Motorola MOTOACTV now officially available in Canada for $250

 

By Chris Parsons   13 Mar 2012

Although you could have picked it up from a few online retailers previously, the Motorola  MOTOACTV has now officially been released in Canada. The Android-based fitness tracker that has seen a few large updates since it's general release will be sold at select Running Room locations across Canada as well as online at thesource.ca with a MRSP of $249.99 (8GB) including a watch strap. Looking to learn more? You can check our full review here.

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PlayStation Store and games now available on Sony Xperia S

By Alex Dobie   13 Mar 2012

For whatever reason, Sony wasn't able to finish up PlayStation support for the Xperia S before the phone hit store shelves in Europe. Today, though, that placeholder link in the Xperia S app drawer now loads a web page where the PlayStation Store and PS Pocket app can be downloaded. The same goes for the Xperia S's Japanese counterpart, the Acro HD, which launched in late February.

To get your fill of classic 32-bit titles, you'll first need to enable non-Market applications in Settings > Applications, then run "Let's start PS store" in the app tray. Next, download the two apps, which in turn will let you buy and play games. We're seeing around a dozen titles available on our review unit, though some of those are still only playable on the Xperia Play. And it should be noted that you'll need a PlayStation Network or Sony Entertainment Network account to access Sony's mobile gaming catalog.

The manufacturer plans to bring PS certification to all its 2012 phones, including the Xperia P, U, Ion and the recently-announced Xperia Sola.

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Google Play Store updated, new tabbed My Apps UI and app review features

By Richard Devine   16 Mar 2012

An update is beginning to push out to the Android Market Google Play Store bumping it to build number 3.5.15. With it comes a change in the UI to the "My Apps" area, and some handy new features built into application reviews that bring it more into line with the desktop version. For us outside North America we also seem to have been renamed from "Play Shop" to the much better sounding "Play Store."
The change to the "My Apps" area is the most obvious change brought with this latest update. Gone is the single -- and incredibly long in some cases -- list of old, and in comes a new tabbed interface in the same vein as the main store.  The installed tab is now split into two parts, the updates still showing at the top but the remainder are now labelled as "up to date" below.

EA Sports launches FIFA 12 and NBA Jam on Google Play

 

By Alex Dobie   15 Mar 2012

EA Sports has released two long-awaited titles on Google Play in Europe and North America today -- FIFA (Soccer) 12 and NBA Jam.

FIFA 12 is the latest in the long-running soccer football franchise, and launched on games consoles and iOS last October. The Android version originally launched exclusively on the Xperia Play last December, carrying Sony's "optimized for Xperia Play" branding. Now EA's opened things up to anyone with $5 (£4.15 in the UK) to spare and an Android 2.1+ device.

Likewise, NBA Jam is another classic franchise which has finally made its way across to Google's app store. EA promises arcade basketball action featuring all 30 NBA teams, including head-to-head multiplayer over Wifi or Bluetooth. NBA Jam is priced at $5 in North America, or £3 in Europe.

We've got Google Play links for both titles after the break.

​FIFA Soccer 12

• North American Google Play link
• European Google Play link

NBA Jam

• North American Google Play link
• European Google Play link

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Samsung Galaxy Note now available on Three UK B

By Richard Devine   16 Mar 2012

It has been a bit of a wait, but as of today the Samsung Galaxy Note is available to Three UK customers. 

The international version of the Galaxy Note has been available since November, and Three's customers have had to be patient. Initially, the white version is on sale, and can be had both on contract and on pay as you go. 

On contract, the Galaxy Note is available from free and for no more than £38 a month. Three's top tier plans include all-you-can-eat data on their HSPA+ network, which is a tantalizing prospect when coupled with a device like this. On Pay As You Go, the Galaxy Note will run you for £499.

The Note is available now online and in all Three retail stores. If you're still undecided, don't forget to check out our full review of the International version.

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UK retailer slashes Sony Tablet S price

By Alex Dobie   16 Mar 2012

There's no doubt that today is iPad day, but if you're looking for an Android tablet, you could do worse than Sony's Tablet S, with its quirky "folded magazine" design. Today UK retailers Currys, PC World and Dixons -- all part of the Dixons Stores Group -- have cut the Tablet S's price by £100, knocking it down to £299. The new price puts it in line with competing 2011 tablets like the Motorola Xoom and Galaxy Tab 10.1. In addition, Currys promises a £10 voucher to anyone buying the Tablet S online.

The Tablet S, which launched late last year, was Sony's first foray into the world of Android tablets. It's powered by the standard NVIDIA Tegra 2 CPU, with 1GB of RAM and a lightly-skinned Android 3.2 Honeycomb on the software side, with an update to Ice Cream Sandwich promised in the near future. Sony's software suite includes all the proprietary stuff you'd expect -- Music and Video Unlimited, along with PlayStation certification for gamers. The main thing setting it apart from other tablets, though, is that wedge-shaped chassis, which is designed to make it easier to hold in one hand.

Elsewhere on the web, Sony Tablet S prices still hover around £350-375 (~$550-590). Given that today's iPad 3 new iPad launch pushes the iPad 2 down to £320 in most stores, we'd expect to see last year's Android tablets priced further below this mark in the months ahead.

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Nexus S ICS updates reportedly restarting in 'a few weeks'

By Alex Dobie   16 Mar 2012

 

Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich was briefly pushed to the Nexus S last December, before being pulled due to battery life issues on some handsets. Now reports suggest that the official resumption of over-the-air updates to ICS may be just a few weeks away, and that the Nexus S 4G will finally see the latest version of Android, too.

Engadget​ reports via "trusted sources" that the Nexus S and Sprint Nexus S 4G will both receive fresh updates to ICS in "the next few weeks." It's been a long wait for Nexus S 4G users in particular, who've yet to see anything official besides a leaked 4.0.4 build.

If you'd rather not wait a few weeks to get Ice Cream Sandwich on your Nexus S, you can check out our guide to manually installing the update. And like we said, there's always that leaked build for the Nexus S 4G -- though you'll have to muddle through with the same radio issues that affected Gingerbread on some 

devices.

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Sidekick line will continue after Sidekick 4G, says T-Mobile

Just under a year after it revived the Sidekick line with the Samsung-manufactured Sidekick 4G, T-Mobile is discontinuing the device to make way for newer, shinier things. However, fans of the Sidekick brand and form factor need not fear, as Tmo plans to continue the Sidekick series in the future. In a statement sent to ​The Verge​, the carrier says, "while the T-Mobile Sidekick 4G is being retired, it doesn’t mean we are discontinuing the T-Mobile Sidekick line."

When we reviewed the Sidekick 4G last year, we found it to be a decent mid-range handset with some useful software features, and a unique UI. There's definitely plenty to build on in a future device.

The mobile phone market is increasingly dominated by large touchscreen slabs, with fewer and fewer QWERTY devices available. T-Mobile has remained supportive of keyboard-based sliders, though, with its G2 and myTouch series, so it's only natural that it'd want to keep the Sidekick brand alive, too.

Anyone out there looking forward to a newer, sleeker Sidekick with higher-end specs? Let us know how you'd like to see the Sidekick series continued in the comments!

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Business Plan Competition

Business Plan Competition BEM STMIK AMIKOM 2012 Yogyakarta is one of a series of "IT Conference and the National Technopreneur (KITENAS) BEM STMIK AMIKOM YOGYAKARTA" This is a netting activities and assessment of the best business ideas, especially in the field of IT (Technopreneur) is planned in a thorough business plan and implementation. In this race, BEM STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta provide cash awards to the winners who are expected to support the initial capital in creating a business plan that had been developed into a real business.

To download forms and guidebooks Business Plan click here:

To Register online Type that: (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGF1QXlRVzFjald2TWlPcjVLWFA4SFE6MQ)



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Recruitment Student Staff Laboratorium Stmik Amikom Yogyakarta

Variable tuition payment schedule Semester TA 2011/Dalam order to give students experience in dealing with the world of work, then LABORATORY STMIK AMIKOM YOGYAKARTA STMIK opportunity for students to become student AMIKOM YOGYAKARTA staff with the following qualifications:

Variable tuition payment schedule Semester FY 2011/2012

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Made to the whole student STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta, to expedite the payment process SPP VARIABLES semester 2011/2012, the payment schedule is divided as follows:

Launching GANA 2012

Gana (Movement Anti-Drug AMIKOM) is a tangible manifestation of the attitude of the academic community STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta in circulation and the fight against drug abuse is represented by an organization engaged in the campaign, socialization. Coinciding with the Seminar on Cyber ​​Crime and Drug Amikom Space Image 1 (9/3) Gana newly appointed board.

Ma Chung University visit to Amikom

 

Ma Chung University visit to AmikomMarch 9, 2012. Posted by publicistTuesday, March 6, 2012, STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta had a visit from Ma Chung University.

Healthy Together in Gymnastics Amikom Sunday Morning Market

Campus Entrepreneur Yogyakarta STMIK AMIKOM plans to hold the market together gymnastics amikom week. Public health exercise was held on 11 March 2012 is mengembil place in the west parking area AMIKOM. The event is planned to invite employees, lecturers, students, activists and community organizations.

Public health gymnastics event aims to strengthen the relationship between academia AMIKOM entire community. The event will be packed nicely by bringing in instructors from the faculty of sports science, State University of Yogyakarta. In addition, there will be division free soy milk. Gymnastics will be held at 6:25 pm which will be surrounded by young entrepreneurs and SMEs AMIKOM that stand in the open market AMIKOM week, so participants calisthenics can shop after the exercise is complete.

Health exercise held in conjunction with the market this week is expected to be AMIKOM first step towards a healthy life, the more viscous relationship with the community and encourage entrepreneurship.http://www.amikom.ac.id/index.php/main/berita/sehat-bersama-di-senam-pagi-pasar-minggu-amikom

Seminar on Cyber ​​Crime and Drug STMIK AMIKOM

Friday (9/3) STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta held a seminar Cyber ​​Crime and Drug. The event took place in Room Image 1 by inviting speakers from Yogyakarta police. This seminar was held in an attempt to introduce on Cyber ​​Crime Drug and students.

Mugen releases 4000mAh battery pack for Galaxy Nexus

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Modern smartphones are often plagued by less than stellar battery performance, which sometimes makes a full day usage of the device impossible. The core of this problem lies in the fact that battery technology is still lagging behind the evolution of other smartphone internal components, such as the display, processor, or graphics chip.

Instagram For Android To Be Launched ‘Very Soon’

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Mihai Andrici on Mar 12, 2012

Instagram, the insanely popular photo filtering & sharing app designated by Apple as the “iOS App of the year 2011” will soon also be available on Android smartphones, according to an announcement made at South by Southwest on Sunday by Instagram Co-Founder Kevin Systrom.

Which is the most hungry ROM? Samsung Galaxy Nexus custom ROM battery usage test

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by Mihai Andrici on Mar 12, 2012

Ever wondered how well the custom Android ROMs for the Galaxy Nexus fare against each other when it comes to battery usage? 

Lumus OE-31 wearable display showcased on video, possibly hints to the upcoming Google Glasses

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by Bams Sadewo on Mar 12, 2012

Those who have an annual subscription to Popular Science magazine are probably disappointed by how the future has turned out so far. It’s 2012, and we have yet to see one flying car on the street or a teleportation machine that can take us to far corners of the world within seconds. The future may not be here yet — or is it? — but the introduction of Google Glasses may just take us there faster.

MakerDroid: from an Android device, directly to a 3D printer

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by Mihai Andrici on Mar 12, 2012

As the number of apps available on the Android platform has recently passed the 400k mark, one can notice that the functional diversity of those apps is nothing short of staggering. Ranging from video games to productivity apps and on to social networking apps, Android has become a platform for about any app you can think of, plus a few that you wouldn’t have imagined before actually bumping into them.
If you tend to disagree with my last sentence, hear this: a group of devs from Johnannesburg that go by the name of House 4 Hack have come up with a way to allow you to design a three dimensional model on your Android device, then print it with a 3D printer, without the need for a PC.

Previous Post Next Post Samsung Galaxy S3 shows up for preorder. Is it for real?

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by Bogdan Petrovan on Mar 12, 2012

Another day, another rumor related to the Samsung Galaxy S3. The excitement for the Samsung Galaxy S3 is nothing short of amazing. The entire Android community is holding its collective breath for what it likely to be an incredible device that will set trends and gloriously lead the Android pack.

Delay of the S4 production may affect future consumer interest

by Lucian Armasu on Mar 13, 2012

Nobody seems to have a perfect launch in the chip industry. Sometimes they get it right, sometimes they don’t. Their only consolation is that their competitors can have the same problem. We’ve been upset with Nvidia for delaying, for months at a time, both the Tegra 2 and Tegra 3 chips, but the others have had and have delays, too.

ICS update for Samsung Galaxy S2 is pushed out today [Updated]

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The Koreans at Samsung have kept their word and today pushed out the long-awaited Ice Cream Sandwich update to Galaxy S2 owners in South Korea, with more countries expected to follow. As reported by The Verge, if you live in Poland, Sweden, Hungary, or the UK, there’s a good chance you’ll get to enjoy that sweet taste of Ice Cream pretty soon.
[UPDATE] Our readers informed us that the Galaxy S2 ICS update is available in Finland, Denmark, and Cyprus too, besides the already mentioned countries. Thanks, guys!
[UPDATE 2] Samsung UK told Pocket-Lint that the Galaxy S2 ICS update will be available in UK from March 19, but the actual rollout depends on carriers. Bummer!
[UPDATE 3] If you can’t wait for ICS on your Galaxy S2, XDA Developers and MoDaCo have the European MOD available for download. Source: TheVerge.
According to the Samsung’s website, you can upgrade your Samsung Galaxy S2 to ICS through Kies or by waiting for the Over-The-Air upgrade. Those who are still running Kies version 1.5 are advised to update the PC sync software to the latest version, to ensure a smooth upgrade. Taking the Kies route allows you to save precious bandwidth, since the firmware file that must be downloaded is significantly smaller when compared to the OTA method.
Samsung Galaxy S2 is just the first on the company’s long list of devices waiting to be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich. The Koreans have mentioned that the upgrade to ICS will be prioritized for Samsung Galaxy Note, Galaxy S II LTE, and Galaxy R. As for the tablet lineup, ICS will come to the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab 7.7, and Tab 7.0 Plus first.
Samsung initially announced that they won’t be upgrading the Samsung Galaxy S and the original Galaxy Tab 7.0 due to hardware limitations. However, they quickly backtracked and said will reconsider their options, after the announcement was met with a tsunami of anger and disappointment from, umm, just about a couple of million owners of the two devices.
There’s no date set yet for the upgrade, except for a rather vague Q2 2012. Alternatively, you can just get the Galaxy Nexus or Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 – the first smartphone and tablet offering from Samsung to feature ICS.
Do let us know if you’ve received your ICS update, as well as your location. This way we can pass on the good news to fellow Galaxy S2 owners.http://www.androidauthority.com/ics-update-samsung-galaxy-s2-62787/

Square Enix releases Android version of Final Fantasy III in Japan, US gets no love

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Countless gamers consider Final Fantasy III to be one the best iterations in the FF series, while the readers of the influential Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu even voted FF3 as the eighth-best video game of all time. Unfortunately, it was also a game that took decades to make it to US shore, with Square Enix porting the game to Nintendo 3DS in 2006. The 3D remake of FF3 from the Nintendo 3DS was then ported over to iOS in 2011. And now, the vaunted Japanese video game house Square Enix has released the official Android version of Final Fantasy III, but only in its home country.

That’s right, folks. The Final Fantasy III Android port is only available in Japan for now. Following the limited release of another beloved classic, Chrono Trigger, exclusively to Japan, this is another slap on the face of the numerous Android gamers worldwide that are craving for some Square Enix RPG love. You can forget about looking for a workaround, because there’s no real app to tinker with in the first place. But never say never and all that. Who knows?

If all else fails, you can give emulators a try. Given how powerful Android machines have become in recent years, the average Android smartphone  is definitely more than suitable for powering games designed for decades-old consoles. Since there doesn’t seem to be a functional Nintendo 3DS emulator for Android (yet), you’re left with the NES and the Super NES emulators (SNESoid and NESoid come to mind). A quick check reveals that unofficial, localized versions of Final Fantasy III are available as ROMs for both Nintendo and Super NES systems.

If you are in the mood for some chunky and pixelated game visuals to remind you of the good ole days, check out our guide on emulators here. Otherwise, you can just stick with some nice free Android games. What do you prefer?

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Meet BreakDroid, the automated rooting tool for Mac owners

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by Bogdan Petrovan on Mar 13, 201

Now this is something you don’t see every day – XDA member Northmendo released an automated rooting tool and ADB installer, to help Mac users get the most of their Android devices. So, if you’re one of those fellows that can’t make up their minds between the dark side, err, I meant Apple, and Android, you can now go on and mess with your Android phone, without requiring access to a Windows or Linux PC.
Before you get too excited, you should know that BreakDroid is very new and that the tool has only been tested on a handful of Android devices. Nevertheless, Northmendo announced that he is working on expanding the tool’s usability and is actually looking for volunteers to test his creation.

Ice Cream Sandwich available now for Galaxy S II in Europe and Korea

By Jerry Hildenbrand   12 Mar 2012 10:10 pm

It's official -- The Samsung Galaxy S II is getting the Ice Cream Sandwich starting today in parts of Europe and Korea. Folks in Poland, Hungary, Sweden, and Korea should soon see the OTA update they have been waiting for. Samsung also states that the update will roll out in other markets gradually, and to expect ICS for the Galaxy Note, Galaxy S II LTE, and Tab 10.1 and 8.9 versions "soon".

Of course for those who have a carrier branded Galaxy S II, "the availability and scheduling of the software update and specific models upgradable to Android 4.0 will vary by market and wireless carriers’ requirements". In other words, we're at the mercy of folks at Sprint, AT&T, and T-Mobile here in the U.S. Hopefully we'll soon hear something specific. If we do, you all will be the first to know.

Source: Samsung; via @SamsungMobile

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Vizio Tablet Honeycomb update rolling out

By Jerry Hildenbrand   12 Mar 2012 11:40 pm

The Honeycomb update for the Vizio VTAB1008 looks like it's rolling out a bit broader, bringing the VTab to version V.I.A. Plus 2.0 and Android version 3.2.1. We first heard it was slowly pushing out earlier this afternoon, and have been checking our own VTab here every hour or so, but by now we've heard it enough times to know it's not a fluke. Reports say that you will lose the capacitive buttons around the bezel in favor of on-screen soft buttons, but to balance that out custom launchers like ADW (seen above) now work and you can make your VTab feel more like stock Android. 

It's too early to know any serious bugs, or what sort of impact this will have on battery life, but anytime a "legacy" tablet sees an update to Honeycomb we're happy. If you're using a VTab, be sure to check for updates (menu>settings>about device>Vizio update service) before you hit the pillow. There's a couple other pics after the break.

Thanks everyone who sent this in, and thanks Dale for the pics!

http://www.androidcentral.com/vizio-tablet-honeycomb-update-rolling-out

Sony unveils Xperia Sola with 'floating touch' technology

By Alex Dobie   13 Mar 2012 9:00 am

Sony has today revealed the Xperia Sola, a new 3.7-inch Android smartphone similar to the Xperia P and Xperia U, which were unveiled a couple of months ago. If you've been following the rumors over the past few months, you'll recognize this as the MT27i "Pepper".

The Xperia Sola is packing a brand new technology called "floating touch", which allows the screen to sense when there's a finger hovering over it. The main use case highlighted by the manufacturer is web browsing -- on the Xperia Sola, users will be able hold their finger over a web page like a cursor, before touching the screen to select. It's an interesting concept, but we'll have to spend some time with the device before we're completely sold on it.

The Xperia Sola also sports a different profile to most of Sony's other 2012 smartphones. There's no clear element near the bottom of the device, and the screen protrudes from the base, likely due to whatever extra tech Sony's crammed in behind it to facilitate that "floating touch" feature.

Internally, the Xperia Sola closely matches the Xperia P -- there's a 1GHz dual-core ST-Ericsson chip inside, a 3.7-inch "Reality Display", and all of Sony's usual software stuff on top of Android 2.3 Gingerbread (an update to ICS is promised for "Summer 2012"). You also get NFC support, which lets you use Sony's "SmartTags" to automate certain tasks when they're in range.

The Xperia Solai will launch globally in black, white and red during the second quarter of the year. We've got today's full press release, alongside some introductory videos, after the jump.

More: Xperia Sola gallery

Nova Launcher Prime [Android App Review]

The first time we took a look at Nova Launcher, I could only pine away for the day I'd actually have a phone that could run it. Finally that time has come, so after consulting the Google+ populace to make sure I was making the right choice, I installed Nova Launcher and upgraded to the full, Prime-laden version. Let me tell ya, it was so worth it.

If Nova Launcher by itself is a completely superior launcher to the stock Ice Cream Sandwich launcher (and it is), Nova Launcher Prime takes it up to 11. When you upgrade to Prime you unlock swiping gestures for your phone, app hiding in your app drawer, dock swiping, and a whole host of cool scrolling effects.

Nova Launcher by itself is unbelievably awesome because it's so darn fast. Scrolling is fast, menus are fast, screen previews are fast. It's like the Speedy Gonzales of Ice Cream Sandwich launchers. And on my Galaxy Nexus, Nova Launcher Prime absolutely screams.

Virgin Mobile officially announces the Venture

The Virgin Mobile Venture is now official, a day after it went up for preorder. The phone is manufactured by Alcatel and is going for $99. It's got a 2.7-inch touchscreen and full QWERTY keyboard, a 2MP camera and runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread. It's got the Virgin Mobile version of the Sprint ID pack, so you can theme it out in a number of ways.

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Deal of the Day: 32% Off Case-Mate Barely There Case for Galaxy Nexus

Grab the Case-Mate Barely There Case for Galaxy Nexus for $16.95 today only.  That's $8 off the list price!

The Barely There is Case-Mate's new line of sporty cases for the Galaxy Nexus. These cases are designed to help protect the design of the Samsung Galaxy Nexus or Verizon Galaxy Nexus while allowing more of it to show.  They're extremely slim and feature cutouts for the device's ports and screen.  Available in black and pink.  Take advantage of this limited time offer while supplies last!

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Verizon data struggling this morning? Sound off here!

Been getting e-mails from a bunch of you folks this morning saying that Verizon's data network is again struggling. Doesn't look like it's a nationwide outage, which is good, but we've heard from enough of you, suggesting that this may be a thing. So who's having issues, and where are you?

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Intel Reveals Details of Next-Generation High-Performance Computing Platforms

At SC11, Intel Corporation revealed details about the company’s next-generation Intel Xeon processor-based and Intel® Many Integrated Core (Intel® MIC)-based platforms designed for high-performance computing (HPC). The company also outlined new investments in research and development that will lead the industry to Exascale performance by 2018.
During his briefing at the conference, Rajeeb Hazra, general manager of Technical Computing, Intel Datacenter and Connected Systems Group, said that the Intel Xeon processor E5 family is the world’s first server processor to support full integration of the PCI Express 3.0 specification**. PCIe 3.0 is estimated** to double the interconnect bandwidth over the PCIe* 2.0 specification** while enabling lower power and higher density server implementations. New fabric controllers taking advantage of the PCI Express 3.0 specification will allow more efficient scaling of performance and data transfer with the growing number of nodes in HPC supercomputers.

Intel shows off its Knights Corner one teraflops chip

Intel has developed an accelerator chip capable of running at speeds of one teraflops, equal to one trillion calculations per second.

The firm showed off the chip, dubbed Knights Corner, on a test machine at a supercomputing conference in Seattle.

Computer power on this scale is used to solve a range of problems in fields such as weather forecasting, molecular modelling and car crash simulations.

The chip pits Intel against rival add-on processors from Nvidia and AMD.

Powerful computers

The Knights Corner chip acts as a co-processor - taking over some of the most complicated tasks from the computer's central processing unit (CPU).

Intel's Rajeeb Hazra showed off the new super-chip in a basement of a cafe in Seattle

It packs more than 50 cores - or individual processors - onto a single piece of silicon.
The chip offers "double precision" processing which allows numbers to be stored and calculated with greater accuracy - resulting in faster calculations.
Intel says the accelerator is also the first server processor to support full integration of the PCI Express 3.0 specification. The technology allows data to be transferred at up to 32 gigabytes per second to compatible devices - twice the speed of the previous generation.

Intel, Micron Expand Joint Venture Relationship

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Intel Corp. (INTC) and Micron Technology Inc. (MU) have agreed to expand their NAND Flash memory joint venture relationship to improve the venture's efficiency and flexibility.
Under the agreements, Micron will supply NAND products to Intel while Intel will sell its stake in two wafer factories for approximately $600 million.
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Intel Enters Marathon for Handset Processors

Paul Otellini: ‘We have been in this spot before’

BARCELONA — According to organizers of the Mobile World Congress, more than 62,000 delegates attended this year’s conference — a possible record.

Each attendee has at least one mobile phone, and probably more. But none of those phones is powered by a chip made by the world’s largest chip maker, Intel.

How can that be?

Paul Otellini, president and chief executive of Intel, says it won’t be the case for long. Mr. Otellini used the conference to announce an extension to two partners — Lenovo and Motorola — building on an announcement at January’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, when they signed up to Intel’s microprocessor, the Atom Z2460, codenamed “Medfield.”

Mr. Otellini, a 38-year veteran of Intel who took over as the company’s CEO in 2005, was not phased by the fact that others, in the shape of chips built on an architecture designed by the Cambridge-based ARM, had stolen a march.

Intel Stresses New Selling Points In Server Chip

Intel once again turned the crank Tuesday on a new generation of chips for server systems. But there were some differences in the messaging this time, a sign of how the business is changing.

The company used to stress how much faster each new electronic brain worked, measured by megahertz or gigahertz. Then the race shifted to how many such processor cores could be put on a single chip. But both approaches reached a point of diminishing returns, because of factors such as excess power consumption and programming difficulties.

Meanwhile, computer makers and their customers are demanding new kinds of features amid the rise of outsourced service providers–the trend known as cloud computing–and as more computing jobs are packed onto each server by means of the technology called virtualization.

Intel says its new Xeon chip, dubbed the E5-2600, has special circuitry and internal instructions to speed up specific kinds of computing chores, and boost the overall capability of a computer to get work done. The sum of all the improvements, the company said during a briefing in San Francisco, translate into up to 80% greater performance than prior Xeons.

INTEL

Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC) is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel Corporation, founded on July 18, 1968, is a portmanteau of Integrated Electronics (though a common misconception is that "Intel" is from the word intelligence). Intel also makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to communications and computing. Founded by semiconductor pioneers Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore and widely associated with the executive leadership and vision of Andrew Grove, Intel combines advanced chip design capability with a leading-edge manufacturing capability. Though Intel was originally known primarily to engineers and technologists, its "Intel Inside" advertising campaign of the 1990s made it and its Pentium processor household names.

Printer (computing)

In computing, a printer is a peripheral which produces a text or graphics of documents stored in electronic form, usually on physical print media such as paper or transparencies. Many printers are primarily used as local peripherals, and are attached by a printer cable or, in most new printers, a USB cable to a computer which serves as a document source. Some printers, commonly known as network printers, have built-in network interfaces, typically wireless or Ethernet based, and can serve as a hard copy device for any user on the network. Individual printers are often designed to support both local and network connected users at the same time. In addition, a few modern printers can directly interface to electronic media such as memory cards, or to image capture devices such as digital cameras and scanners; some printers are combined with scanners or fax machines in a single unit, and can function as photocopiers. Printers that include non-printing features are sometimes called multifunction printers (MFP), multi-function devices (MFD), or all-in-one (AIO) printers. Most MFPs include printing, scanning, and copying among their many features.

Consumer and some commercial printers are designed for low-volume, short-turnaround print jobs; requiring virtually no setup time to achieve a hard copy of a given document. However, printers are generally slow devices (30 pages per minute is considered fast; and many inexpensive consumer printers are far slower than that), and the cost per page is actually relatively high. However, this is offset by the on-demand convenience and project management costs being more controllable compared to an out-sourced solution.

Computer monitor

A monitor or display (also called screen or visual display unit) is an electronic visual display for computers. The monitor comprises the display device, circuitry, and an enclosure. The display device in modern monitors is typically a thin film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) thin panel, while older monitors use a cathode ray tube about as deep as the screen size.

Originally, computer monitors were used for data processing while television receivers were used for entertainment. From the 1980s onwards, computers (and their monitors) have been used for both data processing and entertainment, while televisions have implemented some computer functionality. The common aspect ratio of televisions, and then computer monitors, has also changed from 4:3 to 16:9.

Mouse"

A mouse is a pointing device that functions by detecting two-dimensional motion relative to its supporting surface. Physically, a mouse consists of an object held under one of the user's hands, with one or more buttons. It sometimes features other elements, such as "wheels", which allow the user to perform various system-dependent operations, or extra buttons or features that can add more control or dimensional input. The mouse's motion typically translates into the motion of a pointer on a display, which allows for fine control of a graphical user interface.

RAM (Random Acces Memory)

RAM stands for Random Access Memory is a computer hardware store that serves a variety of data and program instructions. In contrast to magnetic tape or disk to access the data sequentially, the contents of RAM can be accessed at random, or do not refer to the location of the setting data. Data in RAM is temporary, in other words, the stored data will be lost if the computer is off or the power supply connected to him revoked.

RAM is also commonly referred to as main memory (main memory), primary memory (primary memory), internal memory (internal memory), the main storage (primary storage), memory stick, or a RAM stick. In fact, sometimes people just call it a memory even though there are other types of memory installed in the computer.

RAM is one type of internal memory that supports the processor speed in processing data and instructions. By using the additional RAM in the computer can generate a positive impact on computer performance and speed, although the RAM is not actually determine the speed of the computer.

RAM memory modules are publicly traded with a capacity of 128 MB, 256 MB, 512 MB​​, 1 GB, 2 GB and 4 GB.

The types of RAM:

VGA (VIDEO GRAPHIC ADAPTER)

VGA stands for Video Graphics Adapter, is an analog computer display standard first marketed by IBM in 1987. Although the VGA standard is no longer used because it has been replaced by a newer standard, VGA is implemented on the Pocket PC. Is the last VGA graphics standard that is followed by the majority of computer graphics card manufacturer. Display Windows still use VGA mode is supported by many manufacturers because of the monitor and graphics card.

The term VGA is often used to refer to a resolution of 640 × 480 screen size, no matter what graphics card hardware manufacturer. VGA card is useful to interpret the computer output to the monitor. For the graphic design process, or playing video games, needed a high-powered graphics card. Well-known manufacturer of graphics cards such as ATI and nVidia.