Download iOS 5.1.1 Now

Apple has rolled out a surprise update for iDevice owners with the purpose of tweaking a few things and applying fixes, including some to improve the security of the platform. iOS 5.1.1 is immediately available for download via iTunes or over-the-air (OTA) and improves reliability of using HDR option for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut, as well as reliability when syncing Safari bookmarks and Reading List. The update addresses bugs that could prevent the new iPad from switching between 2G and 3G networks, and bugs that affected AirPlay video playback in some circumstances. An issue has been fixed where ‘Unable to purchase’ alert could be displayed after successful purchase. Lastly, the update includes several security...

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Samsung Tizen Device Showcased on Video

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung has brought to the Tizen developer conference a developer device to showcase some of the main features of the platform.  The handset vendor is one of the founding members of the Tizen OS, and it does not come as a surprise that it already had such devices in the works.  The first Tizen developer smartphone is said to pack an ARM-based 1.2GHz dual-core processor, and not an Intel chip, as one might have expected.  Additionally, the new developer handset is said to sport a touchscreen display capable of delivering a 720p HD resolution, and it also sports WiFi and Bluetooth connectivity capabilities, NFC and microUSB.  The UI of the new mobile platform resembles in many aspects Samsung’s TouchWiz UX (app icons and...

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Micron Launches Its First DDR4 Module

The next generation of computer dynamic random access memory is getting closer with each passing day, and now we get to see Micron's first module based on it.  Micron isn't the first company to demo a DDR4 memory module. Hynix went first, last month, even before JEDEC revealed some key details about the specification.  What we are looking at here is, however, the first module that Micron has ever brought forth.  With a capacity of 4 GB, it is composed of a PCB (printed circuit board) and eight 4 Gb DDR4 chips.  Said chips are constructed using the 30nm manufacturing process and were developed in partnership with Nanya.  "With the JEDEC definition for DDR4 very near finalization, we've put significant...

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Nokia Lumia 610 Arrives in Malaysia, Priced at $229 USD (€175) Outright

Three weeks ago Nokia officially announced the rollout of the Lumia 610 in Asia. Unfortunately, things did not work as planned, at least in Philippines where the device has been delayed “indefinitely.” The good news is that Nokia Lumia 610 has just hit shelves in Malaysia and is now available for purchase at all Nokia Stores across the country. Customers get to choose from four color schemes, such as: white, cyan, magenta and black. The cheapest Windows Phone device launched by Nokia, Lumia 610 is priced in Malaysia at RM699 ($229 USD or €175) off-contract. As expected, Nokia Lumia 610 comes pre-loaded with Windows Phone 7.5 Tango (build 8773) out of the box, which is especially designed to work on devices with less than 512MB...

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ASRock Prepares to Tackle China, ASUS Helps

ASRock wants to expand its operations to include the Chinese market, so it has prepared a budget of NT$100 million for that purpose. That's $3.4 million / 2.61 million Euro, according to exchange rates. ASUS will help the company compete with Gigabyte, according to Digitimes, by offering motherboards through its retail outlets. Whether or not this enables ASRock to reach its intended shipment levels for the year (9 million) remains to be seen. China is one of the few emerging markets and also the largest, so it is understandable that IT vendors would want to gain a foothold there. It isn't clear for how long ASRock will depend on ASUS in this manner. Starting up a few shops shouldn't take all that long, so we're guessing...

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Transformer: Fall of Cybertron Is Adult Oriented

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron will be the first title in the series that is not linked to any movie release and the development team behind it believes that the game can succeed as long as it promotes the tone seen in the initial trailer, revealed during the VGA ceremony. Greg Agius, the marketing manager working on Fall of Cybertron at High Moon Studios, stated, “We needed to communicate that Fall of Cybertron is an adult oriented game that stands totally apart from anything related to the films.  “So the team set out to break every rule we could think of for a Transformers trailer: we had zero voiceover, we destroyed main characters, we made the story come to you, and we picked a song that is totally groundbreaking for...

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Nokia Mail for Exchange for Asha 302/303 Detailed on Video

Nokia’s Asha 302 and Asha 303 are getting a taste of the Mail for Exchange application that the Finnish handset vendor is preparing for its S40 devices.  The application is available in a beta flavor at the moment, so that users can have a look at it and provide feedback on the experience it can deliver.  However, Nokia is set to make the app available through the official Nokia Store portal soon, and it is actively working on enhancing it.  Those who did not have the chance to download and install the software on their devices can do so through accessing the Nokia Beta Labs, where the pre-release version is up for grabs.  “Nokia Mail for Exchange for Asha 302 and Asha 303 is a beta release mobile...

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Nokia 808 PureView Spotted at FCC, Possibly Coming to the US

Unveiled back in February at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia 808 PureView was confirmed for a May release in Europe. Unfortunately, the Finnish company mentioned that the smartphone would not be launched in North America, or at least not in the near future.  Given the fact that Nokia is trying to conquer the North American smartphone market with its Lumia series, it’s quite understandable that the company does not want one of its own devices to compete with the Windows Phone family of handsets. However, it looks like the Nokia 808 PureView has just been spotted at FCC (Federal Communications Commission), which gives us some hope that the smartphone might hit shelves in North America after all. This is...

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Script: Koottam Social jQuery Plugin

The Koottam Social jQuery Plugin is a powerful developer tool to be used when creating our own custom set of social media sharing buttons. The plugin wraps various social networks APIs and allows developers to create their own social sharing apps. Koottam is extremely flexible, being easy to style via CSS and adapt to any website layout or design. This is because the plugin handles all sharing logic, leaving the user to control the rest. Developers can set the general theme of the buttons, their size, various coloring styles, and whether to show a counter or not. For now, Koottam supports Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Google+, Delicious and RSS feeds. Extensive documentation and examples are included with...

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Leaked Doc Shows BlackBerry 10’s Screen Sharing, Lock Screen Notifications

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion is nearing the release of a new flavor of its mobile operating system, namely BlackBerry 10.  The company has provided a variety of details on this OS only a few weeks ago, but it appears that it hasn’t delivered all of them.  A leaked internal document from the handset vendor, which emerged over at the CB forums, has unveiled some additional pieces of information on what the upcoming BlackBerry 10 platform might include.  Apparently, RIM has decided to include a built-in screen sharing feature with the next-gen mobile operating system version.  The aforementioned leaked doc shows that users might be able to share the phone’s screen while in a call, which...

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BlackBerry 10 OS Files Reveal Upcoming Devices: Nevada, Winchester, London and More

RIM’s BlackBerry World 2012 has just closed its gates and developers who attended are still getting acquainted with their newly received BlackBerry 10 prototype devices. For those who don’t know yet, RIM promised that each developer attending this year’s BlackBerry World event will receive a prototype device that will run a modified version of PlayBook OS. Although this is not the final product, the Blackberry 10 Dev Alpha device is a useful tool for developers who wish to start creating apps for the latest operating system announced by RIM last week. Even though RIM officially introduced the BlackBerry 10 SDK, the company mentioned that the first BlackBerry 10 devices won’t hit shelves until October 2012. However, until RIM gets...

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iOS 6 Begs for SwipeSelection (Video)

Daniel Chase Hooper’s keyboard concept has become a reality for jailbreak fans, who can now download a tweak called SwipeSelection from Cydia and text faster and more reliably than ever before. Demoed by iDownloadBlog in the above video, SwipeSelection enables iPad owners to move the cursor and do text selections in a much more accurate manner than that provided by default in iOS. Everyone typing a lot of emails and documents on their iPad is wishing upon a star that Apple takes note of the tweak and eventually implements it in the next major release of its mobile operating system - iOS 6. We have every reason to believe it’s going to happen. The best example is Notification Center, a new capability implemented by Apple last year in iOS 5, courtesy of one savvy bloke who...

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AMD Updates G-Series Operating System Support

In addition to desktop and laptop accelerated processing units, Advanced Micro Devices has chips for servers and other industrial applications. One series of such processors has just gained a broader software support. The Sunnyvale, California-based company dedicated a whole press release to the G-Series embedded APUs and their newfound support for Windows Embedded Compact 7. The OS brings Silverlight for Windows Embedded, an updated version of Internet Explorer (support for Adobe Flash 10.1 included) and multi-touch support. We don't mean just any multi-touch capabilities either, but natural, intuitive input capabilities and gesture-based interaction, as AMD calls them. “We are excited AMD has expanded G-Series APU support...

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AMD Ready to Release 1 GHz AMD Radeon HD 7970

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 680 managed to squeeze past the AMD Radeon HD 7970 in benchmark tests, but AMD might not allow this ranking to last much longer. If what AtomicMPC says is true, then the Sunnyvale, California-based company will release a card that attains higher clocks on the same voltage. The manufacturing process has supposedly improved enough that even 1.25 GHz can be attained without much effort. This has opened the door for a 1 GHz HD 7970, making it the third 1 GHz board from its lineup (the other two are HD 7770 and HD 7870). The new cards will have better overclocking potential too. NVIDIA might really have to crank up its marketing strategy soon. There was no mention of when the leap from 925 MHz to 1GHz+...

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$799 MacBook Airs Coming in Q3 2012

Reportedly aiming to take on Intel’s upcoming ultra-books priced around $700 US (roughly 538 EUR), Apple is said to be planning the release of a $799 MacBook Air model in the third quarter of 2012. Citing the usual industry sources from Apple’s upstream supply chain, the hit-and-miss DigiTimes has a new scoop for Apple fanatics, this time regarding the price (not the specs) of an upcoming MacBook Air iteration. The sources in question reportedly pointed out that Acer has reduced its ultra-book shipment target, whereas Intel continues to push aggressively, hoping to release devices in the $700 range in the near future. The $799 MacBook Air is mentioned when the sources note that “if Intel is unable to bring down ASPs to its...

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Samsung’s Windows Phone 8 Devices with Galaxy S III-Like Performance

South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung is getting ready for the release of great Windows Phone 8 devices later this year, the latest reports on the matter suggest.  Following rumors on the possibility that the company was considering using Galaxy S III hardware to power the Windows Phone 8 products, some more info on the matter emerged.  A recent article on SmartHouse claims that a Samsung executive has already confirmed that a Windows Phone 8 device featuring a Super AMOLED screen was in the works.  Additionally, the company’s official is cited stating that the upcoming smartphone will be “as good” as the recently unveiled Android device.  The handset was also confirmed to be included in the Focus...

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Custom GeForce GTX 670 WindForce OC Gigabyte Video Card Pictured

Since we established that Nvidia is confident enough that their Kepler GPUs are cool and it’s safe for Nvidia’s partners to play around with the card’s design, we’re not really surprised with Gigabyte’s own custom cooled GeForce GTX 670 implementation. The card reportedly has the same CUDA core count of 1,344, and 2 GB of GDDR5 memory over a 256-bit memory interface that we all expected. The specifications were verified using the well-known GPU-Z and it was revealed that the card comes with a clock speed of 980 MHz for the GPU, 1,059 MHz when the Boost function kicks into action and 1,502 MHz for the memory. Cooling is well taken care of by Gigabyte’s popular and well-designed  WindForce 3X cooling system. As you can...

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GeForce GTX 670 Up Close and Bare

NVIDIA's GeForce 670 graphics card will be available worldwide sooner or later, but that doesn't mean the world has to keep waiting for information about it.  The same goes for pictures. The press shots of Colorful's card were seen not long ago and, now, we get to glance at the PCB itself (printed circuit board), not the cooler.  Compared to the GTX 680, GTX 670 is a fairly short card, with the eight GDDR5 memory chips installed along the sides (half of them on the back), around the GK104 GPU.  The VRM area (a 4+2 phase design) is at the front-end of the PCB. As for everything else, the GTX 670 has two dual-link DVI ports, HDMI connectors, a DisplayPort and two SLI bridge connectors (4-way SLI capability)....

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Brazos 2.0 Acer Aspire E1-421 Pictured

Neither Acer nor Advanced Micro Devices has formally spoken about the Aspire E1-421, but that didn't stop retailers and watchful people from revealing its existence.  In fact, we have something better than a rumor to report on in this instance: the Brazos 2.0-based laptop has been caught on photo.  The AMD accelerated processing unit (APU) is called E1-1200 and has two x86 cores, plus Radeon graphics.  The clock speed of the CPU cores is 1.4 GHz and the GPU is the Radeon HD 7310. The latter relies on 256MB of the system memory.  Speaking of which, the E1-1200 is backed by 2 GB of DDR3 RAM (random access memory) and, thus, can do pretty much everything owners could need, even play certain games.  The...

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Leaked Internal Doc Shows Blue DROID RAZR Coming Up

Motorola DROID RAZR, the thin and powerful Android-based device that made a debut on Verizon’s network last year, is expected to arrive on shelves in a new, blue shade.  The mobile phone was already made available in three different color flavors, namely Black, White and Purple, but it appears that Motorola and Verizon are considering the release of yet another model.  The Blue DROID RAZR was spotted in leaked documents that emerged over at Android Central and is expected to make an official debut as soon as May 17th.  Apparently, the new device will feature exactly the same specifications and capabilities as the models that were launched before it, which means that it will run under the Android 2.3 Gingerbread...

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