by Paul Miller, posted Apr 19th 2008 at 11:40AM We’re serious this time, people. No more kidding around with those international ship dates, we’ve got ourselves a real live release date from Asus: May 12th. (Read the full post about ‘Asus Eee PC 900 hits the US on May 12th’…)
The Transportation Security Administration on Friday have announced that it will begin a run of pilot tests of millimeter wave scanning technology at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK). These millimeter wave scanners enable TSA personnel to see concealed weapons and other items that may be hidden beneath clothes, a thought that will come across as uncomfortable to some folk. The first pilot test began in October at Phoenix Sky-Harbor International Airport last year, and TSA Administrator Kip Hawley has given reassurances that the agency’s main goal is to protect passenger privacy without storing any potentially revealing body scans. (Read the full post about ‘Airport scanners see through clothes’…)
You think the companies who manufacture lightweight, sub-notebooks are trying to tell us something? There’s the Eee PC, the CloudBook, the Air, and now…get ready to be carried away by the Wind. That’s the unfortunate name Micro-Star International has given its new 2.2-pound notebook. As far as features go, the Wind isn’t all that different from the newly announced Asus Eee PC 900. You’ll get a 9- or 10-inch LCD screen with a resolution of 1024 x 600, 1GB of RAM, Bluetooth, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, and your choice of either Linux or Windows XP pre-installed.
(Read the full post about ‘MSI’s Mighty ‘Wind’: Another Sub-Notebook With a Goofy Name’…)
According to TmoNews (an unofficial blog about T-Mobile) the new Sidekick Slide color is going to officially be called “Scarlet” and should be available May 15th. They’ve got what looks like to be an internal memo about it. Tags: pvr, hdtv, digital, mobile devices (Read the full post about ‘Red, err I mean Scarlet Slide’…)
Forget quad-core, AMD is preparing a dodeca-core chip. If you didn’t stay in boarding school if you need refreshing with your greek vocabulary, dodeca means 12, and that’s 12 cores for you right there. Imagine, a dozen times faster than a normal chip. But how fast does one’s computer ever really need to be? AMD doesn’t seem to care if there’s an answer to that question or not (just as its closest competitor Intel doesn’t), and moves on with their plan to produce a 12-core processor to be released by late 2008. It will reportedly be called the Shanghai, and will be a 45nm successor to their not-so-successful Barcelona chip. (Read the full post about ‘AMD readying 12-core 45nm processors for late 2008′…)
Let’s face it, Microsoft Office is one mighty expensive software package. Costing hundreds of dollars for each Office iteration, it makes upgrading to the latest MS Office a difficult and sometimes impossible task. Not everyone can afford paying hundreds of dollars every few years. Fortunately, Microsoft is attempting to make it easier for users to migrate to the latest and future versions of its highly popular productivity suite. Currently in private beta testing, Microsoft’s “Albany” program is a subscription based model of Office. (Read the full post about ‘Microsoft tests subscription based Office’…)
I’m probably the biggest evangelizer of Dash Network’s Dash Express GPS device. The Dash Express is the first two-way Internet-connected GPS navigation system delivering traffic and destination information in wicked new ways. The Dash Express is the next generation of GPS technology and it’s available today! Unique to the Dash Express, you rely on the Dash Driver Network to provide the latest and most accurate current traffic information available and with features like emailing your Dash Express addresses for your next generation and MyDash which allows you to Browse the Dash Network library of user-created and locally relevant searches such as “Movie Times” and “Great Steakhouses”. (Read the full post about ‘Dash Express Two-Way Internet-Connected Portable GPS Navigator’…)
Head-worn camera for special eventsApr 20, 2008 Recording our lives has become wide-spread all over the world. But the technologies are being perfected all the time. Microsoft is working out in order to supply our society with wearable camera technology that will have a lot of features. Actually, now it is just a concept. But there is a gadget that is worth its price, is advanced and is a really great high-resolution head-worn camera. Let’s see what functions it has and if they are useful for you. The newest UKP300 (US5) head-worn device is already used by UK police. It is very handy for operations that need supervision. The gadget is qualitative and records all the necessary details. (Read the full post about ‘Head-worn camera for special events’…)
by Donald Melanson, posted Apr 18th 2008 at 5:47PM BenQ has been showing off its first stab at an MID since the Intel Developer Forum last fall, but it hasn’t exactly been all that forthcoming about the full specs of the device. That situation seems to have changed at the more recent IDF in Shanghai, however, although those details seem to just now be making their way across the Internet. As we knew before, the device will pack an Intel Atom processor (the base 800MHz model), which will apparently be backed up by 512MB of RAM, a 4GB SSD hard drive, and HSPDA support in addition to some integrated WiFi and Bluetooth. (Read the full post about ‘BenQ’s Atom-based MID gets detailed’…)
by Paul Miller, posted Apr 18th 2008 at 5:12PM If your interest in processor speeds doesn’t extend much beyond “is it fast?” then these juicy tidbits likely aren’t for you. That said, AMD is certainly getting excited about its upcoming Barcelona successor: the 45nm Shanghai. The main points of interest out of the gate are HyperTransport 3.0, which was nixed late in the game on Barcelona, and six cores, which are meant to pit the chip up against Intel’s upcoming six-core Dunnington chip. Where things get really exciting is a few months after Shanghai’s late 2008 debut, when AMD plans do release a twin-die version, with 12 cores of happiness connected by HyperTransport 3.0. What does all that mean? (Read the full post about ‘AMD’s Shanghai proffers 12 cores, HyperTransport 3.0′…)
