Tag Archives : hardware

When it comes to office utilities, the most common presumption is that, efficient and cost effectiveness takes precedence over beauty and looks of the product. However, one of the biggest names in accessories, hardware and home improvement products, Black & Decker is all set to take the office utilities to a new height, with the introduction of [...]

After three years of research by about 5000 specialists and invest 1.5 billion dollars in development, IBM introduced to the world market, on Thursday, a line of mainframes, the zEnterprise 196, considered by the company as the world’s fastest. The equipment is capable of executing 50 billion instructions per second, thanks to the use of 96 [...]

Have you tried putting a USB connector, but missed the location of the dock and had to turn? A company called UltraTek created a USB connector that fits the “heads up” or “down” to avoid the ritual of twisting the cable each time you try to embed it on your computer. The technology is very simple: instead of a rigid connector [...]

The Solid State Drives (SSDs) are storage units that use flash memory to record and read data, commonly found in notebooks. Compared to conventional hard drives that mix mechanical and magnetic technologies, SSDs are significantly faster, being intended for those who need access to performance data. In addition, SSDs have a much higher cost than conventional [...]

Those who need to use the Adobe Air platform know that it is not the most efficient use of processor and RAM. The client for Twitter called Twhril, is constantly being between 60 and 80 MB of memory each (at least was never 670). As part of the responsibility oj it can be placed on the application programmer, the other part is certainly with the Air [...]

Corsair, specialized company in high-performance computer memory, cannot brag of having the first pendrive of 128 GB to arrive to the market (the merit is from Kingston, in June), but until the moment nobody ribbon of Corsair the title of the fastest pendrive of 128 GB, conquered by the model Flash Voyager GT 128 GB. According to the company, the new [...]

The Robert Half Technology consultancy interviewed more than 1.400 technology directors, and asked: “Which was the strangest or unusual request that you or a member of your support group already receive?” Some answers below: * “Why my wireless mouse is not connected to the computer?” * “My laptop was run over by a truck. [...]

The 3 in 1 Mouse Pad may not be much for those who spend all their time on the net or are engrossed in blogging about stuff all the time, but it sure as hell makes sense for those who need nothing more than the numbers to carry on with their business; in other words, here is a great utility gadget for all the number nerds. The 3 in 1 Mouse Pad has a [...]

For those ignorant about this Google initiative, here’s some background info. Started in 2004 as Google Print, the main aim of Google Books is to collect in one place as many out-of-print and rare publications as possible. The books are scanned and an optical character recognition system digitizes the text. Why is it suddenly under spotlight? Google [...]