Dell Budget Vostro Laptops Get Ivy Bridge

The Ivy Bridge adoption trend continues as Dell has upgraded even its cheapest mobile personal computers. And by that we mean the Vostro series of notebooks. Vostro is a brand that Dell utilizes for both desktop and laptops. It identifies the systems that Dell sells to the common man. Sure, the media may go crazy about stuff like the Alienware, but it's affordable products that ultimately steal the hearts of most customers. The Vostro laptops aren't really all that incredible in terms of looks, thinness and weight, but they will get the job done and will do it for a decent sum of money. As such, people who look for a notebook that won't destroy their finances might want to take a look at them. The sizes available...

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Google Wants Over 100 Top Level Domains Including .love and .lol

ICANN has finally revealed the full list of new generic top level domain applications. Over 500 companies are trying to get a new TLD, but one of the most interested is Google. The company applied for more than 100 domains. There are some obvious choices in there, .google. .goo, .youtube, .docs but also a couple of oddball ones like .lol or .love. Google should have no trouble getting plenty if not most of the domains it's looking for, but it's going to fight for several of them. .app is coveted by 13 companies and organizations, including Amazon though, surprisingly, not Apple. Only five other companies are fighting Google over the .baby domain, but eight other want .blog. .book is equally coveted, besides Google, Amazon...

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Fujitsu Launches NVIDIA-Based Primergy CX400 Server

Fujitsu's Series of Primergy servers has been updated. A new machine is now part of it, dubbed Primergy CX400 and equipped with both Intel Xeon processors and NVIDIA Tesla GPU compute accelerators. There are two ways in which the CX400 can be configured. One: with four 1U hot-plug PRIMERGY CX250 S1 server nodes (two CPUs per node). Two: with two 2U hot-plug CX270 S1 server nodes with two CPUs and one NVIDIA Tesla GPU per node. As in all other servers with graphics processor accelerators, the GPUs are used for parallel computing, unloading the strain form the CPU cores and allowing the latter to handle other tasks. Improved power efficiency is just a side-benefit of the deal, but a highly relevant one. Fujitsu...

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ADATA Releases Ultra High Speed I SDHC/SDXC Memory Cards

The market for memory cards isn't getting any smaller, not by too large a margin anyhow, so ADATA has made a bunch of Secure Digital High Capacity and Secure Digital Extended Capacity models. For those who don't know or remember, Secure Digital High Capacity is what SDHC stands for, while Secure Digital Extended Capacity is usually written as SDXC. SDHC is the most common memory card format used in digital cameras, while SDXC is the highest-capacity one. ADATA dubbed its newest creation Premier Pro SDHC and SDXC. All of them comply with the UHS-I specification, which is short for Ultra High Speed I. “The faster transfer speeds of these Premier Pro cards will optimize performance for photography professionals, especially...

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13 Companies Want .app Domain - Top Most Coveted New TLDs

The top level domain gold rush is in full swing. ICANN has revealed the full list of applications for new TLDs. Over 500 companies and organizations are fighting for the chance to get their hands on one or, in the case of Google, 100 new domains. Anyone, provided it could pay the upfront and non-returnable fee, could have applied for any domain out there at this stage and plenty of companies did. In fact, some top-level domains have proved quite coveted.  .app is wanted by 13 companies including Amazon and Google, though not Apple. In fact, Apple only wants .apple. .home is the second most wanted TLD tied with .inc, each with 11 applications. .art is surprisingly desired, 10 different organizations would want to get...

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Bodhi Linux For Raspberry Pi Available for Testing

A few days ago, we've reported about the release of a new Debian testing version for the Raspberry mini-pc, but now a version of Bodhi Linux is also available for the rapacious platorm. According to the developer, Jeff Hoogland, users will get access to a fully functional Enlightenment desktop on top of a Debian Wheezy ARMEL base. The default login information for the release images that are made available to public is: User: bodhi Password: bodhi Raspberry Pi relies on an ARM processor with a clock speed of 700 MHz, 256 MB of RAM, an SD card slot and a 5V Micro USB connector that supplies the power. It also features RCA and HDMI ports. More details about the distribution can be found in the official announcement....

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The “Fully Assembled iPhone 5 Leak” Was a Fake – 3D Renderings

3D design expert Martin uit Utrecht used his talent to trick tech publications around the world that the iPhone 5 had finally been leaked, fully assembled, complete with iOS 6 loaded on it. It had occurred to us that an AT&T logo had no place in a Chinese leak, but we went along and did the reporting, since it’s in our job description (and in our blood). Yet we couldn’t let our readers go on faith, so we told them to ingest those images with a fairly-sized grain of salt. We specifically noted that this was a “potential” leak. And we were right to do so, because the photos we thought depicted a fully assembled iPhone 5 were actually highly-elaborated computer-generated renderings based on the various leaked photos and...

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AMD Outs First FirePro Card with Graphics Core Next Support

There has been a lot of news coverage for the Radeon graphics card line from Advanced Micro Devices, but the FirePro series wants some attention too, so AMD arranged for some. The company has launched a new product, one described as the first AMD professional graphics adapter that utilizes the Graphics Core Next architecture and 28nm production technology. It is the sort of item that will let system integrators and display installation builders upgrade their display output solutions. Buying new displays is easy enough, but not all graphics cards can connect to more of them at once. Likewise, video boards may not necessarily be able to cope with high-resolution panels. AMD's FirePro W600 has no problem with LED-backlit...

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Need for Speed: Most Wanted Reboot Gets PC System Requirements

Even if the new Need for Speed: Most Wanted Reboot is set to launch in October, Electronic Arts and Criterion Games have already posted the minimum and recommended PC system requirements for the new racing title. The last entry in the Need for Speed series, The Run, hasn’t impressed fans all that much, but EA hopes to draw them back with this year’s Most Wanted, a reimagining of the classic experience from 2005, coming from veteran developer Criterion Games. We already saw the game in action thanks to two impressive videos last week as well as a series of screenshots that showed off all sorts of supercars engaged in high speed pursuits against cops. Now, EA has set up a page for the game on its Origin digital distribution...

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Acer Iconia Tab A700: Tegra 3 and 1,920 x 1,200 LCD for Just $450

We can safely say that tablets have finally become affordable consumer electronics devices, and we have Acer to thank for that. Sure, we aren't looking at one of the fabled $199 NVIDIA Kai slates here, but having to pay $450 for Tegra 3 and a 10-inch Full HD LCD is actually quite a good deal. Shipments aren't being carried out yet, but pre-orders should become possible shortly, assuming online stores haven't already added the page. The tablet is called Iconia Tab A700 and, in addition to an LCD resolution of 1,920 x 1,200 pixels and NVIDIA's Tegra 3 platform, boasts 32 GB of NAND Flash storage, an HDMI output and 5.1-channel audio with Dolby Mobile 3+ technology. Pre-orders in Europe have been possible since Early May....

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AMD Partners with ARM, Safeguards Its Chips Better

Analysts and common people alike have been speculating on, even hoping for, a partnership between Advanced Micro Devices and ARM, and now they've got it. The announcement made by Advanced Micro Devices during AFDS (AMD Fusion Developer Summit) isn't quite what everyone may have had in mind though. That is to say AMD did not suddenly announce plans for ARM-based accelerated processing units. Instead, it has signed an agreement with ARM for the integration of the latter's TrustZone technology in its future APUs. In fact, the Sunnyvale, California-based company hopes to have TrustZone-enabled APUs out and about by next year (2013). Thus, consumers and businesses should enjoy a more secure access to their content and...

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New Photo Taken with DROID RAZR HD’s 13MP Camera Emerges

Motorola and Verizon have been long rumored to plan the release of a new handset in the DROID series sometime this summer, namely the DROID RAZR HD, though no official confirmation on it has emerged. However, following leaked photos with the device and its presence on a benchmarking website, we have now more proof that it exists. A photo taken with the device has been published on Picasa, and the EXIF data hints at DROID RAZR HD (it has been removed since, but Droid-Life had a look at it). Moreover, the image unveiled that Motorola has packed the smartphone with a 13-megapixel photo snapper on the back, with an aperture of f2.4. In addition to the high-quality camera, the phone should also pack a dual-core, 1.5 GHz...

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Alleged Windows Phone 8 Screenshots Leak

While eagerly waiting for Microsoft to make an official announcement on the upcoming Windows Phone 8 platform, enthusiasts can now feast their eye with what allegedly represent leaked screenshots with the upcoming platform. Most probably, Microsoft is planning the official unveiling of Windows Phone 8 on June 20th during the Dev Summit in San Francisco, CA, but all we have until then involves only rumors and leaks. The latest of these arrives via Nokia Innovation, which received what are said to be leaked screenshots with the next-generation Windows Phone 8 platform from Microsoft. Among the features that these images bring to the spotlight, we can count Skype integration in the platform, something that was also rumored...

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AMD Kaveri GPU Has True Shared Memory, Follows Trinity

It was just yesterday that we reported on the AMD Kaveri appearing in the company's beta driver device ID list, and now we get to write about that accelerated processing unit again. Kaveri is the chip that will follow in the footsteps of Trinity, the APU that currently represents AMD's heterogeneous computing technology. It will be launched next year (2013) and, naturally, is expected to be superior to Trinity in every way, shape and form. Granted, superior in shape and form would translate into a smaller processor package. But we digress. The AMD Fusion Developer Summit is currently on in Bellevue, Washington. There, the Sunnyvale, California-based company is sharing info on past, present and future endeavors. Kaveri...

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Fully Assembled iPhone 5 Potentially Leaked

Following the iPhone 5 case unveiling, it was only a matter of time before a fully assembled unit got leaked. It seems the phone is everything we’ve come to expect, though the images remain to be confirmed as 100 percent genuine. A Chinese website named iPhone-something has been sent a bunch of photos that seem to depict the next-generation iPhone from Apple.  All the photos are taken at an angle, making it hard to determine whether or not this unit is longer than the current generation model. However, the two units showing up in the photos do appear to be longer, and thinner, at least in one instance (above). It is interesting to note that the device is not only fully assembled, but also seems to be powered...

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AMD, ARM, TI, MediaTek and Imagination Combine Hybrid Processor Expertise

For many years, the x86 and ARM processor architectures have been the masters of the electronics industry, but a totally new architecture might appear soon. Like many IT press releases, the one issued jointly by AMD, ARM, Texas Instruments and Imagination Technologies during AFDS (AMD Fusion Developer Summit) used a lot of technical jargon, as if deliberately trying to be vague. There isn't much room for interpretation though, even after that. Not when all the relevant names on the microprocessor market, minus Intel, come together. The five IT players have created the Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA) Foundation, meant to “drive a single architecture specification and simplify the programming model.” The press...

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