BenQ will launch its first super-multi DVD burner in Japan early October. The DQ60 supports all-format recording including DVD-RAM. The DQ60 is the first optical disc drive from the Taiwanese company to support wrting of DVD-RAM media. The company plans to release the drive in the Japanese market, and it is not clear whether it…

Asus confirmed the release of dual-chip GeForce 7800 GT-based graphics card. The product will be powered by two identical 7800GT GPUs, attached on a single PCB. The EN7800GT Dual will be available mid October in limited quantities and will cost slightly more than 2 GTs. Although the EN7800GT Dual may sound as an expensive buy,…

NEC Electronics Corp. has developed media access control (MAC) chips intended for wireless USB. Wireless USB is an interface specification using ultra wideband (UWB) wireless network technology and is mainly led by Intel Corp. Some companies have developed physical layer (UWB-PHY) chips thus far, but NEC Electronics has become the world’s first company to develop…

Thanko’s wireless double faced mouse looks like a normal wireless mouse. It has a 800 dpi optical sensor, but when it is turned upside down it can be controlled by moving the thumb over the optical sensor. It has a range of 7 – 8 meters, it connects to the PC via USB the mouse…

The “clipdrive finger” which is how the name sounds when translated from Japanese thinks that all the data that goes in your USB drive must be protected frmo prying eyes. While we always had the option of password protecting our files, a dedicated hacker or cracker could get into it. Though, if you erally did…

Acer is set to begin launching its 24-inch wide screen LCD monitor (AL2416W) with a 6ms response time to the global market by October. The new model will first be available in the Taiwan market next month and then in Europe sometime later in the fourth quarter, according to Acer. The company has already prepared…

Fujitsu Computer Products of America, Inc. today unveiled its first-ever scanner compatible with the Macintosh platform. The highly anticipated release of the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanning solution supporting Mac OS X version 10.4 “Tiger” provides Apple customers with a powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use color scanner that allows business professionals to quickly convert paper documents to Adobe…

At the core of the technology is an IBM-developed tamper-resistant embedded controller that runs the Linux operating system and acts as an intelligent, real-time tracking device. IBM and Maersk Logistics, part of leading shipper A.P. Moller-Maersk Group, on Tuesday introduced a combination of technologies they hope will be one of the tools employed to make…

Nvidia has introduced its C51 AMD-oriented integrated graphics chipset, pushing the product as a graphics add-on for two new members of the nForce 4 chipset family. Available in two forms, the GeForce 6150 and GeForce 6100, the chips provides GeForce 6 series – Intellisample 3.0, CineFX 3.0, Ultrashadow 2.0 etc – DirectX 9.0 Shader Model…

Toshiba Corp. said Wednesday it has developed a 30-gigabyte dual-layer HD DVD recordable disc, doubling the storage capacity of the single-layer HD DVD-R disc it developed earlier. The Tokyo-based electronics maker plans to roll out next spring an HD DVD recorder compatible with the new disc, it said in a release.The new disc was approved…