Friday September 05, 2008
- According to Samsung Blu-ray has only 5 years of life - Lionel - 16:17:38
Source : http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk
In an interview, Andy Griffiths, director of the UK consumer electronics division for Samsung acknowledged he thought that the format Blu-ray did not have more than 5 years of life.Similar declarations by Toshiba were related to its loss of the battle of the blue laser, however Samsung is a full member of the clan supporting Blu-ray and this gives much more weight to this opinion.
[translation by crispin]
- Orange Starts Unlocking 3G Network Speed Limits - Lionel - 13:18:56
Following previous announcement, Orange started unlocking the speed limits on its 3G network as the operation is supposed to be completed on September 15th.
As shown below, we could reach 2700 Kbit/s from our iPhone:
Of course, browsing on the net is faster, but it is mostly a real improvement for uploading emails.
Depending on your location, the data speed may vary a lot, sometimes it is a matter of couple of meters and you can get 2 to 4 times higher or lower transfer speed.
You can test your own with our Speedtest webpage: http://speedtest.macbidouille.com/
[translation by Linathael]
- Samsung and Toshiba to Receive Intel CE 3100 SoC - Lionel - 13:12:12
Source : Digitimes
To answer the expected growing demand of internet-capable consumer electronics devices, Intel developed a system-on-chip (SoC) known as CE 3100. It was specifically designed to provide low-power consumption while offering multimedia-rich abilities:- Internet connection
- multichannel HD audio
- video HD, including H.264 and Blu-ray decoding
- Video encoding
- 3D display
- TV signal and internet video decoding
In summary, this SoC could manage all functions of the current Apple TV, so it might well be the chips Apple was waiting for to update its device.
[translation by Linathael]
- Price-Fixing Agreement between AMD/ATI and NVidia: Part II - Lionel - 13:02:28
Last July, we were reporting about the on-going legal action dealing with suspected price-fixing agreement between AMD/ATI and NVidia. Among documents against AMD/ATI and NVidia, is an email from NVidia senior vice president of marketing, Dan Vivoli, to ATI's president and chief operating officer, Dave Orton.
Tom's Hardware.fr could get their hands on the entire electronic mail exchange (13 pages) demonstrating that both company were aligning their respective business strategy, while trying to reduce the future market share of forthcoming Intel’s discrete GPU. If there is no clear mention of price agreement in those emails, it will most likely place both companies in trouble in front of the court, and will most likely cost them hundreds million USD.
[translation by Linathael]
- Soon a price cut on the iMacs?? - Lionel - 07:42:30
The Jon4lakers.com site put on line this capture which they say came from the Apple Intranet.
One finds the iMac exactly the same as already marketed, but with a consequent fall of price going from $200 for the basic model with a reduction of $400 for the high-end.
If Apple decided to stop with the Centrino 2 for the moment, this fall could indeed be justified.
On the other hand, other details make us doubt veracity of this capture. The first and more obvious is the addresses that one sees posted in the bar of the menus.This is exactly that the address that everyone gets while going on the US Store, and not that of an Apple Intranet.
Moreover, since the Apple Store closes with each new product, it is partly because it is necessary to start again the enormous database to deal with the modifications. It there does not have access to see them thus.
To finish, that which modified this page (really at Apple or Via Photoshop) omitted to remake calculations of the monthly payments of credit which are here identical to those proposed before the price drops.
In short,to take notice of this you must be born to believe.
[translation by crispin]
