Archive | January, 2012

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Lenovo IdeaPad Y470p Laptop Strikes with Radeon HD 7690M GPU for $799

Posted on 30 January 2012 by Barbara

Lenovo the Chinese Multinational Company has finally stepped up by gently orders for the IdeaPad Y470p, a higher-end sibling to its Y470 laptop that strikes with some more improved graphics armaments at a reasonable price tag.

Lenovo IdeaPad Y470p laptop features a 14-inch display with 1366 x 768 display resolution , armed with NVIDIA’s low-end GeForce GT 520M video of the regular Y470 for a mid-range AMD Radeon HD 7690M. Further equipped with 2.2GHZ Core i7 processor, a 750GB hard drive, USB 3.0 input and 8GB of RAM.

The new Lenovo IdeaPad Y470p laptop weights under 4.9 pounds, while the Y470p is heavy relative to its screen size, although lighter than most full-size 15-inch systems. On the other hand, the new Lenovo IdeaPad Y470p laptop leads to a comparative hit on battery life.

Lenovo’s success in the market helps the latest IdeaPad laptop one of the less expensive gaming-friendly systems obtainable. According to the official reports from the Company, the new Lenovo IdeaPad Y470p laptop online orders have already started at they will hit the market at a price tag of $799.

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Lenovo ThinkPad X130e Hits Market – Targeted for Students

Posted on 27 January 2012 by Brian

"Lenovo ThinkPad X130e Hits Market"Here we go with a latest ThinkPad in the market, and this is from Lenovo’s family known as ThinkPad X130e that is striking the market by targeting the middle-range for students across the world. Lenovo is exclusively targeting the X130e for students in grades K-12, despite the fact that we are not sure what a Kindergartener is going to do with a laptop.

According to the official reports, the latest Lenovo ThinkPad X130e is armed with a new AMD or Intel processors with included graphics, and features an 11.6-inch HD LED display with 1366 x 768 pixel resolutions, and the Company boost that the entire thing is cosseted by a set of hardcore features that will maintain the unit out of physical harm’s method.

On the top cover of the ThinkPad X130e laptop there is a rubber bumper, a 33 percent increased strength set of corners over earlier models, incase the laptop is dropped on its side, and the strongest turning point the Company has on a laptop up till now with up to 30,000 cycles. Furthermore there is an as well reinforced and recessed port for USB and power action, which will decrease the amount of wear and tear and the bezel around the display, is 1.2mm thick. ThinkPad X130e laptop is packed under less than four pounds.

ThinkPad X130e laptop is armed with a powerful battery that last up to 8.5 hours, and will be running Windows 7 Professional, with 1-year warrantee. ThinkPad X130e laptop strikes the market in two different models, the first being the entry level model at a price tag of $429.00 and the second model with more high performance features an features an Intel Core i3-2367M processor hits the market at a price tag of $549.00.

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Nokia Q4 Earnings: Sells Over 1m Lumia Phones – Yet Makes $1.25bn Loss

Posted on 27 January 2012 by Elizabeth

"Nokia Q4 Earnings"Nokia the Finnish Multinational Communications Corporation has unveiled its fourth quarter 2011 financial results and the good news is Windows Phone sales, which Nokia claims that over 1 million Lumia devices to date has been sold and yet strong demand for the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 smartphones were not adequate to turn Nokia’s ailing earnings.

According to the official reports, in the fourth quarter 2011 the Finnish Multinational company has recorded a €954 million ($1.25bn) profit loss, counting the final 2011 count to a €1.073 billion ($1.4bn) loss, down 43-percent year-on-year.

Furthermore, the total sales of devices were decreased by 29-percent year-on-year, with smart smartphone shipments decreased to 19.6m units from 28.6m a year ago. On the other hand, Gross margin on smartphones as well dived from 28.7-percent to 19.9-percent, despite the fact that the Finnish company did at least restrain its smartphone expenses by over €150 million.

Sadly, on the side Symbian devices are facing issues of their own, with the rising markets that have earlier flocked to Nokia’s cheaper handsets currently looking somewhere else.

CEO of Nokia, Stephen Elop stated that the changing market circumstances are putting augmented pressure on Symbian, noting that in certain markets, there has been an acceleration of the projected trend towards lower-price tagged smartphones with specifications that are dissimilar from Symbian’s traditional strengths.

This indicates that Symbian demand will fade faster than Nokia initially expected, and the Nokia isn’t making any 2012 prophecy because of the unsteadiness of the market place. On the other hand, Nokia’s Lumia 900 smartphone is expected to land on AT&T in the US on March 18 at a price tag of $99.99 with new contract details, to face the challenge in the smartphone market.

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Apple Q1 Earnings: iPad Q1 Sales Exceeds HP PC Sales in Q1 2012

Posted on 25 January 2012 by Barbara

"Apple Q1 Earnings"Apple, the Cupertino California Giant has strike the world with its record breaking first quarter earnings that has increased more than 117 percent to $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share and these earnings can as well be known as Apple’s best quarter results in its history.

On the other hand, Apple’s fiscal Q1 earnings have rocked with the sales of its iPads and Macs by exceeding competitor’s sales of PCs. Q1 of 2012 iPad sales were 15.4 million units and outstandingly the sales of iPads has alone exceeded HP’s worldwide PC sales of 14.7 million, Lenovo’s 12.9 million and Dell’s 11.6 million units.

Eventually this is the first time that Apple has exceeded HP in both computer unit sales and revenues, resulting it the largest computer manufacturer. The Cupertino California Company as well isn’t fazed by the attack of cheaper tablets, like the Amazon Kindle Fire. Instead, Apple asserted that it would carry on innovating like crazy on the iPad that will persist to threaten PCs.

Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple says that Apple’s belief that tablets will one day overtake PCs, quoting IDC’s latest study that revealed strong momentum with tablet sales already outshining PC sales last quarter. Furthermore, he as well emphasized that though iPad sales were having negative impact on PCs that has not indulged Mac sales.

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Sony VAIO Notebooks Embedded on Verizon’s 4G LTE Network

Posted on 24 January 2012 by Brian

"Sony VAIO Notebooks Embedded on Verizon’s 4G LTE Network"Sony the Japanese Multinational Conglomerate Company strikes the electronic world once again with some of its new VAIO notebooks to work on Verizon’s 4G LTE Network.

According to the reports, in the first phase the 4G LTE facility will be landed in the VAIO Z series devices with numerous latest additions including the new Core i5 and Core i7 processors in accordance with the similar resolution.

Well, after the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show Sony has unveiled several updates to the present devices on its Notebook listings. Similar to the modifications introduced in VAIO Z series, VAIO S also will get updates. The update may possibly consist of latest processors and connectivity options.

On the other hand, together with Sony’s 13- inch devices, the 15-inchers as well get Radeon HD 6470M or 6630M graphics boosters for dedicated video, while the 15.5- inch laptop model gets 1080-pixel IPS display.

The reports from Sony note that the 13- inch and 15-inche models will strike the market in February at an estimated price tag of $800 and $980 respectively. Meanwhile, the VAIO C is targeted at those who value the beauty in the device. The 14- inch model together with the 15- inch will be hitting the market with Geometric Black or Kaleidoscope Pink that would grab anyone’s attention with the unique design assigned to it.

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Jailbreaking Tool for Apple iPhone 4S, iPad 2 Unveiled

Posted on 23 January 2012 by James

Here strikes an end to the long awaited untethered jailbreak for Apple’s iPhone 4S and for iPad 2. Almost a year after the Cupertino California Company has launched the A5 processor, ten months after the release of the iPad 2 and iPhone 4S release after 3 months, the extraordinarily talented hacking team at Chronic Dev have cracked the long awaited untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4S and the iPad 2.

Untethered jailbreak allows your devices to run code and applications that are not legal by Apple; this indicates that you can do many more things with your device than what it really offers. In simple, Untethered means that the device stays jailbroken even after it is reset.

The team at Chronic Dev has as well released the Windows version of the jailbreaking tool known as Greenpos0n Absinthe. Similar to Mac, the windows version is easy to use and offers you with an untethered jailbreak for your iPhone 4S and iPad 2 running versions of iOS 5 or 5.0.1.

Joshua Hill, the Team member noted that creating a jailbreak was not an easy task for the Chronic Dev Team. In the Twitter he tweeted that it received over 10 million crash reports in the week after releasing the tool last month, cheering the team to exploit the possibilities of finding out a tool for both A4 and A5 devices.

Further Hill added that the team turn out to be real serious on creating a jailbreak for A5 devices when Apple released the iPhone 4S, last October. Therefore, demand for an untethered A5 jailbreak grew exponentially overnight.

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Facebook Gaming Developer, Zynga Purchased 4 Mobile Gaming Companies

Posted on 20 January 2012 by James

"Facebook Gaming Developer, Zynga Purchased 4 Mobile Gaming Companies"Good news for the gaming lovers, as Zynga has now confirmed the purchased of 4 smaller mobile gaming companies, as the game maker strives to ramps up its foothold in the mobile space.

Zynga is one of the largest developers of Facebook gaming and as you are aware, Zynga games are provided on smartphones and on social networking sites. On Facebook Zynga was behind the crazy popular Farmville game.

Unfortunately, the information regarding the financial agreement to acquire the 4 smaller mobile games have not been disclosed by the two companies.

According to the official reports, the buys integrated Gamedoctors from Germany, where in Zynga makes a game known as ZombieSmash and was purchased in December. Another company acquired is Page44 Studios from San Francisco that made an iOS game known as World of Goo, this buy was made in September.

In August, HipLogic & Astro Ape Studios were purchased where in HipLogic is the third purchase that is based on San Francisco, while Astro Ape Studios in New York. The move is to support the smartphone gaming side of things. Zynga is famous in Facebook gaming despite the fact that it doesn’t have the similar notoriety and benefits in the mobile gaming monarchy.

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Amazon’s Kindle Fire Firmware Update to Version 6.6.2

Posted on 19 January 2012 by admin

"Amazon’s Kindle Fire Firmware Update to Version 6.6.2"Quite fascinatingly, here strikes another root-breaking firmware update and this time it’s from the folks over at Amazon on its fiercely popular Fire tablet, Kindle Fire.

According to the official reports, Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet Upgrading to version 6.6.2 will fetch a handful of small performance tweaks, bugs fixes and, most remarkably add a full-screen mode to the Kindle Fire’s Silk browser.

Soon after Amazon’s last Kindle Fire update, Justin Case made a fast work of grabbing the root access for the Kindle Fire once again by releasing BurritoRoot. Well, the fresh build of BurritoRoot 2 is a tool, which makes rooting the Fire fast and also easy. Unluckily, Amazon’s newest update keeps BurritoRoot from performing its job; however it seems to bring about no less than one useful change.

The merely visible enhancement is a full screen toggle button added to Amazon’s Silk browser. Amazon’s support documentation doesn’t consist of information about version 6.2.2 up till now.

The new code is being pushed out over-the-air and if you would like to manually grab the update it can be downloaded from Amazon Firmware Download, this download will be an file and this can be placed it in your Fire’s kindleupdates folder, and go to Settings > Device > Update your Kindle. That’s it!

Do share your views and comments on the new Kindle Fire firmware update 6.2.2.

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Samsung Series 7 Gaming Laptop Hits Market in 2D & 3D Models

Posted on 18 January 2012 by Barbara

"Samsung Series 7 Gaming Laptop"Well, last week at the Consumer Electronic Show 2012, Samsung has strike with its eye-catching Samsung’s ultrabook drive, and more importantly an attention-grabbing notebook, which we have missed.

The new eye-catching canary-yellow gaming notebook is known as the Samsung Series 7 Gaming Laptop, which spots its abilities on its brightly colored sleeve, running on a powerful Intel Core i7 quad core processor, equipped with up to 2TB of storage space and up to 16GB of memory.

Quite fascinatingly, the new Series 7 Gaming laptop as well features a 17.3-inch Full HD LED-backlit display and a backlit keyboard for especially late-night gaming sessions. According to the official reports from the South Korean electronic company it is readying both 2D and 3D models, and furthermore there will be both AMD and NVIDIA graphics options also.

Samsung Series 7 Gaming laptop is armed with a 5,900mAh battery, perhaps can’t be estimated to last all too long if we are grabbing the Series 7 laptop for gaming purposes, however the onboard optical drive and that expansive display indicates that it will almost certainly be a solid multimedia notebook also.

Samsung expects to land the Series 7 Gaming laptop 2D version and 3D version in Korea at a price tag of $2,228 and around $2,428 respectively. On the other hand, the US pricing has been tipped to be from $1,799.

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Samsung Galaxy Note Landing on Verizon as Galaxy Journal

Posted on 17 January 2012 by James

"Samsung Galaxy Note Smartphone"Samsung Galaxy Note, the version of its pen-enabled 5.3-inch Android smartphone equipped with 4G connectivity is going to land on Verizon and this time it is going to strike the market as Galaxy Journal.

Quite fascinatingly, this breaks the trend of AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile carriers in USA getting one Samsung product at the same time as Verizon is left out, or vice versa, initially the Galaxy Note first lands on AT&T, secondly then it will land on Verizon, then the other two main carriers very soon after.

With regard to Galaxy S II, the AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile carriers got the device whereas Verizon held back as of the device which strikes the market soon after, the Galaxy Nexus, and then Verizon got the temporary exclusive on.

Well, for the late winter it is considered Galaxy Note as to be the biggest smartphone release, Verizon carrier was leap to attempt to take a hunk, and we are happy of it, as this indicates developers will be more suitable to create additional ROMs for the device currently that will be on at least three different release venues, which being AT&T, Verizon, and its worldwide version. Currently we have to see if Verizon will unveil a special edition Verizon Red version for the masses.

Samsung Galaxy Note is powered by 1.4GHz dual-core processor and 720p HD display integrated with excellent multimedia and gaming device. Regarding the OS of Samsung Galaxy S Note it is expected that the smartphone will be running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update in the 1Q of 2012.

Do you think Samsung Galaxy Note smartphone is going to be as much of a hit in the United States as it has been abroad so far? I guess it will.

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