The Daily VR-Zone News Summary - 02 Mar 2011
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In today's daily news roundup:
- Bigfoot Networks announces its new high-performance Killer WiFi cards for notebooks;
- Intel releases a new dual-core Atom processor for netbooks;
- TP-Link showcases new energy-efficient powerline adapters at CeBIT;
- Razer's Naga Epic MMO gaming mouse gets reviewed;
- Sony is reportedly thinking of exploiting a loophole to get around the import ban on PlayStation 3 consoles in the EU, and
- Dawn of War 2 : Retribution gets a new launch trailer.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550 Ti benchmark leak?
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We've gotten some rough performance numbers of the upcoming GeForce GTX 550 Ti in Futuremark's 3DMark 11 and Lost Planet 2. Is it as fast as it is rumored to be?
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ASUS unveils new ROG gaming products at CeBIT 2011
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ASUS has unveiled a number of new ROG gaming products at CeBIT 2011. These include the G74Sx gaming laptop, the Rampage III Black Edition motherboard and MATRIX GTX 580 graphics cards for enthusiasts, VG278H 3D monitor, RT-N66U high performance dual-band wireless router, and the Vulcan-ANC gaming headset.
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TazTag to unveil new Android tablet at CeBIT?
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With the whole world going 'goo-goo-ga-ga' over tablets, smartphones and the operating systems used to power them, it should probably not be surprising to see unheard-of OEMs attempting to capitalize on the mobile bandwagon by offering a product which runs off the ever-popular Android OS. And it seems that there is one such OEM right there at CeBIT as we speak: TazTag is reportedly announcing a new Android-powered tablet that will boast certain connectivity features not found in today's devices.
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ASUS unveils new Blu-ray player and voice-cancelling headphones at CeBIT
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Today might be only the second day of CeBIT, but it seems that ASUS is not about to sit down and take it easy in this particular exhibition. Unveiled today at ASUS's booth in the exhibit are three new consumer electronics device, and they come in the form of a new Blu-ray player, a Blu-ray writer and an active noise-cancelling headphones.
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Nintendo 3DS launched in Japan, with user complaints and purportedly already cracked
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Nintendo's latest generation of handheld consoles were recently launched in Japan to a great start, with the company reporting an initial shipment of 400,000 and Enterbrain annoucing an estimate of 371,326 sold. Despite the popularity of the 3DS, complaints are arising with regards to eyestrain in just five minutes of usage in 3D mode. Additionally, even though it was recently launched, the device has purportedly been cracked to run copied DS games easily.
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Olympus unveils TG-810, SZ-30MR and SZ-20 digital cameras
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Olympus has unveiled the new additions to their line of digital cameras, namely TG-810, SZ-30MR and SZ-20. The TG-810 will be available this month, though no availability dates confirmed for the SZ-30MR and SZ-20.
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England attempts to hit the 'Del' button on Facebook cyberbullying
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Think that you are well protected by a veil of anonymity when you post messages online to various message boards and social networking sites? Well, think again: law enforcement agencies are hard at work in ensuring that users who frequently intimidate other web users online face the consequences of their actions under the legal system. And what better way to ensure a more civil Web by hitting users where it hurts the most: at the popular online social networking service known as Facebook?
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Internet Explorer sees modest gains in market share for February
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It seems like February may have been a very good month for Microsoft and its Internet Explorer team in particular. According to the latest statistics released by Netmarketshare, Microsoft's web browser gained more than 0.5% in market share, all at Firefox's expense. Does this mean that Microsoft has finally gotten things right with Internet Explorer?
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Google fixes Gmail issues, provides explanation for the freak incident
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Remember the little freak accident caused by Google by some users woke up on Monday only to find their Gmail accounts emptied of all their messages? Well, it seems that Google has managed to identify the culprit responsible for the little incident, and has issued a statement describing what actually happened that day. On the plus side, the search giant has also assured users that no data was permanently wiped off the face of the virtual world.
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IT Show 2011 Promotions: Sony
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Sony will be at the IT Show 2011, which is happening from 10 to 13 March at the Suntec City Convention Centre. Here are some of their promotions at the Show.
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Intel Solid State Drive 320 Series to launch mid-April
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The Intel Solid State Drive 320 Series, codenamed 'Postville Refresh', is the long-awaited successor to the present mainstream X25-M. The new SSDs are set to launch in mid-April.
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Apple iPad 2 Rumour Roundup
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The moment we have been waiting for; in less than 24 hours to Apple's announcement of the highly-anticipated iPad, let's take a moment and look at what are some of the things we may expect of the upcoming iPad 2.
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The Daily VR-Zone News Summary - 01 Mar 2011
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In today's news roundup:
- Intel's unlocked i7-2600K processor gets reviewed;
- AMD claims that Intel's Thunderbolt is 'just another proprietary interface',
- Samsung is reportedly planning a Galaxy Tab 2 launch on March 22;
- Images of Apple's iPad 2 appears to have been leaked out before its official launch;
- Our sister site SGCafe has a quick hands on with the new Crysis 2 demo, and
- Thousands of PlayStation 3 consoles have been seized in the EU, ostensibly due to an ongoing dispute between LG and Sony over Blu-ray copyright infringement claims
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Cloud-based gaming technology Gaikai goes live
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Gaikai has gone live. For those who don't know what Gaikai is, it is a cloud-based gaming technology that is similar (and probably a competitor) to Onlive. Yes, you don't need to download or install any software to play games like Call of Duty or Mass Effect 2; simply play the game via your web browser.
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Gigabyte shows off early Z68 board at CeBIT
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Not to be out done by its competitors, Gigabyte was also showing off an early Z68 board prototype at CeBIT, although in this case it appears to be a much earlier sample than its competitors were displaying, at least judging by the blue PCB, black slots and grey heatsinks. Also on display was Gigabyte's P67X-UD4 board which is part of what appears to be a new sub family of boards from Gigabyte, as the P67A-UD4 is still around and was just re-launched with the B3 stepping chipset.
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HTC Incredible S lands in Singapore
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HTC has announced the Incredible S smartphone in Singapore, which will be available this coming weekend. The Android phone features the company's HTC Sense user interface and 8-megapixel camera with dual flash. More details inside.
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VR-Zone Giveaway #4 - Steelseries 4XB, 5XB and 4H headsets
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Follow 4 easy steps and stand a chance to win different prizes every week. This week..we are giving away:
SteelSeries 4XB, 5XB and 4H headsets
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http://launch.vr-zone.com and find out how you can win these prizes
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Now this is we would call a real 'suitcase PC'
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Have you ever experienced a need to pack your notebook into a suitcase, only to find out that it will not fit because of the lack of real estate needed to do so? Well, leave it to the Chinese to solve the little problem in what has got to be the most novel of ways. Now this is certainly a good example of thinking within the box, no?
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You can now pay your SIA flight tickets with Paypal
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From today, Singapore Airline customers from seven countries including Singapore and USA are able to purchase their flight tickets using Paypal. The service will also extend to 17 countries. Read on for the details.
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Adobe kicks off Acrobat X Wizard quiz
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Adobe's software is highly regarded by many professionals to be the de facto standard set of tools for churning out creative works in the media industry. Unfortunately, having the power of professional software at one's fingertips usually comes at a heavy price, literally. But if you want a chance to get your hand on some of Adobe's software without having to foot a single cent, why not give this little quiz of sorts from Adobe a go and see what prizes await you?
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Asus and MSI's Z68 boards unveiled at CeBIT
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The very first Z68 motherboards are starting to trickle out at CeBIT and the first two boards are from Asus and MSI. The models are the Asus P8PZ68-V Pro and the MSI Z68A-GD80, of which the MSI board appears to be the higher-end model. The selling point of both boards is that they overclock, but you can still make use of Intel's integrated graphics, something that might become appealing with a sprinkle of LucidLogix Virtu software.
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MAINGEAR unleashes TITAN 17 gaming laptop
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MAINGEAR, a popular PC manufacturer in USA, has announced their most powerful laptop. Dubbed the TITAN 17, this desktop replacement packs the high-end hardware components that offer superb performance to gamers and creative professionals.
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NVIDIA to make parallel programming easier with CUDA 4.0 Toolkit
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NVIDIA today announced the latest version of the NVIDIA® CUDA® Toolkit for developing parallel applications using NVIDIA GPUs. The NVIDIA CUDA 4.0 Toolkit was designed to make parallel programming easier, and enable more developers to port their applications to GPUs.
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Crysis 2 PC Multiplayer Demo Pictorial Review (56k warning!)
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World Exclusive screenshots of the demo coming out 1st March 2011!
Updated: 1st March 2011 2.30pm
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AMD Radeon HD 6990 Launch on 8th March
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Donaminhaber has leaked out the presentation slides on the upcoming AMD Radeon HD 6990 graphics card which is slated to launch on March 8th. AMD is touting it as the world's fastest graphics card as least till
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 comes along. The Antilles card comes with dual Cayman XT GPUs at 40nm process, 2 x 389mm
2 die size, 2 x 2.64B transistors, 3072 ALU, 192 TMUs, 64 ROPs, and 4GB of GDDR5 memory at 256-bit width and 5.0 Gbps data rate.
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Android 2.3 Gingerbread coming to Samsung Galaxy S
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Good news to those who are still using the Samsung Galaxy S. Even though the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S II Android smartphone was announced in February, the Korea manufacturer has not forgotten the loyal fans who are still using their flagship Galaxy S. And the company is bringing the Android 2.3 Gingerbread update to them.
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HTC confirms Gingerbread update for Incredible S and entire Desire smartphone lineup
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Do you happen to own a HTC-branded smartphone that runs off Google's Android operating system? Well, if your answer to that questions is 'yes', this might be just the news needed to kick off your Tuesday morning to a good start: the OEM has confirmed that at least four products in its Android lineup have been given the green light for getting Gingerbread by Q2.
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ASUS unveils WAVI Xtion motion-sensing PC experience at CeBIT 2011
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We're sure you've heard of Microsoft's Kinect for Xbox 360, a 'controller-free gaming and entertainment experience'. Well, here's something quite similar. Meet the ASUS WAVI Xtion, the world's first motion-sensing experience package for the PC!
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ASUS to showcase latest innovations at CeBIT 2011
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Echoing the CeBIT 2011 theme of 'Work and Life in the Cloud', ASUS will showcase four different tablet computers including the Eee Slate EP121 and Eee Pad MeMO, along with the latest motion-sensing technology called WAVI Xtion, the all-new AMD Brazos-packing K series notebooks and a wide range of gaming products designed for a superior gaming experience.
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The Daily VR-Zone News Summary - 28 Feb 2011
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In today's news roundup:
- AMD plans to showcase its Bulldozer microprocessors at the upcoming CeBIT trade show;
- MSI's P67A-GD65 motherboard gets reviewed;
- Google's Chrome browser is slowing starting to wrest control away from standalone software typically installed on a PC;
- A new version of Prime 95 has been released for hardware enthusiasts and overclockers to download and play around with, and
- Sony is starting to make more of Square's classic PS1 games available on its PlayStation Network
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Microsoft set to discontinue its SideWinder products
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VR-Zone can as first publication reveal that Microsoft has discontinued its range of SideWinder gaming products, for a second time. The first time was back in 2003, although the company re-launched its gaming brand in 2007 after some co-operation with Razer, although this time around it's not likely that we'll see a return of the SideWinder brand.
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Asus MeMic for the Eee Pad MeMO revealed
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With tablets being all the rage these days, one of the biggest problems is not connectivity, but rather making voice calls. No-one wants to hold a 7-inch+tablet to the side of their face, as it simply just makes you look stupid. Asus has come up with what looks like a very reasonable solution to the problem with its MeMic which is a Bluetooth “handset” that connects to its Eee Pad MeMO tablet and handles voice calls.
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Aircraft passengers treated to one of the best views of the Discovery shuttle launch
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During a flight from Orlando, lucky passengers on a jet had one of the best views of the Discovery's launch. Watch the video.
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Huawei asks for US governement to Investigate it
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The world's second largest supplier of communications infrastructure, Huawei, has had enough of being accused of being linked to Chinese intelligence services. It has just issued an open letter asking the US Government to vet its operations. Read On.
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Apple's iPad 2 to come in white?
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Forget about the white iPhone 4, the upcoming next-generation iPad 2 available in white too? I mean, the thought of it isn't as appealing as the iPhone, right?
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ECS Computer secures distribution rights for Dell and Lexmark products
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In today's local news, ECS has announced that it has signed an agreement with both Dell and Lexmark which will allow it to serve as a distribution partner for a wide range of products from the aforementioned companies.
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BlackBerry Torch 9800, now available in red and white
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Black has always been the standard color for BlackBerry mobile devices (well, it is Black-Berry, duh). But there are occasions whereby Research in Motion (RIM), the company who manufactures BlackBerry, come up with other colors like the white BlackBerry Bold 9700. Today, RIM has announced a red and white version for their BlackBerry Torch 9800.
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Rumor: Nikon D4 to get Light Peak/Thunderbolt?
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Apple was the first to get it, and the rest of the PC industry is expected to start mass adoption of the technology as soon as most OEMs successfully iron out any outstanding issues pertaining to the new standard. But it would seem that PCs are not the only devices which would play nice with Light Peak (aka Thunderbolt): rumour has it that Nikon's future DSLR might see the first such implementation of the new interface on a camera.
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Chinese OEM releases new tablet with ARM Cortex A9 processor
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With most of the tablets on the market still making use of the popular ARM Cortex A8 processor microarchitecture, it would seem like the A8 is safe from being rendered obsolete for at least another year. However, this does not mean that all OEMs are content with using the same technology as the competition: a Chinese OEM has just upped its game with a new tablet that sports the more recent ARM Cortex A9 processor.
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