Saturday, February 19, 2011

IT News HeadLines (InsideHW) 18/02/2011



InsideHW
Cooler Master Storm Spawn: The Red-Black Fury
As evident from the title, Cooler Master’s Storm Spawn comes in a combination of red and black colour. The scroll wheel and all buttons are matted black; according to Cooler Master, Omron microswitches were used to manufacture these, which guarantees at least five million clicks - a mind-boggling piece of information, sufficient on its own to make you want to buy this mouse. The rest of the mouse’s upper body is coloured glossy red, which really has an effect on the overall visual impact.
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NVIDIA doubled profit in Q4
For the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2011 (ended January 30th), NVIDIA Corp. has reported a revenue of $886.4 million - up 5% compared to Q3's result but down almost 10% over Q4 FY 2010, and a net income of $171.7 million, up both sequentially ($84.9m in Q3) and on-year. In the full fiscal year 2011, NVIDIA's revenues were of $3.54 billion - up from $3.32bn in the previous year, with over $100 million coming from the still young but high-targeting Tesla unit. Profits in FY 2011 were $ 253.1 million, compared to a net loss of $68m in FY 2010.
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Internet Explorer 9 RC downloaded over two million times
Roger Capriotti, the Director for Internet Explorer Product Marketing, has revealed that the Release Candidate of Internet Explorer 9 has reached 2 million downloads in about a week after its roll-out for Windows 7. The RC is the first feature-complete public build of IE9 and it includes multiple updates over the betas which have recorded over 23 million downloads.
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Dell prepares five more tablets for this year
Another leaked roadmap shows up Dell's plans for new tablets, and the company has plenty in the pipeline, starting with the already-confirmed 10-inch model which is codenamed Gallo, runs on Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb, and is expected in April. Around late-May Dell will be releasing the 10-inch Rosemount which has Windows 7 preinstalled and a display with 1366 x 768 touchscreen.
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NVIDIA to release GeForce GTX 550 Ti on March 15
The GeForce 500 series of desktop cards is about to welcome a new member in one month's time (on March 15 apparently) when NVIDIA is supposed to release the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, a mid-range model powered by the 40nm GF116 GPU. The GTX 550 Ti should have a 128-bit memory interface backed by 1GB of GDDR5 memory, a PCB and cooling solution resembling that of the GTS 450, a 3+1 phase power design, and a TDP of 110W.
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