Sony Intros Dual-Core Walkman Z in Japan

Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson already brought Google's Android operating system to its popular series of Walkman handsets, and it seems that Sony too felt the need to make a similar move with the release of a new device in its Walkman line-up that runs under the same mobile platform. Targeted at the Japanese market, the new Sony Walkman Z also comes with a large 4.3-inch touchscreen display, in addition to offering support for the great music capabilities than all of the Walkman products packed before it.  The new handset is based on the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, and will arrive on the market in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB flavors.  Moreover, it is powered by a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 application processor,...

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AMD Scores World Record for Fastest CPU

Those who thought Advanced Micro Devices was lagging behind Intel and had nothing surprising up its sleeve might revise their thinking once they learn that one of its upcoming chips actually entered the Guinness book of records just thanks to sheer speed. Advanced Micro Devices has a very good reason to be happy right now, if not even a trifle smug and vindicated. So far, the media's view on what the Sunnyvale, California-based company has in the pipeline has been, for the most part, cautiously optimistic. It turns out that people actually do have enough cause to really look forward to AMD's next CPU line, given the company's most recent accomplishment. Simply put, AMD just made the Guinness book of world records for having the fastest ever...

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BlackBerry Bold 9790 Emerges in New Photos

BlackBerry 7 OS already arrived on the market on a number of no less than four new mobile phones, but it seems that more of them might soon make an appearance on shelves, and that the BlackBerry Bold 9790 might be one of them.  The smartphone was just spotted in a photo that puts it next to the recently made available BlackBerry Bold 9900, and some info on its specifications list also emerged into the wild.  The yet-unannounced BlackBerry Bold 9790 is smaller than the latest Bold model from Canadian handset vendor Research In Motion, but it is said to arrive with the same hardware specifications as the latter.  Basically, is will boast the same fast 1.2GHz application processor, along with the touchscreen display that was introduced...

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Nokia Car Mode App for Nokia N9 and Symbian Belle Devices

Today, Nokia announced a new application specifically designed for its smartphones, namely the Nokia Car Mode software, which was meant to provide users with easier access to Nokia Drive, as well as to traffic updates and more while behind the wheel.  The new mobile application, set to become available for download via the Ovi Store in the near future for all of the Symbian Belle smartphones from the company (the Nokia 600, Nokia 700 and Nokia 701), as well as for the Nokia N9, is based on Qt, and was presented at the IAA (Internationale Automobil Ausstellung). The new Nokia Car Mode is the very first commercially available application that offers support for MirrorLink, a standard smartphone-to-car connectivity platform previously known...

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PNY Liquid Cooled GTX 580 Now Available in Europe

After it announced at the beginning of June that it has developed a special all-in-one version of the GTX 580 that uses water cooling in order to keep the temperatures of the GPU in check, PNY has now finally made official this liquid cooled graphics card to its European customers. This solution was developed together with Asetek and, according to PNY, is able to provide up to 30% cooler temperatures and quieter acoustics that the reference Nvidia design thanks to its custom water cooling system. The improved thermal performance also allowed PNY to raise the operating frequency of the GF110 core from Nvidia's recommended 772MHz to 857MHz, while the memory speed was also increased a bit to reach 4212MHz. All these changes were done without bringing...

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How To Root Samsung Galaxy S Firmware I9000XXJVS

On yesterday articles, we have downloaded and flashed the all new Samsung Galaxy S firmware I9000XXJVS and the next step is to root it and get the powerful SuperUser benefits, here is how to do this using popular ChainFire root using ODIN (just download the Google Android 2.3.5 compatible root file CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVS-v4.1-CWM3RFS.tar from the links below and flash using ODIN with settings as shown below). ODIN Configuration To Root I9000XXJVS ChainFire Root For I9000XXJVS [File : CF-Root-XX_OXA_JVS-v4.1-CWM3RFS.tar Size : 6.73 ...

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Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 M3 Available for Download

Early adopters should get ready for the first taste of Windows 8, and no, it’s not the Beta development milestone.  Instead, as I was expecting, Microsoft is sharing a pre-Beta Milestone 3 (M3) release of the next major version of the Windows client.  What the software giant is offering testers is a Windows Developer Preview. And just as with the new Internet Explorer Platform Preview releases, the first Windows 8 bits are designed for developers looking to already start building projects tailored to the OS.  In fact, the availability of the Windows 8 Developer Preview should be taken as an invitation from Microsoft to all developers. An invitation to explore all the new developer opportunities that Windows 8 catalyzes.  According...

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Intel Atom E6xx Supports Android 2.3 Gingerbread

The Atom line of CPUs from Intel is poised to welcome a new member early next year, although this won't exactly be its major step on the smartphone front, despite its repeated statements that it was working on something of the sort. Intel may not take pains towards leaking information on its products ahead of time, but whether it likes it or not, rumors and reports emerge anyway. The latest of its product lines to fall under the watchful gaze of market watchers is the Atom CPU series. Apparently, the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker intends to unleash a new processor in January, 2012. One might expect this to be the fabled smartphone chip that Intel has been saying it will eventually bring forth. Unfortunately, this is not the case,...

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Foxconn Quantum Force X79 Motherboard Gets Pictured

Motherboard makers are starting to get ready for the upcoming release of Intel's first Sandy Bridge-E desktop processors and one of the first to showcase an LGA 2011 solution for these CPUs is Foxconn with its Quantum Force X79. A pre-production version of this board has also been showcased at Computex fair in June of this year, but, since then, Foxconn has made a few changes to the layout of its X79 offering. These include the rearrangement of some of the expansion slots, a finalized design for the heatsink over the X79 chipset, and a slight rearrangement of the area next to the front-panel headers. Just like most other LGA 2011 motherboard that we have come to see until know, the Quantum Force X79 is equipped with four DIMM slots situated...

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You Don’t Want to Miss Windows 8 BUILD – Watch the Keynote Live

Anaheim will be the center of the Windows universe all of this week, with the Windows 8-centric BUILD conference kicking off as scheduled tomorrow, September 13th, at 9:00 AM PT.  Microsoft plans to share a preview of Windows 8, as well as product plans with developers attending the event, the company confirmed at the end of last week. At the time of this article the software giant has yet to reveal the full details of what devs have to look forward to, but believe me, BUILD is not an event that you want to miss.  Those of you that didn’t make it out to sunny Anaheim, California, can still access the BUILD sessions online, but ahead of such content becoming available, Microsoft will stream the opening keynote live tomorrow morning.  BUILD is the first place to dive deep into...

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