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 Sony has just revealed a brand
new high-def device that fuses the performance of a powerful computer with the
features of a TV set. Thanks to the VAIO LT HD PC/TV, Sony will also score some
points against Blu-ray’s rival HD DVD, as the new device obviously features an
optical drive for Blu-ray Discs.
The new all-in-one...
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 The mouse has always been a
simple device, but Microsoft has thought to change that and has announced its
ultimate mouse that was specially created for video game players! Microsoft has
revealed its new product with the occasion of the Games Convention from Leipzig, Germany.
The Microsoft Side Winder Mouse is, obviously, more than a...
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 Time and space, speed and high
storage devices – these seem to be the latest coordinates of nowadays’ high
technology.
In this context Toshiba has
announced today that starting with November it is to start mass-producing some
new tough hard drives. The company has revealed that its brand new 2.5-inch
hard drives will feature...
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 Startup Tilera Corp. has revealed its 64-core CPU, named TILE64, which is made up of 64 fully fledged cores which can run individual operating systems such as Linux. The man behind Tilera is MIT professor Anant Agarwal, a longtime multicore researcher.Tilera's eventual product is not meant for desktop use, and as such is not a competitor...
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 Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced new plans for a set of CPU extensions which will enable applications to take full advantage of multi-core CPUs. The new specification, dubbed “Light-Weight Profiling” (LWP), provides is the first technology that supports a recently introduced initiative called “Hardware Extensions for Software...
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 The famous chipmaker Intel has
once again made a step ahead its rival company, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD),
by launching two models of new Xeon quad-core server processors. X5365 and
L5335 have been released by Intel on the 13th of August, taking on
AMD’s upcoming and much-anticipated Barcelona-based Opteron chip, which is to
be...
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 The fight for the next-gen DVD format just got sharper and it seems Sony’s camp is winning: movie-rental company Blockbuster announced that from now on it will favor the Blu Ray format in detriment of HD DVD.Although last week two major events have drawn attention to the HD DVD camp (the launch of the Matrix trilogy on HD DVD format and...
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 At least this is the impression the North American HD DVD Promotional Group wants you to have, after their recent announcement concerning sales for the US territory.According to their press release, HD DVD players now hold 60% of the HD players market, with HD DVD movies reaching an all time high for the month of May, more than 75,000...
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 Good news for HD fans: Sony recently announced a significant price drop for its BDP-S300 Blu Ray player, which is now $100 cheaper.Back in March, facing sluggish sales for its expensive $999 S1 Blu Ray player launched last summer, Sony decided to cut the price and offer the newer BDP-S300, selling it for about $600 (£300) - approximately...
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 The war between wireless communications giant Qualcomm and Finnish behemoth Nokia just got worse, with the latter countersuing its American rival for patent infringement.At the same Western District of Wisconsin where Qualcomm had previously filed a suit against Nokia on April 2, Nokia responded with another lawsuit, stating that the...
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