Office 2013 Beta Might Have Been Delayed

Among the various details it shared with the audience at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Microsoft let slip only few of them about the upcoming Office 2013 suite. In fact, the Redmond-based software giant made no info official on the upcoming product, but said that additional details on the matter would be released later this summer. According to MakingWindowsEasy, this could mean only one thing, namely that the company has pushed the release of Office 2013 beta to a later date than originally targeted. Some of the previous reports on the matter suggested that we might get a taste of the pre-release flavor of Microsoft’s new Office suite as soon as this week, or sometime in July. However, it appears that...

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Nokia Offers its MeeGo Patents to Jolla, Supports Their Initiative

For Nokia, MeeGo is dead. The company is shifting its entire focus on the development of Windows Phone devices, thus leaving aside all other smartphone platforms it has been working on.  For enthusiasts, however, the platform is alive and kicking, and promises a great future. We’re referring here to the Jolla startup, which announced a few days ago that it would continue the development on this platform.   With devices expected to arrive on shelves later this year running under the MeeGo platform, the startup needs all the support it can get. Apparently, Nokia itself is one of the companies that landed a helping hand, by gifting the patents it held on MeeGo to the new company. Apparently, Jolla is one of the...

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Windows Server 2012 RTM in Early August, Final Release in September

In addition to providing info on the upcoming release timeframe of its Windows 8 operating system, Microsoft took its time at the Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, Canada, to offer some details on the release of Windows Server 2012. The Redmond-based software giant announced that the server platform is set to hit Release to Manufacturing status during the first week of August, the same as Windows 8. However, unlike the desktop client, the server OS will be ready for commercial availability as soon as the next month, September. “In fact, at the conference we are announcing that Windows Server 2012 will be released to manufacturing in the first week of August,” Jeffrey Snover, Windows Server, Microsoft, explains in...

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Boston Limited Revolutionary ARM “Viridis” Servers with Calxeda Processors

We have talked about Calxeda’s impressive energy efficient quad-core processors. We also reported about the its performance and energy efficiency. Now, server maker Boston Limited is announcing the new “Viridis” server line using Calxeda’s EnergyCore SoCs. SoC is short for System on Chip, which are quad-core ARM processors based on ARM’s Cortex A9 architecture. Boston’s new servers pack 48 nodes in a 2U enclosure and are, thus, able to offer an impressive 4032 cores in a single standard 42U rack. A node is in fact a Calxeda EnergyCore SoC with four Cortex A9 ARM cores inside with its 4GB of RAM, flash memory and network controllers. Practically, the 2U server box will house 192 Cortex A9 cores and will consume a maximum...

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RIM’s CEO: BlackBerry 10 Devices Arrive in January 2013

Research In Motion is in deep trouble, but the Canadian company hopes to boost its market share once BlackBerry 10 OS gets launched next year. Previously slated for a Q3/Q4 launch, BlackBerry 10 OS has been recently delayed by RIM due to the fact that there’s a large amount of coding needed and the company’s software engineers won’t have the time to include all the new features by the end of the year. RIM’s CEO, Thorsten Heins, stated last week that the first BlackBerry 10 OS devices were scheduled to hit shelves in Q1 2013, though the official did not unveil any exact release date. However, Heins decided to shed more light on the upcoming launch of the next-generation operating system, during an interview for CIO’s Al...

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Haswell-EP is LGA2011 but It’s Likely Completely Incompatible

Intel Corporation has apparently decided to forget about all its clients that have invested hundreds of dollars in their LGA2011 mainboards. Most of us might think that the higher-end the mainboard is, the greater the platform longevity is. In a shocking turn of events, As reported by SemiAccurate, it seems that Intel’s LGA2011 socket for the Haswell-EP processor platform is completely incompatible with today’s LGA2011 variant. While the pin count is the same, the two sockets will be physically and electrically completely incompatible. Many thought that Intel’s LGA2011 platform would live through the Haswell generation and that there would be an initial launch with DDR3 memory, as DDR4 memory is practically inexistent now...

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