BlackBerry Bold 9790 review: Bold and the budget
Introduction Oh, look – it’s another BlackBerry Bold! But what is the catch? And where is the difference really? Sure it looks a bit smaller than the 9900 but it’s the same QWERTY / touchscreen combo. So far, so good. BlackBerry Bold 9790 official pictures Now, let’s play spot the difference.
First US CTO Aneesh Chopra resigns from post
The first US government chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra has announced he’s leaving the job. Chopra was hired by President Obama in April 2009 to concentrate on upgrading the nation’s technological infrastructure and to bring some much-needed IT savvy to the business of government. Previously Chopra had spent six years as Virginia’s secretary of technology. “Aneesh Chopra did groundbreaking work to bring our government into the 21st century,” stated President Obama in a statement.
Panasonic Let’s Note SX And NX Series
Panasonic has released two new 12.1-inch notebooks in the form of the SX and NX Series. Both models are equipped with an Intel Core i5 2450M CPU, a display with a 1280×800 pixel resolution, USB 3.0, WiFi abgn, WiMAX, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, an HDMI out and an optional 720p web camera.
Meet the GSMArena.com mobile version
Today is a special day because we launch our long-awaited mobile-tailored version of the GSMArena.com website. We’ve put a lot of effort in its design and we really hope you like it. Our main goal was to create a website that is simple to navigate through a mobile browser, while keeping as many of the features of the main site as possible. So no matter if you are browsing the site through your smartphone or your desktop computer – ...
Nikon compact, only $AU100k
We’re all familiar with the syndrome: someone forgets to fill in the price field in a database, and all of a sudden, an on-line store is offering products at zero dollars. The usual outcome is that a few users – or a few dozen – make the purchase, then angrily demand that the site honour the buys they made; the site will either do so and swallow the loss (if it’s massive enough), or not, and swallow the bad publicity. ...
Mellanox shrugs off Intel’s InfiniBand buy
Having purchased rival Voltaire, Mellanox Technologies has pretty much ruled the InfiniBand adapter and switching roost for the past several years. But this week Intel shelled out $125m to acquire the InfiniBand chip, adapter, and switch businesses from QLogic, and the huge question now is: what does this mean for Mellanox? Speaking in a conference call with Wall Street analysts to go over his company’s fourth quarter 2011 financial results, Mellanox president, CEO, and chairman Eyal Waldman shrugged off Intel’s ...
Panasonic Let’s Note B10 15.6-Inch Notebook
Panasonic is preparing to drop another 15.6-inch notebook in Japan called the Let’s Note B10. The system will feature a 15.6-inch 1920 x 1080 Full HD display, a 2.20GHz Intel Core i7-2675QM vPro processor, an Intel QM67 Express Chipset, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 640GB hard drive, a DVD Super Multi Drive and run on Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (SP1) OS.
Crucial m4 512GB
Today we are revisiting the Crucial m4 Solid-State Disk using the latest firmware, to see how it compares to the competition in terms of value and performance. This time we have the premium 512GB model on hand, so we are keen to see how half a terabyte of m4 handles itself… Today the Crucial m4 is even better as firmware updates have fine-tuned the performance, allowing it to better compete with the speedy SF-2281 drives. The 512GB version of the ...
Samsung I9103 Galaxy R review: Riding shotgun
Introduction The Samsung I9103 Galaxy R rode in on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform and became the first inexpensive dual-core smartphone from the South Korean company. With a bright SC-LCD screen and brushed metal back, the Galaxy R is just different enough from the Galaxy S lineup to stand on its own. Samsung I9103 Galaxy R official photos Samsung has so many variations of their models that sometimes it’s hard to state when one model starts and where another begins.
Two million-degree matter from SLAC laser
From “wow, that’s cold” we now get to meet a “wow, that’s hot” laser application, courtesy of the US Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory: its X-ray laser has created and probed matter as hot as the Sun’s corona. In a busy day at SLAC, the lab announced the creation of 2-million-degree Celsius matter, and also fired the LCLS at neon atoms to create the first “Atomic X-Ray laser”. One announcement covered the creation of a new kind of ...
