Microsoft's Vision Of Our Technology Future, Awesome Video Presentation

Here's Microsoft's concept future vision on how people will get their things done at work, home, and on the go in coming 5-10 years. Watch the concept video to get a glimpse of the future of productivity, a must watch futuristic video for every tech lover. ...

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AMD Radeon HD 7900 GPUs to Ship in 2011

During the company's conference call for announcing its Q3 2011 financial results, AMD has revealed that its next-generation 28nm are on track for being shipped until the end of this year, which probably means that AMD will launch its next-gen GPUs before its main competitor, Nvidia. The chip maker's press release for the Q3 2011 financial results reads: “AMD’s next-generation family of high-performance graphics cards is expected to ship for revenue later this year.” It's important to note that shipping for revenue doesn't necessarily mean that the GPUs will also be available into the market, but rather that AMD will be shipping Radeon HD 7000 chips to its AIB partners. If all goes well, the first Southern Islands parts cold still make their...

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DotA Guide: Azgalor - Pit Lord Introduction

DotA is the most popular custom made map for Warcraft III. To allow players a better understanding of this complex and sometimes complicated game here is a hero guide. Pit Lord is a strength hero that can be recruited at the Scourge Strength Tavern. He was one of the least picked heroes in DotA, until, Icefrog decided it's time for somechanges. With 6.72, Pit Lord's power grew and how he is a strong hero capable of playing various roles. Let's take the time and study this big guy's past a little bit: "One of the many regents of Lord Archimonde who became stranded on the physical plane after the Legion fell in Kalimdor, the devil Azgalor's love of destruction allowed him to accept the Lich King's invitation to help lead the Scourge in conquest...

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AMD Confirms Trinity APU Will Launch in Early 2012

In a conference call that announced the company's financial results for the third quarter of 2011, AMD has confirmed that the first APUs based on the next-generation Trinity core will get launched in early 2012. During the Q&A part of the conference, Thomas Seifert, senior vice president and chief financial officer of AMD, said: “One of the first product we launch will be Trinity. And we have not released an official launch date yet but it will happen early in the year.” The company's CEO, Rory P. Read, also commented on the yield of these chips and said that even if the company is disappointed with the execution around the yields in the 32nm space, things look to be shaping up pretty good for Trinity as Q4 will see a significant increase...

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Intel's Upcoming Xeon E5-2600 CPUs Get Priced - Report

After at the end of September we published the prices of a series of upcoming Xeon E5-1600 series processors based on the company's high-performance Sandy Bridge-E architecture, a new report has now come to detail the MSRP of the chip maker's dual-socket Xeon E5 CPUs.The upcoming E5-2600 server processor range is expected to replace Intel's Xeon 5600 series, so the company has kept pricing pretty consistent between these two product families. According to the info published by CPU-World, the MSRP of these server chips will range between $202 and $2057 (142 to 1450 Euros), depending on their specifications. As expected, the highest prices CPUs are those models that feature eight processing cores, although there is also a six-core part, the...

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Nokia N9 Hands-on (Video Included)

It looks like Nokia has put all its effort into making the N9 a compelling smartphone. This is one of the few Nokia devices that truly breathes freshness. The N9 was highly praised even before it hit shelves, which proves the fact that Nokia did a great job with the phone's design. The phone uses a polycarbonate unibody design with a innovative outward curved display. There are no touch sensitive keys, and the only external keys are those on the right side: dual volume key and power on/off, which is also used to lock/unlock the phone. Just like Apple's iPhone, Nokia N9 works only with microSIM cards and, given its unibody design, doesn't have a replaceable battery. The 8-megapixel camera on the back features Carl Zeiss optics and is neatly...

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Battlefield 3 Review (PC)

System Requirements:MinimumOS: Vista Service Pack 2 32-bitProcessor: 2GHZ Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHZ or Athlon x2 2.7GHZ)Memory: 2GB RAMHard drive: 20GBGraphics card AMD: DirextX 10.1 compatible with 512MB RAM (ATI Radion 3000, 4000, 5000 or 6000 series, with ATI Radion 3870 or higher performance)Graphics card Nvidia: DirectX 10.0 compatible with 512MB RAM (Nvidia GeForce 8, 9, 200, 300, 400 or 500 series with Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher performance)Sound card: DirectX compatibleKeyboard and mouseDVD ROM drive RecommendedOS: Windows 7 64-bitProcessor: Quad Core CPUMemory: 4GB RAMHard drive: 20GBGraphics card: DirectX 11 compatible with 1024MB RAM (Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950)Sound card: DirectX compatibleKeyboard and...

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Nokia N9 MeeGo Swipe UI Quick Look

Nokia has done very good job with the N9's design, but it has outdone itself with the smartphone's MeeGo user interface. Although it does not come up with new concepts, the UI is truly innovative in the fact that is based on a single gesture – 'swipe.' In addition, it's simply to use, as it only features three panes that are very intuitive and easy to manage: Applications, Events and Open Applications, or in Android-terms Launcher, Notifications and Task Manager. Every time finish working with an application you can just simply remove from the screen by swiping toward the center of the screen from any edge. However, the application will go directly on the Task Manager screen, where you can resume it anytime you want, or you can close it. There's also a special setting that will let you...

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Early Windows 8 Beta Builds Dogfooded, New Post-8102 Feature Confirmed

New features are planned for introduction into Windows 8 Beta, and Microsoft offered a glimpse of an enhancement testers can expect in the next major public development milestone.  The new Task Manager will sport new capabilities in Windows 8 Beta compared to the Developer Preview release, streamlining management of in excess of 64 logical processors, according to Ryan Haveson, a group program manager on the User Experience team. Even as it released Windows 8 Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) Developer Preview to early adopters, Microsoft was hammering away at Builds of the operating system leading up to the first Beta. Members of the Windows team are already dogfooding Windows 8 Builds compiled after the launch of the Developer Preview,...

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AMD Q3 2011 Financial Results Show $97 (€68) Million Profit

AMD has recently posted its financial results for the third quarter of this year and while the numbers were not so impressive as those made public by its main competitor, the chip maker still managed to gather $1.69 billion (1.19 billion Euros) in revenue with a profit of $97 million ($68 million). This represents a 7 percent sequential increase and a 4 percent increase year-over-year, in revenue. AMD's original target for Q3 asked for a 10 percent increase over the previous quarter, but back in September it was forced to reconsider this target and reduce it to 4-6% after a series of 32nm manufacturing issues limited chip supply. Gross margins for AMDs chips were down one percent from Q2 of 2011 to reach 45%, manly due to a lower than expected...

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Motorola DROID 4 Makes a Photo Appearance

Mobile phone maker Motorola Mobility has been long rumored to plan the release of a successor for the newly released Motorola DROID 3, and that device has just made an appearance into the wild.  Supposedly called the Motorola DROID 4, the upcoming device should pack a similar design with the current DROID series, including the large touchscreen display and the side-sliding QWERTY keyboard. The mobile phone was rumored before, and some of its specs have been brought to light at that time, but the new leak unveils even more of it. In addition to the said photos that emerged over at Droid-life, you can also have a look at the full specifications list of the new device, which look quite appealing, that's for sure. The new mobile phone is...

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