Google planning to offer iPhone advertising program
Google Mobile Ads already targets over 400 million phones. Now, Google is supposedly about to introduce an iPhone-specific advertising program that would maximize use of the iPhone's features. Read More...
published yesterday, 1 day 12 hours 47 minutes ago, ars-technica
MacWay unveils 1.5TB SilverDrive Quattro external HD
French company MacWay has unveiled the SilverDrive Quattro 1.5TB quad interface external hard drive. The new drive offers the highest storage capacity of the SilverDrive Quattro series, and supports USB 2.0, FireWire 400/800, and eSATA connections. The 7200RPM single disk drive is housed in an aluminum housing that allows for passive cooling, eliminating the need for a fan, which the company claim...
published on Thursday, the 9. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
BenQ adds flagship 10MP DC C1060 to lineup
BenQ on Tuesday unveiled its newest digital camera, the DC C1060, which features a 10-megapixel sensor and 3X optical zoom when recording 720x400 videos in 16:9 format or 640x480 videos at 30fps in the Motion JPEG format. For added grip and an upscale look, BenQ equipped the DC C1060 with a leather grip, while users view and frame photos via a 2.7-inch LCD screen. The digital camera also sports an...
published on Wednesday, the 8. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
Trans International launches Pro Drive for Mac Pro
Trans International has released its new Pro Drive for the Mac Pro. The Pro Drive is a 2.5-inch dual hard drive enclosure, designed to replace a Mac Pro's hard drive. The drive can be setup (via a switch on the enclosure) to run in a RAID 0 or 1 configuration, for speed (RAID 0) or redundancy (RAID 1), while occupying the space of a single 3.5-inch drive. Trans International is promising 400MB per...
published on Tuesday, the 7. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
iPhone app muscling into Kindle's eBook territory
Following the release of the Stanza eBook application for the iPhone, the software has been downloaded almost 400,000 times. By comparison, Amazon is only expected to sell 380,000 units of its Kindle eBook reader this year, suggesting that the iPhone may become a popular platform for those who occasionally want to do a bit of reading.Read More...
published on Sunday, the 5. October 2008, ars-technica
HTC predicts 400 to 500K G1s sold in 2008
Taiwan based smart phone maker HTC said it estimates T-Mobile will sell between 400,000 and 500,000 G1 handsets, with its Android platform developed by Google, before the end of 2008. According to a Wednesday report, the smartphoneës exclusive US carrier, T-Mobile, will order between 1.5 and 2 million units in total, sales of which are estimated to add NT$7 billion (the equivalent of about $218 mi...
published on Wednesday, the 1. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
AMD demos Mobility Radeon HD 4000 chip
AMD is tipping its hand early at the CEATEC technology show by showing a pre-production version of a Mobility Radeon HD 4000 chipset. Although AMD has yet to publicly discuss the hardware, the company's booth at the Japanese expo contains a clearly identified test bed with the notebook-oriented chipset demonstrating its full hardware Blu-ray video decoding....
published on Wednesday, the 1. October 2008, macintosh-news-network
AMD intros budget Radeon HD 4550, 4350
AMD early Tuesday took its Radeon HD 4000-series chipsets into ultra budget territory with two video cards that promise better performance than their prices would suggest. The Radeon HD 4550 and Radeon HD 4350 have just 80 stream (effects) processors versus as much as 800 for the Radeon 4800 series but are still capable of full DirectX 10.1 and current OpenGL 2.x effects, rendering them some of t...
published on Tuesday, the 30. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
SimpleTech adds 1.5TB Pro, 3TB Duo Pro drives
SimpleTech announced it has added to its line-up of Pro Drive and Duo Pro Drive external storage media on Monday by launching the 1.5TB Pro Drive and the 3TB two-drive RAID 0/1 Duo Pro Drive. Either new drive sports four built-in interfaces, including an eSATA connection, FireWire 800, FireWire 400 and USB 2.0. Thanks to eSATA, users can transfer files at up to 3Gb per second in peak conditions....
published on Monday, the 29. September 2008, macintosh-news-network
iPhone shortage preceding its launch in Brazil Friday
Claro will begin selling the iPhone in Brazil on Friday, but does not expect to have enough to meet demand, according to Reuters. The first shipment from Apple only included 30,000 devices, while the list of Claro subscribers signed up for the phone exceeded 100,000 by late July. The phones will not come cheap, priced between $550 and $1,400 depending on the model and contract. Claro is the Brazil...
published on Thursday, the 25. September 2008, macintosh-news-network