Archive for November, 2008
To allow you control your household electronics with your handset, a new technology has just been introduced by Nokia. This new technology has been named as the Home Control Centre (HCC).
With the help of this technology you will be able to switch electronic goods on and off, control your room temperature and check your oven temperature through you phones.
Teppo Paavola, who is head of Nokia business development, says about this new technology that it has been developed to provide an easier solution for controlling various home appliances just with your mobile phone.
It has not yet been revealed how does this new technology work and it is expected that further information will be provided next month at Nokia World Conference in Barcelona where this home-domination plan will be unveiled. Read the rest of this entry
Though the Nintendo Wii has crossed 7 million mark in Japan, a considerable decrease in the sales of this popular family console has been noticed there during the last month.
The Wii has proved quite successful for Nintendo, but some figures from Enterbrain indicate that there is a 24% reduction in its sale at the time when it’s entering in the second year of its life.
The figures show that around 5m units were sold by January this year that comes to 385,000 units per month on average basis, but since that time only two million units have been sold that comes to 292,000 per month.
In the past, Gaming console have been doing good in shopping rush days ahead of the Christmas and a rise in sale can be expected if things remain unaffected from credit crunch, but how it’s possible? So no need to paint a rosy picture. Read the rest of this entry
There are millions already that wandering all around the globe and now there is another that has been developed by repeating the Nokia 6220 classic in a slider and named as the Nokia 6260 Slide.
The 6260 Slide comes up with a 5 megapixel camera that has the mandatory Carl Zeiss lens and a GPS chip is also there for some fun time navigation with the move. Now you can also share video and photo with Nokia’s Ovi service. Read the rest of this entry
Though Sony is quiet and we know nothing about the launch of PS3 home, the company has just unveiled a new web portal for the 3D virtual social networking service of its PlayStation.
There are rumors and speculations that suggest the launch of this new web portal is a clear indication that the new PS3 Home service will be available before the end of this year.
If you have good memory, you might know that Home was announced first at E3 a long time ago and this has been delayed time after time so don’t hold your breath again.
To invite the gamers into the latest build of the Home beta test, Sony has sent an additional 100,000 invites to them. Read the rest of this entry
With the launch of its first mass-produced 256GB SSD, Samsung has again upped the game in solid state hard drives.
This new 256GB SSD is the best performing SSD for personal computers according to Samsung’s claims and so far performance is concerned, it’s twice more capable than Samsung’s 64GB and 128GB SSDs.
With sequential write rates of 200MB/s, it combines sequential read rates of 220/MB that is a difference of just 10% if compared to rival drives.
The new SSD is almost three times as fast at storing data if compared to a typical 7200rpm notebook drive. Read the rest of this entry
