IT-Code-News: IT News HeadLines (VR-Zone) 03/03/2011

The Daily VR-Zone News Summary - 03 Mar 2011
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In today's news roundup:

AMD has reportedly contracted Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) to manufacture its Hudson-series chipsets, which support the new Brazos platform;
Two of ECS's motherboards, the ECS H67H2-M Black Deluxe and the H57H-MUS, get reviewed;
Rumours about what users can expect in an upcoming 'iPad 3' have started circulating online;
Android pushes ahead of iOS and RIM to become the world's most widely used mobile operating system, and
Epic Games launches a free expansion pack for Infinity Blade while dropping off 50% of the game's retail price.

Sapphire's Z68 unveiled at CeBIT
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It's easy to forget that Sapphire is back in the motherboard business, as so far the company has only launched three boards, but at CeBIT Sapphire was showing off two additional models for Intel's Sandy Bridge platform, one full size ATX board with the Z68 chipset and one mini-ITX board with the H67 chipset. Neither board appeared to be retail ready, but we'd expect the mini-ITX board to be available before the Z68 board.

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LG launches Optimus 2X and Optimus Black Android smartphones
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This afternoon, LG Singapore held a media event to launch the highly anticipated Optimus 2X and Optimus Black Android smartphones. (Nope, no sign of Optimus 3D for this event). Both smartphones are going to be available soon.

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Budget Wireless-N Router Comparison: EnGenius ESR-9850 vs. TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND
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802.11n networking gears are now widely used since the approval of IEEE 802.11n standards in October 2009. 802.11n offers wireless speeds of up to 300Mbps as compared to 802.11a/g which is only up to 54Mbps.
Right now, Wireless-N routers can be found at less than 100 (Singapore) dollars, making it a good time for users to upgrade from their obsolete Wireless-G ones. In this shootout, we will compare two economically-priced Wireless-N routers, the TL-WR1043ND from TP-LINK and the ESR-9850 from EnGenius.

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MSI releases R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition
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MSI has launched the R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition graphics card, featuring AMD's Radeon HD 6950 GPU. The new R6950 features MSI's latest Twin Frozr III dual fan thermal solution, 6+2 phase power delivery and triple over-voltage support for extreme overclocking.

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An iPad 2, you say? Well, China got the real deal two days ago!
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So Apple has unveiled their new iPad 2 tablet to loads of fanfare from the Apple faithful. That is fine, but it would seem that all the hype that arose from the tablet's veil of secrecy never made it into China intact. Apparently, a Chinese IT website known as DGtle had managed to get their hands on the real deal as early as two days ago, and even has the photographic evidence to back up its claims. But is that iPad 2 in its article really the actual iPad 2 that was released this morning?

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IT Show 2011 Promotions: Lexmark
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Are you in need of a new printer? Well, Lexmark will be one of the companies taking part in this year's IT Show, and you can be sure that they will have some cool products up their sleeve to offer consumers. Let's take a look at what they have.
Lexmark's booth will be located at Level 6, Hall 601, Booth No. 6137, so be sure to look out for it.

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Apple's iPad 2 Media Event streaming video now available
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For those who want to see how Steve Jobs wow the audience with the announcement of iPad 2 and more, now you can. Apple has just posted the QuickTime video for the iPad 2 keynote address that happened earlier.

IT SHOW 2011 Lucky Draw
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Read more to find out how you can win up in $20,000 in cash!

IT Show 2011 Promotions: Microsoft
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As always, Microsoft will be making an appearance in this year's IT Show, which will take place at the Suntec City Convention Centre from 10 to 13 March. So what does the Redmond giant have in store for bargain hunters this year? Let's take a look.

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HP Palm TouchPad and BlackBerry PlayBook share similar user interface
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HP Palm TouchPad was announced at the recent "A New HP World" event in Shanghai, and with Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook launching next month, it seems that both tablet devices have some things in common.

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IT Show 2011 Promotions: ASUS
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Aside from attractive discounts and promotions, ASUS will also be launching some new products at next week's IT Show 2011 at Suntec City Convention Centre. Read on for the various star products that will be sold at their booth.
Booth Location (Level, Booth Number)
Level 4, Hall 402 & 403, Booth 8220 (ASUS)

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A4Tech New Products at IT SHOW 2011
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1. A4Tech G10-660L World 1st MeetingMan Presenter's Mouse

2. A4TECH KL-126 Gaming LED Backlight Keyboard

3. A4TECH GL-5300 G7 No Any Lag Mini Wireless Desktop

iPad 2 hands-on
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While it's all impressive on paper, how does the iPad 2 really performs and how does it feel? Well, here's a quick hands-on review.

iOS 4.3 to launch on March 11th
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Apple will be pushing out their latest version of their mobile operating system on March 11th, along with some new features.

Apple slash first-generation iPad prices
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Apple has slash their prices of their previous generation tablet since the introduction of iPad 2 and prices of iPad have dropped by more than S$200 for some models.

Apple's March 2nd media event Roundup
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So what will Apple be surprising us in this special media event? Well, we have took the liberty of summarising what has happened at Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco for your reading pleasure.

Apple launches the iPad 2
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Apple has announced its iPad 2 and overall it's upgrades all around with a new dual core A5 processors, much faster graphics, lower weight, slimmer profile and of course the much wanted cameras. That's pretty much what everyone was hoping for and Apple has left out surprisingly little for an iPad 3 upgrade, but we're sure they'll figure something out to attract people's attention next year.

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Apple Online Store down ahead of iPad media event
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With just a few hours to go to Apple's media event, the Cupertino-based tech giant has taken its online stores around the world offline, including here in Singapore.

Asus and MSI displays mini-ITX H61 boards at CeBIT
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We should soon be seeing some much more affordable mini-ITX boards for Intel's second generation of Core i processors and both Asus and MSI has shown off new models based on the new H61 budget chipset for the platform. The two boards are quite different in terms of what they offer though and we're pretty sure that these are only two of the first boards of many to come.

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ASRock also shows off Z68 board at CeBIT
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ASRock decided to show off its Z68 board as CeBIT too and it actually looks like one of the better boards that have been shown so far. We're not entirely sold on the colour scheme, but that's really a minor issue considering that ASRock appears to have loaded up the Z68 Extreme4 with pretty much every feature you could need or want.

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How to turn your iPhone 4 transparent
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Still remember a while back we ran an article on how a guy in Hong Kong managed to strip his iPhone 4's front and back panel and made them transparent? Well, there's now a simpler (yet somewhat complicated) way of achieving that jaw-dropping transparent panel.

Friday, March 4, 2011

IT News HeadLines (VR-Zone) 03/03/2011

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