Liveblog : Samsung Galaxy S3 Launch Buzz

Liveblog : Samsung Galaxy S3 Launch Buzz:
ITProPortal.com will be live-blogging the launch of the Samsung Galaxy S3 from London, covering the buzz happening over the next 72 hours and the launch on Thursday 3rd at 1800 UK time. After the event, we will publish a number of pieces from our main on the ground, Rob Kerr as well as our team o

Eurocom Unveils Netbook-sized Ivybridge Workstation

Eurocom Unveils Netbook-sized Ivybridge Workstation:
Laptop specialist Eurocom has unveiled a laptop that looks like a netbook but packs enough punch to make it competitive with much bigger desktop replacement workstations.

Samsung Galaxy S III to be used as the base for Samsung's first Windows Phone 8 device?

Samsung Galaxy S III to be used as the base for Samsung's first Windows Phone 8 device?: The Samsung Galaxy S III is circulating the rumor mill at a rate almost surpassing the iPhone, but one recent rumor that seems to make sense is that the S III could be used a hardware and design reference…

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 twin-Kepler official

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 twin-Kepler official:
NVIDIA has launched its latest graphics card, the GeForce GTX 690, with twin Kepler cores making it the world’s fastest, at least for the moment. The GPU company hasn’t wasted the opportunity to make the GeForce GTX 690 look the part, either, with superlatives galore: a trivalent chromium-plated aluminum frame, thixomolded magnesium alloy fan housing, and dual vapor chambers with a nickel-plated finstack.


If you’ve not been keeping up with your Journal of Exotic Materials subscription, all you really need to know is that NVIDIA says the GeForce GTX 690 runs faster and cooler than you’d expect from a twin-GPU behemoth. Inside there are 3,072 CUDA cores, capable of almost double the frame rates of the single-GPU GTX 680, while simultaneously being more power efficient and quieter than a twin GTX 680 NVIDIA SLI setup.

There’s NVIDIA Surround support, and a new 10-phase, heavy-duty power supply with a 10-layer, 2oz copper printed circuit board and a center-mounted axial fan with optimized fin pitch and air entry angles. Finally, the company has used low-profile components along with ducted baseplate channels “for unobstructed airflow, minimizing turbulence and improving acoustic quality.”
All of the usual suspects have jumped on board to offer the dual-GPU card, with limited availability from May 3, and then broader sales from May 7. NVIDIA expects the GeForce GTX 690 to be priced at around $999.








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Ivy Bridge desktop CPUs on sale online, discounts already available

Ivy Bridge desktop CPUs on sale online, discounts already available:






Intel’s next-generation Ivy Bridge processors for desktops are now available to order online in the US at Amazon, Newegg, and NCIX. Also, if you live near a Microcenter, the brick-and-mortar stores are offering great deals on the CPUs. For example, the 3.5GHz Core i7 3770K is going for $289.99 — $70 below the MSRP of $359.99.
The Ivy Bridge chips feature a new Tri-Gate 3D design that adds vertical silicon fins in order to increase performance and reduce energy leakage; allowing the maximum amount of current to flow through a transistor when its gate is "on," and as little as possible when it's "off." If you’ve been waiting to take advantage of the processing power and efficiency bump from Intel’s new 22-naonmeter CPUs in your...
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Samsung upgrades Series 7 models with Ivy Bridge processor in South Korea

Samsung upgrades Series 7 models with Ivy Bridge processor in South Korea:




Samsung has announced upgraded models for its Series 7 notebooks in South Korea. The Series 7 Gamer and Series 7 Chronos edition notebooks now feature Intel’s 3rd Generation (Ivy Bridge) Core i7 processor as well as a one terabyte hard disk and Nvidia GeForce GPU (GTX 675M in Gamer and GT 640M in Chronos) that claims to improve graphics performance by 50 percent.
Additionally, both have 8GB of DDR3 RAM, Windows 7 OS, SuperBright LED backlit display and DVD drive.

Was RIM/Blackberry Behind The Australian “Wake Up” Protest?

Was RIM/Blackberry Behind The Australian “Wake Up” Protest?:
Last week we reported on a mysterious flash mob protest at an Apple store in Australia. With the flash mob participants all wearing black, and black buses and signs that said “wake up” people immediately looked to Samsung. We even ran this story over the weekend stating that Samsung denied any involvement in the mock protest.
Now we are hearing suggestions that RIM/Blackberry may be the culprit and not Samsung. It’s not hard to imagine that RIM/Blackberry would know that Samsung would be the scapegoat anyway. Samsung spent the entire fourth quarter of 2011 poking fun at Apple via their “Next Big Thing” campaign which even earned them a national advertising award.
In their latest marketing efforts they poked fun at Apple fans again by equating them to sheep in a teaser for the Galaxy S III. Although they haven’t had a hit smartphone in a while, we’re pretty confident that RIM/Blackberry is well aware of Samsung’s marketing tactics.
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So MacWorld did some digging into the protest campaign. The first thing they found was some source code embedded in a double-click source identifier src= 2215527, type= black 822. They reported that when you Google those numbers they point back to the official Blackberry Australia website. Hmmmm.
The second clue is that the blogger/journalist “Blunty” who posted the video that’s been circulating around the internet about the protest itself has ties to Blackberry. In fact, it’s been reported that Blunty actually worked for Blackberry.
Now here’s another rub on Blunty, in the video he states that Apple had asked him to leave the store while he was shooting video, but before he left the store he got some great shots, including a second floor shot that lasted more than 30 seconds of the protestors outside. It seems kind of suspect that he was there at the right time. He very well could have been but with being a former Blackberry employee it looks more like he was part of the event itself. The language in the video sounds a bit staged as well, but most of us brushed it off as him being Australian.
So why would RIM/Blackberry even do this? Well the Blackberry World Conference actually starts on Tuesday so it’s definitely great timing. While Blackberry doesn’t have any hot new products out right now we are expecting a re-up of the Blackberry Playbook, a 4G/LTE Blackberry Playbook and Blackberry 10 devices to be at least announced at the conference.
As phonearena suggests if it is a marketing campaign for Blackberry, they owe Samsung an apology.
Source: MacWorld via PhoneArena