Archive for February, 2010 - Page 16

We’ve been waiting for NVIDIA’s GeForce 400 series since January November September forever, but now rumors are out that the next-gen DirectX 11 capable graphics card series from NVIDIA will becoming sometime after the CeBIT expo in Germany, which ends, March 6th of this year. The GeForce 400 series, or [...]

According to a few internal documents from T-Mobile USA, the carrier is expected to begin sending an over-the-air update for the Samsung Behold 2 and the Motorola CLIQ, starting today.  If the leaked images are to be believed, Behold 2 owners will be getting their OS upgraded by February 26th, [...]

We’ve covered OCZ’s Vertex range of SSDs pretty extensively here on TFTS – such as the Vertex, Vertex EX and Vertex Turbo – and now OCZ are adding to their Vertex SSD range with the Vertex Limited Edition SSD that, in OCZ’s own words, are ‘designed to please even the [...]

Lenovo is gearing up to update their mobile workstation, the W-series, with the new ThinkPad W701 and its dual-screen counterpart, the W701ds. Leaked internally, specs for the new machines have found their way into our hands speaking of a release date for next Thursday on February 25th. From what it [...]

Intel’s Atom processors have been a big hit in netbooks and other ultra-portable computer platforms, and now an unconfirmed report has hit the internet saying that Intel is looking to replace their Z-series Atom processors with a new chip, dubbed “Oak Trail”. The Z-series of Atom chips is currently in [...]

Sprint users looking for a WiMAX touting smartphone are in for a treat as we just caught wind that the company has officially announced that their first 4G capable handset will be announced month earlier than expected, right this summer. Sprint Nextel released the first fourth-generation (4G) wireless network in [...]

The big news right now, concerning Microsoft’s mobile platform at least, may well be Windows Mobile 7 (sorry MS, I mean Windows Phone 7) but that doesn’t mean that, on the development side, MS are forgetting about Windows Mobile 6 – as is evidenced by the release of the Windows [...]

Following on from having previously released Kindle Apps for both the iPhone and iPod Touch, Amazon have now released their BlackBerry Kindle App which allows users of supported handsets – we have a list of supported BlackBerry handsets below – to purchase and read e-Books on their devices as well [...]

Now that Avatar has proved all there is to prove by setting box office record after record, we’re hearing that Oscar-winning director James Cameron would like to further cash in on the film’s success by debuting a standard DVD & Blu-ray release on April 22, along with a special edition [...]

The high-end PC manufacturer Origin has released a new performance and gaming laptop.  The Origin Eon 18 laptop is an 18.4-inch gaming pc, the brain child of three former Alienware execs who departed from the company upon its acquisition from Dell Computer.