Penguin Also Presents Servers Based on New Xeon

The name of the Relion E-series of servers is no doubt a play on “Rely on.”  Even if it isn't, the product collection should get hyped up just for being one of the few to use 80Plus Platinum PSUs.  The real reason behind Penguin Computer's announcement is the Xeon E5-2600 processor though.  In this, the press release resembles that of Dell, which also talks about a Xeon chip, albeit a different model, upgrading a server.  Speaking of the announcement, it makes a point of mentioning the specially designed heatsinks, the modular, high-density integrated fans, redundant power supply options and the set of management tools shipped alongside each server (BIOS and CMOS setting, server and power management).  All...

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Samsung GALAXY S III Receives Bluetooth 4.0 Certification

The third-generation Galaxy smartphone has just popped up at Bluetooth SIG, before making its way into shelves. Both GT-I9000 and GT-I9000T models have been approved by the organization and are now ready to be released on the market. Samsung GT-I9000 is aimed at Africa, Asia and Europe, while the GT-I9000T variant will be launched in Australia.  The device has integrated Bluetooth version 4.0 technology, allowing users to connect wirelessly to optional, compatible hands-free accessories such as Bluetooth technology enabled headsets and car kits.  Samsung Galaxy S III is expected to arrive in Europe on May 30 for a suggested retail price of £500 ($805 or €620).  The smartphone will go on sale through all major...

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Dell PowerEdge C5220 Gets 22nm Intel Xeon Processor

Since Intel is using its 22nm manufacturing process for chips besides the Ivy Bridge consumer series, Dell decided it was high time it actually put them to work. Dell has a certain line of microservers going by the name of PowerEdge C5220, which is really just one system with customizable insides. Enterprise customers can now choose to outfit said system with the newest Intel Xeon processors, specifically the Xeon E3-1200 v2. ECC memory, 64-bit processing, Intel VT-x, full software compatibility and up to 50% density increase over previous-generation microservers are among the best assets. Shared power and cooling resources can live off less energy now too, even as performance in data bandwidth sensitive applications is...

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Thecus Launches a NAS Management Tablet, of All Things

We've seen tablets being promoted based on their looks, their performance, the content they can access and any combination of these three, but never for their ability to grant control to a network-attached storage device. It so happens that Thecus has launched a slate whose main purpose is to help owners of Thecus NAS devices better manage their centralized storage. Called ThecusPAD, it does not seem to have been given a price yet, even though the product page lists everything else worth knowing. Measuring 7 inches (1024x600 resolution), it relies on the Tegra 2 dual-core platform and runs the Android 3.2 operating system (Honeycomb). 1 GB of low-power DDR2 memory backs up the Tegra 2, but the storage capacity of 8 GB (eMMC)...

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Script: concrete5

concrete5 is a PHP-based content management system that can be used for any purpose and in any environment. It's the perfect tool for building an one-page site, a simple landing page, or just the opposite, a huge site supporting an entire online community. This is all possible due to its mature MVC framework that helps power the concrete5 core allowing complete flexibility, while at the same time providing speed and lots of features. As any other CMS, concrete5 can be styled with themes to look the part, and also core functionality can be extended with add-ons to fit any customer needs. It can be installed on any server and for those not owning one, concrete5 is also available as a hosted solution. To preview a demo, go to their trial account setup page and request one....

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ZOTAC Presents Impressive Custom GTX 680 Video Cards

Zotac, Macau-headquartered video card company, has just announced the GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Edition and the GeForce GTX 680 OC 4GB Edition. With these cards, just as usual, Zotac tries its best to differentiate themselves from the other similar products on the market. As with most of their products, the company is very successful when it comes to the originality of the design and the functionality of the cards. The Zotac GeForce GTX 680 AMP! Edition comes with quite a large cooling system that has two 90 millimeter fans controlled by PWM, that are blowing air over a large aluminum heatsink. The heatsink is very efficient thanks to the four copper heat pipes that help the GPU distribute the heat evenly among the fins. The...

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Apache OpenOffice 3.4 Officially Announced

The Apache OpenOffice, the original open source office productivity suite, designed for professional and consumer use, is now at version 3.4.0.  After being adopted into the Apache Foundation and after picking a new name, the Apache OpenOffice project comes with a few new interesting features, such as improved ODT support, including new ODF 1.2 encryption options, new pivot table support in Calc, new graphics, and general improvements in performance and quality. "With the donation of OpenOffice.org to the ASF, the Foundation, and especially the podling project, was given a daunting task: re-energize a community and transform OpenOffice from a codebase of unknown Intellectual Property heritage, to a vetted and Apache Licensed...

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Toshiba Excite 10 Tablets Officially Available

Toshiba has just started selling the new Excite 10 tablets, on its official website. These new tablets are powered by Nvidia’s well-known Tegra 3 quad core ARM Cortex A9 processor. The display is protected with the popular Corning Gorilla Glass and thus, the Excite 10 tablet is scratch resistant and can also resist light physical damage from everyday use. The featured a 10.1” HD screen has a resolution of 1280 x 800 and is branded AutoBrite by Toshiba. The touch matrix offers 10-finger multitouch responsiveness. The casing is made of aluminum and not only does it give the tablet high style, but it’s also stronger than the usual plastic. The user can set up a video chat connecting the tablet to the big-screen at home, or...

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Micron Most Likely to Buy Elpida Now

Elpida put itself up for auction a while ago, but bidders have been backing out of the deal one after another, the latest to do so being SK Hynix.  Now, according to DRAMeXchange, Micron is the company most likely to win out of the remaining interested parties.  Getting Elpida's assets would allow it to truly challenge SK Hynix and Samsung Electronics in high-volume DRAM manufacture.  All it has to do now is offer around 300 billion JPY (US $3.75 billion / 2.88 billion Euro) and everything is ready to go.  When it abandoned the idea, SK Hynix only said that the acquisition had no strategic value for the members of the board. By all accounts, Micron can't really say the same, so a buyer for the bankrupt...

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Google Copied Java Code, but May Not Have Infringed Jury Finds in Oracle Case

The Oracle vs. Google trial has reached a critical state, the jury decided on the copyright infringement matter. The jury did find that Google copied some code from Oracle and the design of the APIs, however, it could not decide whether the copying was "fair use" or not. As such, even though the jury found Google guilty, there can be no talk of damages until the remaining issues are fixed. The judge now has to decide how to proceed, but Google has already called for a mistrial. In the meantime, with the portion of the trial covering copyright issues over, the trial moved to the patent infringement portion. After this is done, the judge gets to decide on damages awarded to Oracle, if any. The jury had a week to deliberate on the...

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KFA2 Launches Overclocked GTX 680 Graphics Cards

Two more versions of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 graphics card have appeared, although it might be more accurate to say that two existing cards have gained new names. KFA2 is the one making the news, having introduced the GeForce GTX 680 EX OC Series, and the GTX 680 Limited Edition OC. Given that KFA2 is Galaxy's European brand, these two are just the Galaxy GTX 680 GC and Galaxy GTX 680 Hall of Fame under different names. We'll get the GTX 680 Limited Edition OC out of the way first, since it won't be around for all that long. It is a limited edition after all. The Kepler GK104 graphics processing unit (GPUs) sits on a white PCB (printed circuit board) and has clock speeds of 1,202 MHz (base) and 1,267 MHz (GPU Boost). A...

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First GeForce GTX 670 Benchmarks Revealed

It lasted just a couple of hours, but that was enough for everybody to get a glimpse at what Nvidia’s new rebadged GK104 GPUs can do against AMD’s Radeon HD 7950. Two benchmarks were run: Futuremark’s 3D Mark Vantage and 3D Mark11. In the less demanding 3DMark Vantage Performance setting, the GTX 670 was able to outperform both its counterparts, a GeForce GTX 570 and the aforementioned AMD Radeon HD 7950. Once Extreme mode was set, AMD’s Radeon trounces the GeForce GTX 570 and is practically equal to the GeForce GTX 670. Moving to the 3DMark11, we can see that the increased complexity of the test is clearly showing Radeon’s superiority to the GeForce GTX 570, as the former moves closer to the GTX 670, but it is not able to equal...

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Samsung and Qualcomm Partner on Wireless Charging

Samsung and Qualcomm, along with other industry leaders, have announced a partnership on the creation of the Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP).  The new organization was created to promote the standardization of wireless power transfer technology, to develop product testing, certification and regulatory compliance processes, and to work with regulators on wireless power policy development.  The new alliance will target a wide range of devices and aims at establishing a worldwide wireless power technology ecosystem. The A4WP will work on new wireless power transfer technology to offer freedom for charging electrical devices in cars, on tabletops and for multiple devices simultaneously. The wireless power approach...

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Intel Ivy Bridge Mobile Processor Prices, Launch Date

The quad-core Ivy Bridge CPUs released on April 23 were strong and fast, but they weren't exactly cheap, which means that most laptop makers are still waiting for those dual-core models that Intel promised. What we are looking at here is a confirmation of the launch date, as well as the prices of those very processors, courtesy of CPU World. Five chips will come forward on June 3, 2012. Three of them will be Core i5 and the other two will be part of the Core i7 line. All will have two cores and four threads. The Core i5-3320M is the cheapest, at $225 (173 Euro, according to exchange rates), and has 2 MB cache and a clock speed of 2.6 GHz, 3.3 GHz Turbo Boost. The TDP (thermal design power) is 35W. The second chip is called...

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AMD Trinity Confirmed for May

Today it was confirmed that the official AMD Trinity architecture launch is pending this month. The Texas-based CPU maker is reportedly only planning to launch its thin & light laptop mobile APUs, with the desktop versions of Trinity following in August. Wondering about why is AMD only launching the laptop versions and not the higher clocked desktop versions, we could only come up with the deduction that AMD is expecting great sales and wants to capitalize on Intel’s overpriced UltraBooks. All Trinity APUs will be able to work and function in the same space-restricted, thin notebooks, similarly to the mobile Ivy Bridge processors, and they’ll also be able to offer the same considerable battery life. The main differences...

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