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Mini DisplayPort Standard Now Established by VESA

The Mini DisplayPort was originally invented by Apple and was meant for its new series of portable PCs. It is much smaller than a Digital video interface (DVI) and VGA connectors but still provides a full-function display for ultrathin notebooks and netbooks. Earlier this year, Apple gave VESA its approval for the in...

10 November 2009
09:24 GMT

Chrome Inspired Speed Trend to Mozilla, IE, Opera, Safari

Recently announced by Sony as the standard web browser on its future selling PCs, Chrome has come a long way since its debut last year – such a long way, that it’s already setting the bar for speed and function, according to a person at Google. Competing web browsers, such as Safari, are faster today beca...

7 September 2009
06:13 GMT

W3C Issues New Draft for XMLHttpRequest Specifications

The W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Web Applications Working Group has published updates to the Working Draft in XMLHttpRequest and XMLHttpRequest Level 2. These specifications govern the way interactive web applications are handled by developers and offer the basic API documentation for programmers wanting to spice ...

26 August 2009
05:38 GMT

Female Body-Hatred Crisis, or What Happens When Perfection Becomes Norm

Women are going through what has already been labeled the most severe and potentially damaging crisis in the history of mankind. With images of perfection plastered all around them, they have come to realize that nothing short of perfection is expected from them as well, which, in turn, has led to them developing a f...

6 August 2009
13:21 GMT

HTC Moves to 3.5mm Headphone Jack

The mobile phone world seems to be moving slowly towards the adoption of the same standards for all the handsets available on the market, as well as for those that will soon come to the shelves. We already learned a while ago that Sony Ericsson was planning on adopting the microSD memory card slot with its future han...

9 July 2009
06:38 GMT

Download Free Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Standard

Microsoft is making consistent efforts to permit customers to test-drive its products, in order to catalyze a boost in adoption. An illustrative example in this context is the trial-version of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Standard. Labeled as for “evaluation and testing purposes,” the bits are o...

12 November 2008
05:46 GMT

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 Has RTM'ed

Windows Essential Business Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. On September 15, Eric Kidd – General Manager EBS, announced that the English version of Windows Essential Business Server 2008 went gold, with the promise that additional languages would follow soon. The Redmond giant is now ready to off...

16 September 2008
06:53 GMT

Companies Handling Credit Card Data Get New Security Policies

The Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) Security Standards Council announced that a revised version of the Data Security Standard (DSS) would be finished by September 8. The new 1.2 version will be presented at the upcoming meetings in Orlando (for North America) and Brussels (for Europe). A possible compliance deadl...

30 August 2008
06:25 GMT

Windows Small Business Server 2008 Has RTM'ed

Windows Small Business Server 2008 has been released to manufacturing. This in the context in which Microsoft was dropping the first public preview of the Windows Server 2008-based products in Release Candidate 0 stage at the end of May 2008. With the code for both the Standard and Premium SKUs of Windows Small Busin...

22 August 2008
05:34 GMT

Adobe's Standardization Plans for RIA Development Platform Get Crushed

The standardized web development is at a crossroad as the ECMAScript 4.0 draft has been scrapped in favor of the new ECMAScript 3.1 entitled "Harmony". ECMAScript is the standard based on which popular scripting languages like JavaScript, JScript, ActionScript were implemented and ECMAScript 4.0 draft was the standar...

16 August 2008
04:44 GMT

LED Lighting Standards Tuned for Energy Conservation

Most of the modern light sources today are still represented by incandescent light bulbs, which haven't evolved a great deal ever since they were first invented. Basically, typical incandescent light bulbs have a less than 10 percent efficiency, the remaining 90 percent of energy being dissipated in the surround...

1 July 2008
09:41 GMT

Bluetooth Joins Wi-Fi for Enhanced Data Transfer Rates

Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG), the Bluetooth format backers group will move the standard to IEEE 802.11 Wi-Fi specifications set for the next generation of devices. The next version of Bluetooth will be based on a hybrid technology, comprised of Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, transmitting over the same 2.4 GHz radio ...

11 February 2008
03:35 GMT

PCI Express Upgrade on Its Way

The PCI Special Interest Group is working on extending the current PCI 2.0 specifications. There are multiple features scheduled for implementation and the results should be available by June next year. These new features are alleged to enhance system performance as well as accelerators and storage devices that are h...

8 December 2007
04:10 GMT

WiMAX Gains Some Speed

The WiMAX mobile communication technology is finally ready to go from the lab to the field testing phase and this fact makes all major telecommunication companies face a few important decisions that they should undertake concerning their 4G strategies.According to the news site digitimes, the research firm ABI Resear...

8 October 2007
11:29 GMT

Wireless USB 1.1 Under Development

The Universal Serial Bus is probably the most popular and widely used interconnect protocol in use today that can link a high number of peripherals to a host computer system and it comes in several versions, like the legacy iterations 1.0 and 1.1, the modern 2.0 iteration and the upcoming version 3.0. On the physical...

1 October 2007
09:43 GMT

Some USB 3.0 Technical Specifications Detailed

While Intel and a number of other important computer hardware manufacturing companies announced at the Intel Developer Forum that a new Universal Serial Bus is in the making, just do not throw away all your USB 2.0 compliant hardware components, as the new iteration of the popular connectivity standard is still years...

26 September 2007
05:24 GMT

Tiny Computers to Get a New Standard

Embedded systems and computers that come in small form factors are not something new nowadays as the industry always has one or more tasks better suited to a smaller, quieter and less energy intensive hardware platform. Lately, more and more such miniaturized computer systems largely made of x86 compatible hardware p...

20 September 2007
06:25 GMT

Get Ready For USB 3.0, Says Intel

It looks like the days of glory for USB 2.0 and FireWire B are coming to an end as Intel Corporation and a number of other major computer hardware manufacturing companies are pushing ahead a new standard for connecting devices to a host computer system, the USB 3.0. This new interconnect standard should offer a huge ...

19 September 2007
10:45 GMT

UPnP Becomes an ISO Standard

The Universal Plug and Play standard together with more than 76 of its security fixes just received international recognition as a worldwide standard last week, after years of use. The UpnP is a direct descendant of the older PnP, Plug and Play, standard developed by Microsoft in the good old times of Windows 95.Usua...

17 September 2007
05:37 GMT

Major Server Builders Opt For a Common Virtualization Standard

Among server builders and data center users, there is a concept that makes a lot of waves these days at which may cut energy and hardware costs dramatically, while offering a high level of performance and ease of deployment and use. This 'wonder' concept is virtualization and while it can bring a lot of goo...

10 September 2007
03:53 GMT

JEDEC Will Support SSDs

JEDEC is an industry association which is specialized in setting the manufacturing standards and a number of technical specifications for some of the most computer hardware parts like the dynamic random access memory, DRAM for short. As the solid state drives are becoming increasingly popular and their price tags dro...

31 August 2007
10:50 GMT

VESA OKs AMD and Samsung

The Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA for short) just completed the second DisplayPort standard test. VESA is the worldwide organism that develops and implements the technical specifications of open display interfaces and several other standards used by the computing industry. After the successful impleme...

14 August 2007
08:52 GMT

Incoming PCI-Express 3.0 Standard

The second PCI-Express standard is still far away from being used on large scale, on both laptop and desktop computer systems and already a new iteration of the internal computer communication protocol is already on the move. The PCI-SIG (the shorthand for PCI Special Interest Group) which controls the technical spec...

9 August 2007
08:52 GMT

AMD's Graphics Products Adopt The DisplayPort 1.1

DisplayPort 1.1 is the new industry standard for large displays and AMD's graphics division, formerly known as the independent company ATI, announced the successful testing of a next generation graphics processor featuring a native DisplayPort 1.1 transmitter that connected with no problems to a Genesis Microchi...

2 August 2007
05:32 GMT

The IEEE Works Toward a Faster Ethernet

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, or IEEE as it is commonly known among computer hardware and software specialists, is a group centered mainly on the standardization and formalization of the different approaches to solve a particular problem in the IT world. Most protocols used by the computer in...

24 July 2007
11:04 GMT

A PCI Express Guide

For about 10 years, the main interface for PC compatible computers has been the old PCI standard interface. It was designed and produced to replace the even older ISA standard that was reaching its limits. Now we see the PCI cards reaching and hitting the limits of this interface, while a new standard is on its way o...

16 July 2007
06:38 GMT

Live CD/DVD Versions for Vector Linux 5.8 Have Been Released

Almost a week and half after the release of the final version for VectorLinux 5.8 SOHO, the VectorLinux team announces the recent release of the VectorLinux 5.8 GOLD LIVE CD and the first SOHO-5.8 alpha Live CD and DVD. According to them, this would be the final release for the 5.8 standard GOLD live. Among the bug-...

28 May 2007
10:18 GMT

Setting Technological Trends in China

When it comes to computer technology and building components, China is one home of the biggest manufacturing plants in the world. If you look for cheap labor, look no further than the Chinese homeland. Several years ago, there wouldn't have been such a big appeal for different manufacturers and companies to take...

23 March 2007
06:48 GMT


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