Google To Challenge Windows and Mac
Rumours that Google are working on a desktop operating system, to rival Windows and the Mac OS have been floating around the web for a while and they’ve generally been dismissed but now it’s official. Google Chrome OS is due to hit the streets some time in the second half of 2010. Whether or not the good folk at Microsoft and Apple will be quaking in their boots remains to be seen but on past experience Google certainly has the clout to make it happen and the Android OS for smart phones is already starting to have an impact.
Chrome OS is designed to run on standard x86 PC hardware, as well as ARM chips and the ever popular Intel Atom used in the majority of netbooks. It’s going to be based on a Linux kernel and according to Sundar Picha, the Google Engineering director who broke the news on his blog, key user-inspired features will include near-instant startup and email download Read more
NVIDIA Is Still the King of Graphics
Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA is reported to have recorded an impressive first quarter in 2009, as the company managed to maintain its position as the number one GPU vendor on the market. The news comes after earlier reports, according to which Sunnyvale, California-based Advanced Micro Devices grabbed a market share of approximately 40 percent in the third quarter of 2008. However, NVIDIA now claims that its market share has increased to an impressive 68 percent, compared to the company’s results in the fourth quarter of 2008.
According to a recent news-article on bit-tech, citing sources from research firms Mercury Research and Jon Peddie Research, NVIDIA succeeded in increasing its market share by 0.3%, in Q1 2009. Read more
Italian job Macbook Air
Italian computer manufacturer, 13.3-inch ultra-thin notebook Olidata introduced. “Conte ultraportable” The device name appears in two different versions: The first version of 16:10 in the form of a screen with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution offers support. The other is the screen in 16:9 format and 1366 x 768 pixel resolution offers. Core 2 Duo processors will be equipped with two model.
Optional integrated UMTS or WiMAX as provided. 16:10 ‘hood models other than their Intel Turbo Memory, fingerprint reader, illuminated from behind the keyboard and offers 3 GB of RAM. Read more
The batteries have been wondering about
Computer and video cards in our different types of components such as hard disk constantly renewed, but not in a big change. On the other hand, different features and peripherals as the continuous innovation and re-designed to provide again. As dependent on computers that are running around the outside of the user-friendly kind of portable devices is becoming increasingly common. That occur in technological progress can not stop stop the smart devices is causing to be indispensable. The best example of this recording, video player and camera features such as a host of smart devices. This smart device has such a kind that a single volume of seven different features can fit into. These devices are referred to as MP3 players, of course, but nice feature different products together. Read more
Smartfish Pro: The most intelligent keyboard!
Although many think the computer on which you buy, the keyboard is quite large in terms of users is never a matter we can not deny. Long-term computer use, especially in the hand and wrist pain in the majority of users do not use the appropriate keyboard is caused to them.
Users identified as the most suitable keyboard from the mission to get a keyboard manufacturer Smartfish called, late in the day, the world’s most intelligent and the most healthy ergonomic keyboard has announced the development Smartfish Pro. Users looking at writing style, the user himself can adjust Smartfish Pro, hosted by the Dynamic Positioning Controller system the status of keyboard height and angle can be determined by, and so users, user-friendly keyboard that does not have the close of the hand and wrist pain relief. Read more
Asus Smellbook
You’ve got to admire Asus for pushing back the frontiers of laptop design. From the genuinely revolutionary Eee PC, which launched the whole Netbook craze, to the slightly odd bamboo-cased laptop there’s seems to be no end to its creativity, at least that was until we heard about the F6Ve series notebooks. This is a range of ‘fragranced’ laptops, that’s right, they smell, you can choose from a pink coloured ‘Floral Blossom model costing around £649, or a glossy ‘Musky Black machine, which starts at £799. Basic specs are a 13.3-inch screen Intel Centrino Core 2 processor, wi-fi, choice of 120, 160, 250 or 320Gb drives, up to 4Gb RAM, web cam and Vista pre-installed. Incidentally, someone at Asus has obviously been doing some research into smells and national characteristics and in the US you can get models entitled Aqua Ocean and Morning Dew – make of that what you will. Read more
40-Hour Laptop in Pipeline
Remember the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project? As you may recall the idea was to develop a laptop, costing less than $100, which would be given away to children in undeveloped countries. One unexpected spin-offs was the creation of a consumer market for compact low-cost mini laptops, or ‘netbooks’ typified by the Asus Eee PC and Acer Aspire One.
One of the brains behind OLPC was Mary Lou Jepsen (pictured right) who is the former head of display technologies at Intel, and she was responsible for the OLPC’s super low power, sunlight readable display. Now she has a new startup company, called Pixel Qi, with plans to start shipping a highly efficient screen, similar to the one in the OLPC, but for more conventional laptops. Read more
White Space gets Go-Ahead
You may recall that back in March we ran a story about messrs Microsoft, Google, HP, Intel and others campaigning to use the so-called ‘white space’ or gaps between broadcast television channels for high-speed broadband. Well, the White Space Coalition, as it’s known has just received the thumbs-up from the US Federal Communications Committee (FCC). The new spectrum will be unlicensed and it promises much greater range than current Wi-Fi systems, opening up the possibility of taking broadband to remote areas not served by existing cable or phone systems. The FCC says that the technology will be closely regulated and strictly policed; to avoid interference with TV broadcasts but coalition members have worked hard to prove that the system works and their efforts have been rewarded. Read more
Wooden you know it
I have lost count of the number of wood-cased PCs I’ve seen over the years, one or two even made it into production, so it’s not exactly a new idea, but the spin Asus have put on its new Bamboo Series notebook is quite novel. It says it ‘redefines green computing’, exactly what that means is a bit of a mystery, but Asus is trumping its green credentials, claiming that the machine’s Super Hybrid Engine technology extends battery life by between 35 and 70% — compared with similar notebooks. The bamboo capping and panels have a tensile strength that rivals some metals and it grows really quickly, so it’s easily sustainable material. Read more
USB 3.0 in the Pipeline
Now contain yourself! News that Intel has released the final draft specification for USB 3.0 has been sending ripples of excitement throughout the PC industry. You too will have to come to terms with a whole load of new jargon if you want to stay ahead of the game. Provisionally dubbed ‘SuperSpeed USB’ the big selling point is that data transfer speeds are up to 10 times faster than USB 2.0, which means a whopping 5 Gigabits per second. That’s really fast, quick enough to whizz a DVD from one place to another in just a few seconds and it’s going to make things like data transfer from things like MP3 players, cameras and storage devices virtually instantaneous. Plugs and sockets look superficially similar, and it should be backwards compatible but USB 3.0 sockets have an extra 5 contacts, set behind the front five contacts and these are the ones that carry the SuperSpeed data. Read more
