Samsung Electronics has announced the release of the SCH-W760, the first handset to feature an infrared night vision camera that can be used for night photos and video conferences in complete darkness. As to why you’d want to hold infrared video telephony (IRVT) sessions in the pitch dark is another question, but it is a feature that you can use should you be so inclined to do so.
When you ask consumers why they buy flash drives, the usual answers received include that they are cheap, portable storage devices, they offer easy backups as well as fast data transfers between computers. With that said, add a bit of complexity or increase the cost of one of these gadgets and it’s usage would go down significantly.
Psystar, the Apple clone maker has successfully completed its corporate restructuring and has returned from filing chapter 11 bankruptcy. In an email newsletter that went out to their subscriber base, the company indicated that they are now ready to “emerge and again battle Goliath.”
A perennial thorn in Apple’s side, the company has already announced the release of new hardware, this time in the form of Open(7) which “brings together OS X and Intel Nehalem Xeon technology.”
The new device supports up to 24GB of RAM and will be available in either a desktop or rackmount version. MSRP for the new unit has been set at $1499.99.
Along with this announcement, Psystar also indicated that they would start using a new bootloader known as the Darwin Universal Boot Loader, which will be made available to the open source community.
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With the recent success of the TomTom turn by turn navigation system designed for the iPhone and reports indicating that the demand for GPS enabled devices will steadily increase in the coming years, Dell has elected to delve into this market of opportunity by offering GPS and Wi-Fi positioning services on their Mini 10 netbook line.
Expected to launch next week in the US, the new service takes advantage of Dell’s “Wireless 700 location solution” which consists of an internal GPS card with Wi-Fi locationing and Dell’s CoPilot navigation software.
It looks like Sony has a hit on their hands with the release of the Sony NAS-Z200iR iPod docking station.
DLNA certified, the beauty of this network system is that it is compatible with all of your wireless devices. As such, you can listen to your music library, regardless of whether it is stored on your home computer or MP3 player. You are also not limited to just your personal music collection and can expand your listening pleasure by streaming internet radio stations if you so choose.
With the Vostro 1220 notebook announcement, Dell has come out with an ultra portable notebook that is lightweight, has a long lasting battery and offers data security, a must for small businesses and the likes.
The lightweight notebook weighs only 3.36 lbs, yet is full featured. It comes with a 12.1 inch screen, 2.2 GHz Intel Celeron processor, 320GB hard drive (or optional solid state drive), 4GB ram and Windows Vista Home Basic.
It’s hard to believe that it’s been a year since Mozilla announced the availability of Firefox 3.0. That announcement was done to considerable fanfare as Mozilla tried to break the world record for browser downloads in a 24 hour period.
Although today’s new of Firefox 3.5 was somewhat low key, there is much excitement regarding this release as this web browser upgrade offers many new features and improvements.
Some of the key features include:
According to recent statistics, Firefox ranks second only to Microsoft Internet Explorer in terms of popular web browsers and although it is a significant difference between the two, you can see Firefox gaining additional market share with each enhancement.
For a full list of new features and a free download, be sure to visit www.getfirefox.com.
Matrox has announced a new multi-display monitor video card, model M9148 LP PCIe. The new graphics card supports 4 LCD displays at a resolution of 2560 x 1600 for each display.
The Matrox video card also includes 1GB of video memory as well as a series of desktop management features that allow the end user to extend the Windows Taskbar across multiple screens and supports independent or stretched modes.
