Sony Xperia S Now Available for Pre-Order in India

Sony India already confirmed it will bring the Xperia S in the country on April 10. Although the Japanese company did not mention the smartphone's suggested retail price, it did say that Xperia S will be bundled with free accessories worth Rs 4,000 (80 USD or 60 EUR). The folks at AndroidOS have just been tipped on the smartphone's availability at various regional retailers. Customers who want to pre-order the Xperia S must come up with no less than Rs 32549 (635 USD or 485 EUR) outright. Indian retailer Flipkart is now offering the Sony Xperia S for the amont mentioned earlier and throws in a free car charger and 2 NFC tags. However, Sony India explicitly announced a few days ago that the Xperia S will be retailed with a...

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Nokia Lumia 900 and HTC Titan II Go on Sale at AT&T

States via major carrier AT&T. Along with Nokia's first LTE smartphone, the carrier also introduced the HTC Titan II. Customers can now purchase the Nokia Lumia 900 for only $99.99 with a new two-year agreement, or the HTC Titan II which is available for double the amount, $199.99 on contract. Moreover, the Finnish company decided to give Americans the opportunity to try out the Lumia 900 even if they are not willing to commit to a long term contract. This is why AT&T is offering the smartphone for just $449.99 outright. HTC Titan II is slightly more expensive as customers who want to avoid being tied by a long term contract must come out with no less than $549.99. However, the differences between the two smartphones...

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Script: Template CMS

Template CMS is a light frame flat-file content management system for web servers running PHP. Without any doubt you'll fall in love with Template CMS' beautifully crafted admin panel, which loads and handles almost as fast as the frontend. Its minimal requirements allow a wide spectrum of use cases, webmasters being able to install and use Template CMS even with some of the most harsh and limiting hosting providers. Some of Template CMS' most important features include a graphic installer, themes management, plugins, menu manager and WYSIWYG editing. The CMS is just perfect for deploying on small to medium website projects. Template CMS development is handled via its SourceForge page. Keep an eye on it, since version...

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Script: PhpMySport

PhpMySport is a web-based solution for managing a sport league online. It comes with default settings for soccer, basketball and rugby, but it can be adapted to any other sport as well. A league administrator can manage all the settings and details a sport league might need managing on, all in the confines of a single application. This includes matches, seasons, players, managers, coaches, referees, stats, stadiums, teams, competitions and even press releases. PhpMySport also provides some other CMS-related features like users management, static pages, a forum, a graphic installer and WYSIWYG editing. To view a PhpMySport demo, just go here and login using the admin/admin username and password combination. For development...

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OS X Mountain Lion Features: iCloud

iCloud is already a simple and intuitive service, though its underpinnings are quite complex. After all, the late Steve Jobs had envisioned the service since his triumphant return at Apple in 1997, but it wasn’t until last year that Apple could roll it out properly. And now that they’ve gotten a handle on it, the engineering geniuses at Apple have taken things a step further in OS X 10.8, dubbed Mountain Lion. The upcoming Mac OS, scheduled to debut sometime late this summer according to Apple’s own estimates, will feature iCloud embedded right inside every app that can use it. The system-wide integration will spell less confusion for the customer, and better sync across devices. Apple’s marketing pitch for iCloud in OS...

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Download Bing Wallpaper Pack 1.3

On Friday, Microsoft made available for download a new wallpaper pack for the owners of Windows-based computers.  Available as version 1.3, the new pack will provide users with the possibility to enjoy Bing homepage images straight on their desktops.  According to Microsoft, the new pack enables you to “bring the beauty of Bing to your desktop. Get a desktop wallpaper pack featuring 12 gorgeous Bing homepage images from around the world.” The pack is available for download for all machines running under Windows 7, Windows Vista SP1 and above, or Windows XP with Service Pack (SP) 3.  Before kicking off the installation process, users should note that the pack will offer to change their browser’s webpage, as...

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Toshiba Chips Power I-O Data SSDs

I-O Data has some new solid state drives up for sale, powered by 24nm Toggle NAND Flash memory and SATA 6.0 Gbps controllers from Toshiba. Toshiba is a small presence on the market of SSD controller chips. This new product would have been its ticket to something closer to relevance, but the price more or less ruined it. Granted, we've seen 120 GB SSD with tags higher than 16,800 Yen ($206 / 157 Euro), but not at speeds of 444.52MB/s read 340.53MB/s write. Even at higher capacities, the transfer rates don't go much higher: the 480 GB drive operates at 480 MB/s read and 350 MB/s write. Nevertheless, all the tests run by PC Watch show pretty good numbers overall, and the price may eventually slide down a few notches. The...

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Microsoft to Patch Six Vulnerabilities with April 2012 Security Update

On April 10th, 2012, Microsoft will deliver a new software update for its products as part of the usual monthly update rollout.  A total number of six bulletins will be included in the update, four of which are rated critical, and which are meant to patch several security holes that were discovered in various products from the Redmond-based software giant.  All of the said four vulnerabilities could allow for Remote Code Execution, the company announced via the Microsoft Security Bulletin Advance Notification for April 2012.  The first of these affects Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer, the second was discovered in Windows alone, while the third affects both Windows and Microsoft .NET Framework.  The...

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Samsung GALAXY Note 10.1 Delayed for June, But Boasts 1.5GHz Quad-Core Exynos CPU

There's good news and bad news for Android enthusiasts waiting for the chance to acquire themselves one of the latest tablets announced by Samsung this year, the Galaxy Note 10.1. Let's start with the bad news. It appears that the Galaxy Note 10.1 has been postponed for June, sources in the industry cited by Korean site IPD MK clam. However, the good news is the reason of this unannounced delay is the fact that Samsung decided to replace the 1.4 GHz dual-core CPU that was said to power the slate, with an enhanced 1.5 GHz quad-core Exynos processor. It appears that Samsung plans to make the Galaxy Note 10.1 the new iPad's main competitor, and the initial dual core processor simply wouldn't have cut it. Although this seems...

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PowerColor Unveils PCS+ HD7850 Video Card

A new video card will soon show up for order, if it hasn't already, courtesy of PowerColor. After so many high-end cards from NVIDIA's partners, PowerColor is offering something different. Long story short, the company has completed its latest AMD-powered card: PowerColor PCS+ HD7850. As the name implies, this is a custom-made Radeon HD 7850 board, where by “custom” we mean that the clock and memory are factory-overclocked (the former works at 1,000 MHz, while the RAM has a 4.9 GHz frequency). To make sure the higher performance isn't damaging, PowerColor implemented the Gold Power Kit Design too, for stability (Digital PWM, DrMos and Multi Phases). That said, the cooler isn't really all that revolutionary, but the SS-Shape...

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ECS Reveals Z77 Black Extreme Golden Limited Edition Motherboards

Like others before it, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has brought out some Ivy bridge-ready motherboards, but its announcement focuses on the top pair instead of describing the whole collection.  In this respect, ECS is more similar to Biostar rather than Gigabyte, ASRock and Micro-Star International (MSI).  The company has formally unleashed the Z77 Black Extreme Series - Golden Limited Edition, which gets its name from triple-thickness gold plated connectors.  There are two models in the line, Z77H2-AX and Z77H2-A2X, both of which feature black PCBs with gold-plated key components, ostensibly so that they won't wear out after component changes/upgrades.  We'll let people decide for themselves if...

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