NZXT Presents the Cryo E40 Adaptable Notebook Cooler

NZXT has just announced the Cryo E40 adaptable notebook cooler with movable fans, on its official website. The cooler is made for use with laptops up to 15" in size and comes with two detachable fans. Cryo E40 employs a unique approach, similar to what Coolermaster has introduced with their NotePal U Series. It can cool a high performance notebook using two 80 millimeter  moveable fans that adapt to any laptop configuration. The most important thing in laptop cooling is to have a fresh cool air flow underneath the device. This way, the intake of cooling fans has fresh air to suck inside and run through the fins of the cooling system. If you can ad a powerful current of air blowing exactly into the air intake, you’ll get...

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Original GALAXY Tab Tastes “Value Pack” Upgrade in South Korea

Slowly but surely, Samsung is deploying the promised “Value Pack” update to those devices that do not meet the hardware requirements for an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade. Samsung already pushed this update to Galaxy S and Galaxy M Style in South Korean, as well as Galaxy W in Europe.  Unfortunately, the handset maker did not unveil any timetable for the “Value Pack” release, so we only know about the availability of the update when Samsung comes forward with an official announcement. Today, the South Korean company released the promised “Value Pack” update for the original Galaxy Tab. Also known as Galaxy Tab P1000, the 7-inch device was the first tablet released by Samsung. Initially launched with Android...

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Intel Cutting Costs on Ivy Bridge

Intel is reportedly using ordinary thermal interface material (TIM) in the most unusual place, the underside of the integrated heat spreader, also called the IHS. Most users probably don’t know but there are “crazy” people called enthusiasts that are in the habit of snapping of the CPU’s IHS just to get a better cooling result in their extreme overclocking experiments. Intel used flux-less solder to fuze the IHS to the CPU die on previous generation Sandy Bridge Core processors. Flux-less solder is used to improve heat transfer between the die and the IHS. Intel appears to be using thermal paste to do the job and that results in slightly inferior heat transfer, but removing IHS is safer for the aforementioned crazies. The...

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MEIZU Confirms Android 4.0 ICS for MX and M9 Coming in June

Even though MEIZU has previously mentioned that its MX and M9 smartphones would eventually receive in Ice Cream Sandwich update, no detail has been disclosed until recently. Today, the company’s CEO, Jack Wong officially confirmed that the MEIZU MX and M9 devices would be upgraded to Flyme OS 1.0 (based on Android 4.0 ICS) sometime in June 2012.  Although the announcement does not indicate an exact release date for the updates, at least we’ve got a timeframe for the upgrades.  MEIZU's customized Flyme operating system offers a range of interesting features, along with a simple and elegant design. It also provides a slew of advantages over the native Android 4.0 system, such as more streamlined interactions and more...

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SAMSUNG Intros World’s Thinnest Optical Disc Drive For UltraBooks and Tablets

Korean company Samsung Electronics has reportedly introduced today the new slim external DVD-Writer called SE-218BB. This optical disc drive (ODD) sets the industry standard for thin ultra portable DVD-Writer drives. Build with Intel’s UltraBooks in mind, the SE-218BB will join a new generation of slim laptop designs. Intel was recently talking about thinner hard disk drives and thinner ODDs and it seems Samsung was sharing the thought. The SE-218BB features a compact size that is 18% thinner than the standard light DVD writers. Samsung claims that this is the world's thinnest external optical disc drive with just 14 millimeters in height. That’s 0.55 inches in imperial. When comparing it with Samsung’s own slim ODDs released...

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Waterproof Canon PowerShot D20 Camera Revealed

Having seen the Sony Handycam HDR-GW77V, we now get to take a look at another rugged camera, one that Canon made and gave the name of PowerShot D20.  Before we get into the perks that make the PowerShot D20 good for less than stellar environments, we may as well show what performance warranted that level of protection.  To start off, the camera relies on a 12.1-megapixel CMOS sensor and uses a 28mm wide-angle lens with 5x optical zoom.  A 3-inch LCD screen is present as well, along with a shutter button that can capture photos and small video clips at the same time (Movie Digest feature).  Also, the Smart Audio feature chooses from up to 32 scene modes, like Advanced Subject Detection, which tracks living...

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Dropbox vs SkyDrive vs Google Drive: Cross-Platform Support

The cloud sync landscape may be quite competitive, but there are three big players at this point, albeit two of them are relatively new. Dropbox is the one to beat of course, it has more than 50 million users. There are plenty of differences between the three services but, when it comes to it, all three services offer pretty much the same thing. One big difference and perhaps the reason why you chose one over the other is the platforms they support.  Dropbox is the only one to offer a Linux client. SkyDrive doesn't have an Android app, but it's the only one with a Windows Phone app. An iOS Google Drive app is coming but is not available yet. Google Drive: Windows, OS X, Android, iOS (coming soon), web Dropbox: Windows,...

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HP Presents Six Ivy Bridge Systems

Now that Intel's Ivy Bridge central processing units are finally live, PC makers are busy launching computers powered by them, and HP is no exception. The reason we used the word “presents” instead of “launches” in the title is the simple fact that HP did not, in fact, launch any all-new desktops. Yet. Instead, the world's top PC supplier of has updated its existing line with six machines reliant on the third-generation Intel Core central processing units. Of course, that isn't a completely accurate thing to say either, since only one of them will become available through retail stores alongside the chips themselves, on April 29, 2012. The others will enter retail availability only on June 24, although HP will list them...

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Script: canvasXpress

canvasXpress is one of the new breed of development tools that saw greater adoption, as HTML 5 support expanded in more and more browsers. The library allows developers to create interactive graphs and charts that rely on the power of HTML 5's canvas utility. CanvasXpress supports classic chart types like lines, dot plots, bars, pies, stacks, but can also be used with more complex graph types like heatmaps, Venn diagrams, financial stocks, candlestick charts, box plots, correlation plots, genome browsers, network/pathway graphs and many more. Besides all this, the library also provides enhanced interactivity functions like zooming, canvas resizing, 3D support, complex chart animations, user selections and printing the chart canvas. For...

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First ASUS Zenbook Prime Pictures Emerge

The latest iteration of ASUS’ Zenbook products have reportedly been pictured in Taiwan. The small wonders are powered by Intel’s new generation Ivy Bridge processors and will sport an amazing 1920 x 1080 FullHD screen resolution. The pixel density is not what left us amazed, but the fact that ASUS is implementing such a resolution on a 11.6-inch screen. In this situation, the user must increase the font size of anything they read on the screen risking blindness or extreme eye fatigue otherwise. Two models were displayed: the ASUS UX31 and the ASUS UX21. The former has a bigger 13.3-inch screen that is also FullHD. The display panels use S-IPS high quality technology invented by Hitachi back in 1998. The S-IPS panels...

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AMD FX-8150 Prices Falling Fast

The price of AMD’s FX-8150 has reportedly been reduced significantly lately. Online sites show the CPU at a low 179 EUR for the European buyers. That would be around 235 USD for the US customers. Ever since the launch of its current flagship, AMD has been aware that the level of performance its first iteration of the Bulldozer architecture was not high enough to pose any threat to Intel’s top offering at that time. Therefore, AMD targeted the FX-8150 against Intel’s Core i5-2500K and has priced it accordingly. For those working with many archives or CineBench 11.5 type of rendering, AMD’s 8 core CPU should prove a better solution over Intel’s i5-2500K. The “Bulldozer” based CPU also has a strong advantage when it comes to...

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Introducing GT70 0NC, One of MSI's New Line of Gaming Notebooks

Well, it's been some time since MSI released new gaming gear, but it looks like the long wait was not in vain: we present you the GT70 0NC, one of the fresh gaming machines in the new generation. When looking at the GT70 0NC for the very first time, some gamers would probably be slightly disappointed as this notebook does not sport any flashy design, but a rather spartan and yet robust-looking one.  MSI has kept the 45-degree cut angles and this element adds some sort of a menacing look to the GT70 0NC. The 3.9 kg weight is somewhat expected when thinking about a gaming-oriented notebook. GT70 0NC buyers will get a 3rd-generation Core i7 CPU loaded into an H77 chipset and backed by up to 32 GB DDR3 1600 MHz memory which...

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Thermaltake Frio Extreme Has 10-Year Warranty

Thermaltake's Frio Extreme is not a new product, having been revealed at the start of the year (2012). That doesn't mean it shouldn't make the news again, especially if it suddenly gains the longest warranty ever. That's right, in what is a first on the IT industry, Thermaltake's Frio Extreme has been slapped with a warranty of 10 years. All coolers sold after January 1, 2012, will get the new warranty, not just the ones that will ship from now on. What's more, the warranty covers everything (the heat sink, fans and controller) and, should the Frio Xtreme fail in any way, it will be replaced with an identical one or an “equivalent” cooler. The product works with both Intel and AMD CPUs. Go to the product page in case...

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Besides Z68 Motherboards, MSI's H61 (G3) Support Ivy Bridge

Micro-Star International made it a point of proving that it doesn't take an all-new motherboard to provide Intel's new Ivy Bridge CPUs with a home.  The company has already made its share of product releases involving the third-generation Core central processing units, not the least of which is the allegedly fastest Ivy Bridge laptop in the world.  Now, MSI has returned to the root of the problem, so to speak: motherboards.  In addition to the 7-Series motherboards, there are G3 series boards that support Ivy Bridge now too.  In fact, pretty much all G3-series platforms can gain support for the newcomers, as well as the technologies meant to go with them, through a BIOS update process.  As one...

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Broadcom Unveils World’s Most Powerful Network Processor

Broadcom has recently presented the industry's first 100 Gbps Full Duplex Network Processing Unit (NPU), on its official website. The well-known California-based network company has designed this new chip with cost reduction in mind. It contains 64 custom processors working at a high 1GHz speed and is fully programmable, like the rest of the BCM88030 family. Broadcom claims that its new NPU delivers more than twice the output of any other NPU on the market right now but. Despite the chip’s complexity, with the level of integration that has been put into the design, the system cost is reduced by 80 percent per 10 GbE port. Cisco estimates that this year the number of connected devices is set to exceed the world's population,...

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ASUS P8Z77-V Motherboard Introduced on Video

There will soon be a new motherboard up for sale, one that will directly compete against all the other platforms compatible with Intel's Ivy Bridge central processing units. The motherboard we are referring to is one that ASUS invented and which AnandTech somehow got a video presentation of. This is probably one of the most uninformative videos in the history ever, as it is 40-minute long but doesn't actually go into any detail. The motherboard is called P8Z77-V Premium and is the one on the right hand corner there. Fortunately, it isn't impossible to guess what components and capabilities the platform has just by looking at it. To start off, there are four PCI Express x16 slots, as well as one PCI Express x1 slot. Considering...

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Samsung GALAXY S III Dummy Unit Gets Pictured, Not the Final Product

With only a week left until Samsung is expected to go live with its ‘next Galaxy’ device, more pictures of the alleged Galaxy S III have been published online. The source of the leak is Mobile01 forum via Reddit, but the pictures have since been pulled. However, we already know that Samsung won’t reveal the design of the final product, so we can safely assume that the device shown in these pictures is not the true Galaxy S III. The explanation is rather simple. It appears that Samsung decided to offer Galaxy S III dummy units to various employees for testing reasons, but all the electronic components of the device have been inserted in generic boxes. This one of the reasons that all leaked pictures seems to show different...

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Sony Launches Waterproof Handycam HDR-GW77V in Japan

There is a new camera up for sale in Japan, one that Sony apparently based on the Handycam GW77VE that European stores have been selling since March.  The new camera that Sony Japan has released in its home market is the first waterproof handycam to grace that island nation.  The name is HDR-GW77V, not too different from the GW77VE we mentioned earlier, and which is detailed here.  That said, the GW77V has its own product page, but one will have to know the native language in order to make any sense of it.  We'll make it easy and just list everything that's relevant right here.  To start off, the HDR-GW77V uses a 1/3.91 type (4.6mm) back-illuminated Exmor R CMOS sensor, as well as a Sony G Lens...

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First MIPS 64 Bit Mobile Processor Revealed

Reportedly, Ingenic has just signed a license agreement with Vivante to pair up the former company’s power MIPS CPUs with the latter’s new efficient GPUs. You’ll probably remember that late last year, the first Android 4 tablet was actually powered by a MIPS processor and not by an ARM one. MIPS has been in the market of making powerful and efficient processors for a long time now. The company has much more experience with servers and workstations, while ARM has none whatsoever. After leaving SGI because it had chosen Intel’s Itanium architecture (a move that led to the former company's bankruptcy), MIPS saw that the server market was mostly oriented towards x86 solutions, so they went back and concentrated on efficient, low-power...

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Intel Signs Deal with Cray, Marks AMD’s Departure from Cray’s Supercomputers

Intel Corporation announced today that it has signed a deal with Cray Inc. to acquire assets and expertise related to Cray’s famous high-performance computing (HPC) interconnect program. Cray is probably the world’s most famous and most original supercomputer designer and manufacturer. They’ve built the world’s fastest supercomputers for more than five decades and are experts in interconnecting servers, blades or racks with highly efficient technologies. In the supercomputing business this is probably the most important aspect: the efficiency and creativity of the interconnect technology. Back in 2003, AMD’s Opteron was the best server processor in the world and everybody wanted Opteron processors in their servers, and especially...

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Nokia PureView Technology Wins “Best Imaging Innovation” Award

Two months ago, no one would have thought that a 41-megapixel camera phone is even possible. After Nokia announced its 808 PureView smartphone, at the Mobile World Congress 2012 in Barcelona, everything went crazy. The device immediately won the award for the best new mobile handset at the trade fair, and more recently, the technology behind the impressive camera has been recognized as well.  The company has just announced that its PureView technology has been awarded the “Best Imaging Innovation” prize in the TIPA Awards 2012. Those unfamiliar with TIPA’s (Technical Image Press Association) activities should know that this is a non-profit association that focuses on finding the best photo and video product every year,...

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ARM Has Signed Two Licenses for Server Processors

It looks like ARM Holdings has made another step in the right direction while seeking to establish a presence on the server market. Like so many other companies, ARM has to periodically hold conference calls with financial analysts and discuss earnings, outlooks, etc. These calls tend to disclose certain business milestones and tactics that weren't known beforehand. This time, the company ended up revealing some progress on the server market, while answering questions for those who attended the call. Long story short, ARM has signed two licensing deals through which its intellectual property will be used in servers. More precisely, the ARMv8-based 64-bit code-named Atlas design and the ARMv7-powered 32-bit ARM Cortex-A15...

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AMD A10-4600M APU Specs and Benchmark

The A10-4600M is going to be AMD's main player on the notebook chip market, as soon as the Trinity series of accelerated processing units makes its debut.  We now know what the specifications of the APU are, but that's not all that the folks at Nordic Hardware got their hands on.  Advanced Micro Devices' infographic (information graphic, visual representation of relevant data) provided some graphics performance comparisons as well.  We'll get the specs out of the way first, so that people can put things in perspective afterwards.  The A10-4600M Trinity APU has four x86-64 cores (two Piledriver architecture modules).  The frequency of each is 2.30 GHz, but the TurboCore dynamic overclockinng technology...

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