Nexus Prime in New Photo and Video [Updated]

There have been a wide range of rumors regarding the release of a new Nexus handset and, while all of them should be put to rest as soon as next week, when the smartphone is expected to be made official, a new photo with the phone appears to have just emerged, along with a short video preview.  Update: Screenshots with the new Ice Cream Sandwich platform have been added to the article. The next Google phone is expected to become available with the upcoming Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system on board.  The forthcoming device has leaked on Romanian site mobilissimo.ro, where some of its hardware specs were confirmed as well.  The new mobile phone is said to have been manufactured by Samsung and to arrive on shelves...

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White Galaxy S II 4G Available at Bell Canada Today

Samsung Galaxy S II 4G is one of the latest handsets to become available for purchase in Canada, and the handset is now up for sale via wireless carrier Bell in a white flavor as well, in addition to the usual black variant.  The handset features the same capabilities and specs as the usual version, and was even made available with the same price tag attached to it.  At Bell, those interested in the purchase of a Galaxy S II 4G device will have to pay only $149.95 (about $145 USD / 107 EUR) for it with the signing of a three-year contract, or a bit more if they commit to shorter term deals. The device is available free of contract as well.  The new mobile phone arrived on shelves at Bell with a large 4.3-inch screen display,...

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Asus Readies PCI Express 3.0 Compliant Maximus IV GENE-Z/GEN3

No more than a week has passed since Asus revealed its first LGA 1155 motherboards to feature support for PCI Express 3.0 and Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge processors and now the company has announced another PCIe 3.0 compliant board, the Asus ROG Maximus IV GENE-Z/GEN3. Asus' new motherboard uses the same design as the previous version of the Gene Z, which has now received PCI Express 3.0 compliant bridge chips to support this new standard. Otherwise, the board is identical with its non-GEN3 predecessor and includes an important number of enthusiast features like AMD CrossFireX and Nvidia SLI support, ROG Connect support and an on-board Supreme X-Fi sound chip. In addition to the two PCI Express x16 Gen 3 slots that are required for dual-GPU...

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AMD Opteron 4200 and 3200 Bulldozer CPUs Also Get Priced

Earlier today we reported that an US based retailer has listed online the prices of AMD's upcoming Opteron 6200-series processors based on the Bulldozer architecture, and now we found out that the same retailer has added to its offer processors from the Opteron 4200 and 3200 ranges. Together with the designations and the specifications of the single- and dual-socket Opteron chips, Bottom Line Telecommunications has also revealed the pricing of the CPUs. Starting with the Opteron 3200-series, this ranges in price from $114.45 (85.18 Euros) to $263.12 (995.8 Euros) and contains three processors. Two of these, the Opteron 3250 EE and 3260 EE, are low-voltage parts with four processing cores, a base clock of 2.5GHz and respectively 2.7GHz and a...

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Free Windows 8 Whitepapers Available from Microsoft

As Microsoft stressed repeatedly since BUILD, Windows 8 Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) is just a Developer Preview of the operating system.  As such, it should be no real surprise that developers are the focus of the release, with core user experiences being less of a priority, at least for the time being, although this is bound to change with the advent of Windows 8 Beta.  Early adopters already testing the Windows Developer Preview, and especially those devs already building Metro apps, can take advantage of a number of Windows 8 whitepapers offered by Microsoft.  All they have to do is make their way to the “White papers for Windows Developer Preview” webpage on the new Windows Dev Center.  There are no less than three examples...

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BlackBerry Curve 9360 Arrives in Indonesia

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has just announced the availability of its BlackBerry Curve 9360 smartphone on the market in Indonesia, featuring a price tag of Rp 3,599,000 (around $400 /300 EUR).  The new mobile phone was released in the country via RIM authorized partners such as PT. Comtech Cellular, PT. Selular Media Infotama and PT. Teletama Artha Mandiri. The new device offers users the possibility to try all of the benefits of the new BlackBerry OS 7 on an affordable device, RIM explains.  The latest addition to the company's Curve series packs a faster application processor than its predecessors, as well as various other enhancements inside.  “The new BlackBerry Curve 9360 is a stunning, easy-to-use smartphone...

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HP t200 Zero Client Enables Up to 15 Users to Share the Same PC

Once touted as the next big thing in computing, thin clients have been slow to catch the attention of the market, but HP seems determined to give this concept another try and has released the HP t200 Zero Client, which should offer business owners a nice alternative to the traditional desktop PCs. The HP t200 Zero Client is housed inside a small chassis weighting only 0.34 kg (12.1 oz), which provides its users with four USB 2.0 ports and a VGA ouput. After plugging in the required peripherals and a computer monitor, HP's thin client needs to be connected to a HP MultiSeat ms6200 desktop (either through USB or Ethernet) that supports up to 15 such devices. This relies on the Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 operating system to provide each user...

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x64 Windows 7 SP1 Can Cripple x86 Applications and Services

Microsoft is offerings customers an update designed to help them deal with x86-based applications or services being left crippled following the installation of Service Pack 1 (SP1) on computers running the 64-bit (x64) flavor of Windows 7.  x64 Windows 7, as well as its 64-bit predecessors, can also run 32-bit applications, but it seems that SP1 upgrades can introduce some issues.  According to the Redmond company, only customers running x64 Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 can be affected by the problem described in this article.  The software giant stresses that customers must also be running “some x86-based applications or services on the computer. [They also need to] install updates through Windows update without first...

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ADATA Launched Premier Pro DDR3 Memory Tweaked for Improved Stability

Memory specialist ADATA has just announced the introduction of a new line of DDR3 computer memory, called the Premier Pro Series, that targets IT professionals and promises to deliver outstanding stability and compatibility. Compared to standard memory, these new Premier Pro series modules are built only with DRAM chips that go through an extensive burn-in process, which is designed to spot the memory chips that have a tendency to fail. Once this process is finished and the DRAM memory is installed in the DIMM modules, ADATA claims that the Premier Pro Series goes through another series of tests. According to the company, these cover a wide range of failure scenarios that were encountered through years of field application, and which are also...

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NFS: The Run Gets PC System Requirements, Video and Screenshots

Electronic Arts has posted even more goodies for fans of its Need for Speed racing franchise, including PC system requirements for the upcoming Need for Speed: The Run title, as well as a new trailer, called On the Edge, and a batch of screenshots from that video. Need for Speed: The Run is set to be one of the most anticipated racing games of the year, as EA and its Black Box studio have tried to deliver a high quality, story-based experience using the all-new Frostbite 2 engine, courtesy of Battlefield 3 developer DICE. Now, after hearing that a demo for The Run will be out on October 18, even more information and goodies about the game have been released. First up, there are the minimum and recommended PC system requirements which owners...

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Nokia N9 Goes Live in Australia via Telstra

Nokia's one and only MeeGo device, the N9 has been confirmed in several markets, including Australia via Optus, Telstra and Vodafone. It appears that the MeeGo smartphone has just hit Australian shore via Telstra, which is the first carrier to offer the device in the country. Part of the “Beautifully designed” marketing campaign, Nokia N9 (16GB model) has been priced by Telstra at $840 AUD (about $820 or 612 EUR) and will be retailed along with multiple price options. Aussie Nokia fans can get the N9 with $20 per month on Telstra's $59 Freedom Connect plan over 24 months, meaning a total of $79 per month or they can choose to purchase the smartphone at no extra monthly cost with one of the three Telstra $79, $99 and $129 Freedom Connect plans. In...

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Gigabyte Delivers Micro-ATX H61M-USB3 Motherboard for LGA 1155 CPUs

Micro-ATX motherboards based on the Intel H61 chipset are a great buy for users not wanting to spend an arm and a leg for a Sandy Bridge system, and Gigabyte has just introduced a new LGA 1155 solution that should deliver on that promise, the H61M-USB3-B3. Since this is an entry level offering, the motherboard doesn't packs so many features as its more expensive siblings, but users will still get USB 3.0 support as well as Gigabyte's own Ultra Durable design. This means that the motherboard uses only solid state capacitors, that are supposed to have a longer operating life. In addition, the board features six phase CPU power, two DIMM sockets, that can support up to 16GB of DDR3 memory, and four SATA 3Gbps ports paired together with another...

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Apple Store Down

Days after launching the iPhone 4S, Apple has taken down its online store to accommodate pre-orders for the new device in the countries chosen for initial shipping. I’d speculate there’s more ‘in-store’ but, sadly, there’s nothing on the horizon that could count as a reason for Apple taking its store offline. Most likely, the single reason for the move is iPhone 4S pre-orders, which Apple confirmed would kick off around 3 a.m. in the States. Unlike previous years, iPhone buyers now have a choice of three carriers, all of which try to entice customers with an attractive offer. For example, Sprint, the new iPhone carrier this year, offers an unlimited data plan, albeit only through October. AT&T will leverage the 14.4 Mbps data transfer advertised...

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NVIDIA Doesn't Have a Rage Driver but Forces a Fix, More or Less

Rage turned out to be quite appropriately named for a game, although not for reasons one would expect, certainly not pleasant ones, though NVIDIA did just offer a way to get over most problems.  Rage is the new game from idSoftware and, knowing that these people crated Quake (among other things), there were, understandably enough, high expectations.  Unfortunately, even though the company had every intention to meet those standards, it ran into somewhat serious problems.  Basically, the game ended up suffering from rather serious graphics issues, particularly in regards to texture streaming (textures didn't load properly, especially while moving the point of view around with the mouse).  AMD already tried to assuage the...

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Windows 7 Running Asus Eee PC X101H Up for Pre-Order in Europe

When it announced the MeeGo-running Eee PC X101 netbook a couple a months ago, Asus also promised to introduce a Windows 7 version of this machine and this has just become available for pre-order in Europe where is listed at 229 Euros ($307 US). The Asus netbook is available from Amazon Germany and has suffered quite a few modifications from the original X101. The most important of these is the inclusion of a faster Atom N570 processor which offers two 1.66Ghz processing cores with Hyper-Threading support, 2MB of Level 2 cache and an integrated graphics core that is used to drive the 10.1-inch display with a 1024x600 resolution. This is quite a far cry from the original 1.33GHz Intel Atom N435 CPU with just 512KB of L2 cache offered in the...

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Download Office 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3) RTM in October 2011

Customers still running Office 2007 will receive a new upgrade for their version of the productivity suite sometime by the end of this month, according to Microsoft.  The software giant was targeting the fourth quarter of 2011 for the release of Office 2007 Service Pack 3 (SP3), but it appears that the wait is nearly over, with a launch date set by the end of October 2011. A specific availability deadline was not shared with the public at this point in time.  As usual, the new service pack covers both Office 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007, and of course, users will get to upgrade all components of the two products.  Most likely, SP3 will also be the final upgrade for Office 2007 and SharePoint Server 2007, with the Redmond company...

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HTC Sensation XL with Beats Audio Now Official

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has just announced the upcoming availability of a new handset packing Beats Audio, namely the HTC Sensation XL.  The new handset comes to the market soon after the release of HTC Sensation XE, the first smartphone from the company to include the said audio technology.  Running under Google's Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system flavor, the same as all the other devices in the Sensation family, the new handset sports hardware specifications that put it in line with the new HTC TITAN Windows Phone. Thus, it should will arrive on shelves with a large 4.7-inch Super LCD touchscreen display that can deliver a 480 x 800 pixel resolution, and also sports a 1.5 GHz single-core application processor...

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