Mac OS X 10.7.2 Lion May be Released Tomorrow

Citing reliable connections, a Japanese source that has been previously accurate in dishing out Apple rumors is now reporting that Mac OS X 10.7.2 will arrive ahead of the iCloud launch, as well as before iOS 5. Suggesting that the second incremental update to Lion may arrive as early as tomorrow, Japanese blog Macotakara says both OS X 10.7.2 and iTunes 10.5 will be released before iOS 5. Apple has scheduled the launch of its latest iOS version for October 12. iCloud is set to debut publicly on the same day. While there is no confirmation from Cupertino that Mac OS X 10.7.2 will be a system requirement to use all or certain iCloud features, developers have been tasked with testing both, extensively, and in tandem. iOS 5 will be heavily integrated...

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Boost Mobile Puts Samsung Transform Ultra up for Sale

Mobile phone carrier Boost Mobile has just made available for purchase on its airwaves a new highly appealing device, namely the Samsung Transform Ultra. The new mobile phone arrived on shelves as the first handset on the carrier's offering to run under the new Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.  The new Samsung Transform Ultra went available at the wireless carrier with a price tag of $229.99 (around 171 EUR) attached to it, contract free.  However, users who would like to enjoy the capabilities of this device on Boost Mobile's airwaves will have to choose either the Android Monthly Unlimited pre-paid plan from the carrier, or the Daily Unlimited offering.  The new device comes with appealing features packed inside, all...

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Intel Sandy Bridge-E Boards Have Problems with Large CPU Coolers

The new quad-channel memory support introduced by Intel in the high-performance Sandy Bridge-E processors seems to cause quite a bit of problems to motherboard makers who are left wondering how to include support for large CPU coolers without giving up on features. When Intel set out to develop the Sandy Bridge-E architecture, one of the most important improvements it wanted to bring with these chips was the support for higher memory bandwidths. In order to achieve this, the chip maker settled on increasing the number of memory channels the processors can support and decided to use a quad-channel configuration. In theory this should be able to provide 33% more bandwidth than the tri-channel memory controller used in the Nehalem core, but the...

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Nokia 603 Emerges with Symbian Belle

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for the release of its first devices based on Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, but it seems that they did not forget about Symbian fans either, and that a new handset based on this platform will soon arrive on shelves, namely Nokia 603. The upcoming mobile phone is unofficial at the moment, but its specifications have already leaked into the wild accompanied by a series of photos with it. The handset was spotted into the wild before, via User Agent Header file and FCC documents, and the guys over at symbiantweet have just come up with the said images and specs of it, courtesy of an anonymous tipster, it seems.  In the image to the left, meant to promote the device, you can see the...

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RAMorexic Windows 8 Runs on 64MB of Memory

Cutting down the overall runtime memory requirements of the core system was one of the key engineering tenets of building Windows 8, according to Steven Sinofsky, President, Windows and Windows Live Division. As such, not only is Windows 8 tailored to the same system requirements as Windows 7, but it’s also sporting a consistent collection of memory usage optimizations set up to boost responsiveness on a range of devices, including those equipped with SoC architectures, get concurrent applications running smoothly, and even prolong battery life by minimizing energy consumption.  “We made hundreds of specific changes to minimize OS memory use in Windows 8,” revealed Bill Karagounis, the group program manager of the Performance team.  I...

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RIM's QNX-Based OS to Be Called BBX

A new interesting rumor regarding Research In Motion's plans of the future has just emerged, suggesting that the company might be set to call its upcoming QNX-based operating system BBX.  For those out of the loop, we should note that the Canadian mobile phone maker has already announced plans to move away for the current BlackBerry OS, and to adopt a platform that will be based on the QNX software, which is already powering the BlackBerry PlayBook.  The new mobile operating system should be loaded on new, more powerful smartphones, but RIM did not offer specific info on what these devices are all about until now. However, a recently leaked slide from a QNX event shows that the name under which the new mobile platform could be unveiled...

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