According to Electronista, the exhibition CeBIT Apple, Siemens and another company, Sisvel, was forced to close for violating patents exhibit booth one of the companies producing netbooks and electronic books. The name of this company is not disclosed, the contents of the alleged infringement of patents is also unknown.

On Thursday last week the lawyers of the three companies presented her a fine of 10 thousand euros, and the next day, exhibition, visited Germany and the police closed the company's stand.

A member of the Apple reported that it was not the only company to which Apple had a patent claim.

This incident is typical at CeBIT: many companies are placing it at the exhibition each other claim for patent infringement.

Via Electronista

OCZ Company at CeBIT, presented terabaytny SSD-drive of a series of Z.

The speed of reading a new solid state drive technology based mnogoyacheechnoy memory of 600 MB / sec write speed – 500 MB / sec. Such shustrosti in the work has been achieved through the interface connection of PCIe, as well as RAID-controller with 256 MB of cache on board.

At this time, OCZ is working on a recycling drive, which should be improved cooling system.

Start date of supply is unknown.

More news from CeBIT, 2009.

We just wrote about yesterday, again unusual computer from Asus – Eee Keyboard, presented at the exhibition CES and CeBIT. However, the latest version, which was shown at CeBIT is very different from the original.

Now, the information on the prices of new products series Eee. Reportedly, the wired version will cost $ 400, wireless – $ 600. At the same time filling Keeyboard'y will consist of «atomnonogo» 1,6-GHz processor, 1 / 2 GB of RAM and a 16 / 32 GB SSD.

To be honest, the idea is interesting, but, in fact, is a laptop without a display. Its popularity seems to us questionable.

The site WePC.com conducted a contest for ideas on creating a conceptual laptops. One such concept from Asus has already been presented in Germany at the world's largest international exhibition devoted to information and telecommunication technologies, CeBit.

As far as can be described as laptop, is difficult. Rather, a large e-book. Nevertheless, the site WePC.com can vote for the concept and the manufacturer with a large number of votes will be taken for implementing the ideas into practice.

More news on the conceptual designs.

E-book market is experiencing rapid growth indeed. Only we have published news about BeBook 2 as received information of another such device. Company Onyx International reported that at its booth at the upcoming CeBIT exhibition will show new name Boox.

• Boox – this e-book is made on the basis of electronic ink (e-ink). Hardware Specifications are:
• 6-inch touch display, showing the 16 gradations of gray;
• 512 megabytes of flash memory;
• processor with a clock speed of 532 megahertz;
• 128 megabytes of RAM;
• embedded module WiFi;
• Support for text formats, ePub, PDF, HTML, TXT, CHM;
• Support image formats JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF;
• Support audio MP3;
• function of speech synthesis;
• 2.5-mm connector mini-Jack;
• slot for flash cards, SD / MMC;
• USB-host.

Unfortunately, the details of the price that has not, but before the CeBIT exhibition is already less than a week – need to wait a bit.

Journalists Chinese news portal Engadget Chinese at a press conference on MSI, which was held in anticipation of the exhibition CeBIT, managed to live to see the superfine new laptop from the company – X-Slim X340.

As «atomic» X320, weighs «340th» with 4-element battery 1,27 kg. Resolution 13.4-inch screen is 1366 x 768. Processor older models too seriously «Atom» – Stone Energy Penryn. Graphic chip, one can say the standard – GMA4500 with support for HDMI.

The cost will be less than the new $ 1000.

The well-known Taiwanese manufacturer of electronics, the company Gigabyte, said that in early March at the CeBit in Germany, it will introduce new netbuki with the code names of M1028, M1024 and M1022. Photos new products at this time are not available, but the known size of the screen all models 10 inches and that the display model M1028 would be turning.

M1028 is equipped with a chip on the motherboard and 945GSE Processor Intel Atom N270 1.6 GHz. Model M1022 will be a more powerful processor – N280 1.66 GHz.

Expected that the M1024 on the characteristics will be the same as the M1028. However, the shell must be thinner.

Reach the shops netbuki to be in the second quarter of 2009. Prices are not yet known.