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For those who can not part with the music recorded on a mobile media player, Sony announced a pair of car stereo systems. As founders foresaw, the main “chip» DSX-S200X and DSX-S300BT is an inland port for music USB-gadgets called TuneTray. Pressing the button faceplate folds, opening TuneTray, and after connecting the device – back to the place.

In addition, both models have a pair of USB-ports on the front panel, so that to activate “clamshell” whenever necessary. Y recorder very nice design – severe angles smoothed blue backlit glow OLED-screen. Senior DSX-S300BT equipped with Bluetooth-receiver, which allows you to use a headset mobile phone and connect to the device players that support this protocol.

Both new products support the technology SenseMe – it scans the connected music libraries and organizes playlists, adding to the radio management. The problem of high-quality audio processing conferred on digital engine Advanced Sound Engine (ASE). DSX-S300BT and DSX-S200X will appear on store shelves worldwide in September. Authorised Dealers Sony recorders can be purchased by paying $ 280 and $ 200 respectively.

Good news for lovers of books in electronic form! Now in this category of consumers the opportunity to choose from even more portable “chitalok, because Acer has officially announced the market launch of its own product of this kind, known as Acer LumiRead.

The device is enclosed in a light delicate two-tone case and is equipped with a 6-inch black-and-white screen, performed on technology E-Ink. Even in the arsenal of new items there are the internal memory 2 GB, QWERTY-keyboard, slot for microSD-cards, modules, Wi-Fi and 3G, as well as a means for readout ISBN (unique international book identifier) in order to facilitate search and order books. Among other things, was available and built-in web browser.
Appearances Acer LumiRead in sales can be expected in the third quarter of this year, and, according to the manufacturer, anyone who buys his child will have access to the widest range of electronic books in English, German, Chinese, French or Italian.

McAfee intends to cover the users of anti-virus product costs caused by downtime of computers and the need for disaster recovery systems, functionality that was broken due to negligence of employees.

Recall, last Wednesday, many users of McAfee anti-virus products are faced with failures in their computers. A few hours later revealed that the cause served as a defective renewal, on the eve of common company. After downloading the signatures of McAfee were detected in error as a system file svchost.exe infected and unload it from memory, breaking down Windows. Failed update was available for download within four hours, after which McAfee has removed it from the server upgrade. During this time the victims of negligence specialists tens of thousands of users, computers which were running Windows XP SP3.

Official apology for the failure of the product the company brought in two days, and almost a week guide McAfee has decided to compensate the customer costs associated with improper functioning of the anti-virus. For information on how it intends to reimburse the developer, has not been revealed, and all the details of the action plan to tell McAfee in the coming days. The company promised to make every effort to resolve the issue and are willing to make concessions to loyal customers, who in spite of everything will continue to use the products McAfee. These are the producer promised to provide free two-year subscription to antivirus.

The Korean company LG announced two new home theater – HB965TX and HT965TZ.

The structure of these systems include Blu-ray players and active speaker systems in 5.1 with floor-standing speakers. Blu-ray players are equipped with a wireless interface, Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet, DLNA compatible devices in the home network.

Support for proprietary technology NetCast provides access to streaming video on the Internet: YouTube, Picasa, etc.

The declared value on the foreign market HB965TX – $ 800, and HT965TZ – $ 630.

A year or two ago newswires were full of loud title. «USB 3.0 will be ten times faster!”, “USB 3.0 specification approved”, “A new standard of data!” Time has passed. USB 3.0 already exists in the real world, not only in gikovskih dreams and in the laboratories of the developers. From time to time the announcement of the new standard and its appearance on the public motherboards, notebooks, and drives went very considerable. But much awaited event finally happened, and we are honored to see the first drive with USB 3.0 on board. Previous My Book we have tested, so you can at the same time and watch the development of the popular line.

The main characteristics of Western Digital My Book 3.0: Form Factor – 3.5”, location – external interface – USB 3.0 (socket on the “body” – specific) speed – 7200 rpm, capacity – 1 TB to 2 terabytes, a set of software from Memeo, compatibility with Windows 7/Vista/XP. Price – from 4000 to 6000 rubles, depending on capacity. Color – only “wet asphalt. We got the hard drive of 1 TB.

Intel is preparing to release another version of the low voltage mobile chips in addition to what will come this summer. Autumn it is planned to release 1.46-GHz Core i7 680UM. He will have the same meaning TDP – 18 watts, but the frequency of 2.53 GHz mode Turbo Boost.

Like other members of the family Core i7, the new chip will support Hyperthreading, which brings him closer to the actual quad. Cache size is 4 MB.

The company Asustek unveiled photos of aluminum Eee PC 1218, which is not yet on sale. The laptop will be 12-inch display, a webcam and an unusual arrangement of ports, like Dell Adamo. While this is all known characteristics.

Mixer with a thermometer – it is this idea lies at the basis of conceptual tap Tempdot. The author of the project is the Korean designer Han Dzhesok (Jaeseok Han), and that’s what he suggests.
The points on the upper surface of the mixer not only allows you to intensify its work, but also to regulate the temperature of water. Enough light touch hands at the right point to a couple of seconds, your hands were filled with fresh cool or nice warm water. After the water treatment just slightly prihlopnite on the faucet and the water stops flowing. All very, very simple!

Apple has officially announced that the Conference Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2010 will take place at Moscone West, San Francisco, from 7 to 11 June this year. Although the American company did not mention the iPhone 4G/HD, many independent sources say that it definitely will use the occasion to submit to the court users its latest smartphone. In this connection enough to remember that the iPhone 3GS was officially presented at WWDC ‘09.

As stated in the official press release, which was released this afternoon, Apple, basic themes will be at WWDC ‘10 iPhone OS 4.0, as well as new technologies that will be implemented in the next version of Mac OS X.

According to Technology News Blog, currently PowerColor is working on a new wonder of the technical ideas based on the Radeon HD 5970. As it turned out, this card from the Taiwanese company will be equipped with 12 ports DisplayPort, not 6, as in the case with the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 Edition. Map a fairly solid: it is a trehslotovoe solution and can simultaneously display the image on 12 screens. Although at present little is known about its technical characteristics, well aware that it has 4 GB of VRAM GDDR5. With regard to its power, it is obvious that she had “an appetite” more than excellent.

Apparently, this card from PowerColor is on display at Computex ‘10 in June. Unfortunately, its costs, and the exact date of commencement of sales has not been revealed.