Monday, June 13, 2011

MSI GT780R & GX780

MSI announced today the shipment of GT780R & GX780 for North America. These laptops were designed by SteelSeries in a partnership with MSI. Both laptops feature nVidia GeFroce GPUs with 2nd gen. Intel Core i7 processors.

“Serious gamers understand that not all notebooks are created equally,” said Andy Tung, vice president of sales, MSI US. “The GT780R and GX780 are built specifically for gamers, with a professionally-designed keyboard, plus top-of-the-line graphics and processing power from NVIDIA and Intel.”

1,000,000 Members Join SkillPages in 150 Days

An incredible 1.000.000 subscription in under 150 Days for the social network, SkillPages. SkillPages is a social network for networking with other people that may need your skills, or with others that you might need them. An opportunity opens up for the users of SkillPages to be found by new employers, customers and business partners.

“We set out to enable a simple way for people to create a credible online presence for their skills.” commented CEO, Iain Mac Donald “Our user growth is a reflection of how people are reacting positively, creating a SkillPage and getting found by new customers and employers.”

The company celebrated the one millionth user by launching a new feature on the site called "Opportunities". SkillPages is free and anybody can join regardless of the skill they know.

UPDATE:
There have been a lot of complaints about some tactics utilized by Skillpages. There are a lot of reports of spamming and unauthorized access of email account contacts list. This is an old post so please don't take your rage out on me.

OmniVision and Sony to supply 5th gen iPhone cameras

According to Digitimes, OmniVision will supply about 90% of the upcoming 5th gen iPhone cameras, while Sony will supply the rest. The 5th gen iPhone will have an 8MP CMOS image sensors, improving image quality for photo and video capturing on the new smart phone.

HP shows off TouchPad slate

HP published videos on Youtube about the capabilities of their brand new WebOS based TouchPad. With the July 1st release coming up and pre-orders on 19th of this month, the eager consumers can get a glimpse of the new features offered by HP's TouchPad.