Rambus Shows World’s Best RAM Technology

During this year’s IDF event in San Francisco, California, many companies have displayed their new and most advanced technologies. One unsurprising, but rather forgotten participant is the well-known technology developer Rambus. The company has managed to make a very bad name for itself after suing most other DRAM companies in the world for infringing its patents. The patent discussion is debatable, but the company eventually managed to win some of the lawsuits and some other DRAM companies were actually found guilty of cartel-like activities and the most important victims were Rambus and the end-users. The company was not innocent itself and due to the prolonged years of legal battling, word spread among the industry...

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Amazon Maps on the Kindle Fire Powered by Nokia, Nokia Confirms

Nokia has confirmed that it's supplying the mapping data for Amazon's new Maps API. The new API was revealed a short while ago, but Amazon did not say where it gets its map data from. There were some rumors that Nokia was involved, via its Navteq acquisition, prior to the launch of the new Kindle Fires. "Amazon is licensing the Nokia Location Platform (NLP) for maps and geocoding," Nokia told The Next Web. "The Nokia Location Platform is the most advanced mobile location platform with a unique global footprint. It provides maps for almost 200 countries (with more than 100 of them navigable)," it added. Nokia was the likely choice, there aren't that many companies that have access to the amount of data a solid online map needs....

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Nokia Lumia 820 Interchangeable Covers Details

Lumia 920 might be Nokia’s flagship Windows Phone 8-based handset, but that doesn’t mean that the company’s second phone running under the next mobile OS from Microsoft won’t have a lot to offer to its users. In fact, it will provide them with a highly customizable experience, the Finnish handset vendor says, and offers some more info on the matter: a series of interchangeable shells will be there for users to enjoy. The handset also comes with a 4.3-inch ClearBlack OLED touchscreen display, as well as with an 8-megapixel photo snapper on the back, with Carl Zeiss optics, not to mention that it will pack wireless charging, the same as Lumia 920. The aforementioned shells enable users not only to change the look of their...

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Ciphertex 40TB 10GbE Secure NAS Server

All network-attached storage devices have a level of security built into or installed on them, but Ciphertex has made it its life's purpose to product storage units that have no equal in this area. A product called CX-10K-NAS is on display at the HTCIA (High Technology Crime Investigation Association) conference in Hershey, Pennsylvania (September 16-19). Not only does it have a capacity of up to 40TB of storage space, but it supports a data transfer speed of 10 Gigabits. Thus, data is accessed at up to 1,000 MB/s, assuming a 10 GbE network is accessed, instead of the more common 1 GbE. Ciphertex invented the portable storage system for forensics (handling and safeguarding of suspect data). It made sure that multiple...

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Hynix Shows DDR4 Memory and 1Xnm NAND Flash

We know that NAND prices will fall quite a bit as Toshiba gets its production back on track. OCZ has flashed its new drive at this year’s IDF event in San Francisco, California, but that’s not the only good news coming from Intel. SK Hynix was also displaying its new SSDs, but most importantly, the company was showing a NAND wafer that was manufactured in 1Xnm technology, SemiAccurate reports.  The company did not say what “X” stands for, but clearly what we’re seeing is a lot denser than 25nm, 22nm or 20nm NAND and that hints at a future price reduction. Sure, the technology will not enter the market right now, but if Toshiba’s move will start a price fall this autumn, we’re sure to see a continued downward spiral...

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Canon Expand Its PowerShot Series, G15, S110 and SX50 HS Cameras Debuts

Canon may have launched the large, heavy and feature-packed EOS 6D, aiming to take advantage of Photokina the most, but there are other cameras getting ready to start shipping. The cameras in question have been added to the PowerShot compact line and are called PowerShot G15, PowerShot S110 and PowerShot SX50 HS. The PowerShot SX50 HS superzoom will be the “mid-range” of the trio when it starts shipping next month, October 2012: $480 / 365-480 Euro. It relies on a 12.1-megapixel sensor, a 24-1200mm, f/3.4 - f/6.5 lens, optical image stabilization, a max ISO of 6,400 and a burst photo capture mode of 10 frames per second. PowerShot S110 will sell in both black and white, for $450 / 343-450 Euro. It has a 12.1 MP sensor...

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Qualcomm Is Looking for Graphics at AMD

World’s largest fabless chip designer, American company Qualcomm is used to design its own mobile CPUs and their respective integrated graphics processing units (iGPU). We know that the company’s famous Snapdragon processors are based on the ARM architecture, but the designs are original. Many other ARM CPU makers usually license the graphics IP from companies like Imagination Technologies or ARM. Qualcomm is making its own iGPUs also and the architecture inside the Adreno series has nothing to do with ARM and everything to do with AMD instead. The Adreno architecture was initially developed by AMD, and Qualcomm has just bought the entire mobile division form the Texan company. Even today’s Adreno iGPUs are based...

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Canon EOS 6D, 20.2-Megapixel Full Frame Sensor DSLR Camera

This week will be focused on photo and video cameras quite a bit, due to the Photokina 2012, an event that takes place every two years in Cologne, Germany and, this time, will start on September 18 and end on September 23. Canon is one of the companies attending the trade show, which means that, as has become the tradition for most every IT gathering, the official announcements are already out. We are certain that Canon will release information and hold PR announcements all throughout the show, but the core of its exhibition is already known. Quite a pertinent move really, since visitors are usually too engrossed in staring at and fiddling with devices to listen to people speaking about them. The name of the camera we...

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Panasonic Lumix DMC-GH3D Micro Four Thirds Camera

Late last week, Panasonic released a commercial in which it exposed the impending arrival of a certain camera called Lumix DMC-GH3 Micro Four Thirds. This product has now been unleashed. Based on a 16-megapixel Live MOS image sensor, the camera is larger and plain better than the Lumix DMC-GH2 it replaces, and which was launched in 2010. Featuring a good autofocus (AF) system and a light sensitivity of up to 25,600 ISO, it can shoot photos in burst mode at 20 frames per second, assuming the resolution isn't maxed out (4 megapixels tops). Meanwhile, the display is not a liquid crystal panel, but an OLED (614,000-dot resolution), the same technology used to make the viewfinder which, coincidentally, has 100 percent field...

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Twitter and Facebook on Windows Phone 8 Lockscreen Notifications

Windows Phone 8, the next major version of Microsoft’s mobile operating system, is expected to hit the market with a great deal of improvements packed inside, including some related to its lockscreen. We have already learned that there might be more notifications icons available when the handset is locked, but no specific info on what they might be has been provided as of yet. Recent reports, however, suggest that Windows Phone 8 will display both Twitter and Facebook notifications on the lockscreen. The feature was spotted in the video of Nokia’s last week announcement on Lumia 920, available on YouTube as well and embedded above. Said notifications feature is visible at the 23:38 mark in the video. Windows Phone 8 will also arrive on shelves with a new homescreen...

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AMD Radeon 8000 “Oland” GPU First Details

AMD is now working hard on its second generation of the Graphics Core Next (GCN) architecture, and the first video cards to enter the market will be the mid-range series, not the top-of-the-line. The Texas-based CPU and GPU designer is apparently adopting a different launch strategy than its main competitor, California-based Nvidia. The first cards belonging to the 2nd GCN generation will be models that fit the $300 - $400 price range, while the top performing graphics adapters will have to wait for a later launch date. The first 2nd-gen GCN GPU will be AMD “Oland” and, as usual, the company will launch at least two cards based on the new chip with frequencies being the differentiating factor, VideoCardz reports. Oland...

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Galaxy Nexus 2 Emerges in User Agent Profile

Following the success of Nexus S and Galaxy Nexus, Samsung and Google are reportedly gearing up for the release of a new Google phone. The handset hasn’t been officially confirmed for the time being, but a User Agent Profile appears to have spilled the beans on it. The UAProf shows a certain Samsung GT-i9260 smartphone in the works at the South Korean mobile phone maker, and rumor has it that this might indeed be the successor of last year’s Galaxy Nexus. The second Google phone from Samsung arrived on shelves with model number GT-i9250 attached to it, and with a screen resolution of 1280 x 720. The new device sports the same resolution, and the model number implies that it might be connected in a way or another to...

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Intel Atom “Rosepoint” SoC Will Integrate Wi-Fi

A good system-on-chip platform is what Intel needs on the tablet market, but the one with a feature combination that might, finally, secure its position in that field may not come fast enough. The Atom SoC platform bearing the “Rosepoint” codename will only be launched two years from now, despite the formal revelation having been done at IDF SF 2012. IDF SF is short for Intel Developer Forum, San Francisco. The gathering took place between September 11 and September 13. One of the “promises” that Chipzilla made there was that everything would be wireless, in due time. Rosepoint is the means by which Wi-Fi support will be granted to consumer electronics devices based on the Atom architecture. Two 32nm-based x86...

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