There’s a little over a month till the debut of Intel’s Haswell chip and the LGA1150 platform so motherboards on the new socket have started to appear here and there. Gigabyte also has a new offering – the GA-Z87X-UD3H motherboard. As the name suggests the motherboard is based on the latest Intel Z87 chipset and supports only Haswell processors being LGA1150 only. The m...
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Samsung to release Galaxy Core smartphone
29 April 2013 | Smartphones
Samsung has disclosed details on a new upcoming smartphone that will hit the market under the tradename Galaxy Core. The Galaxy Core will become officially available in May 2013. The smartphone is expected to include an unknown dual-core processor at 1.2 GHz, support for two SIM cards, a 4.3-inch WVGA display (800 x 480 pixel resolution), 768 MB of RAM, 8 GB of internal memor...
More on Google Glass
29 April 2013 | Gadgets
The hardware specs of Google Glass were leaked a while ago but there was one crucial component missing - the processor inside the revolutionary device. The big question was whether the chip inside was a complex piece of silicon or just a simple custom SoC. Apparently Google Glass gets powered by the Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 processor - a chip that also powers a number of s...
Sony plans Xperia ZR smartphone
29 April 2013 | Smartphones
Sony’s Xperia line of smartphones is rather popular on the smartphone market selling in the millions but the Japanese hi-tech corporation feels there’s enough room for another Xperia smartphone. This time the new smartphone will be called Xperia ZR. Also known under the codename Dogo (or Xperia A) the rumored smartphone is expected to feature a large 4.6-inch display, 2 G...
Why Virtual Servers are the Future of Enterprise IT
26 April 2013 |
Successful business today has an awareness of what technology can do for them. Yet owning and managing your own IT infrastructure is hugely inefficient, cost prohibitive and wastes precious resources. In this regard, virtual servers offer the fastest, most robust, most flexible technological advancement of the past decade. “Not the cloud?” you say… Not at the heart of your business,...
Toshiba rolls out Portege Z10t tablet-notebook
26 April 2013 | Notebooks, Tablets
German customers have become the first to see the latest Toshiba Portege Z10t tablet-notebook – the latest in a new series hitting the market that combines the features of a tablet and a notebook in one device. Depending on the model the Toshiba Portege Z10t offers four processors – the Intel Core i3-3229Y, Core i5-3439Y, Core i5-3339Y and Core i7-3689Y. The display is al...
Samsung debuts first ATIV notebooks
26 April 2013 | Notebooks
The South Korean Samsung has released the first two ATIV notebooks – the ATIV Book 5 and ATIV Book 6. Until this moment the ATIV brand was reserved only for versatile PCs that can work as notebooks and tablets. The ATIV Book 5 is the less powerful model – it comes with an Intel Core i5-3337U processor at 1.8 GHz, a 14-inch sensor display at 1366 x 768 pixels and 200 cd/m2...
Lenovo releases IdeaPad U310 Touch notebook
26 April 2013 | Notebooks
Lenovo has introduced a new notebook – the IdeaPad U310 Touch. The new company product is now available on the US market where it sells for USD 699. The new IdeaPad U310 Touch is based on a 13.3-inch LED display with Multi-Touch and glossy finish (1366 x 768 pixels resolution) and has an Intel Core i3-3217U Ivy Bridge processor at 1.8 GHz (2.7 GHz Turbo), Intel HD 4000 grap...
First benchmark results of Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E published
26 April 2013 | PC
Intel’s plans for the ultra high-end X79 platform are quite clear nowadays – with the arrival of Haswell in a month and a half the chip giant will retire the current Sandy Bridge-E generation and will introduce the Ivy Bridge-E CPUs. The first tests of the upcoming processors are now available thanks to the efforts of a Chinese enthusiast from the Coolaler.com forum and they show Ivy Bridg...
LG wants to release smartphone with unbreakable display
26 April 2013 | Smartphones
LG has had some really great smartphones so far but the company is still widely regarded as an underdog when compared to Apple and Samsung and their smartphones. In an attempt to change all this LG has announced it wants to release the first smartphone with an unbreakable display by the end of 2013. Yoon Bu-hyun, vice president of LG’s mobile business, released the news at ...
Intel adds 80 GB model to 335 Series SSDs
25 April 2013 | SSD
Intel has announced the addition of an 80 GB model to its 335 Series of SSDs. The new model is the least spacious of all but will be the cheapest too. The chip giant released 180/240 GB models of the same SSD line earlier this year. The 80 GB model is based on the same 20 nm MLC NAND Flash memory used in the more spacious models. As to speed the SSDs reach sequential read spe...
