Lacie, the memory maker company, has announced that their ThunderBolt series will be supporting SATA III SSDs from now on. The company claims that it’s the fastest Thunderbolt technology on the market. They have assured that the devices are capable of offering read speeds of up to 635 MB/s. These devices are of only 1.4 [...]
Intel has been working overtime in its bid to integrate Wi-Fi into their processor chips so as to mitigate all power and sizing issues. It looks like the company has at last succeeded in developing a solution. At the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner shed light on a [...]
In the PC era, upgrading the processing power of a device was not a question at all since users were able to swap the CPU or the mother broad for a better one if the situation arises. But with the new portable computing solutions like tablets, upgrading the processing capacity was not very easy. You [...]
The much-awaited iPhone 5 is expected to go on sale from the 21st of September. As we all know, the rumored date is being keenly watched by many out there. The latest we stumble upon is that the iPhone 5 could come with the A5X processor, which, in fact, is the same dual-core variant featuring [...]
With a global release round the bend, LG has announced that it will be featuring Tegra 3 processor instead of the earlier Qualcomm processor in its Optimus Vu. The coming September will mark the global release of the handset and LG will be taking its device to Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Latin [...]
The Nano SIM hullabaloo has been here for some time and has been hovering around the Cupertino based Apple. The much-awaited iPhone is expected to come this fall and the talk in the tech world is that Apple will definitely introduce the smaller SIM card standard this time. Since Apple had even proposed its own [...]
Microsoft has announced a new range of exclusive hardware accessories that are designed to accompany Windows 8 and there’s an update for the Touch mouse on the cards as well. The Wedge Touch mouse and Wedge Mobile Keyboard are joining the Sculpt Touch Mouse and Sculpt Mobile Keyboard. These are all designed to play nicely [...]
What if we get a chance to experience things meant for the future today? Won’t that be interesting? Windows 8 is still three months away with an October 26 launch, and certain unique hardware features entitled to Windows 8 machines have been spotted in an Asus motherboard, which gives us a chance to have a [...]
Almost everybody writes code for a living and almost every geeky guy you met on the street has an app under his name. With the popularisation of tablets and smartphones, app development has turned out to be a buzz word. Amazon is trying to catch some fish from that flood now. It has introduced SSD-backed [...]
Intel’s Itanium chip is all set to be back in the game, this time with the full power of 8 cores and a 32-nanometre manufacturing process. Though Itanium is widely assumed to be slow, Intel wants to revive it with the forthcoming 9500 series Itanium 64-bit processor. Though companies like Oracle think Itanium is doomed, [...]
Advanced Micro Devices, ARM, Imagination Technologies, MediaTek, and Texas Instruments have come together to make programming easier for software developers, while taking advantage of both CPU and GPU computing, with the Heterogeneous System Architecture Foundation. Lisa Su, AMD senior vice president, said this is meant to make it easier for software developers. So they’re not designing [...]
As the world eagerly awaits Windows 8, Freescale Semiconductor has introduced an integrated sensor solution for portable devices based on the operating system. Freescale 12-axis sensor platform includes Xtrinsic MMA8451Q 3-axis accelerometer, Xtrinsic MAG3110 3-axis magnetometer, Xtrinsic MPL3115A2 precision altimeter, pressure and temperature sensor and an analog ambient light sensor, in addition to support for [...]
Competing with the HP Envy Series Ultrabooks, Dell and Fujitsu have decided that their ultrabooks will be featuring hybrid hard disks instead of conventional hard disks. These ultrabooks will be running on Intel’s Ivy bridge processors and are predicted to be the coming season’s top sellers. A hybrid HDD is different from standard hard drives [...]
Almost all of the gadget lovers love tablets. But many of them hate typing down on virtual keyboards. We have come across a product recently which can help increase the productivity on slates like iPad where there are no real keyboards to type down a long document. Logitech has specially designed a small keyboard which can [...]
Adding one more excellent machine to its client virtualization solutions, Dell has introduced Precision R5500 rack workstation as part of its expansion plans. Touted as the first multi-user 2U Rack Workstation for virtualized 3D workloads, it is capable of connecting up to four users who dig professional graphics jobs from a single workstation no matter [...]
