The New Gmail Is Here, with a New Look, Streamlined Conversations, Better Search

Google is ready to unveil the redesigned Gmail. It's been working on it for months and the brand new design is finally ready to roll out. The changes go beyond skin deep, there's a revamped search box, a new conversation view and other improvements. Google unveiled a preview of what the new Gmail could look like last summer, in order to get real-world feedback on some of the changes. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem that if you were using the preview theme you'll get the new look before everyone else. In fact, the notification about the new design will start popping up over the next few days. The design is completely changed, of course, that's the first thing you'll notice, but it's in tune with the rest of Google, there shouldn't be anything...

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Unannounced Nokia Windows Phone at the Design Museum

Last week, Nokia unveiled to the world their first smartphones powered by Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, namely the Nokia Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710, but it seems that these are not the only Mango handsets that the company has been already working on.  At the Design Museum in Shad, Thames, in the UK, the vendor put on display another Windows Phone device, one that was not seen before. No specific details on what this device is all about have emerged until now, but some suggest that it could be one of the upcoming Windows Phone handsets that Nokia has in store for us. “Nokia Products that changed the world' is an exhibition currently on at the Design Museum in Shad, Thames. Let us know what our favourite Nokia is in the...

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Intel Sandy Bridge-E Launch Date and Time Revealed – Report

We have heard the November 14 launch date for Intel's Sandy Bridge-E processors mentioned in a couple of previous reports, but now a website has managed to find out not just the date, but also the time the NDA for these processors will be lifted. In a report written by none other than Charlie Demerjian, SemiAccurate has revealed that the NDA for Intel's first LGA 2011 processors will be lifted on November 14 at 12:01am PST (Pacific Standard Time). Although the accuracy of this source can be contested, this is not the first time we hear about the November 14 release date, since a series of previous reports have also suggested the same date for the launch of Sandy Bridge-E. The initial release will include just the Core i7-3960X and 3930K...

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AMD's Unreleased FX-8100 CPU Makes Appearance in HP Pavilion PCs

AMD introduced its first desktop processors based on the Bulldozer architecture on October 12, but by the end of this year the chip maker is expected to release a few other chips based on this architecture, including the FX-8100 which was just spotted in HP's Pavillion systems. The new AMD processor is expected to be released later this quarter according to CPU World, and it include four Bulldozer modules for a total of eight computing cores. These are coupled with a massive 8MB of L2 cache as well a with 8MB of Level 3 cache memory, while its base clock speed is set at 2.8GHz. Like the rest of AMD's FX-Series processors, the FX-8100 also includes support for the Turbo Core technology that can automatically increase the the CPU frequency...

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Foxconn's Quantum Force X79 Motherboard Gets Pictured

With Intel's launch of the Sandy Bridge-E processors approaching, motherboard manufacturers are starting to showcase their upcoming LGA 2011 creations based on the Intel X79 chipset, the latest of which being Foxconn which has just presented the Quantum Force X79. The Quantum line was created by the Taiwanese company to target the gaming/overclocker market, the same space that Asus and Gigabyte go for with their Republic of Gamers(ROG) and G1.Killer products. Just like most other LGA 2011 motherboard that we have come to see until know, the Quantum Force X79 is equipped with four DIMM slots situated right above and bellow the CPU socket, and these are powered by a 2-phase VRM. An additional 14-phase VRM is used by Foxconn to power the LGA...

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Dell Starts Selling the XPS 14z Ultra-Thin Notebook

Just as it has promised a little less than a week ago, Dell has now started selling the XPS 14z ultra-thin notebook in the US with prices starting at $999 US, right now the laptop being available in three configurations. 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 to make the XPS 14z so compact, but the company...

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HP TouchPad Available for $150 (€109) at Best Buy with Every Notebook Purchase

Despite the less than warm reception from the public, there are still quite a lot of buyers interested in getting their hands on an HP TouchPad so the company has now joined forces with Best Buy to offer a new promotion to its clients. Under the terms of this new promotion, users who purchase a HP or Compaq laptop, desktop or all-in-one computer from the US-based retailer can now opt to buy an HP TouchPad tablet for an additional $149 (€109). This is a particularly sweet deal considering the initial MSRP of the TouchPad was set at an impressive $599.99 (€437). For those of you that need a refresher, HP's tablet is equipped with a 9.7-inch XGA display, packs 32GB of storage, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and NFC connectivity and is powered by a 1.2GHz...

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ECS Outs Intel H61 Motherboard with SATA 6Gbps and USB 3.0 Support

Lately, more and more hardware manufacturers have started to launch USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps compliant LGA 1155 motherboards based on the H61 chipset and the latest to do so is ECS, which has just introduced the H61H2-A2 Black Series board. Since the H61 platform controller hub (PCH) doesn't come with support for USB 3.0 or SATA 6Gbps, the motherboard relies on third party controllers to deliver this functionality to its customers. In the case of the H61H2-A2 Black Series, the two SATA 6Gbps ports present on the board are powered by an ASMedia ASM1061 chipset. These are seconded by four SATA 3Gbps connectors driven by the Intel H61 PCH, which is also used for controlling the two PCI Express x1 as well as the two 32-bit PCI clots installed...

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Sapphire Intros HD 6970 Graphics Card with Dual-BIOS and Dual-Fan Cooling

Sapphire has just updated its graphics card lineup to include a new model based on the Radeon HD 6970 design that comes with a custom designed cooler and PCB in order to deliver improved performance and overclocking headroom. The new cooling assembly was developed in-house by Sapphire and sports two 90mm fans, which the maker states can move the same amount of air at 10% lower rotation speeds than conventional fans. This helps Sapphire decrease the noise produced by the card while operating, and also enabled its creation to keep the Radeon HD 6970 running at temperatures 25% cooler than the standard model, even under load conditions. In addition to the improved cooling system, the graphics card comes fitted with a Dual BIOS feature enabling...

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Download Nokia Suite 3.2.98 Beta

A new flavor of the popular Nokia Suite is now available for download for the owners of devices coming from the Finnish mobile phone maker.  Released in beta only recently, the new Nokia Suite version 3.2.98 is meant to add a nice range of enhancements and fixes into the mix, so as to improve the experience users receive from it. Moreover, the new release was meant to move the application further away from version 3.1, which was available under the Nokia Ovi brand. Nokia changed the name of this application to Nokia Suite as soon as version 3.2 was released, and they are accelerating the release of beta flavors of the software, so as to make the final flavor available as soon as possible for all users. The release notes for the new...

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iPhone 4S Battery Drain Reduced via Settings Tweak and Apple Considering to Kill the Mac Pro - Report

iPhone 4S Battery Drain Reduced via Settings Tweak The battery drain issue plaguing iPhone 4S users may be related to a software bug that can be eliminated (temporarily) by tweaking some of the settings. According to reports, the bug is tied to the time-zone functionality of the iOS. Switching it off reportedly improves battery life, but it is unclear whether or not this is the only issue that causes the battery train on Apple’s latest handset. This is not the first time a major iOS update takes its toll on the battery life of iDevices. Both iOS 3 and iOS 4 have posed such troubles for many users. Apple usually dispatches incremental updates to alleviate such problems. It has also been reported that the company’s engineers are working directly...

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