OneSimCard Launches GPRS International SIM Card

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OneSimCard has launched a new international sim card that features GPRS service. Using the sim card, GPRS data service will be available to users without having to subscribe to additional data plans.

OneSimCard says that usage of its products has increased in the Middle East and Asia thanks to extended coverage in Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan in addition to the traditional European destinations. Read more

Posted on Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:00:00 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

BFG GTX 280 OCX 1GB Video Card Review

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Hardware Canucks published a review of the BFG GTX 280 OCX 1GB Video Card.
Quote from the review: "Through the last few years, BFG has always been at the forefront of the pre-overclocked craze and with their OCX cards, they take things to the next level. Read more

Posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI All in Wonder HD Card returns

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AMD is slated to release the ATI All In Wonder HD video card reports Hothardware.
Quote: "When ATI was acquired by AMD a few years ago, one product that seemed to fall off of the new corporate radar was ATI's All-In-Wonder line of Graphics/TV-Tuner hybrid cards. This was an area of the market where ATI had exclusivity, yet we haven't seen a new All-In-Wonder offering since May 2006. Read more

Posted on Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:01:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Foxconn NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT G96 Video Card Review

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Benchmark Reviews published a review of the Foxconn GeForce 9500 GT G96 Video Card.
Quote from the review: "Not everyone can afford the bleeding edge of graphics hardware, and not everyone needs it. NVIDIA has already made headlines with their high-end GeForce GTX 280 video card, which offers high performance at a premium price. Most enthusiasts have seen so much coverage for the high-level graphic products that it might feel like nothing exists for the lower consumer segment. Read more

Posted on Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Cardboard Table is Perfect for Mobile Use

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When I was a kid, my cousins and I played our fair share of Dungeons & Dragons. We tended to find isolated places to play because we didn't want mom looking on as we hacked our way through ogres and other such nonsensical creatures. Then there was the real reason -- we didn't want any of the cute girls in the neighborhood to know we actually played the game.

The problem was my cousin was very attached to his Dungeons & Dragons rulebook and was known to scream like a little girl if we placed it on the ground. What we needed was something like The Cutting Table No. 1 from Birkiland. The table is made from corrugated cardboard and all the various parts store inside the tabletop when not in use. Read more

Posted on Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:01:32 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Kingston Adds Super High Capacity 32 GB SDHC Memory Card

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It wasn't so long ago the 2 GB SD card was considered to be really large. Then we moved to 4 GB, then 8 GB, and finally 16 GB capacities. With many of today's digital HD camcorders being able to record to SDHC cards, even 16 GB wasn't enough capacity for some users.

To meet the demand for even more capacity Kingston Technology has announced a new 32 GB Elite Pro SDHC memory card. Kingston says that the new 32 GB card can capture more than 6000 full resolution 10 megapixel images or over eight hours of HD video at 6 Mbps. The card is rated as a speed class 4, guaranteeing 4 MB per second minimum data transfer rate. All that storage capacity doesn't come cheap though, the suggested retail price for the 32 GB memory card is $308. Read more

Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 10:56:07 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

ASUS EAH4870X2 TOP Video Cards announced

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Asus announces new ATI HD 4870 X2 based graphics cards with the ASUS EAH4870X2/HTDI/2G and the ASUS EAH4870X2 TOP.
The ASUS EAH4870X2 TOP/HTDI/2G and EAH4870X2/HTDI/2G are slated to be upgraded soon with a specially designed fansink for efficient heat dissipation.
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Posted on Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:56:39 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ATI FirePro V5700 and ATI FirePro V3700 Cards announced

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AMD announced two new professional graphics accelerators with the ATI FirePro V5700 and ATI FirePro V3700. As a part of that announcement, AMD also introduced a new brand for the company’s professional graphics accelerators, ATI FirePro, reflecting AMD’s continuing and evolving commitment to the professional graphics market.

The ATI FirePro V5700 graphics accelerator delivers the perfect balance of price and application performance for CAD and DCC professionals.
With the new card, users will experience increased performance for shader-intensive applications, up to two times more than the previous generation. ATI FirePro V5700 also features 512MB of frame buffer memory, dual link DVI and DisplayPort connections, and its true 30-bit display engine produces more than one billion colors at any given time−empowering designers to see more of their data. Unified Video Decoder 2.0 provides full Blu-ray feature support including dual-stream and picture in a picture (PIP) capabilities, and handles decoding of various formats in the graphics processing unit (GPU), which helps free up the CPU to handle other tasks. Read more

Posted on Thu, 7 Aug 2008 00:40:48 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

i-Smartphone Circuit Card promises to unlock iPhone 3G

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Hong Kong based Gadget shop Brando just informed us that they now sell a small circuit card that supposedly unlocks the iPhone 3G and many other phones on the SIM card level.
The i-Smartphone 2008 sells for only $20.50. The thin-film card is put together with the SIM card you want to use the iPhone 3G on in the slot.
This sounds way too simple and low-cost that it is hard to believe that this would really unlock the iPhone 3G. Read more

Posted on Tue, 5 Aug 2008 05:41:51 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

JPR Reports Q2 2008 Graphics Card Market

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According to Jon Peddie Research, the overall GPU market dropped 0.5% from Q1 2008. While a drop may sound like a bad thing JPR says that Q2 is generally down for the computer industry with summer vacations and back to school.

The 0.5% drop from Q1 2008 to Q2 2008 is the smallest drop since 2001. JPR says that shipments for the quarter were 94.4 million units -- an increase of 16% over the same quarter in 2007. Intel held the top spot for overall graphics market with 47.3% market share. NVIDIA has 31.4% of the market and AMD held 18.1% of the market. Read more

Posted on Mon, 4 Aug 2008 06:16:03 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

NVIDIA Launches New Graphics Cards

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Yesterday I mentioned that NVIDIA had launched new notebook GPUs. NVIDIA also officially announced three new desktop graphics cards -- The 9800 GTX+, 9800 GT, and 9500 GT. The cards cover several different price points with the 9500 GT coming in at under $100.

All three of the GPUs support PhysX processing and CUDA processing; the new cards will also support SLI and 3D stereoscopic technology. I saw NVIDIA's 3D drivers in action at CEs this year and it was fantastic. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:47:48 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

ASUS EN9500GT Top is world's first overclocked GeForce 9500 GT Card

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ASUS announces the world’s first overclocking version of the latest NVIDIA GeForce 9500GT GPU, NVIDIA announced yesterday. The ASUS EN9500GT TOP/DI/512M graphics card gives you a 103% performance boost for gaming.

In addition, almost all of the EN9500GT Series models will come with the exclusive Glaciator Fansink to keep GPU temperatures up to 13ºC cooler than reference designed boards. Read more

Posted on Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:55:08 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

BFG GTX 260 896MB Video Card Review

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Hardware Canucks published a review of the BFG GTX 260 896MB video card.

Quote from the review: "Both the GTX 260 and the GTX 280 were launched a little over a month ago and while the higher end 280 was available immediately at launch, the less expensive 260 was greeted with a paper launch. Since that time, Nvidia seemed to have been surprised by ATI's launch of the HD4800-series of cards which turned out to be extremely successful and performed above what many expected them to. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

ASUS unveils Xonar D1 7.1 PCI Audio Card

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Asus announced the Xonar D1 7.1 Audio card for PCI.

Following the success of the PCI express Xonar DX soundcard, ASUS offers now a PCI version with the same features.

The ASUS Xonar D1 PCI soundcard offers rich gaming audio effects and Dolby Home Theater features. This iteration of the Xonar provides fine-tuned audio components that reach a clear 116dB SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio); while the built-in DS3D GX revives support for DirectSound HW multi-channel gaming audio and the latest EAX (Environment Audio Extension) in PC games. Read more

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

XFX GeForce GTX260 XXX Edition Video Card Review

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Motherboards published a review of the XFX GeForce GTX260 XXX Edition Video Card.

Quote from the review: "The GTX260 from XFX is an interesting beast in that it is highly overclocked from the standard reference GTX260 that many companies are selling. In some cases the card comes close in performance to the GTX280 in CPU limited situations like COD4 but offering high performance in every other situation. Read more

Posted on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

New ASUS EN9800GTX+ TOP Video Card

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Asus has announced the ASUS EN9800GTX+ with 512MB video card that utilizes the latest generation of NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX+ GPUs.

The world’s first overclocking version of the 9800GTX+ GPU will be the Asus EN9800GTX+ TOP, which will also be released soon.

The Asus EN9800GTX+ series cards come with GamerOSD for real-time overclocking, benchmarking and video capturing during PC gaming, SmartDoctor for shader clock overclocking and intelligent hardware protection, and Splendid Video Intelligence Technology. Read more

Posted on Sat, 19 Jul 2008 04:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

SanDisk SD Cards Make Data Unalterable

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SanDisk has announced new SD WORM memory cards for uses where data needs to be retained in a format that is unalterable. The SD WORM (write once read many) digital memory card is intended for uses like police investigations, court testimony, electronic voting and other applications where data needs to be protected from alteration or deletion.

SanDisk says that data written to its SD WORM cards is immediately locked with no physical way to alter the data or delete individual files. The cards can be read in any standard SD card slot device. SanDisk also says that the data written to the disc has a 100-year archive life. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:18:59 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Kingston Adds 8GB microSDHC Card to Mobile Memory Line

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The demand for mobile memory cards is increasing with each new music player and smartphone that is released. Many of the hottest items on the market are now including microSD card slots for memory expansion. Kingston has added a new 8GB microSDHC card to its line.

Kingston says its card can store more than 1,500 digital songs, 4,000 images, and up to 8 hours of video. The price for the 8Gb microSDHC card from Kingston is $58. Kingston points out that not all of the microSD slot equipped devices on the market can read microSDHC cards. Read more

Posted on Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:02:10 CDT | by Shane McGlaun

Radiohead House of Cards Video uses Lasers instead of Cameras

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Radiohead produced a cool new video for their House of Cards song from the In Rainbows album using no video cameras.

Instead two technologies were used to capture 3D images: Geometric Informatics and Velodyne LIDAR. Geometric Informatics scanning systems produce structured light to capture 3D images at close proximity, while a Velodyne Lidar system that uses multiple lasers is used to capture large environments such as landscapes. In this video, 64 lasers rotating and shooting in a 360 degree radius 900 times per minute produced all the exterior scenes. Read more

Posted on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:57:22 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

Unofficial, but sexy NVIDIA Video Card Spokesmodel Katarina Van Derham

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The I4U Gadget Model of July is as promised a photo model spread for the NVIDIA video card fans. Meet the very sexy Katarina Van Derham and her EVGA e-Geforce 9800 GX2.

You might have seen Katarina Van Derham already as the face of several advertising campaigns such as Coors Light, Nike, AT&T, Bacardi, and RockStar Energy Drink.

See the Photos Now in our exclusive I4U Gadget Model Gallery.
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Posted on Tue, 8 Jul 2008 14:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr

HIS HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 Video Card Review

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3dGameMan published a video review of the HIS HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 Video Card.

Quote from the review: "The Radeon HD 4800 series video cards are currently available in three flavors; the 4850, 4870 and 4870 X2. The single GPU HIS HD 4870 512MB GDDR5 Video Card is based on the RV770 core which is built on the 55 nanometer manufacturing process and has 956 million transistors. The core speed on this product is 750MHz and the 512MB of GDDR5 256 bit memory is 3.6GHz DDR. It comes with 800 stream processing units for vertex, pixel and geometry data, 40 texture units and 16 raster operators. The pixel fill rate is 27 GPixels/sec and the memory bandwidth is 115.2GB/s. Read more

Posted on Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:00:00 CDT | by Luigi Lugmayr