Nokia's Windows Phones in Q4 2011, Released on a Country-by-Country Basis

Nokia will manage to launch its first Windows Phone-based devices before the end of the ongoing year, the company's CEO has confirmed in a recent interview. Stephen Elop reaffirmed Nokia's commitment to make its first Windows Phone devices available for purchase before the end of the ongoing year, though he did not offer specific info on the countries that will receive these phones.  However, he did say that the company plans on launching these phones progressively around the world, on a country-by-country basis.  Clearly, the roll-out will stretch beyond the fourth quarter of 2011, though it remains to be seen how long it will take for these devices to arrive in most markets around the globe.  We already learned that there might be only six European countries included in the...

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Intel Shows Off Its Sandy Bridge-E Liquid Cooler

Intel's next line of Sandy Bridge CPUs may not have totally impressed onlookers when they got previewed, but at least the coolers meant for them will turn some heads once they ship.  Intel intended to ship the Sandy Bridge-E line of central processing units before the end of the ongoing year (2011) but a delay was uncovered not long ago.  It also appears that the chips might not exactly live up to the hype they stirred, at least according to previews.  Whether or not any of the above is true, there is something certain about the upcoming units, and this extends to more than their use of the LGA 2011 socket.  What Intel decided some time ago was that it will no longer ship coolers in the same bundle as the CPUs themselves.  Instead,...

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Nokia to Launch Its First Windows Phone in One Month

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is reportedly set to launch its first handset running under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system in about one month, with limited availability around the world. Apparently, the handset vendor is on track to launching a Windows Phone in mid-October, and also plans on making it available for purchase before the end of the ongoing year, yet confirmation on this still has to emerge.  However, the new device will be released only in a handful of European countries in the beginning, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.  Nokia is expected to have its first Windows Phone available in a number of around six markets in Europe in the beginning, though no specific info on the matter emerged...

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AMD Showcases Working 28nm Radeon HD 7000 Series GPU

AMD seems to be making great progress with its upcoming Radeon HD 7000 series of graphics cards as the company has recently showcased a system powered by a next-generation Southern Islands GPU, to demonstrate that is on-track to deliver its first 28nm graphics chips by the end of this year. The system presented during AMD's media event is based on a notebook development platform and uses a yet-unnamed GPU. "Today, we provided an early look at our upcoming 28nm next-gen notebook discrete GPU, driving Codemasters’ cutting-edge driving simulator, Dirt 3, demonstrating that we have working 28nm technology in house and already delivering a great gaming experience," reads an AMD statement cited by Xbit Labs. The company chose not to disclose any...

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Intel Hasswell 22nm CPU Will Enable 10-Day Battery Life

As CPUs transition to more advanced manufacturing processes and architectures, they are bound to gain power efficiency benefits, not just performance boosts over their predecessors, and Intel's Hasswell project appears poised to prove this. Intel, as always, has a more or less clearly cut roadmap, one that extends to several years in the future. This means that the Santa Clara, California-based company already knows what it can and wants to achieve with not just the upcoming next-generation CPU line, but the other successors down the line as well. In 2013, the Hasswell architecture is scheduled to take center stage, and though the time is a bit far off, Intel still talked about it. Apparently, in addition to the expected performance boosts,...

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ESET NOD32 Offline Update 6461 (20110913)

ESET NOD32 Offline Update 6461 (20110913) | 40.3 MBUpdate your NOD32 without internet connection. Compatable with:  - NOD32 Smart Security (all versions)  - NOD32 Antivirus (all versions) Steps To Offline Update:  - Extract to any folder. You should get a folder called "eset_upd" along with the update files inside.  - Move that folder to the C:\. (You should have "c:\eset_upd")  - Open up the NOD32 Control Center by clicking on the system tray icon.  - Open the "Update" screen and click on "Setup"  - In the "Server" dropdown list, choose the last item which should point to C:\eset_upd.  - Click OK to close the update setup window.  - Back at the update screen, click "Update now" Download here or h...

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