Top500 Supercomputer List Will Be Renewed on Monday, Intel Should Power Many

There are things we can't do more than speculate on, because of the absence of official information or other reasons, but our assumptions regarding the date of June 18 aren't likely to be proven false. We'll list the facts first. For one, the next Top500 List of Supercomputers will be published on Monday, June 18, 2012, at the 2012 International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany. The second fact is that Intel signed a deal with Cray, back in April. For those unaware, Cray is essentially the big cheese in the HPC industry, having built the world's fastest supercomputers for over 50 years. A third fact is that the Santa Clara, California-based CPU maker is expected to have the “Knights Corner” MIC (many integrated...

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See If iOS 6 Works with Your Device

Apple posted a device compatibility chart for iOS 6, unlike previous times when the Cupertino giant kept us in the dark for months regarding supported models for upcoming iOS releases that had been demoed. Apple is not supporting all iDevices in iOS 6. The company has included compatibility for more devices than we had anticipated, but it also excluded one that we didn’t expect. Compatibility starts with the iPhone 3GS, the oldest iDevice still sold by Apple through its online store and partners. Next in line is the iPhone 4, which Apple shipped in 2010, and the iPhone 4S, which debuted last year. As far as the iPod touch goes, only the fourth-generation model is supported. And on the tablet front, the iPad 2 and the new...

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Nokia Mail for Exchange Client for Asha 302 / 303 Updated

On Wednesday, Nokia announced a series of enhancements brought to the Nokia Mail for Exchange client for its Asha 302 and Asha 303 handsets. The software was released in a beta flavor and is available for all devices powered by firmware 14.53 or above (which is not yet available for Nokia users in all countries). “Although the roll-out has started, it hasn’t become available in all regions yet. However, this will continue to improve in the coming weeks,” Nokia announced. The new Nokia Mail for Exchange version has been released to bring along a wide range of enhancements to users. Although in beta now, the app should make it to the Nokia Store soon. Owners of any of the aforementioned handsets will enjoy a new user...

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Zotac GTX 670 TwinCooler Graphics Card Appears

NVIDIA's Geforce GTX 670 graphics adapter does not truly qualify as a short-length video board, but Zotac has taken the matter into its own hands, making a version that fits in micro-ATX cases just fine. One trait of the GeForce GTX 670 video board, a trait not immediately distinguishable in the product photos, is that the board is short. Unfortunately, this advantage is nullified by the length of the cooler (NVIDIA's lateral-flow cooling assembly reaches well beyond the PCB). Zotac has decided to release a GTX 670 that doesn't have that problem. The result of its meddling is the ZTGTX670-2GD5TCR001/ZT-60305-10P. That's the model number. The actual name of the computer add-in board is Geforce GTX 670 TwinCooler. TwinCooler...

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Western Digital Enters Wireless Router Business

For the longest time, Western Digital has been a worldwide provider of hard disk drives, but the company is expanding its horizons in a direction that is, perhaps, not as easy to guess as others would be. Western Digital has made its first announcement on the wireless home networking market. In other words, it has launched a set of wireless routers. WD has dabbled in wireless communications before. After all, it is the developer of the WD TV media player family. This is the first real raid on the wireless home networking segment though, and the corporation made sure it was a bold one. We are looking at four routers and a Gigabit Ethernet home entertainment switch, all bearing the My Net brand name. My Net N600...

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Linus Torvalds Talks About Raspberry PI

Linus Torvalds has spoken recently about the Raspberry Mini-pc, and he believes it's a great platform to get people interested in computers. In an interview for electronicsweekly.com, Linus Torvalds, had quite a few kind words about the Raspberry PI, and explained that a platform needed to run Windows would be a lot more expensive. “What's interesting about Raspberry Pi is that it's so cheap almost anybody can buy it as a throwaway - throwaway in the very good sense that it could get people involved in computers who otherwise wouldn't be." "It can get people into the mindset of using a computer to do everyday jobs that even five years ago it would have been ridiculous”, said Linux Tovalds.  Raspberry Pi relies...

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Acer's Thinnest Ultrabook Priced, Specs Include Thunderbolt

Acer revealed the Aspire S5 ultrabook at this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES 2012), way back in January. It is Acer's thinnest ultrabook and also the first of its kind to possess a Thunderbolt connector. The 2310 mAh battery will be able to keep a Core i7 CPU, a 13.3-inch CineCrystal LED-backlit HD screen (1,366 x 768 pixels), a 256 GB SSD, 4 GB of DDR3 and a bunch of I/O running for up to 6.5 hours. Speaking of I/O, buyers will find Bluetooth 4.0, a 1.2 megapixel HD camera (1,280 x 720 pixels), a 2-in-1 card reader and Dolby Home Theater v4 Audio (2 built-in Acer 3DSonic stereo speakers). All the hardware is crammed inside a 2.56-pound (1.16 kg), 0.59-inch-thick (14.98 mm) frame. Windows 7 Home Premium is the...

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iOS 6 Jailbreak Released for Developers

iPhone Dev Team leader MuscleNerd has announced a tethered-only developer-restricted iOS 6 jailbreak for testing purposes. He confirms that no new exploits are being exposed with this release, and that those who don’t know the nuts and bolts of SSH and afc2 should simply ignore this announcement. As usual, MuscleNerd starts off with a quick tweet announcing a “redsn0w tethered iOS6 jailbreak for 3GS and A4 devices.” He directs interested parties to the Dev Team blog, where he explains that, “Just like at the wind-down of last year’s WWDC, we’re releasing a developer-only version of a redsn0w tethered jailbreak for app developers.” Supported device models include iPod touch 4G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4 (GSM), and iPhone 4 (CDMA). The...

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Retina MacBook Pro Actually Cheaper than High-End Regular Model

A price comparison between the old-model MacBook Pro and the new MacBook Pro with Retina display reveals that it is actually more profitable to buy the brand new model with SSD storage, crisp visuals, a thinner silhouette and non-upgradable RAM. The all-new MacBook Pro is a killer, no doubt about it. At $2,199, it’s also going to dry you up faster than a professional pickpocket. Whether or not Apple is intentionally trying to entice high-end users to go with the newer model (and who would blame them), the same CPU-RAM-storage configuration will actually cost you more if you go for the older design with a bulky chassis and a low-res display. The old MacBook Pro does come with the added advantage of reading compact discs,...

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Windows 8’s No-Aero Desktop Interface Leaks

One of the major changes that Microsoft announced for Windows 8’s interface was the lack of the Aero Glass that users were already accustomed to in Windows 7 or Windows Vista. The Redmond-based software giant said that this change is bound to result in a nicer, cleaner look of the desktop in Windows 8, and that it would affect checkboxes, buttons, sliders and other elements as well. The Release Preview flavor of Windows 8 was released two weeks ago without these changes inside, but the company did say that future versions of the platform would sport them. Today, however, a series of leaked screenshots that emerged over at Winunleaked are meant to offer us a look at what these changes would involve. Moving forth with...

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Intel Itanium CPUs Spotted, Possibly Poulson

The Itanium series of server processors from Intel has been at the core of the HP-Oracle hostilities, but that's not what we are going to talk about here. For once, the situation doesn't revolve around Oracle's decision to stop supporting Itanium chips, and HP's outrage over it. Instead, we are here to offer some details on a number of processors that hadn't been part of the series up to now. Then again, the four chips are still not part of the series. They haven't even been announced actually. They only surfaced in this PDF PCN file (product change notification). One of them, called 9520 (part number CM8063101049806), has a clock speed of 1.73 GHz and is the weakest. One step above is 9540 (CM8063101049718), at 2.13...

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Allegedly Leaked Shots of Nokia Vertu Windows Phone 8 Emerge

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has been long rumored to plan the release of Windows Phone 8 devices, yet no specific info on what these handsets will be all about has emerged so far. Today, however, images with an alleged such mobile phone from Nokia made it to the web, showing us a bit more of what to expect from the company in the not too distant future. Interestingly enough, the handset is said to be an early prototype of a Vertu handset from Nokia, which would make it a luxury phone. Said images emerged over on Chinese Windows Phone forum WpXAP.com, confirming that Windows Phone 8 was loaded on this handset. Moreover, the Vertu-branded smartphone from Nokia appears to pack 64GB of internal memory, which would...

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