Wacom has released the Intuos4, the latest addition to the Intuos line of pen tablets. The company claims the device offers improved pressure sensitivity capable of recognizing 2048 individual levels, while the new tip sensor offers a near-zero starting pressure of one gram. The Grip Pen also features a pressure-sensitive eraser and two side switches that can be configured for commands such as dou...
OCZ Summit SSD Available by the end of April
OCZ is currently offering 3 types of SSD:
- Value: the entry level model, cheap model but based on JMicron controller known to be saturated easily by multiple requests due of the lack of memory cache.
- Apex: while based on the same JMicron controller, it uses 2 of them in a RAID 0 setting to provide higher performance level and avoid being affected to quickly by multiple requests.
- Vertex: more interesting model as they feature a controller with a large cache memory offering respectively around 200 MB/S and 160 MB/S in reading and writing modes..
OCZ will add a fourth types of SDD, becoming he flagship of hte company, the Summit series:
Those disks are in fact clones of the latest SSD announced by Samsung, offering transfer speed about 25% higher than the Vertex models: 250 MB/S and 200 MB/S in reading and writing mode respectively. This is a good news for customers. Indeed, if Samsung is present in several news about such products, its SSD are very difficult to find in shops, whereas OCZ products are quite popular in consumer electronics shops.
TomTom Joins the Open Invention Network
According to the following press release, TomTom joined the Open Invention Network, the company formed to enable and protect Linux and the associated technology patents.
This move is most likely linked to the on-going dispute between TomTom and Microsoft around patent infregements, Redmond's giants claiming hte Dutch company used some if its technology, while the latest is now claiming the opposite. With all those legal action around software concept-linked patents, it is quite obvious that this is a juicy market for lawyers but not necessarily for companies...
Santo unveils STK iPhone 3G Power Pack
Santo has unveiled the latest in its line of STK iPhone accessories, the STK iPhone 3G Power Pack. The device is designed as both a premium quality genuine-leather flip-case, and a 3G power pack with a rechargeable Li-ion polymer battery. It offers a maximum of 300-hours of extra standby time, 7-hours of talk time, or 24-hours of music playback for the iPhone. To charge the device a mini-USB cable...
Canon rolls 15MP Rebel T1i with 1080p video
Canon early Wednesday launched its first-ever entry DSLR with HD video in the form of the Rebel T1i. The 15.1-megapixel camera uses the newer DIGIC 4 chip to record either full 1080p video at 20 frames per second or 30 frames per second at 720p, outpacing Nikon's D90 in terms of both resolution and price. Aside from the 1080p frame rate limit, the T1i has the same image setting adjustments as th...
iPhone Game Masters Get $10M VC Power-Up
The iPhone is no stranger to competition. Just like its Mac cousins, it's constantly in a market share race against a wide-open field of contenders, and it knows its way around a courtroom, where Apple's lawyers have a habit of schooling the opposition. However, it might be games of a more casual nature that will really make or break the platform. iPhone and iPod touch games have been a breakout category in the iTunes App Store. Case in point: Just this week, Ngmoco got $10 million in its Series B round of funding.
Blockbuster to offer movies, TV over TiVo
Blockbuster today said it would start delivering movies and TV shows over TiVo's DVRs. The tie-in will give users about 10,000 combined movies and TV shows that can be purchased or rented from any Series 2, Series 3 or HD series device. The company is offering movie rentals for between $2 and $4 and permanent movie purchases between $15 and $20. As part of the deal, Blockbuster says it will als...
ProVUE plug-in enables credit card transactions
ProVUE has released Panorama Authorize.Net Gateway, a new plug-in software package for the companyís Panorama database program. The plug-in enables merchant credit card processing, and can automatically support all types of charges, refunds, voids, and pre-authorized credit card transactions. When making a transaction, all credit card information is pulled directly from the users Panorama database...
O2 offers iPhone free on £35, new Apple phone imminent?
O2, Apple's mobile phone partner in the UK, is to offer the iPhone 3G for free as part of a new contract deal available from next month.
Aspyr releases Civilization IV: Gold Edition for Mac
Aspyr in partnership with 2K games, has released the strategy-game Sid Meierís Civillization IV: Gold Edition for the Mac. The Gold Edition features both Civilization IV and the combat-focused Civilization IV: Warlords Expansion pack. In Civilization IV players lead a chosen nation from the year 4000 BC to the space age, in an attempt to take over the whole world. The latest edition of the Civiliz...
Wacom unveils Intuos4 tablet with OLED keys
Wacom has released the Intuos4, the latest addition to the Intuos line of pen tablets. The company claims the device offers improved pressure sensitivity capable of recognizing 2048 individual levels, while the new tip sensor offers a near-zero starting pressure of one gram. The Grip Pen also features a pressure-sensitive eraser and two side switches that can be configured for commands such as dou...
OCZ Summit SSD Available by the end of April
OCZ is currently offering 3 types of SSD:
- Value: the entry level model, cheap model but based on JMicron controller known to be saturated easily by multiple requests due of the lack of memory cache.
- Apex: while based on the same JMicron controller, it uses 2 of them in a RAID 0 setting to provide higher performance level and avoid being affected to quickly by multiple requests.
- Vertex: more interesting model as they feature a controller with a large cache memory offering respectively around 200 MB/S and 160 MB/S in reading and writing modes..
OCZ will add a fourth types of SDD, becoming he flagship of hte company, the Summit series:
Those disks are in fact clones of the latest SSD announced by Samsung, offering transfer speed about 25% higher than the Vertex models: 250 MB/S and 200 MB/S in reading and writing mode respectively. This is a good news for customers. Indeed, if Samsung is present in several news about such products, its SSD are very difficult to find in shops, whereas OCZ products are quite popular in consumer electronics shops.
TomTom Joins the Open Invention Network
According to the following press release, TomTom joined the Open Invention Network, the company formed to enable and protect Linux and the associated technology patents.
This move is most likely linked to the on-going dispute between TomTom and Microsoft around patent infregements, Redmond's giants claiming hte Dutch company used some if its technology, while the latest is now claiming the opposite. With all those legal action around software concept-linked patents, it is quite obvious that this is a juicy market for lawyers but not necessarily for companies...
Santo unveils STK iPhone 3G Power Pack
Santo has unveiled the latest in its line of STK iPhone accessories, the STK iPhone 3G Power Pack. The device is designed as both a premium quality genuine-leather flip-case, and a 3G power pack with a rechargeable Li-ion polymer battery. It offers a maximum of 300-hours of extra standby time, 7-hours of talk time, or 24-hours of music playback for the iPhone. To charge the device a mini-USB cable...
Canon rolls 15MP Rebel T1i with 1080p video
Canon early Wednesday launched its first-ever entry DSLR with HD video in the form of the Rebel T1i. The 15.1-megapixel camera uses the newer DIGIC 4 chip to record either full 1080p video at 20 frames per second or 30 frames per second at 720p, outpacing Nikon's D90 in terms of both resolution and price. Aside from the 1080p frame rate limit, the T1i has the same image setting adjustments as th...
iPhone Game Masters Get $10M VC Power-Up
The iPhone is no stranger to competition. Just like its Mac cousins, it's constantly in a market share race against a wide-open field of contenders, and it knows its way around a courtroom, where Apple's lawyers have a habit of schooling the opposition. However, it might be games of a more casual nature that will really make or break the platform. iPhone and iPod touch games have been a breakout category in the iTunes App Store. Case in point: Just this week, Ngmoco got $10 million in its Series B round of funding.Blockbuster to offer movies, TV over TiVo
Blockbuster today said it would start delivering movies and TV shows over TiVo's DVRs. The tie-in will give users about 10,000 combined movies and TV shows that can be purchased or rented from any Series 2, Series 3 or HD series device. The company is offering movie rentals for between $2 and $4 and permanent movie purchases between $15 and $20. As part of the deal, Blockbuster says it will als...
ProVUE plug-in enables credit card transactions
ProVUE has released Panorama Authorize.Net Gateway, a new plug-in software package for the companyís Panorama database program. The plug-in enables merchant credit card processing, and can automatically support all types of charges, refunds, voids, and pre-authorized credit card transactions. When making a transaction, all credit card information is pulled directly from the users Panorama database...
O2 offers iPhone free on £35, new Apple phone imminent?
O2, Apple's mobile phone partner in the UK, is to offer the iPhone 3G for free as part of a new contract deal available from next month.
Aspyr releases Civilization IV: Gold Edition for Mac
Aspyr in partnership with 2K games, has released the strategy-game Sid Meierís Civillization IV: Gold Edition for the Mac. The Gold Edition features both Civilization IV and the combat-focused Civilization IV: Warlords Expansion pack. In Civilization IV players lead a chosen nation from the year 4000 BC to the space age, in an attempt to take over the whole world. The latest edition of the Civiliz...
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