Recent postsSince the inception of computer gaming, piracy has been a great headache. Access to the web and the downloading of pirate copies has exacerbated the problem beyond all proportions. As most titles are released in autumn for the Christmas party buildup, January is a good time to look back and judge the sales results. There [...]
Cars increase, buildings saturate centers and some times city geography is a problem for the creation of efficient city transportation systems. What do you do? The city of Haifa in Israel is going ahead with a novel cable car system that is ideal to bypass hills and densely built areas. Finally, this skiing hobby is [...]
eSATA is offering the convenience of internal SATA speeds with a connector that lets external drives be connected to a PC. The aim is to provide the convenience of USB or Firewire. The later have been around for some time now, have a huge user pool and present a formidable obstacle to wide eSATA adoption. [...]
With the Drobo storage device Data Robotics dared create the storage device everybody was dreaming of. A box that can take up to four SATA disc drives of differing sizes that can safely store our files. This array overcomes the limitation of using identical discs for a regular NAS or a simple mirror array. At [...]
I was shocked to read in Engadget that the Japanese government is planning a joint project with private companies to develop and eventually get to market a new broadcast standard called Super Hi-Vision. It is a super high definition protocol that makes even 1080p HD and 4K -the standard that Hollywood and cinemas are still [...]
Japan is home territory for Nikon and Canon. For both it is not simply a matter of market share but also of prestige and fame. Therefore, the battle is nothing but fierce. According to dpreview the two brands together command more than 80% of the DSLR market. Nikon is ahead with 43.3% and Canon follows [...]
Some Windows Vista users have already installed the beta version of Service Pack 1. Now Microsoft publicly releases SP1 RC Refresh, to be used as the final test before the final release. Unlike initial XP safety vulnerabilities, Vista has fared much better in this sector, but not well enough in others, as for example in [...]
Amazon prefers to keep things quite but has quite canily prepared the ground for a major offensive against the big enemy, who else… Apple’s iTunes. Sony BMG is the latest of the large music labels to join the Amazon camp with sweet DRM-free downloads. This means that now Amazon has access to the vast catalogues [...]
The craze started with camera storage. Flash memory is now taking faithful care of all our photographic needs while people typically carry flash memory sticks with them at all times. In fact, we have become so spoiled, that hard disc drives look big, noisy and old fashioned. I am not saying of course that I [...]
Hong Kong leads the way to link the pollution that its energy plants produce to the prices they charge. It is a very simple idea. If pollution is reduced below agreed levels, Hong Kong’s two power companies can charge higher prices. In the opposite case, charged prices will be lower because the environment is harmed, [...]
We have written about the 31 inch Samsung OLED here. You can now see some photos from the show. Apart from the immensely attractive thickness and picture performance, lower consumption is the major leap forward. LCDs have roughly half the energy consumption of CRTs, now OLEDs turn the heat on by cutting that by a [...]
For the last couple of years DSLRs are commanding increased manufacturer interest. Margins here are much better than in the compact and prosumer segments, and products cycles are of the order of 1.5 to 2 years instead of the few months of their smaller brothers. The increase of competition has brought prices down and attracted [...]
The Fraunhofer Institute brought the world the MP3 revolution so no reason not to listen up carefully to what they propose! Now they come up with a new audio format, the HD-AAC. The deal is lossless compression and 24-bit music content. Given that CDs are 16-bit, Fraunhofer’s promise that it is better than CD is logical. With [...]
Wadia is an audiophile brand whose all-digital signal processing wonders have gained enormous respect from audio enthusiasts everywhere. The iTransport is its effort to grab the higher end of the iPod user market. Its big marketing point is the fact that it completely bypasses all analogue audio parts of the iPod to access music files [...]
Now that US economic forecasts do not look so rosy, consumer response related to electronic products has become a constant worry. Manufacturers are churning out new models as if there is no tomorrow and if we are to believe the uplifting CES atmosphere all is going smooth. So who is right, the optimists that believe that the [...]
