Usb is already a fact and it will become increasingly popular among the hardware manufacturers worldwide. After the announcement of the new Asus’s motherboards with integrated USB 3.0 controllers a few weeks ago, yesterday Super Talent introduced the World’s First USB 3.0 flash drive. It delivers transfer speeds up to 200MB/s using USB 3.0 ports, but the company says it can reach up to 320MB/s transfer speeds using a separate UAS Protocol driver.
“The USB 3.0 RAIDDrive uses patented multiple pairs of differential serial data lines technology for optimal NAND flash performance. This product underscores Super Talent’s continued leadership in USB drives. We have developed the world’s first mobile USB 3.0 flash drive. It delivers phenomenal performance and it incorporates our own patented technology,” said C.H. Lee, chief operating officer of Super Talent.
The portable flash drives will be available in 32GB, 64GB and 128GB capacities and are fully backward compatible with USB 2.0 ports. Of course in this case they will operate at traditional speed of up to 480 megabits (60MB) per second.
Super Talent’s USB 3.0 flash drives can be expected in December from Super Talent resellers worldwide but there’s still no word on pricing.
Technical Details:
- Dimensions: 95mm x 37mm x 13.5mm
- Full compatibility with USB 3.0, 2.0 and 1.1
- Transfer speeds up to 200MB/sec in USB 3.0 port
- Transfer speeds up to 320MB/sec in USB 3.0 port with UAS Protocol driver
- Hot plug and play; Functions like another hard drive
- Slim and sleek casing style
- Windows® 7 compatible
- LED indicates power, busy
- More than 10 years data retention
- Limited lifetime warranty
Sony Ericsson officially anounced its new Android based mobile phone on Tuesday. The new flagship called XPERIA X10 is the first Android phone made by Sony Ericsson. According to the current plans of the company the new X10 which is part of a family of phones will be available on the market during the first half of 2010. It will be equipped with a 1GHz Snapdragon chip from Qualcomm, 4-inch capacitive touch display, and 8.1 megapixel camera with LED flash. Other hardware specifications include UMTS 3G HSDPA/HSUPA, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi b/g, and GPS. There’s also a microSD slot with an 8GB card in the box as standard option.
Alongside the new device, the company also unveiled its UX (User eXperience) open platform which is developed not only for the X10, but for the whole family of new upcoming Android handsets. Ux includes two signature apps Timescape and Mediascape:
Sony Ericsson Timescape™ manages all your communication with one person in one place. Browse through your conversations the bright way to check out your Facebook™, Twitter™, photos, emails, and texts all in one go.
Sony Ericsson Mediascape is the smart way to get all the music, photos and videos you want from your favourite friends and artists. It accesses content from everywhere – your phone, YouTube™, PlayNow™ – and presents everything for you.
Here are some of the most important X10 specs:
* Quad-band GSM/EDGE connectivity – 850/900/1800/1900 MHz, plus tri/quad-band HSPA 900/1700/2100 (T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) USA?) or 800/850/1900/2100 MHz
* 8.1-megapixel auto-focus camera with an array of camera technologies including touch focus, face recognition, smile detection, image and video stabilizer, geo-tagging. Where’s flash???
Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 is now available for download. The new version of Firefox called Namoroka was released last week. It’s based on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, that contains many improvements for users and web developers. For most of the users Firefox 3.6 will look a lot like version 3.5, but developers promise faster performance including better session restore, less time taken for startup, improved page rendering and faster javascript handling. Mozilla have also added the ability to create, save and restore tabs as well as searching for an existing tab by typing in the name of that tab in order to switch to it. Here is the time to mention the new tab-switching feature, which allows you to see preview of each page into the browser. A very interesting feature in the new firefox is support of accelerometers. It allows the people with such hardware in ther mobile devices to change the orientation of the page according the orientation of their device.
Here are some of the new enhancements:
Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas.
Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out of date plugins to keep them safe.
Open, native video can now be displayed full screen, and supports poster frames.
Support for the WOFF font format.
Improved JavaScript performance, overall browser responsiveness and startup time.
Support for new CSS, DOM and HTML5 web technologies.
You can grab a copy of the new Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for the PC, MAC or Linux on the Mozilla Web site.
Philips announced its new Wireless HDTV Link device,which wirelessly connects high-definition components to an HDTV display.The new device,coded as SWW1800/27 is currently available for purchase at amazon.com and dell.com for $799. The Wireless HDTV Link replaces the cables that connect HD devices ( such as cable set-top box, HD satellite receiver, Blu-ray player or gaming console ) to a HDTV by sending wireless signal in up to 1080p high-definition resolution.The operational range of the Philips Wireless HDTV Link is 75 feet from your TV without any signal loss or degradation.The system allows the connection of up to four AV devices to your TV, icluding two HDMI source devices and/or two component video devices.
SWW1800/27 consists of a transmitter, which is designed to resemble a source component, such as a Blu-ray Disc player and and a compact wireless receiver, which is specially designed to fit behind standard TV wall mounts so that it is out of sight and won’t ruin the aesthetics of the room.
According to the Phillips’ expectations, the most popular devices, which will be used together with the new system are BD players and video game consoles such as Xbox 360.
AMD today announced several new AMD Athlon™ II processors that offer outstanding performance, low power consumption and attractive price. They are made using the new 45-nanometer manufacturing process which makes them smaller and offer better performance than chips made using the older 65-nm process.
The company releases eight new processors in its Athlon II line, including two, three or four-core CPUs and clock frequencies between 2.2GHz and 2.9GHz. Six of the processors are defined by AMD as Energy Efficient with only 45W TDP.
AMD says its new chips have been specially designed to go into desktops and new PC form factors including all-in-one machines and small desktops. As part of the new Athlon II series AMD launched four Athlon II X3 triple-core processors intended to fill the price and performance gap between dual- and quad-core processors.
As you’ve probably heard the new Aser A1 will soon be available on the market. It has impressive features like Qualcomm 8250 768 MHz processor, 3.5 inch touch screen WVGA display with resolution of 800 x 400, Wi-Fi and GPS. The A1 is powered by Android and it’s also the first smartphone from Aser, running Google’s mobile operating system.
There is no official information when we can expect to see this phone but it has appeared for pre-order on Expansys’ German web site for 390 Euro (about $571). Acording to Expansys it will be available from 28 November.
(Band frequency and data speed are operator dependent)
GPS: Internal GPS antenna
Connectivity: Bluetooth® 2.0 with Enhanced Data Rate and A2DP for wireless stereo headsets. Wi-Fi®: IEEE 802.11 b/g Wi-Fi ®: IEEE 802.11 b / g, 3.5 mm audio jack 3.5 mm audio jack
Camera: 5.0 megapixel color camera with auto focus
Battery: Rechargeable Lithium-ion battery. Capacity: 1350 mAh, Talk time: Up to 300 minutes Talk time: Up to 300 minutes, Standby time: Up to 400 hours. (The above are subject to network and phone usage)
As you probably know Google Analytics is a free service offered by Google that generates detailed statistics about the visitors to a website. Its flexible and easy-to-use features let you see and analyze your traffic data and marketing effectiveness. Sounds good, right ? But here comes the question ” How to install it ? “.
This article is a short guide that will help you to insert the Google Analytics code in your Wordpress blog in a few steps.
1. The first thing you have to do get the Google Analytics code. To do this just visit the following site: http://www.google.com/analytics and create a Google account (if you don’t have one) .
2. Now sign in. If this is your first visit to Google Analytics then most likely you will be prompted to enter the information for the website you want to track.
3. Enter your names, phone number and choose your country.
4. Finally you have to agree with the Google’s terms of service.
5. The nex thing you will see is the Tracking code. Now just copy that code.
6. Log in to your Wordpress Dashboard (admin panel) and go to Appearance > Editor .
7. From the sidebar open the file footer.php
8. Paste your Google Analytics code into your footer.php file just above the ending body tag and click Update.
Now go back to the Google Analytics site and click Continue. That will take you to your acount overview. Dont worry if you can see any statistics for your website. Google Analytics generally updates your reports every 24 hours. This means that it could take 24 hours for data to appear in your account after you have first installed the tracking code.
If the Tracking Status shows a warning icon, “Tracking status unknown,” then probably the system hasn’t yet detected the code. But if everything is OK you would see something like on the picture below:
Microsoft has announced that the expected addition of Sky TV television program to the Xbox 360 will start on October 27 in the UK and Ireland. This new option will let Xbox 360 customers subscribe to Sky’s online TV service and watch programmes through their games consoles.
The service will be similar to Sky Player, which currently offers live TV and a selection of pay-per-view content over the Internet. That would mean you’d get access to blockbuster movies, Premier League football, watch documentaries and the very best of music, the arts and entertainment shows. All this content is delivered direct to your Xbox 360 without the need for a satellite dish or any other kind of separate plug-in device. The only requirement is to have a broadband connection. The Xbox Live Sky Player will also offer interactive options such as match stats, fixture lists, news updates and so on.
For a new customer joining Sky through their Xbox, Sky Player offer a pay per view type service, where the user can subscribe to a monthly rolling contract or just pay for programmes they want to watch. Unfortunately, specifics like prices and channel line-up have not been announced, but they can be expected next week at the official launch.
AMD officially introduced its new HD 5700 series of graphics video cards. The models Radeon HD 5770 and Radeon HD 5750 will be the first company representatives in this series and will be oriented in the market segment with prices below $ 200. Radeon HD 5700 series will offer to their customers support of DirectX 11, OpenGL 3.2, hardware-accelerated HD video decoding and post-processing, ATI Eyefinity technology and so on. Both 5750 and 5770 chips are based on the code-named Juniper graphics processor that is made using 40nm process technology. The total number of transistors in the GPU, according to ATI is about a 1.04 billion.
ATI Radeon HD 5770 operates at 850MHz and features 128-bit memory bus, 800 stream processors, 40 texture units and 16 ROPs. The memory type will be GDDR5 with capacity of 1GB. ATI Radeon HD 5750 functions at 700MHz and features 720 stream processors, 36 texture units, 16 render back ends and GDDR5 memory. Both models support the technology AMD Eyefinity, allowing connection of up to three displays each with resolution of 2560×1600 pixels. In both models the energy consumption will be extremely low. According to ATI the maximum power consumption will be in the range of 86-108W in working mode and just 16-18 Watts while idling.
At the moment the new models are offered by almost all partners of AMD including companies like Asus, Sapphire, HIS, PowerColor, Gigabyte, MSI, XFX and others. The manufacturers will sell ATI Radeon HD 5770 for about $160 , compared with 5750 which will cost about $120.
In this post I will try to show you how to replace the WLAN card in Lenovo 3000 N200 in case of failure. The process is simple and only takes a few minutes, but there are several rules to be followed.
CAUTION: Before you begin any of the following procedures, turn off the laptop , unplug the power adapter and remove the battery. Note that computer parts arevery sensitive to static electricity so ground yourself before touching anything inside you computer by using grounding strap or touch a metal faucet pipe.
As you probably know from the laptop specifications, it comes equipped with an Intel WM3945 ABG Mini PCI-E wireless card. However you can use any other card using the Mini PCI-Express interface. To access the wireless card you should remove the lid covering the hard drive. Here you can see how to do that.
1. Disconnect the wireless antenna cables.
2. Remove the two screws securing the card to the chasis.
3. Gently remove the card from the slot.
4. Insert the new card at approximately 30 degree angle. Now gently press the card to the chassis, until it gets to a horizontal position.
5. Tighten the screws and connect the antenna cables .
6. You may be required to install the drivers for the new wireless card.
