EL1332-E12 is the codename of the new desktop PC announced by Acer, which will cost approximately $450 and at this moment there is no information about the release date. In terms of specifications, the Acer EL1332-E12 has an ADM Athlon II 160u processor running at 1.80GHz, and 2GB of DDR2. The graphics card is powered [...]
Archive for February 3rd, 2010
3 Feb
Fermi gets sexy retail names
Nvidia, obviously trying to minimise the amount of contact it is forced to have with the odious, unwashed masses of tech press, has instead opted to tweet out its news about upcoming Fermi cards. “Fun Fact of the Week: GeForce GTX 480 and GeForce GTX 470 will be the names of the first two GPUs [...]
3 Feb
Acer’s New 120Hz LCD Ready for Nvidia 3D Vision
Acer announced on Tuesday that its GD235HZ LCD display is ready for Nvidia’s 3D Vision system. Sporting a tasty 120 Hz refresh rate, the 23.6-inch display will attempt to bring a new level of PC gaming to your rig. For the uninitiated, Nvidia’s 3D Vision system includes active-shutter glasses, a wireless USB transmitter, and software [...]
3 Feb
Namco Bandai hacks 630 staff amid fiscal nosedive
Clear fourth-quarter profits posted by the likes of Intel and AMD may suggest the tech industry is gradually edging out of recession, but not every business is enjoying the fruits of improved turnover as the end of the current fiscal year looms (March 31). Specifically, the nine months leading up to December 31 of 2009 [...]
3 Feb
Palm Leads Rally Ahead of Cisco’s Results
Palm (NASDAQ: PALM) led tech stocks higher on Tuesday, a day ahead of Cisco’s (NASDAQ: CSCO) quarterly earnings report. Palm rose 7 percent on upbeat comments from Deutsche Bank — which also said the smartphone maker could become a takeover target. Research in Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) gained 2.5 percent, while Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) gained 0.6 [...]
3 Feb
Optegra buys Yorkshire Eye Hospital for £4m
A private Yorkshire eye hospital has been sold to a Surrey firm for £4m. Yorkshire Eye Hospital, based at Apperley Bridge between Leeds and Bradford, was acquired by Optegra Eye Hospitals. Now Optegra has pledged to invest £1.2m in the Yorkshire site, with the money being spend on a new laser, more advanced equipment Click [...]
3 Feb
Computer expert: Toyota issue software-related
The co-founder of Apple Computer and an owner of multiple Toyota Prius hybrids told a San Francisco conference that the cause of Toyota’s unintended acceleration is software and not a bad accelerator pedal. “I have many models of Prius that got recalled, but I have a new model that didn’t get recalled,” Steve Wozniak said [...]
3 Feb
Learning from the Brain: Computer Scientists Develop New Generation of Neuro-Computer
They have been co-ordinating the European Union research project “Brain-i-Nets” (Novel Brain Inspired Learning Paradigms for Large-Scale Neuronal Networks) for three years, and are launching a three-day meeting of the participating researchers in Graz. The scientists want to design a new generation of neuro-computers based on the principles of calculation and learning mechanisms found in [...]
3 Feb
TouchMouse Controls Your Computer’s Mouse and Keyboard via iPhone or iPod touch
iPhone/iPod touch: TouchMouse is a free application for the iPhone/iPod touch that, when paired with its accompanying control software on your Mac or Windows computer, turns your touchscreen into a mouse and keyboard. Once you download the software to your iPhone or iPod touch and pair it with the server software—Logitech has versions of the [...]
3 Feb
Some counties don’t use mandated computer chips in voting machines
Robinson, Ill. — Tuesday was primary election day in Illinois and some Illinois counties – including two in the Wabash Valley – broke the law. County clerks in Edgar and Clark counties defied a new Illinois election law when they decided not to install computer chips into ballot-counting machines. Those chips would cause the machines [...]
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