AMD FX-8120 WOX-Series Liquid Cooler CPU Now Available for Pre-Order

Besides the FX-8150 WOX that we spotted earlier this year, AMD is also preparing the release of a liquid cooled version of the FX-8120, which has recently been made available for pre-order by an online store in the US. This bundle was dubbed the FX-8120 WOX by the chip maker, the WOX suffix at the end of its name pointing out that the processor is shipped together with an AMD-branded water cooler. Besides the new bundle, the CPU sports the same specs as the regular FX-8120 according to CPU-World, meaning that it includes four Bulldozer modules to deliver a total of eight cores. These are paired with 8MB of shared Level 3 cache memory and are clocked at 3.1 GHz, but thanks to the addition of the Turbo Core technology the CPU can reach speeds...

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Asus Officially Launches Eee PC 1025 Flare Series Netbooks

More than three months after being spotted for the first time, Asus’ Eee PC 1025 Flare series notebooks have finally been made official by the Taiwanese company, which has already started shipping them to various retailers around the world. Asus’ Eee PC 1025C series actually comprises two netbook models, dubbed the 1025C and 1025CE, both of them featuring about the same specs. The only difference is that the 1025CE comes equipped with two USB 3.0 ports  and one regular USB 2.0 port with charging support, while the 1025C is limited to USB 2.0 connectivity. The rest of the features list includes support for up to 2GB of DDR3 system memory (the standard version will feature only 1GB), a SATA hard drive with capacities ranging between...

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Nokia Is Working on New, Revolutionary Smartphone

Finnish mobile phone Nokia is expected to unveil to the world a new, revolutionary smartphone in the not too far future, some of the latest reports on the matter suggest.  In a recent interview with Finnish newspaper Kauppalehti, Nokia’s design chief, Marko Ahtisaari, confirmed to the world that the handset vendor was working on new hardware that would change the manner in which users took advantage of their devices.  According to him, with the new device in their hands, “users do not need to look down to use it and poke their finger at the screen.”  The first thing that comes to our mind is that users will be able to control the new device using their voice, something that has been done before.  If this is so, then Nokia...

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AMD A6-4400M Trinity APU Shows Up in HP g4 Laptops

One of AMD’s upcoming notebook APUs based on the company’s next-gen Trinity architecture, the A6-4400M, was recently spotted in the specifications list of two HP g4-series laptops. HP’s g4-2002ax and g4-2003ax specs pages are light when it comes to revealing details about this APU, but they did state that the A6-4400M has two CPU cores. Furthermore, the listing also revealed that the integrated GPU utilized in the A6-4400M is called the Radeon HD 7520G, and that the two computing cores have a 2.6GHz base frequency and 3GHz maximum Turbo Core speed. These frequencies are 18%, and respectively 15%, higher than those of the fastest AMD dual-core Llano mobile APU in production, the A4-3330MX. However, since the Bulldozer CPU cores that the A6-4400...

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Galaxy S III to Sport 8MP Camera, Test Photo Unveils

Samsung’s Galaxy S III smartphone is expected to arrive on shelves with an 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back, the latest rumors around the web suggest.  The handset has been also rumored to pack a 12MP camera on the back, but what appears to be a leaked test photo taken with it shows that it will actually pack a lower-quality camera.  The said photo, taken with a smartphone that features model number GT-I9300, was spotted on Picasa, a recent post on AllAboutSamsung notes. The resolution of the said image is 3264 × 2448, which might suggest an 8.1 megapixel camera. Since the image might have been snapped with the resolution set lower than maximum, it is still uncertain whether the upcoming flagship device from Samsung will arrive...

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Script: LotusCMS

LotusCMS is one of the fastest, complete and most visually appealing flat-file CMSs you can find on the Internet these days. Specifically designed on a flat-file access principle, the CMS can be installed on any web server in which a database connection is not available, or even blocked. Useful features include user administration, automatic updates installer, module manager, custom SEO settings, pages, styles and template management. LotusCMS is a good fit for small to medium projects, coming with plenty of self-included modules for blogging, menu management, WYSIWYG editing, file browsing, handling site backups and much, much more. A graphic installer is also provided for easily installing the system on your server. The LotusCMS website...

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Galaxy S II Ice Cream Sandwich Source Code Released

Today, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics made available for download the source code for the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich firmware for its Samsung Galaxy S II smartphone.  The leading handset vendor started to deliver the update to its users last week, and is expected to make it available for most of them in the not-too-distant future.  Before that, however, it appears that modders and developers have the possibility to come up with custom ROMs for the mobile phone, now that the source code for it is available for download.  The files and libraries included in the release will provide enthusiasts with the option to improve aspects of the device, including battery life, processor overclocking and more.  The...

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Kaspersky Solves Duqu Framework Mystery

On March 7, Kaspersky Lab experts revealed that after analyzing Duqu’s framework they were unable to precisely determine what programming language had been used to develop it. Now they think they have the answer and they say that it’s most likely a custom object oriented C called “OO C”. Kaspersky security researchers asked the community for help in finding out the name of the programming language and the most popular suggestions were variants of LISP, Forth, Erlang, Google Go, Delphi, OO C, and old compilers for C++. Based on the community’s responses, they concluded that the input code was pure C and it was compiled with Microsoft Visual Studio Compiler 2008 with the options /O1, to minimize its size, and /Ob1, which ensures that it expands...

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SLI Performance of NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680

After spotting pre-orders and photos of the Kepler, we finally get to see some benchmarking results for when two cards are set up in SLI.  As far as the card alone goes, benchmarks have already illustrated its apparent superiority to the AMD Radeon HD 7970.  That said, two GeForce GTX 680 cards in SLI were reportedly put through 3DMark 11 in Entry, Performance, and eXtreme presets.  The Entry preset led to a score of E22878, while the Performance test scored P16860 and the eXtreme test left behind X6243.  The GTX 680 were clocked at 1,150 MHz for the GPU and 7.20 GHz for the GDDR5 VRAM, while the rest of the system was made up of a six-core Intel Core i7-3930K CPU (at 5 GHz) and 16 GB of quad-channel DDR3-2133 MHz on...

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AMD Radeon HD 7870, HD 7850 Graphics Cards Reach Retail

Unveiled two weeks ago, AMD’s HD 7870 and HD 7850 graphics card released into the Radeon HD 7000 product family have now become available in the retail space with prices starting at $250 US (about 190 EUR). The two Radeon HD designs are based on the company’s 28nm Pitcairn graphics core and come equipped with 2GB of GDDR5 video memory buffer. In the more powerful HD 7870, this will be accompanied by the Pitcairn XT GPU which includes 1408 streaming processors, 88 texture units and 24 ROP units, all of these connected to the memory via a 256-bit wide bus. Thanks to the 1.2GHz (4.8GHz data rate) VRAM operating clock, this configuration should be able to deliver 153GB/s worth of memory bandwidth. As far as the GPU is concerned, this works at...

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Samsung Galaxy S III to Be Powered by Exynos Quad-Core / LTE All-in-One Chip

Rumors on the Galaxy S II successor continue to pour in as Samsung is still mum on the smartphone’s hardware and software configuration. We don’t even have a certain timeframe for the smartphone’s launch date, though the latest hearsay point to a possible April announcement. Until then, we’re left with speculations and assumptions that could be more or less accurate. A few images allegedly showing the Galaxy S III were also leaked online in the last few days. Today we have more accurate, hopefully, information about the upcoming Galaxy S II successor. It appears that an unnamed Samsung exec confirmed for Korea Times that the Galaxy S III would be shipped with the company’s own Exynos chipset. However, Samsung is working on an all-in-one...

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OSC 154 Teraflops Supercomputer Uses Intel Xeon CPUs and Nvidia Tesla GPUs

The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) has announced a short while ago that researcher’s using its computing resources can now access a new HPC system that utilizes GPU acceleration to deliver a total peak performance of 154 teraflops. Already available for general use, OSC's supercomputer was built by HP and is based on Intel’s Xeon processors and Nvidia Tesla graphic processing units (GPUs). Dubbed the Oakley Cluster, the machine features more cores (8,328) on half as many nodes (694) as the center's most recent flagship system, the IBM Opteron 1350 Glenn Cluster. Furthermore, the new system provides nearly twice the memory per core (namely 4GB) and three times the number of graphic processing units (128 to be exact).  The Oakley Cluster...

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Samsung Galaxy S III Possibly Featured in VISA Video Ad

The hype around Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy S III smartphone is high, and it is expected to grow further before the mobile phone becomes officially available, and even after that.  Officially confirmed for the first half of this year, the handset is nowhere to be seen for the time being, but it should not be too long before it is formally introduced.  In the meantime, all we have to do with are leaks and rumors, including one that places the upcoming device in a new video ad from VISA.  In the said video ad, the smartphone is touted with support for Near Field Communications (NFC) and for wireless mobile payments, although it is not named as the Galaxy S III.  However, its outer design appears to confirm the fact that we’re...

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Gigabyte GeForce GTX 680 Card Spotted

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 graphics card, powered by the Kepler GPU, may not have been released yet, but that doesn't mean no one in the world has it yet.  In fact, the Gigabyte version somehow made its way to someone's home. That someone is the Overclock.net forum member "ironman86."  The model number is GV-N680D5-2GD-B and the clock speeds are the reference numbers.  If you want to know what they are, you're better off going here and reading everything about the card.  NVIDIA plans to launch Kepler on March 23, last we heard, which means that shipments will start soon.  Gigabyte's card gets power from two 6-pin PCI Express power connectors, which means the others probably do too.  Speaking of which, pre-orders...

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Panasonic Lumix GF5 ILC Camera Leaked Online

Panasonic’s upcoming Micro Four Thirds interchangeable lens camera, the Lumix GF5, was leaked early by one of the company’s spokespersons who recently posted online a picture of the not yet official compact snapper. The image popped up on Instagram, of all places, where it was uploaded by a Hong Kong celebrity who goes by the name of Angelababy and just happens to be the brand’s ambassador for this region. Initially spotted by 43 Rumors, the picture has been removed from Angelababy’s account, but the direct image link still works. On the outside, the camera looks surprisingly similar to the current GF3, but it appears that the internals were updated in order to improve its low-light picture taking capabilities. According to engadget, who...

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The New iPad Overheats

Early adopters of Apple’s new iPad are complaining on forums (including the company’s own discussions board) about overheating issues. Apple devices tend to get hot when the user connects to the Internet, especially via a cellular connection. The iPad 3 seems to continue this trend. However, there are many more users reporting this than there were when the iPad 1 and iPad 2 came out. One user writes on Apple’s forums: “Just got my new iPad. I'm loving the screen and speed but there's something weird about it. It gets rather warm/hot after 30minutes of usage. It has never happened on my iPad 2. Do you think it's harmless or .... ?” Another chimed in with a similar story: “Does it get "hot" or simply warmer than you expected?  Mine is...

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