its mobile music range looking beyond music into 2009 to offer the most state-of-the art mobile music experience.
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November 3rd, 2008 PanaSanyoic
It’s been tentative for a while, but the Nikkei is reporting that Panasonic and Sanyo have come to an agreement, and Pansonic’s buying up Sanyo. The actual act should be completed by April next year, and will result in one mega-corporation with revenues over ¥11.2 trillion (around $110 billion)—sounds like enough money to build quite a few mega-robots, or at least several mega-TVs. As part of what will be Japan’s biggest electronics company, Sanyo won’t be disappearing as a brand though, and Panasonic apparently intends to retain most of Sanyo’s employees. [Bloomberg]
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October 29th, 2008 NetFlix streamed to Xbox 360
It’s something you can’t get on the Roku. Nor on LG’s BD300. Nor on Samsung’s P2500 / P2550 Blu-ray players. Nor through Netflix’s own “Watch Instantly” portal. It’s high-def Netflix streaming, and it’s coming first to Microsoft’s Xbox 360. Just in case you glossed over this massively huge tidbit when digesting the new dashboard information this morning, we’re here to remind you that when the aforesaid dash hits on November 19th, with it will come HD Netflix streaming for (US-based, presumably) Xbox Live Gold members. You should know that this is only a “soft launch” with about 300 titles available for now, and the litany of details you’re surely craving simply aren’t available at present time. At any rate, we’d say things just got a lot more interesting in the world of digital downloads, but there’s really no need. The real question is: when will everyone else follow suit, and how quickly can we expect current Netflix streamers to get the HD upgrade?
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October 29th, 2008 Super Talent Offers Solid-Gold USB Drive
For people who can still afford wealth-flaunting luxury despite the global economic crisis, Super Talent Technology is offering a limited edition solid-gold USB drive.
Besides style for the rich, the 28-carat Pico-C offers 8 GB of storage and boasts data-transfer speeds of up to 30 MB per second, the company said. The device is also water resistant and includes an 18-carat gold key chain, encryption software and a serialized certificate of authenticity.
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October 29th, 2008 Wal-Mart To Sell Discounted G1
T-Mobile’s Android-powered G1 handset just got a powerful retail ally as Wal-Mart said it will sell the smartphone in 550 stores starting Wednesday.
Customers who buy the handset from Wal-Mart will also get a discount, as the retail giant will be selling it for $148.88 for new customers who sign up for a two-year contract. Google (NSDQ: GOOG), HTC, and T-Mobile launched the G1 last week, and customers paid $179 for the handset.
