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DOMK Receives Confirmation That 1st “SolaPad” Units Are Being Prepared for Shipment
25 May 2012 12:30 PM | No CommentsLONGWOOD, Fla.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DoMark International Inc. (OTCBB: DOMK) announced today that management of its wholly-owned subsidiary, SolaWerks, has confirmation from the manufacturer of the hot new “SolaPad” product that the first order...
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New Autodesk SketchBook Ink App Delivers Stunning Creative Tools for iPad
24 May 2012 12:59 PM | No CommentsSAN RAFAEL, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Autodesk, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSK) launched Autodesk SketchBook Ink for iPad paint and drawing app, the latest release from the company’s popular SketchBook...
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Vegas Tech Start Up Questionable LLC Launches Questionable Friends iPhone App
23 May 2012 4:53 PM | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Questionable™ today introduced Questionable Friends™ for iPhone®. Questionable Friends lets you send questions to your contacts and provides instant feedback as questions are answered. Answers can be ...
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Sidecar Revolutionizes Phone Calls by Bringing “Smart Calling” to Smartphones
22 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsSAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Launching today, Sidecar (www.sidecar.me) is a new mobile app that brings Smart Calling to smartphones. Smart Calling allows people to share live See What I See video, brilliant ...
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TransCore Launches Mobile iPad App for TransSuite Traffic Management System
21 May 2012 12:00 PM | No CommentsWASHINGTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Intelligent Transportation Society of America Annual Meeting – TransCore brings the ease of mobile computing to its TransSuite® advanced traffic management system (ATMS), launching its iPad® ...
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Power Consumption Archive
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Panasonic Develops Industry’s Lowest Power Consumption* Chipset of Less Than 1-Watt for Multi-gigabit Millimeter Wave Wireless Communication
Posted on March 19, 2012 | No Commentsvar AdBrite_Title_Color = '0000FF'; var AdBrite_Text_Color = '000000'; var AdBrite_Background_Color = 'FFFFFF'; var AdBrite_Border_Color = 'CCCCCC'; var AdBrite_URL_Color = '008000'; try{var AdBrite_Iframe=window.top!=window.self?2:1;var AdBrite_Referrer=document.referrer==''?document.location:document.referrer;AdBrite_Referrer=encodeURIComponent(AdBrite_Referrer);}catch(e){var AdBrite_Iframe='';var AdBrite_Referrer='';} document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,83,67,82,73,80,84));document.write(' src="http://ads.adbrite.com/mb/text_group.php?sid=2053203&zs=3436385f3630&ifr='+AdBrite_Iframe+'&ref='+AdBrite_Referrer+'" type="text/javascript">');document.write(String.fromCharCode(60,47,83,67,82,73,80,84,62)); OSAKA, Japan–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Panasonic Corporation today announced it has developed a chipset for multi-gigabit millimeter wave wireless communication... -
Peregrine Semiconductor’s New STeP5 UltraCMOS™ Process Technology Drives Record Demand
Posted on February 13, 2012 | No CommentsSAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, a fabless provider of high-performance radio-frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs), today announced that it has shipped its billionth CMOS-on-sapphire... -
Javelin Semiconductor’s CMOS 3G Power Amplifier Selected by Samsung
Posted on February 1, 2012 | No CommentsAUSTIN, Texas–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Javelin Semiconductor, Inc., innovator of the world’s first high-performance CMOS 3G power amplifier (PA), today announced that Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., has selected Javelin’s JAV5501 Band I PA ... -
Frontier Silicon’s High Performance Slave Mode DAB, DAB+ and DMB-Radio Module Will Make Digital Radio a Standard in All Consumer Home Audio Products
Posted on January 6, 2011 | No CommentsLAS VEGAS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CES: Frontier Silicon, the leading supplier of digital radio and network audio technology, today announces its first digital radio receiver module specifically optimised for slave mode operation in a... -
Find out what evil lurks inside the Xbox 360 Slim
Posted on June 18, 2010 | No Comments
Wondering what's in the new Xbox Slim? No? Well tough, it's a slow news day, and I'm writing about it, so you're just going to have to read it. Microsoft has been hard at work on the the 360 Slim for a while and it's only fair that you pay attention and see what's they've done to improve the original hardware and make the new system run cooler, quieter, and more efficiently.
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Droid Xtreme struts its solid, metallic stuff
Posted on June 2, 2010 | No CommentsEver since childhood, I’ve always thought that adding metal to something automatically made it that much cooler. Slap some tin foil on a few paper towel rolls for example, and you’ve got yourself a nifty homemade Star Wars blaster. Ditto for enhancing your punching power with a roll of quarters when facing a bully on [...] -
Liquavista achieves ultra-low power consumption with latest dynamic low frequency driving schemes
Posted on May 25, 2010 | No CommentsUnique driving capability provides an intelligent power consumption platform, addressing the consumer desire of true mobility. 25 May 2010. Today, Liquavista BV, announced a new dynamic frame rate capability down to frequencies as low as 1Hz, resulting in ultra-low power electrowetting display driving, aimed at providing... -
Intel’s Atom Z6xx series isn’t targeting Windows Phone 7, but ‘full Windows experience’ still an Atom priority
Posted on May 5, 2010 | No CommentsAs many times as Intel has tried and failed to shoehorn its way into the phone arena, you'd think it'd want to pimp as many notable platforms as it possibly could -- but strangely, Windows Phone 7 is notably absent from Intel's fact sheet on the just-announced, smartphone-focused Z6xx series of Atom cores. Instead, the wording of the paperwork clearly spells out that Android and MeeGo / Moblin are the focal points right now, which is leading everyone to wonder whether Intel's looking to steer clear of Microsoft's mobile strategy altogether. Granted, Microsoft's focus is clearly on ARM right now with its Qualcomm partnership having been announced back in February, but we're sure it wouldn't take too much pressure from Intel to get an x86 build of Windows Phone out there if these guys really wanted to play ball. We reached out to Intel to get some clarification on the issue and got this in response:
What's getting us here is Intel's seemingly careful phrasing: "full Windows experience on Atom." Does that mean that Intel wants to keep Atom up in the Windows 7 end of the horsepower spectrum and avoid Windows Phone for the foreseeable future? It seems like a tough sell to say that Android is playing in an entirely different ballpark than Windows Phone is, and we're not sure that Intel can effectively argue that distinction -- but hey, with the Z6xx series' iffy power consumption stats, maybe it's for the best."Intel's goal is to ensure we offer our customers a choice of software that runs best on our processors. Yesterday's announcement was focused on Linux OSs, however our strategy is to also support a full Windows experience on Atom as we do with Menlow, Intel's first generation atom chip for mobile devices and Pinetrail, Intel's chip family for netbooks. Stay tuned."
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NEC develops eco-friendly, super-efficient CPU cooling system
Posted on April 30, 2010 | No Comments
NEC has developed an eco-friendly cooling system for CPUs, claiming the technology [JP] uses uses 60% less energy than a water-cooling system and even 80% less than an air-cooling system. The core of the system is a liquid chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) substitute, which circulates around the CPU to draw away heat and has low greenhouse effects.
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Nikon patents strange LCD screen
Posted on April 29, 2010 | No Comments
Patents are always so much fun, and such a source of random speculation. Take for example this new LCD display from Nikon. What could it be? Is it for a DLSR? Maybe for video? No one knows, and of course Nikon isn't talking, but it's interesting to put your best guess out there.
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PS3 Slim now ever more slimmer (and more efficient)
Posted on April 27, 2010 | No Comments
Sony just can't seem to leave well enough alone, it turns out that they have managed to redesign the RSX GPU to make it even smaller and more efficient. A recent tear-down by Japanese fansite PocketNews showed off the fact that they Nvidia GPU used in all the PS3 Slim units has been reduced to an even smaller size since launch.
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Is the Nexus One’s display inferior to the Droid’s?
Posted on April 6, 2010 | No CommentsScience! Big words! These are two things we like around these parts, even if we don’t really understand them. When I look at the Nexus One’s display, I can’t help but slap my knee and let out some sort of proclamation of joy, like “Gee Wiz!”, or “Well, I’ll be!”, or “Fwaaaaarg.” Some people, however, [...] -
Tearing down the Apple A4 processor
Posted on April 6, 2010 | No Comments
Kyle at iFixit and his buddies at Chipworks straight up tore into the A4 chip that appears in the Apple iPad. The chip is an ARM processor with a small RAM package made by Samsung. The processor itself is made entirely by Apple although it is based mostly on the original Samsung processor made for the iPhone.
Other interesting points include the possibility of an onboard GPU, the same one powering the iPhone, namely the PowerVR SGX 535. This means while the screen is bigger the graphics aren't much faster. The iPad also has 256MB ram and, most important, the CPU "sips" power.
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Video: Mini fuel cell powering a robot fish
Posted on March 16, 2010 | No Comments
This robotic fish is not the first of its kind, but it's certainly one of the coolest out there (granted, not too many of these actually exist). Developed by the Faculty of Engineering at Osaka City University, the unnamed robo fish can move very realistically and has a key selling point: It can be powered by a solid-polymer fuel cell dubbed "Power Tube".
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Pioneer DJM-2000. Turntables are out, touchscreen is in
Posted on March 11, 2010 | No CommentsDJ gear is unique in audio in that more than any other equipment, it has to be flashy and able to take a pounding. Usually in the form of spilt beer. My main concern with Pioneer’s new DJM-2000 is how the touchscreen will react to the rough-and-tumble world of house music and ecstasy. But it [...]