ARM’s Next Gen 64-bit Processor Will Be Called Atlas and Apollo

Processors licensor ARM Holdings, has recently disclosed the code names of its upcoming CPUs based on the company’s v8 architecture which are the first ARM cores to bring support for the 64-bit instruction set. ARM has chosen to go with a pair of classical names from the Greek mythology for its next-generation high-end processing cores, which will be dubbed Atlas and Apollo, according to EETimes. From the info that was made available by ARM at this point in time, we know that both chips are being designed for likely implementation in 20-nm manufacturing process technology, while addressing applications from servers down to smartphones. "We expect Atlas, Apollo to come into volume in 2014 and at that time it will be a 20-nm world out there,"...

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Asus Transformer TF300T Tablet Breaks Cover

We all knew that Asus planned to release a new Transformer TF700 tablet this summer, but now a picture making its way from China comes to reveal that the company is also getting the TF300T ready. Apart from what we can tell from the image below, little else is known about this tablet which sports a textured rear panel with a red coat of paint. If we were to guess however, we would say that the TF300T packs the same Nvidia Tegra 3 quad-core SoC as the Transformer Prime, but it could arrive running a different operating system, probably Windows 8. If this will indeed be the case we might be looking at Asus’ first Microsoft-powered 10-inch tablet, which, dare we say it, doesn’t look half bad. More info about this should be available in the...

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Nikon 1-Series Cameras to Get 4K Video Support and Brighter Lenses

Nikon’s 1-Series cameras have proven to be quite popular in the short time since they’ve been out, but despite their success the Japanese company doesn’t plan to rest on its laurels. According to a high ranking Nikon official, the company has already started thinking about the improvements it will bring to its next-gen of interchangeable lens cameras. Tetsuya Yamamoto, Nikon's head of development, talked to DPreview about these plans during CES 2012, where he revealed that quite a few improvements would make their way into the next-gen 1 System cameras. The most important of these is the addition of 2K and 4K video recording, as Yamamoto believes that the 10.1MP sensor fitted inside the 1-Series bodies is powerful enough to support this...

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Fujifilm X-Pro1 Shows Up on Amazon, Priced at $1700 (1,293 EUR)

Fujifilm might not have officially released the X-Pro1 yet, but this hasn’t stopped Amazon from listing the retro-looking ILC camera on its Website. Scheduled to arrive later this month, the X-Pro1 will apparently set you back a whopping $1,699.95 (about 1,290 EUR) for the body only, with the 18mm f/2.0 and 35mm f/1.4 lenses being priced at $500 (380 EUR) each. For those of you that like to get even closer to the action, Fujifilm also sells a larger 60mm (91mm equivalent) f/2.4 macro lens for $600 (457 EUR). While the $1,700 price tag is definitely high for a camera this small, the retro looking X-Pro1 does come with some pretty high-end specs including a 16MP APS-CMOS sensor sporting a new filter array and proprietary EXR processor, as...

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Nokia Still Top Phone Maker, IDC Reports

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been losing market share lately, mainly due to the transition from the Symbian OS to Windows Phone, but it appears that it still managed to retain the top position on the mobile market.  The latest data coming from IDC shows that Nokia remained the top handset vendor in the world in 2011, and that it maintained the position in the fourth quarter of the year as well.  In Q4 2011, Nokia brought to the market its first Windows Phone devices, the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710. Although they had a slow start, Nokia still managed to sell 113.5 million devices in the timeframe, based on data from the IDC Worldwide Mobile Phone Tracker.  Samsung came in second with 97.6 million phones sold in Q4,...

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Nikon Coolpix P510 Offers Massive 42x Zoom, 1080p Video & Built-in GPS

If the Coolpix L810 that we presented yesterday can’t get you as close to the action as you would have liked, Nikon also has the P510 for you, which can offer a massive 42x zoom. Equivalent in the 35mm world with a 24-1000mm lens, this VR stabilized Super Zoom also features a backlit 16MP back-lit CMOS sensor, with all the high-speed, multi-shot image processing modes one would require. Geo-tagging your pictures is also as easy as it gets since the P510 has a built-in GPS, which is accompanied by a 921k-dot 3-inch vari-angle LCD, 1080p video recording support, a 100-3200 ISO range (expandable to ISO 6400 - Hi1) and stereo sound recording. If all this sounds tempting to you, the P510 should become available later in February, for $429.95...

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NFS: The Run Italian DLC Out Now, Fresh Screenshots Also Available

Electronic Arts has finally released, in a rather stealthy way, the Italian DLC car pack for its Need for Speed: The Run racing game on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 consoles. The Run appeared last year and, although it promised to deliver a Hollywood-style story, it ended up disappointing racing game fans with the paper-thin plot and forgettable characters. Seeing as how its gameplay was still top notch, managing to keep players interested in the game, EA started deploying DLC for the racing game. After the Signature Edition content, the company has now released the Italian DLC, which brings seven new cars from the European country, as well as new events for the Challenge Series. The cars included in the DLC are the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione,...

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Samsung Galaxy S III Might Be Launched in April

The successor of Samsung’s flagship Android-based Galaxy S II might not make an official appearance before April this year, some of the latest reports around the Internet suggest.  Samsung has previously confirmed that the mobile phone, supposedly called Galaxy S III will not be unveiled at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, but did not offer info on when the device might be launched.  New reports, however, suggest that it could arrive in April, roughly two months after the MWC closes its gates in Barcelona.  Packing a quad-core application processor inside, along with a Super AMOLED Plus HD display and 4G LTE connectivity, the handset will prove a true successor for the last year flagship phone.  Moreover,...

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Download New Firmware for Canon EOS-1D and EOS 5D DSLR Cameras

Today we're bringing you two new pieces of code for two of Canon's professional line cameras, the EOS-1D and EOS 5D. These DSLR (Digital Single Lens Reflection) cameras had some firmware errors reported by users and the new firmware seems to have eliminated them. First of all, for the EOS-1D, the 1.0.4 firmware fixes the network error which used to occur when using the wireless file transmitter.  Then it's the sudden disconnection between the EOD-1D and the computer, when using the EOS Utility to shoot movies and the DSLR would not recognize the wireless transmitter. The EOS 5D firmware version 2.1.1 addresses two other errors: some mistakes in the Dutch language menu screen and the continuous/ Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB) shooting...

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NAVTEQ Map and Location Content Part of Nikon COOLPIX AW Camera

Nikon has released the COOLPIX AW100 camera, the first member of the COOLPIX AW series specifically meant for outdoor users. One wouldn't think this product has any truly unique quality, not until attention is drawn to the integration of NAVTEQ's map and location content. Simply put, owners of the camera will, among other things, see their exact location on the map display (pre-loaded), use the GPS system to geo-tag images and see where restaurants, tourist attractions, hotels and shops are located. "With more and more consumers looking to integrate 'location' into their daily lives, our comprehensive global map coverage will now offer Nikon users an opportunity to combine their location and imaging experience," said Kirk Mitchell, vice...

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iPhone 5 with G/G Touch Panel Dropping at WWDC 12 - Report

A new report from Taiwan claims the new iPhone 5 will put Apple’s smartphone refresh trend back on track. The company will unveil the next-generation handset this summer, during its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, according to Daiwa Securities. The analyst firm is quoted by the Chinese-language Commercial Times as saying that Apple is expected to showcase its new iPhone 5 at the Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) held in June 2012. Last month, a leak from the Moscone Center - where Apple typically hosts its annual developer gathering - suggested that Apple had booked the venue between June 10 and June 15. Daiwa Securities indicated to the Commercial Times that the iPhone 5 would continue to use glass to glass (G/G) touch panel...

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First Intel Micro-Server Atom Chip Detailed

Looks like Intel is not lagging in its development of micro-server central processing units, having just started sample shipments of its first Atom-based system-on-chip.  Anyone wondering what exactly Intel was working on besides the recently benchmarked Core i7 3770K high-end Ivy Bridge CPU (and its family) now have their answer.  Right to the point, the Santa Clara, California-based company has begun shipping samples of its first system-on-chip devices based on the Atom micro-architecture.  It is aimed at so-called micro-servers, a market segment where ARM also wants to establish a presence as soon as possible.  When speaking of the chip, Jason Waxman, general manager of Intel’s data center group, said that the newcomer...

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AMD Opteron 6200 CPUs Power Cray’s New Midrange Supercomputers

Cray, one of the most renowned names in the HPC market, has just announced that the company has revamped its system lineup with a series of new affordably priced machines, targeting the midrange supercomputing market. Released by the company into the Cray XE6m and Cray XK6m lines, the new systems are based on AMD’s Opteron 6200 processors, which can be seconded by Nvidia’s Tesla general purpose GPUs. For connectivity purposes Cary opted for its own Gemini high-speed interconnect, while on the software side of things the supercomputers run Cray Linux Environment. Furthermore, the new offerings feature enhancements to Cray's Cluster Compatibility Mode (CCM), which gives customers the ability to run applications from Independent Software Vendors...

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iPad 3 Prototype Reveals Its Secrets via iBoot Utility

A prototype iPad 3 device has yielded a number of photos which contain enough information to confirm that the device is based on a quad-core A-series chip and that, at least in one version of the tablet PC, it will be capable of LTE connectivity. The images come from a person who claims to be in possession of an iPad 3 prototype. Originally published by BGR, the photos show details about Apple’s next tablet revision, such as the device model, and some other hardware characteristics. To obtain and display these details in a manner that’s readable to everyone, this person reportedly connected their prototype iPad 3 to a computer running a development and debug tool called iBoot. Thanks to iBoot, the following information was revealed:  The...

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LevelOne Builds Powerline Network Adapter with Wi-Fi Support

LevelOne has announced the arrival of a networking product that plays a three-pronged role, being the sort of hybrid that doesn't often get released.  LevelOne has launched a product that can most accurately be described as a merger between an Ethernet switch, a Powerline adapter and a Wi-Fi access point.  For those not very familiar with the term, Powerline adapters are devices that can create a network through the power cabling of a building.  The LevelOne PLI-3411 is one such adapter, but as already mentioned, it also acts as a switch and wireless network hub.  The company seems to have bet on reasonable pricing more than it did on performance. The product page makes things quite clear on this.  European online...

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Leaked Benchmark of Intel Core i7 3770K CPU Surfaces

Intel's most powerful central processing unit from the upcoming Ivy Bridge collection is going to be known as Core i7 3770K and has been benchmarked, apparently.  The benchmarking results that have made their way to the Internet originate with OBR-Hardware, which is not the most reliable of sources.  Still, even though some of the rumors that started there turned out to be well off the mark, such things tend to often be unfounded by default.  That said, OBR-Hardware claims to have tested the upcoming central processing unit on a Z68 chipset motherboard loaded with a new UEFI/BIOS that included Ivy Bridge support.  The processor was an engineering sample that used the C0 stepping and was clocked at 3.5 GHz, while the Turbo...

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Galaxy S II Plus Benchmarked with 1.5GHz CPU, Android 2.3.5

In addition to the already confirmed successor to Samsung’s Galaxy S II, the one that the South Korean mobile phone maker is set to unveil to the world in the first half of the year, we might see another handset launched in the series, one that has yet to receive a formal confirmation.  Supposedly dubbed Galaxy S II Plus, the smartphone was already spotted on benchmarking websites, featuring hardware specs that place it above the flagship Galaxy S II model.  While the Galaxy S III, supposedly the actual successor of Galaxy S II, won’t be unveiled this month at the Mobile World Congress, the Galaxy S II Plus should make an official appearance at the event in Barcelona.  The guys over at Pocketnow claim that the handset has...

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MSI Z77A-GD65 Ivy Bridge Motherboard Pictured

We got a first glimpse of the Z77A-GD65 motherboard for Ivy Bridge processors over a month ago, at this year’s CES 2012 fair, but now a new picture of MSI’s creation reached the Web, showing the final revision of the board. Not much has changed since our initial encounter with the MSI board, as the company just added a pair of heatsinks on top of the VRMs and PCH controller, leaving the rest of the PCB unaltered. If we were to take a look under those PWM heatsinks, we would notice that MSI’s creation uses a 9-phase VRM design in order to feed power to the CPU, which should be more than enough for even the fastest Ivy Bridge processors. The board’s expansion features include three PCI Express x16 slots, four PCIe x1 slots, as well as eight...

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Alleged Images of Galaxy S III Emerge

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is gearing up for the release of a successor for its Galaxy S II smartphone, one that might arrive on shelves under the name of Galaxy S III.  The company has already confirmed plans to launch the Galaxy S II successor in the first half of the ongoing year, during a Samsung hosted event, but did not offer specific info on the handset.  However, what appears to be the Galaxy S III smartphone has just made an appearance online on  Chinese website xda.cn, providing us with both images and specs of the upcoming device.   Before having a look at them, we should warn you to take these with a big chunk of salt. It might all prove to be nothing more than a simple rumor in the end.  The...

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Sony Xperia S Full Specs Revealed in Whitepaper, No SD Card Slot Included

Sony Xperia S is about to make its entrance on the smartphone market. Unveiled earlier last month during the International Consumers Electronics Show (CES 2012), the handset is expected to arrive in stores in March.  Although the handset maker officially announced most of the Xperia S specs, at launch, there’s one more thing that needs to be clarified. Last month Sony released the whitepaper of the Xperia S, which contains enough information for anyone looking to buy this smartphone. The latest information on the Xperia S specs sheet comes via UK-based retailer Clove, which received an official Whitepaper of the phone with more details on the smartphone. However, just by reading the second page of the document, one can see that this...

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Titan Prepares the Siberia TTC-NC55TZ(RB) CPU Cooler

Titan Technology has just introduced a veritable beast of a cooling module, one whose ravenous hunger for hot air will make short work of any possibility of a CPU overheating. There are entry-level, mid-range and high-end coolers, and then there are beasts that will make jaws drop even among the most hardcore of enthusiasts. The new product that Titan Technology has come up with fits into the last of those three categories very easily, as far as we can tell. After all, it is not every day that someone gets to see the sort of asymmetric design that the Siberia series TTC-NC55TZ(RB) possesses. In fact, even just CPU coolers that can also keep the heat off other parts of the motherboards are fairly rare nowadays. That said, the newcomer has...

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