Download Twitter for Windows Phone 1.3.0.0

A new flavor of the official Twitter client for devices running under Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system is now available for download, namely version 1.3.0.0.  The new release was made available only a few days after the availability of the 1.2.0.0 iteration of the app, which brought along support for the newer Windows Phone 7.5 Mango OS flavor. No specific info on what was packed inside the new app release emerged for the time being, but chances are that users who will install it will benefit from bug fixes and various performance enhancements. Unfortunately, the official Twitter client for Windows Phone still won't offer the possibility to pin mentions or direct messages to the Start Screen of the phone, nor does it bring...

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USB 3.0 Will Let Processors Communicate with Each Other

The Universal Serial Bus 3.0 SuperSpeed interface is about to gain a new role, one that will be different from enabling communications between storage units and host products. Not too different, though, since intercommunication is still what it will accomplish, only between the processors of a single device. USB-IF and the MIPI Appliance have partnered to make the SSIC (Super Speed Inter-Chip) interface. Chip interconnects have already started to limit what smartphones and tablets can do, since the various chipsets have to settle for GPIO, HSIC, etc. Needless to say, their capabilities aren't even close to what, say, the PCI Express of a PC can do. USB 3.0 will be used for very short PCB traces and should be power efficient enough and easier...

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AMD Radeon HD 7900 Release Dates and Pricing Leaked

We have known for quite some time now that the start of 2012 will mark the introduction of AMD's Radeon HD 7900-series of GPUs based on the Next-Generation Core (NGC) architecture, but recently a leak has come to unveil the approximate release dates and prices of these graphics cards. The report comes from the SemiAccurate website and doesn't name its source so it must be taken with a grain of salt, but the release schedule provided seems quite plausible if you were to ask us. According to this info, the first Radeon HD 7000 part to arrive will the be the Tahiti XT graphics core, AMD's most powerful single-GPU solution in this series, which is expected to make its entrance in January of next year. Tahiti Pro will follow the next month, while...

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Sony Ericsson's vscreens.com for Easier Sharing of Photos on Big Screens

Sony Ericsson launched some appealing Android-based mobile phones during the ongoing year, and the company seems determined to make them even better.  Following the release of the new Android 2.3.4 OS for these smartphones, the company put in place vscreens.com, offering an easier way for users to share photos on big screens. When in need of putting images or presentations from the Xperia device on the bigger screen of a computer or TV, the aforementioned service, along with the mobile application associated with it (available in the Android Market here) can prove a great solution at all times. All that users will need to do is to download the aforementioned app on the device, install it, and head over to vscreens.com in a browser on...

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Alleged Nokia Lumia 601 Leaks

Nokia's foray into the Windows Phone space is expected to extend both to the higher-end of the market and to the lower segment, and one handset that would fall in the latter category seems to have just leaked into the wild, namely the Nokia Lumia 601. Following the release of Nokia Lumia 800, anything that would come out of Espoo seems to be of great interest, since it could offer us a glimpse at how the company plans on keeping their promise of great Windows Phone devices coming our way. The phone that can be seen in the photo attached to this article courtesy of Pocketnow has been spotted into the wild earlier this week in an official video ad from Nokia that was removed and edited soon after making it online. We supposed that the handset...

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Thicker iPad 3 in March, Metal iPhone 5 Next Summer - Report

A person with alleged knowledge of Apple’s forthcoming product lineup claims that 2012 will see the release of a thicker iPad, the iPhone 5 with a metal chassis, and a complete redesign of the MacBook Pro line of laptops. iLounge calls its source ‘most reliable’ and reports that Apple has a thicker iPad on track to be released next March. It’s about 0.7 mm thicker because it needs to accommodate the twin light bar system needed for the higher resolution display (think Retina). Apple could unveil the tablet as early as January, the report says. Other rumors have said that Apple is also preparing a 7-inch version of the tablet, though it’s very unlikely that Cupertino will try to fight off rival Amazon with an identical offering. Moving on...

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Nokia Lumia 800 Packs Great XBOX Integration Too

The new Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone from Nokia is not capable only to keep you connected at all time to Facebook, or to offer fast access to documents via Office. It will also keep you entertained both when on the go and when at home, courtesy of great gaming capabilities and integration with Xbox LIVE.  To make a better idea on the extent to which Nokia Lumia 800 can communicate to XBOX 360 Kinect, for example, you should have a look at the video above. Games that are being played on the small screen of the device can be easily transferred to a larger screen, so that users can benefit from a better experience when they have some free time to spend playing a game. “In this film, we look at XBOX integration and demonstrate the connectivity between the Nokia Lumia 800 XBOX gaming service...

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Intel Rev. D Sandy Bridge-E Desktop CPUs to Feature 8-Core Design - Report

Many enthusiasts were disappointed when Intel announced that the desktop version of its Sandy Bridge-E processors will include just six computing cores, but Intel is reportedly now working on a new stepping that will enable all of the eight cores in this architecture. According to VR-Zone, this new CPU stepping will make its entrance in the second quarter of next year. Intel decided against enabling all the eight cores available in the Sandy Bridge-E arch for the desktop version of these chips as this would have increase the TDP of the CPUs above the current 130W. However, a series of tweaks and manufacturing improvements which should be available until then should help the chip maker enable these two extra cores while retaining the current...

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BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) v6.1 Beta Now Available for Download

Canadian mobile phone maker RIM has just announced the availability of a new flavor of its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application, namely 6.1 Beta.  The new application release has been made available for download via the BlackBerry Beta Zone, with a new set of personalization options for message, so that users would have even more fun than before when chatting with friends. The new BBM v6.1 Beta comes with animated avatars, fun new emoticons, as well as with increased character count for personal messages, and with customized colored chat bubbles and display picture integration. There are three new animated avatars available for users who will choose to install the new BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) v6.1 Beta, including “smile,” “laughter”...

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Firefox 8.0.1 Deleted from Mozilla Servers

There is a reason Mozilla announces the release of a product days after uploading it to their servers. And that reason is that testing is still performed and that finding a serious issue would force the company from shipping the product to end-users (these can be viewed as release candidates). And this is exactly what happened in the case of Firefox 8.0.1. The build was available for download from Mozilla’s FTP up until today, when it was deleted because of RoboForm-related issues. One of the problems the development team was working in order to ready a Firefox 8.1.0 update was gathering information for blocklisting RoboForm DLL. It looks like trouble ran much deeper than that and a second build is now require...

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Nokia N9 to Get Bigger Fonts Soon via Software Update

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia is gearing up for the release of a new software update for its high-end Nokia N9 smartphone that was launched only recently with the MeeGo OS on board, and plans on making some changes to the fonts on the mobile phone.  At the moment, Nokia N9 users the default font “Nokia Pure Text,” but that will change in the future, and the move might affect a series of applications user interfaces.  Basically, the change will affect only the font metrics, but not the typeface of Nokia Pure Text as well.  “The most significant change is that by default, the text will take approximately 20% more space vertically, i.e. the height of the 'bounding box' of text items will increase,” a recent post on Nokia Developer...

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