Lenovo with its new Y-series laptop is back – the company released its new IdeaPad Y470. The 14-inch IdeaPad Y470p consists of a 2.2GHz quad-core Core i7 processor, 8GB of RAM, an optional 1TB HDD, JBL speakers and a native 1,366 x 768 screen resolution. The unit tips the scales at 4.85 pounds with a six-cell battery, which is supposedly good for up to four hours...
Samsung’s Galaxy S III is truly the next “possible big thing” in the Android gizmo world – even since the device still no where made publicly announced. The company might be holding their Galaxy S III for the next month’s MWC that is going to take place in Barcelona – this is what we are hearing from various sources. Even during the recent Samsung’s earning call, company executive Mrs. Younghee Lee acknowledged the existence of the Galaxy S III. In response to an analyst question about the Galaxy S III launch...
Good news for the Nintendo lovers – the company reported that the Wii U will launch in the US, Japan, Europe and Australia by the end of 2012. Nintendo president Satoru Iwata has told reporters. This is the first time that the news got confirmed. The announcement also states that there are strong chances that we are likely to know Wii U specifications and details...
Google’s leader of Chromebook, Rajen Sheth, announced a deal this week with three school districts in the US that will bring 27,000 Chromebooks to students in Iowa, Illnois and South Carolina. Sheth announced about the deal in a speech to the Florida Educational Technology Conference. “A lot of schools are on OSes that are 5 to 10 years old because of the cost...
Xbox 720 or Xbox Loop – whichever name do the Microsoft ends up in calling it as, the chipset of the next generation Xbox console has been in the production since from last month and will probably be out by 2013 fall. The report from Fudzilla claims that, “the power behind the next Xbox will be a PowerPC CPU that is married to an ATI Southern Islands GPU, or...
According to Global Equities Research (via VentureBeat), the new inexpensive digital textbooks Apple launched last week was downloaded over 350,000 times in just three days. iBook Author, a new free of charge Mac tool to author iBooks Textbooks, saw some 90,000 downloads in the same period. The company launched a new version of its iBooks iOS application for the...
With giving a brief update on Facebook, Asus North America promised that the original Eee Pad Transformer would get its Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) update by somewhere around mid-February. The upgrade should bring the updated interface and will improve speed. Asus earlier this month stated that the update for TF101 Ice Cream Sandwich will come somewhere in February 2012. Adding to this, it also states that the update will be first available in North America and Taiwan. ...
Olympus on February 8th is on the way to announce a new line of its Micro Four Thirds cameras with the name “OM-D”. 43Rumors posted a teaser shot of a new camera. The camera will be the first of its “OM series” camera that is coming after 40 years. 43Rumors further mentioned the specifications that they are pretty sure with some minor changes expected from...
Microsoft updates the world with mentioning that the company is aware of the color space issue w/ some Xbox video apps and is working on its fixture. The company last updated about Xbox 360 to its users in December brought with a problem with color output for some. The company’s Xbox division, Director of Programming, Larry Hyrb, tweeted about the issue. The problem might be looks smaller in nature, but it looks company wondered it that it’s important enough to address. The new dashboard released in December to upgrade the service...
Nike unveiled on Thursday with its Nike+ FuelBand, a personal accelerometer that measures your activity in what Nike calls “Fuel”, or your movement in three dimensions. The FuelBand takes the Nike+ data collection engine and expands it to a full day’s worth of activities, then combines it with a basic LED wristband for data reporting and interaction. Users...
