Firefox 10.0.1 Available for Download

There have been talks about releasing a new version of Firefox this week. This chemspill release should not be too surprising since Firefox 8 and 9 already built up a pattern in this sense. The purpose of Firefox 10.0.1 is to fix two top issues that could not wait until the launch of the future major version. One of them is a top startup crash and the other refers to Java applets causing text fields to hang. The effects of the latter are visible when interacting with an embedded Java applet, which causes all text spaces to become unusable. Minimizing Firefox or resizing is the workaround, unless updating to Firefox 10.0.1. Developers are also looking to block AVG Safe Search versions causing broken location bar behavior. Currently, there...

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Acer CloudMobile with Android 4.0 Revealed Ahead of MWC Launch

If you thought that Acer is out of the mobile phone business than think again. It appears that the company is trying to cut its heavy losses and regroup under the Android banner. Acer has revealed that its unannounced CloudMobile smartphone has received the “iF design award 2012,” which recognizes the device’s outstanding look. In addition, Acer’s mobile division claims that Acer CloudMobile is the first smartphone built to take advantage of the AcerCloud technology. Apparently, this technology “securely connects personal content from Cloud PCs through CloudMobile.”  Photos can be pushed to and from CloudMobile, as well as music files, so user can listen their favorite music while on the go. According to the company, AcerCloud “enhances...

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HP Envy Spectre Ultrabook Will Also Get a 15-Inch Version

If you loved the glass-covered chassis of the Envy Spectre Ultrabook, but you felt that that 14-inch screen is too small for you, HP may soon meet your needs with a new 15-inch version of the notebook. HP has already presented such a model during the Taiwanese launch of the Spectre, which was spotted by DigiTimes. In Taiwan, the 15-inch HP Ultrabook will sell for nearly $2200 (roughly 1,668 EUR), which is definitely quite a lot if you ask us. Its specs aren’t known yet, but its smaller brother includes Intel Core i5 or Core i7 processors, 128GB to 256GB solid state disks, backlit keyboards, and a 1600x900 pixel display. A higher res screen and a discrete GPU would be a nice update if you would ask us, but we’ll have to wait and see if HP...

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Nikon’s D800 DSLR Is the First Camera to Gain USB 3.0 Certification

SuperSpeed USB continues to gain market traction among the consumer electronics industry, the recently announced Nikon D800 and D800E professional DSLR cameras being the first such products to feature USB 3.0 support. Nikon’s digital SLR’s were certified by the USB Implementers Forum to support this standard, which enables devices using it to reach transfer speeds up to 10 times higher than those of their Hi-Speed USB counterparts.  "The USB-IF is delighted to see the D800 achieve SuperSpeed USB certification," said Jeff Ravencraft, USB-IF President & COO.  "The addition of Nikon's camera to the ever-growing SuperSpeed USB ecosystem will revolutionize the consumer and photographer/videographer experience of transferring hundreds...

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AMD Plans to Refresh Opteron 6200 Series with Faster Interlagos CPUs

Introduced by AMD just three months ago, the company’s Opteron 6200-series "Interlagos" CPU range will soon receive the addition of six new processors with slightly better specs than their predecessors. According to CPU-World, the new models will feature 200MHz higher clock and Turbo Core frequencies at the same power level as currently manufactured Opteron 6200 chips. The simplest of the SKUs AMD plans to introduce is the Opteron 6208, which will feature just four processing cores working at a speed of 3.5GHz. This CPU will fit inside a 115 Watt thermal envelope and is the second Opteron 6200 processor to come without Turbo Core support. The other chips developed by AMD will feature the same 115W TDP as the Opteron 6208. These will be the...

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NEC Casio Medias LTE N-04D Lands in Japan on February 15 via NTT Docomo

NEC and Casio have teamed up to offer Android enthusiasts their latest masterpiece, which is called Medias LTE N-04D. The smartphone is expected to arrive in Japan next week via major carrier NTT Docomo. Although there’s no word on the phone’s price, it is almost sure that this one won’t be available outside the country. Just like all Japanese handsets, NEC Casio Medias LTE N-04D features a waterproof body, as well as IrDA connectivity and one-seg wallet. The phone will be compatible with Casio’s G-Shock via Bluetooth, and will run Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread platform.  Other highlights of the smartphone include 1.2 GHz dual core processor, 8.1-megapixel camera, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, and Bluetooth Low Energy profile....

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Prolimatech Readies Two New High-End Intel LGA 2011 Coolers

Prolimatech, a company well known to enthusiasts for its high-performance cooling solutions, is working on developing two new CPU coolers, which are both specially designed to be used together with Intel’s LGA 2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors. The two models haven’t been named yet, but Expreview managed to get into the possession of a series of pictures showing both of Prolimatech’s upcoming solutions. The first one of these, utilizes a pair of horizontally placed aluminum heatsinks, which dissipate the heat gathered by the six copper heatpipes coming out of the cooler’s CPU base. Fans can be presumably placed both on top and bellow the two heatsinks (a total of four fans will be supported), a configuration which could also help cool the various...

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AMD 2012 CPU and APU Roadmap Presumably Revealed

AMD has already confirmed that its next-generation Trinity APUs will become available in mid-2012, but a recently leaked company roadmap has now arrived to give us more details about the launch of these APUs, as well as about the Brazos 2.0 and Vishera processors. The first new chips to come out from AMD will arrive in the second quarter of this year, and they will cover the low-end and upper-mainstream performance sectors. The starts of the show will be of course the new Trinity APUs based on the Bulldozer architecture, four such parts being expected to arrive by the end of the second quarter, according to the leaked Donanim Haber roadmap. AMD will split these into the A10- and A8-Series, the first one including the A10-5800 and A10-5700...

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Cisco Linksys EA2700 Dual-Band N600 Router Hits the FCC

Those of you searching for a new dual-band Wireless N router will soon have one more option to check out as Cisco is getting ready to release the Linksys EA2700 N600. The router has recently visited FCC’s offices, where it was spotted by Wireless Goodness as it won approval for operation in the 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz frequencies. According to FCC’s own tests, the router can reach transfer speeds of up to 450Mbps, while also supporting every consumer wireless standard in existence, since this is actually an 802.11 a/b/g/n model. Gigabit Ethernet is also there to round up the specs list, so the Linksys EA2700 definitely looks worthy of your consideration. Sadly, no information regarding the price or the availability of this device was unveiled,...

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This May Be the iPad 3 SIM-Card

An image provided by a tipster to phoneArena shows what could potentially be the micro-SIM card required by Apple’s next-generation of iPads to connect to the carrier’s LTE network. Leaked by a “store contact,” who claimed that AT&T staff have been instructed to do away with their existing micro-SIMs and replace them with these ones, the SIMs came with a memo from AT&T high-ups. Unfortunately (for the Apple fan base), the memo does little to specify what these new SIMs are for. However, with Apple gearing up to unveil a potentially LTE-capable iPad next month, there’s little doubt about where these babies will go. Not to mention there’s an iPhone 5 in the pipeline which, by all means, better have LTE networking, or else Apple fans...

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teXet TM-7025 Android Tablet Has 3D Video Support

Even though 3D hasn’t really managed to catch on in the PC or HDTV markets, a small company known as teXet tries to make it popular in the tablet space. teXet plans to achieve this with the launch of the TM-7025, a 7-inch Android tablet that is now running on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread, with the promise of Ice Cream Sandwich coming later. Going past its 3D video support (a special pair of glasses is needed for viewing stereoscopic images), the TM-7025 is pretty much a no-frills Android slate that features a low-res 7-inch 800x480 display, a single-core Boxchip A10 Cortex A8 SoC, 512MB of RAM, and just 4GB of internal memory. Other features include WiFi, a 0.3 megapixel front camera, a miniUSB port, and HDMI output, all of these coming for...

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Office 15 Will Be Included in Windows 8 on ARM

When made available for purchase, devices that pack ARM processors and run under Microsoft’s Windows 8 operating system will have to offer features and capabilities similar to those available for x86/64 Windows 8. Among these, we can count the inclusion of Office applications that have been designed specifically for the desktop.  Microsoft has just confirmed that these office tools will be included in WOA (Windows for ARM), and that they will be part of the upcoming Office 15.  Moreover, these applications will arrive with enhancements that make it fit both on touchscreen devices, as well as on those who make use of keyboard and mouse for navigation and input.  “WOA includes desktop versions of the new Microsoft Word, Excel,...

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Sony NEX Camera E-Mount Lens Collection Will Grow to 15

Fresh from speeding up the work on the Cyber-Shot TX300V wireless charging camera, Sony has announced that it has big plans for the NEX Camera line.  In its new blog post, it said that it didn't feel that the existing collection of seven E-mount lenses was sufficient for the NEX line.  As such, it will release an extra eight over a period of roughly two years, so that all of them may be out and about by the end of 2013.  Unfortunately, Sony did not reveal any specifications, although it did provide a diagram with the official timeline.  Check it out above to understand when each of the upcoming 8 lenses will make their appearance.  At the end of it all, there will be more than enough Carl Zeiss Lenses, G lenses,...

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Unannounced HTC Phone with Ice Cream Sandwich Leaks in Live Photos

Taiwanese handset manufacturer HTC seems to have lost its momentum on the Android smartphone market, which is why the company decided to take it slower and release fewer models this year. However, at least six handsets have already been leaked in the wild, and some of them are expected to be announced at the end of the month during the Mobile World Congress 2012. We’ve already been invited to attend HTC’s main press event, which will be held on February 26, in Barcelona, Spain. Until then we can only speculate whether or not some of these devices will also make it to the market. Currently, HTC Endeavour (also known as HTC Edge), HTC Ville, HTC Vertex (also known as HTC Quattro), HTC Fireball (also known as HTC Fighter), HTC Evita, and HTC...

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Building Windows 8 Apps Is the Same for ARM and x86

One of the main focuses Microsoft has announced for the next flavor of its desktop client, Windows 8, is the availability of a consistent experience across all devices. That also includes the development of applications for Windows on ARM, which is now to be the same as when it comes to building apps for x86 architectures.  For application developers, this means that their Metro-style software will work on Windows 8 regardless of whether it runs on ARM or other architecture.  WOA (Windows on ARM) arrives with all the WinRT capabilities present in the Windows Developer Preview. This means that developers can take advantage of all the tools and techniques used for building Metro style apps for x86/64, to come up with apps for ARM...

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VTX3D Unleashes HD7970 & 7950 X Edition Factory Overclocked Graphics Cards

VTX3D, a branch of the same TUL Corporation that also owns the PowerColor brand, has just announced the release of two new factory overclocked graphics cards based on the Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950 designs. Both of these solutions were released by the company in the X Edition series, which uses a custom cooler developed by VTX3D. The most distinctive feature of this cooling solution is its dual-fan design, which should help eliminate the heat produced by the card, when running more quickly compared to other coolers that rely on a single central fan. This design also has the added benefit of pushing airflow towards the PCB of the two cards in order to cool the VRMs and memory chips. Thanks to the addition of this improved cooler, VTX3D raised...

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First Samsung Galaxy Mini 2 Specs and Photo Leak

The successor of the popular Samsung Galaxy mini S5570 has just been spotted in the wild. It appears that the Galaxy mini 2 S6500 will be announced later this month at the Mobile World Congress 2012, in Barcelona. The guys over at GSMArena have just been tipped on the unannounced Samsung Galaxy mini 2, which seems to be yet another budget-friendly Android phone. Given the fact that Samsung already confirmed it wouldn’t have any conferences at the MWC 2012, it will be interesting to see whether the phone will still get a launch event at the end of the month. Speculations aside, the leaked photo of the Samsung Galaxy mini 2 clearly states that the smartphone will be announced in February 2012. According to GSMArena, the Galaxy mini 2 runs...

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Windows 8 on Tablets Powered by NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and TI

Windows 8, the first version of the desktop client to arrive with enhancements meant for mobile devices and with expanded support for touchscreens, will also be the first to be loaded on ARM architectures.  Dubbed WOA (Windows on ARM), the platform will offer the same features and capabilities that Windows 8 will offer when loaded on x86/64 architectures.  To ensure that Windows will work on devices that are powered by a System on Chip (SoC), Microsoft has partnered with companies that make ARM processors.  Thus, Windows 8 will be loaded on devices featuring processors coming from NVIDIA, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments.  When it comes to ARM licensees, each of them has its own approach towards selecting features and...

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Asus Transformer Prime v9.4.2.13 Firmware Fixes Random Reboot Issue

When we first talked about Asus’ v9.4.2.13 firmware for the Asus Transformer Prime a couple of days ago, there were quite a few users who pointed out that the update resolved the random reboot issues they were experiencing with their tablet. However, without official confirmation from Asus, we couldn’t say for sure that the new firmware would actually resolve this problem, so we remained somewhat skeptical about that. But our doubts were cast away by Asus a few hours ago, when the outfit posted a message on its official Twitter account announcing that the v9.4.2.13 firmware did indeed fix those random reboot issues. As usually, the new software update will reach all the Transformer Prime tablets out there over-the-air.  According to...

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Ice Cream Sandwich for Samsung Galaxy S II in Three Weeks

Samsung might start rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system on Galaxy Nexus as soon as March 1st, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.  Apparently, all will depend on the country and on the carrier that has the Galaxy S II on its airwaves, but the update is near. The news comes from Eldar Murtazin, who says that the update will be available both via Kies and over the air.  Nothing has been officially confirmed on this for the time being, and we’ll take the info with a grain of salt. However, we’ll keep an eye out to learn more on the matter.  Samsung was the first company to bring to the market a handset running under Ice Cream Sandwich, and many expected it to start delivering the update...

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These Are the AMD Radeon HD 7750 and 7770 Specifications

We've seen the unique traits of the NVIDIA Kepler GPUs that will power the GeForce 600 line of graphics cards and, now, the specifications of the AMD Radeon HD 7750 and 7770 graphics cards have been uncovered as well.  The Cape Verde graphics processing unit (GPU) is the chip that will act as the heart of these two video controllers from Advanced Micro Devices.  3D Center seems to have found the exact specifications of this chip, as well as of the two video cards known to be based on it.  The chip, built on the 28nm manufacturing process, is the cheapest of the GCN units in the Southern Islands family, even though it works at a clock speed of as much as 1 GHz.  To elaborate, that is the default frequency for the stronger...

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Nokia N9 Breaths New Life with Ice Cream Sandwich Port

Nokia N9 is one of the nicest handsets that Nokia has made available for its users in 2011. The smartphone, however, was destined for a short life, being the first and last Nokia phone to run MeeGo.  But hope is not lost for Nokia N9 owners. Soon, they will be able to take advantage of new features and capabilities on their devices, courtesy of an Android 4.0 port.  Although Nokia N9 is only one big 3.9-inch touchscreen, with no buttons on the front, Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich can still work on it, and it looks pretty great too, it seems.  The news comes from Alexey Roslyakov, part of the NITDroid team, who has been working on the porting of Ice Cream Sandwich to this device for the past weeks.  He already managed...

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Micron Launches New Type of Low-Power RAM, DDR3Lm

Micron has many sorts of memory up for sale, but it has invented a new type of DDR3, one that focuses on low energy use without crippling performance or increasing costs overmuch. The new RAM (random access memory) chips that Micron has made are called DDR3Lm and come in 2 Gigabit and 4 Gigabit capacities. Both of them will be constructed on the 30nm manufacturing process technology and will enter volume production in the second quarter of the year (2012). “Power reduction is becoming ever more critical in the fast growing ultrathin markets. Micron's expertise with traditional PC memory requirements enables these markets to enjoy high performance targets and optimal cost efficiencies,” said Robert Feurle, vice president for Micron's DRAM...

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Acer Aspire One D270 Cedar Trail Netbook Goes on Sale

Listed by Amazon US since the middle of January, Acer’s Aspire One D270 netbook, based on Intel’s recently announced Atom Cedar Trail platform, just went on sale in both Europe and the US, with pricing starting at 259 EUR (about $343). Acer’s creation doesn’t differ all that much from all the other Cedar Trail netbooks introduced so far by Asus, MSI, HP and others, as is based on the same Atom N2600 CPU. Sporting a dual-core design and a 1.6GHz operating frequency, the chip is paired together with a wimpy 1GB of system memory and a 5,400RPM hard drive delivering 320GB of storage space. Just as the rest of its hardware configuration, the 10.1-inch LED backlit display used by the Aspire One AOD270 also fails to impress, as it sports a low-res...

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iPad 3 Boasts a "Truly Amazing" Display, Says Apple Staffer

An Apple employee speaking on the condition of anonymity has revealed to the NT Times’ Bits blog that the next iPad features a “truly amazing” screen. This person confirmed to the American news blog that Apple is actively testing iPad 3 units internally. The device is “essentially the same size and shape as the iPad 2,” the staffer said, with an improved and “truly amazing” screen. Apple is also throwing in a faster processor, according to this person. While this is pretty much on par with every iPad 3 rumor out there, it doesn’t hurt to hear it coming from the mouth of an (alleged) Apple staffer who was eager to share these details with the press. Apple is reportedly gearing up to launch the iPad 3 at a special event scheduled for the first...

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Android 4.0 for HTC Sensation Confirmed for March

Taiwanese mobile phone maker HTC Corporation has just announced plans to start rolling out the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system on its Sensation devices at the end of next month. The handset vendor will start deploying the new OS flavor on HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation 4G and HTC Sensation XE as soon as next month, and will continue with the Sensation XL soon afterwards. Moreover, HTC aims at releasing Android 4.0 for other devices too in the following months.  Previously, the mobile phone maker confirmed plans to deliver the new software update to its devices, but did not offer a specific release date for it.  Today, however, it unveiled all on the matter via its Facebook page. HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation 4G and...

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