Computer and Computer Elecs

Intel ‘Lynx Point’ chipsets leaked

Intel plans on releasing Haswell architecture-based microprocessors, sometime in 2013, these chipsets will replace the existing Sandy Bridge lineup. The upcoming chipset plans have been leaked courtesy a chinese website. The new platform will be based on a new socket the LGA 1150 that will replace the existing LGA 1155 socket. Existing coolers will be compatible [...]

Aakash tablet PC’s production base will be diversified: Kapil Sibal

The low-cost Aakash Tablet PC will be made completely indigenous and its production base diversified, HRD Minister Kapil Sibbal on Monday said.
“We are now going to diversify production base and indigenise Aakash tablet. We are planning to create eco-system for end to end development of Aakash in India. This will create enormous opportunities for R&D institutions, developers, [...]

Canalys: Smartphone Shipments Overtake PCs in 2011

The numbers have finally proved it true, the era of smartphones has officialy arrived. According to a data report from Canalys, the shipment of smartphones outnumbered the shipment of PCs in 2011.
Vendors shipped 488 million smartphones in 2011 as compared with 415 million PCs, the market research firm said Friday in a report on country-level [...]

RIM Launches BlackBerry Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365

Research in Motion today announced general availability of BlackBerry® Business Cloud Services for Microsoft Office 365 – a new service for business and government organizations that extends Microsoft Exchange Online to BlackBerry® smartphones and allows customers to manage their BlackBerry deployments in the cloud. The service is available at no additional charge to current medium-sized [...]

Epson Expands Its Workforce Line with 3 New Printers

Epson introduced three new wide-format printers to its WorkForce line on Tuesday. The printers include all-in-ones WorkForce WF-7520 and WorkForce WF-7510, along with the single-function inkjet WorkForce WF-7010. Each offers small businesses and creative professionals high quality wide-format printing and scanning capabilities.
According to Epson, the new all-in-one printers boast the fastest single and double-sided print speeds in their class–15 [...]

Is a New Magsafe Data Cable Going To Replace Apple’s 30-Pin Connector?

The idea of Apple moving to Magsafe charging for iOS devices has been aired before, but the lack of data transfer stymied such plans. Now, however, an Apple patent suggests that future Magsafe connectors will be able to shift data. Is it time to say goodbye to the 30-pin connector?
Using “coded magnets” the cable described in the patent can [...]

Symantec tells customers to disable pcAnywhere

Symantec Corp took the rare step of advising customers to stop using one of its products, saying its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs is at increased risk of getting hacked after blueprints of that software were stolen. The announcement is the company’s most direct acknowledgement to date that a 2006 theft of its source [...]

Alienware launches X51 gaming mini PC , Dell to bring it to India

Alienware has just announced the X51 small factor gaming PC at a price of US $ 699 (or about Rs. 37000). The vertical or horizontal switchable Gaming mini, comes with a rotating Alienware logo and has decent specs. Core i3 and i5 options, a slot-loading optical drive optional Blu-ray. Up to 8GB of RAM and 1TB [...]

Improved Aakash for Students at No Extra Cost

College students across India would get a new, improved and enhanced version of Aakash tablet without having the Government to pay any extra money.
The improved Aakash tablet will have three times faster processing speed and around 50% extra battery life. All the new versions of tablets to be subsidized by the Government will now have [...]

Apple to overtake HP as worlds number one Tablet and PC vendor

Including Tablets as personal computers, Apple is all set to overtake HP as the worlds number one PC/Tablet vendor. Fortune poll of 42 analysts states that Apple sales in the 4th Quarter of 2011 could be as high as 14 Million units , which is considerably more compared to the 11.6 million sold in the 3rd Quarter of [...]

MSI launches new two new R7950/R7970-2PMD3GD5 over-voltage capable Graphics cards on AMD HD 7000 GPU

MSI has launched two new GPUs based on the new AMD 7000 HD platform, the R7970-2PMD3GD5 supports over voltage support through MSI’s Afterburner utility. The card comes with 3GB GDDR5 and supports all DirectX 11 titles on extremely high resolutions. Accorrding to MSI both the R7970-2PMD3GD5 and R7950-2PMD3GD5 have an ultra-long lifespan and are made with All Solid Capacitors.
Ports include DisplayPort 1.2 [...]

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SteelSeries launches 2 Headsets, 3 Mice and a Controller

SteelSeries has launched a host of goodies today, including the Ion wireless gaming controller that connects to your PC, tablet or phone through Bluetooth. Once charged the controller provides for upto 20 hours of gaming. The company’s also debuting two headsets, the Flux and Siberia v2 Frost. The Flux is more for the mobile gamer, the collapsable headset, [...]

HP releases new HP Envy Spectre 14 with NFC, Radiance display and glass chassis for US$ 1400 (PR)

HP had recently teased us with a video of their upcoming glass based notebook, we were hoping for dual screens and what not. Hp has gone all out to disappoint us, but hey its still an awesome machine.
Specs include a 14-inch, 1600 x 900 Radiance Display, Core i5-2467M CPU, 4GB of RAM, a nine-hour battery, backlit [...]

CES 2012: Victorinox stuffs a 1 TB SSD in a Swiss Army Knife (PR)

Victorinox has released a Swiss Army knife – thumb drive combo, which has a pen drive with a SSD capacity of unto 1 TB. The company didn’t stop there its also the worlds first drive that connects to eSATA II / III and USB 2.0 / 3.0 with a single connector. But, thats not all, the thumb drive [...]

CES 2012 : Intel promises more than 75 UltraBooks this year : 50% to be 14 – 15 inch at that

Intel PC client chief Mooly Eden has announced at CES that more than 75 new Ultrabooks are coming from different manufacturers. 50 % out of which will be 14 or 15 inch in size. The Ultrabooks are expected to be thinner than ever before , have no optical drives, and have better battery backups, thanks [...]