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Lenovo has released the IdeaCentre H430 and IdeaCentre H520s with the option to load then with the latest Core i5 and Core i7 processors. By the looks of it, these rigs are designed for those with small desktop space and somewhat equally thin wallets. The starting price of IdeaCentre H430 is listed as Rs. 24,990 plus taxes, and the IdeaCentre H520s starts selling at Rs. 21,250. ]]>Components & AccessoriesFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-23 10:15:36
ASUS has released the P8Z77-V Premium motherboard with Intel’s Z77 chipset for third generation processors. ASUS has slapped the Premium tag on this model as it loaded with all the modern bells and whistles like an onboard 32GB SSD for system caching, USB 3.0 ports, PCIe v3.0 slots for quad GPU setup, and even a Thuderbolt port. This single Thuderbolt port has 10 Gbps bandwidth and it can support up to six, daisy-chained devices. The premium edition of P8Z77-V gets SMART DIGI+ technology based onboard processors control voltage to the CPU, RAM, and the onboard graphics accelerator. ]]>Components & AccessoriesFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-23 10:14:38
An American company by the name of Leap has unveiled its motion sensing and motion tracking technology that they have been developing for four years. The result in an iPod sized device that latches on to a USB port, and the company claims, it is more than 200 times more accurate than anything else currently on the market. This device is called Leap Motion, and it can accurately detect motion within eight cubic feet of itself. ]]>Components & AccessoriesFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-22 12:01:07
Following much hype and some hysteria, Facebook’s journey to go public has gotten off to a less than auspicious start. Starting with the very first day, the trading started two hours behind schedule, and subsequently trading was further held for two hours during the day, both of which was caused by technical issues with trader Nasdaq’s systems. At the end of trading on the day of issue, Facebook’s stocks were priced about $38, after hitting a peak of about $45. ]]>Social MediaFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-22 12:00:40
A Chinese company by the name of Rikomagic has begun shipping a micro PC that has similar form factor as the recently released Raspberry Pi and the upcoming Cotton Candy. Marketed as an IPTV, the specs of MK802 also puts it somewhere in between Raspberry Pi and Cotton Candy. The PC uses an Allwinner A10 SoC powered by 1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, a Mali-400 GPU, and 802.11b/g radio. ]]>PC & LaptopFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-19 12:15:26
With the Samsung’s Galaxy S III expected to go retail in a few days, the company’s online store has started taking booking of the new flagship. These are not exactly pre-orders that we are accustomed to seeing; rather the company is simply accepting Rs. 2,000 as a booking amount. According to a report by Korea Economic Daily, Samsung has already received 9 million pre-orders since the campaign went online. ]]>SmartphoneFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-19 09:50:45
During the opening day, keynote presentation, NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsun Huang showcased two GPU based on the Kepler architecture. This upcoming line of graphic processors will be sold under the moniker of Tesla, with the Tesla K20 releasing in the fourth quarter of 2012. NVIDIA also showed of the Tesla K10 GPU, which houses two GK104 Kepler GPUs to deliver 4.58 teraflops of peak single-precision floating point and 320 GB per second memory bandwidth. The K10’s however, are designed specifically for oil and gas exploration companies for signal, image and seismic processing applications. Huang also announced that NVIDIA has released CUDA 5 Parallel Programming platform to members of NVIDIA's GPU Computing Registered Developer program to start exploring the Kepler architecture. ]]>Components & AccessoriesFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-17 10:02:54
AMD's successor to the incumbent Llano architecture will be called Trinity, and we should expect to see stateside release of a laptop by Hewlett Packard called Envy Sleekbook, by as early as June. ]]>Components & AccessoriesFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-17 10:00:33
Xbit managed to snag and post a couple of slides from an Intel presentation used by the CEO to discuss research and development of chip fabrication technology. The company’s mobile chip line-up will be split into a low-cost line headed by Atom 22000 carrying and XMM 5255 radio, and the high-performance Atom 22580 that will sport a XMM 7160 radio. ]]>Components & AccessoriesFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-15 10:21:13
The Nokia PureView 808 caught everyone’s attention when it made its debut appearance with a whopping 41MP camera, making it one of the more talked about phones from Nokia in recent times. The Indian portion of the Nokia Shop has the 808 listed as coming soon, but it does not disclose its price. Some diligent scouring by Androsym through the website source code has revealed clues that indicated PureView 808‘s price at Rs. 29,999. ]]>SmartphoneFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-15 10:15:23
Yahoo had confirmed through a press release that the company’s CEO, Scott Thompson, had left the organization for an undisclosed reason. In his stead, Yahoo has appointed Ross Levinsohn as the interim Chief Executive Officer of the company that will go through a reshuffling of Board of Directors. Before Yahoo made this news official, All Things D reported that the company’s CEO may be asked to leave for reasons that more about his academic record and less about the company’s recent woes. ]]>InternetFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-14 09:25:50
Forbes has reported on finding by Torrent-tracking and analysis firm Big Champagne, which puts HBO’s Game of Thrones as being well on its way to becoming the most pirated show of this year. According to rough estimated released by Big Champagne, the show has been downloaded more than 25 million times from public torrent trackers since it began in early April. This trend hit its peak following April 30th’s episode, which resulted to more than 2.5 million downloads in a day. ]]>InternetFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-14 09:20:24
Our mobile application for this week is a budget manager for iOS and Android phones that uses a simple drag and drop action to manage expense categories. The application also has some advanced features that let the user manage budgets using multiple currencies, allocate budget to each expense category and track multiple bank account balance. ]]>AppsFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-13 08:45:49
Partition Assistant from Aomei Technology is a disk management and partition management utility for those who need more than what is available with Windows Disk Management. The Home Edition of Partition Assistant can be freely downloaded for both personal and commercial use. The application works with 32-bit and 64-bit version of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7, and supports SSD, external drives and of course internal hard disks. ]]>SoftwareFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-13 08:45:37
Speculations about if and what Apple will reveal about iOS 6 at the upcoming WWDC in June, suggests that one of the highlight feature of the OS update will be a new maps service. According to reports by 9to5Mac and also All Things D, Apple will be reducing its dependency on Google Maps with the release of iOS 6. ]]>SmartphoneFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-12 11:11:04
After hawking for Likes on Facebook, Ubisoft have kept their word and released a video of a shiny new Assassin in kill mode. This video is the game’s pre-alpha footage that shows Connor grappling with shifting tides and wading through some familiar, and some not so familiar situations. Set during the war between the American colonies and their British masters, Assassin’s Creed III is scheduled for release at the end of October on PC, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Wii U. ]]>GamingFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-12 11:00:32
Amazon has announced that it has struck a deal with Pottermore to make the entire Harry Potter series available through its Kindle Owners' Lending Library. The library will begin carrying the Harry Potter collection starting on June 19, in English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish. ]]>E-ReaderFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-11 11:17:11
Hewlett Packard has expanded its line of Ultrabooks to accommodate the Spectre XT, which will carry the latest generation of processors from Intel. The specs of Spectre XT are otherwise largely similar to that of its predecessors, with the exception of a few minor tweaks. The Spectre XT has a slightly smaller screen at 13 inches, and the battery-life is down by a notch to 8 hours; however, this model has managed to shed nearly half a kilogram of weight. ]]>LaptopFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-10 09:47:38
Research in Motion will continue to grow its catalog of Blackberry phones in India, with the release of a 3G variant of BlackBerry Curve 9320. The phone will carry 2.44-inch, 320x240 pixels resolution screen on a traditional Blackberry form factor, and a 1450mAH battery. The hardware will be conducted by BlackBerry 7.1 OS with features such as Mobile Hotspot, Wi-Fi calling, and parental control options. ]]>SmartphoneFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-10 09:37:57
Home theatre personal computers (HTPC) or media centers, as they are sometimes referred to, is nowhere as common as desktop and laptop computers, but this category has been gaining some ground for some time now. For those who prefer custom assembling an HTPC with choice of configuration, their first stop would be at a HTPC cabinet vendor. Here we take a look at some of the models that are readily available in the Indian market, from vendors such as Antec, Cooler Master, and Silverstone. ]]>Media CenterFaiyaz Shaikh2012-05-08 10:00:00