GeForce GTX 580 Classified Are EVGA's Latest Overclocking Beasts

The market for video controllers has just become slightly bigger now that EVGA has completed its latest high-end, overclocking-friendly controllers, based on NVIDIA's reference GTX 580. There are already a myriad of video cards selling around the world, but this is never a deterrent for companies that deal in such things. EVGA proved this just well now, having completed its newest couple of high-grade boards. The newcomers are versions of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 580, the best single-GPU card that the Santa Clara, California-based outfit has at the moment. The company didn't cut any corners when it made them, even if this did lead to the air-cooled one selling for $550 / $600 (407 / 444 Euro) and the liquid cooled ones for $680 / $730 (504 / 541...

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Motorola DROID Bionic Only $149.99 at Amazon

Motorola DROID Bionic, the high-end Android-based smartphone that arrived at Verizon Wireless a few weeks ago with support for the wireless carrier's LTE network, is now available for purchase via Amazon Wireless for only $149.99 (around 110 Euros) with the signing of a two-year contract agreement.  The mobile phone features an off-contract price tag of $699.99, and can be seen on Amazon's website here.  Motorola DROID Bionic was one of the most anticipated LTE-capable smartphones at Verizon Wireless.  Unveiled to the world in January, the handset was expected to arrive on shelves sometime in spring, but Motorola decided that it would use some design changes, and pushed it back four months or so.  Verizon launched the new...

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Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 on RIM's Developer Portal

Soon, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is expected to add to its offering a new series of devices, and the BlackBerry Bold 9790 and BlackBerry Curve 9380 should be among them, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.  The handset vendor has been long rumored to plan the release of these smartphones, yet no confirmation on this has been made available until now.  CrackBerry reports that the two BlackBerry Bold 9790 and Curve 9380 devices have just emerged on the company's BlackBerry App World developer portal, which can be considered almost an official confirmation on their existence.  Moreover, the fact that they emerged on the developer portal shows that it might not be too long before RIM will bring them...

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Warning, Don’t Use Windows 8

I was sold on an iPad 2 before I left for the BUILD conference last week. I told my friends I’d get one. I had gone through all the pros and cons. “I couldn’t wait” to, all of a sudden, be upgraded to a new level coolness. Then, on a small one hour break from BUILD when I couldn’t find any interesting sessions from an end user point of view, I walked into a BestBuy some 2 miles from the Anaheim Convention Center.  I was directed to the iPad 2 stand and played with the device for 5 minutes while an employee was telling me how this product basically sells itself, most probably thinking that I was an easy sell, since I had declared from the start that I was going to buy one.  He must have been left scratching his head when I walked out...

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Verizon's HTC Trophy Spotted with Mango, to Taste It Next Week

Mobile phone carrier Verizon Wireless is expected to start the delivery of the new Windows Phone Mango software update for its HTC Trophy customers as soon as next week, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.  The wireless services provider is reportedly gearing up for the deployment of Mango starting with September 27th, the same day that AT&T will begin the move.  Apparently, a company's representative has already confirmed that, and the mobile phone itself was already spotted into the wild with the new OS flavor on board.  A WPCentral reader talked to a Verizon rep about the Trophy, and learned that the software update might be released on the same day as it will arrive at AT&T, it seems.  When asked...

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AMD Isn't Satisfied with the Performance of GlobalFoundries

Even though GlobalFoundries has shouted out time and time again that its 32nm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) fabrication process doesn't face any sort of problems, an AMD official recently refuted these claims as it stated that GloFo's advanced fabrication node isn't actually where it would need to be in terms of performance. "We have been pretty open in that we see room for improvement on the GlobalFoundries side, I think that is very much true," said Thomas Seifert, CFO and former interim CEO of AMD during the Deutsche Bank Technology Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. "Performance is not where it needs to be and we are driving them very hard to where we need them to be in order to continue to grow this partnership," concluded the company's rep. According...

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