Nokia Maps for Windows Phone Demoed

When announcing plans to bring to the market handsets running under Microsoft's Windows Phone, Nokia also announced plans to bring some of its applications and services to the new OS, including the much praised Nokia Maps. At the Nokia World conference in London this week, the company took its time to showcase some of these apps and services, and the Nokia Maps were caught on video at the event. In the video, you can see Dan Martins, Product Manager for Nokia Maps, presenting the service on a new Nokia Lumia device from the company. One thing that is for sure is that the app looks great on Nokia's Windows Phones, and that users will certainly enjoy it, the same as those who own Symbian phones from the company already do. However, we should mention that Windows Phone devices from other makers...

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32GB HP TouchPad Back at Best Buy on November 1st

HP's TouchPad is moving closer to disappearing form the market, but it seems that it will go down in style, as the last shipments are getting ready to land at Best Buy on November 1st.  HP is not selling the device anymore, but Best Buy will have some more units available for those who would like to purchase it at the incredible low price that HP set for the tablet PC a few months ago: $149 (105 Euros) for the 32GB flavor of the device.  However, there is a catch. The tablet will be available at this price tag only for those who will purchase it in a bundle with an HP or Compaq laptop, desktop or all-in-one computer. Starting with November 1st, the deal will go live on BestBuy.com, and will also hit brick and mortar stores on November...

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Windows Phone Marketplace and Games on Nokia Lumia 800

Nokia's new Lumia handsets will arrive on the market with all of the features and capabilities that other Windows Phones out there enjoy, including access to the Windows Phone Marketplace for downloading and installing applications and games.  In the video embedded above, you can have a look at what the Marketplace on Nokia Lumia 800 is all about, and you can also get through a rundown of some gaming features that this handset has been packed with. Clearly, modern smartphones are as appealing as the applications and other content available for them is, and this is exactly what Nokia wants to show in the said video. Here's how they describe it: What's a smartphone without an app or two? Marketplace is the place you'll find the best smartphone apps, games and more on the Nokia Lumia...

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HP VP Confirms That Ultrabooks Are Coming

Some Ultrabooks are already showing up and, even though it stuttered a bit because of the strange PC-related woes, HP is apparently on the train.  Whether or not HP would make Ultrabooks is something that has been the subject of speculation for a while.  Now, speculations do not apply to this exactly, but to just what Ultrabook will appear.  “Ultramobile is a notebook category of sub-17 millimeter notebooks,” Todd Bradley, the executive vice president of HP’s Personal Systems Group, reportedly said in a conference call.  “We’re very focused on having a suite in that ultramobile space. And you’ll see that very soon.”  For people who want a reminder or an update on this whole Ultrabook business, Intel and PC makers...

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AMD Prepares New Revision for Its Llano APUs

AMD is currently working on releasing a new revision for its A-Series Llano APUs launched in the middle of this year, which apparently will fix some of the erratas that are present in the current version of these chips. The new revision of the APUs was spotted in an MSI document which details the compatibility of its motherboards with AMD accelerated processing units. Unlike the Llano chips that are available until now, these new processors distinguish themselves by featuring a new suffix, as current parts carry the GX designation, while the upcoming chips are identified by the HX suffix. According to Hardcore-Hardware, the changes between the two revisions are minor as they carry the same B0 stepping, which seems to point out that AMD has...

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Replace the Annoying Google Chrome New Tab Page with a New Metro UI-Inspired One

If you hate the new Google Chrome new tab page there may be a solution for you and it's very slick-looking one at that. Modestly titled "Awesome New Tab Page" (aNTP) it's an alternative to the rather poorly thought out NTP in Google Chrome 15+. It's clearly inspired by Microsoft's Metro UI and that's hardly a bad thing. It's made up of a wall of tiles which you can fill with your installed apps as well as some widgets that come with the add-on. The interesting thing about it is that other developers can create their own widgets to add functionality, like this Weather widget. The extension is in the early stages, so be weary of bugs. But even now, it shows promise. You can't get to your most visited or recently closed sites, but if you don't...

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Nokia's Lumia Windows Phones Get 20 EA Games

Earlier this week, Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia announced the upcoming availability of their first devices to run under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, and some more info on what will be available for them has emerged.  Among other applications and services that these devices will benefit from, we can also count a number of 20 games from EA.  “This time, we’ll be designing our games for an awe-inspiring experience on Windows Phone for Nokia,” Barry Cottle, executive vice president and GM for EA Interactive, said during the Nokia World Conference in London. He also explained that the company plans on pushing 10 games from EA to Nokia's Lumia devices, along with games from Chillingo, the indie publishing arm of EA.  On...

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Installing a Product Key and Activating Windows 8 Developer Preview

Early adopters putting the first public pre-beta of Windows 8 through its paces know by now that not only is a product key not provided by Microsoft along with the ISO images of the Developer Preview Build, but that it’s also not needed during the installation process.  There’s a simple enough reason for this, Windows Developer Preview comes with the following product key out of the box: 6RH4V-HNTWC-JQKG8-RFR3R-36498. This being said, feedback indicates that testing Windows 8 is not always a perfectly smooth experience, but Build 8102 Milestone 3 (M3) is a pre-Beta release after all. For example, some testers revealed stumbling across an issue where a product key was indeed required of them during deployment, or as a part of the Reset...

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