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Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Active standard 3D glasses

In order to use the active 3D glasses you need to synchronize the alternating images in the screen with the LCD lenses, namely, connect the glasses with the screen through a stereo sync signal connector. So far the active 3D glasses type weren’t compatible between different brands. That’s why Sony, Samsung and Panasonic have joined the manufacturer of 3D glasses XpanD to develop a new standard together.

Another Asus tablet - the EeePAd Slider

The Asus EeePAd Slider is another one of the awaited tablets with a slide keyboard for the Android segment. The Slider has a qwerty keyboard that, in this case, is attached to the device and it hides in its inferior side, it detaches in just one movement which gives it a portable feel.

The integrated sliding keyboard offers a faster and more comfortable way to write than the touchscreen, which improves user productivity without giving away maximum portability.

Friday, August 5, 2011

The OCZ Z-drive R4 outdoes itself

OCZ released its new PCI Express solid state drive 2.0, the Z-Drive R4, a product for companies that need the most cutting edge hardware and is the fourth revision of a product that people talked a lot about.

These new drives present the VCA 2.0 OCZ’s interface which is able to develop new levels of bandwidth managing more effectively access to the unit and being compatible with standard SCSI commands in a high performance virtualized environment.

Razer Electra’s headphones for tablets and cell phones

These stunning headphones are designed with a large size and to not disturb other people. It has green highlights and a very careful design in the form of entwined serpents. If you are one of those who play with an iPad or an XPERIA PLAY more than in a console, these headphones are for you!

Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Asus UX21 Ultrabook arrives!

The innovation imposed by Apple with the Macbook air, the ultrabooks or ultrathin laptops, will be extend on September with new models that the worldwide known brands, like Asus, will mass-produce in order to challenge the Tablets.

Nex C3, Sony's new camera

Offering the best in these kind of models plus a few improvements, Sony has started a war with its new Nex C3 to see who will manage to have the smallest mirrorless interchangeable lens camera.

Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Nokia N9 button less and with MeeGo

Nokia has promised its arrival before the end of the year and complied. The Nokia N9 was officially introduced at the Nokia Connection event in Singapore with MeeGo as its operating system and without any front-facing button (in its side it has one for the camera and another for volume).

AMD Fusion for laptops

AMD has introduced its weapons, the long awaited AMD Fusion CPUs to give battle to the second generation of Intel Core Processors, codenamed Sandy Bridge, which have proved to be a remarkable improvement in the graphic field, with excellent performance in general and competitive prices.

Monday, June 13, 2011

Apple announces OS X Lion, iOS 5 and iCloud

Steve Jobs introduced the three new technological developments of Apple for the 2011. The new products are: iCloud online storage and sync system, iOS its mobile operating system and OS X Lion an update to the MACs operating system.

Thursday, May 26, 2011

Skype goes down globally

Microsoft stars with the wrong foot, just after a couple of weeks since they acquired Skype. The free calling service is having problems worldwide on Thursday the 26th of May, affecting more than eight millions users, and only a few days after the company has introduced their first upgrades on the program, compelling a lot of customers to update their Skype with a download.

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Acer and Samsung, the first companies to release Chromebooks

Google made the announcement of an agreement with Acer and Samsung to market Chromebooks laptops with Chrome as the operating system, to be released in mid-June with prices ranging the 349 dollars. The most distinctive feature of Chromebooks is that neither the user data nor the applications and multimedia content are stored in the laptops, but on remote servers, aka the Cloud.

Monday, May 16, 2011

HP renews the design of its desktop PCs

The new Pavilion desktop PCs come with a renewed design, strengthening HP’s trust in the traditional towers PCs by refreshing the appearance of the three main chassis designs in its tower line.
These are: the HP Pavilion HPE h8, the Pavilion p7, and the Pavilion Slimline s5. They all feature a new design with a minimalist finish and look, which seem to be focused to be placed in the living room and to be a home theater solution.

Samsung improves tablet screens with "PenTile" technology

Samsung has improved tablet screen resolution with its PenTile RGBW technology. The prototype is a 10.1 inches LCD screen that comes with a resolution of 2650 by 1600 pixels, with 298.9 ppp. It also allows a 40% less power consumption and a 300 cd/m2 luminance in its safe energy mode, while in its exterior mode offers a luminance of 600 cd/m2.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Microsoft acquires Skype for $8.500 million

After a week that it was speculated that Skype would be in talks with Google and Facebook for a possible merger, acquisition or joint project, newspapers and specialized technology blogs such as All Things Digital y GigaOM, ensure that the deal has already been done and it would be announced this Wednesday 11th May. Both, Microsoft and Skype made no comments.