Posted on March 18th, 2008 by admin
It looks like it will be a busy year for Boston-Power.
The lithium-ion battery maker has raised $45 million in a third round of funding. It also has signed its second contract manufacturing deal, an agreement with China’s GP Batteries, which will give it the capacity to churn out a million batteries a month by the [...]
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Posted on March 6th, 2008 by admin
Hitachi has just announced the availability of its new 320GB notebook hard-disk drive in its TravelStar family. Despite the launch, the company is still way behind its heavy-weigh competitors such as Toshiba, Western Digital, Fujitsu and Seagate, that have previously released 320 GB versions and now they’re competing for over-500 GB spinning platters.
The new [...]
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Posted on February 28th, 2008 by admin
Most computer Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) panels are lit with built-in fluorescent tubes above, beside and sometimes behind the LCD. A white diffusion panel behind the LCD redirects and scatters the light evenly to ensure a uniform display. This is known as a backlight.
A fluorescent light is most often a long straight glass [...]
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Posted on February 27th, 2008 by admin
The latest version of Microsoft’s Wireless Laser Mouse 6000 ($49.99) sports just minor design changes and a much smaller wireless transceiver than its predecessor. You’ll still find the same controls, same ergonomic design, same high definition laser and long battery life. Version 2.0 of this mouse is meant to be more portable, with a [...]
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Posted on February 11th, 2008 by admin
Intel Core 2 Duo Mobile Processor / CPU T7200, 2 GHz, 4MB L2, 65nm, 667MHz FSB, 478 pin, Supports Dual-Core
The Intel Core 2 Duo processor is Intel’s second-generation mobile dual-core processor designed to deliver breakthrough performance and great power savings. With an Intel Centrino Duo mobile technology-based laptop with the new Intel Core 2 Duo [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2008 by admin
Intel Core 2 Duo Dual Core Mobile Processor T7500, 2.2 GHz, 4 MB L2, 800 FSB, Socket 479
performance desktop and mobile processors. Formerly known by their codenames Conroe and Merom, the Intel Core 2 processors for desktop and mobile computers are based on the Intel Core microarchitecture, Intel’s new industry-leading foundation for all mobile, desktop [...]
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Posted on February 5th, 2008 by admin
A revolution in visual computing, NVIDIA Quadro® FX ultra-high-end graphics solution provides unprecedented CAD, DCC, and visualization application capabilities. Ground-breaking NVIDIA® unified architecture dynamically allocates geometry, shader, and compute processing power to deliver optimized performance. Combining the industry’s most advanced feature set, including largest and fastest frame buffers and a C programming environment, Quadro [...]
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Posted on January 18th, 2008 by admin
Hitachi said that its new 500 GB drive would be available to computer manufacturers in February. Asustek Computer, based in Taiwan, said it would use two of the drives to create the world’s first laptops with a monster capacity of 1 terabyte. It was just last year when desktop PCs or external storage devices began [...]
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