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Mitsubishi Announces Its First USB Monitor

Mitsubishi's Electric division has just announced that it's now shipping its first USB PC monitor, powered by DisplayLink's innovative network display technology. The monitor has been designed with a 20.1-inch form factor, and is currently available in Japan, offering notebook users an easier way to se...

7 October 2008
06:20 GMT

New Mac Mini Code-Named 'Brick' Rumored

Some claim Apple's got more than a MacBook refresh up its sleeve. While next-gen Apple notebooks are said to be already shipping to retailers, a new rumor has it that Apple's “one more thing” this year could very well be a new Mac Mini.“Sources have indicated Apple's 'one more th...

22 September 2008
05:15 GMT

Lenovo Unveils New ThinkVision Monitors

Lenovo, one of the leading manufacturers of consumer portable computer systems, has recently announced the introduction of the latest additions to its ThinkVision lineup of computer monitors. According to the company, the new models have been designed to deliver a new level of energy-efficiency, as compared to curren...

18 September 2008
05:57 GMT

AOC Announces V17 LCD – 12 Millimeters Thin

When it comes to monitors and TV sets, we can’t but acknowledge the general trend, which has it that these display devices must provide a high-quality visual experience, while maintaining a sleek and lightweight form factor. This is the reason why most of the display manufacturers of today are continuously sett...

17 September 2008
06:27 GMT

ASUS to Release Wireless Monitors

ASUS, one of the leading manufactures of computer hardware and consumer electronics, is set on trying to change the way we connect a monitor to a system. The company that is responsible for changing the portable computer market has partnered with Realtek to develop wireless monitors using Realtek's Wireless USB ...

9 June 2008
05:52 GMT

Lenovo's Monitors Get EPEAT Gold Certification

Chinese conglomerate Lenovo has received the Gold certification for using "green technology" in eight of its Thinkvision monitors. The certification has been awarded by the Green Electronics Council, after the products had reached the highest score in the Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) test....

12 March 2008
10:36 GMT

Your Hard Drive Under the Looking Glass

While most of the components of a typical computer system are not affected in any measurable way by their age, providing that they had spent their life in good conditions, there are still some systems that are based on mechanical components that are prone to a host of problems and critical failures. Among the still m...

29 February 2008
07:35 GMT

LG to Introduce 10,000:1 Contrast Ratio Movie Monitors

High-fidelity movie fans surely know how difficult it is to watch the favorite movies on an average, low-definition computer monitor. Unless you are a DivX movie fan, you know that the picture quality is highly affected by the monitor's low contrast ratio. The new monitors from LG come to fix the glitch and give...

28 February 2008
10:14 GMT

TCP and UDP Under Surveillance

Have you ever had any idea about the amount of processes communicating outside your network? Sure, there are plenty of Windows services that require outbound communication in order to keep your system updated with the latest releases but there may be other elements, not necessarily benign, that keep sending info on y...

29 November 2007
12:57 GMT

Saudis Demanded To Spy Internet Activity

The Saudis authorities demanded the country's residents to help the government track the Internet activity and stop the militants before they manage to do something dangerous, Reuters reported today. "We want to teach citizens how to monitor things on the Internet ... mum and dad must pay attention to their kids...

26 November 2007
08:34 GMT

Zalman Rolls Out True 3D Monitors

Zalman, the cooling solution provider, have announced at the beginning of the year that they are working on a 3D display, which has even been exhibited at Consumer Electronics Association. Now, Zalman has made it official: the 3D monitors will be out in time for Christmas.Zalman's three-dimensional displays use ...

23 November 2007
09:50 GMT

Germany to Develop Advanced Computer Spying Tools

The German authorities are trying to promote a law which would allow them to install software on some suspected computers to monitor malicious activities, The Sydney Morning Herald reported today. According to the same source, these utilities would be intended to track terrorist activity and to prevent such dangerous...

21 November 2007
09:45 GMT

The iPhone Monitors All the User's Personal Data

The iPhone has a major security flaw, as it can collect and send all of its user's personal data to anybody interested in it. This means that all that the phone's owner has done with the device over the past period is encrypted in the device, making it possible for other people to decode the data and use al...

20 November 2007
10:29 GMT

How to Use KGB's Techniques to Spy on Your Employees

I must admit I wasn't sure that this is something to write about because I never agreed with spyware applications, keyloggers or other programs used to monitor a user's computer. Because we're talking about privacy and since a user accesses his personal system, you don't have the right to read his...

6 November 2007
09:03 GMT

ViewSonic Intros a 19-inch LCD

ViewSonic just announced the launch of a new 19-inch widescreen computer display, commercially available under the VX1940w designation, that comes with a native resolution of 1680 by 1050 pixels and which will hit the consumer market segment sometime in the middle of November.According to the news site digitimes, the...

9 October 2007
11:24 GMT

Asus Intros 19-inch LCD with 1680x1050 Resolution

Asustek Computer, better known as Asus, just announced the launch of three brand new LCD computer monitors that come as one 19-inch widescreen and two 22-inch displays. The new LCD monitors are coming with pretty high technical specifications and they are also priced at an affordable level, while being capable of WSX...

3 October 2007
05:51 GMT

Hidden Process Installed by Skype to Monitor Your Computer!

As far as I can see, this is one of the most serious accusations addressed to Skype as the president of Dynamic Internet Technology accuses the application of censoring certain computer activities. Bill Xia is a provider of specialized software which helps the local Internet consumers bypass the governments' fil...

1 October 2007
08:43 GMT

Dell Presents a Nice 20-in LCD

It looks like Dell plans to expand its range of LCD monitors aimed at the home and office computer users with a new widescreen display that comes with a viewable area of 20 inches and this product is called SP2008WFP and it will be priced at an affordable $289.This new product is the first ever flat panel LCD monitor...

27 September 2007
10:43 GMT

NEC Presents a 24-inch LCD Monitor

NEC Display Solutions of America announced the launch of a new desktop computer monitor from the MultiSync range of products that will soon be available on the general consumer market under the LCD2470WVX designation. This new NEC display system comes in a widescreen format and it is specifically designed for enterpr...

27 September 2007
10:02 GMT

VIEWSONIC Goes For Quality and Low Price Tags

As LCD computer monitors are very popular, a rift normally appeared between the truly high solutions that offer high native resolutions and features and the more budget oriented displays that are coming with fewer bells and whistles while sporting affordable prices. The hardware manufacturing company ViewSonic plans ...

22 September 2007
05:21 GMT

ViewSonic Launches LCDs for Gamers

ViewSonic just announced the release of three brand new widescreen computer monitors which are based on the latest LCD technologies in order to provide the most accurate and sharp images possible for users of desktop computer systems. The three new LCDs come in two sizes of 19 and 22 inches and they feature the innov...

21 September 2007
09:50 GMT

Mitsubishi Introduces a HD 46-inch Monitor

Mitsubishi Digital Electronics America's Presentation Products Division, the American division of the Japanese company Mitsubishi, that is specialized in high performance presentation and display products, just introduced its newest offering, a large scale LCD monitor.This new product, named LDT461V, comes packe...

19 September 2007
10:11 GMT

Lenovo Intros 22-inch Widescreen Monitor

Lenovo announced the launch of a new breed of LCD widescreen computer monitors, the first and only products that support the newly introduced WUXGA resolution standard which is the short for ''Widescreen Ultra eXtended Graphics Array''.The new Lenovo monitor is available under the commercial desig...

18 September 2007
09:38 GMT

Panoramic Acer LCD Monitors Announced

Acer America Corporation announced the launch of a new series of high end LCD computer monitors which are aimed at both home users and professional computer users. The new P series of Acer made LCD screens is shipped under the emblem of a stylish and high quality product that aims to present precise and top of the li...

13 September 2007
06:43 GMT

NEC AccuSync Displays for Gamers

The United States division of the NEC company has just announced the launch of two lines of widescreen LCD monitors aimed at gamers and multimedia customers. The new monitors are from the AccuSync GX and CX series and they come to improve the line of display related NEC products that includes LCD desktop and commerci...

11 September 2007
10:33 GMT

30-inch LCD Screens from Barco

High resolution LCD displays are becoming very popular and that trend is not something to encounter only among the professionals that are using such big screen computer monitors for digital content creation, but also among average computer users, even if the latest Barco branded LCD may be a little too big for most o...

10 September 2007
11:33 GMT

Poor People Get Monitored on the Web!

Have you noticed how some laws affect only the poor? Or how law enforcers' actions seldom affect the rich? Well this is just another one of those cases, but it's regarding cyber-security now!Recently the site of the Bank of India has been hacked (the Russian Business Network is said to have done it). Since ...

6 September 2007
05:07 GMT

The New Rotating 24-inch HP LCD

Large screed LCD computer monitors are becoming very popular as their price tag goes down and their features list grows. Once they were targeted at the few graphics designer professionals that could afford them, now they are very popular among gamers and computer enthusiasts: the 24-inch widescreen format LCD compute...

4 September 2007
11:18 GMT

Samsung Electronics Integrates LCD Monitors and VoIP

Samsung Electronics just announced the release of two brand new LCD monitors with integrated VoIP functions which are intended to allow users to make video calls over the Internet without the need of additional hardware. The two 22 inch monitors, the SyncMaster 220TN and the SyncMaster 225UW, are optimized for video ...

1 September 2007
05:33 GMT

New Philips LCD Monitors

Philips announced recently the launch of a new range of multimedia LCD screens and monitors which are intended for use as home entertainment devices as they feature advanced technologies that deliver sharp images alongside faster than usual response times being perfect for gaming and movie watching. Ranging in size f...

1 September 2007
05:02 GMT

Samsung And Sony to Consolidate Their LCD Lines

LCD panels coming to end customers in the form of big screen TV sets and computer monitors are very popular on the market today, so there is always a high demand of them and of course where is demand the hardware manufacturers are closing in to promote and sell their products.In order to consolidate their respective ...

31 August 2007
06:34 GMT

Atmel Improves The HD-DVD/Blu-ray Laptop Drives

Atmel Corporation, a hardware manufacturing company that is specialized in microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency components, announced the launch of two new front monitoring diode integrated circuits for use in slim and ultra slim HD-DVD and Blu-ray drives that are typ...

29 August 2007
10:12 GMT

A High Resolution LCD Monitor for Gamers

iZ3D, a new LCD monitor manufacturing company based in San Diego, announced the launch of a monitor designed for gamers. Featuring an impressive 22 inch widescreed, the iZ3D gaming monitor comes with a serious price tag of almost $1000, but when looking for the best in class image quality and high desktop real estate...

29 August 2007
08:37 GMT

Planar's PX LCD Lineup

As LCD displays for computers are becoming more and more affordable, the demand for bigger screens, mostly in the wide aspect format is rising, prompting monitor manufacturers to come out with new lines of products in an attempt to satisfy the market's demand.One of the LCD screens manufacturer and vendor, Plana...

22 August 2007
10:59 GMT

Pimp My LCD, Bling, Bling, Bling...

Technology is not only about form and function. It can very well be about bad taste and bling covered devices. The recipe is simple, just take any piece of technology that strikes your fancy and cover it in various metals and stones until you manage to reduce its intended functionality to zero, while making it too sh...

21 August 2007
07:02 GMT

LCD Monitors Getting Expensive

As the back to school season approaches, and the demand for computer hardware aimed at students grows, liquid crystal display (LCDs for short) monitor makers and vendors are increasing their price tags by a few dollars all across the product lines. According to the news site DigiTimes, the most affected monitor model...

20 August 2007
06:27 GMT

LCD Market Growing

As the LCD technology dominates the computer display industry, companies activating in this field are having a great time in terms of shipments, and their order of day is expansion and adoption of new manufacturing processes. The LCD producing company HannStar Display already decided to shift its production capabilit...

13 August 2007
03:43 GMT

A New Range of LCDs from BenQ

BenQ announced the launch of a new range of computer monitors, all based on the LCD technology, targeting both the high end and the home users markets. This new range is called the E Series and it offers 13 LCD monitors ranging from the traditional 4:3 aspect ratio to the widescreen 16:9 display format. As all new ge...

10 August 2007
04:46 GMT

Better LCD Monitors

The LCD monitors are very popular these days because of their inherent advantages over the traditional cathodic tube displays (CRTs for short) and they truly offer something more to users like smaller footprint, less harmful radiations, lower energy consumption and less weight.But LCD monitor are far from being perfe...

7 August 2007
09:03 GMT

Samsung Redefines Gaming Monitors

Samsung Electronics launched the 226CW Widescreen LCD monitor especially aimed at high end gaming platforms. This LCD monitor, launched at the World Cyber Games event in Singapore, features impressive hardware capabilities like very high resolutions, vivid colors, high contrast ratio and fast response time. "Our rese...

6 August 2007
04:32 GMT

Samsung Shows Off Its 30 Inch LCD

Samsung just announced its latest 30-inch liquid-crystal display panel that sports a DirectPort interface for higher display resolutions and increased refresh rates. According to the manufacturer company, the new LCD panel can process 10 bits of color data at resolutions ranging up to 2560 x 1600, using a single Dire...

26 July 2007
11:23 GMT

View The World with Style

There will always be a group of users (it doesn't matter if they are gamers, office workers or anything else) that will expect the very best technology has to offer in a certain computer hardware segment. Asus designed the PG221 LCD monitor for users that desire a richer multimedia experience, brought to life by...

23 July 2007
10:11 GMT

Forget Standard Cables When Using a LG Monitor

The USB standard is a very popular one at the present. You may connect just about any kind of device to a desktop, notebook or laptop PC using a USB port. Keyboards, mice, PDAs, webcams, photo cameras, printers and scanners, to name just a few, are all connectible through a simple USB cable and port. Using the USB st...

17 July 2007
02:58 GMT

The Robot That Visits Patients When Doctors Can't

A new type of robot is assisting doctors in the interaction with the patients. It's not exactly performing brain surgery, but it can take the place of the doctor via a satellite uplink and organize a doctor-patient videoconference even if the two are tens or hundreds of miles apart.This is not the first time ro...

16 July 2007
12:58 GMT

Samsung Ready to Roll Out USB Monitors

If you remember CEBIT 2007 then you probably also remember the fact that Samsung's booth was one of the best places to be due to the fact that the display manufacturer decided to show off the first USB displays. At the moment the displays produced quite a stir but in time people forgot about the whole deal and c...

19 June 2007
05:36 GMT

The USB-RGB Dongle Makes Your Notebook Video Smarter

You have one of the lightest and slimmest notebooks in your office, but while yours is by far the niftiest, it has some inconveniences. In order to make it that slim, the manufacturer has omitted one important detail, a video output, so you can connect it to a more generous display.Up until now, you were stuck with t...

31 May 2007
04:38 GMT

Dell Showcases Super-thin LCDs with Display Port

So... you think DVI and HDMI video connectors are here to stay? While they surely provide premium image quality, Dell thinks these standards are a bit obsolete and rolls in its latest LCD displays with Display Port support. Display Port? What's this? Some new marketing scheme? In fact it is the new standard in i...

21 May 2007
11:06 GMT

High-Tech Hardware on New York City Taxi Cabs

From now on, riding in a cab in NYC will be a pleasure for most clients, with the introduction of the touch-screen monitors. Officials from the taxi companies say that an average taxi ride in NY takes 13 minutes, so why not make the most of it?High-tech enters the taxis and it will make it easier for passengers, esp...

10 May 2007
09:27 GMT

Intelligent Advertising Displays Know When You're Watching Them!

You probably know how advertising works on TV and on the Internet. Google and other companies pay the owner of the site according to the number of people that accessed that webpage where the ads are, or in television, according to how many people were watching a specific program, during which the commercial breaks ...

8 May 2007
04:47 GMT

KNemo Review

In the first couple of days after the switch to Linux, I kept searching for native applications that were going to substitute the ones I was using in Windows. This was taking place about four years ago, but still, it wasn't long until for each program I was using in Windows, I found its alternative for Linux, wi...

27 April 2007
05:14 GMT




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