Sysinternals Suite Now with Updated Autoruns, Disk Usage, Process Explorer

A new Sysinternals Suite release is now available for download for the owners of PC running under the Windows client.  In the latest release, made available on Monday, brings along updates for four of the tools that can be downloaded either as part of the Suite or as standalone applications. In the new Sysinternals Suite 1.0 Build 05.12.2011, users will find that Autoruns was updated to version 11.2, that Disk Usage (DU) is now up to v1.4, that Process Explorer was updated to v15.1, and that the new version of Strings is v2.42. In a recent post on the Sysinternals Site Discussion website, we learn what exactly was changed with each of the aforementioned components of the Suite: Autoruns v11.2: This update fixes a bug in the jump-to-folder...

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eLocity A7+ Limited Edition Android Tablet Launched in the U.S. for $230 (170 EUR)

U.S.-based company Stream TV Networks has just announced a new addition to its portfolio of Android tablets, the limited edition eLocity A7+. The tablet is a limited edition release and will be retailed only until quantities last.  The slate is now available for purchase via major retailers across the country, including J&R and NewEgg.com, for a suggested retail price of $229.99 (170 EUR). According to the manufacturer, retailer ShopNBC is expected to start selling customized eLocity A7+ value bundle sales on December 8th through 19th. Although Stream TV Networks claims that the eLocity A7+ is meant to compete with Amazon’s Fire and B&N Nook tablets, this is hardly the case, give the tablets hardware and software configurations. The...

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Intel: Integrated GPUs Can Compete, But User’s Perception Needs to Change

Intel has made great strides in improving the graphics performance of its chips since the introduction of its Sandy Bridge architecture at the start of this year, but the company believes that they have to change how computer users perceive these solutions in order for them to become truly popular. "I would say that the biggest thing that we're up against is perception,” said Pat Bliemer, Managing Director for Northern Europe and Benelux at Intel, in an exclusive interview with the Nordic Hardware website. “And it's not as much as actual performance or that ours is not as good as theirs [referring to AMD] or vice versa. “I do think that there still is a notion with an average computer user that you need to have a discrete graphics solution...

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Xbox Next Chip Taped Out by Microsoft Says Report

Microsoft has apparently taped out the chip that will go into the company’s upcoming console, the Xbox Next, with the first version of this processor being expected get back from manufacturing until the end of this year, according to a recent report. In electronics design, the “tape out” term is used to describe the final result of the design cycle of a chip and means that the integrated circuit can be sent to the foundry for fabricating the first physical samples. After the first revision of the silicon comes back from manufacturing this usually goes through a number of spins as the design is further refined to eliminate any potential flaws that made their way into the integrated circuit. This is quite a lengthy process and according to...

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Core i7-3920XM Is Intel’s Fastest Mobile Ivy Bridge CPU to Arrive in 2012

If you have paid close attention to News then you should already be familiar with Intel’s 2012 mobile Ivy Bridge processor lineup and its flagship CPU, the Core i7-3920XM.  However, I am aware that not all of you may have had the chance of reading our original article (available here) detailing the mobile version of Ivy Bridge, so here we’ll take a quick look at Intel’s most powerful notebook CPU to make its entrance in Q2 of 2012. This processor is the 2.9GHz clocked Core i7-3920XM, the bigger brother of the current i7-2960XM also featuring quad computing cores and Hyper-Threading support. As you have certainly noticed, this upcoming CPU is clocked 200MHz higher that the chips is meant to replace in April of 2012, but other changes...

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Porsche Design BlackBerry P’9981 Receives FCC Approvals Possibly Headed to AT&T

Research in Motion announced its premium BlackBerry P’9981 smartphone back in October and confirmed plans to launch the device later this year. It appears that the smartphone has just been spotted at FCC (Federal Communications Commission) by the folks over at Wireless Goodness. Filed under model number REQ71UW, the P’9981 won approval for GSM 850/1900, WCDMA bands II and V, Bluetooth, WiFi and NFC capabilities. Even though AT&T has yet to make any official announcements on the P’9981 release, the latest hearsay suggests that the device is expected to hit shelves by the end of the year. Built in collaboration with Porsche Design the P’9981 is a luxury smartphone which is equipped with the same platform chipset as the BlackBerry Bold...

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Intel and ITRI Plan Super-Efficient and Fast Memory

IBM isn't the only company to devise revolutionary memory, as Intel and ITRI want to make their own, one that is supposed to be both powerful and very power efficient compared to what exists today.  Back when we mentioned JEDEC and its DDR4, it became easy to see that the memory market isn't that good at progressing steadily. Though clock speeds can and have been optimized by memory makers, there is only so much one can do within the confines of the technology. DDR4 will be much better than DDR3, which means memory advances in leaps and bounds instead of steady steps. At least, this is one way to look at it when compared to how CPUs and GPUs get better and better every year. Intel doesn't feel like memory is progressing quite as fast...

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iPhone 5 to Boast All-New CPU, Analyst Says

An analyst with Susquehanna Financial is boasting that Apple will build a different chip inside the next-generation iPhone 5, breaking the trend of using the same A-series chip in iPhones and iPads of the same generation. "With respect to iPhone, iPhone 5 production is expected to start around the June timeframe," Susquehanna Financial analyst Chris Caso wrote in a note to clients. According to a report by the IB Times, the analyst expects the iPhone 5 to have a completely new CPU that will not be present in the iPad 3. "The processor in the iPhone 5 appears to be a completely new CPU, and different from that of the new iPad," Caso added. The report adds the latest rumors to Caso’s claims, including near-field communication (NFC) technology,...

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Windows 8 Build 8165 Images Leak, Resizable Tiles Mentioned

Following the emergence of a series of images with Windows 8 Build 8158 only yesterday, some screenshots of Windows 8 Build 8165 are also available, showing a bit more progress in the development of the platform.  Available courtesy of Winunleaked, the new images are accompanied by a series of details on some of the customization options that Microsoft plans for the Windows 8 Start Screen. Apparently, the company plans on offering users the possibility to resize the Windows 8 tiles, and this would be possible in this new winmain build that was compiled at the beginning of December. Moreover, the news site claims that Microsoft has performed a series of improvements to the manner in which the mouse control works in Windows 8. Mouse gestures...

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Asus Micro-ATX Rampage IV Gene LGA 2011 Motherboard Pictured

Asus is preparing to bring yet another addition to its impressive Republic of Gamers series of LGA 2011 motherboards with the Rampage IV Gene, a high-end solution that comes in the Micro-ATX form factor and targets LAN party goers. Despite its small size, the Asus board includes pretty much all the features that one would expect from a top of the line ATX, or even much larger board, such as SLI/CrossFireX compatibility, a high-end VRM, Intel Gigabit LAN, SupremeFX III sound and out of the box DDR3-2400 support. Furthermore, all the three PCI Express x16 slots included are PCIe 3.0 compliant, while the fourth black slot supports x4 speeds using the PCIe Gen 2 standard. The expansion possibilities of the Rampage IV Gene are completed by three...

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Intel’s 2012 Mobile Ivy Bridge CPU Lineup Revealed

About two weeks after a series of leaked slides revealed both the names and the specs of Intel’s desktop Ivy Bridge processors, a new set of Intel documents somehow made their way to the Web to detail the mobile version of these future CPUs. Just as Intel’s mobile Sandy Bridge processor lineup, the chip maker’s new mobile SKUs will also be split between standard voltage and low power models, although it now appears that Intel has decided to kill Low Voltage or LV series. This leaves us with only standard voltage and Ultra Low Voltage CPUs, the latter being known from 2012 onwards only as Ultra or U-Series processors, while CPUs in the former category will be known as M-Series CPUs. Just as before, TDPs for U-Series processors will be set...

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