Posted on 30 July 2010 in Features
This week on Komplett.ie we’ve been running a huge TV sale, with models from Sony, Samsung and Philips on offer at huge discounts. On Tuesday, we gave you a rundown of the 32-ich models on offer and today we’ll have a quick look at three larger models in the Komplett sale, ranging in price from €689 to €799.
The ambient sensor will allow just enough brightness in the TV as the ambiance of the room demands.
Sony KDL-40EX600 – 40″ BRAVIA LCD-TV
For the size you’re getting and the picture quality included, this high-definition television really is great value at €799, down by a huge €140 in our sale. Sony uses ‘edge LED’ backlight technology in this series helping with both contrast levels and achieving “energy excellence” as the company puts it.
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Posted on 30 July 2010 in Features
This week on Komplett.ie we’ve been running a huge TV sale, with models from Sony, Samsung and Philips on offer at huge discounts. On Tuesday, we gave you a rundown of the 32-ich models on offer and today we’ll have a quick look at three larger models in the Komplett sale, ranging in price from [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 30 July 2010 in News, Products
Earlier this month we reported that Microsoft’s Xbox 360 got a massive bump in sales thanks to the new 250GB version available in certain parts of the globe. Overall though, the last 12 months has seen the Microsoft console lose out heavily to the PlayStation 3 in sales, with the Sony product outselling it by [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 30 July 2010 in News
‘Zombie cookies’ may sound like a combination of dough, chocolate chips and some undead flesh but instead they are actually copies of supposedly deleted browser cookies; and today they are the focus of a major legal case in the US. A legal challenge has been launched across the Atlantic against a number of websites – [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 29 July 2010 in Products
Creative has announced that it’s launching new software for motherboards to give gamers better sound quality with onboard audio solutions. A company statement tells how the new Sound Blaster X-Fi MB2 software suite – a “powerful audio platform equipped with cutting-edge audio technologies” – will enhance onboard PC audio “to even greater echelons”. Greater echelons? [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 29 July 2010 in News
According to new figures, AMD has overtaken Nvidia for graphics chip shipments. The numbers from Mercury Research show that in the second quarter of 2010 AMD’s ATI graphics unit took 51% of the standalone, or ‘discrete’ graphics chip market compared to Nvidia’s share of almost 49%. Mercury Research tracks graphics chip shipments globally, and when [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 29 July 2010 in News
Facebook has denied that anything untoward has happened to 100 million user accounts after it was claimed that private details of one fifth of the site’s users had been made available in a downloadable file on Pirate Bay. It was widely reported this morning that campaigners who wanted to highlight the “terrifying” privacy policies of [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 July 2010 in News
Sky has confirmed it will launch Sky 3D later this year. The channel will be Europe’s first 3D TV channel and will beam into thousands of homes across Ireland on 1 October this year. A press release from the company tells how 3D TV demonstrations will be available in 13 Sky shops across the country [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 July 2010 in News, Security
A 23 year-old hacker responsible for a botnet that has infected millions of computers worldwide has been arrested in Slovenia. While his real name was not revealed, the man in question is known as ‘Iserdo’ and he is believed to have written the programme behind the mariposa virus, also known as ‘butterfly’. The botnet, one [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 July 2010 in News
There’s taking the urine, and then there’s taking the urine, sticking it in robots and calling it research. Yes, a team at the Bristol Robotics Lab are looking into the use of pee as the fuel for Microbial Fuel Cells (MFCs), which can use bacterial cultures to break down food and other substances in order [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 28 July 2010 in Products
SanDisk obviously thinks that good things come in bloody tiny packages if the company’s new USB flash drive range – the Cruzer Blade series – is anything to go by. How small is it? Well, it’s about the size of a paper clip and weighs about the same as a penny. Continue Reading
Posted on 28 July 2010 in News
Not usually a source of scurrilous rumours, the Wall Street Journal has reported that Google has held talks with several gaming companies over the possibility of creating a viable social networking alternative to Facebook. While starting from scratch against a company with 500 million registered users seems like folly, the short but colourful history of [...] Continue Reading
Posted on 27 July 2010 in Products
Apple has announced an update to its iMac line, with Intel Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 processors up to 3.6GHz plus new graphics including the ATI Radeon HD 5750. The range is now available with dual-core Core i3 and Core i5 chips and quad-core Core i5 and Core i7 processors. The 27-inch iMac [...] Continue Reading
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