Peripheral

ASUS releases Xonar audio card products

Oct 9, 2007   12 am
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Asustek Computer has introduced the PCI Express interface Xonar D2X and the USB interface Xonar U1 audio devices.

Despite the failure of Creative Labs., ASUS steps into the market of dedicate sound card by two new products recently.

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New Software

foobar2000 v0.9.4.5 beta 1

Sep 24, 2007   3 pm
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foobar2000_logo Another round for foobar2000 updating wows starts.

foobar2000 is a freeware audio player for Windows. Featuring a minimalist interface, it also has many features for metadata support and high-quality audio output. The theoretical maximum sampling rate can be as high as 96 kHz and bit depth can be as high as 32 bits per sample for best sound quality.

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Vista

Microsoft responds to Vista network performance issue

Aug 26, 2007   3 pm
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vista2 “With the discovery last week of the connection between Vista’s poor networking performance and audio activities, word quickly spread around the Net. No doubt this got Microsoft’s attention, and they have responded to the issue.

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Apple Cell Phone

iPhone news roundup: benchmarks, Facebook, and (obviously) rumors

Aug 17, 2007   4 pm
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iphone2007_b There was a lot of iPhone chatter this week — although Apple might have done all it can to lock the little bugger down, it seems people are still finding ways to extend and explore its capabilities, while AT&T might have finally gotten the hint about those ridiculous paper bills.

  • Logic3 unveiled the i-Station Traveler (pictured), the first speaker dock we’ve seen specifically for the iPhone. While most iPod docks tend to work fine with the iPhone, the $60 Traveller is designed specifically around the horizontal orientation, allowing you to watch movies while the iPhone is docked.
  • Meebo and Facebook both launched iPhone-specific versions of their sites, allowing you to IM your friends and stalk your exes with all the swoopy-slidey flair you’d expect.
  • Orange continued to act all coy about potentially being Apple’s partner in France, saying only that it had “no comment” on the iPhone, even as rumors heat up.
  • The iPhone got straight-up benchmarked for the first time: Craig Hockenberry whipped out his stopwatch and discovered that Javascript in MobileSafari runs right around eighty times slower than on a 1.83GHz Core 2 Duo Mac. He also whipped up a little app using that pirate toolchain we love so much and discovered that native ARM code runs right around 200 times faster than Javascript in the iPhone. Looks like that Safari sandbox might not be so “sweet” after all.
  • AT&T seems to have decided that its vendetta against the trees of the world might be a little misplaced, and is in the process of moving to “summary billing,” according to a call center employee. Either that, or they’re trying to guilt people into switching to e-billing by sending out ridiculous bills. Really, that’s what the email says.

Source: engadget