Need for Speed Hot Pursuit Arrives on Android

Owners of devices running under Google's Android operating system now have the possibility to download and install a new game on their devices, namely the Need for Speed Hot Pursuit. The new mobile game was already published in the Android Market and is available for download for all devices that run under Android 2.0 or newer OS flavors. The new mobile game weighs in at 7.6MB and was made available here with a price tag of $7 (5 Euros) attached to it. Those who have played the Need for Speed franchise from Electronic Arts are certainly familiar with what the game is all about. For those who aren't, below are some details on the new game. “Outrun the law as a Racer in supercars like the Pagani Zonda Cinque – or stop racers cold as...

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Nokia 3D World Gaze Arrives on Nokia N9

Nokia has just made available a new application for their Nokia N9 MeeGo device, namely the Nokia 3D World Gaze, which provides users with a new view over the entire Earth. The mobile application was previously made available for Nokia's handsets running under the Symbian OS, and is now up for download for the Nokia N9 handset as well. Moreover, the development team behind the application notes that they also packed it with some new features, which means that N9 users will benefit from a better experience when running the application on their devices. Apparently, these features will be pushed to Symbian devices as well via the next update, but they are available only for the MeeGo phone for the time being. However, it should be noted...

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Intel Says Android 4.0 Has x86 Optimizations

Just two months after Google and Intel have announced their partnership to tune the Android OS for x86 Atom processors, Intel has revealed that Ice Cream Sandwich already includes a series of optimizations for its low-power chips. According to Tech Report, the first Intel-powered Android smartphones and tablets should be built around the company's 32nm Medfield SoC, which was specifically designed for such devices. The Atom SoC could enable tablet makers to build devices that are thinner than 0.35" and lighter than 1.5 lbs, making them comparable with their ARM-powered counterparts. The sad news is that even if Ice Cream Sandwich seems to be prepared for Intel's processors, the chip maker itself isn't, as the first Medfield chips won't...

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Asus Transformer Tablet Gets Firmware Update

Even though the Transformer Prime is expected to arrive in just a couple of days from now, Asus hasn't forgot about its older tablet models and it has prepared a new firmware update for the original Eee Pad Transformer. The update is known as version 8.6.5.18, according to Phandroid, and it brings a series of features, such as support for App backup and Netflix pre-installed for US users. The App backup feature allows users to backup apps and data stored by these apps for easy migration to another Asus tablet, so you can for example continue Angry Birds from where you left off instead of having to start the game all over again. Other improvements also made their way into this firmware update, some fixing various issues of the previous...

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Windows 7 SP1 Fix – Copying 40GB of Data to a Blu-Ray Disk May Take Over 3 Days and Can Crash If Command Prompt Is Opened and Closed Repeatedly

Windows 7 SP1 Fix – Copying 40GB of Data to a Blu-Ray Disk May Take Over 3 Days Microsoft is providing a fix to customers which have experienced problems when copying large amounts of data to a Blu-Ray disk on their Windows 7 computers. According to the software giant, extremely poor performance is the indicator that users might have a problem. The Redmond company reveals that copying over 10 GB of data to a Blu-Ray can take more than a day to complete, and even several days, depending on the size of the job. Windows 7 customers can find that they’re affected, as can those with Windows Server 2008 R2. Upgrading to Service Pack 1 won’t solve this problem for either. “Assume that you try to copy more than 10 gigabytes of data to...

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Intel Unreleased Celeron B815 to Ship in the Dell Vostro 1550 also Intel Core i7-3960X and i7-3930K Make Appearance in UK Retail

Intel Unreleased Celeron B815 to Ship in the Dell Vostro 1550 In the first quarter of 2012, Intel is expected to launch a series of new Celeron processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture and one of these chips, the Celeron B815, was already spotted in the Dell Vostro 1550 notebook. The yet unreleased Celeron processor features two computing cores running at a frequency of 1.6GHz and includes 2MB of Level 2 cache. While the specifications of the CPU look extremely similar with those of the Celeron B810 is meant to replace, the B815 does feature a higher maximum clock for the integrated graphics that can now reach 1050MHz, instead of 950MHz in the previous chip. The rest of the CPU specifications include a dual-channel DDR3-1333MHz...

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AMD's Upcoming 1090FX AM3+ Chipset Gets Detailed

In 2012, AMD plans to introduce a replacement for the company's current 990FX chipset for AM3+ processors that will bring a series of improvements meant to make it more competitive with Intel's upcoming 7-series platform controller hubs (PCHs). The new chipset will be called the AMD 1090FX and it was just detailed in a leaked company slide that entered into the possession of the Donanim Haber publication. Judging by the information provided by the document, the most important feature that the upcoming 1090FX will introduce over its predecessor is the native support for USB 3.0 which was previously just present in the AMD A75 chipset for Llano APUs. Right now, we don't know the number of USB 3.0 ports that the 1090FX will support, but the...

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HIS Outs Low-Profile Radeon HD 6670 Fan 1GB for HTPC Use

HIS has just announced that it has expanded its portfolio with yet another graphics card based on an AMD Radeon graphics core, the HIS 6670 Fan 1GB, which was specially developed for being used in media center and home theater PCs. As a result, the card was designed with a low-profile PCB and occupies a single slot inside the computer case, while cooling is provided by a dual fan setup. Its home theater PC role is also accentuated by the bundled low-profile expansion bracket, which is a great addition if the card must be fitted in a half-height computer case. The rest of the card's specs include a Turks GPU with 480 stream processors, 24 texture units and 8 ROP units that are linked to the installed video buffer via a 128-bit wide memory...

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White Nokia N9 on Video, Filmed Using the Nokia N8

Nokia's only MeeGo-powered smartphone, the N9, will arrive on shelves all dressed up in white as well, the handset vendor announced not too long ago, and we can already have a look at the device, courtesy of the video embedded above.  Apparently, what we can see in the video above is the 64GB flavor of the device, though there is no design difference between it and the 16GB model, except from the larger amount of internal storage. The N9 comes with a large 3.9-inch screen and with no physical buttons, which means that all actions on it are performed through gestures on the touchscreen. Available courtesy of MyNokiaBlog, the short clip was shot with the Nokia N8, another high-end smartphone from the Finnish company. The video also shows that the Nokia N8 can shoot great videos through...

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Watch the New Microsoft Homework 2.0 Video Ad

A new TV commercial from Microsoft, dubbed “Homework 2.0,” offers a funny view over how a less than stellar PowerPoint presentation can be taken to the next level.  The ad belongs to the Redmond company’s latest series of advertisements, focused on traditional technologies, such as Windows and Office, but also new products, including Windows Phone. “A father and son swap their Windows 7 laptop PCs so dad can help out with a difficult homework assignment. But dad is surprised and impressed to see how his son returns the favor. It's a great time to be a family,” reads the message from Microsoft accompanying the new ad. The previous ad that the software giant shared with the world was focused on the evolution of the good old family grocery lis...

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Leaked Windows 8 Pre-Beta Screenshots Reveal New Customization Capabilities

Windows 8 Beta will deliver a more complete core user experience than the Developer Preview releases, which was focused on developers, and new leaked screenshots of a post-Build 8102 development milestone seem to confirm this.  When it made available the first public preview of Windows 8, Microsoft stressed that there was still a lot of work to be done on the operating system. In particular, the company pointed out that Windows 8 Beta would bring to the table new features, capabilities, options, etc. on top of what was introduced with the Developer Preview. The two screenshots, included bellow, courtesy of Winunleaked, depict new customization functionality in a post-Milestone 3 release of Windows 8, as the software giant makes its...

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