Skype is a famous VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) solution that being widely used in both PC computing and smartphones. Good news now if you are Apple’s iPhone or iPod owner as users will be able to enjoy much feature sets with the recent upgrade of Skype VOIP. Being officially pushed to App Store, Skype 1.3 offers various enhancements as compared to previous version such […]
e-book reader is new trend with more and more products being developed surrounding it. While most of them emphasize on how to reduce power consumption, increase color resolution or even trying to embed the Adobe’s flash playback capability but what makes it different from LG Display is they have started to develop and come out a new flexible e-paper prototype that could easily stand out […]
We have mentioned about Nvidia next generation Ion 2 that could potentially be paired with Intel Atom D510 Pinetrail processor, now seems that there are more concrete evidence with the announcement of new Asus EeeTop PC. Named as ET2010PNT, it is the first Intel Atom D510 Pinetrail based PC that being designed with advanced discrete Nvidia Ion 2 graphics solution targeted to reduce the shortcomings […]
Previously we mentioned about HTC Innovative Patent Idea of getting future stylus to work on capacitive touch screen, now seems that Apple Inc, the famous iPhone maker has actually investigating similar approach by filing a patent idea with capacitive touch stylus to work on its existing finger-friendly capacitive touch sensitive display.
Not long after the new Intel Atom N450 has been launched to market, many board makers have already started to develop or refresh new system based on it. Similarly to Portwell, a famous Taiwanese board vendor that has just announced its new Intel Atom based network appliance system for embedded market. Named as CAD-0205, it is targeted specifically for entry level market which consumes less […]
We have mentioned about USB 3.0 specification and while you still see very limited peripherals and chipsets being developed based on it, HP has recently announced the official support of USB 3.0 on its Envy 15 laptops, making it the first PC manufacturer ready to deploy the Superfast speed USB 3.0 port for consumer market.
Previously we mentioned about BOM (Bill of Materials) cost analysis of recently released Nexus One by iSuppli, now the company has further disclosed similar information for another famous smartphone, Motorola’s Droid, which dubbed to be one of the iPhone killers. Apparently, the Android OS smartphone is the most expensive among all, costing around $187.75 BOM (including $8.64 manufacturing cost) when compared to both Nexus One […]
LCD display technology is common in today’s market in both consumer electronics and PC products replacing older CRT technology. While you may think that its power consumption is low especially with AMOLED (Active-Matrix Organic LED) technology but Prysm, a US based company has been developing a much more energy efficient technology targeted for next generation display products. Named as LPD (Laser Phosphor display), the technology […]
Notebook is light and portable to carry around but it is not as scalable or upgradable as compared to desktop PC. This is especially true when come to handle graphics intensive applications such as gaming with rich 3D multimedia capability. In view of such limitation, AMD (Advanced Micro Device) has able to achieve a new milestone by demonstrating an external GPU based enclosure box that […]
Digital Signage is an important segment that allows retailers to showcase some attractive advertisements or useful information. During the NRF (National Retail Federation) convention recently, Intel Inc has demonstrated an interactive ultra-large Intelligent Digital Signage prototype that has able to differentiate from the rest of conventional digital signage systems. Powered by Intel Core i7, the new prototype is equipped with a 7.5-foot holographic based multi-touch […]
Not long after the release of Google’s famous Nexus One Android 2.1 based smartphone, some consumers have started to initiate complaints with related to its poor reception of 3G network coverage under T-Mobile subscription, If you recall, when iPhone 3G was launched initially under AT&T, similar complaints were received but instead of finger pointing to service provider, it is believed that current situation is different […]
We have mentioned about HDMI v1.4 specification revision earlier, now seems that its rival’s standard, DisplayPort has reached a new upgrade to v1.2 following an announcement by VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association) recently. The new DisplayPort v1.2 specification allows a much higher pixel resolution of up to 3840 x 2400 on top of other new enhancements suitable for both PC and consumer electronics market.
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