Whether or not you think it's practical to outfit a system with 32GB of memory, Corsair is at least making the prospect possible by adding 8GB DDR3 modules to its Vengeance and Value Select memory lines. Slap four of these sticks into your dual-channel setup and you'll be sitting pretty with more RAM than most people know what to do with. The Vengeance stick is clocked at 1600MHz with 10-10-10-27 latency settings[......]
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Sometime yesterday Microsoft started yanking references to its Zune HD player from its Zune website. WinRumors picked up on it and surmised Microsoft was getting ready to axe its media player, an assumption the Redmond software giant denied while chalking up the incident as "a mistake." That was yesterday. [......]
One of the highlights so far at CEATEC 2011 has been the HAL robot walker . Made using Intel tech – and unsurprisingly shown off at the Intel press conference – the robot walker has been created by Cyberdyne, a Japanese company whose CEO is professor Yoshiyuki Sankai[......]
CEATEC has always been renowned for its showcasing of new products in the field of robotics and this year was of no exception, with Intel and the CEO of Japanese company Cyberdyne showing off the HAL robot walker and revealing how it will change the world of medicine, gaming and exercise. TechRadar was in Japan to see the demo of HAL where we were told how it works. It essentially links up to the signals the human body gives off and enhances everyday human functions, like walking[......]
Part for part and with manufacturing costs taken into account, Amazon appears to be losing $10 for every Kindle Fire tablet it sells, according to a build of materials (BOM) estimate IHS iSuppl i put together. The reason Amazon can afford to sell hardware at a loss -- if in fact the mega online retailer really is losing money -- is because it will make up for it in services and sales after the fact. If the numbers are correct, Amazon will have to make up $950,000 just to account for the first day of pre-order sales. [......]
A number of people have been complaining about a fan control issue affecting their Corsair Hydro Series H100 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler. After tearing into some units, Corsair was able to root out the problem and confirm an issue exists with a "small number of H100 units with lot code 11359403." The lot code is printed on the box, and if yours matches up, Corsair recommends running a simple test. "If you have this lot code, test your installed unit while the system is running by pressing the profile change button," Corsair says. [......]
You're officially old school if you're still swinging a single-core CPU. AMD's Sempron chips are some of the last of a dying breed, and even though the Sunnyvale chip maker is fully invested in its E-Series and A-Series accelerated processing units (APUs) and upcoming Bulldozer architecture, the company is still planning to shuffle Sempron chips into its lineup for the foreseeable future. Fudzilla is hearing that Sempron will remain in active production and ship out until at least the first quarter of 2012, and possibly much longer[......]
A patent filed by Microsoft proposes to use Kinect's body-detecting technology to guess the ages of people using the Xbox 360 peripheral. The system uses a 3D depth camera to measure the proportions of the user's head, shoulders, arms and body to work out their age range, and then controls access to television shows, movies and games. Unlike Microsoft's existing facial recognition system, the body-detection will work on any user, even those who don't have accounts set up on the console[......]
A patent filed by Microsoft proposes to use Kinect's body-detecting technology to guess the ages of people using the Xbox 360 peripheral. The system uses a 3D depth camera to measure the proportions of the user's head, shoulders, arms and body to work out their age range, and then controls access to television shows, movies and games[......]
Over the weekend, Sony refreshed its VAIO S Series family with the addition of the full HD 15.5-inch Sony VAIO and the 13.3-inch VAIO SA . The two models, which have arrived well in time for the holidays, were announced at the end of August. Both models start at $999 and feature almost identical specs. [......]
Time is money, which is why we know you expect to get the most out of your broadband connection and why we've teamed up with Cisco Linksys to give you the chance to win the cream of the router crop. We've got four super-fast Cisco Linksys E3000 wireless-N routers to give away to four lucky winners, worth £129.99 each. [......]
Firebox is the latest big name to announce its involvement with the 'Silicon Roundabout' Tech City in London, with the online retailer moving its headquarters to the area. The Tech City project has the backing of the government and the whole project has been boosted by Google's recent announcement that it will lease a building in the area to aid its development. [......]
Last weekend we noticed that RIM was experimenting with a $200 price cut in Canada, however, with the unveiling of the Amazon Fire the company has decided to not just move its discount across the border, but make it permanent . The 16GB entry level playbook now starts at only $299 for Wi-Fi only, and goes up by $100 increments when moving up to the 32GB, and 64GB configurations.[......]
Amazon’s Kindle Fire could easily be considered one of the worst kept secrets in the tech industry. Almost every detail was known about the device prior to the announcement in New York last week except one, the price[......]
Micron this week announced financial results for its fourth fiscal quarter and 2011 fiscal year ended September 1, 2011, and the numbers aren't pretty. The company's revenue from DRAM in the third quarter dropped 12 percent compared to Q3, a slump Micron said was the result of declines in the average selling prices. [......]
