Monthly Archives: March 2008
Fujitsu – ScanSnap S300
Technology is now advanced enough to have shrunk the traditional large-footprint scanner down to something that resembles the dimensions of a family-sized bar of Toblerone. Fujitsu has come up with something different with the ScanSnap S300, though, which is allegedly the world’s smallest colour duplex ADF sheetfed scanner, and while not nearly as portable as…
Capcom – Devil May Cry 4
Capcom’s premier franchise may still have the words ‘Resident Evil‘ stamped slap-bang through the centre of it, but Devil May Cry continues to find quite an audience too. Instalment four in the slashing action franchise finds a game that’s consciously aware of what its audience wants, and happily serves it up. Lots of action. Lots…
Sony to offer media streaming rival
The Philips WACS series of audio players and streamers has proven quite popular as a stylish and innovative way of sharing your digital music around the home. Far be it for Sony to be caught short in an established market, and in its new GIGA JUKE NAS-E35HD & NAS-SC55PKE hard disk drive hi-fi systems it…
Westbyte – Internet Download Accelerator 5
It’s a paradoxical sign of the times that Internet download acceleration tools first appeared in the dial-up days, back when broadband speeds were some way off for the average home user. How strange that now we do have high-speed Internet access as a commonplace norm, the need for a download acceleration utility hasn’t gone away…
Focus Multimedia – Science Genius: Solar System Explorer
Packed with a level of enthusiasm you hope for – and increasingly expect – from educational software, Science Genius: Solar System Explorer is designed to bring the discovery of outer space to an eight- to eleven-year-old audience (tying into Key Stage 2). Claiming to tie closely in with the science that’s taught in schools, the…
Social networks could hold the key to media content downloads
On the 3rd of March some rather interesting statistics were revealed through the results of the 2008 Digital Entertainment Survey, an independent online audit of digital entertainment activity in the UK. Amongst the highlights were reports that Blu-ray would be the highest growth digital entertainment activity in 2008, and that 7 out of 10 pirates…
Intel launches Atom for low-power devices
Intel has announced a new range of processors under the Atom and Centrino Atom brands that are use the Core 2 instruction set. The cores will be fabricated on a 45nm process and have a tiny area of 25 square millimetres. A typical laptop processor has a TDP (Thermal Design Power) of 35 watts. By…
Double the power with the GeForce 9800GX2
Albatron had a having-your-cake-and-eating-moment at CeBIT with its GeForce 9800GX2. Although Nvidia won’t release this product until later in March, Albatron had a 9800GX2 on show and e-mailed photos to every IT journo on the planet. In essence the 9800GX2 is a pair of GeForce 8800 GTS cards bolted together piggyback-style so they are permanently…
Bookeen – Cybook Gen3
Ebook readers aren’t everybody’s cup of tea, but if you are drawn to this class of device then you can’t do better than the Cybook Gen3. It is a great little appliance that gets a lot of things right, and trades on simplicity rather than a whole bundle of features. The Cybook Gen3 is not…
Compro – VideoMate E700
The Compro VideoMate E700 TV tuner is the sort of hardware that ought to catch the eye of any discerning technophile. For starters it has dual DVB-T digital tuners, which put it ahead of lesser cards that typically have one analogue tuner and one digital tuner. Then there’s the PCI Express x1 interface which means…