Download Compiled VideoLAN VLC Media Player For Google Android

The hugely popular multi-platform, open-source VLC Media Player is well known for it's wide support for virtually every multimedia format available. The nifty media-player is already available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Apple iOS platforms, while Android port of this software is still under development in pre-alpha phase - we now have a first public compiled binary build of Android VLC Media Player for Android available for download. Similar to another popular media-player port of MPlayer to android, VLC for android will allow users to say goodbye to all the multimedia re-encodings as they will become a “supported format” for your device once VLC is in there. NEON vs NONEON There are two builds available of VLC for Android, known as NEON and...

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Four More AMD Opteron 6200 Bulldozer-Based CPUs Sighted

The fourth quarter of this year will mark the introduction of a new series of Opteron 6000-series processors based on the Bulldozer architecture and a recent leak has come to divulge the names, as well as the specs, of some of these upcoming AMD CPUs. Back in July, Gateway also leaked four Opteron server chips from the 6200 product family, but the configuration page of the Penguin Computers Altus 2850GTi, 2800i and 1800i machines has now increased this lineup to eight processors. Only two of the four Opteron 6200 chips to be revealed feature 16 computing cores, while the remaing two carry 12 and 8 cores, respectively. Making our way from top to bottom, the most powerful of these CPUs are the 16-core Opteron 6282 SE and Opteron 6274, which include...

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Intel Sandy Bridge-E CPUs Will Launch on November 14

The rumors regarding Intel's plans to launch the first high-performance desktop processors based on the Sandy Bridge-E architecture on November 15 seem to be wrong, as a recent report that just hit the Web suggests these CPUs will actually arrive one day sooner, on November 14. Oddly enough, the processors won't be launched alongside Intel's own DX79SI and DX79TO LGA 2011 motherboards since these two solutions won't arrive until December of this year. According to VR-Zone, this is the first time that Intel won't launch motherboard products together with a new processor series. Intel will however release two new LGA 2011 coolers for its CPUs, one air cooler that is reportedly lighter than the one currently shipping with Extreme Edition chips,...

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Motorola PHOTON WiMAX Coming Soon to Japan via KDDI

Motorola Mobility and KDDI have just announced that Motorola PHOTON WiMAX will soon be available in Japan. Motorola PHOTON will be the first smartphone to make way to a range of new Motorola phones, who apparently plans to return on the Japanese market. The WiMAX-enabled smartphone is powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread and offers users an improved experience while on the go, thanks to MOTOBLUR user interface that provides quick access to SNS services and live widgets directly from the homescreen. Even though Japanese handset manufacturers such as Sharp, Fujitsu, Toshiba and NEC have already started to launch 1.2GHz-1.4GHz dual core smartphones, Motorola PHOTON is still an interesting alternative with its 1GHz dual-core Tegra 2 CPU. In addition,...

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Tegra 3-Powered ZTE T98 Tablet PC Spotted

Chinese manufacturer ZTE has one new device up its sleeve, which will certainly make the hearts of enthusiasts beat faster than before, namely the T98 tablet PC.  The exciting thing about this small device is the fact that it should arrive on shelves with a processor featuring double the number of cores available in today's high end tablets.  That would be four cores, packed inside a slim device that you will be able to carry around anywhere. A 7-inch slate supposedly packing the computing power of a desktop PC.  The next generation tablet PCs and high-end smartphones are expected to include quad-core application processors, and NVIDIA's Tegra 3 chip is one of the solutions that will make that happen.  Before the end of...

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BSQUARE DragonBoard Dev Platform for Android Now Generally Available

Qualcomm and BSQUARE have just announced the general availability of the latter's DragonBoard development platform for Android devices. The platform is based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon APQ8060 CPU and promises to offer handset manufacturers and app devs with early access to the APQ8060 processor, a flexible and powerful development environment.  According to BSQUARE, DragonBoard offers features such as: exposed connectors, adapters and expansion headers including JTAG, Ethernet and mini USB.  Those using the DragonBoard platform will be provided with feature-rich levels of development, as well as testing, which ultimately allows OEMs to do early proper prototyping of APQ8060 based systems. “We are excited to continue our relationship...

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Windows 8 Accelerometer, Inclinometer, Compass, and Gyrometer

Tailored to next-generation form factors, Windows 8 will allow users to interact with their devices via a variety of input models, from the traditional mouse and keyboard to touch.  By extension, applications running in Windows 8 will also be NUI-friendly, as long as the devices themselves will permit it. Essentially, when taking advantage of Windows 8’s natural user interface capabilities, developers will be able to incorporate motion-sensor input into their projects.  Those early Windows 8 adopters that require a bit of guidance from Microsoft can download this free whitepaper “Overview of motion and device orientation for Windows Developer Preview.” “This paper provides information about writing apps that consume accelerometer,...

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Zotac Intros PCI and PCI Express x1 GeForce GT 520 Graphics Cards

Graphics card maker Zotac has just announced it has updated its GPU line to feature two new solutions based on the Nvidia GeForce GT 520 design that use the PCI and PCI Express x1 interfaces in order to come as an upgrade path for users with pre-built systems that have limited expansion capabilities. Despite the interfaces used, both of these video cards employ a similar design, the only difference being that PCI Express x1 solution comes equipped with an active cooling solution. Outside of this change, Zotac's latest creations have the same 810MHz core clock, while the 512MB of DDR3 video buffer works at 666MHz (1333 MHz data rate). This connects to the GeForce 520 GPU via a 64-bit wide memory bus. As far as the available video outputs are...

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Toshiba Announces C600 and L700 Series Laptops

Toshiba is definitely making a point of putting its prospective buyers on alert, announcing more than a few computers, in this case two laptop series, about a week before they actually start shipping. Toshiba has actually prepared a fairly extensive product collection for release at the start of October, one that includes two certain laptop series. They are called C600 and L700 and are intended for budget-conscious customers and mainstream/school use, respectively. The former series is made of 15.6-inch and 17.3-inch machines, powered by AMD APUs (accelerated processing units) or Intel Pentium or Core i3 CPUs (central processing units). 4 GB of DDR3 memory are present, along with 640 GB HDDs and USB 2.0, plus DVD Super Multi drives and 802.11n...

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AMD Prepares A85FX FM2 Chipset for Q1 2012 Launch

In the first quarter of 2012, AMD is rumored to update its chipset lineup with a new Fusion Controller Hub (FCH) that improves the specs of its predecessor by adding support for the company's upcoming APUs and a wider range of storage features. Compared to the A75 FCH used in today's high-end FM1 motherboards for Llano APUs, the A85FX, as the new chipset is reportedly dubbed, will add support for RAID 5 and will increase the number of available SATA 6Gbps ports from six to eight. The rest of the chipset specifications will be carried over from the current A75, so the A85FX is expected to offer a total of 16 USB ports. As most of you have guessed by now, four of these will support the USB 3.0 standard, while the remaining 12 are split between...

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Nokia Confirms Future Software Updates for N9

Following public's huge interest for the N9, Nokia explained how the company will support the MeeGo smartphone in the future. Users worried by the quantity and quality of the apps compatible with Nokia's N9, as well as those wondering if the phone will ever receive software updates will be happy to know that the Finnish giant has set up a dedicated program that focuses on exactly these two aspects. According to Janne Heikkinen, Nokia’s Product Planning Director, whose team has brought the device to the market, the number of N9 compatible apps is growing fast in the Ovi Store.  Although Nokia N9 will be delivered with Angry Birds and WiFi Hotspot apps on board, additional applications can be downloaded from Ovi Store. “We have many activities...

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Fix Windows 8 Build 8102 M3 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V VM Issues

Early adopters running Windows 8 Developer Preview Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) as a hosted OS inside a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V virtual machine might come across some issues, Microsoft confirmed.  The problem impact not just Windows 8 client, but also Windows Server 8 Developer Preview, both of which were released to testers during the first days of BUILD in mid-September 2011. According to the software giant, the glitch only impacts those early adopters running the early testing Build of Windows 8 in a virtual machine using the hypervisor role of Windows Server 2008 R2.   “In this scenario, you may experience one or more of the following issues:The Windows Developer Preview or Windows Server Developer Preview virtual machine stops responding. The Windows Server 2008 R2...

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Fujitsu-Toshiba Arrows Z ISW11F Arrives in Japan in November

One of the mobile phones that should arrive on shelves in Japan in the near future is the Fujitsu-Toshiba Arrows Z ISW11F, a device that was just made official, and which was included in the KDDI lineup for the remainder of the year.  The new handset arrives on the market with Google's Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread operating system on board, and packs high-end hardware capabilities, capable of offering an impressive experience to its users. The new device also sports a waterproof design, which adds even more flavor to its appeal.  Those users in Japan who will purchase the new mobile phone will enjoy the capabilities of a dual-core TI OMAP4430 application processor packed inside it, with each core running at 1.2GHz. Moreover, the handset...

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HTC Amaze 4G Arrives at T-Mobile on October 12th

HTC Amaze 4G, the smartphone that was long rumored to be on its way to the airwaves of T-Mobile in the United States, is now official, with an October 12th release date attached to it.  The handset has been unveiled with a price tag of $259.99 (around 190 Euros) with the signing of a two year contract agreement and after a $50 mail-in-rebate. It will become available for pre-order on October 10th on the carrier's website.  The new mobile phone is being launched exclusively on the airwaves of T-Mobile, and is said to include one of the most advanced camera experiences that any other mobile phone out there can offer.  The handset sports an 8-megapixel photo snapper, which can offer not only 1080p HD video recording capabilities,...

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New Nokia Store Client Previewed on Symbian^3 Devices

Owners of devices running under the Symbian^3 operating system flavor are now able to download and install a new Nokia Store client on their handsets, coming straight from the Nokia Beta Labs.  The new Store client is being offered only as a preview at the moment, but it should become available for all devices in the near future.  The new Store QML client has been made available for download in a beta flavor on mobile phones like Nokia C6-01, C7-00, C7 Astound, E7-00, N8-00, X7-00. The development team also notes that the new application is meant to replace the older Store client, and that it will be pushed out on all handsets powered by Symbian^3 and Symbian Anna.  With the new application, users will be able to enjoy about...

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Phone 5 'Assistant' Detailed

Earlier today, it was revealed (though not confirmed by Apple) that the next-generation iPhone 5 will ship with a ton of enhancements, in terms of both hardware and software. Described as “the biggest game changer” in the iPhone to come, a Siri-based Assistant utility will be implemented system-wide in iOS 5 and it will only be functional on high-specced iPhone 5 devices. This is because the feature requires the dual-core A5 SOC (system on a chip) and additional RAM. According to the report in question, Apple’s iPhone 5 will ship with 1GB of RAM (double the memory of the iPad 2 and the iPhone 4). So, how does Assistant work? In a nutshell, it just listens to what you have to say and it delivers. For example, you can just text-message one of...

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Microsoft Puts People First with Windows Phone Mango

The latest mobile operating system flavor from Microsoft is almost here. The time to taste Mango has arrived, and all owners of Windows Phones should soon be able to fully enjoy the new platform release on their devices, along with a new perspective over the use of mobile phones.  With Mango, Microsoft is trying to “Put People First,” and this is the tag line that accompanies the new Windows Phone platform release in official materials.  The first video embedded below will offer you a quick look at some of the features that the new Mango OS flavor will bring in this direction, while the second will get you through a more detailed presentation of the new OS.  According to Microsoft, since the main purpose of mobile phones was...

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Nokia Publishes Windows Phone App in the Marketplace

The first Windows Phone application coming from Finnish handset vendor Nokia is now available via the Windows Phone Marketplace. Dubbed App Highlights and available in the Marketplace here (Zune link), the new software is meant to offer users the possibility to easily find the latest and most appealing applications for their handsets, Mon Windows Phone reports (via).  Moreover, the new mobile software is said to arrive with live updates in the package, as well as with featured content, local and global app lists, and many other features.  For the time being, however, the new mobile application is not available for download, but it should not be too long before it emerges on devices.  Nokia already announced that it would come...

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AT&T's Samsung Focus S Emerges in Live Photo

AT&T has already unveiled plans to bring to its shelves a number of no less than three handsets powered by Microsoft's new Windows Phone Mango operating system, and the Samsung Focus S that just emerged in a live photo was one of them. The mobile phone arrives on the market as the successor of last year's Samsung Focus, and brings along a new set of features courtesy of its Windows Phone Mango OS flavor, as well as due to the higher hardware specifications it was packed with.  As stated above, the new Windows Phone Mango device was already made official, though AT&T has released only details regarding its specifications, without offering photos with it. However, an image with the Focus S has just emerged, courtesy of Pocketnow  When...

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