Two new Sharkoon Stereo Headsets for Gamers

March 17, 2010 - Sharkoon is expanding its “Rush” product line to now include two new stereo headsets, which provide a rich sound reproduction during play, but also offer Multimedia and voice applications such as VoIP or TeamSpeak.

Sharkoon RHS100

The compact and lightweight Sharkoon RHS100 with foldable neckband,cushioned ear pieces, and infinitely rotating microphone comes in flat black with bright optical accents in the typical Rush-orange application on both earpieces. With its built-in sound chip, the RHS100 is simply connected via the USB port on a PC or Notebook, replacing an absent or inferior soundcard, and saves time from having to switch the lengthy cable between the PC-speakers and headset. The speakers Bass effect can be controlled on the RHS100 through the switchable vibrations function. The Bass proportion can be regulated by the cable integrated controller between medium and maximum effect. The two meter long cable also functions with an included volume knob and an orange illuminating microphone mute. The required drivers for Windows 7, as well as configuration software, are provided on the Sharkoon website
for download.

Sharkoon RHS200

The noble Sharkoon RHS200 model offers a padded, adjustable headband and aural earphones provide comfort during prolonged periods of wear. Thanks to the open design of the padded earpieces, gamers can also sit around and not have to stress their ears furthermore to hear other gamer’s offline. For a special look, the frame assumes a high-gloss design with luminous orange applications on the earpieces. The pivoting microphone is equipped with a
mute button on the cable controller. The connection to a PC or Notebook occurs through a 3.5mm stereo jack.

End customers can find the Sharkoon Rush Headsets available immediately from authorized retailers.

Price

Sharkoon RHS100 Gaming Stereo USB Headset MSRP: 23.49 euros
Sharkoon RHS200 Gaming Stereo Headset MSRP: 18.49 euros

Specifications

Sharkoon RHS100 Gaming Stereo USB Headset

Headset

Speaker: Ø 40 mm
Sensitivity: 112 +/-4 dB
Impedance: 32 ?
Frequency: 20 Hz - 20.000 Hz
Max. Output: 100 mW
Connection: USB plug (Type A)

Microphone

Antenna: omni-directional
Sensitivity: -54 dB ± 3 dB
Impedance: 2,2 K ?
Frequency: 100 Hz to 10.000 Hz

Sharkoon RHS200 Gaming Stereo Headset

Headset

Speaker: Ø 40 mm
Sensitivity: 120 +/-4 dB
Impedance: 32 ?
Frequency: 20 Hz - 20.000 Hz
Max. Output: 100 mW
Connection: 3.5mm Stereo jack (stereo)

Microphone

Antenna: omni-directional
Sensitivity: -54 dB ± 3 dB
Impedance: 2,2 K ?
Frequency: 100 Hz to 10.000 Hz

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Lapangan Banteng Macet Parah Gara-gara Sop Buntut Hotel Borobudur

Jakarta - Apa hubungannya macet dengan sop buntut? Tentu ada. Kawasan Lapangan Banteng, Jakarta Pusat, malam ini macet parah gara-gara antrean mobil yang ingin masuk Hotel Borobudur. Hotel bintang lima tersebut sedang mengadakan acara diskon masakan murah.

Pantauan detikcom di kawasan Lapangan Banteng, Selasa (23/3/2010), pukul 21.00 WIB, ujung antrean mobil yang ingin masuk hotel, sampai dengan depan gerbang Masjid Istiqlal, Jl Veteran. Banyaknya mobil yang parkir di jalan sekitar hotel juga menambah ruwet lalu lintas.

Humas Hotel Borubudur, Fransiska Kansil, mengatakan acara diskon makanan ini diadakan dalam rangka HUT ke-36 hotel. Berbagai masakan seperti masakan China, Italia, dan Jepang dibanderol dengan harga Rp 36 ribu.

"Di sini kebetulan khasnya Sop Buntut," katanya tentang masakan yang juga dibanderol Rp 36 ribu itu.

Di dalam hotel, para pengujung yang ingin menikmati sop buntut mengisi daftar untuk kemudian dipanggil satu persatu ke dalam ruangan untuk menikmati masakan yang biasanya dihargai Rp 108 ribu itu. Tampak sekitar seratus pengunjung memadati ruang Timor, khusus menikmati sop buntut.

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Internet Explorer Loses Share in European Markets

Microsoft's delivery of a browser choice screen to European PC users this month is already beginning to have an effect on the software giant's market share within the European Union. For example, the latest statistics from StatCounter suggest that the new browser ballot is driving Internet Explorer share declines in France, the United Kingdom, Italy and elsewhere.

Mozilla's Firefox browser appears to be the major beneficiary of Microsoft's declines in France, where IE has lost 2.4 percentage points of market share since February 9. Firefox also has received small market-share bumps in Italy and the U.K.

"Early data suggests 50,000 to 100,000 new users chose Firefox as a direct result of seeing the ballot choice screen," said Mozilla spokesperson Erica Jostedt. "We expect these numbers will increase as the ballot choice rolls out in additional countries and will share updated metrics as they become available."

A Steady Global Share

Opera Software said it has been experiencing a dramatic uptake on downloads of its new Opera 10.50 browser, with the increase more than doubling from normal download numbers. "The greatest gains are in countries like Poland, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Netherlands and Portugal," said Opera spokesperson Falguni Bhuta.

StatCounter's latest data also shows that browser users in France and Italy are beginning to turn to Chrome, Opera and Safari. For example, IE's market share in Italy slipped by 1.25 percentage points in the past month, even as Chrome's share rose 0.7 percent.

From a global perspective, however, the Dublin-based web-metrics firm reports that IE's market share has remained steady at about 54.5 percentage points over the past month. So Microsoft's browser losses in Europe are being offset by gains in other markets worldwide.

Microsoft previewed its forthcoming IE9 browser before MIX10 conference attendees in Las Vegas last week. The software giant clearly hopes that the release of its next-generation browser, which does not yet have a firm date, will help it maintain its dominance over the global browser market.

On the downside, IE9 will not be compatible with machines running Windows XP, which continues to be the world's most popular PC operating system. So the incompatibility will limit IE9's initial uptake when it eventually comes to market.

A Wise ROI Calculation

Given that most people never change the browser that comes with their machines, the majority of IE9 users in the long run will be people who get new hardware, noted Al Hilwa, program director of applications development software at IDC.

"For the small subset who actually upgrade a browser and who will specifically upgrade to IE9, they will largely be motivated by graphics performance considerations and will unlikely be the ones running Windows XP at this late stage and less so down the road," Hilwa said.

Supporting Windows XP would not yield the performance improvements that the newer Windows operating systems will deliver through IE9 because of XP's lack of support of Direct2D, Hilwa observed. "Thus the offering would not be so attractive in the first place without a significant chunk of what is new in IE9," he said.

Hilwa thinks Microsoft is making a fairly wise return-on-investment calculation in this instance. "It may be more important for the IE team to support the Macintosh in the long run and to invest their efforts in mobile browsers for the major smartphone platforms," he explained.

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Microsoft Bangun 'Markas' di Sarang Software Bajakan

Guna meredam penjualan software bajakan yang merajalela, Microsoft membuat langkah taktis. Vendor software raksasa itu membangun 'markas' di salah satu sarang software bajakan di Indonesia.

Markas yang dimaksud bernama Microsoft Zone dan dibangun di pusat penjualan elektronik Mangga Dua. Memang dalam beberapa tahun terakhir, tempat ini menjadi sarang jual beli software bajakan.

Microsoft Zone merupakan salah satu upaya perusahaan milik Bill Gates ini untuk memberikan pengetahuan yang mendalam tentang penggunaan software asli bagi pasar konsumer.

Di tempat ini, konsumen bisa mencoba teknologi baru Microsoft, mengikuti klinik diskusi dan pelatihan serta menjadi tempat mejeng bagi produk baru vendor elektronik mitra Microsoft.

"Pokoknya kita ingin berada di tengah-tengah konsumen, biar mereka kenal kita. Ini (Mangga Dua-red.) kan tempat strategis," ujar Sutanto Hartono, Presiden Direktur Microsoft Indonesia dalam pembukaan Microsoft Zone di Mangga Dua, Jakarta, Selasa (2/3/2010).

Microsoft Zone sendiri dilengkapi dengan 14 unit PC dari berbagai merek seperti Acer, Axioo, Byon, Dell, HP, Sony, Toshiba, dan Wearnes.

"Kami sangat serius dalam mengkampanyekan penggunaan software asli di Tanah Air dengan membawa produk asli lebih dekat dengan konsumen karena negara dengan tingkat pembajakan yang tinggi akan rentan terhadap ancaman keamanan berkomputasi," pungkas Sutanto.

Menurut lembaga analis IDC, tingkat pembajakan software di Indonesia pada 2008 lalu mencapai 87%.

Presentase ini tentu terbilang tinggi, bahkan menempatkan Indonesia di posisi ke-12 dalam negara dengan tingkat pembajakan software tertinggi di dunia.

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Windows 7 RTM Cracks Killer Now Live

Microsoft has kicked off the automatic distribution of its Windows 7 RTM cracks killer, namely an update designed to make over 70 illegal activation exploits for the latest iteration of the Windows client go the way of the dodo bird. In the first half of this month, the Redmond company announced theWindows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7, noting that it would be released on the Windows genuine website on February 16th, and on the Microsoft Download Center the next day. Earlier this week, namely on February 23rd, the update was scheduled to go live on Windows Update.

Users of Windows 7 with Automatic Updates enabled will have the refresh automatically downloaded and installed. The Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7 is designed to detect more than 70 activation exploits which Microsoft considers potentially dangerous, and to inform the user of their presence.

It is critical to note that the installation of the update is voluntary. Users that don’t want the refresh need only identify it among the updates served by Microsoft, and hide it in the Windows Update dialog window so it will never be deployed on their computer. In the WU window, the update in question bears the following label “Update for Windows 7 for x64/x86-based Systems (KB971033)." Once identified on the update list, Windows 7 customers can right click KB971033 and choose to hide the refresh.

Microsoft explained that the update was designed to enable Windows 7 customers that acquired a pirated copy of the operating system believing that they were buying a legitimate copy to check their operating systems. The Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7 is already available for download as a standalone refresh, for users that want to grab it and manually deploy it instead of waiting for it to be served through WU. (Here are the links for Windows 7 for x86-based systems, and for Windows 7 for x64-based systems. )

In addition, the Redmond company also noted that it had witnessed an increasing trend for pirated copies of Windows 7 distributed through various illegal sources including torrent trackers, to come bundled with malware. Following the RTM of Windows Vista’s successor, the software giant has been hard at work collecting information on over 70 cracks and activation workarounds, and is attempting to thwart them with the Windows Activation Technologies Update for Windows 7.

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Cacat, Kingston Tarik 3 Model USB Flash Drive

Kingston baru saja melakukan penarikan 3 tipe USB drive mereka. Masalah keamanan menjadi alasan penarikan produk-produk tersebut.

Pemberitahuan mengenai 'cacat' yang terjadi, dipublish Kingston di website resmi mereka, Kingston.com. Perusahaan ini mengakui bahwa "orang yang memiliki keahlian tertentu dengan piranti yang memadai dan akses secara fisik, bisa mengambil data yang dilindungi di dalamnya".

3 tipe yang dimaksud ialah:

- DataTraveler BlackBox (DTBB)
- DataTraveler Secure – Privacy Edition (DTSP)
- DataTraveler Elite – Privacy Edition (DTEP)

Kingston tidak merinci bagaimana produk tersebut bisa rawan dibobol. Padahal sebelumnya Kingston mengklaim drive Data Traveler Secure mereka sebagai USB flash drive pertama yang mengamankan datanya 100% via hardware 256 bit yang berbasis enskripsi AES.

Sebelum mengakses data, drive ini meminta usernya untuk memasukkan password yang kuat miniminal 6 karakter. Data akan otomatis terhapus jika user salah memasukkan password sebanyak 10 kali.

Selain menginformasikan mengenai cacat pada produknya itu, Kingston dalam situsnya juga menawarkan penanganan produk pada konsumennya. Mereka menyediakan nomor kontak technical support yang bisa dihubungi di tiap-tiap negara agar para konsumen bisa mengembalikan drive-nya untuk dimodifikasi.

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OCZ Siapkan Eksternal SSD dengan USB 3.0

Teknologi SSD dirasa bakal berkembang di tahun-tahun mendatang. Kini SSD yang menggunakan interface SATA berkecepatan 6 Gb/s dari OCZ, telah dilirik banyak orang. Tak hanya berhenti di situ, OCZ berencana mengeluarkan eksternal SSD terbarunya yang konon memiliki kecepatan transfer 4 Gb/s

Dengan hal itu OCZ akan memiliki barang yang diinginkan beberapa maniak dengan eksternal storage. Pasalnya kepraktisan serta ketipisan SSD OCZ, kini didukung dengan interface berkecepatan tinggi dari USB 3.0

USB 3.0 yang juga dikenal sebagai SuperSpeed USB ini, digadang-gadang mampu melakukan transfer data sampai 4,8 Gbps. Berarti ini merupakan peningkatan signifikan daripada kecepatan 480 Mbps pada USB 2.0 yang saat ini umum dipakai.