Tag archive: Hanover

Nvidia used the first day of the CeBIT expo in Hanover, Germany to lift the curtain on the next generation of notebook GPUs, which will push portables another step further to their powerful desktop counterparts. Nvidia claims that all the chips can push frame rates up to 50 percent better than the chips they replace, while consuming the same amount of power. The GTX 280M and 260M will top the line-up with features aimed at the enthusiast… Read More

Are you one of the best, one of the very best, gamers? If so, and you’re from Europe, you really shouldn’t be reading this. You should be in Hanover, where the Samsung Euro Championships,part of the World Cyber Games, got underway yesterday at the CeBIT exposition. With 250 games and $100,000 inprize money, it’s proof that there’s serious money in gaming.   Contestants can compete on PC games – Warcraft 3: The… Read More

Announced last spring at CEBit in Hanover, Germany, Samsung is now shipping it's diminutive WEP500 Bluetooth headset. About the size of a U.S. quarter coin, the WEP500 is one of the smallest headsets on the market today, offering a distinctive circular design. The unit comes in at just 7.7mm thick, and comes with a jewel-case charger/cradle for both carrying the headset and charging it when not in use. The WEP500 headset uses… Read More

The new phone, which also has an MP3 player and business card reader, would go on sale as early as the first half, though a price had yet to be set, Samsung said in a statement. Samsung aims to sell 100 million mobile phones this year, up 16 percent from 86 million sold last year. The SCH-V770 phone will make its international debut at CeBIT, the world's biggest tech and telecoms trade show, in Hanover, Germany on Thursday. Shares… Read More

From LG's press release: LGE has successfully developed a PDP that boasts the world's highest brightness at 1500cd/m2 (1.5-2 times the industry's average) and contrast ratio of 5000:1, thus demonstrating again its exclusive technological superiority in the PDP industry. To implement the world's highest brightness and contrast ratio, LGE formed a 20-member research team including five doctoral holders to… Read More

A cell phone capable of using wherever the user is, the world phone made its first appearance at the CeBIT 2004 Conference in Hanover, Germany in March. The state-of-the-art phone is compatible for both CDMA 2000 1X and the EU's GSM mode. “Given the current demand for globally accessible phone, like ours, the user will increase by millions every year. After testing waters by introducing CDMA 20001X, GSM and new GPRS models this… Read More

The teenager, whose name was not released, was arrested Friday in the northern village of Waffensen, where he lives with his family. In a search of the suspect's home, German investigators confiscated his customized computer, which contained the worm's source code. “As a result of the student's detailed testimony about the viruses he spread, he has been identified clearly as the author,” the state criminal… Read More

The algorithm uses GIB (Geodesic Illumination Basis) descriptors as registered data, which is calculated from 3D facial data, enabling optimal description of various pose and illumination changes.This results in superior identification accuracy essential to real world application of facial recognition technology. The features of this technology, in comparison to NEC conventional models, are as follows: (1) NEC has… Read More

Phoenix Technologies Ltd. has released an expanded version of Phoenix FirstWare Assistant, now with support for email. The Phoenix cME certified application, designed for mobile professionals, now allows users of any Windows-based notebooks, tablets and ultra-portable PCs instant “read-only” access to their email from Microsoft Outlook without the need to launch the primary operating system. The product, available this… Read More

Infoworld is reporting on a new phone that Siemens has been working on. The phone is in the shape of a pen that allows you to write letters and numbers on any surface and enter the data directly. The GSM-based PenPhone prototype features integrated handwriting recognition technology and will be unveiled at the Cebit trade show in Hanover, Germany next month. Read the whole article at InfoWorld.

Sony is showing its Network Media Receiver at the CeBIT technology fair in Hanover and Philips is exhibiting its Wireless Digital Multimedia Receiver. Both products are designed to transport PC-based digital music and video to a living-room friendly device. Sony's living room box is a small grey device which connects to a television and, if required, a stereo amplifier. The PC which stores the music and video or streams it from the… Read More