Windows 8 Boots in 8 Seconds

How’s this for fast? Windows 8 boots in as little as 8 seconds due to a new fast startup mode that Microsoft introduced and first demoed today. Check out the video embedded below for the demonstration of Windows 8’s amazing start-up time. Any faster and it would be instantaneous.  And in case you were wondering, that’s 8 seconds from the moment the user hits the power button on a device that’s been completely turned off.  Windows 8 boot on steroids is the result of start-up optimizations which involve “upgrading” cold start-up with additional features of a power-saving state designed to put some components of the OS on the hard drive.  “Our solution is a new fast startup mode which is a hybrid of traditional cold boot and resuming from hibernate,” revealed Gabe Aul, a director...

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BlackBerry Bold 9900 Gets Launched in South Africa

Recently, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion and wireless carrier Vodacom announced the release of BlackBerry Bold 9900 smartphone on the market in South Africa. This is the thinnest BlackBerry smartphone to date, measuring only 10.5mm thick, and is also the first smartphone in RIM's Bold lineup to put together a touchscreen display with a QWERTY keyboard.  The new handset sports the popular BlackBerry Bold design, while packing new technologies, including support for NFC (Near Field Communications), which enables users easily pair it with NFC-enabled accessories, or read SmartPoster tags.  BlackBerry Bold 9900 features a beautiful design, with an easy-to-use QWERTY keyboard, and packs premium materials, such as a brushed...

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AMD Confirms FX-Series CPUs Will Launch in Q4 2011

An AMD representative recently confirmed that the company's first desktop FX-Series chips based on the high-performance Bulldozer architecture will arrive in Q4 of this year, and not Q3 as initially though.  This information was released by John Fruehe, the Director of Product Marketing for Server, Embedded and FireStream products at AMD, in the comments section of one of its blog posts were it announced the first shipments of 16-core Interlagos CPUs. “Interlagos is a server part, there is no desktop variant. The client version of Bulldozer is Zambezi and it will launch in Q4,” said Fruehe. The company representative refrained himself from providing any other details regarding the launch of these chips, but a report that came to light...

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Windows 8, Always a Codename, Never a Brand

Windows for the first half of 2011, and before that, even though the use of the Windows 8 moniker has already widespread, including in Redmond.  It was Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division, who first confirmed that Windows 8 was the official codename of Windows vNext, although at the point of the confirmation, this detail was somewhat common knowledge.  It appears that a number of people indicated to Mary-Jo Foley that Windows 8 could be a codename and nothing more beyond that.  Sinofsky himself stressed the fact that Windows 8 might never end up as the commercial brand for the next version of Windows.  There’s no telling what path the software giant will take when it comes down to the branding strategy for the next generation of Windows, but apparently...

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Apacer Technology Presents 16 GB RAM Module

The DRAM market has been going through a continuous decline for about a year now, or longer, and this means, among other things, that Apacer's newest product will sell for considerably less than it would otherwise have. Apacer is a company known for, among other things, creating many memory products for a variety of purposes. Unfortunately, this means that it has been suffering the consequences of continually falling spot prices for memory chips, the same as so many other companies, those that didn't back out of the field altogether that is. Due to a combination of oversupply (caused by rapid manufacturing process advancement) and low demand, DRAM modules have been selling poorly. This led to today's conditions, when even 8 GB kits are sold...

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AMD Sees Newly-Released 16-Core Chips as Priority

AMD may have hoped to succeed in launching the Bulldozer during the third quarter of 2011, but even with the formal release of the Interlagos, the Bulldozer is still not coming out in time.  When Advanced Micro Devices issued a certain press release yesterday, part of the consumer base no doubt rejoiced.  Basically, the Sunnyvale, California-based company announced it had begun shipping the first Bulldozer processors.  Unfortunately, the downer to the news was the fact that only one chip, the 16-core Opteron 'Interlagos', was shipping to key partners.  Apparently, as reports now have it, the company was forced to scrap its plans to push availability in the July-September period and settled for the fourth quarter instead.  The...

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Move to a new home

After a day of test, finally starting today we're moving to a new home, previously this blog address was "dannzfay.blogspot.com" move to "dannzfay.c...

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