Stylish Motorola MOTOLUXE Gets Launched in the UAE

Shortly after Motorola introduced the purple-themed RAZR in the UAE, the US-based handset maker announced the immediate availability of the affordable MOTOLUXE Android smartphone. According to Motorola, the device is now available through leading retailers across the country. However, the company failed to reveal the phone’s suggested retail price. Powered by Google’s Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system, Motorola MOTOLUXE comes with a 4-inch capacitive touchscreen display, which is a bit unusual for an affordable device. In order to standout from other devices in its range, the MOTOLUXE features a lanyard slot that lights up whenever the user misses a call, receives a text or an email. Moreover, Motorola MOTOLUXE offers...

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MSI Announces the Fastest Ivy Bridge Laptop in the World [Pictures]

MSI has recently presented the much awaited and long anticipated GT60 and GT70 gaming laptops, on its official website. Both MSI brothers come with an Intel Ivy Bridge processor that is powering an Intel HM77 platform. Intel’s new CPU is around 10% to 15% faster than its Sandy Bridge older brothers and boosts an increased power efficiency of around 20% when compared with Sandy Bridge based processors. On the 3D side, both notebooks, the GT70 and the GT60, come with Nvidia’s Kepler based GeForce 670M mobile GPU featuring a whooping 3GB of GDDR5 discrete graphics memory. The maximum system memory supported is 16 GB of DDR3 1600 MHz for both laptops as the platform has 4 DIMM slots available. Networking is professionally...

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Voicelok USB Drive Locks Your PC Until You Tell It Otherwise

Voice recognition is a technology that has just begun to proliferate, which means that the majority of computers have no such capabilities. Naturally, most people aren't going to change their PCs just to get voice recognition security of some sort and, fortunately, they don't need to. That is because Voicelok has introduced the first USB flash drive that automatically locks down your system, records a spoken password and then prevents access to anyone who doesn't have your voice. What's important is that this is the sort of gadget that users without technical knowhow can use, as everything is done automatically. Once the drive is plugged into an USB port, the onboard software uses red and green LEDs to signal when the password...

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Motorola RAZR HD Leaks in China as MT887

The first live photos showing the Motorola RAZR HD have just showed up in China. As we reported last week, the US-based company plans to release a new Motorola RAZR smartphone with an improved HD display. The information leaked last week through some EXIF data from a picture taken with the alleged Motorola DROID RAZR HD that somewhat confirmed previous rumors, but did not shed any light on the phone’s availability or specs sheet. However, the folks over at GSMArena have just spotted some live pictures of the purported Motorola RAZR HD. The smartphone in the photos will be launched in the Mainland through China Mobile and is known as Motorola MT887. The smartphone is powered by Google’s latest Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich...

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GSM Galaxy Nexus Receiving Minor Update, Fixes Signal Problems

Samsung Galaxy Nexus received a maintenance update earlier this month, which was supposed to fix some bugs and bring a few new features. However, all GSM Galaxy Nexus owners who flashed the Android 4.0.4 ICS update were plagued by an unusual bug that made the phone lose signal while it was put in standby mode. Apparently Google and Samsung, in their desire to save more battery energy, made the update so it drops the processor’s frequency to lower level while the phone is sleeping.  This translated in sudden loss of GSM signal, which automatically led to the inability to receive calls while the phone is in standby mode. The problem was recreated by an XDA Member as follows: “The issue as described is very easy to replicate...

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Nvidia’s GeForce GTX690 Dual GPU Card Coming on 28th of April

The much awaited dual GPU, Kepler based video card from Nvidia seems to be coming sooner than expected.  A downward chronometer is being displayed on Nvidia’s GeForce.com website that says the Kepler twins will see the light of day on April 28th. The rumored specifications of this dual GPU wonder are as following : Stream Processors : 2 x 1536 Texture Units :  2 x 128 ROPs :    2 x 32 Core Clock : ~ 700 MHz Boost Clock : ~ 730MHz Memory Clock :  6.008GHz GDDR5 Memory Bus Width:  2 x 256-bit Frame Buffer :    4GB TDP:    ~ 380 W Transistor Count : 6 Billion Manufacturing Process : TSMC 28nm Launch Price : ~ 799 USD These specs are rumored all over the internet, but,...

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Script: Microsoft Media Platform

The Microsoft Media Platform is a powerful framework for developing video streaming services and HTML 5, Silverlight, Windows 8 Metro and Windows Phone multimedia players. At its core, the platform is split in two major parts: A Player Framework for Silverlight and Windows Phone. (Download here) A Player Framework for HTML5 and Windows 8 Metro. (Download here) The Microsoft Media Platform supports live streaming, on-demand streaming, content protection, analytics feedback, format conversion and data encoding. Open sourced under the Microsoft Public License, when needing to deploy a state of the art online video service, the platform provides an alternative to high-cost commercial services. Microsoft Media Platform development...

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3D Transistors Meet 22nm in Intel Ivy Bridge CPUs

Even though sales aren't going to begin until April 29, Intel has officially spoken of its first central processing units based on the 22nm manufacturing process.  Thirteen third-generation chips have been revealed, most of which are aimed at desktops, although the high-end laptop parts are there as well.  Regardless, all are quad-core models with higher performance and energy efficiency than the previous-generation Core series.  The Core i7-3770 is the strongest of the lot, having been pushed to 6.74 GHz on the Maximus V GENE motherboard not long ago.  Meanwhile, the Core i7-3612QM is the star of the laptop collection.  In fact, this particular quad-core chip has already become part of the HP...

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New and Improved Dell Precision Workstations Debut

Dell's series of tower workstations has gone through a transformation, one whose purpose is to boost versatility and productivity while not changing the hardware all that much.  Dell came up with its new case after soliciting input from hundreds of engineering, finance, software development, scientific, and media and entertainment companies.  The result was an efficient, award-winning design with the interior separated into two types of areas: those that aren't often accessed (wire harnesses, fans) and those that users most often have to work with (memory, HDDs).  One of the main assets of the new tower cases is the externally removable power supply, with tool-less installation and a built-in handle that lights...

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Ubuntu 12.10 a.k.a. Quantal Quetzal

Mark Shuttleworth, father of the popular Ubuntu operating system, proudly announced a few miutes ago, April 23rd, the name and the goals for the next version of Ubuntu OS.  Yes, we are talking about Ubuntu 12.10, dubbed Quantal Quetzal and scheduled for release this year on October 18th. "And so the stage is set for a decision: I give you the Quantal Quetzal, soon to be dressed in tessellated technicolour, now open for toolchains, kernels and other pressing preparatory packages." - said Mark Shuttleworth on his blog. For Ubuntu 12.10, the developers will focus their efforts on quality! The whole interface of Ubuntu will be revamped, starting with the font, icons and theme, and continuing with the default apps. Oh, and...

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iPhone 5 Thickness Estimated at 7.90mm

KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo believes he has nailed the thickness of the new Apple iPhone, based on the materials thought-to-be used by manufacturers to assemble the device. Thanks to Apple’s rumored adoption of in-cell touch panels, Kuo believes there will be an initial reduction in thickness of about 0.44 millimeters thanks to the removal of a separate touch sensor layer and of one layer of adhesive. Kuo further calculated that Apple’s next smartphone will boast a thinner battery. Thanks to the rumored switch to a liquid-metal enclosure, the thickness would again be revived by 0.96mm, resulting in a next-gen iPhone measuring 7.90mm in depth. Apple's current iPhone 4S measures 9.3mm in depth. Kuo estimates that the...

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Nvidia's Kepler-Based GT600M Series: a New Milestone in Mobile Graphics [Photos]

Late last week we were invited to a meeting with Nvidia’s Igor Stanek and Dave Koblizek. Igor Stanek is senior product PR manager for EMEAI region and the main brain of all Tegra and GeForce M product PR campaigns in EMEAI. Dave Koblizek is NVIDIA PR manager for Central and Eastern Europe. Igor Stanek is a very well-known industry expert that has a lot of experience with great companies like AMD and Nvidia. He was 7 years with the AMD green team and now he’s a different shade of green over at Nvidia. We talked a lot about Nvidia’s up and coming GeForce M 600 series line. As most of you know, Nvidia has registered a record number of design wins with its new line of Kepler based GeForce mobile GPUs but, this year, something different...

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Samsung Outs Galaxy S III Teaser, Promises to Make You Stand Out from the Sheep

It looks like Samsung is closer to revealing its next-generation Galaxy family smartphone, the alleged Galaxy S III. However, we have no information that would indicate Samsung plans to name its upcoming Android flagship smartphone “Galaxy S III.” Moreover, the first official teaser of the device names it “The Next Galaxy.” The smartphone will be released during a “Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012” event, which is set to take place on May 3, in London. According to this teaser, Samsung promises that “with technology that fits in this easily, you can now stand out fromeveryone else.”  Ironically, the video compares “everyone else” with some sheep and heads people to the new “TheNextGalaxy.com” website, which has just crashed probably due to high traffic. Stay tuned for...

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As Intel's 22nm Ivy Bridge Arrive, Shortages Burst Our Bubble

Intel is supposed to make its official introduction of the Ivy Bridge CPUs today, and we'll write the relevant info about them when the time comes, but for now, we are hearing something fairly worrisome.  It looks like NVIDIA and Advanced Micro Devices (but mostly NVIDIA) aren't the only companies with insufficient chip inventories, even though their processors are totally different from Intel's (28nm GPUs vs. 22nm CPUs).  Sure, there have been rumors about tight Ivy Bridge CPU supply, but we had hoped that at least the first batch of units would be decent.  After all, the Santa Clara, California-based company has already delayed the introduction, so it had time to make up for whatever yield issues its factories...

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Nokia Lumia 920 PureView with Windows Phone 8 Emerges – Concept

Although Nokia already confirmed that it would bring the PureView technology to Lumia devices, the Finnish company has yet to unveil its first Windows Phone smartphone with improved camera capabilities. Rumors on upcoming Lumia smartphones with PureView cameras emerged several weeks ago, but nothing is really clear for the moment.  Still, Verizon Wireless has shown its appreciation for Nokia’s struggle to make the Windows Phone platform more accessible to the mass market and confirmed plans to bring its customers future Windows Phone 8 devices. Verizon’s offering includes iOS and Android handsets, but the carrier is interested to add a third operating system to its portfolio, Windows Phone. This comes in line with...

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Galaxy Shows Custom GeForce GTX680 Video Card

Chinese company GalaxyTech has recently revealed the custom GeForce GTX680 2GB GC video card, on its official website. The card comes factory overclocked with the GPU working at a 1110 MHz base clock, from the reference 1006 MHz and a 1176 MHz Boost clock, from the reference default boost of 1058 MHz. The heatsink is enhanced with four 6 millimeter heat-pipes, while the two cooling fans are 90 millimeters in size and keep the pre-overclocked card cooler than the reference cooling system. The memory frequency is unchanged from the reference default of 6008 MHz. Connectivity consists of two different DVI ports; one is DVI-I and the other is DVI-D, along with one HDMI port and one DisplayPort 1.2 connector. The initial...

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