System diary blog

DELL Crystal is released to the production after a year of the first appearance.

LCD monitor placed on the 4 mm high durable glass with speakers and 2 mega pixel camera which has built in microphone. The highest resolution of this monitor supports is 1680×1050 pixels. Also DELL Crystal has 2 ms response time, 2000:1 contrast rate, USB, DVI and HDMI port. This monitor is pretty heavy for the monitor around 14.5 kg and expensive – $1199 dollars.

In 2007 AMD Inc. received investments from Dubai to upgrade to the 45 nm technology. But even will not save company from up coming bankruptcy.

If we look at the current situation in the company AMD cannot be in worth position then today except to go down. Although AMD cannot die at one second everything that can happen is investors and stock holders lose their money and company will change management personal.

Intel promises to release new Nehalem processors in the end of 2008, but it probably will happen in 2009. So AMD have to pray for the delay. This may get some time for AMD to stand back on their fit and organize better competition for Intel in 2009.

AOL officially closed Netscape project. According to the AOL the reason is total failure in this project.

The support for this browser will continue until February 1, 2008. After that all Netscape users will be suggested to move to the Firefox. Netscape.com will be operational and work as information portal. All Netscape fanatic users would be able to download all version of the Netscape from official site. Also Firefox created theme for the browser that will look as Netscape.

Dell Inc. starts selling computers with Ubuntu Linux 7.10.

Ubuntu Linux 7.10 was released in the October of this year. New Linux OS includes such software as Tracker utility, OpenOffice, Xorg graphic server, graphic interface Gnome 2.20, Mozilla Firefox, Compiz and other useful programs.

According to the Dell Ubuntu Linux 7.10 will be installed on desktop system Inspiron 530N and notebook Inspiron 1420N. Dell confirmed that all this models will include DVD burner for movie creation.

Inspiron 1420N based on the Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 1.5 Ghz frequency. Also it includes 1 Gb memory, 80 Gb hard drive, X1300 Intel Graphic Accelerator and DVD or DVD-RW drive. This is a based model configuration and will cost from 600 dollars.

On other hand Inpiron 530N will be build on the Intel Pentium E2140 processor with 1.6 Ghz frequency. On top of that computer will have 1 Gb memory, 160 Gb hard drive with 7200 rpm, nVidia GeForce 8300GS, DVD drive, Gigabyte Ethernet and Wi-Fi support. Staring price for Inpiron 530N is 730 dollars US.

Online dating service Match.com which is owned by the Inter ActiveCorp, will be upgrading his online site with new features.

One of the new functions called Little Black Book which allows Facebook users to communicate with user from other social network Match.com. The second function called Match My Friends with which users can create profile for their friend, but only if user is agreeing.

Google updated their famous Google Talk service. They installed new feature which allows users to translate text to different languages.

Google added several bots which can be used in the group and private chats which let users to translate word by word or whole phrases at once. There is around 30 bots that can translate from English to Arabic, German, Russian, French, Korean, Japan, Greece, and Chinese. If user wants to use this service he has to add specific users to contacts. For example if user wants to translate from French to German he have to add to his friends bot named fr2de@bot.talk.google.com. Further more Google let users to create their own bot translator.

Mozilla launches new online service called Weave.

Weave is the service that allows users to synchronize their information which stored on the Mozilla’s servers through the Firefox browser. All personal setting of the Firefox browser including bookmarks can be restored on any machine that connected to the Internet. Also service let users to give permission to other users for accessing their information. Further more Mozilla will create API for developer so that they can build web services based on the Weave.

One of the home developers under the nickname of ZodTTD created a utility that allows PlayStation games run on the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Utility divides the 3.5 inch screen in to the small control section which can be used to control game characters of the game. Also user can use the regular iPhone controls to perform action in the game. According to the author utility psx4iphone allows to run around 75% of PlayStation Games.

Canadian company RIM (Research in Motion) tries to get a patent for the new type of the keyboard.

As you can see on the picture above buttons on the new QWERTY keyboard will be turned for the more comfortable typing. All buttons will be placed under 45 degree angle and placed in order from the top left corner to the bottom right. This innovation will be used on the QWERTY, QWERTZ and AZERTY keyboards. Unfortunately there no information about the time release of the devices with new keyboard.

According to the technical research Lime Wire client software installed on every third computer that connected to the Internet.

Digital Music News announced their research results about usage of the Lime Wire in the Internet. Information was shocking, 36.4% of all computers on the World Wide Web has Lime Wire software installed. This results was based on the research of 1.5 million computers which connected to the Internet. Last year this number 2% smaller, that means Lime Wire getting new users every year.