Many people like to use notebooks exclusively because it allows them to take their work on the road if they need to. However, many of these notebook fans want a larger display and keyboard when working in the home or office and use docking stations to allow for easy connection of external gear to their notebooks.
Intel offers products in just about every category that a CPU can be used in. Most of us know the company most for its line of CPUs and GPUs for desktop and notebook computers. Intel is also very big in the server market with lines of CPUs aimed at corporate servers and data centers. Intel has officially announced its new Itanium 9300 processor family that was formerly code named Tukwila.
The first signs of life from Apple are emerging this morning, and there’s a new version of Aperture to kick things off. Aperture 3 adds in improved photo organization – based on the same Faces and places features found in iPhoto ‘09 – as well as Adjustment Presets and Brushes. Meanwhile Apple have also extended their GPS and geotagging support, including the ability to drag non-tagged photos to their respective location, together with automatic slideshows with preset themes and music.
The next big thing in faster mobile data speeds for many carriers here in America will be LTE. Several of the largest carriers in the country are expecting to roll out limited LTE networks at the end of this year with more coverage areas coming in 2011. Kyocera is showing off what it claims to be the world’s smallest, lightest, and most efficient LTE Base station at MWC 2010.
Rambus has been around in the technology and memory world for years with products and technology that is licenses to various manufacturers. Rambus has announced its latest memory technology today that is aimed at next-generation mobile devices called Mobile XDR.
Back in September 2009, I mentioned the new InFocus SP8602 home theater projector and at the time, InFocus was saying the projector would ship in October. The projector never shipped for one reason or another in 2009. InFocus has now announced that the SP8602 projector is shipping.
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We have been hearing talk from both AMD and Intel for a while now about CPUs that have integrated GPUs allowing a notebook to get graphics and processing power from one device rather than needing a separate CPU and GPU. AMD has revealed its Llano processor and the chipmaker is calling the device an application processor unit or APU rather than the CPU or GPU monikers we are used to in the computer world.
There are tons of uses for displays that can be connected to a PC or other video input source that have nothing to do with home theater or general computer use. Some of the largest displays are aimed at use as digital signs like we see in airports and at some businesses. NEC has pulled a massive display out of the shadows called the P701.
When I was a kid if I needed to know something for a school project I had to actually use a book to find it. There was no internet that would give me all the answers in a few seconds of searching. Kids today have it easy when it comes to finding information on a subject and the WikiReader that debuted in October 2009 made finding information easy to do without an internet connection.
Atlona has been making all sorts of converters and scalers for a long time. The company offers a converter for just about every need and today Atlona has unveiled its latest product. The device is called the Atlona VGA to HDMI Scaler/Converter AT-HDVieW.
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