Porsche Design BlackBerry Bold 9980 Confirmed for October 27

The collaboration between Research and Motion and Porsche Design is no myth at all, as the companies have just announced a common launch event on October 27. The folks over at Suff have just received an invitation to this event that confirms the collaboration with Porsche Design. “You have been specially selected to join us for a VIP preview evening on an exclusive collaboration between Porsche Design and BlackBerry,” the invitation reads. The event will be held in Dubai, on Thursday, October 27 from 7pm and 10pm. Rumor has it that the companies will announced the mysterious BlackBerry 9980, also known as Knight. According to the latest hearsay, BlackBerry 9980 is a luxury adaptation of the Bold 9900, which is specifically targeted for UAE...

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Rambus Makes Profits for Something Other than Lawsuits This Time

Rambus is one of the most infamous patent trolls out there, but it looks like, this once, it was able to rake in some profits without any settlement payments.  Rambus made the news quite a few times last year, and the years before, for how it got into patent litigations with a whole bunch of companies.  As such, it may have been a surprise to see a distinct lack of such court actions during 2011, not that other trolls didn't rear their heads, of course.  Regardless, the fact is that Rambus didn't get any lawsuit settlement payments recently, but that didn't stop it from making profits anyway.  After several quarters of less than stellar financial evolution, the company reported profits for the third one of the ongoing...

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Intel Retailers Raise CPU Prices After Bulldozer Launch

The disappointing performance that AMD's FX-Series desktop processors have turned out to deliver, has apparently made Intel reconsider the prices of its Core i5 and Core i7 processors, which now seem to retail for higher prices than before Bulldozer was out. Usually, a product launch by the competition, forces the other company to lower the prices of its hardware in order to prevent sales from being disrupted and losing market share. In the case of Bulldozer however quite the contrary happened, as Intel has seen AMD's inability to deliver a compelling product as an opportunity to increase the margins of its products. Using the Geizhals.at price comparison engines, one of the largest of its kind in the world, Bright Side of News analyzed...

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Intel 520-Series Cherryville SSDs to Include SandForce Controller - Report

With the launch of the high-performance Cherryville series of solid state drives Intel will continue the tradition started with its the 510-series SSDs and will use a third-party controller which will be built by SandForce, according to a report that just hit the Web. The first rumors regarding Intel's plans to utilize SandForce controllers in their SSDs appeared quite some time ago, and recently SweClockers claimed that it has seen a document that confirms these reports. According to the Swedish website, the controller used by Intel for its 520-series solid state drives is similar to the one included in Corsair's or OCZ's SSDs. In this report is indeed true, than Cherryville SSDs should be able to reach sequential read and write transfer rates...

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Nokia 603 Starts Shipping

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has just announced that its new Nokia 603 smartphone has started shipping, and that it will arrive in user's hands in the near future. The new mobile phone was unveiled to the world only a few weeks ago with the new Symbian Belle operating system on board.  The handset features a powerful 1GHz application processor, complemented by a large 3.5-inch touchscreen display.  It also comes with a high-quality camera on the back, with support for video recording, as well as with great connectivity capabilities, including WiFi, Bluetooth or 3G.  Moreover, the new mobile phone was made official with NFC capabilities inside, the same as other new devices from Nokia.  The new Nokia 603 also packs various...

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AMD E2-3200 Makes Appearance in HP TouchSmart AIO System

Expected to arrive in the fourth quarter of this year, the entry-level AMD E2-3200 APUs based on the Llano architecture has made its appearance in the TouchSmart 320m series of all-in-one systems produced by HP. AMD has designed the E2-3200 to be used in computing system that don't necessitate vast amounts of computing power and it includes two processing cores, with a clock speed of 2400MHz. These are paired together with 1 MB of Level 2 cache and an integrated DDR3-1600 memory controller, while also packing an on-die graphics core which is dubbed the Radeon HD 6370D. Since the E2-3200 is an entry-level APU, the Radeon graphics unit is limited at supporting 160 stream processors clocked at a rather low 443MHz operating frequency. In the HP...

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NVIDIA CEO Confirms Mobile Roadmap: Kal-El, Wayne, Logan and Stark

Chip maker Nvidia has started to gain market share on the mobile market, and it seems that the company wants an even bigger chunk of it, and that it might also have the means to get it.  Previous rumors suggested that the company was working on new mobile application processors to address the various segments of the mobile market, along with the various needs that users have, and all have been just confirmed, right from the horse's mouth.  Mr. Jen-Hsun Huang, NVIDIA CEO, has spilled the beans on the company's plans for the mobile market, confirming that the company already has a well-established Tegra roadmap.  For those out of the loop, we should note that Tegra includes Nvidia's family of mobile application processors, and...

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NextStream 2U Blade Server Is Now Compatible with Nvidia Tesla C-Class GPUs

NextComputing, a manufacturer of small form-factor and dense computing servers and workstations, has just announced that its NextStream blade server can now be configured with Nvidia Tesla C-class GPU computing processors, including the recently launched Tesla C2075. The NextStream is a 2U rackmountable unit optimized for high-performance computing tasks that require a mix of traditional multi-core CPU processing with GPU co-processing in a dense form-factor. Despite its compact size, NextComputing clients are able to configure the 2U chassis with three independent dual-processor blades, each with dual Intel Xeon 5500 series chips packing up to six-cores per CPU and 96GB of memory. If all the memory banks are populated, this could allow admins...

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Windows Phone 8 with Dual-Core CPUs, HD Displays

With Windows Phone 7.5 Mango now out on the market, Microsoft is already hard at work on the development of their next flavor of the mobile OS, and it seems that there should be a series of appealing features packed inside it.  Among them, we can count the inclusion of support for dual-core application processors, complemented by the availability of Windows Phones with HD screens. The Windows Phone 8 OS flavor, which is reportedly codenamed Apollo, will also bring along support for more connectivity options, such as LTE, though it seems that this capability will actually debut before its release.  The next Windows Phone update, supposedly called Tango, it expected to include support for the said 4G services, and might also be loaded...

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ASRock X79 Extreme7 LGA 2011 Motherboard Gets Listed

With the launch of Sandy Bridge-E just around the corner, it was just a matter of time before LGA 2011 motherboard would start making their way to various retailers out there and one of the first such solutions to make its appearance is the ASRock X79 Extreme7 which was just listed in Europe. This is ASRock's most advanced board based on the X79 Express chipset and the price reflects this as the Extreme7 was listed for no less than €264, or about $363 US. The most striking feature about the Extreme7 is the inclusion of six memory slots, which is quite a strange appearance for a board supporting quad-channel memory, but otherwise this packs all the featuers that one would expect from a flagship product. This includes five PCI Express x16 slots...

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iOS 5 Jailbreak and New MacBook Pros Launching

iOS 5 Jailbreak Goes from 210 Seconds to 80 The iPhone Dev Team has released a new Redsn0w beta which no longer ‘stashes’ applications automatically, reducing the jailbreak time by as much as 60 percent for those who choose to turn off this option. According to a new entry over at the Team’s blog, “After some feedback on reddit, we’ve decided to make the initial jailbreak as quick as possible by no longer ‘stashing’ the applications by default during the redsn0w run.” “This reduces the time to actually perform the jailbreak from 210 seconds to 80 seconds (60 percent!). However, you make up for much of that the first time you launch Cydia, which will then want to stash the applications,” writes the Team “You can choose whether you want redsn0w...

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BlackBerry Packager for Android Explained

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is set to make sure that its devices benefit from a wide range of applications, and the company is working on bringing Android software to them.  One of the tools to enable this is the BlackBerry Packager for Android that can be seen explained in the video embedded below. The clip was published online just before the DevCon conference kicked off, and presents manners in which developers can have their Android applications available for the PlayBook tablet PC from RIM. Basically, devs will have to turn the APK files to BAR files, and RIM will provide them with key signatures through the BlackBerry Developer Zone. They can also check their application's compatibility with the PlayBook there, and, as soon as all things are in place, they will...

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EVGA Dual-Socket LGA 2011 Motherboard Pictured

After it announced back in June that it plans to introduce a dual-socket LGA 2011 successor for the Classified SR-2 motherboard, EVGA has now showed us the first pic of this upcoming creation that will most certainly arouse the interest of many computer enthusiasts. The yet-unnamed motherboard seems to resemble a great deal its predecessor as it uses the same black/red color scheme and EATX form factor, but is now based on an Intel Patsburg chipset providing support for Sandy Bridge-E CPUs. The two processor sockets are placed right next to each other and the board includes a total of 12 DDR3 memory slots, eight for what seems to be the primary CPU and four surrounding the secondary processor. These are all powered via two 6-pin and two 8-pin...

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Apple Launches iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour 2011

Apple is taking iOS 5 on a world tour and it wants devs to come along for the ride. Pit-stopping in nine major cities around the world, the mini-WWDCs will allow developers to leard from Apple experts and enhance their software with new technologies. Space is limited, and it’s almost fully booked already. “Take your apps to the next level at the iOS 5 Tech Talk World Tour,” Apple says, addressing developers via the News and Announcements channel set up on developer.apple.com. According to the Cupertino, California-based Mac maker, “This is your chance to learn about the exciting new technologies in iOS 5, straight from Apple's experts.” The company formerly run by Steve Jobs says the purpose of these gatherings is to “help iOS developers take...

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