Nokia's Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 Emerge Ahead Launch

Today, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is expected to make official its first smartphones running under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, and two of these have just mad an appearance into the wild in leaked official photos.  We're referring here to the Nokia Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 Windows Phones, both of which can be seen in a newly leaked photo, available courtesy of Pocketnow. Both of these devices have been spotted into the wild before and most of their specs have been already leaked on the Internet, yet they are still unofficial, and should remain so for a few hours more.  Nokia Lumia 710 and Lumia 800 should address the mid-level market, yet they both pack appealing features, along with great outer designs. Today,...

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IDT Gets Its Technology Used by Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is making the news for something other than a lawsuit this once, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that a certain company is getting attention for having had its invention chosen as a component of said slate. With about as much enthusiasm as one would expect, Integrated Device Technology, Inc., IDT for short, announced that Samsung has called on its services. Basically, from now on, the company will contribute to the making of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. More specifically, the 70P255 low power 8K x 16 Dual-Port Static RAM (DPSRAM) will be used in the tablet's construction. This device provides a pair of independent ports which, with their asynchronous access, let any location on the memory be...

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DotA Guide: King Leoric - The Skeleton King Introduction

DotA is the most popular custom made map for Warcraft III. To give players a better idea of this complex and sometimes complicated game here is a hero guide. The Skeleton King is a strength hero that has received lots of tweaks and changes over time, with Reincarnation always remaining one of its main attributes. You can recruit him from the Scourge Strength Tavern. Let's learn more about this hero's dark background: "Once a noble knight protecting his kingdom, the man was thrown into Hell, where he was ripped apart over and over for centuries.  Now, Lucifer has thrown him back onto the soil, corrupted and mindless, as King Leoric, the Skeleton King. He marches on, leading his minions with an unfaltering gaze, knowing only one thing:...

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AMD Prepares Z-03 Low-Power APU for Tablet Devices

AMD's foray into the tablet market with the Desna APU has seen limited success, but this won't stop the company from releasing a successor for this low-power platform that will be comprised out of the Z-03 accelerated processing unit and of the A55T Fusion Controller Hub (FCH). On a first look, the Z-03 seems to feature identical specifications with the Z-01 APU is meant to replace, but once we move in closely we come to see that AMD has managed to lower the TDP of this chip. Compared to the 5.9W required by the Z-01, the new Z-03 has reduced this value to just 4.5W, while retaining the same dual processing cores clocked at 1GHz of its predecessor as well as its HD 6250 integrated GPU with 80 shader units clocked at 276MHz. How AMD managed...

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AMD Trinity APUs Get Detailed, Include DDR3-2133 Support

In the first half of 2101, AMD will introduce its next-generation Fusion processors based on the Trinity architecture, and a recently leaked presentation slide has now come out to show us some of the new features that this APU will bring into the market. The AMD document was uncovered by Donanim Haber and takes a look at the chip maker's Virgo platform and the Trinity APU. As many of you know, Trinity is built around AMD's second generation of the Bulldozer core which is said to offer a 20% increase in performance over the current Llano architecture, while also bringing a series of new features into view. These include support for th AVX and AES-NI instruction sets as well as the third version of AMD's Turbo Core technology that automatically...

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Nvidia Preps New GTX 560 Ti Version with 448 Cores

Since there is still some time to go until the first GPUs built using the 28nm fabrication process are expected to come out of the company's gates, Nvidia has decided that is time to upgrade its popular GTX 560 Ti graphics card to 448 streaming processors in order to deliver better performance. Despite being branded as an GTX 560 product, Nvidia new solution will resemble much more the GTX 570 since the two will be based on the same GF110 core, according to VR-Zone. Compared to its older sibling however, the GTX 560 Ti (448 Core) will come with one of the 15 streaming modules disabled, to provide a total of 448 CUDA cores, and slightly underclocked operating frequencies. Sadly, we don't know the exact clock rates the card will run at, but...

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AMD Works on Brazos 2.0 Platform for Q1 2012 Launch Says Report

AMD is reportedly working on a refresh for its current Brazos platform that will go by the name of Brazos 2.0 and will introduce as series of new APUs as well as improved graphics when it launches in the first quarter of 2012. The new platform will be built around a series of APUs from the Zacate series that will be known as the E2-1800 and E1-1200. The former is a slightly improved version of the current E-450 accelerated processing unit launched earlier this quarter and it packs the same two computing cores as its predecessor, but with a 1.7GHz base clock speed. The on-die GPU is also a re-branded version of the Radeon HD 6320 used in the original E-450, but this has now received a 523MHz stock clock speed and 680MHz maximum Turbo to come...

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RIM Sells MicroVision Pico Projectors Now, Or One of Them

RIM decided to offer its customers something unusual for a change, so it started shipping what essentially amounts to the first pico projector it ever released for customers. SHOWWX+ HDMI is the name of the item that MicroVision put together and for whose inventory handling and order fulfillment it partnered with GlobalWire. “Partnering with GlobalWare dramatically expands the global availability of SHOWWX+ HDMI, and gives us a strong foothold into business audiences where the ability to visually collaborate anywhere is increasingly important,” said Alexander Tokman, president and CEO, MicroVision.  “It’s rewarding to join forces with companies like GlobalWare to enable people to see bigger – whether they are on the road, at the office...

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KFA2 GeForce GTX 570 MDS Packs Quad-Monitor Support

KFA2, the European branch of the Taiwanese graphics card maker Galaxy, has already released into the market a series of Nvidia GeForce solutions with multi-display support, but the company won't stop here and will soon launch a new graphics card in the MDP series based on the GTX 570 design. KFA2 was able to overcome the limitations imposed by Nvidia's hardware by using a third-party IDT VMM1400 controller, a chip that is usually found in multi-display hub devices. Going for a quick look, KFA2's latest creation seems to resemble the company's previous GeForce GTX 570 design as it uses the same same custom cooling solution, but which was now painted black together with the PCB for a more aggressive look. However, unlike the other GTX 570...

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As 60 GHz Wireless Networking Approaches, Plugfest Begins

One would think wireless connections of today are fast, but they are nothing compared to what the WiGig Alliance is testing out during the world’s first WiGig technology plugfest. The WiGi Alliance, short for Wireless Gigabit Alliance, has come together to celebrate the release of the WiGig’s certification-ready multi-Gigabit wireless specification. Said specification has been out since April, 2011 (version 1.1), but the members of the alliance got together now in order to start testing out the interoperability of their inventions. “We are pleased to provide baseband, RF and mmWave signal generation and analysis capability to support the PlugFest and its participants,” said Ron Nersesian, president, Agilent’s Electronic Measurement Group.  “We...

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Dell XPS 14z Ultra-Thin Notebooks Gets European Price

After yesterday it announced the introduction of the XPS 14x ultra-thin we've been keenly awaiting since we first saw it on IDF 2011, Dell has now made official the European price of the notebook, which will retail for 899 Euros, including VAT (starts at $999 in the US). Dell's XPS 14z is a new bread of laptops that were specially designed to feature a thin and light chassis as well as strong performance and is the company's second device to be introduced in this series after the XPS 15z. Much like its predecessors, the XPS 14z was also built to feature an LG Shuriken display that comes with a extremely thin bezel in order to fit a 14-inch LCD panel in the same space as that required by a regular 13.3-inch display. Is this that enabled Dell...

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Nokia 800 Hands-On and Nokia 900 Leaks

Nokia 800 Hands-On Photos Emerge One of the Nokia 800 Windows Phone smartphones rumored to be unveiled tomorrow has just been the subject of a hands-on photo session. Thanks to the guys over at TheNextWeb, we can safely assume that Nokia 800, also known as Nokia SeaRay or Sun, will be among the smartphones announced in less than 24 hours at the Nokia World event. Although Nokia 800 press photos leaked last week, these are the first live pictures with the Windows Phone 7.5 Mango smartphone. Obviously, the pictures do not reveal anything new regarding the phone's design, which strongly resembles the Nokia N9. In fact, it looks like the Finnish company has given the Nokia 800 the same form factor and included the standard Windows Phone touch-sensitive...

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Gigabyte Shows Off Four Intel X79 Motherboards

Gigabyte has just updated its Facebook page with images of four of the company's upcoming X79 motherboards for Intel LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors, which will all feature support for a new 3-way digital PWM. This new PWM design is based on three so called "digital engines," one of these being destined to supply power to the CPU while the other two are linked to the pair of memory banks installed on either side of the processor socket. The controllers themselves are made by International Rectifier, and VR-Zone states that Gigabyte has decided to use this approach as this approach allows for an overall simpler board design in terms of power delivery. In addition, the new PWM is also compatible with Intel's VR12 and VR12.5 specs, which...

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EVGA X79 FTW Motherboard for LGA 2011 CPUs Makes Appearance

Just a week ago, at the GeForce LAN 6 event, EVGA showed us a glimpse of its EVGA X79 Classified motherboard for Intel's upcoming Sandy Bridge-E processors and now the company has presented another one of its upcoming LGA 2011 solutions, the EVGA X79 FTW. The X79 FTW is just one step bellow the motherboard showcased during Nvidia's event and drops the XL-ATX form factor of its older brother in favor of a more case friendly standard EATX layout. Compared to the other single-socket LGA 2011 solution presented by EVGA, the X79 FTW also loses support for 4-way SLI setups and settles with “just” a 3-way SLI + PhysX configuration. The GPUs will be installed in the five PCI Express x16 slots available, and EVGA has even provided its users with...

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Apple Offers to Service MacBook Pros with Video Issues

A software update update addressing an issue where MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010) computers may intermittently freeze or stop displaying video is now available for download. Customers who are unable to fix their video issues via software update can take their Mac to Apple. Targeting OS X 10.7.2 users with 15-inch MacBook Pros from 2010, MacBook Pro Video Update 1.0 is tasked with fixing an issue where 15-inch Mid 2010 MacBook Pro computers may intermittently freeze or stop displaying video. According to a knowledge-base article on Apple’s Support site, “Apple has determined that a small number of MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010) computers may intermittently freeze or stop displaying video on the built-in display or on an external display...

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