One of the most prolific handset manufactures, LG, presented a wide array of hot devices at their MWC 2009 booth, in Barcelona, and the company's head display at this year's Mobile Congress was obviously the LG KM900 Arena, officially announced last week. Featuring the fresh 3D S class user interface, LG KM900 Arena promises greater functionality and more eye-candy effects than ever. The huge 3-inch WGA TFT touchscreen display supports 262k colors and 480x800 pixel resolution. It is said that no other...
[read more >>] The next iteration of Windows is evolving at fast pace through the development milestones, now that it is past the Beta stage and making its way to Release Candidate. Having wrapped up Windows 7 beta Build 7000 in December 2008, with downloads made available to the general public on January 10, 2009, Microsoft is making headway with the development process, having already started building the first and only Release Candidate for the operating system. At this point in time, the Redmond company has reached number 7...
[read more >>] I was surprised to find out that HTC, the leading Windows Mobile-based smartphone manufacturer, only managed to come out with three devices, none of them impressive enough. Obviously, following the mild success that G1 had in the past, HTC continues the Android-based series with a new G1 smartphone that features almost the same technical specifications.The most obvious difference between the two is the lack of a QWERTY keyboard, which is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact, this is the reason the new HTC Magic, ...
[read more >>] Santa Clara, California-based Intel filed a complaint on Monday, in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware, against graphics chip maker NVIDIA, according to which Intel is negating that the four-year-old chipset license agreement between the two companies doesn't extend to Intel's future generation of CPUs. More precisely, Intel is saying that NVIDIA has no valid license for making chipsets that can support Intel's future generation of CPUs, with “integrated” memory controllers,...
[read more >>] Security researchers from antivirus vendor Trend Micro warn of a new strain of malware that targets a recently-patched vulnerability in Internet Explorer 7. Successful exploitation results in remote code execution in the form of a malicious .dll file. During "Patch Tuesday" last week, Microsoft addressed a critical vulnerability (MS09-002) in Internet Explorer 7, which it warned it could be easily exploited by visiting a specially-crafted Web page. The new malware targeting unpatched systems propagates by spammi...
[read more >>] It appears that the launch of AMD's latest 45nm Phenom II processors has once again sparked the interest of all those overclocking enthusiasts that would go on pushing the limits of some of the latest hardware components on the market. We have already seen how the new chips have been used in some overclocking demonstrations in extreme cooling techniques. The said processors were benchmarked using some of the most popular applications on the market, namely Futuremark's 3DMark06 or the 05 edition. The set...
[read more >>] Nokia made quite an impressive appearance at the 2009 edition of the annual Mobile World Congress event, held in Barcelona. Apart from the five handsets that were officially launched at MWC, Nokia made an announcement regarding its new application store called OVI. Ovi Store intends to offer users all previous services, such as Download!, MOSH and WidSets into a single tool. Basically, it will deliver games, applications, WidSets as well as media content according to several criteria, or what Nokia calls 'So...
[read more >>] Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer, along with mobile partners HTC, LG and Orange, unveiled today at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona the newest version of Microsoft's operating system, Windows Mobile 6.5. Handsets that will be based on the new platform will be able to deliver new user-friendly software and services. The new Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system comes along with a new user interface, while delivering a richer browsing experience, new ways to personalize the handset, including new themes...
[read more >>] Windows 7 could run on more than just PCs, laptops (netbooks/Ultra Low Cost PCs) and servers, according to a detail “leaked” by Microsoft, or just a slip-up from the company. In fact, Windows 7 could power mobile phones/smartphones as of 2010. At the start of January 2009, Microsoft made available for download the fully-fledged Beta builds of both Windows 7 client and Windows 7 Server (Windows Server 2008 R2). Last month, users got free, unlimited access to the Beta releases, and Windows Server 2008 R...
[read more >>] Standing at the top of the Nokia Nseries line, N96 has been stuffed with all the latest features that you can think of. While N95 was highly acclaimed at the time of its launch, expectations became even higher once Nokia announced its plans to release an even better Nseries handset – N96. Unfortunately, as you will probably discover in the following review, Nokia 96 has pretty much disappointed what was expected from it for various reasons. Even though it still has some of the latest technologies included, ...
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