Computers-Plus

Earlier this week we visited the BitFenix office here in Taipei and got a look at its brand new Raider computer case which is being released today.    David from BitFenix in the video below introduces us to the Raider. He explains that the Raider is 100% focused on airflow with a mesh finish from the top all the way to the front of the case. The case features the nice and smooth BitFenix SofTouch finish – even the power button and fan controller switch on the top front right of the case features the SofTouch treatment. Gone are USB 2.0 ports as the Raider supports four USB 3.0 ports. T Read more…

SNW Europe The scale-out file computing world has a new player: Fujitsu. The company has just pushed out its FEFS product in Japan.

Fujitsu FEFS is a terabyte per second scale-out file system for high-performance computing. It could come westwards and provide competition for SONAS, EMC Isilon, and other big data file systems.

FEFS stands for Fujitsu Exabyte File System and it has been developed from Lustre. The thing scales to 8EB, eight thousand petabytes, and supports from a few dozen servers up to one million.

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Swiftech today announced the release for retail sales of the H2O-x20 Edge ‘HD’ series liquid cooling kits that use their new flagship CPU waterblock the Apogee HD and the patent pending MCRx20 Drive (Rev3) series of PC radiators. The H2O-x20 Edge HD kits are shipping now to Swiftech dealers worldwide. The Swiftech H20-x20 Edge HD Kits range in price from $229.95 for the dual 120mm radiator model to $269.95 if you wanted the larger triple 120mm radiator.

“This new generation offers an ease of installation which is very close to that of other all-in-one kits, but it does it without sacrificing performance and functionality: users can take full advantage of the power of liquid cooling i.e. l

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SINGAPORE Singapores SingTel has developed an application to rival the voice-activated Siri on the iPhone 4S that can understand the republics widely spoken Singlish a localised version of the English language which include words like leh, la, how huh etc.

This is probably a response by Singapore telco Singtel to ensure that customers get the best experience from their brand new iPhone 4S as there are many youtube videos that shows Siri either responding with a completely irrelevant answer or simply saying it does not understand when the phone was first launched in Japan.

Singapore Telecom (SingTel) says its new app, DeF!ND, will help Singaporeans who use Singlish to decipher uniquely Singaporean accents, names and locations.

It made its public debut at the stroke of midnight Thursday, when SingTel Singapore chief executive Allen Lew gave it an instruction in a decidedly local accent as he launched the iPhone 4S in the city-state.

We have a voice application capability in DeF!ND that is unique because it understands the local language which the voice recognition engine within an international device like Apple doesnt quite have, Lew said after the launch.

When we tried to test different voice recognition systems including Siri, we found that the Singaporean accent is pretty unique and the common international voice recognition systems dont quite pick up the nuance of how we speak, Lew added.

And of course our street names and our food names are very local so we developed and trained this new system to allow it to recognise it better.

DeF!ND will be available for free on the Android platform and Apples iTunes soon, a Singtel spokesman told AFP.

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