Sapphire announces Intel motherboards
Sapphire has officially announced its engagement in the Intel based motherboard market: the Pure Black X58 and the Pure Black P67 Hydra are the first two motherboards that Sapphire is going to launch for Intel platforms. The Pure Black X58 is based on Intel's X58 chipset, supports Intel's LGA1366 processor and features quality build and design with solid state capacitors as well as Sapphire's patented Diamond Black chokes, which should ensure that this enthusiast grade product handles some serious overclocking. It also features six DDR3 memory slots, two SATA 6.0Gbps and five SATA 3.0Gbps ports, three PCI-Express x16 2.0 slots running at x16/x8/x8 mode, USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit LAN, eSATA port, Bluetooth 2.1, FireWire and integrated 7.1-channel audio. In order to keep the overclockers happy, Sapphire included a debug LED, voltage measure points and Power/Reset/Clear CMOS buttons as well.
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Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc in details
Sony Ericsson revealed detailed information about the Xperia Arc smartphone, introduced at CES last week. A video which you can view here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFldMC_2dgI) talks about the features of the handset and confirms that the handset runs a 1GHz MSM8255 CPU (second-generation Snapdragon) and an Adreno 205 GPU that debuted in the HTC Desire HD. The author of the video cautions that the software is still in an early stage of development and will be changed before the handset is launched.
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Samsung Galaxy S2 image leaked
Samsung's successor to the Galaxy S handset, said to be named the Galaxy S2, has allegedly surface in leaked renderings. The images posted on the Korean newspaper ETnews, show a 4.3-inch display that reportedly uses the same Super AMOLED Plus technology as the company's Infuse 4G handset, which made its formal debut last week at CES.
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Google to drop support for H.264 in Chrome
After originally pledging to support both H.264 and WebM content, Google has decided it will ditch the H.264 video codec from Chrome and go with its WebM format instead. H.264 video is widely used, currently being the de facto industry standard for encoding digital video. It is used with Blu-ray disc and is supported by a wide variety of consumer electronics devices. However, H.264 technology is patented and adopters pay royalties to the MPEG-LA group.
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Nokia N8: Something Completely Different
A strong marketing campaign can make any product sell well, iPhone being the best example thereof. Once it’s started to lose ground, Nokia has opted for this trick as well - it was very clear already a few months before the presentation of 5800XM, the phone that was supposed to present the new S60v5 platform, but with an unlucky mutant of an OS. The general impression was that Nokia had been forced into the touchscreen smartphone arena screaming and wiggling. 5800XM was touted as “the Apple-eater”, although it was factually quite a bit behind the competition, both software- and hardware-wise.
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VLC returns to Apple iOS devices, unofficially
Apple had pulled the popular VLC media player application from the iOS App Store, following an argument over the GPL with VLC developer Rémi Denis-Courmont. Denis-Courmont had filed a lawsuit against Apple in late 2010. Under a standard GNU General Public License (GPL), VLC is available for Macs, Windows and Linux machines for free, and while it was free for iOS, the open-source nature of the application was compromised by Apple, since all apps in the iOS App Store must be signed by Apple and given DRM.
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NVIDIA signs cross-license agreement with Intel
NVIDIA and Intel announced the signing of a six-year cross-license deal that will provide the latter with access to NVIDIA's patent portfolio in exchange for $1.5 billion payable in five yearly installments starting January 18. The agreement inked also allows NVIDIA to use multiple Intel patents, excluding those of proprietary processors, flash memory and certain chipsets for the Intel platform. As part of their agreement, the companies are also dropping the lawsuits filed in the US.
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CES 2011: Custom Cooled GTX 570, GTX 560 in the Making
Palit’s video cards weren’t available in the US market during last year, but that’s changed now and want to make some noise: custom cooling and non-referent design were their trademark, often allowing VGA boards to be clocked very high and run more silent comparing to their referent counterparts. That didn’t change as the central product in presentation suite was a new Mercury Design GTX 570 Sonic Platinum Edition card with a base clock frequency of 800MHz, which is a 68MHz increase over the stock frequency of 732MHz. Cooling system is also upgraded with heat-pipe solution and two fans.
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CES 2011: Viewsonic Has a Tablet, not a Phone
Contrary to last year, when they had a presentation in the hotel suit, Viewsonic this year moved to show floor. They weren’t shy: big booth and human finches around, all with a good reason. There were numerous new products on display, and first to got our attention was their first 27’’, 1ms, full HD LED VX2739wm monitor. Impressive picture, we must say.
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Office 2010 fastest-selling consumer Office yet
Six months have passed since Office 2010's launch and Microsoft has began bragging about the software's success, calling it the fastest-selling consumer version of Office in history . According to the Redmond company, on average one Office 2010 license was sold every second since release. Moreover, in the last 6 months, the Office Web Apps were used by more than 30 million people for their document needs.
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