Month: December 2011

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Following sources’ claims that Samsung Electronics and Sharp will manufacture chips and displays, respectively, for the so-called Apple “iTV,” others have suggested that Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC), Advanced Semiconductor…

A few weeks ago, we attended an event by Promise technology, showing off it’s Thunderbolt NAS devices. As Apple is the only company that builds Thunderbolt capable notebooks, PC which…

PRADA PHONE BY LG 3.0 BEGINS WORLDWIDE ROLLOUT Much Awaited Designer Smartphone Arrives in South Korea Today, Europe and Asia in January Seoul, 28 December 2011: LG Electronics (LG) made…

More Chinese Entertainment Awaits on StarHub TV! StarHub and MediaCorp Jointly Launch 8 On-Demand Singapore, 22 December 2011 – TV viewers will soon be able to tune in to a…

AMD Tuesday announced it is extending its A-Series portfolio to include 13 new dual- and quad-core APUs (accelerated processing units) for desktops and notebooks. The expanded series will offer four…

Ice Cream Sandwich coming to 2011 Xperia™ smartphones from end March/early April 2012 Sony Ericsson confirms that the first 2011 Xperia™ smartphones will be upgraded to Android 4.0 starting from…

Tahiti core specifications: 1. Tahiti Radeon HD 7900 with two Geometry Engine (ACE), but under the jurisdiction of their 16 “GNC QUAD SIMD ”, also known as computational units, that…

LG AND INTEL SIGN STRATEGIC ALLIANCE FOR INTEL WIRELESS DISPLAY (WiDi) TECHNOLOGY LG and Intel Collaborate on Intel WiDi to Enhance Content Accessibility of CINEMA 3D Smart TVs SEOUL, Dec.…

According to a Citi analyst, Apple is prepping a next-generation iPad — likely called an iPad 3 — for a February release. Such a device would be similar to the…

First X79 Motherboard CertifiedIntel® XMP with DDR3 2400MHz Memory ASUS P9X79 DELUXE awarded Extreme MemoryProfile classification for exemplary RAM optimization, reliability, andproven overclocking potential Singapore (December 13, 2011) ― following…

DDR3 2400MHz 64GB is ready! G.Skill roles out the ultimate RipjawsZ DDR3 2400MHz 64GB(8GBx8) quad channel memory kit. Following the exciting announcement of its extreme RipjawsZ series quad channel DDR3…

Chip maker Intel said Monday its fourth-quarter revenue will be lower than expected due to hard disk drive supply shortages. Intel shares tumbled more than 3 percent after the company…

Huawei Singapore announced the availability of two new smartphones today – the Huawei Honor and the Huawei Vision. Huawei Honor The Huawei Honor (U8860) will be shipped with the latest…

MSI seems to be the only manufacturer to bundle in an overclocking guide with it’s package. This concise 6 pager is included on products MSI X79A-GD45 etc. Here is a…

MSI X79A-GD45 Intel X79 Mainboard Review Bluetooth 2 Dec 2011 The MSI X79A-GD45 is the first 4 models of Intel X79 Express chipset mainboard released by MSI in NOV 2011…

Corsair Announces Vengeance High-Performance Memory for Laptops – New 4GB and 8GB Vengeance® SODIMM kits are optimized to provide superior performance on notebooks which use the 2nd Generation Intel® Core™…

LG also pushes out firmware 7.10.7740.16 to fix email issue with Exchange 2003 and voicemail notification problem. It has been sometime LG has an update available for the Optimus 7.…

HTC pushes out firmware 7.10.7740.16 to fix email issue with Exchange 2003 and voicemail notification problem. If you own a HTC trophy 7, you should have received the notification to…

ASUS today held a press event in Taipei to launch the world’s first tablet featuring the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 quad-core processor – the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime. This is…