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USB Powered LED Lamp for Laptop

There may be nights where you may be working with your laptop without switching ON lights so that you don’t disturb others sleeping around you. Working like that may be pain as you will be struggling with your keyboard in the dark, if that’s the problem then get yourself USB Light Gum LED Lamp which [...]

64GB USB Thumb Drive

If you want to carry large amount of data with you and feel that existing thumb drives don’t have that much space, then you can get yourself a Buslink USB 2.0 Flash Drive PRO 2 Series which can hold a mammoth 64GB. Buslink USB 2.0 Flash Drive PRO 2 Series also boasts of 20MB/s read [...]

AMD K8L Architecture Vs Intel Core Architecture

ArsTechnica has an article that compares AMD’s newest K8L architecture based Quad Core Barcelona against the Intel’s Core microarchitecture based Quad Core Kentsfield. After going through the article it looks like AMD’s K8L architecture has some juice to compete with Intel’s Core microarchitecture. AMD’s Barcelona core is a native quad core whereas Intel’s Kentsfield is [...]

NEC Releases Chip for Blu-ray HD DVD Combo Drives

Since no one can see an end to the present HD DVD and Blu-ray format war, NEC has launched a chipset that will support both Blu-ray and HD DVD discs. Previously it was rumored that Pioneer would come with a dual format combo drive but it never materialized. The drives that would be built using [...]

AMD 65nm Turion 64 X2 (Tyler) by Q2 2007

AMD will introduce 65nm Turion 64 X2 code named Tyler by Q2 2007. The expected TDP of these new processors based on 65nm manufacturing is expected to be around 25W. Tyler will support DDR2 800 MHz and will be based on Socket S1 but as of now the clock speeds are not yet known. Looks [...]

WiMAX Comes to India

Aircel Business Solutions (ABS), has launched Wimax wireless broadband internet access in Chennai, India. I am pleased my city Chennai, has become the first Indian city to get broadband wireless internet connectivity. The connection speed and tariff plans are not available as of now, but if they offer unlimited plans then I may be the [...]

USBGear Bluetooth Printer Adapter

USBGear has introduced Bluetooth printer adaptor that can help you connect your USB or Parallel port enabled printer wirelessly to your computer. The manufacturer claims working range of around 100m. This adaptor works almost with all versions of windows including ancient Windows 98SE, to use this you need to have the latest bluetooth drivers installed [...]

Intel Announces Wireless USB Chipset

Intel has developed wireless USB chipset UWB Link 1480 MAC (media access controller) silicon, which would based on the certified Wireless Universal Serial Bus (WUSB) specification that in turn will allow independent hardware vendors to create WUSB devices. The wireless USB devices can access data at 480Mbps within 9.9 feet and 110Mbps within 33 feet. [...]