XFX GEFORCE 9600 GT Launched
XFX has now Unleashed its jumbo the “premium product” XFX GEFORCE 9600 GT.A strong competitor to NVIDIA’s PNY GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB.The NVIDIA’s graphics card has a clock speed of 650MHz on the core, 1625 MHz on the shader and 1940MHz on the memory. The card uses 512MB of GDDR3 memory with a 256-bit memory interface.
On the contrary the XFX GEFORCE 9600 GT has a core speed of 650 MHz with two overclocked versions the ‘Extreme’ and ‘XXX’ editions having a thrilling 680 MHz and 700 MHz, also with it is a shader clock of 1625MHz and a memory clock of 1.8GHz The card is compatible with PCI-E 2.0 and uses 512MB of DDR3 RAM. 
This fresh product brings with it next-generation GeForce graphics including PureVideo HD technology, which allows the PC to suport HD DVD and Blu-ray video playback with eyecatching clarity and resoloution. This card is also pioneers the 9600 GT series to offer up to 90 percent higher performance compared to other GeForce card in its class.
It takes parallely with it the Microsoft DirectX 10 support, NVIDIA’s Quantum Effects technology, Lumenex engine as well as Unified Architecture ensuring optimium game performance.The 9600 GT XXX edition is fully HDMI certified and includes a HDMI component kit and Company of Heroes DVD as a bonus game bundle.
The 9600 graphics card is stocked under the Rashi Peripherals all over India at a market price of Rs. 13990 with a 3 year warranty.
Acer Reveals Aspire L5100 and Aspire L3600
Acer has now introduced new ultra-small form factor desktops for home users in the Indian market as Acer Aspire L3600 and Acer Aspire L5100. The new Acer Aspire L5100 and Acer Aspire L3600 come with a massive dose of high processing power.As compare to conventional tower desktop these two desktops have the new sleek look, and steel black ultra small form factors are that they are 1/10th the size & 1/4th the Weight of conventional desktops.
It comes with rich multimedia features, a 19” TFT Display and a new designed keyboard with real multimedia geared for impressive looks and better performance.For high computing power The Acer Aspire L3600 is powered by Intel® Pentium™ Dual-Core Processor E2140 (1.6 GHz) and Acer Aspire L5100 is powered by AMD Athlon64 X2 4000+ (2.1 GHz) processor.
The systems are equipped with:-
- A system memory of 1 GB DDR2 RAM.
- A 160 GB SATA Hard Disk Drive @ 7200 RPM.
- A 16x DVD-R/W Super-Multi Drive.
- Linux installed.
The desktops both support:-
- Multimedia Card (MMC).
- Secure Digital (SD).
- xD-Picture Card (xD).
- Memory Stick PRO (MS PRO).
- Memory Stick (MS).
They are available at all of Acer’s registered retail and channel outlets. Including an optical mouse and USB 2.0 speakers, the Aspire L3600 costs for Rs 26,999, and the Aspire L5100 at Rs 24,999.
NewsCorp. Out In The Market With Music
News Corp.the owner of the one of the famous social networking site MySpace.com has dicussed its idea of launching online music with four reputed music labels , music company executives familiar with the talks say.The media conglomerate thinks for a one-stop music service that has with it ways of offering content in various ways, including via free digital streams, as MP3 downloads and through a subscription plan.
News Corp. decided in launching the service as a joint venture which includes one of the major recording companies, which would receive an equity stake in the new company, the executive said.The music company executives spoke on condition of anonymity, saying they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.News Corp. and MySpace declined to comment.
Representatives for the recording companies – Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Warner Music Group Corp. and EMI Group PLC – declined to comment.MySpace has been a popular music hub for years, prompting established acts and unknown bands alike to create profile p
ages that often let visitors stream a few songs. Bands on MySpace also can sell downloads of original music directly through their profile pages.
The company is looking out on ways to maintain its hand over its rival social network Facebook, which has been gaining in popularity.With sales of CDs in a protracted decline, recording companies have licensed their content for sale as unprotected MP3s and for free streaming on ad-supported sites such as imeem.com and Last.fm.News Corp. faces a potential deal hurdle with Universal, the largest of the recording companies.
Universal sued MySpace in 2006, claiming the portal illegally encourages its users to share music and music videos on the site without permission. That lawsuit is still pending.Sony BMG is a joint venture of Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann AG.
Blast Of HeartPumping Games This Week
Well, here is Ray of hope with a flurry of games inline to be released this week,hitting the stores and filling up the shelves these games could prove worthy of a definite Mention.This arry of exciting games could prove to be the thirst quencher,for those who have been dissapointed by the recent games launched.
- The Club (PC, PS3, XBox360) :It came out and took to fame on the Sega platform with its conventional eight character plays,now its out to rock the bigger platforms.
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Dynasty Warriors 6 (PS3, 360) :This game needs no introduction thrilling the gaming realm forover a decade now the Dynasty warrior series is on a rollwith its 6th part to be out this week.
- FIFA Street 3 (360, PS3, DS)
- History Channel: Battle for the Pacific (PS3)
- Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors
- (Wii) .MX vs. ATV Untamed (Wii)
- Pimp my Ride (Wii)
- Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney (DS)
- CABAL Online (PC)
Need for Speed ProStreet (PSP) : A game of its sort,already out on the bigger platforms,it has proved to beworth the acclaimation it gets and the popularity it draws form its ancestors.The PSP version would be no less in heat and fever rather it would handover the power completely onto the hands of the player.
These games will certainly provide some excitement to the gaming fraternity and provide a sense gratification to their gaming desert phase.
For Book lovers Transcend’s T-Sonic 820
For those seeking reasonably good sound quality at a reasonable price,Market have brands like Transcend, and products like the one you are just about to review.For continuing ‘T-Sonic’ series in the market, Transcend return to release their new digital media player, T-Sonic 820. Its Physical appearance is similar with some type product from Creative, Apple and also Samsung.For whom that loves to read, this music player is equipped by e-book feature in text format (. txt). Radio FM is also available as an alternative choice.
T-Sonic 820 is very portable and attractive player is Transcend’s T.Sonic 820. This 2GB device is miniature in stature, but makes up for its small size with a host of features like voice recording, FM recording, and e-book reading via text files. But, that’s just the tip of the iceberg for this multi-functional device.It is bundled with a standard set of earphones, USB extension cable, line-in cable, neck strap, a driver CD and an instruction manual.
Features and specifications
Here’s a list of features and technical specifications on the T.Sonic 820 from Transcend’s website:
Features:
- 1.5-inch Color OLED Display perfect for playing Videos & viewing Photos.
- Plays Music (MP3, WMA, WAV), Videos (.mtv), and Photos (.jpg, .bmp).
- Supports MP3, WMA, WAV, and WMA-DRM10 (subscription music) formats.
- FM Stereo with 9 preset stations.
- Advanced Digital Voice Recorder.
- Ability to read E-books (.txt).
– Karaoke-type lyrics display.
- Direct Line-In recording using an External Microphone, or Line-In connection for a CD Player.
- VAD (Voice Activation Detection), Very High quality Gapless Audio Recording.
- Supports 12 user languages including song/artist name display.
Specifications:
Size: 82mm x 40.5mm x 12mm
Weight: 45g (with rechargeable Li-ion battery)
Music Formats: MP3, WMA, WMA-DRM10 (subscription music)
Recording Format: WAV
2 Year Warranty
Package Contents:
Earphones
Line-in Cable
Neck Strap
USB Extension Cable
Driver CD
Warranty Card
Quick Instruction Guide
The layout of the T.sonic 820 is such that it feels like a mini mobile phone. When held in the palm of your hand, all its keys are within the reach of your thumb for easy navigation. The buttons are well spaced and it becomes very easy to use.
Priced at about Rs 2,795 for 2GB and Rs 3,495 for the 4GB model, this player is very resonable.Finally what i have realized is that the T.sonic 820 is fundamentally a brilliant music player, and little else. If you are searching for simple, nice-looking MP3 player and don’t wish to go to the hassle of getting another set of earphones, this one is ideal.
Microsoft Comes With A Big Catch On Piracy
Microsoft has been working over it for almost a decade now,and for a relief it has recently got considerable achievements in suppressing its major effects and getting hold of root causes.Microsoft launched out 21 programs over a decade ,tracing out scores of countries using fake software and pirated versions of the Windows operating system.This trend caught pace,when US Customs officers caught a shipping container in Los Angeles containing a whooping $100 million in fake software, including 31,000 copies of the Windows operating system.
Since then,Microsoft hasn,t slowed down and has being forcing the investigation through 22 countries. Microsoft estimates the retail value of the software the operation generated at $900 million. James Spertus, a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles who later led anti-piracy efforts for the Motion Picture Association of America said it was an exceptional achievement and believed that “There are only going to be a few cases like this in a decade.”
Now Microsoft is eager to talk about the experience because taking down that operation – responsible for about 90 percent of the fake software the company found between 1999 and 2004, more than 470,000 disks – didn’t actually stop piracy. It just left room for more counterfeiters to rise.
Microsoft hopes would-be pirates will think twice if they know how far it will go to protect the computer code worth billions in revenue each quarter.
The pirates mimicked complex holograms stamped directly onto disks and packaging materials embedded with the kind of tiny safety threads used in making money. In some cases, it took experts with microscopes to notice that disks printed with codes used by legitimate software factories lacked certain minuscule, unique smudges.
“The copies were so good, we went to tremendous forensic and scientific lengths to establish that the counterfeits were, in fact, counterfeits,” said David Finn, an associate general counsel at Microsoft.
Talking about all this Microsoft continues to thwart the piracy possibilities and its efiicient counter measures to forfeit Piracy.
India Brings Up Its Own “Orkut”- Fropper.com
There’s not even a single youth studying in college,excited adult community,who at present don’t know what Orkut is, to add more to its popularity info. , India has a considerable 16.53% of Orkut users, compared to 55.32% of its native Brazil users, as on January 2008.
Orkut has been the undisputed champion pertaining to the field of Social Networking. Launched in 2004 it got pedestaled to great popularity,thanks to the services it offers.On August 2007, the service claimed 67 million users.
Now what India comes up with is, its own social networking site “fropper.com”. Hope it excites users with something new, because as with the present networking services orkut already has its dedicated users from India. Fropper.com is counting on Google’s Adsense platform to reward its ezbloggers with the launch of ezMoney. It has Google’s automated AdSense which places proper ads on ezblog pages, once the blogs are posted and the revenue generated is shared with ezBloggers, says, Navin Mittal, Business Head, Fropper.com.
To reap of the benefits, bloggers need to create a Google AdSense account by proviiding their email address in the ‘Register with Google AdSense’ text box and link it to their ezBlog – or link their existing Google AdSense account with ezMoney.Posting user-generated and personalized content on the web and making them available to the world is prompting more and more people to log on to the net and take up blogging. Getting rewards and appreciation for the same will be an added advantage.
Samsung SGH-G800 Mobile Phone Review
After Nokia launched its N95 (8GB), Sony Ericsson its K850i and LG its Viewty, it inevitably wouldn’t be long before Samsung joined the 5-megapixel camera phone battle. You’ve probably seen the advert for it, showing a man happily taking pictures of heart-shaped objects. Is this photo-centric handset a camera phone love-fest? We took it out for a spin to see if it lived up to the hype.
For a company that’s renowned for making slim phones such as the U700, the G800 is far from ultra thin. It’s about the same size as the Nokia N95 and weighs a not-so-pocket-friendly 129g. Looking past its chunkiness, this is an attractive handset with a glossy finish similar to the LG Shine and a reassuring solid casing made up of metal and plastic.
What’s obvious about the G800 is that it’s heavily influenced by camera design. On the back, there’s a simple cover that protects the lens and xenon flash. Once the camera is on, you hold the G800 horizontally–as you would a standalone digital camera–and press the easy-to-use shutter button to take pictures and volume rocker to zoom in and out.
On the phone side of things, Samsung has fortunately avoided putting in any touch-sensitive buttons–the keypad, navigation keys and soft keys are all mechanical. We’re also glad to see that all the keys are large and well laid-out, although some may find the keypad a little tough to press sometimes, depending on what you’re used to.
Features
In terms of features, the Samsung G800 really takes Samsung’s camera phone portfolio to a new level. Combining a 5-megapixel sensor, Xenon flash, autofocus, LED focus-assist light, 3x optical (inner) zoom, image stabilization (digital) and red-eye reduction, it’s impressively close on paper to a standalone digital camera.
It’s not all about the camera, though. There’s a comprehensive music player that supports several files including, MP3, AAC and WMA files, and an FM radio. The handset also includes a Web browser and HSDPA (3.5G), so you can browse the Web at up to speeds of 7.2Mbps (depending on the network). The G800 also supports java games and applications such as Google Maps.
5-In-1 Digital Photo Frame Review
Digital picture frames have really taken off this year, almost as much as we are tired of ipod docks, but regardless this one is a bit different than the rest.
Mustek’s Photostation PF-D420 is a smaller sized digital picture frame with a 2.4? LCD TFT display that makes it more suited for a bedside table than a coffee table.This may not be as well known a brand as philips or kodak but they look to know what they are doing in the digital frame department with excellent picture quality.
The PF-D240 can playback JPEG photos and it also has an MP3 player, an FM radio, a clock with alarm clock functions, a thermometer and a built-in speaker.
No, but it’s definitely a practical gadget.
Sony Ericsson K850i Review
The Sony Ericsson K850i is a quad band GSM unlocked phone with US3G.Sony Ericsson has always managed to neatly combine digital photographyand/or music players with its mobile handsets.The K850i Cyber-shot™ phone is a true digital still camera – down to the very last of its 5 megapixels.
Some specifications of Sony Ericsson K850i are:-
Cyber-shot
Sony Ericsson’s megapixel digital camera gives you crisp high resolution every time and added features more common to standalone cameras.
PictBridge – print straight from your phone
Skip the computer and photo editing software. Just connect your phone to a printer, choose an image and print.
3G
Quick and easy access to broadband Internet. Say hello to video calls, audio and video streaming, Internet surfing, multimedia messaging and email on the go.
Unique media experience
Your media and everything you need to enjoy it in one place. Browse easily from music to photo album, to video. Watch slideshows while you listen to your favourite music and enjoy it all.
Video call
During a video call, you see a live video stream of the person you’re talking to – and they can see you.
More for your phone
Yoy can get exciting stuff for your phone at Sony Ericsson Fun & Downloads – the place to download games, ringtones, themes and much more.
The K850i strikes us as lightly updated K800i that looks more modernand clean. It’s still got the K series basic candy bar design, and thephone’s size hasn’t changed significantly. The back hump from old.Cybershot phones is thankfully a thing of the past, and the K850i has a flat back with a piano black finish that looks simply lovely and camera-like though it attracts fingerprints like the plague. The K850i inherits the K810i’s little number keys, but these are square rather than round and
a bit rubbery for better dialing traction.
The K850i incorporates a partly touchscreen-like display. Three nodes at the bottom of the 2.2 inch display are the three points that are touch-sensitive. The keypad is a bit odd with squarish protruding keys.
As for navigation, the blue areas around 2 and 5 are slightly raised to serve as navigation points, and the center touch-sensitive area at the bottom is the Select key. There also two pairs of dedicated keys on either side, above the keypad, for taking calls, shortcuts, a cancel key, and ending calls.One one side, at the top, are the volume/zoom keys.
Below is a switch for the camera for Still, Video and Gallery. Alongside that is a dedicated camera key that has a power key only for the camera.At the rear is the 5 megapixel camera with a Xenon flash.On most phones, the battery lives under a door on the back.
The back comprises the camera on the K850i, and is not removable. Instead, the battery loads via a door on the bottom edge, similar to slim point-and-shoot cameras .The SIM and memory cards also load here,and you need not remove the battery to swap a memory card. Also on the bottom edge, beside the battery door you’ll find the Sony Ericsson Fast Port connector for the charger and headphones.