Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs Out on April 23, 2012

We brought you the launch date of the AMD Trinity APUs and, now, we get to tell you when the Intel Ivy Bridge series of CPUs is finally going to show.  After being delayed by a few months (and let's not even get into what the “broken” CPUs are all about), the next-generation chips will come out on April 23 (2012), according to Chinese VR-Zone.  Previously, the most accurate estimate was that the processors would be formally unleashed between April 22 and 28, while mass availability was scheduled for April 29.  We think the newest report means that the products really will start selling on that day, but you never know.  It should be mentioned that the list of upcoming models doesn't include the Core i5-3550S...

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Sony Preps New Xperia Model with 4.3’’ Screen

Sony Mobile Communication is reportedly getting ready for the launch of yet another high-end Android-based smartphone sometime in the second half of the current year.  Rumor has it that the new device would be included in the company’s Xperia family of phones. Similarly to some of the latest models in the series, it should sport a large touchscreen display.  Sony Mobile’s Xperia lineup is already highly popular all around the world, and the launch of new handsets should increase its appeal.  Just like Xperia S and Xperia ion before it, the new Sony mobile phone should pack a large 4.3-inch touchscreen, rumor has it.  Moreover, the report, coming from China Times, suggests that the panel would be AMOLED,...

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AMD Trinity APUs Set for May 15 Release (2012)

Advanced micro Devices has been praising its upcoming collection of Accelerated Processing Units, and now we know exactly when we'll be able to tell for sure if the chips are really all they're cracked up to be.   We'll get it out there before people start fidgeting with impatience: the Trinity series of APUs will be launched on May 15, 2012, or so SWEClockers says.  We can only hope that there won't be any last minute delays.  As successors to the Llano, the next-generation chips will have higher clock frequencies, while sticking to the same thermal envelope as them.  We can even tell you just how much better Trinity will run, or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that we already have.  A...

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Apple Adds Canon EOS 5D Mark III to Supported (RAW) Cameras

Canon’s new EOS 5D Mark III digital SLR camera is now fully supported by Apple’s iPhoto ‘11 and Aperture 3, thanks to a recent software update pushed by Apple this week. Since digital camera RAW formats retain more image information than traditional JPEGs, they can produce better results when used with imaging applications such as Aperture and iPhoto, which is why Apple continually adds support for the newest hardware. OS X Lion provides system-level support for digital camera RAW formats from hundreds of cameras but, up until yesterday, canon’s new DSLR was not supported. Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update 3.12 takes care of that omission, adding RAW image compatibility for the EOS 5D Mark III to Aperture 3 and iPhoto...

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In Light of BackDoor.Flashback.39, OS X Gains Second Java Update

After rolling out Java for OS X Lion 2012-001 and Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 7 with the sole purpose of addressing a number of vulnerabilities, Apple this week released a second update, soon after several security vendors issued advisories detailing the numerous variants of the BackDoor.Flashback trojan. Java for OS X 2012-002 is being offered via Software Update to OS X Lion users (no confirmation from Snow Leopard users yet), with Apple stating that the update “delivers improved compatibility, security, and reliability by updating Java SE 6 to 1.6.0_31.” “Please quit any web browsers and Java applications before installing this update,” says Apple. Customers are directed to the same KB articles that documented Java for OS...

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MSI Super RAID Makes GT70 Gaming Notebook Work at 928 MB/s

Micro-Star International's GT70 gaming notebook might look like any other gaming portable PC at first glance, but a certain entry on the spec sheet makes it stand apart.  The MSI GT70 uses something called Super RAID, a storage technology that puts an interesting spin on solid state drive use in notebooks.  Gaming machines often have 2.5-inch SATA SSDs, or an HDD and an SSD, with or without SSD caching.  That way, they can achieve read and write speeds much higher than what a pure HDD setups manage.  With Super RAID, though, the company uses one hard disk drive and, in place of the second HDD, a Super RAID card that has two mSATA SSDs plugged into a small PCB.  The solid state drives in the photos...

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EVO 3D Successor Spotted in Video Presentation for EVO 4G LTE

This week, HTC announced the upcoming availability of EVO 4G LTE, its latest smartphone for the wireless carrier Sprint.  The new device is expected to become available for purchase sometime in the second quarter of 2012, featuring a price tag of $199.99 (around 150 Euro).  The behind the scenes video that HTC made available with the new smartphone also featured another device from the Taiwanese handset vendor, one that was not made official as of now.  The phone appears to pack two cameras on the back, which would suggest that the company is working on the release of a successor for the EVO 3D smartphone launched last year.  According to The Verge, the handset might either never arrive on the market, or it could be launched as the 3D-capable flavor...

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BlackBerry World 2012 Mobile Conference Guide App Now Available for Download

BlackBerry avid fans who are planning to attend this year's Blackberry World 2012 conference can rest assured they will know almost everything there is to know about this event. There's a new mobile application that provides users access to all the details regarding the conference schedule and sponsors, speakers, maps and more. Simply dubbed “Conference Guide: BlackBerry World 2012,” this piece of software is fully compatible with all devices running BlackBerry 5.0 OS and up, including the PlayBook tablet. Furthermore, the application can also be used during the event to fill out surveys and connect with other people attending the conference.  Every time there are schedule changes, the application will automatically...

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Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds Lumix GF5 Camera

Panasonic's Micro Four Thirds camera line has gained a new member, one that is, at heart, a refined GF3 (the third to have been added to this collection). The name Panasonic chose to give the newcomer is Lumix GF5. The item will sell alongside the GF3, at least for a while. We'll not bruise our brains thinking about how the two will manage to coexist, given their relatively similar looks. Instead, we'll give a rundown of what makes the GF5 tick. A 12.1-megapixel sensor lies at the so-called heart of the item. This Live MOS image sensor, together with Panasonic's Venus Engine with Multi-process Noise Reduction, can capture 920k-dot resolution images (GF3 has 469k dots) and 1080i Full HD videos. In addition to all this,...

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Sony Xperia P Approved by FCC, Heading to Various Carriers

Sony has already confirmed it will introduce its entire Xperia NXT lineup of phones in the United States in Q2 2012. However, the official announcement doesn’t mention anything regarding the carriers that will offer the Xperia smartphones.  There’s also no info on the exact release dates for any of the three devices that are expected to hit shelves in the US: Xperia S, Xperia U and Xperia P. The only thing that we know for certain is that Brightstar will bring these Xperia NXT devices to various carriers and authorized retailers in the country. Until more details on the upcoming availability of these smartphones emerge, the folks at Engadget report that the Sony Xperia P has just received FCC’s (Federal Communications...

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Script: Wookmark

Wookmark is a jQuery plugin created by the Wookmark.com team to power up their website's main page, a resizable multi-column grid layout. The plugin works by automatically shifting objects from one column to another, so they perfectly fit with one another. Also, if the width of the viewport (browser visible area, screen) is modified, so is the entire layout, by adding and removing columns, and implicitly moving objects around again. To better understand this effect, either go to Wookmark.com and take a look at it, or download the plugin and play with the included demo. A similar effect can also be seen on Pinterest as well. Wookmark is available under the MIT License, so you can use it any way you want. Development is done on GitHub. Download...

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New MacBook Airs Prepared for June Launch, Chinese Paper Says

A Chinese newspaper is dishing out information about the upcoming laptop releases from Apple, Sony, HP and Toshiba, mentioning that a MacBook Air refresh from Apple is expected this June. Hit-and-miss publication DigiTimes is citing a Chinese-language Apple Daily report as saying that “Taiwan-based notebook ODMs expected ultrabooks to contribute 10% of their shipments in the second quarter as notebook vendors such as Apple, Sony, Hewlett-Packard (HP) and Toshiba are all set to mass produce or launch new ultrabooks in the quarter.” The report continues, specifically mentioning that “Apple's new MacBook Air reportedly will launch in June.” The sources are unnamed. Sony's ultrabooks are to ship this month, the paper said, while...

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Nokia 808 PureView Gallery and Guide Unveiled

Nostalgic Nokia fans who are still into Symbian smartphones will have to wait one more month for the Nokia 808 PureView. The smartphone is expected to arrive sometime in May for no less than 450 EUR (590 USD) outright. Until then, the Finnish company decided to sweeten the wait by releasing a Nokia 808 PureView gallery for those who want to take a closer look at the phone before it arrives on the market. The main selling point of the smartphone is the 41-megapixel rear camera, which Nokia claims is the best on the market. Featuring Carl Zeiss optics and Nokia’s new pixel oversampling technology, the phone’s camera can combine up to seven pixels into one “pure” pixel, hence the name of the device. In addition, Nokia claims that the 808 PureView is the world’s first video...

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Eurocom Panther 4.0 Notebook Gets Xeon E5-2690 8-Core CPU

There was a time when describing a laptop as a desktop replacement meant it was as powerful as it could get, but Eurocom seems to have gone beyond that level. The Panther 4.0 mobile computer is a machine that we have already described as simply the best notebook there is. One would think that it would take a while before the company managed to outdo itself, but that does not appear to be the case. Seeing that it reached the top, more or less, allowed by consumer-oriented components, Eurocom simply went into server territory. The result is a Panther 4.0 that uses the 8-core Intel Xeon E5-2690 processor (20 MB cache, 2.9 GHz clock speed) As if that wasn't enough on its own, the company also tossed in massive storage and...

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You Can Watch All High-Quality YouTube Videos in 3D Now

3D video is somewhat of a gimmick, but movies that leverage the technology properly can really be enhanced by the new "dimension." Of course, 3D has come out of theaters and made it onto regular TVs and even online. YouTube has had support for 3D videos for a while now, but it's important to realize that not all 3D videos are created equal. For example, few videos are "true" 3D videos, shot with stereoscopic cameras. Many though are converted, from regular videos shot with regular cameras.  That's the way most Hollywood "3D" movies are made, the bad ones in particular and, if you've been unfortunate enough to see one you may have noticed that there is a clear difference between a true 3D and a converted one. Still,...

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HUD Glasses Project Also Confirms Google[x] Lab for Advanced Research

Google revealed that it's working on augmented reality glasses partly to put an end to the leaks around the project. Info was still getting out and, as the team moved to the next phase of the project, testing the glasses in real-world situations, it would become impossible to keep it quiet anymore. Of course, the positive PR effect is certainly nice, especially after the last few months in which Google has been getting hammered. But along with the glasses, Google also confirmed another widely spread rumor, its Google X lab, which we now know is called Google[x]. The division is tasked with experimenting with wild technologies and houses all shoot-for-the-moon projects at the company. The augmented reality glasses are the first...

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Colorful Officially Intros iGame GTX680-2G Kudan Graphics Card

Last week we spotted the most powerful rendition of the GeForce GTX 680 graphics card that Colorful had come up with and, now, that very product is ready and waiting to be bought. The name of the video controller is iGame GTX680-2G Kudan and the price was not specified, although we guess it will be higher than $499 / 499 Euro. We also aren't sure why companies seem to be putting that “i” before their product names nowadays. Imitating Apple probably, for better or worse. We'll get the specs out of the way first: the board is a dual-BIOS beast. One of the BIOS chips runs the card at 1,059 MHz (GPU) / 6,008 MHz (2 GB memory), while the other one drives everything higher, to 1,110 MHz / 6,208 MHz. A switch on the card toggles...

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Three New 450 Mbps Wireless Networking Products Released by NEC

This week will mark the arrival of the Aterm WL450NU-AG, the Aterm WR9500N and Aterm WR9300N in stores, in Japan at least. Resulting from a collaboration between NEC and Access Technica, the three devices are meant to enable wireless connectivity at the speed of 450 Mbps. The Aterm WL450NU-AG is an 802.11n USB network adapter that transmits 450 Mbps over the 5 GHz band, although 2.4 GHz is supported too (different speeds though). The Aterm WR9300N is a bundle between a 2.4 GHz 802.11n/a/b/g-compliant router and the Aterm WL450NU-AG. As for the Aterm WR9500N, it is a bundle of the Aterm WL450NU-AG and a 5 GHz / 2.4 GHz 802.11n/a/b/g-compliant wireless router. The Aterm WL450NU-AG will sell for 6,000 JPY ($73 / 55.66 Euro),...

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Weaker NVIDIA GK104 Chips Used in GeForce GTX 670 Ti

We've seen more of the GeForce GTX 680 graphics card than most people probably need, and now we get to learn something about the second Kepler-based adapter(s).  The GeForce GTX 680 is the high-end video card powered by the GK104 GPU (graphics processing unit).  As it happens, the same GPU will be used in the making of the GTX 670 and GTX 670 Ti, a pair of upper mainstream video controllers.  For those wondering why NVIDIA would waste fine GPUs instead of pushing them to the max, the answer is simple: the company actually doesn't.  What is really going on is that not all chips come out of the assembly lines fully functional.  As such, by fusing off the parts that don't work, the GPU can be given...

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