Saturday, June 25, 2011

IT News Head Lines (TechConnect Magazine) 25/06/2011

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Asus introduces the AMD Llano-supporting F1A75 Series motherboards
Asus today revealed its very first motherboards that support AMD's A-Series (codename Llano) APUs (accelerated processing units), the F1A75-V EVO and F1A75-V Pro. Both of these boards have an ATX form factor and are powered by the AMD A75 chipset.





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CPU-Z 1.58 released, brings AMD Llano and Zambezi support
CPU-Z, the well-known PC information tool has now received an update which enables it to recognize AMD's recently-released A-Series (codename Llano) APUs and the upcoming AMD FX-Series (Zambezi) CPUs.





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Micron reports Q3 FY2011 results, both revenue and profits slip
In the quarter ended June 2nd (the company's Q3 of fiscal year 2011), memory maker Micron Technology has recorded sales of $2.13 billion, down a bit both sequentially and on-year, and saw its net income reach $75 million (up over the $72m of Q2 but down from $939m of Q3 FY2010).





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Wortmann coming up with semi-rugged 10-inch convertible tablet PC
If everything goes as planned then early next month Germany's own Wortmann AG will roll out something called 'Terra Mobile Industry Pad', a convertible tablet PC based around Intel's Pine Trail platform which runs Microsoft's Windows 7 Professional (32bit).





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Samsung readies the Series 3 laptops, shows love to both Intel and AMD
A new line of sleek, brushed metal-y laptops is being prepared by Samsung and while it's not yet officially announced, it was spotted in New York this week. The new Samsung offering is known as Series 3 and includes models with 11.6-inch, 12.1-inch, 13.3-inch and 14-inch displays.





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Lacie CloudBox offers both local and online data backup
LaCie, the maker of some seriously sexy storage solutions, is set to supply those in need of higher-grade data backup a device called CloudBox which will be able to keep data both locally, on an internal drive and online, on some cloudy servers.





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Microsoft Hotmail gets faster, borrows some Outlook features
Microsoft has recently began the roll out of an update for its free email service (Hotmail) which is claimed to allow for greater performance (through the use of HTML5 goodies) and for greater functionality.





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Apple delivers Mac OS X 10.6.8 update
Apple's snowy feline-flavored operating system, Mac OS X 10.6, has now received a new update which is supposed to increase stability, compatibility, and security.





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Techconnect Review Round-up 23/6/11
Today's review round-up...





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Archos G9 tablets unveiled, have dual-core 1.5 GHz chips, run Android 3.1
Beside offering a killah deal with the $99 (Android 2.2-running) Arnova 7 (covered yesterday), Archos is also set to deliver a more serious tablet experience when it releases the G9 series models, 8-inch and 10.1-inch devices powered by Android 3.1 (Honeycomb).





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