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Singapore & Thailand Selling, Still No iPhone For Malaysian

Friday 14 November 2008 @ 10:37 am

Well, of course I’m not talking about those smuggled iPhone, ok!

Officially, Singapore started selling iPhone since 22th August, now Thailand is going sell original 3G iPhone in coming months!

True Move, Thailand’s third-largest mobile phone firm, announced yesterday that they had signed a deal with Apple Inc. to sell the 3G iPhone in Thailand.

I think we’ll only get to see 3G iPhone here after iPhone 2.0 is out!




AMD Launched First 45-nanometer Opteron Server Processor

Thursday 13 November 2008 @ 9:37 pm

AMD Opteron
Just 1 day after Intel announced reducing their fourth-quarter revenue estimate by about $1 billion, AMD today launched its first 45-nanometer Opteron server processor, code named Shanghai.

This long-awaited 45nm Quad-Core AMD Opteron came almost a year late since Intel launched their server processor using 45nm semiconductor fabrication process. Anyway, at least now AMD is on par with Intel.

Performance enhancement of the new processors compared to previous generations of AMD Opteron processors are as the following :-

  • 35% increase in power efficiency (consume 75 watts of power)
  • 30% greater performance
  • 3x L3 cache (now 6MB!)
  • Higher clock speed. (2.3 GHz – 2.7 GHz)

As expected, the price of Shanghai also won’t come cheap, they will be selling in price range US$377 – US$989 for the 2000 series and US$1,165 – US$2,149 for the faster 8000 series.

On an unrelated note, the current on-going economy crisis has so far hit the 2 computer chip manufacturer really hard, driving Intel’s stock price to 12-year low while AMD’s is heading 18-year low! Is it time to grab some bargain? Hehe…




GMail Now With Voice And Video Chat!

Thursday 13 November 2008 @ 12:17 am

The speed of Google rolling out a new product or a new version of existing product is just unimaginable. They really put up a lot of effort by keeping their promise to “Release Early, Release Often” in application development.

Yes, as the title of this post says, GMail now allows you to make phone calls over the Internet or to speak in person via video directly from your Gmail account! All you need is a computer, a broadband internet connection, a GMail account and, for video calls, a web camera.

Gmail Voice & Video Chat

This new feature is not enabled by default and you need to install Gmail voice and video
chat plugin developed by Google, which also means it’s not a 3rd party plugin. Just follow the following steps to activate this awesome feature and start using it :-

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GMail Now With Voice And Video Chat!




Pre-beta Microsoft Windows 7 Unveiled!

Wednesday 29 October 2008 @ 10:09 am

Microsoft demonstrated the next version of Windows OS, Windows 7, for the first time at its Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles this morning. Many screen shots and new features were revealed!

Windows 7 Desktop
Windows 7 Desktop

Windows 7 Desktop with Gadgets
Show Desktop button at bottom right

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Pre-beta Microsoft Windows 7 Unveiled!




32GB USB Flash Drive On Sale!

Wednesday 7 May 2008 @ 6:01 pm

This morning, I was browsing through some sales of computer peripherals at Amazon and was a little shock to see such huge capacity USB flash drive is on sale!

corsair 32gb flash drive

Corsair Flash Voyager is the latest product manufactured by Corsair and it’s the largest capacity USB 2.0 flash drive to date with a massive 32GB of storage. While Moore’s law is suggesting memory capacity would double its size approximately every 2 years, I think this 32GB flash drive is a bit beyond the projection, don’t you think so?

Anyway, obviously this USB flash drive is not a prototype but an end product selling on the shelves in many online computer stores right now, below are some sales I found :-

Corsair is well known of its high quality and performance computer main memory (RAM), therefore they are confident with Corsair Flash Voyager by offering a 10 years limited warranty. Even though the durable rubber casing doesn’t make it one stylish flash drive, I suppose the capacity, reliability and its warranty are enough win our hearts.

Anyway, with such a huge capacity, you can practically store the entire Windows Vista operating system, all application programs, and a couples of DVD into it! Moving huge files from one PC to another PC outside a network and harddisk backup would never been easier using it too.




7x Optical Zoom Webcam

Thursday 8 February 2007 @ 10:48 am

Have a webcam? What other purpose you use your webcam for other than having video chat or video conferencing with friends/family? I don’t know about you, but I do use my webcam as a surveillance camera. My webcam is a cheap one (costs about RM25/US$7) and it is able to zoom digitally for about 5x only. As you might have known, the picture quality is not good using digital zoom.

7x optical zoom webcam

This 7x optical zoom webcam is definitely a perfect webcam to act as a cheap solution for surveillance, while you can zoom more without compromising the picture quality. In fact, this webcam is just like normal CMOS camera of 1.3-millon pixels. However, it has an edge over other webcams as it has a special telephoto lens to get fixed onto it in order to leverage the optical zoom capability!

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7x Optical Zoom Webcam





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