Microsoft announced that through legal action and technical cooperation with industry partners, they have executed a major botnet takedown of Waledac, a large and well-known "spambot."
Botnets -networks of compromised computers controlled by hackers known as "bot-herders" - have become a serious problem in cyberspace. Their proliferation has led some to worry that the botnet problem is unsolvable. Under the control of a hacker or group of hackers, botnets are often used to conduct various attacks ranging from denial of service attacks on websites, to spamming, click fraud, and distribution of new forms of malicious software.
As a founding member of the Botnet Task Force - a government in the fight against bots- Microsoft is getting even more creative and aggressive in the fight against botnets and all forms of cybercrime.
Microsoft said it got clearance from a US judge to virtually sever the cyber criminals' command computers from hundreds of thousands of machines worldwide infected with a Waledac virus.
The takedown of the Waledac botnet that Microsoft executed this week - known internally as "Operation b49" - was the result of months of investigation and the application of a legal strategy, Microsoft said.
One of the 10 largest botnets in the US and a major distributor of spam globally, Waledac is estimated to have infected hundreds of thousands of computers around the world and, prior to this action, was believed to have the capacity to send over 1.5 billion spam emails per day. In a recent analysis, Microsoft found that between December 3-21, 2009, approximately 651 million spam emails attributable to Waledac were directed to Hotmail accounts alone, including offers and scams related to online pharmacies, imitation goods, jobs, penny stocks and more.
On February 22, in response to a complaint filed by Microsoft in the U.S. District Court of Eastern Virginia, a federal judge granted a temporary restraining order cutting off 277 Internet domains believed to be run by criminals as the Waledac bot.
Three days into the effort, Operation b49 has effectively shut down connections to the vast majority of Waledac-infected computers, Microsoft said. "But the operation hasn't cleaned the infected computers and is not a silver bullet for undoing all the damage we believe Waledac has caused. Although the zombies are now largely out of the bot-herders? control, they are still infected with the original malware," said Tim Cranton, Microsoft Associate General Counsel.
This action has effectively cut off traffic to Waledac at the ".com" or domain registry level, severing the connection between the command and control centers of the botnet and most of its thousands of zombie computers around the world. Microsoft said that it had since been taking additional technical countermeasures to downgrade much of the remaining peer-to-peer command and control communication within the botnet. The company added that it would continue to work with the security community to mitigate and respond to this botnet.
Cranton advised users to follow the "protect your PC" guidance available at
http://www.microsoft.com/protect, in order to make sure they are not infected by this or other botnets.
"This legal and industry operation against Waledac is the first of its kind, but it won't be the last," Cranton added. "With this action, done in cooperation with experts from Shadowserver, the University of Washington, Symantec, University of Mannheim, Technical University in Vienna, International Secure Systems Lab, the University of Bonn and others, we're building on other important work across the global security community to combat botnets," he said.
Friday, 26 February 2010
Thursday, 25 February 2010
MSI Launches New R5870 Lightning Graphics Card with 15-phase Power Design
MSI has officially launched a new generation of the Lightning series, the R5870 Lightning.
The card features exclusive all Hi-c CAP for GPU power, a 15-phase power design, two 8-pin external power connectors, special PCB design called LPL (Lightning Power Layer), Twin Frozr II Thermal design with 8mm SuperPipe technology.
The new MSI R5870 Lightning features the first 15-phase (13+2) power supply design; comparing to the reference-design 7 (5+2)-phase power supply module, it provides more than twice the power required by the GPU, MSI claims. It also features two 8-pin external power connectors, allowing more ample power supply for the R5870 Lightning; In addition, the design of the new R5870 Lightning has also incorporated a dedicated LPL (Lightning Power Layer) design, which is designed for GPU and memory power. This helps to increase the stability of power supply and also reduce noise.
Moreover, in order to enhance the quality of power supply of GPU, a next-generation capacitor - the Hi-c CAP has been all adopted. Compared with the solid-state capacitors currently used in high-end graphics cards, this new design has 8 times of lifespan, as well as being low-temperature and having better transmission efficiency and other technical characteristics. To provide better power quality,
MSI R5870 Lightning has also introduced the Proadlizer capacitors, which is not only able to accommodate very high current, but can also provide a more stable power supply.
In addition the Twin Frozr II Thermal Design is equipped with dual 8cm PWM fans and an 8mm SuperPipe technology for cooling efficiency. Heat can be distributed more quickly to the heat-sink, and removed by the dual fans.
Apart from the enhanced power supply structure, when the R5870 Lightning graphics card is configured with MSI's exclusive Afterburner overclocking software, not only can common GPU and memory clock adjustment functions be provided, but Over Voltage Function of GPU can be supported as well. Meanwhile, MSI R5870 Lightning graphics card also provides the function of V-Check Points. When a multi-meter is attached, the current voltage status of the GPU and memory can be easily obtained without modding any circuit hardware. This provides a very convenient monitoring design.
MSI R5830 Twin Frozr II graphics cards
MSI also today released its R5830 Twin Frozr II graphics card. MSI R5830 Twin Frozr II uses ATI Radeon HD 5830 GPU with 1120 units of stream processors and 1GB GDDR5 high speed memory to support the latest DirectX 11 games. Equipped with excusive Twin Frozr II Thermal design, R5830 Twin Frozr II is 12 degrees C cooler thanks to dual 8CM PWM fans and quad Heatpipes.
The Afterburner overclocking software supports over voltage function of GPU on R5830 Twin Frozr, tweaking the GPU's voltage to have better overclocking performance. Afterburner can change the GPU voltage to 1.35v.
The card features exclusive all Hi-c CAP for GPU power, a 15-phase power design, two 8-pin external power connectors, special PCB design called LPL (Lightning Power Layer), Twin Frozr II Thermal design with 8mm SuperPipe technology.
The new MSI R5870 Lightning features the first 15-phase (13+2) power supply design; comparing to the reference-design 7 (5+2)-phase power supply module, it provides more than twice the power required by the GPU, MSI claims. It also features two 8-pin external power connectors, allowing more ample power supply for the R5870 Lightning; In addition, the design of the new R5870 Lightning has also incorporated a dedicated LPL (Lightning Power Layer) design, which is designed for GPU and memory power. This helps to increase the stability of power supply and also reduce noise.
Moreover, in order to enhance the quality of power supply of GPU, a next-generation capacitor - the Hi-c CAP has been all adopted. Compared with the solid-state capacitors currently used in high-end graphics cards, this new design has 8 times of lifespan, as well as being low-temperature and having better transmission efficiency and other technical characteristics. To provide better power quality,
MSI R5870 Lightning has also introduced the Proadlizer capacitors, which is not only able to accommodate very high current, but can also provide a more stable power supply.
In addition the Twin Frozr II Thermal Design is equipped with dual 8cm PWM fans and an 8mm SuperPipe technology for cooling efficiency. Heat can be distributed more quickly to the heat-sink, and removed by the dual fans.
Apart from the enhanced power supply structure, when the R5870 Lightning graphics card is configured with MSI's exclusive Afterburner overclocking software, not only can common GPU and memory clock adjustment functions be provided, but Over Voltage Function of GPU can be supported as well. Meanwhile, MSI R5870 Lightning graphics card also provides the function of V-Check Points. When a multi-meter is attached, the current voltage status of the GPU and memory can be easily obtained without modding any circuit hardware. This provides a very convenient monitoring design.
MSI R5830 Twin Frozr II graphics cards
MSI also today released its R5830 Twin Frozr II graphics card. MSI R5830 Twin Frozr II uses ATI Radeon HD 5830 GPU with 1120 units of stream processors and 1GB GDDR5 high speed memory to support the latest DirectX 11 games. Equipped with excusive Twin Frozr II Thermal design, R5830 Twin Frozr II is 12 degrees C cooler thanks to dual 8CM PWM fans and quad Heatpipes.
The Afterburner overclocking software supports over voltage function of GPU on R5830 Twin Frozr, tweaking the GPU's voltage to have better overclocking performance. Afterburner can change the GPU voltage to 1.35v.
E-tailer Lists Upcoming Six-core Core i7 Processor
An Austrian e-tailer has disclosed the specifications of the upcoming 6-core Intel Core i7-980 Extreme Edition processor.
According to the specifications posted online, the new 32nm "Gulftown" CPU has 6 cores clocked at 3.33GHz, 12 threads, 12MB of L3 cache, and a maximum Turbo Boost clock speed of 3.6GHz. It also has a built-in triple-channel memory controller supporting DDR3 speeds of up to 1066MHz. The QPI reaches a data rate of 12.8 Gb/s.
The e-tailer lists the new Intel Core i7-980 Extreme Edition for €1,099 including taxes.
Specifications Intel Core i7-980 Processor Extreme
Model: BX80613I7980X
Core: Gulftown, 32nm
CPU Clock: 6x 3333 MHz
Level 1 Cache: 6x 64KB
Level 2 Cache: 6x 256KB
Level 3 Cache: 12244KB
Instruction sets: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, Enhanced Speedstep (EIST), Intel 64, XD-Bit, TXT, Intel VT, Smart Cache, Turbo Boost, HyperThreading
Bus clock: 6400 MT/s
Memory Controller
Memory: DDR3-800, DDR3-1066
Memory Channels: 3
ECC memory supported: No
Registered memory supported: No
Fully Buffered needed: No
Power max.: 130 Watts
Core Voltage: 0.8 Volts - 1.38 Volts
Socket: 1366
According to the specifications posted online, the new 32nm "Gulftown" CPU has 6 cores clocked at 3.33GHz, 12 threads, 12MB of L3 cache, and a maximum Turbo Boost clock speed of 3.6GHz. It also has a built-in triple-channel memory controller supporting DDR3 speeds of up to 1066MHz. The QPI reaches a data rate of 12.8 Gb/s.
The e-tailer lists the new Intel Core i7-980 Extreme Edition for €1,099 including taxes.
Specifications Intel Core i7-980 Processor Extreme
Model: BX80613I7980X
Core: Gulftown, 32nm
CPU Clock: 6x 3333 MHz
Level 1 Cache: 6x 64KB
Level 2 Cache: 6x 256KB
Level 3 Cache: 12244KB
Instruction sets: MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE 4.1, SSE4.2, Enhanced Speedstep (EIST), Intel 64, XD-Bit, TXT, Intel VT, Smart Cache, Turbo Boost, HyperThreading
Bus clock: 6400 MT/s
Memory Controller
Memory: DDR3-800, DDR3-1066
Memory Channels: 3
ECC memory supported: No
Registered memory supported: No
Fully Buffered needed: No
Power max.: 130 Watts
Core Voltage: 0.8 Volts - 1.38 Volts
Socket: 1366
ASUS Launches New Notebooks with NVIDIA Optimus Technology
ASUS has announced a new range of notebooks in featuring NVIDIA's Optimus technology.
These include the powerful multimedia N Series, several slim and light U/UL Series models and mainstream K Series of notebooks.
The ASUS N Series combine optimized graphics performance and long-lasting battery. Its capabilities are due to the new NVIDIA Optimus technology, which intelligently monitors applications, and then summons the right amount of graphics performance for the job. It uses the discrete GPU for multimedia, games, GPU computing applications, and integrated graphics for the Internet, emails and documents. It does so automatically and without the need for user intervention.
The N seris also features the ASUS SonicMaster technology for enhanced audio clarity, the Video Magic Technology for true-to-life videos through GPU computing and USB 3.0 for high speed multimedia data transfers.
ASUS notebooks currently equipped with Optimus technology include the U/UL Series (UL50Vf, U30Jc) and the N Series (N61Jv, N71Jv, N82Jv).
These include the powerful multimedia N Series, several slim and light U/UL Series models and mainstream K Series of notebooks.
The ASUS N Series combine optimized graphics performance and long-lasting battery. Its capabilities are due to the new NVIDIA Optimus technology, which intelligently monitors applications, and then summons the right amount of graphics performance for the job. It uses the discrete GPU for multimedia, games, GPU computing applications, and integrated graphics for the Internet, emails and documents. It does so automatically and without the need for user intervention.
The N seris also features the ASUS SonicMaster technology for enhanced audio clarity, the Video Magic Technology for true-to-life videos through GPU computing and USB 3.0 for high speed multimedia data transfers.
ASUS notebooks currently equipped with Optimus technology include the U/UL Series (UL50Vf, U30Jc) and the N Series (N61Jv, N71Jv, N82Jv).
Microsoft Is Ending Support For Windows 2000, Windows XP SP2 and Windows Vista RTM
Microsoft will end support for all versions of Windows 2000, Windows Vista RTM and Windows XP SP2 on July 13th, 2010.
The company announced that consumers who are running Windows Vista with no services packs installed (also known as Windows Vista RTM or SP0), should update to install the latest service pack available.
Windows Vista Service Pack 2. We also recommend checking out our latest Windows release. On April 13th, 2010, Windows Vista RTM will reach the end of support, Microsoft said.
The company added that on July 13th, 2010, all versions of Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 will also reach the end of support. Microsoft recommends users who are still on Windows XP SP2 to install the latest service pack available via the Microsoft Update website to Windows XP Service Pack 3, or look at moving to Windows 7.
Users still on Windows 2000 will need to look at moving to a more current version of Windows, such as Windows 7.
For more information on the end of support for these Windows releases, go to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/help/end-support-windows-xp-sp2-windows-vista-without-service-packs?os=other
The company announced that consumers who are running Windows Vista with no services packs installed (also known as Windows Vista RTM or SP0), should update to install the latest service pack available.
Windows Vista Service Pack 2. We also recommend checking out our latest Windows release. On April 13th, 2010, Windows Vista RTM will reach the end of support, Microsoft said.
The company added that on July 13th, 2010, all versions of Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 will also reach the end of support. Microsoft recommends users who are still on Windows XP SP2 to install the latest service pack available via the Microsoft Update website to Windows XP Service Pack 3, or look at moving to Windows 7.
Users still on Windows 2000 will need to look at moving to a more current version of Windows, such as Windows 7.
For more information on the end of support for these Windows releases, go to http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/help/end-support-windows-xp-sp2-windows-vista-without-service-packs?os=other
New ATI Radeon HD 5830 Graphics Card Released
AMD today introduced the ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card, bringing gamers the features of the ATI Radeon HD 5800 series at a lower price than ever before at less than $250 USD.
With the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5830, gamers have another great choice in graphics hardware, with full support for DirectX 11 gaming, ATI Eyefinity technology, and ATI Stream capabilities.
"The ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card makes enthusiast-level performance even more accessible to gamers, adding another compelling choice to the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 5800 series," said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager, AMD Graphics Division. "Cutting-edge features such as full DirectX 11 support, ATI Eyefinity multi-display capabilities and ATI Stream technology position the ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card to become a favorite with the gaming community."
The 40nm GPU of the new HD 5830 is clocked at 800MHz, it has 1120 Stream Processing Units, 16 color ROP units and 56 texture units. AMD's reference design is available with 1GB GDDR5 memory onboard, with 4 Gbps memory data rate. The card's maximum power is 175W atts - higher than the Radeon HD5850 model - possibly due to its higher clocked GPU. On the other hand, its idle power is just 25 Watts.
Specifications
* 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
* TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
1120 Stream Processing Units
56 Texture Units
64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
16 Color ROP Units
* GDDR5 memory interface
* PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
* DirectX 11 support
Shader Model 5.0
DirectCompute 11
Programmable hardware tessellation unit
Accelerated multi-threading
HDR texture compression
Order-independent transparency
* OpenGL 3.2 support
* ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology
* ATI Stream acceleration technology
* ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology
* ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology
* Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP10
* Integrated DisplayPort output
* Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
* Integrated VGA output
* 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support
Engine clock speed: 800 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 1.792 TeraFLOPS
Processing power (double precision): 358 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 800M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 179.2 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 44.8 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 12.8 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 51.2 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 1 GHz
Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 175 Watts
Idle power: 25 Watts
With the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5830, gamers have another great choice in graphics hardware, with full support for DirectX 11 gaming, ATI Eyefinity technology, and ATI Stream capabilities.
"The ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card makes enthusiast-level performance even more accessible to gamers, adding another compelling choice to the award-winning ATI Radeon HD 5800 series," said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager, AMD Graphics Division. "Cutting-edge features such as full DirectX 11 support, ATI Eyefinity multi-display capabilities and ATI Stream technology position the ATI Radeon HD 5830 graphics card to become a favorite with the gaming community."
The 40nm GPU of the new HD 5830 is clocked at 800MHz, it has 1120 Stream Processing Units, 16 color ROP units and 56 texture units. AMD's reference design is available with 1GB GDDR5 memory onboard, with 4 Gbps memory data rate. The card's maximum power is 175W atts - higher than the Radeon HD5850 model - possibly due to its higher clocked GPU. On the other hand, its idle power is just 25 Watts.
Specifications
* 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
* TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
1120 Stream Processing Units
56 Texture Units
64 Z/Stencil ROP Units
16 Color ROP Units
* GDDR5 memory interface
* PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
* DirectX 11 support
Shader Model 5.0
DirectCompute 11
Programmable hardware tessellation unit
Accelerated multi-threading
HDR texture compression
Order-independent transparency
* OpenGL 3.2 support
* ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology
* ATI Stream acceleration technology
* ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology
* ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology
* Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP10
* Integrated DisplayPort output
* Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
* Integrated VGA output
* 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support
Engine clock speed: 800 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 1.792 TeraFLOPS
Processing power (double precision): 358 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 800M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 179.2 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 44.8 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 12.8 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 51.2 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 1 GHz
Memory data rate: 4.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 128 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 175 Watts
Idle power: 25 Watts
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Google Checkout Now Fixed !
Google Checkout for Rebel Gadgets is now working and is up and running smoothly again after a minor fault which went unnoticed since last couple of weeks was fixed earlier today.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Thank You,
RebelGadgets Team.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused.
Thank You,
RebelGadgets Team.
Yahoo In Content-sharing Partnership With Twitter
Yahoo today announced a global partnership with Twitter to integrate Twitter's real-time content with more than 600 million people in Yahoo!'s global network.
The integration is part of Yahoo!'s commitment to provide personally relevant information to people, from sources across the Web, in a battle to woo back Web surfers who are spending more time on social networking sites.
Yahoo! users will be able to access their personal Twitter feeds across Yahoo!'s products and properties, including the homepage, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Sports, and others, letting them check in more easily on what's happening with the people and things they care about while on Yahoo!.
People will be also able to update their Twitter status and share content from Yahoo! in their Twitter stream.
Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! media properties like News, Finance, Entertainment, and Sports will also include real-time public Twitter updates across a variety of topics. Yahoo! Search users will immediately see real-time Twitter results today.
Yahoo reached a similar agreement with Facebook in December, expanding the partnership to make it easier for users to share Facebook status updates and other information on Yahoo or share Yahoo sports scores or Flickr photos on Facebook.
As a result, anyone with a Yahoo! ID will be able to update multiple social networks simultaneously.
"Let me try to capture the enormity of this integration in 140 characters or less: We're turning the key to the online social universe -- you will find the most personally relevant experiences through Yahoo!," said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president, consumer products group, Yahoo!. "We're also simplifying people's lives by bringing their social worlds -- and the world --- together for easy access."
The Twitter integration also provides full access to the complete Twitter public data stream, which Yahoo! will use to improve the relevance and freshness of content across Yahoo! properties. This will drive deeper user engagement, and create new and opportunities for developers, advertisers, and publishers.
"The information in one single tweet can travel light-years farther with this Yahoo! integration," said Twitter cofounder, Biz Stone. "Tweets in more places brings relevance where and when you need it most."
The real-time Search integration is available immediately. Other parts of the integration are expected to launch later this year. Yahoo would not comment on any financial terms involved in the deal with Twitter.
Twitter is already having search deals with Microsoft, Google, AOL and MySpace. According to some media reports, Microsoft and Google paid a combined $25 million for the right to include Twitter data in their search results.
The integration is part of Yahoo!'s commitment to provide personally relevant information to people, from sources across the Web, in a battle to woo back Web surfers who are spending more time on social networking sites.
Yahoo! users will be able to access their personal Twitter feeds across Yahoo!'s products and properties, including the homepage, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Sports, and others, letting them check in more easily on what's happening with the people and things they care about while on Yahoo!.
People will be also able to update their Twitter status and share content from Yahoo! in their Twitter stream.
Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! media properties like News, Finance, Entertainment, and Sports will also include real-time public Twitter updates across a variety of topics. Yahoo! Search users will immediately see real-time Twitter results today.
Yahoo reached a similar agreement with Facebook in December, expanding the partnership to make it easier for users to share Facebook status updates and other information on Yahoo or share Yahoo sports scores or Flickr photos on Facebook.
As a result, anyone with a Yahoo! ID will be able to update multiple social networks simultaneously.
"Let me try to capture the enormity of this integration in 140 characters or less: We're turning the key to the online social universe -- you will find the most personally relevant experiences through Yahoo!," said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president, consumer products group, Yahoo!. "We're also simplifying people's lives by bringing their social worlds -- and the world --- together for easy access."
The Twitter integration also provides full access to the complete Twitter public data stream, which Yahoo! will use to improve the relevance and freshness of content across Yahoo! properties. This will drive deeper user engagement, and create new and opportunities for developers, advertisers, and publishers.
"The information in one single tweet can travel light-years farther with this Yahoo! integration," said Twitter cofounder, Biz Stone. "Tweets in more places brings relevance where and when you need it most."
The real-time Search integration is available immediately. Other parts of the integration are expected to launch later this year. Yahoo would not comment on any financial terms involved in the deal with Twitter.
Twitter is already having search deals with Microsoft, Google, AOL and MySpace. According to some media reports, Microsoft and Google paid a combined $25 million for the right to include Twitter data in their search results.
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 23-02-10
AMD DUAL CORE PHENOM II 545, AM3, 3.0GHz, 2600 FSB, 6MB, 80W, 45NM Processor available only for today at the special price of £60.00
Normal Price is £65.00 which will revert back at 12am tonight.
Limited 1 Piece per order allowed.
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Limited 1 Piece per order allowed.
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Sandisk G3 SSD Ships to Retailers
SanDisk today announced that it has begun shipping its SanDisk G3 Solid State Drives (SSD) to retailers in North America and Europe.
The flash memory-based SanDisk G3 SSD offers an alternative to a 7,200 RPM Hard Disk Drive (HDD).
The 120 gigabyte (GB) SanDisk G3 SSD can endure up to 80 terabytes (TB) of data written to it over its lifetime. The solid state drive uses a smart flash management system called ExtremeFFS technology that has the potential to accelerate random write performance and thus extend the endurance of SanDisk G3 SSDs inside computers that use operating systems such as Microsoft Windows XP
and Windows 7.
The SSD is also backed by a 10-year limited warranty and has sequential performance of up to 220 megabytes per second (MB/sec) read speed and up to 120MB/sec write speed.
The SanDisk G3 SSD is Microsoft Windows 7 certified and is compatible with Apple Mac OS X Snow Leopard as well as Windows XP, Windows Vista and Linux. The drive also supports the newest Windows 7 TRIM feature, which contributes to a substantial gain in the SanDisk G3 SSD's performance by allowing the drive to continuously manage its resources and retain optimized performance throughout its lifespan.
SanDisk G3 SSD is available now at www.sandisk.com via the U.S. and UK e-commerce sites in 60GB and 120GB capacities with prices of $229.99 and $399.99 respectively. The drive will be available at retailers in North America and Europe soon, with exact pricing to be set by retailers.
Microsoft and Amazon.com Sign Patent Agreement
Microsoft today announced that it has signed a patent cross-license agreement with Amazon.com Inc that lets each company tap into the other's patented technology, including that for hot-selling Kindle electronic readers.
The agreement provides each company with access to the other's patent portfolio and covers a broad range of products and technology, including coverage for Amazon's popular e-reading device, Kindle, which employs both open source and Amazon's proprietary software components, and Amazon's use of Linux-based servers. Although specific terms of the agreement were not unveilled confidential, Microsoft indicated that Amazon.com will pay Microsoft an undisclosed amount of money under the agreement.
"We are pleased to have entered into this patent license agreement with Amazon.com," said Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft. "Microsoft's patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the software industry, and this agreement demonstrates our mutual respect for intellectual property as well as our ability to reach pragmatic solutions to IP issues regardless of whether proprietary or open source software is involved."
Since Microsoft launched its IP licensing program in December 2003, the company has entered into more than 600 licensing agreements and continues to develop programs that make it possible for customers, partners and competitors to access its IP portfolio. In recent years, Microsoft has entered into similar agreements with other companies, including Apple Inc., HP, LG Electronics, Nikon Corp., Novell Inc., Pioneer Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.
The agreement provides each company with access to the other's patent portfolio and covers a broad range of products and technology, including coverage for Amazon's popular e-reading device, Kindle, which employs both open source and Amazon's proprietary software components, and Amazon's use of Linux-based servers. Although specific terms of the agreement were not unveilled confidential, Microsoft indicated that Amazon.com will pay Microsoft an undisclosed amount of money under the agreement.
"We are pleased to have entered into this patent license agreement with Amazon.com," said Horacio Gutierrez, corporate vice president and deputy general counsel for Intellectual Property and Licensing at Microsoft. "Microsoft's patent portfolio is the largest and strongest in the software industry, and this agreement demonstrates our mutual respect for intellectual property as well as our ability to reach pragmatic solutions to IP issues regardless of whether proprietary or open source software is involved."
Since Microsoft launched its IP licensing program in December 2003, the company has entered into more than 600 licensing agreements and continues to develop programs that make it possible for customers, partners and competitors to access its IP portfolio. In recent years, Microsoft has entered into similar agreements with other companies, including Apple Inc., HP, LG Electronics, Nikon Corp., Novell Inc., Pioneer Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.
Monday, 22 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 22-02-10
Asrock Ci7 X58-Deluxe Socket 1366 DDR3 ATX Motherboard available only for today at the special price of £148.50
Normal Price is £152.50 which will revert back at 12am tonight.
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Saturday, 20 February 2010
Blu-ray's Managed Copy Is Finally Coming Next March
The managed copy requirement will finally go into effect March 2010, and movie studios will be required to offer consumers a backup copy of every Blu-ray disc they buy.
Managed copy offers consumers the ability to make at least one full-resolution, protected copy of the Blu-ray content they own. The feature is currently a requirement of the new licenses content owners who have sign with the Advanced Access Content System
Licensing Administrator (AACS-LA), the industry consortium in charge of licensing AACS copy protection used on Blu-rays.
The managed copy requirement was initially required to go into effect Dec. 4, as part of the final licensing agreement for AACS, the copy protection used on Blu-ray discs. However, the live date has since been moved to March 31, 2010 by AACS-LA. From March 2010, studios will be required to offer consumers a backup copy of every Blu-ray disc they buy. However, no Blu-ray players in the market yet have the capability to make the backups. This means that PC drives will likely to be the first products to support managed copy.
A disc ready for managed copy will essentially include a link on it directing the Blu-ray player to an authentication server. Once a user chooses the option to make a copy, the Blu-ray player connects online to an authorization server. Discs are serialized, and the authentication server will determine if a copy is allowed.
The authentication servers will be hosted at AACS-LA while studios and third parties will be also able to run their own servers. However, no such servers are currently available and accessible.
Managed copies will be able to be burned to recordable Blu-ray or DVD discs, as a download to a Windows Media DRM-compatible portable player or hard drive, on a memory stick, SD card or as a bound copy, such as a digital copy file on the disc, though AACS-LA can approve other methods going forward.
Some studios are expected to offer the managed copy option with their Blu-ray disc movies for free, while some others will charge for it. BluScenes have already released "The Classic Fireplace," "Coral Reef Aquarium," and "Journey Through Space" BD titles that have become the first 3 Blu-ray releases to utilize the Blu-ray Managed Copy feature. The company is not applying any extra charge for the feature.
Currently consumers are getting a digital copy included of some BD titles they buy for free. This copy is available in an extra disc, while managed copy will allow consumers to create the backup movie on their own medium. Extra charging for the managed copy feature may not sound a good idea for consumers, who may consider the digital copy included as part of the bargain with many of their Blu-ray disc purchases.
Managed copy is also not working with Apple products since there?s been no AACS-LA submission from Apple, at least until now. However, some studios have worked with Apple to provide Digital Copy for iTunes, affording customers who purchase DVD and Blu-ray movies with an additional iTunes Digital Copy of the movie.
Just like movies purchased from the iTunes Store, an iTunes Digital Copy can be transferred to iTunes and then viewed on a PC or Mac, iPod with video, iPhone or on wide screen television with Apple TV.
Managed copy is expected to launch fully in the next few months, according to the Blu-ray Disc Association. The managed copy requirement goes into effect Dec. 4, as part of the final licensing agreement for AACS, the copy protection used on Blu-ray discs.
From December, studios will be required to offer consumers a backup copy of every Blu-ray disc they buy. However, no Blu-ray players in the market yet have the capability to make the backups. This means that PC drives will likely to be the first products to support managed copy.
A disc ready for managed copy will essentially include a link on it directing the Blu-ray player to an authentication server. Once a users chooses the option to make a copy, the Blu-ray player connects online to an authorization server. Discs are serialized, and the authentication server will determine if a copy is allowed.
Managed copies will be able to be burned to recordable Blu-ray or DVD discs, as a download to a Windows Media DRM-compatible portable player or hard drive, on a memory stick, SD card or as a bound copy, such as a digital copy file on the disc, though AACS-LA can approve other methods going forward.
Managed copy offers consumers the ability to make at least one full-resolution, protected copy of the Blu-ray content they own. The feature is currently a requirement of the new licenses content owners who have sign with the Advanced Access Content System
Licensing Administrator (AACS-LA), the industry consortium in charge of licensing AACS copy protection used on Blu-rays.
The managed copy requirement was initially required to go into effect Dec. 4, as part of the final licensing agreement for AACS, the copy protection used on Blu-ray discs. However, the live date has since been moved to March 31, 2010 by AACS-LA. From March 2010, studios will be required to offer consumers a backup copy of every Blu-ray disc they buy. However, no Blu-ray players in the market yet have the capability to make the backups. This means that PC drives will likely to be the first products to support managed copy.
A disc ready for managed copy will essentially include a link on it directing the Blu-ray player to an authentication server. Once a user chooses the option to make a copy, the Blu-ray player connects online to an authorization server. Discs are serialized, and the authentication server will determine if a copy is allowed.
The authentication servers will be hosted at AACS-LA while studios and third parties will be also able to run their own servers. However, no such servers are currently available and accessible.
Managed copies will be able to be burned to recordable Blu-ray or DVD discs, as a download to a Windows Media DRM-compatible portable player or hard drive, on a memory stick, SD card or as a bound copy, such as a digital copy file on the disc, though AACS-LA can approve other methods going forward.
Some studios are expected to offer the managed copy option with their Blu-ray disc movies for free, while some others will charge for it. BluScenes have already released "The Classic Fireplace," "Coral Reef Aquarium," and "Journey Through Space" BD titles that have become the first 3 Blu-ray releases to utilize the Blu-ray Managed Copy feature. The company is not applying any extra charge for the feature.
Currently consumers are getting a digital copy included of some BD titles they buy for free. This copy is available in an extra disc, while managed copy will allow consumers to create the backup movie on their own medium. Extra charging for the managed copy feature may not sound a good idea for consumers, who may consider the digital copy included as part of the bargain with many of their Blu-ray disc purchases.
Managed copy is also not working with Apple products since there?s been no AACS-LA submission from Apple, at least until now. However, some studios have worked with Apple to provide Digital Copy for iTunes, affording customers who purchase DVD and Blu-ray movies with an additional iTunes Digital Copy of the movie.
Just like movies purchased from the iTunes Store, an iTunes Digital Copy can be transferred to iTunes and then viewed on a PC or Mac, iPod with video, iPhone or on wide screen television with Apple TV.
Managed copy is expected to launch fully in the next few months, according to the Blu-ray Disc Association. The managed copy requirement goes into effect Dec. 4, as part of the final licensing agreement for AACS, the copy protection used on Blu-ray discs.
From December, studios will be required to offer consumers a backup copy of every Blu-ray disc they buy. However, no Blu-ray players in the market yet have the capability to make the backups. This means that PC drives will likely to be the first products to support managed copy.
A disc ready for managed copy will essentially include a link on it directing the Blu-ray player to an authentication server. Once a users chooses the option to make a copy, the Blu-ray player connects online to an authorization server. Discs are serialized, and the authentication server will determine if a copy is allowed.
Managed copies will be able to be burned to recordable Blu-ray or DVD discs, as a download to a Windows Media DRM-compatible portable player or hard drive, on a memory stick, SD card or as a bound copy, such as a digital copy file on the disc, though AACS-LA can approve other methods going forward.
Friday, 19 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 19-02-10
ASUS M4N78 PRO Motherboard available only for today at the special price of £55.00
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Kingston Digital Releases First 256GB USB Flash Drive.
Kingston Digital, the Flash memory affiliate of Kingston Technology, today announced the release of DataTraveler 310, the first 256GB USB Flash drive in the United States.
The DataTraveler 310 replaces the 256GB DataTraveler 300, released in July 2009 to the Asia/Pacific and Europe, Middle East and Africa regions.
Andrew Ewing said "We saw an opportunity to push the capacity envelope for USB Flash drives in the marketplace. Customer feedback and our research determined that this is a great solution for designers, engineers and architects who have a need to easily store and transport large data files",
USB business manager, Kingston. "For the enthusiast who wants easy access to their full media library, the DataTraveler 310 can store up to 365 CDs, 54 DVDs or 51,000 images. This device makes an entire collection of data easily portable."
The DataTraveler 310 features Password Traveler software, which allows the user to create and access a password-protected privacy zone. The secure area of the drive can account for up to 90 percent of the drive?s capacity and does not require administrator rights.
The DataTraveler 310 has a protective cap that snaps onto the back for the drive for convenient storage when not in use. This drive is available only in 256GB and is backed by a five-year warranty. It retails for $1,108.00.
Specifications:
- Capacity: 256 GB
- Data transfer rates of 25MB/sec. read and 12MB/sec. write
- Safeguarded: includes Password Traveler
- Does not require Administrator rights to access the Privacy Zone
- Dimensions: 2.90" x 0.87" x 0.63" (73.70mm x 22.20mm x 16.10mm)
- Operating Temperature: 32F to 140 F (0C to 60 C)
- Storage Temperature: -4C to 185F (-20C to 85 C)
- Five-year warranty
Yahoo and Microsoft to Implement Search Alliance
Microsoft and Yahoo! announced today that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and will now turn their attention to beginning the process of implementing the deal.
Implementation of the deal is expected to begin in the coming days and will involve transitioning Yahoo!'s algorithmic and paid search platforms to Microsoft, with Yahoo! becoming the exclusive relationship sales force for both companie's premium search advertisers globally.
"Once the transition is completed, the companie's unified search marketplace will deliver improved innovation for consumers, better volume and efficiency for advertisers and better monetization opportunities for web publishers through a platform that contains a larger pool of search queries," the companies said in a statement.
"This breakthrough search alliance means Yahoo! can focus even more on our own innovative search experience," said Yahoo! Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz. "Yahoo! gets to do what we do best: combine our science and technology with compelling content to build personally relevant online experiences for our users and customers."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer concurred with Bartz's assessment. "Although we are just at the beginning of this process, we have reached an exciting milestone," Ballmer said. "I believe that together, Microsoft and Yahoo! will promote more choice, better value and greater innovation to our customers as well as to advertisers and publishers."
Under terms of the agreement, which was announced in late July 2009, Microsoft will provide Yahoo! with the same search result listings available through Bing, and Yahoo! will integrate Yahoo! content, enhanced listings with organized information about key topics, and tools to tailor the experience for Yahoo! users.
Microsoft is hoping that by making itself a single conduit for advertisers to access customers on both sites, it will become a credible alternative to Google.
Implementation of the deal is expected to begin in the coming days and will involve transitioning Yahoo!'s algorithmic and paid search platforms to Microsoft, with Yahoo! becoming the exclusive relationship sales force for both companie's premium search advertisers globally.
"Once the transition is completed, the companie's unified search marketplace will deliver improved innovation for consumers, better volume and efficiency for advertisers and better monetization opportunities for web publishers through a platform that contains a larger pool of search queries," the companies said in a statement.
"This breakthrough search alliance means Yahoo! can focus even more on our own innovative search experience," said Yahoo! Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz. "Yahoo! gets to do what we do best: combine our science and technology with compelling content to build personally relevant online experiences for our users and customers."
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer concurred with Bartz's assessment. "Although we are just at the beginning of this process, we have reached an exciting milestone," Ballmer said. "I believe that together, Microsoft and Yahoo! will promote more choice, better value and greater innovation to our customers as well as to advertisers and publishers."
Under terms of the agreement, which was announced in late July 2009, Microsoft will provide Yahoo! with the same search result listings available through Bing, and Yahoo! will integrate Yahoo! content, enhanced listings with organized information about key topics, and tools to tailor the experience for Yahoo! users.
Microsoft is hoping that by making itself a single conduit for advertisers to access customers on both sites, it will become a credible alternative to Google.
Thursday, 18 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 18-02-10
Asrock P55M Pro Intel P55 LGA1156 Motherboard available only for today at the special price of £70.00
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Firefox Security Updates Now Available
As part of Mozilla's stability and security update process, Firefox 3.5.8 and Firefox 3.0.18 are now available for Windows, Mac, and Linux as free downloads.
Firefox 3.5.8 is available at http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html,
Firefox 3.0.18 is available on the Mozilla FTP Servers, but Mozilla strongly recommends all users upgrade to Firefox 3.6 as soon as possible.
If you already have Firefox 3.5 or Firefox 3, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting "Check for Updates?" from the Help menu.
For a list of changes and more information, review the Firefox 3.5.8 Release Notes and the Firefox 3.0.18 Release Notes here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.8/releasenotes
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.18/releasenotes
Firefox 3.5.8 is available at http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/all-older.html,
Firefox 3.0.18 is available on the Mozilla FTP Servers, but Mozilla strongly recommends all users upgrade to Firefox 3.6 as soon as possible.
If you already have Firefox 3.5 or Firefox 3, you will receive an automated update notification within 24 to 48 hours. This update can also be applied manually by selecting "Check for Updates?" from the Help menu.
For a list of changes and more information, review the Firefox 3.5.8 Release Notes and the Firefox 3.0.18 Release Notes here:
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.5.8/releasenotes
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0.18/releasenotes
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 17-02-10
RAZER ARCTOSA Black Gaming Keyboard available only for today at the special price of £30.00
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Microsoft discloses Office 2010 UK pricing
Microsoft has announced UK prices for its forthcoming Office 2010 suite, set to ship in June this year.
Unlike earlier editions of Microsoft Office, there are only three versions (or SKUs) that will be available via retail in the UK:
Office Home and Student,
Office Home and Business,
and Office Professional.
Office Home and Student, which is aimed at families and students, includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and the Office Web Apps for £109.99. This is licensed strictly for non-commercial use, according to Microsoft.
Office Home and Business, intended for small businesses and those working at home, has the same set of applications but adds Outlook and costs £239.99.
Office Professional is touted as the premium version for users with advanced needs, and includes everything in the previous versions plus Publisher, the Access database and premium technical support for £399.99.
Many users who buy a new PC after the launch of Office 2010 will also see a cut-down version, Office 2010 Starter edition, preloaded in place of the now defunct Microsoft Works.
To upgrade this to one of the three mainstream suites, customers can purchase a product key card costing £89.99 for Office Home and Student, £189.99 for Office Home and Business and £299.99 for Office Professional.
Two further editions of Office 2010 - Standard and Professional Plus - are enterprise editions available only to organisations with a volume licensing agreement.
Acer Aspire One 532G: First Netbook With Dedicated ION Graphics For HD
The new Acer Aspire One 532G sets the netbook trend in the digital world where Hi-Def viewing online is growing dramatically.
Acer presented the world's first netbook with dedicated next-generation NVIDIA ION graphics acceleration enabling users to enjoy Hi-Def content online as well as playback at 720p; alternatively, connect through HDMI output to a secondary Hi-Def TV/LCD monitor for sharing Hi-Def content with friends at a larger 1080p resolution.
Th netbook offers up to 10 hours of battery life, integrated Wi-Fi, 10.1" Hi-Def LED backlit display and optional 3G.
The Aspire One 532G with dedicated graphics accelerates web Hi-Def content streaming, offers 3D computing, mainstream PC gaming, boosts the performance of editing and converting videos and offers Hi-Def video playback up to 1080p via HDMI-output to HDTV. All of these are achieved with the new Intel Atom N450 platform and next-generation NVIDIA ION GPU with dedicated 512MB memory.
NVIDIA Optimus Technology intelligently, automatically transitions between the NVIDIA ION GPU, and battery-saving integrated graphics, depending on the needs of the application? delivering greater battery life.
Measuring only 1" thin and about 1 kg in weight, the Aspire One 532G is available in three colors, Sapphire Blue, Ruby Red and Pearl Silver.
The Aspire One 532G will start shipping at the end of Q1 2010.
Acer presented the world's first netbook with dedicated next-generation NVIDIA ION graphics acceleration enabling users to enjoy Hi-Def content online as well as playback at 720p; alternatively, connect through HDMI output to a secondary Hi-Def TV/LCD monitor for sharing Hi-Def content with friends at a larger 1080p resolution.
Th netbook offers up to 10 hours of battery life, integrated Wi-Fi, 10.1" Hi-Def LED backlit display and optional 3G.
The Aspire One 532G with dedicated graphics accelerates web Hi-Def content streaming, offers 3D computing, mainstream PC gaming, boosts the performance of editing and converting videos and offers Hi-Def video playback up to 1080p via HDMI-output to HDTV. All of these are achieved with the new Intel Atom N450 platform and next-generation NVIDIA ION GPU with dedicated 512MB memory.
NVIDIA Optimus Technology intelligently, automatically transitions between the NVIDIA ION GPU, and battery-saving integrated graphics, depending on the needs of the application? delivering greater battery life.
Measuring only 1" thin and about 1 kg in weight, the Aspire One 532G is available in three colors, Sapphire Blue, Ruby Red and Pearl Silver.
The Aspire One 532G will start shipping at the end of Q1 2010.
ATI Catalyst Driver Updates Provide Many New Features
AMD announced several new ATI Catalyst graphics driver features today designed to enable higher performance, stability and an even more intuitive computing experience for ATI Radeon graphics users.
Two ATI Catalyst driver updates unlock the new features, the first coming today in ATI Catalyst update, version 10.2, and the second scheduled for release in March.
"As the first and, to date, only company to provide DirectX 11 technology and ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, AMD continues to demonstrate our commitment to innovation in graphics," said Ben Bar-Haim, corporate vice-president, Software, AMD.
Key features of ATI Catalyst graphics drivers, version 10.2:
* Better game performance, sooner: Game profiles help optimize performance.
AMD is focusing its efforts to provide access to game profiles when a new game launches ? often on the day of launch - and AMD plans to post a separate executable file on AMD.com that users can install to get access to the latest application profiles for improved performance.
* More powerful panoramic gaming with ATI CrossFireX technology: Fans of ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology can now take advantage of the additional graphics horsepower to help increase game performance or image quality settings when using ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology.
The key feature of the new release is the completely new CrossFireX profile system. Although AMD releases ATI Catalyst Software Suite updates on a monthly basis, it still isn?t frequent enough to catch up to game releases. As a result, CrossFireX profiles lag behind game releases. To help gamers solve this issue, AMD plans to release the CrossFireX profiles seperately from the driver itself. As a result, gamers will be able to receive only CrossFireX profile updates more frequently than the monthly driver updates. Catalyst 10.2 removes the CrossFireX profiles from the driver and moves them into a XML file. Updating this XML file will update the CrossFire X profiles.
Users will be able to Avisit AMD.com and download the latest game profiles in the form of an EXE file. Running this EXE file will update user's game profiles to the latest available from AMD.
In addition in Catalyst 10.2 AMD will employ ATI PowerPlay technology to CrossFireX configurations. This will allow lower power utilization while at idle.
ATI CrossFireX will also offers support for ATI Eyefinity. All CrossFireX configurations will accelerate ATI Eyefinity display groups.
Catalyst 10.2 will also pass audio through the DisplayPort to DisplayPort displays to output audio through the speakers on those displays.
Key features of ATI Catalyst graphics drivers, version 10.3, scheduled for release in March, 2010:
* Monthly updates for the mobile crowd: Starting in March, AMD plans to issue stability, performance and feature enhancements in monthly ATI Catalyst driver updates for Windows 7 and Windows Vista-based notebooks that feature ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, HD 4000 and HD 5000 series premium graphics processors.
* ATI Eyefinity technology, made better: To further enhance the visual experience of ATI Eyefinity technology, users will have access to an easy-to-use wizard that will allow them to adjust their display layout to compensate for monitor bezels. In addition, users will be able to adjust the brightness, color and contrast for each individual monitor for greater customization and calibration of each screen in their ATI Eyefinity set-up.
* Enabling the 3D ecosystem: AMD is enabling third-party middleware vendors to bring more 3D stereoscopic gaming options to consumers by allowing for independent left and right images at 120 Hz.
Two ATI Catalyst driver updates unlock the new features, the first coming today in ATI Catalyst update, version 10.2, and the second scheduled for release in March.
"As the first and, to date, only company to provide DirectX 11 technology and ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology, AMD continues to demonstrate our commitment to innovation in graphics," said Ben Bar-Haim, corporate vice-president, Software, AMD.
Key features of ATI Catalyst graphics drivers, version 10.2:
* Better game performance, sooner: Game profiles help optimize performance.
AMD is focusing its efforts to provide access to game profiles when a new game launches ? often on the day of launch - and AMD plans to post a separate executable file on AMD.com that users can install to get access to the latest application profiles for improved performance.
* More powerful panoramic gaming with ATI CrossFireX technology: Fans of ATI CrossFireX multi-GPU technology can now take advantage of the additional graphics horsepower to help increase game performance or image quality settings when using ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology.
The key feature of the new release is the completely new CrossFireX profile system. Although AMD releases ATI Catalyst Software Suite updates on a monthly basis, it still isn?t frequent enough to catch up to game releases. As a result, CrossFireX profiles lag behind game releases. To help gamers solve this issue, AMD plans to release the CrossFireX profiles seperately from the driver itself. As a result, gamers will be able to receive only CrossFireX profile updates more frequently than the monthly driver updates. Catalyst 10.2 removes the CrossFireX profiles from the driver and moves them into a XML file. Updating this XML file will update the CrossFire X profiles.
Users will be able to Avisit AMD.com and download the latest game profiles in the form of an EXE file. Running this EXE file will update user's game profiles to the latest available from AMD.
In addition in Catalyst 10.2 AMD will employ ATI PowerPlay technology to CrossFireX configurations. This will allow lower power utilization while at idle.
ATI CrossFireX will also offers support for ATI Eyefinity. All CrossFireX configurations will accelerate ATI Eyefinity display groups.
Catalyst 10.2 will also pass audio through the DisplayPort to DisplayPort displays to output audio through the speakers on those displays.
Key features of ATI Catalyst graphics drivers, version 10.3, scheduled for release in March, 2010:
* Monthly updates for the mobile crowd: Starting in March, AMD plans to issue stability, performance and feature enhancements in monthly ATI Catalyst driver updates for Windows 7 and Windows Vista-based notebooks that feature ATI Mobility Radeon HD 2000, HD 3000, HD 4000 and HD 5000 series premium graphics processors.
* ATI Eyefinity technology, made better: To further enhance the visual experience of ATI Eyefinity technology, users will have access to an easy-to-use wizard that will allow them to adjust their display layout to compensate for monitor bezels. In addition, users will be able to adjust the brightness, color and contrast for each individual monitor for greater customization and calibration of each screen in their ATI Eyefinity set-up.
* Enabling the 3D ecosystem: AMD is enabling third-party middleware vendors to bring more 3D stereoscopic gaming options to consumers by allowing for independent left and right images at 120 Hz.
Toshiba Introduces 600GB 2.5 inch HDD
Toshiba today announced a new high-performance, low-power HDD product line for enterprise applications that draws on synergies achieved by the integration of Fujitsu Limited's enterprise-directed magnetic drive business into Toshiba HDD business.
The new MBF2600RC family brings 2.5-inch drives into the enterprise space, with no compromise in capacity or performance. The line-up features a 600GB drive, currently the industry's highest capacity for 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDD, and rounds out the range with 300GB, and 450GB capacities, all offering maximum rotation speeds of over 10,000RPM.
Improvements to the magnetic recording head and disk's magnetic layer gives the MBF2600RC an areal density of 595Mbit/mm2 (384Gbpsi), the highest areal density for 2.5-inch enterprise drives, and realizes 600GB capacity, the largest capacity yet available in the market including 3.5-inch drives. Combined with a rotation rate of over 10,000RPM, the line-up will meet the enterprise market's exacting standards with 2.5-inch form factor drives.
Furthermore, the internal transfer rate in the MBF2600RC family is boosted by 13%, from 191.5MB/s to 216MB/s, compared with the previous generation MBD2300RC, due to improved linear recording density, and overall performance increased by realizing high speed seek time. The new drives also offer an optional drive-based encryption design that secures data when end of lease, during disposal and recycling. The range of storage capacities meets customer needs across a wide range of mission-critical IT equipment, from servers to large capacity storage systems.
The MBF2600RC family delivers significantly better environmental performance than MBD2300RC 2.5-inch drives. Advances include power management enhancement that allows the disk to spin at a slower rate when not being addressed, and achieve a low-power consumption of 2.5W. MBF2600RC also contributes a 45% improvement in energy consumption efficiency from the MBD2300RC. The MBF2600RC family is also compliant with the European Union's RoHS directive and halogen-free.
The new MBF2600RC family brings 2.5-inch drives into the enterprise space, with no compromise in capacity or performance. The line-up features a 600GB drive, currently the industry's highest capacity for 2.5-inch enterprise-class HDD, and rounds out the range with 300GB, and 450GB capacities, all offering maximum rotation speeds of over 10,000RPM.
Improvements to the magnetic recording head and disk's magnetic layer gives the MBF2600RC an areal density of 595Mbit/mm2 (384Gbpsi), the highest areal density for 2.5-inch enterprise drives, and realizes 600GB capacity, the largest capacity yet available in the market including 3.5-inch drives. Combined with a rotation rate of over 10,000RPM, the line-up will meet the enterprise market's exacting standards with 2.5-inch form factor drives.
Furthermore, the internal transfer rate in the MBF2600RC family is boosted by 13%, from 191.5MB/s to 216MB/s, compared with the previous generation MBD2300RC, due to improved linear recording density, and overall performance increased by realizing high speed seek time. The new drives also offer an optional drive-based encryption design that secures data when end of lease, during disposal and recycling. The range of storage capacities meets customer needs across a wide range of mission-critical IT equipment, from servers to large capacity storage systems.
The MBF2600RC family delivers significantly better environmental performance than MBD2300RC 2.5-inch drives. Advances include power management enhancement that allows the disk to spin at a slower rate when not being addressed, and achieve a low-power consumption of 2.5W. MBF2600RC also contributes a 45% improvement in energy consumption efficiency from the MBD2300RC. The MBF2600RC family is also compliant with the European Union's RoHS directive and halogen-free.
Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 16-02-10
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Monday, 15 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 15-02-10
Deal Of The Day :
Special Price on the Kingston 32GB USB 2.0 Data traveler Drive available only for today at £47.50
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Sandisk Introduces 64GB iNand Flash Drives For Mobile Devices
SanDisk today introduced the new SanDisk iNAND Embedded Flash Drives (EFD) with support for the e.MMC 4.4 specification.
Based on 3-bit-per-cell (X3) NAND flash technology, the drives offer up to 64 gigabytes (GB) of capacity in a single device, and can be used for boot, system code and mass storage functions.
SanDisk iNAND EFDs are specifically designed for advanced smartphones and provide high capacity and reliable storage in a power-efficient package with a small footprint.
SanDisk's advanced X3 technology enables the development of high capacity embedded solutions that are power-efficient with minimal package complexity.
The new 64GB iNAND EFD is based on an eight flash die stack design using SanDisk's X3 32nm flash, and is offered in a 16x20x1.4mm form factor with a standard ball grid array (BGA) for quick integration into smartphone designs.
iNAND devices based on X3 technology fully comply with the e.MMC 4.4 specification and range in capacities from 4GB to 64GB.
The e.MMC 4.4 standard interface is designed for embedded, non-volatile memory storage devices made up of both NAND flash memory
and a flash memory controller. This latest specification is designed to meet the requirements for a flexible program code and user data storage solution for mobile phones, global positioning systems (GPS), digital music players and other portable consumer electronics devices.
Based on 3-bit-per-cell (X3) NAND flash technology, the drives offer up to 64 gigabytes (GB) of capacity in a single device, and can be used for boot, system code and mass storage functions.
SanDisk iNAND EFDs are specifically designed for advanced smartphones and provide high capacity and reliable storage in a power-efficient package with a small footprint.
SanDisk's advanced X3 technology enables the development of high capacity embedded solutions that are power-efficient with minimal package complexity.
The new 64GB iNAND EFD is based on an eight flash die stack design using SanDisk's X3 32nm flash, and is offered in a 16x20x1.4mm form factor with a standard ball grid array (BGA) for quick integration into smartphone designs.
iNAND devices based on X3 technology fully comply with the e.MMC 4.4 specification and range in capacities from 4GB to 64GB.
The e.MMC 4.4 standard interface is designed for embedded, non-volatile memory storage devices made up of both NAND flash memory
and a flash memory controller. This latest specification is designed to meet the requirements for a flexible program code and user data storage solution for mobile phones, global positioning systems (GPS), digital music players and other portable consumer electronics devices.
Friday, 12 February 2010
Announcement
Due to a tragic death in the family
Business had been closed since last couple of days
We should be back to normal from Monday
Thanks to all who have supported through this hard time.
Business had been closed since last couple of days
We should be back to normal from Monday
Thanks to all who have supported through this hard time.
Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 09-02-10
AMD DUAL CORE PHENOM II 545, AM3, 3.0GHz, 2600 FSB, 6MB, 80W, 45NM Processor available only for today at the special price of £60.00
Normal Price is £65.00 which will revert back at 12am tonight.
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AMD Launches ATI Radeon HD 5570
AMD has added a third sub-$100 graphics card to it's DirectX 11 lineup. The new Radeon HD 5570 fits squarely between the recently released Radeon HD 5670 and the Radeon HD 5450 with a $79-85 suggested price range.
The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card is an energy efficient, low-profile DirectX 11 card for small form factor PCs. It fully supports ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and ATI Stream capabilities.
"Customers purchasing small form factor PCs are looking for improved performance while gaming, watching HD video or working with the latest productivity applications. The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card delivers all of this at a price that won't break the bank," said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager, AMD Graphics Division.
The ATI Radeon HD 5570 also delivers full 1080p HD playback and supports ATI Stream technology, helping to boost performance for video playback and productivity applications, all while enabling a full Microsoft Windows 7 experience.
The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card provides great game play in DirectX 11 titles such as Codemaster's Colin McRae: DiRT 2, EA Phenomic's BattleForge, GSC Game World's S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 as well as DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL titles. The new card delivers up to a 60 percent performance improvement over the closest competing product in its class (Nvidia GeForce GT 220), AMD claims.
AMD based the Radeon HD 5570 on the same 40-nm Redwood graphics processor that powers the 5670. Users will get 400 stream processors, five texture units (for 20 texels/clock fill rate), two ROP units (for a total eight pixels per clock), and a 128-bit memory interface. However, the core clock speed has fallen from 775MHz to 650MHz, and instead of 4Gbps GDDR5, AMD has limited the 5570's memory selection to 1.8Gbps DDR3.
As a result, floating-point number crunching power has fallen from 620 gigaFLOPS on the Radeon HD 5670 to 520 gigaFLOPS on the Radeon HD 5570, and memory bandwidth has dropped similarly from 64GB/s to just 28.8GB/s.
The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card comes with an HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio for a premium media PC experience.
Basic specs:
Engine clock speed: 650 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 520 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 650M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 52 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 13 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 5.2 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 20.8 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 900 MHz
Memory data rate: 1.8 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 28.8 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 45 Watts
Idle board power: 10 Watts
The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card is an energy efficient, low-profile DirectX 11 card for small form factor PCs. It fully supports ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and ATI Stream capabilities.
"Customers purchasing small form factor PCs are looking for improved performance while gaming, watching HD video or working with the latest productivity applications. The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card delivers all of this at a price that won't break the bank," said Matt Skynner, vice president and general manager, AMD Graphics Division.
The ATI Radeon HD 5570 also delivers full 1080p HD playback and supports ATI Stream technology, helping to boost performance for video playback and productivity applications, all while enabling a full Microsoft Windows 7 experience.
The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card provides great game play in DirectX 11 titles such as Codemaster's Colin McRae: DiRT 2, EA Phenomic's BattleForge, GSC Game World's S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Call of Pripyat and Battlefield: Bad Company 2 as well as DirectX 9, DirectX 10, DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL titles. The new card delivers up to a 60 percent performance improvement over the closest competing product in its class (Nvidia GeForce GT 220), AMD claims.
AMD based the Radeon HD 5570 on the same 40-nm Redwood graphics processor that powers the 5670. Users will get 400 stream processors, five texture units (for 20 texels/clock fill rate), two ROP units (for a total eight pixels per clock), and a 128-bit memory interface. However, the core clock speed has fallen from 775MHz to 650MHz, and instead of 4Gbps GDDR5, AMD has limited the 5570's memory selection to 1.8Gbps DDR3.
As a result, floating-point number crunching power has fallen from 620 gigaFLOPS on the Radeon HD 5670 to 520 gigaFLOPS on the Radeon HD 5570, and memory bandwidth has dropped similarly from 64GB/s to just 28.8GB/s.
The ATI Radeon HD 5570 graphics card comes with an HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio for a premium media PC experience.
Basic specs:
Engine clock speed: 650 MHz
Processing power (single precision): 520 GigaFLOPS
Polygon throughput: 650M polygons/sec
Data fetch rate (32-bit): 52 billion fetches/sec
Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 13 Gigatexels/sec
Pixel fill rate: 5.2 Gigapixels/sec
Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 20.8 Gigasamples/sec
Memory clock speed: 900 MHz
Memory data rate: 1.8 Gbps
Memory bandwidth: 28.8 GB/sec
Maximum board power: 45 Watts
Idle board power: 10 Watts
Monday, 8 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 08-02-10
Asrock Ci7 X58-Deluxe Socket 1366 DDR3 ATX Motherboard available only for today at the special price of £155.00
Normal Price is £159.99 which will revert back at 12am tonight.
Limited 1 Piece per order allowed.
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Teac Releases New ODD Drives For AV Devices.
Japanese Teac has released a new CD-ROM and a DVD-ROM drive for audio devices.
As the world leader in recording technology for over four decades, TEAC is currently offering internal ODDs for audio consumer electronic devices.
The company today announced the release of the CD-5010B internal CD-ROM drive. Basic features include reading of CD-ROM 32x, CD-DA 32x and audio playback at 10x.
The second drive is the DV-5010A, an ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive for reading of audio and data. The drive reads DVD-ROM at 8x, DVD-Video at 4x, CD-ROm at 32x, CD-DA at 32x and supports audio playback at 10x.
Specifications
CD-5010B
Read: CD-ROM 32x, CD-DA 32x, audio playback 10x
Supported discs: 12cm, 8cm
Interface: ATA/ATAPI (IDE)
Data transfer rates:
PIO 16.7MB/sec. max.(PIO mode4)
Burst DMA 16.7MB/sec. max(Multi Word DMA mode2)
Burst Ultra DMA 66.7MB/sec. max (Ultra DMA mode4)
Average access time: 110msec.
Data buffer: 198KB
Loading mechanism: Loading tray
Ambient temperature: 5C~45C
Ambient humidity: 20% to 80％%
Power: DC+5V±5%, DC +12 V ± 5%
Mean time between failures (MTBF): 60,000POH
Dimensions (W x H x D) 146mm x 41.3mm x 165mm
Weight: Under 700g
RoHS Directive
DV-5010A
Read: DVD-ROm 8x, DVD-Video 4x, CD-ROM 32x, CD-DA 32x, audio playback 10x
Supported discs: 12cm, 8cm
Interface: ATA/ATAPI (IDE)
Data transfer rates:
PIO 16.7MB/sec. max.(PIO mode4)
Burst DMA 16.7MB/sec. max(Multi Word DMA mode2)
Burst Ultra DMA 66.7MB/sec. max (Ultra DMA mode4)
Average access time:
135msec.(DVD-ROm 8x / random access)
110msec.(CD-ROM 32x / random access)
Data buffer: 198KB
Loading mechanism: Loading tray
Ambient temperature: 5C~45C
Ambient humidity: 20% to 80％%
Power: DC+5V±5% , DC +12 V ± 5%
Mean time between failures (MTBF): 60,000POH
Dimensions (W x H x D) 146mm x 41.3mm x 165mm
Weight: Under 700g
RoHS Directive
As the world leader in recording technology for over four decades, TEAC is currently offering internal ODDs for audio consumer electronic devices.
The company today announced the release of the CD-5010B internal CD-ROM drive. Basic features include reading of CD-ROM 32x, CD-DA 32x and audio playback at 10x.
The second drive is the DV-5010A, an ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive for reading of audio and data. The drive reads DVD-ROM at 8x, DVD-Video at 4x, CD-ROm at 32x, CD-DA at 32x and supports audio playback at 10x.
Specifications
CD-5010B
Read: CD-ROM 32x, CD-DA 32x, audio playback 10x
Supported discs: 12cm, 8cm
Interface: ATA/ATAPI (IDE)
Data transfer rates:
PIO 16.7MB/sec. max.(PIO mode4)
Burst DMA 16.7MB/sec. max(Multi Word DMA mode2)
Burst Ultra DMA 66.7MB/sec. max (Ultra DMA mode4)
Average access time: 110msec.
Data buffer: 198KB
Loading mechanism: Loading tray
Ambient temperature: 5C~45C
Ambient humidity: 20% to 80％%
Power: DC+5V±5%, DC +12 V ± 5%
Mean time between failures (MTBF): 60,000POH
Dimensions (W x H x D) 146mm x 41.3mm x 165mm
Weight: Under 700g
RoHS Directive
DV-5010A
Read: DVD-ROm 8x, DVD-Video 4x, CD-ROM 32x, CD-DA 32x, audio playback 10x
Supported discs: 12cm, 8cm
Interface: ATA/ATAPI (IDE)
Data transfer rates:
PIO 16.7MB/sec. max.(PIO mode4)
Burst DMA 16.7MB/sec. max(Multi Word DMA mode2)
Burst Ultra DMA 66.7MB/sec. max (Ultra DMA mode4)
Average access time:
135msec.(DVD-ROm 8x / random access)
110msec.(CD-ROM 32x / random access)
Data buffer: 198KB
Loading mechanism: Loading tray
Ambient temperature: 5C~45C
Ambient humidity: 20% to 80％%
Power: DC+5V±5% , DC +12 V ± 5%
Mean time between failures (MTBF): 60,000POH
Dimensions (W x H x D) 146mm x 41.3mm x 165mm
Weight: Under 700g
RoHS Directive
Samsung 500GB External HDD Available Pre-loaded with Michael Jackson's Movie
Samsung today announced the Samsung S2 Portable, a transportable external hard drive, pre-loaded with the 'Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT' movie.
Timed with the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of 'Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT,' the pre-loaded external HDD will be available at European retailers from February 22, 2010. Availability in other regions will be determined following the initial launch, Samsung said.
In addition to the pre-loaded movie, the Samsung S2 Portable boasts USB On Board Technology and supports various features such as Samsung Auto Backup that enables real-time or scheduled backup and SecretZone that encrypts and stores data on a virtual drive as well as SafetyKey, a data-security function that offers dual data protection through a password.
Timed with the DVD and Blu-ray Disc release of 'Michael Jackson's THIS IS IT,' the pre-loaded external HDD will be available at European retailers from February 22, 2010. Availability in other regions will be determined following the initial launch, Samsung said.
In addition to the pre-loaded movie, the Samsung S2 Portable boasts USB On Board Technology and supports various features such as Samsung Auto Backup that enables real-time or scheduled backup and SecretZone that encrypts and stores data on a virtual drive as well as SafetyKey, a data-security function that offers dual data protection through a password.
Trojans Have Been Identified in Two Firefox Add-ons
Two experimental add-ons, Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader and all versions of Master Filer were found to contain Trojan code aimed at Windows users, Mozilla announced today.
Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader contained Win32.LdPinch.gen, and Master Filer contained Win32.Bifrose.32.Bifrose Trojan. Both add-ons have been disabled on AMO.
If a user installs one of these infected add-ons, the trojan would be executed when Firefox starts and the host computer would be infected by the trojan. Uninstalling these add-ons does not remove the trojan from a user?s system. Users with either of these add-ons should uninstall them immediately, Mozilla says. Since uninstalling these extensions does not remove the trojan from a user's system, an antivirus program should be used to scan and remove any infections.
This vulnerability is known to affect Firefox on Windows only, if either Master Filer or Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader are installed. Versions of Sothink Web Video Downloader greater than 4.0 are not infected. Master Filer was downloaded approximately 600 times between September 2009 and January 2010, according to Mozilla. Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader was downloaded approximately 4,000 times between February 2008 and May 2008. Master Filer was removed from AMO on January 25, 2010 and Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader was removed from AMO on February 2, 2010.
AMO performs a malware check on all add-ons uploaded to the Mozilla's Add-on site, and blocks add-ons that are detected as such. This scanning tool failed to detect the Trojan in Master Filer.
Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader contained Win32.LdPinch.gen, and Master Filer contained Win32.Bifrose.32.Bifrose Trojan. Both add-ons have been disabled on AMO.
If a user installs one of these infected add-ons, the trojan would be executed when Firefox starts and the host computer would be infected by the trojan. Uninstalling these add-ons does not remove the trojan from a user?s system. Users with either of these add-ons should uninstall them immediately, Mozilla says. Since uninstalling these extensions does not remove the trojan from a user's system, an antivirus program should be used to scan and remove any infections.
This vulnerability is known to affect Firefox on Windows only, if either Master Filer or Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader are installed. Versions of Sothink Web Video Downloader greater than 4.0 are not infected. Master Filer was downloaded approximately 600 times between September 2009 and January 2010, according to Mozilla. Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader was downloaded approximately 4,000 times between February 2008 and May 2008. Master Filer was removed from AMO on January 25, 2010 and Version 4.0 of Sothink Web Video Downloader was removed from AMO on February 2, 2010.
AMO performs a malware check on all add-ons uploaded to the Mozilla's Add-on site, and blocks add-ons that are detected as such. This scanning tool failed to detect the Trojan in Master Filer.
Sony Develops Wireless Intra-Connection Technology for Internal High Speed Data Transfer
Sony today announced the development of millimeter-wave wireless intra-connection technology that realizes 11Gbps wireless data transfer inside electronic products such as television sets.
By replacing complicated wires and internal circuitry with wireless connections, this technology enables a reduction in the size and cost of the IC and other components used in electronics products, delivering advantages such as size and cost-reduction and reliability of the final product.
Once wired connections approach the limit of their data capacity, additional circuitry is required to facilitate larger data transfers, however this leads to the issue of increasingly complicated IC packages, intricately printed circuit boards, and larger IC sizes.
Sony's new wireless intra-connection system is based on millimeter-wave wireless data transfer technology. Millimeter-wave refers to electromagnetic waves with a frequency of 30GHz to 300GHz, and wavelength between 1mm to 10mm. With their high frequency, millimeter-waves are suited to ultra high speed data transfer, while a further advantage is their ability to transfer data using only very small antennas. Sony has integrated highly energy efficient millimeter-wave circuits on 40nm-CMOS-LSIs (with an active footprint of just 0.13mm2 including both the transmitter and receiver), to realize high speed, 11Gbps data transfer over a distance of 14mm using antennas approximately 1mm in size.
By replacing physical circuitry in electronics products with high speed wireless connections, this new data transfer technology reduces the number of wired connections and minimizes IC use, to simplify the IC package and printed circuit board. Furthermore, because the data transfer occurs without contact, this enhances the reliability of movable and detachable parts within the product.
Sony's technology will be presented at "ISSCC 2010", to be held in San Francisco, California, US, from February 7th 2010.
Key Features
1. Optimized circuit for intra-connection on CMOS-LSIs
Sony has drawn on its years of experience in radio frequency technologies to realize compact, low power, millimeter-wave circuits optimal for use in intra-connection over CMOS-LSIs. Due to the small footprint of just 0.13mm2 the circuits can be built into a single chip, at very low cost.
2. Injection lock method realizes small size, low power consumption and sufficient transmission range for intra-connection.
Synchronized detection, which aligns the receiver with the transmitted carrier frequency, is an effective means of providing sufficient transmission range for intra-connection, while also ensuring low power consumption. However, the PLL (Phase Locked Loop) generally used for this synchronization has the disadvantage of requiring large, power-consuming circuitry to transmit at millimeter-wave frequency. By adopting an injection lock system that eliminates PLL, Sony has enabled synchronized detection over small size circuits, while also minimizing power consumption and providing sufficient transmission range for successful intra-connection.
This technology, used together with miniature antennas approximately 1mm in length, enable transmission speeds of 11Gbps over a distance of 14mm, with power consumption of 70mW. It is possible for this distance to be extended to around 50mm using high directivity antennas.
By replacing complicated wires and internal circuitry with wireless connections, this technology enables a reduction in the size and cost of the IC and other components used in electronics products, delivering advantages such as size and cost-reduction and reliability of the final product.
Once wired connections approach the limit of their data capacity, additional circuitry is required to facilitate larger data transfers, however this leads to the issue of increasingly complicated IC packages, intricately printed circuit boards, and larger IC sizes.
Sony's new wireless intra-connection system is based on millimeter-wave wireless data transfer technology. Millimeter-wave refers to electromagnetic waves with a frequency of 30GHz to 300GHz, and wavelength between 1mm to 10mm. With their high frequency, millimeter-waves are suited to ultra high speed data transfer, while a further advantage is their ability to transfer data using only very small antennas. Sony has integrated highly energy efficient millimeter-wave circuits on 40nm-CMOS-LSIs (with an active footprint of just 0.13mm2 including both the transmitter and receiver), to realize high speed, 11Gbps data transfer over a distance of 14mm using antennas approximately 1mm in size.
By replacing physical circuitry in electronics products with high speed wireless connections, this new data transfer technology reduces the number of wired connections and minimizes IC use, to simplify the IC package and printed circuit board. Furthermore, because the data transfer occurs without contact, this enhances the reliability of movable and detachable parts within the product.
Sony's technology will be presented at "ISSCC 2010", to be held in San Francisco, California, US, from February 7th 2010.
Key Features
1. Optimized circuit for intra-connection on CMOS-LSIs
Sony has drawn on its years of experience in radio frequency technologies to realize compact, low power, millimeter-wave circuits optimal for use in intra-connection over CMOS-LSIs. Due to the small footprint of just 0.13mm2 the circuits can be built into a single chip, at very low cost.
2. Injection lock method realizes small size, low power consumption and sufficient transmission range for intra-connection.
Synchronized detection, which aligns the receiver with the transmitted carrier frequency, is an effective means of providing sufficient transmission range for intra-connection, while also ensuring low power consumption. However, the PLL (Phase Locked Loop) generally used for this synchronization has the disadvantage of requiring large, power-consuming circuitry to transmit at millimeter-wave frequency. By adopting an injection lock system that eliminates PLL, Sony has enabled synchronized detection over small size circuits, while also minimizing power consumption and providing sufficient transmission range for successful intra-connection.
This technology, used together with miniature antennas approximately 1mm in length, enable transmission speeds of 11Gbps over a distance of 14mm, with power consumption of 70mW. It is possible for this distance to be extended to around 50mm using high directivity antennas.
Friday, 5 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 05-02-10
ASUS M4N78 PRO Motherboard available only for today at the special price of £55.00
Normal Price is £60.35 which will revert back at 12am tonight.
Limited 1 Piece per order allowed.
Click here,
http://rebelgadgets.com/product/139/asus-m4n78-pro.html
Normal Price is £60.35 which will revert back at 12am tonight.
Limited 1 Piece per order allowed.
Click here,
http://rebelgadgets.com/product/139/asus-m4n78-pro.html
Thermaltake Launches Next Generation Toughpower XT PSU Series
Thermaltake today announced a new edition of the "Toughpower XT" line of high-end PC power supply units.
The New Toughpower XT offers 25 watts more than other brands in the market. This added wattage is meant to enhance the system upgrade potential. Special features such as the DC-DC Converter Module, Double Forward technology and the new Active PFC circuit design increase the PSU's efficiency up to 89%, according to Thermaltake. The New Toughpowr XT utilizes high quality 105°C Japanese made solid state capacitors and latest PCI-E 6pin & PCI-E 6+2pin connectors to support latest multi-graphics solutions such as SLI and CrossFire X.
The four models of the new Toughpower XT series are all 80 PLUS Bronze certified, they come in four versions with 575W, 675W, 775W and for demanding power users and hardcore gamers with 875W.
To help you monitor your power supply status, the Toughpower XT Series utilizes the S.P.T. indicator to display the Standby mode, the Power good signal, and the Temperature of your PSU, bringing you real-time monitoring over the power supply. The New Toughpower XT's exclusive 12Vin1 provides for a single 12V rail for best compatibility. The FanDelayCool feature enables the 14cm fan to keep running 15-30 seconds after system shutdown to prolong the lifetime of PSU components.
The Toughpower XT 575W, 675W, 775W and 875W will be available at a suggest retail price of $109, $135, $145 and $159 respectively.
The New Toughpower XT offers 25 watts more than other brands in the market. This added wattage is meant to enhance the system upgrade potential. Special features such as the DC-DC Converter Module, Double Forward technology and the new Active PFC circuit design increase the PSU's efficiency up to 89%, according to Thermaltake. The New Toughpowr XT utilizes high quality 105°C Japanese made solid state capacitors and latest PCI-E 6pin & PCI-E 6+2pin connectors to support latest multi-graphics solutions such as SLI and CrossFire X.
The four models of the new Toughpower XT series are all 80 PLUS Bronze certified, they come in four versions with 575W, 675W, 775W and for demanding power users and hardcore gamers with 875W.
To help you monitor your power supply status, the Toughpower XT Series utilizes the S.P.T. indicator to display the Standby mode, the Power good signal, and the Temperature of your PSU, bringing you real-time monitoring over the power supply. The New Toughpower XT's exclusive 12Vin1 provides for a single 12V rail for best compatibility. The FanDelayCool feature enables the 14cm fan to keep running 15-30 seconds after system shutdown to prolong the lifetime of PSU components.
The Toughpower XT 575W, 675W, 775W and 875W will be available at a suggest retail price of $109, $135, $145 and $159 respectively.
New MSI R5770 Hawk Graphic Card Promises 20% Overclocking Room
MSI has now followed up on its Lightning series with the new Hawk series to provide mainstream gamers greater performance at a great price.
The first Hawk model to take flight is the R5770 Hawk graphic card with 7+1-phase power supply and support for GPU voltage overclocking. The more stable power supply and improved overclocking ability is backed by Twin Frozr II thermal design and military class components.
Compared to the 4+1-phase power supply on the reference card, the R5770 Hawk graphics card with its 7+1-phase design provides more power to the GPU and memory to achieve overclocking up to 20%, MSI claims.
The R5770 Hawk graphics card also comes with MSI's proprietary Afterburner overclocking software. Apart from the standard GPU and memory clock frequency adjustments, Afterburner can also change the GPU voltage to unleash its full performance. Voltage measurements are also supported by the R5770 Hawk through an external multimeter. The monitoring design means no wiring or hardware modifications are necessary to stay on top of the latest GPU and memory voltages.
For heat dissipation, the MSI R5770 Hawk graphic card uses the Twin Frozr II thermal design. This is supplemented by three heat pipes to draw and dissipate waste heat away from the graphics card.
As for the components, the R5570 Hawk uses 'military class' materials including the Hi-c CAP for the GPU power supply, solid state capacitors to extend the graphics card's overall service life, and solid state inductors that prevent high-frequency noise when overclocked or under high loads.
The first Hawk model to take flight is the R5770 Hawk graphic card with 7+1-phase power supply and support for GPU voltage overclocking. The more stable power supply and improved overclocking ability is backed by Twin Frozr II thermal design and military class components.
Compared to the 4+1-phase power supply on the reference card, the R5770 Hawk graphics card with its 7+1-phase design provides more power to the GPU and memory to achieve overclocking up to 20%, MSI claims.
The R5770 Hawk graphics card also comes with MSI's proprietary Afterburner overclocking software. Apart from the standard GPU and memory clock frequency adjustments, Afterburner can also change the GPU voltage to unleash its full performance. Voltage measurements are also supported by the R5770 Hawk through an external multimeter. The monitoring design means no wiring or hardware modifications are necessary to stay on top of the latest GPU and memory voltages.
For heat dissipation, the MSI R5770 Hawk graphic card uses the Twin Frozr II thermal design. This is supplemented by three heat pipes to draw and dissipate waste heat away from the graphics card.
As for the components, the R5570 Hawk uses 'military class' materials including the Hi-c CAP for the GPU power supply, solid state capacitors to extend the graphics card's overall service life, and solid state inductors that prevent high-frequency noise when overclocked or under high loads.
Thursday, 4 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 04-02-10
Asrock P55M Pro Intel P55 LGA1156 Motherboard available only for today at the special price of £70.00
Normal Price is £75.00 which will revert back at 12am tonight.
Limited 1 Piece per order allowed.
Click here,
http://rebelgadgets.com/product/62/asrock-p55m-pro-intel-p55-lga1156-motherboard.html
Normal Price is £75.00 which will revert back at 12am tonight.
Limited 1 Piece per order allowed.
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GIGABYTE Introduces First UD7 Motherboard for the P55 Platform
GIGABYTE launched their new flagship motherboard today for the P55 chipset platform, the GA-P55A-UD7.
The GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD7 delivers features for power users and gaming enthusiasts such as a 24 phase power design, NVIDIA 3-Way SLI/ATI CrossFireX, as well as support for USB 3.0, 3x USB Power Boost, and SATA 3.0 (6Gbps).
The extreme bandwidth required for 3-Way SLI capability is made possible by an onboard NVIDIA NF200 chip that allows the P55A-UD7. Additional bandwidth is provided by GIGABYTE 333 Onboard Acceleration with onboard SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and Serial ATA 6Gbps from NEC and Marvell.
The P55A-UD7 motherboard boasts the GIGABYTE 24 phase VRM for better operational stability during extreme overclocking. Another UD7 feature that offers better stability is GIGABYTE Hybrid SILENT-PIPE 2, a thermal solution that includes liquid cooling, screen cooling and an external heat sink for greater heat dissipation from the CPU VRM area.
The motherboard also features the GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 design, with 2 ounce copper for both the Power and Ground layers to enable lower system temperature and improved energy efficiency. GIGABYTE's Smart 6 technology is offering a combination of 6 software utilities that provide easier and smarter PC system management for improved system performance, faster boot-up time, secure platform management as well as easy to enable system recovery.
For more information about the GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD7 motherboard visit http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=3324.
The GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD7 delivers features for power users and gaming enthusiasts such as a 24 phase power design, NVIDIA 3-Way SLI/ATI CrossFireX, as well as support for USB 3.0, 3x USB Power Boost, and SATA 3.0 (6Gbps).
The extreme bandwidth required for 3-Way SLI capability is made possible by an onboard NVIDIA NF200 chip that allows the P55A-UD7. Additional bandwidth is provided by GIGABYTE 333 Onboard Acceleration with onboard SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and Serial ATA 6Gbps from NEC and Marvell.
The P55A-UD7 motherboard boasts the GIGABYTE 24 phase VRM for better operational stability during extreme overclocking. Another UD7 feature that offers better stability is GIGABYTE Hybrid SILENT-PIPE 2, a thermal solution that includes liquid cooling, screen cooling and an external heat sink for greater heat dissipation from the CPU VRM area.
The motherboard also features the GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 design, with 2 ounce copper for both the Power and Ground layers to enable lower system temperature and improved energy efficiency. GIGABYTE's Smart 6 technology is offering a combination of 6 software utilities that provide easier and smarter PC system management for improved system performance, faster boot-up time, secure platform management as well as easy to enable system recovery.
For more information about the GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD7 motherboard visit http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/Motherboard/Products_Spec.aspx?ProductID=3324.
New ATI Radeon HD 5450 Graphics Card Released
AMD has today announced the introduction of the ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card, the latest addition to the line-up of ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series graphics cards.
The ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card delivers HD multimedia capabilities at a value price. The card supports Sharing the same leading edge features found in the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series - support for DirectX 11, ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and ATI Stream technology.
Offering leading-edge performance per watt, the ATI Radeon HD 5450 is passively cooled making it a good choice for home theater PCs. The home theater experience is enriched with features such as HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio for the ultimate media PC.
The Radeon HD 5450 is based on AMD's new 40nm Cedar GPU, Cedar, which has 292 million transistors, 80 stream processors, two texture units and a single ROP. Radeon HD 5450 graphics cards will have a 650MHz core clock speed, up to 1GB of DDR2 or DDR3 memory with a 1.8Gbps top data rate, and 64-bit memory interfaces.
The card also has three display outputs. Some Radeon HD 5450 variants are expected to ship with a couple of DVI ports and one DisplayPort output, or even a DVI, DisplayPort, and an HDMI.
The ATI Radeon HD 5450 is available immediately from ASUS, ASK, Club 3D, DMM, GBT, HIS, LDLC.com, MSI, Sapphire, TUL, VT and XFX.
Prices will be around $49-$59.
Basic specifications:
* Engine clock speed: 650 MHz
* Processing power (single precision): 104 GigaFLOPS
* Polygon throughput: 650M polygons/sec
* Data fetch rate (32-bit): 20.8 billion fetches/sec
* Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 5.2 Gigatexels/sec
* Pixel fill rate: 2.6 Gigapixels/sec
* Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 10.4 Gigasamples/sec
* Memory clock speed: 400 MHz DDR2 and up to 800 MHz DDR3
* Memory data rate: 0.8 Gbps DDR2 and up to 1.6 Gbps DDR3
* Memory bandwidth: 6.4 GB/sec (DDR2) and up to 12.8 GB/sec (DDR3)
* Typical power: 19.1Watts
* Idle power: 6.4Watts
* 292 million 40nm transistors
* TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
* 80 Stream Processing Units
* 8 Texture Units
* 16 Z/Stencil ROP Units
* 4 Color ROP Units
The ATI Radeon HD 5450 graphics card delivers HD multimedia capabilities at a value price. The card supports Sharing the same leading edge features found in the ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series - support for DirectX 11, ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology and ATI Stream technology.
Offering leading-edge performance per watt, the ATI Radeon HD 5450 is passively cooled making it a good choice for home theater PCs. The home theater experience is enriched with features such as HDMI 1.3a with Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio for the ultimate media PC.
The Radeon HD 5450 is based on AMD's new 40nm Cedar GPU, Cedar, which has 292 million transistors, 80 stream processors, two texture units and a single ROP. Radeon HD 5450 graphics cards will have a 650MHz core clock speed, up to 1GB of DDR2 or DDR3 memory with a 1.8Gbps top data rate, and 64-bit memory interfaces.
The card also has three display outputs. Some Radeon HD 5450 variants are expected to ship with a couple of DVI ports and one DisplayPort output, or even a DVI, DisplayPort, and an HDMI.
The ATI Radeon HD 5450 is available immediately from ASUS, ASK, Club 3D, DMM, GBT, HIS, LDLC.com, MSI, Sapphire, TUL, VT and XFX.
Prices will be around $49-$59.
Basic specifications:
* Engine clock speed: 650 MHz
* Processing power (single precision): 104 GigaFLOPS
* Polygon throughput: 650M polygons/sec
* Data fetch rate (32-bit): 20.8 billion fetches/sec
* Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 5.2 Gigatexels/sec
* Pixel fill rate: 2.6 Gigapixels/sec
* Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 10.4 Gigasamples/sec
* Memory clock speed: 400 MHz DDR2 and up to 800 MHz DDR3
* Memory data rate: 0.8 Gbps DDR2 and up to 1.6 Gbps DDR3
* Memory bandwidth: 6.4 GB/sec (DDR2) and up to 12.8 GB/sec (DDR3)
* Typical power: 19.1Watts
* Idle power: 6.4Watts
* 292 million 40nm transistors
* TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
* 80 Stream Processing Units
* 8 Texture Units
* 16 Z/Stencil ROP Units
* 4 Color ROP Units
Wednesday, 3 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 03-02-10
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Gains Popularity Over Firefox Browser.
A report shows that Internet Explorer 8 is the most popular browser on Windows with 27.9% usage share and that it now has 25.6% of market share across all OS's on a worldwide-weighted usage share basis.
The report was released this week by net Applications
and refers to the browser market share for January.
Microsoft's latest version of Internet Explorer (IE) remains in first place but Google's Chrome has been steadily gaining ground on the Web browsing software, according to the report.
Chrome's share of the browser market rose from 1.62 percent in March of last year to 5.22 percent last month.
During the same period, Internet Explorer's piece of the Web browser market dropped from 68.46 percent to 62.12 percent, Net Application reported.
The percentage of people using Safari browser software for Apple's Macintosh computers went from 3.63 percent in March of last year to 4.53 percent in January.
Microsoft claims that the success of its IE browser relies on the fact that IE8 offers users protection and privacy online. As of today, Internet Explorer 8 has done over 350 million malware blocks, according to Microsoft. In addition, Internet Explorer 7 and 8 have blocked a total of over 125 million phishing sites.
Recently, organizations including Google have been recommending that people update their browsers and move off older versions, such as the nearly decade-old Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft said that it supported this recommendation to move off Internet Explorer 6.
The report was released this week by net Applications
and refers to the browser market share for January.
Microsoft's latest version of Internet Explorer (IE) remains in first place but Google's Chrome has been steadily gaining ground on the Web browsing software, according to the report.
Chrome's share of the browser market rose from 1.62 percent in March of last year to 5.22 percent last month.
During the same period, Internet Explorer's piece of the Web browser market dropped from 68.46 percent to 62.12 percent, Net Application reported.
The percentage of people using Safari browser software for Apple's Macintosh computers went from 3.63 percent in March of last year to 4.53 percent in January.
Microsoft claims that the success of its IE browser relies on the fact that IE8 offers users protection and privacy online. As of today, Internet Explorer 8 has done over 350 million malware blocks, according to Microsoft. In addition, Internet Explorer 7 and 8 have blocked a total of over 125 million phishing sites.
Recently, organizations including Google have been recommending that people update their browsers and move off older versions, such as the nearly decade-old Internet Explorer 6. Microsoft said that it supported this recommendation to move off Internet Explorer 6.
Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 02-02-10
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Microsoft's New SideWinder X4 Keyboard Debuts Anti-Ghosting Technology
Microsoft Hardware Today launched the SideWinder X4 Keyboard, a keyboard designed to give gamers more control over their gaming experience.
The keyboard features the anti-ghosting technology developed by the Applied Sciences Group. The new technology ensures gamers more complex key combinations which will be recognized by the computer to keep the game in action. The new keyboard also offers other gaming features such as macro recording, mode and profile switching, and adjustable backlighting.
The Applied Sciences Group, an interdisciplinary research and development team that works across the Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division doing applied research for Microsoft Hardware, Microsoft Surface and Xbox 360, developed the anti-ghosting technology with gamers in mind. The technology allows gamers to press up to 26 keys at once. Because each key is scanned independently by the keyboard hardware, each key press is correctly detected regardless of how many other keys are being pressed at the same time.
The SideWinder X4 Keyboard also offers more of the features gamers need to stay at the top of their game. Macro recording lets them string together multiple moves into one press of a button, and the new automatic macro repetition feature lets them repeat the macro over and over as needed with one key. Mode and profile switching also provides easy ways to customize the keyboard for different games and users while adjustable backlighting lets gamers select the lighting level that meets their needs.
The SideWinder X4 Keyboard will be available in March 2010 for the estimated retail price of $59.95 (U.S) and will be available for pre-sale on Amazon.com later this week. The SideWinder X4 Keyboard is backed by a three-year limited hardware warranty.
The keyboard features the anti-ghosting technology developed by the Applied Sciences Group. The new technology ensures gamers more complex key combinations which will be recognized by the computer to keep the game in action. The new keyboard also offers other gaming features such as macro recording, mode and profile switching, and adjustable backlighting.
The Applied Sciences Group, an interdisciplinary research and development team that works across the Microsoft Entertainment & Devices Division doing applied research for Microsoft Hardware, Microsoft Surface and Xbox 360, developed the anti-ghosting technology with gamers in mind. The technology allows gamers to press up to 26 keys at once. Because each key is scanned independently by the keyboard hardware, each key press is correctly detected regardless of how many other keys are being pressed at the same time.
The SideWinder X4 Keyboard also offers more of the features gamers need to stay at the top of their game. Macro recording lets them string together multiple moves into one press of a button, and the new automatic macro repetition feature lets them repeat the macro over and over as needed with one key. Mode and profile switching also provides easy ways to customize the keyboard for different games and users while adjustable backlighting lets gamers select the lighting level that meets their needs.
The SideWinder X4 Keyboard will be available in March 2010 for the estimated retail price of $59.95 (U.S) and will be available for pre-sale on Amazon.com later this week. The SideWinder X4 Keyboard is backed by a three-year limited hardware warranty.
Samsung Announces 2TB Eco-friendly Drives
Samsung today announced the F3EG, its new high-performance environmentally-friendly HDD (hard disk drive) for the desktop
market.
The EcoGreen F3EG, a higher capacity model from its predecessor the F2EG, features 2TB capacity with 500GB per disk that is capable of storing up to 880 hours of DVD video or 500,000 or more songs in MP3 format.
The F3EG utilizes Samsung's EcoTriangle technology to provide eco-friendly components, low-power and low-noise operation technology to its 'EcoGreen' hard drives.
Eliminating halogen compound and brominated flameretardant from the PCBA, the new model is produced with eco-friendly materials and meets all the environmental regulations including RoHS (Restriction of the Use of Certain Hazardous Substances in Electrical and Electronic Equipment) which is being applied worldwide as well as the European Union.
Samsung's new hard drive utilizes its technology
SilentSeek and NoiseGuard technologies to achieve a quiet operation system.
In addition, with its fewer components, the F3EG drive is 40 percent lower in power consumption in idle mode and 10 percent lower in reading/writing mode than competitive drives, Samsung claims. The drive received a zero percent failure rate in the unstable voltage environment test.
The F3EG incorporates a 3.0Gbps SATA interface, Native Command Queuing features and a 16MB/32MB buffer memory. The 3.5" F3EG drive is available globally in 1.5TB and 2TB capacities.
Panasonic Establishes Blu-ray 3D Authoring Facility
Panasonic set up a fully operational Blu-ray 3D Advanced Authoring Center located at Panasonic's R&D facility, Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory.
The Advanced Authoring Center was recently upgraded and equipped with the latest 3D technological innovations, based on standards developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association. The Center now offers studios and filmmakers Blu-ray 3D image processing, interactive programming as well as authoring and disc certification services, which are capable of making Blu-ray 3D Discs commercially available as early as Spring 2010.
Long before the Blu-ray 3D specifications were finalized within the Blu-ray Disc Association, Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory collaborated with studios to conduct Blu-ray 3D encoding as well as menu and subtitle authoring trials. This type of early collaboration and research has given the Advanced Authoring Center expertise in guiding and advising companies during the key early planning stages of a Blu-ray 3D title.
"Given Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory's vast experience with HD image processing, we are confident that we lead the industry with MPEG-4 MVC (Multiview Video Coding) 3D image compression technology," said Jeannine Patton, Vice President & General Manager of the Advanced Authoring Center. "This laboratory, located as we are in the world's entertainment capital, is proud to offer the filmmaking community the industry's first complete, end-to-end Blu-ray 3D encoding and authoring facility. Blu-ray 3D is an exciting new space for the home entertainment industry and our early research and collaboration was extremely helpful in determining what will provide the most compelling experience and optimum performance when designing for Blu-ray 3D."
The Advanced Authoring Center was recently upgraded and equipped with the latest 3D technological innovations, based on standards developed by the Blu-ray Disc Association. The Center now offers studios and filmmakers Blu-ray 3D image processing, interactive programming as well as authoring and disc certification services, which are capable of making Blu-ray 3D Discs commercially available as early as Spring 2010.
Long before the Blu-ray 3D specifications were finalized within the Blu-ray Disc Association, Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory collaborated with studios to conduct Blu-ray 3D encoding as well as menu and subtitle authoring trials. This type of early collaboration and research has given the Advanced Authoring Center expertise in guiding and advising companies during the key early planning stages of a Blu-ray 3D title.
"Given Panasonic Hollywood Laboratory's vast experience with HD image processing, we are confident that we lead the industry with MPEG-4 MVC (Multiview Video Coding) 3D image compression technology," said Jeannine Patton, Vice President & General Manager of the Advanced Authoring Center. "This laboratory, located as we are in the world's entertainment capital, is proud to offer the filmmaking community the industry's first complete, end-to-end Blu-ray 3D encoding and authoring facility. Blu-ray 3D is an exciting new space for the home entertainment industry and our early research and collaboration was extremely helpful in determining what will provide the most compelling experience and optimum performance when designing for Blu-ray 3D."
Monday, 1 February 2010
Deal Of The Day 01-02-10
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EU Introduces Privacy Measures For Social Networking, Advertising
Viviane Reding Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media Privacy highlighed the challenges ahead for the European Union related to the privacy rights of users of social networking web sites.
Ms Reding explained that the EU needs to ensure that personal data are protected against any unauthorised use and that users have the right to decide on the way their data are processed.
Facebook, MySpace or Twitter have become extremely popular, particularly among young people. However children are not always able to assess all risks associated with exposing personal data. "This led me to agree with key providers of social networking services on the "Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU". The providers agreed to ensure that profiles of users under the age of 18 should be private by default and not searchable. On 9 February, on the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2010, we will report on how these principles are being implemented in practice, " Ms Reding said.
The EU's Information Society Commissioner also discussed the privacy related to the RFID, the small chips that exchange information over radio waves. These chips may include sensitive personal data.
"I share the strong concerns received from citizens about the possible threat of wider use of RFID to their privacy. Therefore, the Commission took the initiative last year to adopt a Recommendation defining how data protection should be guaranteed for RFID applications. As a result the RFID industry committed itself to deliver a Privacy Impact Assessment on the use of these chips, "the Commissioner added.
Monitoring internet users' web browsing to better target them with advertisements also gives rise to privacy concerns. "Users are not always aware that they are being tracked whenever browsing the Internet. We have launched an infringement procedure in the so-called Phorm case, alerted by worried citizens of the UK. For me it is clear that without the prior informed consent of citizens their data cannot be used, " Ms Reding said.
Better protection of privacy was also one of the priorities of the Telecoms Reform. The amendments the Commission proposed to the ePrivacy Directive provide more transparency and give stronger control to citizens. The European Parliament and the Council supported and adopted these changes. Providers will now have to notify breaches of personal data without delay to both the competent authorities and the individuals concerned.
The European Commission is currently analysing the over 160 responses to the public consultation on the reform of the General Data Protection Directive. "I can tell you that most responses call for stronger and more consistent data protection legislation across the Union. We will carefully assess all responses and prepare a future proposal in line with the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, " Ms Reding said.
The EU Commissioner also refered to the the right to privacy and protection of personal data when performing simple operations like transferring money, booking a flight ticket or passing a security check at the airport. She talked about the body scanners, which have "a considerable privacy-invasive potential."
"Their usefulness is still to be proven. Their impact on health has not yet been fully assessed. Therefore I cannot imagine this privacy-intrusive technique being imposed on us without full consideration of its impact.
"The same applies to large volumes of our financial data transferred to the U.S. I remain to be convinced that all these SWIFT transfers are necessary, proportionate and effective to fight terrorism. I will be looking into this very closely in the coming weeks."
Ms Reding explained that the EU needs to ensure that personal data are protected against any unauthorised use and that users have the right to decide on the way their data are processed.
Facebook, MySpace or Twitter have become extremely popular, particularly among young people. However children are not always able to assess all risks associated with exposing personal data. "This led me to agree with key providers of social networking services on the "Safer Social Networking Principles for the EU". The providers agreed to ensure that profiles of users under the age of 18 should be private by default and not searchable. On 9 February, on the occasion of Safer Internet Day 2010, we will report on how these principles are being implemented in practice, " Ms Reding said.
The EU's Information Society Commissioner also discussed the privacy related to the RFID, the small chips that exchange information over radio waves. These chips may include sensitive personal data.
"I share the strong concerns received from citizens about the possible threat of wider use of RFID to their privacy. Therefore, the Commission took the initiative last year to adopt a Recommendation defining how data protection should be guaranteed for RFID applications. As a result the RFID industry committed itself to deliver a Privacy Impact Assessment on the use of these chips, "the Commissioner added.
Monitoring internet users' web browsing to better target them with advertisements also gives rise to privacy concerns. "Users are not always aware that they are being tracked whenever browsing the Internet. We have launched an infringement procedure in the so-called Phorm case, alerted by worried citizens of the UK. For me it is clear that without the prior informed consent of citizens their data cannot be used, " Ms Reding said.
Better protection of privacy was also one of the priorities of the Telecoms Reform. The amendments the Commission proposed to the ePrivacy Directive provide more transparency and give stronger control to citizens. The European Parliament and the Council supported and adopted these changes. Providers will now have to notify breaches of personal data without delay to both the competent authorities and the individuals concerned.
The European Commission is currently analysing the over 160 responses to the public consultation on the reform of the General Data Protection Directive. "I can tell you that most responses call for stronger and more consistent data protection legislation across the Union. We will carefully assess all responses and prepare a future proposal in line with the Lisbon Treaty and the Charter of Fundamental Rights, " Ms Reding said.
The EU Commissioner also refered to the the right to privacy and protection of personal data when performing simple operations like transferring money, booking a flight ticket or passing a security check at the airport. She talked about the body scanners, which have "a considerable privacy-invasive potential."
"Their usefulness is still to be proven. Their impact on health has not yet been fully assessed. Therefore I cannot imagine this privacy-intrusive technique being imposed on us without full consideration of its impact.
"The same applies to large volumes of our financial data transferred to the U.S. I remain to be convinced that all these SWIFT transfers are necessary, proportionate and effective to fight terrorism. I will be looking into this very closely in the coming weeks."
Samsung Develops 'Green' 30nm DDR3 DRAM
Samsung today announced that its 30-nanometer-class DRAM has successfully completed customer evaluations, in two gigabit (Gb) densities.
With DDR3 SDRAM becoming the predominant main memory this quarter, Samsung's advancement in process technology will raise productivity and expedite dissemination of high performance, 1.5V and 1.35V DDR3 for servers, desktops and notebook PCs.
"Our accelerated development of next generation 30nm-class DRAM should keep us in the most competitive position in the memory market," said Soo-In Cho, president, Memory Division, Samsung Electronics.
He added, "Our 30nm-class process technology will provide the most advanced low-power DDR3 available today and therein the most efficient DRAM solutions anywhere for the introduction of consumer electronics devices and server systems."
The 30nm-class process when applied to DDR3 mass production raises productivity by 60 percent over 40nm-class DDR3. This will result in a doubling of production cost-efficiency compared to DRAM produced using 50nm to 60nm-class technology.
The 30nm-class 2Gb, Green DRAM reduces power consumption by up to 30 percentover 50nm-class DRAM. A 4-Gigabyte (GB), 30nm module when used in a new-generation notebook will consume only three watts per hour, which is just three percent of the total power usage of a notebook.
The new DDR3 will be used in a broader range of products, from servers to notebooks, desktops, and future versions of netbooks and mobile devices.
The 30nm-class DDR3 is scheduled for mass production in the second half of this year.
With DDR3 SDRAM becoming the predominant main memory this quarter, Samsung's advancement in process technology will raise productivity and expedite dissemination of high performance, 1.5V and 1.35V DDR3 for servers, desktops and notebook PCs.
"Our accelerated development of next generation 30nm-class DRAM should keep us in the most competitive position in the memory market," said Soo-In Cho, president, Memory Division, Samsung Electronics.
He added, "Our 30nm-class process technology will provide the most advanced low-power DDR3 available today and therein the most efficient DRAM solutions anywhere for the introduction of consumer electronics devices and server systems."
The 30nm-class process when applied to DDR3 mass production raises productivity by 60 percent over 40nm-class DDR3. This will result in a doubling of production cost-efficiency compared to DRAM produced using 50nm to 60nm-class technology.
The 30nm-class 2Gb, Green DRAM reduces power consumption by up to 30 percentover 50nm-class DRAM. A 4-Gigabyte (GB), 30nm module when used in a new-generation notebook will consume only three watts per hour, which is just three percent of the total power usage of a notebook.
The new DDR3 will be used in a broader range of products, from servers to notebooks, desktops, and future versions of netbooks and mobile devices.
The 30nm-class DDR3 is scheduled for mass production in the second half of this year.
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