PVI to produce flexible color touchscreen tech for eReaders
The e-Reader market is doing quiet good now-a-days and more companies are coming with a new kind of device of their own to make the benefit out of it. But most of the e-Readers do lack the color screen capability when seen from a publisher standpoint. If the screens are capable of handling multiple colors, we see more publishers making e-Readers as their publishing platform. Read more
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Intel to produce a 32nm CPU super-powerful next-gen integrated graphics
Intel is opening the doors for a new era of integrated graphics to replace the discrete graphics with their next-gen CPU. According to Fudzilla reports, Intel has informed few of its clients that the next-gen CPU will double the performance of the Sandy Bridge generation chipsets. However the assumption is that performance of their new 32nm graphics cores will certainly be higher than the current-generation 45nm IGP of Arrandale and Clarkdale LGA1156 Core i5-661 chipsets. Clarkdale features Intel’s new GMA HD graphics, TurboBoost and hyper-threading.
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Google promises to deliver real-time voice translation system in a few years time
World’s top search engine giant Google is developing a live, speech-based real-time voice translation system under the supervision of head of translation services, Franz Och. According to him, the translation system is capable of interpreting multi-lingual phone conversations in real-time and will reach to the end users soon in the near future. They are working to produce a combination of high-accuracy machine translation and high-accuracy voice recognition to let it work smoother. The feature combines voice recognition, speech-to-text voice synthesis which were available separately as of now. Read more
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Sling confirms that it didn’t change iPhone SlingPlayer for AT&T approval
AT&T CEO Ralph de la Vega claims that the Sling media has not made any changes to the code to suit the carriers, this quote reveals that SlingPlayer for iphones is finally set to use AT&T’s 3G networks. The Sling media too confirms the same, that they did not make any changes and there were no discussions regarding the specific requirements to the app with AT&T yet. Read more
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Logitech Squeezebox Touch delayed two more months
Logitech squeezebox touch which was promised to be launched in December 2009 was delayed again. One of the slim devices developer within Logitech has been awaiting since couple of months. The Logitech Squeezebox Touch was announced ong back in September 2009 and started taking the preorders since October 2009, but the launch of this is being moved away from the customer door as it might be taking more four to six months for its arrival in the market. No official information regarding the delay is revealed out yet. Through a senior forum member we come to know that the fact behind the delay was unforeseen software problems in getting the latest version of their streaming software work on the relatively low-power hardware.
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Penn researchers create world’s first solar power circuit
We have seen that solar energy is used in various forms such as for water heating, solar cookers, solar vehicles and to generate electricity. The genius brains are looking beyond for more ways to power the electronic devices. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have given life to their innovative thoughts and created the world’s first photovoltaic circuit which we will see in use in near future as an alternative to power the next-gen touchscreen devices. Read more
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HP G62t copies ENVY 15 styling and is available with multiple Core processors
HP has added a new laptop named G62t to the line of G-series and it seems followed ENVY styling. The device is bundled with multiple options to choose from Intel Core i3, i5 or i7 processors is included with a 4GB of DDR3 memory, 500GB storage coupled with integrated Intel graphics. The price of the G62t starts from $599. Read more
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Barnes & Noble outed v1.2 firmware update for Nook: Noticeably Faster
The second firmware update has been outed for the owners of Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-Reader since it was released in early December. The version 1.2 software update is claimed to load the pages faster and the touchscreen interface will be more responsive. Now you can continue reading from the page where you stopped last time as the nook saves the currently reading page and bookmarks for you when the device is powered off. Read more
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Hutchison Austria offers discounted iPad with 2-year contract for Huawei i-Mo 3G modem
If you are an Austrian and ready to sign up a 2-year commitment for an iPad which costs you about €29.90/month supported with 5GB data contract? If you are, Hutchison is there for you to offer a Euro 333 (approximately $455) discount on the Apple tablet wireless version. It seems the offer is pleasing, but it is still not sure yet for what price the iPads will be sold outside the US by Apple. Hutchison has set to unveil the 3G version of the iPad bundled with a Huawei i-Mo 3G modem, which adds a personal WiFi space with each iPad you own. There is no word on when it would release in Austria.
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Sony losing $18 on every PS3 unit they sold, according to WSJ reports
Though there is a good profit for PS3 in the market recorded by other companies, Wall Street Journal(WSJ) report reveals that Sony is yet to come out from its losses on every PS3 they sold out. The Sony’s Q3 results state that the company has lost 6 cents on every dollar of PS hardware sales and lost approximately up to $18 on a unit, confirms WSJ reports. Read more
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