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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone vr-zone.com stuff for the geeks vr-zone stuff for the geeks is a bi-weekly publication covering the latest gadgets and stuff for the geeks that would have been all well and good were it not for the fact that the dentist then overcharged him sent his records to the wrong insurance company and refused to provide a new copy of those records so he could give them to his actual insurance company the incident was so bad for lee that he decided to post a negative review of makhnevich s practice on both yelp and doctorbase saying avoid at all cost scamming their customers of course the anti-defamation agreement meant that he was required to never say a bad word about his dentist no matter how poorly he had been treated a new york dentist has fined a customer for posting a negative review online highlighting the underhanded nature of antidefamation contracts and how they are being abused to ensure a company s good reputation in spite of poor treatment makhnevich then sent lee a number of $100 fines alleging he had infringed her copyright it is not exactly clear why the dentist went with this argument as the case appears to be one of contract violation rather than copyright infringement the case raises significant questions over the rampant use of anti-defamation contracts among certain businesses which employ underhanded legal wrestling to ensure that their reputation remains intact regardless of the actual treatment of customers lee filed a lawsuit against makhnevich which has resulted in the medical law agency medical justice services which wrote the contract in question cancelling it and telling all of its clients to stop using it lee s lawyer paul alan levy said it is outrageous that a patient would have to sign away his constitutionally protected right to get treatment for a toothache a new york dentist has fined a disgruntled customer for posting a negative review online after it was revealed that he had inadvertantly signed an anti-defamation contract before having a toothache addressed the bizarre case began when 42-year-old robert lee visited stacy makhnevich s dental practice to deal with a bad toothache and tooth infection lee claims he was given a contract to sign the terms of which included an antidefamation clause which he said he questioned but ultimately agreed to in order for makhnevich to treat his pain dentist fines customer for posting negative review online source http vr-zone.com/articles/dentist-fines-customer-for-postingnegative-review-online/14116.html december 1st 2011 safari was fastest then now the slowest according to futuremark s peacekeeper source http vr-zone.com/articles/safari-was-fastest-then-now-theslowest-according-to-futuremark-s-peacekeeper/14112.html 1

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december 1st 2011 december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone · firefox is most popular with peacekeeper users accounting for almost 30 of all results · chrome has held the title of fastest browser since may 2009 but opera is closing the gap futuremark has released a new version of the peacekeeper which is a web browser benchmarking program to keep upto-date with the increasingly recognized html5 standards along with this new release futuremark also reveals some interesting data on how the browsers landscape has changed over the last two and a half years read on to find out more according to futuremark with the updated peacekeeper even the most outdated of hardware will have a proper place in benchmarking samsung announces pm830 series of msata ssd s for ultrabooks source http vr-zone.com/articles/samsung-announces-pm830-series-ofmsata-ssd-s-for-ultrabooks/14115.html december 1st 2011 leader of performance benchmarking software futuremark has just released their latest version of the peacekeeper a freeware to measure and compare web browser operation speeds the peacekeeper is completely reconstructed to support html5 standards and can accurately compare any browsers on a large variety of hardware configurations it utilizes javascript functionality to assess the speed of the browser which is a good thing as it is one of the most common programming languages for websites today through this method internet connection speeds and latencies will not affect scores for each comparison hardware comparisons can be made with the peacekeeper via a control browser used across all devices to be benchmarked this is due to the fact that the power of the processor is highly associated with the browser performance here are some interesting facts that have surfaced through data collected from peacekeeper over two and a half years period · 2.6 million results submitted since peacekeeper launched in march 2009 · 3140 different browser versions tested · safari was fastest when peacekeeper launched it is now the slowest on windows and mac · ie has shown the greatest improvement with an average score increase of almost 450 · safari has shown the least improvement just 160 faster in two years on windows systems samsung has been a long time oem/odm of notebook ssd s least not to apple but not the company has announced that it s about to break into the ultrabook market with its new pm830 series of msata ssd s the company also has a model for hard drive caching suitable for ultrabooks notebooks and desktops samsung has been a long time oem/odm of notebook ssd s least not to apple but not the company has announced that it s about to break into the ultrabook market with its new pm830 series of msata ssd s the company also has a model for hard drive caching suitable for ultrabooks notebooks and desktops the pm830 series will be available in capacities of 64 128 and 256gb with a 32gb version for hard drive caching the drive uses samsung s latest 20nm class toggle mode ddr nand flash and samsung is promising read speeds of up to 500mb/s and write speeds of up to 260mb/s over a sata 6gbps interface the press release didn t mention which ssd controller was being used and the picture below doesn t reveal any details beyond the samsung nand flash 2

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone the revelation came at the reuters global media summit where antoine brachet marketing chief of total immersion said that his company is working closely with intel on its chipset to introduce some augmented reality features like gesture recognition this is a highly significant move as it means that augmented reality technology would come as part of the hardware itself and not require software downloads to work which will help with the growth and adoption of the technology intel invested in total immersion in march signalling a vote of confidence in the relatively new augmented reality sector that investment might pay off with a new feature that intel can tout over competitors but total immersion has not limited itself to intel as it also inked a recent deal with rival chipmaker texas instruments augmented reality works by overlaying real life images and videos with digital information including text and graphics for example check out this magician s use of augmented reality to enhance a card trick augmented reality has yet to expand to become a major consumer technology but it has shown a lot of potential with uk supermarket chain tesco introducing it to help people see products before they buy them online it is not yet clear when we will see the new intel chips but brachet suggested that it would be between two and three years depending on how well consumers accept the technology in addition to that samsung has also included 256-bit aei encryption to keep the data safe for government people that leave their notebooks in the back seat of taxis samsung is only planning on selling the pm830 to oem partners which is a shame as it looks like it could prove to be a nice upgrade option for some ultrabooks and what not it looks like the future of notebooks ssds is msata for better or worse intel and total immersion plan augmented reality chips source http vr-zone.com/articles/intel-and-total-immersion-planaugmented-reality-chips/14114.html december 1st 2011 chip giant intel is teaming up with total immersion to introduce augmented reality features into its upcoming computer chips potentially giving it a further edge over the competition ziilabs to showcase android 4.0 based jaguar tablet at ces 2012 source http vr-zone.com/articles/ziilabs-to-showcase-android-4.0based-jaguar-tablet-at-ces-2012/14111.html december 1st 2011 chip giant intel is teaming up with total immersion to introduce augmented reality features into its upcoming computer chips ziilabs a wholly owned subsidiary of creative technology ltd is ready to break the ground at ces 2011 with their jaguar reference tablet based on the latest android 4.0 ice cream sandwich equipped with quad-core cortex-a9 based zms-40 media processor it is touted to possess blu-ray quality high-profile 1080p h.264 and webm support read on to find out what it is capable of 3

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone media processor and platform company ziilabs has announced that they will be showcasing their jaguar reference tablet with android 4.0 ice cream sandwich at the upcoming consumer electronics show 2012 which will start from 10th of january the jaguar is said to deliver a comprehensive range of oem ready 7-inch and 10-inch tablet solutions that combine excellent performance battery life and industrial design it features two variants of the cortex-a9 processor which is the zms-20 dual-core and the zms-40 quad-core processors ziilabs is confident of the new tablet s media capabilities thanks to its blu-ray quality 1080p high-profile h.264 video capabilities and webm support it also provides high quality video conferencing capabilities via its dual camera system and uses standard apis such as opencl and renderscript to perform real-time image processing corsair vengeance so-dimm modules make use of high layer count pcbs higher number of pcb layers contribute to greater electrical and signalling stability the pcbs are colored black to give them a premium feel there s no room for a thick heatsink but corsair used millimeter-thick metal plates to serve as heatspreaders corsair intros vengeance sodimm memory modules source http vr-zone.com/articles/corsair-intros-vengeance-so-dimmmemory-modules/14110.html december 1st 2011 corsair will be launching three kits consisting of these modules two of which are 8 gb 2x 4 gb and one being a single 4 gb module kit among the two module kits there s a ddr3-1866 mhz kit and a ddr3-1600 mhz one the lone module kit consists of a ddr3-1866 mhz stick the modules don t require more than 1.5 volts dram voltage though achieve their rated speeds at rather loose timings by desktop standards of course part numbers and specifications are tabled below size 8gb speed 1866mhz 10-10-10-27 1.5v 1600mhz 9-9-9-24 1.5v 1866mhz 10-10-10-27 1.5v of dimms 2 corsair introduced a new line of ddr3 memory modules in the so-dimm form-factor targeting high-performance notebooks gaming notebooks and mobile workstations corsair s new modules promise to bring a similar level of tuning headroom as their bigger standard dimm cousins corsair s vengeance family struck a fine middle-ground between the overclockability of its high-performance yet expensive dominator series and the affordability of its xms3 series for obvious reasons of space and electrical constraints corsair couldn t port the design ideology of dominator to the so-dimm form-factor but doing so for vengeance seemed possible hence vengeance so-dimm family part number cmsx8gx3m2a1866 8gb 4gb 2 1 cmsx8gx3m2a1600 cmsx4gx3m1a11866 thi la vice president of memory products at corsair says as more complex applications and games are available in the market many laptop users are looking for an easy way to improve their system performance in order to have the best experience.our new vengeance high-performance laptop 4

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone memory kits allow performance-minded customers to boost their memory performance and capacity in an instant although launched we don t have prices of these kits at hand as they are not listed on popular stores just as yet cubitek has big aluminum case plans for 2012 source http vr-zone.com/articles/cubitek-has-big-aluminum-case-plansfor-2012/14109.html december 1st 2011 pictured above is the main facade you can find four exposed 5.25-inch drive bays and a dust-protected inlet for the 200 mm intake fan you can also get an idea of the outer texture of the aluminum body dark brushed aluminum cubitek wants to play in the big league of premium allaluminum pc cases targeting almost every consumer formfactor atx mid-tower eatx full-tower hpatx micro-atx and even mini-itx all part of the company s new ice series these cases will be fabricated with extruded aluminum that s as much as 3 mm thick in some parts making the cases both sturdy and radiate heat better we got to take a peak at each of these the series starts off with the most common pc form-factor the atx mid-tower the atx ice is larger than most midtowers treading very close to being categorized a full-tower it measures 230 x 508.5 x 513 mm wxhxd weighing in at 7.1 kg net as mentioned earlier cubitek designed these cases with aluminum sheets as thick as 3 mm to give them the sturdiness of 1 mm thick secc steel the internals don t used anodized aluminum rather exposed this helps with radiating heat although some cable management holes are rubber-valved there are some wide open holes such as the one next to the psu bay a cutout over the cpu socket area to help with handling coolers with backplates and one on the top-left corner of the motherboard tray for cpu power capbles you can immediately tell that cubitek s ice cases are not tool-free 5

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone south korean scientists hyun gyu park and byoung yeon won have found a way where by people can place a sample of their own saliva on their touchscreen for analysis of their health since these touchscreens can detect very small capacitance changes we thought they could serve as highly sensitive detection platforms for disease biomarkers the scientists mentioned through the demonstration of a prototype screen they managed to show that the detection of various concentrations of bacteria is possible.improvements still have to be made to allow the system to sense different kinds of bacteria and giving a more accurate assessment of the disease involved perhaps we can hope that when the technology is ready people with severe or prolonged illness can monitor their own health status comfortably from home as well as diagnose a serious issue early enough to receive help with this kind of convenience there s nothing loud about the rear panel you find the usual psu bay at the bottom a 120 mm grilled fan exhaust two rubber-valved holes for water cooling tubing and the expansion slot bays beating the atx specification there are eight bays instead of seven this should help with multi-graphics card setups in which one of the graphics cards occupies the bottom-most expansion slot of an atx motherboard apple iphone 4 on fire twice source http vr-zone.com/articles/apple-iphone-4-on-firetwice/14106.html december 1st 2011 spit on your phone for good health source http vr-zone.com/articles/spit-on-your-phone-for-goodhealth/14108.html december 1st 2011 in two bizarre accounts two separate apple iphone 4 ignited themselves in dangerous proximity to users but ultimately causing nothing more than the inconvenience of losing the phone and some disruptions of the moment will apple find out if this is just a duo of accidents or a flaw in manufacture process technological advancements empower our phones to do so many things but soon you can spit on your phone to know if you re down with flu quite literally a new developement from korean utilizes capacitative screens like those on smartphones to detect the presence of bacteria 6

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone apple s iphone 4 is hot by every sense of the word in one week two iphone 4 have been reported to combust spontaneously but luckily no one was hurt in the latest incident a lady by the name of ayla mota had her iphone charging as she slept when the phone suddenly released sparks and smoke while the phone was dangerously close to her she was awakened quickly enough and resolved the situation before any harm came to her just a few days before a similar situation occurred onboard a flight in australia which was dealt with by the flight attendant promptly ensuring that no one was hurt it seems a little too close to be taken as coincidence but it is good to keep in mind that apple s iphone 4 has one of the largest market share in the world so this statistics amount to nothing more than oneoff incidents while the cupertino company has yet to make a public statement about the incidents it can be expected that thorough investigation and compensation be carried out project homecoming singapore s first joint recycling initiative launched source http vr-zone.com/articles/project-homecoming-singapore-s-firstjoint-recycling-initiative-launched/14107.html december 1st 2011 andrew koh senior director and general manager consumer imaging and information products division canon singapore who is also the lead spokesperson for project homecoming gave an insight on the background of the recycling initiative started in japan in 2008 six printer brands epson canon brother dell hp and lexmark came together with cooperation from japan post office to provide convenient location for public to recycle their cartridges the project was called ink cartridge satogaeri which directly translated to homecoming in singapore project homecoming is an expansion to this similar scheme and is first in the region to launch public simply needs to go to one of the 13 designated libraries ang mo kio bedok bishan bukit merah geylang east jurong regional jurong west marine parade national library victioria street queenstown tampies regional toa payoh and woodlands regional and dispose their ink cartridges or toners into the recycling box picture below in case you are wondering why hp has been left out from the original recycling intiative that is only because the company has their own planet partners program hp has also introduced the industry s first closed loop ink cartridge recycling process combining plastic from post-consumer recycled original hp ink cartridges and other sources such as recycled water and soda bottles in the manufacturing of new original hp ink cartridges this afternoon five major printer companies brother canon dell epson and lexmark with support of national library board and national environment agency jointly announced the launch of project homecoming singapore s first joint brand ink and toner cartridge recycling initiative 7

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone december 1st 2011 according to elaine ng chief executive officer of national library board nlb at least one recycling bin can be found at 13 designated libraries there are plans to introduce the recycling bin to the remaining 10 libraries in singapore though that would be the next phase of the project increasingly our phones are becoming our best assistants a recent discovery however begins to question just how much of our privacy is compromised as a factory-installed program is found to reveal every infomation from our phone to the respective companies that made it are our personal infomation as safe as we think it is recently a program has been unveiled to be embedded deep into some android phones which records just about every single thing a user can do with his or her phone all the data goes back to the hardware manufacturers of the phone which includes account passwords credit card numbers and other sensitive infomation there is also no way to opt out of being monitored this discovery was first made when an android developer trevor eckhart used a packet sniffer program to track all data that enter and exit his htc evo 4g smartphone at the center of all this is the software developer carrier iq the company that created this monitoring method for almost all mobile device manufacturer upon realizing that trevor had branded their software as a rootkit a term equivalent to malware in community sites carrier iq promptly sued him only to back off when an international digital rights advocacy organization electronic frontier foundation stepped in to help trevor in their apology letter to trevor carrier iq mentioned that their software does not record keystrokes amongst other inputs but a video circulated by trevor shows that this is not true as of now there is no easy way to remove the program other than to install a new operating system on your phone that of course generally involves removing the warranty from the phone so it is not a good solution for most people for now much remains to be seen from the response of various companies responsible for the implementation of such a program you may be spied on by your own phone source http vr-zone.com/articles/you-may-be-spied-on-by-your-ownphone/14105.html 8

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone lenovo storms china with three new mobile devices source http vr-zone.com/articles/lenovo-storms-china-with-three-newmobile-devices/14096.html december 1st 2011 and larger battery capacities ascending with screen sizes the android honeycomb 3.2 mobile platform completes the package for these two tablets while the prices are not known yet chinese sources state that the lepad s2005 may be for sale within the week intel planning wireless dock for ultrabooks using wigig lenovo has announced three new mobile devices for the chinese market the lepad s2005 s2007 and s2010 are the new tablets and phones to represent the chinese company but will they meet the mark of their fellow countrymen source http vr-zone.com/articles/intel-planning-wireless-dock-forultrabooks-using-wigig/14104.html december 1st 2011 it looks like intel is having big plans for ultrabooks at least as far as docking stations are concerned as beyond the wired thunderbolt docking stations we ve already reported about it appears that intel is also working on a wire-free option the peculiar thing here though is that intel is planning on using wigig technology courtesy of the wireless gigabit alliance it looks like intel is having big plans for ultrabooks at least as far as docking stations are concerned as beyond the wired thunderbolt docking stations we ve already reported about it appears that intel is also working on a wire-free option the peculiar thing here though is that intel is planning on using wigig technology courtesy of the wireless gigabit alliance never heard of wigig before let us give you a quick introduction as to what wigig is the wireless gigabit alliance consists of a wide range of technology company s including among others intel amd broadcom cisco nec marvell mediatek and qualcomm to mention a few of the key hardware manufacturers although many others such as microsoft nvidia dell samsung nokia panasonic and toshiba are also involved what these companies are working on is an extension of the 802.11 standard that will allow for wireless speed of an expected 7gbps in the end some then times faster than what 802.11n is expected to peak at wigig is transmitting at 60ghz otherwise known as ultra wide band although it s also backwards compatible with the 5ghz and 2.4ghz bands but the highest speeds are only expected at very short range using the 60ghz band so what does this have to do with a docking station for ultabooks well to keep things simple it allows for a high-speed short range wireless signal to be used to connect the ultrabook to the dock sans any kind of wires there are some limitations though as you d still have to plug in power to the ultrabook sooner or later and in intel s specification you still have to plug in the ethernet cable into the ultrabook itself if you want to take advantage of intel s network features such as vpro lenovo has recently unleashed a trio of tablets in china the lepad s2007 lepad s2010 and lepad s2005 are set to help the chinese company gain grounds in their own country in accordance to the data network available in china all the tablets are wcdma enabled to access data network via chinese telco unicom the lepad s2005 is a worthy mention as it belongs to the emerging category of devices that comes between a phone and a tablet owing to its 5-inch screen which is similar to dell s streak 5 and samsung s galaxy note it has a low temperature polycrystalline silicon display with a resolution of 800 by 480 featuring a 178-degree viewing angle this phone is powered by a 1.2ghz dual-core processor and 1gb of memory giving it processing capabilities on par with most high-end smartphones other specifications include a 1.3megapixel front camera a 5-megapixel rear camera wifi connectivity high definition multimedia interface hdmi support and a 1650mah battery it is said to come with android gingerbread the lepad s2007 and s2010 are tablets with 7-inch and 10inch screens respectively each of them possesses a 1280 by 800 resolution in-plane switching display with a contrast ratio of 1500 to 1 they run on 1.5ghz dual-core processors and 1gb of memory with other similar hardware to that of lepad s2005 except for the 8-megapixel rear cameras 9

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone going to start to see some serious competition in the entrylevel notebook segment once microsoft launches windows 8 for arm the exynos 5250 is but a stepping stone for samsung yet the company claims that it offers twice the processing power over one of its cortex-a9 based exynos chips clocked at 1.5ghz or some 14,000 dmips compared to 7,500 dmips beyond that samsung has doubled the memory bandwidth to 12.8gb/s twice than not only of current dual core cortexa9 arm processors but also twice that of intel s latest atom processors the upside of going wireless is of course the fact that you don t need to plug anything in to the system to dock it wigig should also provide enough bandwidth to cope with just about everything you d need from a dock including display interfaces usb connectivity and audio the downside is increased cost as not only do you need a wigig compatible chip in the ultrabook but also in the dock of course in the future we might see displays with built in wigig support into which you d plug an external mouse and a keyboard and that would be all you d need rather than having to connect it all to yet another device considering that the wigig standard has anything but launched as yet it seems like this solution is one for the future but it s nonetheless interesting to see where things might be heading one thing appears fairly certain though intel is set to make ultrabooks succeed one way or another and if consumers don t want them then business users will have to take them as a replacement for sub-notebooks which have been quite popular with people that travel a lot samsung didn t specify the graphics core in the press release but the company did mention that the gpu used is more than four times faster than what we presume is the arm mali-400 mp used in its current cortex-a9 based processors that said we re not sure that s going to be good enough as samsung is making some bold claims of wqvga or 2,560x1,600 resolution support and you re going to need one beefy gpu to run 3d stuff at that kind of resolution samsung also claims that the extra memory bandwidth is needed to be able to handle these kinds of resolutions that said on devices with 3d displays we re still expecting to see resolutions of 1,280x800 as that would be exactly half of wqvga ideal for 3d displays in other words samsung announces the first arm cortex-a15 based soc source http vr-zone.com/articles/samsung-announces-the-first-armcortex-a15-based-soc/14101.html december 1st 2011 if there was every any doubt that arm based processors were going to be limited in terms of performance samsung s new 32nm exynos 5250 cortex-a15 based 2ghz dual core soc should put a lot of doubters minds at rest this is but a first step of what we can expect over the next couple of years from the arm camp and we have a feeling that the x86 guys are going to start to see some serious competition in the entrylevel notebook segment once microsoft launches windows 8 for arm if there was every any doubt that arm based processors were going to be limited in terms of performance samsung s new 32nm exynos 5250 cortex-a15 based 2ghz dual core soc should put a lot of doubters minds at rest this is but a first step of what we can expect over the next couple of years from the arm camp and we have a feeling that the x86 guys are but wait there s more a lot more the exynos 5250 also sports an embedded displayport interface that supports panel selfrefresh technology which in simple terms means that static pages doesn t require the gpu to be powered up so that they can be displayed instead this is handled by the frame buffer in the timing controller shall we keep going for those interesting in snapping pictures and video the exynos 5250 should impressive with the ability to shoot 8megapixel stills at 30fps and 1080p video at 60fps there s also a hardware video codec hdmi 1.4 usb 3.0 connectivity finally and sata emmc4.5 and esd3.0 support so there s no shortage of storage options available for the device makers although samsung claims that the exynos 5250 was designed specifically for high-end tablets we can easily see this chip ending up in some android or linux based notebooks in the not too distant future especially when you consider the sata support as it makes it easy for the notebook makers to use standard components the exynos 5250 is currently sampling to samsung s customers and is expected to go into massproduction in q2 next year which means that by this time next year we should have products in the market sporting the new 10

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone processor it will be interesting to see how much better the arm cortex-a15 core performs and what kind of device the hardware makers can come up with creative announces additional sound blaster recon3d cards in japan source http vr-zone.com/articles/creative-announces-additional-soundblaster-recon3d-cards-in-japan/14100.html december 1st 2011 same shield as the fatal1ty cards but with a blue tinted window we re not entirely sure what else has changed but creative japan is touting this as a mid-range model it comes bundled with a 3.5mm to dual rca cable and an optical toslink cable as well as creative s media toolbox software something you don t get with the basic recon3d model we ve already seen the sound blaster recon3d and sound blaster recon3d fatal1ty professional but it looks like japan is getting an exclusive on no less than two additional models the sound blaster recon3d professional audio and the sound blaster recon3d fatal1ty champion edition both cards are of course based on the new sound core3d chip from creative which the company was touting as a quad core audio processor a little while ago we ve already seen the sound blaster recon3d and sound blaster recon3d fatal1ty professional but it looks like japan is getting an exclusive on no less than two additional models the sound blaster recon3d professional audio and the sound blaster recon3d fatal1ty champion edition both cards are of course based on the new sound core3d chip from creative which the company was touting as a quad core audio processor a little while ago the fatal1ty champion is quite similar to the fatal1ty professional and the main difference as far as we can tell is the inclusion of a front mounted i/o bay that appears to be identical to the one supplied with the older sound blaster xfi titanium fatal1ty champion series apart from that the two cards appear to be identical it also appears that all the two new models will be bundled with a beamforming microphone array in japan which is meant to allow for clearer sound during things like voice calls or video conferencing the two new cards aren t expect to arrive until january so we might see them in other regions as well by then and sadly creative japan didn t provide any pricing for the two new addiotions report production of amd s desktop trinity apus from march 2012 source http vr-zone.com/articles/report-production-of-amd-s-desktoptrinity-apus-from-march-2012/14099.html december 1st 2011 amd s next-generation a-series apus for desktops are set to enter mass production in march 2012 first to production will be 65w apus to be branded a10-5700 a8-5500 a6-5400 and a4-5300 series higher performance 100w apus will be produced two months later from may 2012 branded as a10-5800 and a8-5600 series considering the 65w apus go into production with a two months headstart we can expect the 65w trinity skus to release before their 100w counterparts however amd may choose to hold out for a simultaneous release previous rumours suggested that trinity may release before ivy bridge but this report concludes a release around the same timeframe if not later than ivy bridge the professional audio version on the other hand ends up somewhere between the sound blaster recon3d and the sound blaster recon3d fatal1ty professional as it has the new to the a-series will be a new segment a10 while the a8 a6 and a4 segments from llano will continue amd expects improved supply for trinity thanks to higher yields and greater 11

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone number of wafer starts at glofo s 32nm the report did not mention details about trinity s notebook release arguably the most important market for trinity all information thus far suggests the market maintaining status-quo with intel retaining cpu performance leadership abd amd continuing to offer far superior graphics and good price/performance ratio before trinity releases amd s llano range will see a final refresh with a8-3870k a6-3670k a8-3820 a6-3620 and a4-3420 set to release in january 2012 cedar trail-m in december after all source http vr-zone.com/articles/cedar-trail-m-in-december-afterall 14098.html december 1st 2011 faced with increasingly tough competition from armpowered tablets mediocre q3 2011 sales 32 yoy and other difficulties launch of 32 nm cedar tail-m atom processors has so far been a troubled affair at one point this month there were even strong indications that the new atom chips won t make it before christmas a fresh report however comes brings back some hope for a december 2011 launch faced with increasingly tough competition from armpowered tablets mediocre q3 2011 sales 32 yoy and other difficulties launch of 32 nm cedar tail-m atom processors has so far been a troubled affair at one point this month there were even strong indications that the new atom chips won t make it before christmas a fresh report however comes brings back some hope for a december 2011 launch intel s atom n2800 and n2600 processors designed for netbooks and ultraportable mobile pcs might still be launched by intel in december 2011 according to a recent report by digitimes sources told the industry observer that any delays in the launch of the new chips could have only been because of weak demand for atom processors and chipsets since the target platforms of these chips are reeling with intense competition from tablets and other mobile computing devices running arm processors sources in the industry are still optimistic about atom s future despite dwindling netbook sales there is still room for it particularly in the emerging markets the atom netbook ecosystem suffered a huge setback earlier this year with samsung deciding to discontinue selling netbooks the development left netbook at the hands of only two notable companies who can deliver in large volumes acer and asustek in december 2011 asus will unveil 10-inch netbook models based on cedar trail atom processors the eee pc 1025c and eee pc 1025ce by the end of this year asus will have shipped an estimated 4.6-4.8 netbooks and is expected to ship 4-4.2 in 2012 acer s volumes will be similar to asus sources note australian court overturns samsung galaxy tab ban source http vr-zone.com/articles/australian-court-overturns-samsunggalaxy-tab-ban/14097.html december 1st 2011 an australian court has overturned a preliminary injunction that banned the sale of the samsung galaxy tab in the country but apple has indicated that it will appeal the decision which could lead to further difficulties for samsung an australian court has overturned a ruling that banned the sale of samsung s galaxy tab in the country giving the korean consumer electronics giant some relief in a hotly contested patent battle the federal court ruling said that there was little evidence to suggest that samsung s tablet computer infringed a touchscreen patent that apple had secured a preliminary injunction on 12

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone the court went further by dismissing the original ruling as clearly wrong according to a report by the associated press the full bench argued against federal court justice annabelle bennett s october ruling stating that she failed to properly assess apple s case which the court now believes would be unlikely to win if the matter went to trial berg little printer prints in a big way source http vr-zone.com/articles/berg-little-printer-prints-in-a-bigway/14095.html december 1st 2011 berg little printer doesn t produce a whole lot of photographic prints in a minute but it can bring concise news to you by your bedside along with some social gossips if you want check out how this small box can pack a big surprise bennett s preliminary ruling banned the sale of the 10.1-inch version of the galaxy tab based on apple s long-standing claims that it slavishly copied its design for the ipad today s decision comes just in time for the lucrative christmas shopping season which samsung will be keen to take advantage of however apple said that it will appeal the ruling at the australian high court so the injunction will remain standing until friday to allow time for that to take place the galaxy tab is largely seen as the primary competitor to the ipad leading some including the european union s competition commissioner joaquín almunia to question the potentially anti-competitive nature of these kinds of injunctions which have also resulted in a sales ban of the galaxy tab in germany samsung indicated that it was happy with this latest turn of events claiming that it proves apple s case lacked any legal merit berg a design studio based in london has recently unveiled a new printer no it is not your typical consumer fare that shows off its infinitely dense dots-per-inch rating or its ultrafast print speeds for the fast-paced and impatient workforce the berg little printer is a lifestyle product which may attract people with its fun and personal take on printed matters no bigger than a rubik s cube it serves up your daily subscription of various contents such as news puzzles social updates messages sent from friends and much more with the press of a button all of them will be neatly styled into receipt-sized prints management of the subscription can be carried out easily with its included smartphone app while contents are distributed to the printer via wireless connection and cloud technology the printer itself comes in a minimalist package bearing urban-style design a rising trend in design-oriented communities inside an inkless thermal printer head does the work and takes away the need to replace cartridges the prints produced take after the style of graphic design which includes visual cues from traditional halftone lithography and modern pixel art berg s product does seem like an elegant marriage of advanced technology and modern styling primarily motivated by human intuition while it may not be the thing for every geek out there it is likely to have a fair amount of market appeal especially to ladies unfortunately pricing and availability details have yet to be revealed but you can sign up on their mailing list to get the latest updates 13

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone intel delays ivy bridge to q2 2012 source http vr-zone.com/articles/intel-delays-ivy-bridge-toq2-2012/14088.html december 1st 2011 few months ago rumors due to process problems appeared that intel is going to delay the launch of their 22nm ivy bridge processors from january to march 2012 ultimately even the rumors of that march delay came untrue intel pushed the launch into the second quarter of 2012 intel processors for 2012 carry the codename ivy bridge these 22nm processors will be known as the 3000 series for example core i3-3200 i5-3330 or the i7-3770 regular and k s t editions the clock speeds will vary from 3 to 3.5ghz while the models now officially support the prevailing ddr3-1600 memory standard furthermore the platform just needed development time to complete the complete 2012 platform maho bay and processor ivy bridge this wasn t helped by a wave of and process problems and retirements that recently started to happen at intel as the original baby boomers joined intel in 1970 and 1980s are beginning to leave the company additionally the company needs time to develop drivers for the graphics part after all is said and done the new ivy bridge processors should debut in april-may 2012 timeframe alongside maho bay platform i.e b75 q75 and q77 chipsets android ice cream sandwich coming to lg phones source http vr-zone.com/articles/android-ice-cream-sandwich-comingto-lg-phones/14087.html december 1st 2011 the parts were scheduled to debut in january 2012 but as the time passed by intel wanted to extract as much money as possible from the existing sugar bay platform and the sandy bridge architecture with both bringing record profits for the company bear in mind that sandy bridge lost almost a quarter after the infamous chipset recall at the beginning of 2011 intel marked a billion dollar loss with the recall costs and obviously decided to milk the existing products for as long as possible the fact that amd s bulldozer processors failed to light up the market only increased that reason ivy bridge will come to market only when necessary to do so lg has promised updates of android ice cream sandwich to their top-tier phones but will they fail to meet the mark again as they had with android gingerbread read on to find out which of your phones will be blessed with the new os a good number of smartphones from the lg optimus series released in 2011 have been promised upgrades to android 4.0 14

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december 1st 2011 published by vr-zone ice cream sandwich ics the release dates of the updates are not known yet but the korean company has said that they will unveil their upgrade schedule by december along with a list of additional phones that will be receiving the new os amongst the family of android elite models it was mentioned that the optimus 2x optimus black optimus 3d and the optimus lte will be graced by the highly anticipated software from google lg will also follow up with updates for as many phones as they can which is good news for owners of older phones lg s facebook page mentions we are also continuing to evaluate the ics os to determine whether it is compatible with the functionality features and performance of other lg smartphones to make the ics os available on as many lg smartphones as possible these are big promises to be kept as the owner responses following the annoncement show that previous update cycles of android gingerbread for many of their phones are either slow or lacking hopefully lg would take this opportunity to fulfil their promises and regain more customer confidence noise-canceling headphones that reduce ambient noise and comes with a detachable cable with in-line microphone for voice communication on the iphone the concealed microphones in the ear-cups pick up surrounding noises and these are electronically negated effectively reducing the noise by up to 85 with the absence of unwanted sound the finelytuned 40mm neodymium drivers offers great details of music or entertainment the creative hn-900 s audio cable also comes with an in-line microphone and switch for a convenient one-click call function for voice communication on the iphone if the headphones run out of battery power they can still be used in the passive mode without the noise-cancellation function the creative hn-900 noise-canceling headphones are currently available at the creative online store at sg.store.creative.com and the creative stores outlets at international business park marina square and authorised dealers in singapore from end nov 2011 onwards at the suggested retail price of s$129 creative announces hn-900 headphones with active noisecanceling for clear voice calls source http vr-zone.com/articles/creative-announces-hn-900headphones-with-active-noise-canceling-for-clear-voice-calls/14094.html december 1st 2011 celebrate christmas with limited edition soul by ludacris sl-150cs headphones source http vr-zone.com/articles/celebrate-christmas-with-limitededition-soul-by-ludacris-sl-150cs-headphones/14093.html december 1st 2011 creative technology has recently announced their new hn-900 headphones with active noise-canceling technology and full-size ear-cups that can reduce ambient noise by up to 85 offering superb audip experience anc clear voice communications looking for a new headphones this festive season check out the limited edition soul by ludacris sl-150cs headphones in chrome finish chris ludacris bridges the person behind the brand soul by ludacris personal audio products together with his design team has created a limited edition of the sl-150cs headphone in chrome creative technology has recently announced the new creative hn-900 noise-canceling headphones a set of full-size active this beautiful sl-150cs headphone comes with two different detachable 3.5mm headphone cables the standard 3.5mm 15

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