Intel quietly unveils its new 7-series motherboards
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With just over a week until the official launch of the Z77, H77 and B75 chipsets, Intel has posted details of its upcoming motherboards on its website. Generally Intel motherboards aren't all that much to get excited about, but the new Skulltrail board, known and the DZ77GA-70K looks better than what we've been used to see from Intel.
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ASMedia is aiming for Thunderbolt compatible solutions
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What can only be called a very recent addition in the world of peripheral IC makers, ASMedia has quickly made a name for itself, thanks to in to small part to its USB 3.0 host and device controllers as well as its SATA 6Gbps controllers. Now the company is said to be aiming to product solutions that are compatible with Intel's Thunderbolt standard.
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iRiver set to launch touch enabled B100 PMP
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By now the market for PMP's have to have shrunk to one that's barely worth making new products for, although a dedicated PMP still has one advantage over your average smartphone, battery life. iRiver is getting ready to unleash its B100 PMP upon the world come the 6
th of April and with 36h battery life for music playback and a touch screen interface, there might still be some takers.
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Most desktop Ivy Bridge systems won't support three displays
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Despite the fact that Intel has been banging its drums about support for up to three displays on the upcoming 7-series motherboards in combination with a shiny new Ivy Bridge based CPU, this isn't likely to be the case. The simple reason behind this is that very few, if any motherboards will sport a pair of DisplayPort connectors.
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Facebook working on social search engine to rival Google
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Facebook is secretly working on huge improvements to its as yet untapped search engine, with the project being spearheaded by a former Google engineer.
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Apple and Foxconn agree worker condition improvements
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Apple and Foxconn have agreed to improve working conditions in Chinese factories after an independent investigation found a number of labour law violations.
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BlackBerry maker RIM denies consumer market exit claims
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Research In Motion (RIM), maker of the BlackBerry smartphone range, has denied reports that it is abandoning the consumer market, accusing the media of blowing a quote out of proportion.
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HTC Asia launches One X in Singapore
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The HTC One X is one of the Android smartphones that was announced at the Mobile World Congress last month. And today, the phone has officially landed in Singapore.
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ViewSonic's ViewPad 10E hits FCC's database, coming to the U.S. soon
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Following availability in limited parts of the globe post its initial sighting at CES early into the new year, ViewSonic's VS14445 (also known as the ViewPad 10E) looks to be coming to the states soon with an entry appearing via the FCC's database that tends to indicate the item's presence on store shelves within a few weeks.
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RIM admits defeat in consumer smartphone space
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Canadian based BlackBerry maker Research in Motion (RIM) has just made a statement indicating that it will recede from most consumer markets due to Apple and Google dominating most of the market share - nothing unsurprising there. RIM has said that from here it will be focusing more so on what it believes to be its primary strength, security, which is of more significant importance to its business customers.
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Nokia to release two low-end MeeGo phones?
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The Nokia N9 was the first MeeGo phone to go to market last year. But after that, the Finnish company said that it would focus on Windows Phones. While Nokia had gone quiet for many months with regards to the development of new MeeGo devices, rumors had it that the manufacturer could be launching two low-end MeeGo phones.
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Intel's Haswell to push the desktop PC CPU packaging frontiers
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Got used to the simple packaging migration from LGA1156 to LGA1155? Intel's next generation - Haswell - is widely expected to up the ante in the PC CPU packaging excellence, and offer a spread of choices
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Qualcomm to open R&D centre in Singapore for IC design and engineering
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There’s no secret that Singapore is home to many chip design companies and now Qualcomm is looking to the small nation to be a base for a new IC design and Engineering R&D centre. The office would focus on CDMA technology, or what is commonly known as 3G.
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MediaTek combines 802.11ac and Bluetooth 4.0 into a single chip
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Taiwanese MediaTek might be famous for creating low-cost feature phone and entry level smartphone processors, but the company also manufactures a wide range of other chips. Last year MediaTek merged with Ralink and MediaTek’s new 802.11ac/Bluetooth 4.0 combo chip has most likely been born out of that merger.
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First Looks: ASRock Fatal1ty Z77 Professional
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ASRock, originally spun off from ASUSTeK almost a decade ago, has risen from its humble beginnings to become the 3rd largest motherboard vendor behind ASUS and GIGABYTE in terms of volume shipments. Their growth has been attributed to an aggressive pricing strategy coupled with feature-filled offerings to give them the competitive edge. With the recent acquisition of legendary overclocker Nick Shih to augment their R&D team, we can expect them to scale greater heights. Today we preview an impressive and well rounded board - their upcoming Fatal1ty Z77 Professional!
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A quick look and comparison of Intel's native USB 3.0 host controller
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If you're a regular VR-Zone reader you might remember our massive USB 3.0 host controller test that we did back in August last year. As the first of Intel's new 7-series motherboards are starting to appear, we thought we'd do a quick test of Intel's native USB 3.0 host controller and compare how it stacks up to some of the best discrete controllers.
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Amazon CEO to recover Apollo 11 rocket engines from ocean floor
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Amazon's CEO, Jeff Bezos, is leading an effort to recover the engines of the Apollo 11 space rocket from the darkest depths of the ocean's floor.
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Official "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo" DVD looks all "Piratey"
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While there is a battle raging over the shutdown of MegaUpload service and and an all-out attack on movie piracy, it is quite amusing to see a triple A title coming with an interesting tribute.
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Retailers won't stock PlayStation 4 games if Sony blocks used games
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Analysts believe that retailers will not stock PlayStation 4 games if Sony decides to block used games on the next-generation console.
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Download Wing Commander Saga Fan Project for Free
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Electronic Arts is infamous for killing franchises which have strong fan bases and caters to the mainstream crowd. As such, the publisher killed Wing Commander franchise. Now, 12 years later - fans released a free game based in the Wing Commander universe.
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Apple CEO visits Foxconn iPhone factory
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Apple's CEO, Tim Cook, has visited a controversial iPhone factory run by Foxconn in China, after allegations of, and investigations into, poor working conditions.
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Huawei goes beyond 4G (on air) and 40GE (on cables) speeds, and gets into H. ...
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Talking about Huawei, there's even more it it... pushing aside the US and Australian government-induced obstacles, the giant firm is getting along with some really forward technologies.
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Details and release date emerge on Call of Duty Black Ops 2
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Some details have leaked out on Treyarch's upcoming sequel to Call of Duty Black Ops giving us a supposed launch date and some juicy info on a new game mode and more.
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ASUS unveils AMD powered U82U 14-inch Ultra Thin Laptop
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ASUS is preparing a new "Ultra Thin" notebook for market which would have otherwise been referred to as an ultrabook if not for the AMD powered internals. The upcoming U82U uses AMD's E-450 APU comprising two Bobcat cores running at 1.65GHz and Radeon HD 6320 graphics.
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Opera's Mini 7 browser for Android boosts performance
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Opera has just released its latest version of Opera Mini for Android devices onto the Android Market as well as its own mobile website. The Opera Mini 7 web browser brings significantly improved hardware acceleration resulting in faster overall browsing performance and smoother panning.
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Firmware update for Seagate GoFlex Satellite brings new features including improved battery life
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Owners of the Seagate GoFlex Satellite mobile wireless storage device can now enjoy additional features including access to other Wi-Fi network while connected to the device, as well as improved battery life. Details inside.
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