Want to know what’s been hot in the world of technology and gadgets today? Another great week of tech news sees hands-on photos, more iPhone 4G deets and the possibility of the iPod touch getting a 2-megapixel camera.
In photos, we get a clearer view of what Windows Phone 7 will have in [...]
This morning, thanks to Apple’s online pre-order forms, sefranet revealed O2 and Vodafone’s iPad data plans, pre-empting any official announcements. And, as Orange’s plans had already been unveiled last Friday, that wrapped up the expected tariffs.
However, while the prices were leaked, many details remained
We have now received official confirmation from all parties, and they [...]
Sony is considering launching a tablet to rival Apple’s iPad, a senior vp confirmed to Bloomberg, although it wants to asses how the market adapts to this new product line first.
Mike Abary, senior vice president of Sony’s Information Technology Products unit, was speaking in San Francisco when he revealed the plans. “We [...]
An intrepid team of hackers has deployed openAOS dualboot to run Nokia’s Maemo on the Android-based Archos 5 Internet Tablet and Internet Media Tablet (IMT).
“For a happy, good, fun-time PROOF OF CONCEPT, here’s Maemo running on an Archos 5 IMT using openAOS dualboot,” Spz03737 explained in a YouTube video description.
“This has [...]
Playing catch-up with Intel, AMD has announced its first triple-core and quad-core laptop processors as part of a major brand overhaul.
The lineup includes two triple-core and three quad-core Phenom II chips running at between 1.6GHz and 2.3GHz and drawing between 25 and 45W.
There are also new single-core and dual-core low-voltage http://www.amd.com/us/products/notebook/platforms/home/2010- [...]
Microsoft has signed a “strategic partnership” with LG that will see 3D gaming arrive on the Xbox 360. The move confirms that Microsoft is mirroring Sony’s plans to offer 3D titles using existing its existing hardware.
As well as 3D gaming on Microsoft’s console, the partnership will also see Xbox 360s and games sold alongside [...]
Digital Storm has debuted a new vertically cooled gaming rig. The PC – dubbed Black|OPS Assassin – is reportedly capable of minimizing heat buildup from a three-way SLI configuration of Nvidia’s GTX 480s with minimal fan noise.
According to Digital Storm spokesperson Rajeev Kuruppu, the Assassin is the company’s latest system to [...]
Super-fast wireless video could get a touch more straightforward, with the launch of a new chipset from SiBeam which combines both the WirelessHD and WiGig specifications.
SiBeam has been shipping 60GHz chipsets based on the WirelessHD standard since 2008, but its new SB8110 WirelessHD/WiGig RF transceiver and associated SK8100 Development Kit [...]
Neofonie is reportedly readying its potential iPad rival, the WeTab, for a July release. Reports suggest a price tag of around 449 euros, which is just under £390 in real money (or, at least, until the imminent collapse of the euro).
Originally called the WePad, the German manufacturer has either changed its [...]
ARM is currently the undisputed heavyweight champion of the global mobile marketplace. However, the company has recently accelerated development of low-powered server chips in response to what it describes as “customer demand.”
“We’ve been doing some testing over the past year or so,” ARM marketing chief Ian Drew told ZDNet UK.
“People [...]
iPad users are male, rich and enjoy using Flickr, according to a Yahoo user analysis.
Men outnumber women two-to-one, particularly in the 35-44 age group. Nearly half already owned an iPhone. The user profile is significantly older than for Yahoo users in general.
And, says Ashley Cheng of Yahoo Insights, “The first Yahoo iPad [...]
An ARM spokesperson has blamed Flash and the abrupt emergence of tablets for the lack of smartbooks in the mobile marketplace.
“We thought [smartbooks] would be launched by now, but they’re not. I think one reason is to do with software maturity. We’ve seen things like Adobe slip — we’d originally scheduled for [...]
The mobile market is currently dominated by ARM’s nearly ubiquitous architecture.
But Intel’s Moorestown platform may herald the end of the beginning – rather than the beginning of the end – for ARM’s mobile monopoly.
Indeed, according to analyst Rob Enderle, Moorestown could theoretically pose a challenge to ARM if the platform [...]
A recent study conducted by IDC estimates that the global volume of digital data increased by 62% between 2008 and 2009 to approximately 800,000 petabytes (PB).
The report also noted that the rapidly expanding “Digital Universe” is expected to grow to 1.2 million PB, or 1.2 zettabytes (ZB) in 2010 and reach [...]
Nvidia’s chief scientist has claimed that Moore’s law is no longer applicable to the silicon world of CPUs.
“We have reached the limit of what is possible with one or more traditional, serial central processing units, or CPUs. CPU performance no longer doubles every 18 months. And that poses a grave threat to [...]
MSI is reportedly planning to launch a number of Android and Windows 7 tablet devices at Computex in June.
According to Engadget, the tablets – which are expected to ship sometime during the third quarter – will be available in 8.9 and 10-inch varieties.
“We can’t promise you big M’s Tegra 2 and [...]
Intel is reportedly poised to launch its next-generation of Atom-based processors.
Indeed, DigiTimes claims that the DDR3-supporting Atom N455 and N475 will be announced “shortly,” while the dual-core N500 Atom processor is expected to be unveiled in June.
“There are naturally some netbooks rumored to be launching alongside the new processors as well, [...]
