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Archive for January, 2010

Google Inc. is in talks with the Chinese authorities. Recall that after the recent cyber attacks on the mail service Gmail which is suspected of organizing the PRC government, the U.S. Internet giant refused to follow instructions of the censors and promised to withdraw business from the country.

Obviously bringing the threat of execution disadvantage of either side. Companies need talents of Chinese engineers working in the Research Center of Google and proceeds from the sale of advertising in Chinese sector of Internet and googlephones. Celestial Empire is in dire need of such rich IT firms like Google without which the ambitious country can not achieve leadership in the global market of high technologies. Even if you have to close the service Google.cn, the company will retain the possibility of the Beijing Research Center and sales offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. An estimated 700 people work here (the global state of Google is 20 thousand).

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NVIDIA announced a new generation of Tegra – the first processor for mobile Web devices specially designed for the Tablet PC applications of high resolution. The new Tegra processor from NVIDIA delivers blazing-fast on the network, streaming 1080p video with an acceleration in the Adobe Flash Player 10.1, excellent 3D user interface, coupled with long battery life. Underlying Tegra there are eight independent processors including the first dual-core CPU for mobile applications. These processors are used together or independently to optimize energy consumption. Due to the economical design Tegra delivers more than 16 hours watching HD video or 140 hours of music without re-charging.

Features:

1. 3D touch user interface
2. Long battery life – the tablet is always on and always in the network
3. Acceleration with Adobe Flash Player 10.1 for streaming video and 3D mobile games
4. Resolution in 4-8 times better than the resolution in smartphones
5. The optimum size of the screen – 5-15 inches
6. Exciting games, vivid pictures, video and crystal-clear sound

Tegra new generation – a leap in performance of mobile devices:

1. Dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU up to 1GHz
2. Eight independent processors for viewing Web pages, coding and decoding of HD video and mobile 3D gaming
3. 10 times faster than the processors used in the existing smart phones, and up to 4 times faster than the previous generation Tegra
4. Best TSMC 40 nm process with active power management.

New generation processors Tegra are already running in production.

Raidsonic will release the first products to support USB 3.0. ICY BOX IB-250StU3-B – is a compact aluminum enclosure for 2.5″ HDD SATA. ICY BOX IB-318StU3-B is designed for 3.5″ SATA drives up to 1 TB. Both drives are equipped with USB 3.0 interface with data transfer rate up to 5.0 Gbps. This is ten times faster than the maximum speed of USB 2.0 – 480 Mbps. New Drives ICY BOX USB 3.0 interface will be useful to all who works with large volumes of data for example handles video files or want to speed up the backup process. To use the new interface USB 3.0 cable is required and the controller  USB 3.0. Computers with USB 3.0 so far are rare and therefore also produces ICY BOX IB-AC604, controller, PCI Express x1, equipped with two connectors USB 3.0.

USB 3.0 retains backward compatibility with previous generations of interfaces – devices with USB 2.0 will continue to work as if nothing had happened.

New items go on sale in early 2010 recommended retail price of IB-318StU3-B is 45,50 €, IB-250StU3-B – 32,90 €, IB-AC604 – 39,90 €.