Friday, February 20, 2015

IT News Head Lines (VR-Zone) 2/21/2015

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Lenovo bets on quantity, eyes six smartphone launches at MWC 2015
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It’s a Vibe stampede, and there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. Even with the help of sister company Motorola, a reputable name on the Western mobile map, Lenovo, which is barely an esteemed smartphone producer in China, had no chance of standing out in Barcelona, opposite Samsung and HTC’s high-profile Galaxy S6 and One...

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Nvidia Tegra X1 chip smashes preliminary AnTuTu records, but will it matter?
Tegra X1
What good is the colossal performance advantage over the competition if no one seems interested in actually using the X1? There used to be a time, not long ago, when Nvidia mattered in the mobile processing landscape in addition to towering above rival PC GPU makers. Just take a look at the interminable lists of...

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Second-gen Pebble watch expected out next week with key hardware upgrades
Pebble Steel
Technically, it’d be the third member of the wearable family, but the Pebble Steel was more a rehash than a sequel. Many thought the OG Pebble lacked that certain je ne sais quoi to be remembered as anything other but an awkward pioneer. Yes, it was one of the first of its kind, possibly the...

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Intel Pentium N3700 Braswell CPU for desktops coming by Q2
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According to a report published on Fudzilla, Intel may be planning to release the desktop version of its Pentium N3700 CPU based on the new Braswell architecture by the second quarter. That’s actually one quarter earlier than the launch of the notebook version of the chip. The N3700 chip for desktops is built on a...

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XIGMATEK Dark Knight II CPU cooler goes official
Xigmatek
XIGMATEK has announced a new CPU cooler – Dark Knight II SD1483. The cooler comes with an aluminum fin-stack heatsink with ceramic coating on fins and heat pipes that helps increasing the surface area for heat dissipation. It utilizes XIGMATEK’s patented Heatpipe Ditect Touch technology and superior grade copper material heatpipes. The new CPU cooler...

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Sony unveils a $155 ‘Premium Sound’ microSD card for audiophiles
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After announcing the $1,200 High-Resolution Audio Walkman player at CES this year, Sony has launched yet another expensive product aimed at the audiophile market. This time, the company has launched a 64GB microSD card with the ‘Premium Sound’ moniker. So what does the ‘Premium Sound’ actually refer to? Basically, Sony claims that the new SR-64HXA...

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AMD Radeon 300 series to feature current GCN cores, Fiji the only new GPU
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According to a new report published by Sweclockers, most of the AMD Radeon 300 series GPUs will be making use of the current GCN cores that are based on the GCN 1.1 and 1.2 architecture. The only new chip in the Radeon 300 series lineup is believed to be the Fiji GPU, which is expected...

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