Tag archive: specification

Nokia will be using CES 2012 to kickstart their US sales efforts, and it's becoming more likely they'll start with the launch of the Lumia 900. This is the long-rumored, range-topping Windows Phone from the Finnish company, also known as the Nokia Ace. Today, new information regarding the 900 has been given to PocketNow.com, which along with previous spec details from BGR.com, gives us an almost complete picture of the device.… Read More

Once upon a time, desktop PCs were dull, non-threatening beige boxes hidden away under desks. But thanks to Alienware, specifically its new newly updated Aurora R4 desktop computer, they bear closer resemblance to nightmarish mechanical beings come to enslave us all. Alienware says the Aurora is its most advanced desktop PC yet, and judging by the incredible specs, it's hard not to agree. As with all Dell machines, it's expected that… Read More

The HomePNA alliance, an industry trade group focused on developing standards for home networking over both phone line and coax cables, earlier this week announced they'd begun working on a new specification to support 320 Megabits per second of data transfer. The new 3.1 specification is intended to “provide the highest speed option for in-home distribution of new triple-play services such as IPTV”. The HomePNA 3.1… Read More

A group of well known companies today announced they formed a coalition to help accelerate the development of the wireless 802.11n standard as well as promote a technology specification for next generation WLAN products. This coalition, called the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, counts amongst its members Apple, Cisco, Intel, Sony and Toshiba.   The EWC’s technology specification is designed to enhance wireless performance, coverage… Read More

DVD+RW media and writers designed to this specification will able to rewrite a full 4.7 GB DVD+RW in less than eight minutes. The new 8X DVD+RW discs will be based on very “fast” phase-change materials, which can be rewritten at high speed. The laser of the drive must be able to deliver short high power write-pulses to achieve the right thermal balance between the erase and write steps. New DVD+RW writers and recorders that… Read More

Current versions of Palm OS support the Bluetooth 1.1 specification, which is the most common version supported today. The newer Bluetooth 1.2 specification, which is supported by very few products so far but is fully backwards compatible, uses Adaptive Frequency Hopping (AFH) to reduce interference from other devices that use the 2.4 GHz spectrum. That includes 802.11b and 802.11g (Wi-Fi) wireless LAN technologies, some cordless phones, and… Read More

The Serial ATA Working Group announced today two specification development milestones at the Intel Developer Forum here. One centers on doubling the signaling speed for Serial ATA, the other on new cable and connector solutions to support additional applications and usage models. The specification for the second generation Serial ATA signaling speed – 3Gbps – has been completed and the release candidate of that… Read More