Posted 29 Jul 2010 — by admin
Category Gadgets
In the UK, the police started to test a new system to help fight crime by predicting when that will be committed.
It sounds a little like something taken from the movie Minority Report, but instead of using three people with psychic abilities, so the system is called CRUSH (Criminal Reduction utilizing Statistical History), a large database developed by IBM.
The database contains information on past cases, summaries of the criminals and their working methods, weather and police briefings.
Apart from all these details can CRUSH predict where it is most likely there will be crimes. Though the British police now must test the system, it has already been tested by police in Memphis, USA, where it helped that crime fell by 31%.
Posted 27 Jul 2010 — by admin
Category cellphone
When Hewlett-Packard chose to buy Palm for $ 1,200,000,000, it was inter alia to obtain operating WebOS. HP has previously indicated that they will use it in future products, and in an interview with CNBC vice president Todd Bradley can tell that it will include smartphones.
WebOS will thus continue its life on a smartphone, but it also means that HP choose not to make smart phones with other operating systems including Windows Phone seventh
It is a defeat for Microsoft, which has long been a major supplier of operating systems for smartphones from HP. The information comes hardly as a surprise with so much money, HP spent in Palm purchase.
More surprising was that Bradley could say they will release a tablet PC with Windows 7, after a few months ago dropped their HP slate that should have been one of the first tablet with Windows 7
Posted 24 Jul 2010 — by admin
Category android
The Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition is adorned with a Ferrari logo with carbon fiber on the back panel. A special Ferrari wallpaper and ringtones with engine noise to make the mobile phone into something special. The controller is also in a Ferrari special case. Except for the slightly different case and the specific content is the Ferrari version is identical to the normal version of the Liquid E.
The Acer Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition smartphone will ship with Android 2.1, has a 5 megapixel camera and a 3.5 -inch touchscreen with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. The HSDPA phone supports WLAN 802.11b / g , Bluetooth 2.0, and incorporates a Qualcomm processor back with a clock speed of 768 MHz.
The end of July 2010 are the Liquid E Ferrari Special Edition at a price of 500 euros on the market. The Ferrari version costs 100 € more so as the regular version of the phone.
Posted 20 Jul 2010 — by admin
Category android
Asus Expects to launch two new tablet PCs , where the model Asus Eee Pad EP101 should have been released with Windows Embedded Compact 7 , but it is not the case. According to the website Netbook News Asus has decided to drop Windows 7 and instead rely on using Android. P.t. Firm should experiment with a version of Android 2.2 , but it may come to use Android 3.0 ( Gingerbread ) instead.
There are no reports of why Asus has chosen to switch to Android, but the past , HP has said that Windows 7 has been too costly to use on a tablet computer.
It is expected that the first showing of the next tablet will happen in the CES exhibition , which run until January 2011 in Las Vegas.
With the launch of the new GeForce GTX 460graphics card Nvidia introduces also a new GPU. Where the previous 4xx graphics was based on GF100 GPU, it uses a new graphics card GPU named GF104.
Despite the higher numbers, so there is not a powerful GPU, such as graphics card name also suggests. GTX 460 card resulting in a series of GeForce GTX 480, 470 and 465 and published in two versions, one with 768 MB RAM and one with 1 GB of RAM. The latter is beyond the extra RAM has the advantage that the memory bus is 256 bits to 192 bits.
The biggest news at GF104-GPU is a reduction in transistor numbers by nearly one billion transistors, so the “only” contains 1.95 billion transistors. These include achieved by reducing the number of CUDA kernels to the 336th
At home HotHardware has tested both a 768 MB and 1 GB version of the card, costing respectively $ 199 and $ 220 in the U.S., and here you are impressed with both cards.
1 GB card provider not surprising best and are in most tests almost as quickly as older brother GTX 465, which costs more, and faster than AMD’s Radeon HD 5830, which costs the same.
