Nokia N97 Mini Arrives in India

Nokia launched N97 Mini in India just a few months after the bigger, better endowed Nokia N97 was announced. Positioned as the cheaper alternative to the N97, the phone comes with a slightly smaller screen and unlike the N97, this device does not have the navi-pad on the keyboard.

The Nokia N97 mini is designed for this new social internet and to help navigate people and places. Moreover, it comes in a pocket-friendly size for those out and about. With live feeds, personalized content, Lifecasting with Ovi, Ovi Mail and Ovi Store, the N97 mini provides web centricity to user in a compact case.”

The N97 Mini is powered by a single 434 MHz ARM11 CPU and features 128MB of SDRAM. The camera supports video recording at 640x480 resoultion at 30 frames per second. The phone boasts up to 9.5 hours of talk time and upto 18 days of standby time.

Nokia has also launched a new contest coinciding with the launch wherein 4 winners will be shortlisted by a panel of judges and 2 stand to win Nokia N97 mini for free every week. To enter the contest one needs to visit www.ndtvgadgets.com and the contest will open on November 24, 2009.

AMD ATI Radeon HD 5970 Fastest Graphics Card in the World

AMD announced the flagship installment in the award-winning line of graphics cards, the ATI Radeon HD 5970, the fastest card ever created.1 The new ultra high-end model joins a growing list of the world’s first and only graphics cards to fully support Microsoft DirectX 11 technology and ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology.

Designed to support the most demanding PC games at ultra-high resolutions and image quality settings, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 has unlocked overclocking potential, granting access to every bit of power the card has to offer through ATI Overdrive™ technology.2 Now shipping from retailers and available in the channel, the ATI Radeon™ HD 5970 also launches today in new Alienware Area-51, Area-51 ALX and Aurora desktop PCs.

Record-breaking overclocking capabilities take Dragon Platform technology to the forefront for users that demand the utmost control in performance tuning. The unrivaled overclocking capabilities of the ATI Radeon HD 5970 are enabled by the unique design of the card, which features advanced fan and vapor chamber technologies and a fully vented exhaust to keep the card cool and ensure overclocking headroom using ATI Overdrive™ technology.2 The formidable combination of AMD Phenom II processors, AMD 7-Series chipsets, and ATI Radeon HD graphics deliver comprehensive tuning, immersive entertainment, and outstanding value.

Enthusiasts can expand their field of view, ATI Radeon HD 5970, driving up to three displays at once, delivering an unmatched maximum resolution of 7680x1600 and creating an unparalleled game play experience.3 For the first time ever, ATI CrossFireX™ technology leverages the power of multiple graphics processors to deliver even more game performance in 20 of today’s popular titles when using ATI Eyefinity technology, with more to come.

The ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card delivers nearly 5 TeraFLOPS of compute power, ensuring superior performance in the latest DirectX 11 games, as well as in previous versions of DirectX and OpenGL titles. With the world’s most powerful graphics core built on 40nm process technology harnessing up to 3,200 stream processors, gamers can enjoy DirectX 11 games now, such as EA Phenomic’s BattleForge™ and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.:Call of Pripyat from GSC Game World, with many more titles on the way, including:

• Battlefield Bad Company 2 from EA DICE
• DiRT™ 2 from Codemasters, arriving December 1, 2009,
• Aliens vs. Predator from Rebellion,
• Update to The Lord of the Rings Online from Turbine,
• Update to Dungeons and Dragons Online Eberron Unlimited from Turbine.

New features and functionality of ATI Stream technology allow users to harness the ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card to enhance their computing experience, helping to improve the performance of enabled media, entertainment and productivity applications.4 ATI Stream technology and the HD 5970 support both Direct Compute 11 and OpenCL industry standards for application acceleration.

Delivering full-fledged performance when needed, the ATI Radeon HD 5970 also leads in power efficiency by automatically powering down unused GPU resources when not in use, resulting in idle desktop power consumption as low as 42 watts.5

The ATI Radeon HD 5970 is supported by a wide range of add-in-board companies, including ASK, Asus, Club 3D, Diamond, Gigabyte, High Tech, MSI, Sapphire, Tul/Power Color, Visiontek and XFX.

Autonomy down for netbooks Windows 7

According to numerous tests, netbooks Windows 7 lose significant autonomy in relation to their counterparts under Windows XP. They talk about 47 minutes on average, which is rather embarrassing for computers dedicated to use mobile.

You have probably noticed, most manufacturers have opted for netbooks operating system Windows XP rather than Windows Vista, but with more features and benefiting from a higher security level compared to its predecessor.

Initially this choice, the consumption of resources and energy more important for Windows Vista, which seem to inhibit those computers with limited performance and dedicated to mobile use.

With its latest Windows 7, Microsoft has promised an OS more suited for netbooks and can run without problem on most models. Numerous tests show that this is indeed the case.

But they also reveal that the concern of energy consumption has not been resolved. Autonomy measured in Windows 7 indicates a reduction of 47 minutes on average compared to Windows XP. The Asus Eee PC 1008HA loses eg 57 minutes, or 16% of its autonomy.

It remains now to see the solution to be chosen by the manufacturers, namely pass Windows 7 while increasing the battery capacity to ensure self-correct, stay with the safe bet is that Windows XP for this type of computer or migrate to the new Microsoft OS without taking account of the decline of autonomy. You can even see a chance for the free OS such as Linux or OS Chrome to prove themselves.

Download Flash Player 10.1 beta

Adobe delivers a first beta of Flash Player 10.1 to destination operating systems Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and netbooks to x86. For cons, the media announced a wide range of smartphones is still relevant for this preview.

Similarly, the supported environments are not granted the same treatment, and regarding the hardware acceleration of video (H.264 decoding), it is proposed for the time with Windows PCs equipped with maps suitable graphic. According to Adobe, this acceleration must improve performance and help save the life of batteries.

If he had hitherto been mainly concerned with the acceleration of Flash fully supported by the GPU platform with NVIDIA, AMD to take this beta release to announce this media with platforms Technology Vision and cite several references such as ATI Radeon HD 4000, HD 5700 and HD 5800.

Remember that Flash Player 10.1 has been developed within the Open Source Project to provide a single milling for various platforms. The final version is expected in the first half of 2010, no 64-bit native support.

At the same time as the beta version of Flash Player 10.1, Adobe offers a beta version of its runtime environment for applications on the desktop, AIR 2.0. This includes Flash Player 10.1 and offers developers a range of new features with support for the detection of peripheral mass storage, user interfaces for multitouch screens, support for Web pages using HTML 5 and CSS3, APIs new to access audio from a microphone, support for the UDP network protocol.


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Linux release of Fedora 12

After Ubuntu 9.10, Mandriva Linux 2010 and openSUSE 11.2 last week, it is time for Fedora 12 to enter the track at the end of 2009. A proposed free Linux distribution with a new version every six months. Its development is supported by Red Hat and Fedora is often compared to a sandbox versions for companies in the editor.

With the base kernel 2.6.31.5 Linux, Fedora 12 supports default filesystem ext4. It was already the case for Fedora 11, but the GRUB boot loader has been updated to take into account the medium. The proposed office environments are GNOME 2.28 and KDE 4.3.2.

Red Hat announced the release of Fedora 12, highlights the key improvements. The editor cites improvements to PackageKit which allows for easier installation of software packages and supports a browser plugin so that applications can be installed via HTML tags, and therefore from a web browser.

NetworkManager has better support mobile connections, allows to quickly switch to a broadband connection to another. Fedora 12 includes the Theora video codec for 1.1 and Red Hat, "and users will be able to download and play high-definition video using software codecs and formats 100% open and free.

Other improvements are highlighted on Virtualization: best virtual disk performance and detection of storage, changes in hot virtual network interfaces, reduced memory consumption, modern infrastructure network boot.

• Plymouth for a graphic animation to boot
• Support of Moblin
• X86 version optimized for Intel Atom (compiled for i686 architecture)
• Better management of webcams
• Compression XZ for RPMS
• Improving energy management
• Improvements for the PulseAudio sound server
• Bluetooth application
• NetBeans 6.7.1

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Wooden luxury mobile phones

Company Bellperre announced a series of mobile phones Finest Woods luxury housing are made from wood. Mobile phones are made with the use of steel, yellow and pink gold or platinum, natural skin (shark, lizard, buffalo, etc.) and precious stones. Among the characteristics of the model can be mentioned 2-inch display, camera, Bluetooth, support networks, GSM 900/1800/1900 MHz. Dimensions of the apparatus are 100h44h15, 3 mm, weight 120 g. Phones Finest Woods is running Windows Mobile.

On the cost Finest Woods until the information is not available.

Microsoft published the code. NET Micro Framework 4.0

PDC09 summit, currently taking place in Los Angeles, Microsoft announced the release of source code. NET Micro Framework, which goes further in version 4.0. This environment allows to develop and execute applications. Net on small devices.

Now available under the Apache License 2.0. NET Micro Framework is found both in the car GPS, mobile phones or medical devices. Developers can also access the Base Class Libraries, the library used by all programming languages based on the environment. Net.

Peter Galli said however that the TCP / IP stacks, made available by the publisher EBSNet are not included in the source code, Microsoft had no right to redistribute. Should also be noted that the encryption libraries are not part of the lot, Colin Miller, product manager at Microsoft, explains that they can be replaced.

The publication of source code. NET Micro Framework does not mean that the company plans to abandon the platform. Mr. Miller said that the community wished to see the firm involved in future developments to avoid fragmentation of the project. "Therefore we will set up a specialized team consists of Microsoft employees and external contributors to continue the development of a high-quality small appliances.

The GeForce GT240 official debut

Pending renewal of high-end GeForce, NVIDIA gives today officially launched a new benchmark, the GeForce GT240, a low-budget card that will be broken down into GDDR3 or GDDR5 according to the manufacturers. Compatible with DirectX 10.1, the map is engraved in 40 nanometers. The GPU is clocked at 550 MHz, 1360 MHz cons for the 96 shader units it shipped. In RAM, NVIDIA recommends combining the 128 bit interface card in the 1000 MHz GDDR3 or GDDR5 to 1700 MHz, which offer a maximum bandwidth of 54.4 GB / s depending on manufacturer.

In simple format slot, the card ignores the SLI connector. It is in contrast with features of decompression of video material, but also the capacity of general calculations associated with CUDA. Also compatible 3D Vision, the GT240 can be used for physics calculations with PhysX card as extra. In terms of multimedia, we note the inclusion of native HDMI and an audio controller. As for performance, NVIDIA claims that its youngest surpasses the Radeon HD 4670, that we should check in the week. The price finally expected to be below 100 euros.

Among partners, Gigabyte has already started the ball rolling ads with two references equipped with VGA, DVI and HDMI. The first offers 1 GB of GDDR3 memory, while the second set of 512 MB of GDDR5. Here, the Taiwanese manufacturer opts for cooling relatively large, which puts the map in double slot. ECS is also in two models with a card with 512 MB GDDR5 and the other from 1 GB Most manufacturers partner with NVIDIA should also announce a few references to this GT240 in the week.

AMD: Catalyst 9.11 acceleration Flash

AMD comes instantly to the online version of November of Catalyst drivers for graphics cards of the Radeon series. This milling, stamped 9.11, provides the main novelty as support for hardware acceleration of H.264 authorized last few hours the beta of Flash Player 10.1.

This new batch of pilots, which is currently available for Windows XP, Vista and 7 in 32 and 64 bit, also fixes a number of shortcomings identified by users of various editions of Microsoft operating system. Regarding Windows 7, we may for example bring the bug fix that prevented Cyberlink PowerDVD correctly read Blu-ray in some settings, but also return to its rightful place as the option to activate the anti - aliasing, sometimes lost in another menu than his.

The problem could cause the system to crash when changing screen resolution while the real time protection was enabled in Microsoft Security Essentials is also arranged. Vista is not forgotten, with the correction of malfunctions that could, under certain conditions, affect Crysis in DirectX 10 and The Witcher on the card series Radeon HD 58xx.

AMD does not report any improvement in contrast performance in games, having clear favorite just for the month of November to work on support for hardware acceleration of video in Flash, something that should delight users machines with a little old. At AMD, this acceleration is available from the cards and controllers integrated Radeon HD 3xxx series / Radeon HD 4xxx and higher.

We can download these drivers from the page following, and view the release notes in English in this PDF.

OCZ Technology Launches Colossus 3.5" SSD Line

OCZ Technology today released the Colossus 3.5" Solid State Drive (SSD) Series, designed to meet the performance and storage demands of high-end desktop users and enterprise clients.

"The new Colossus Series is designed to boost desktop and workstation performance and is for high power users that put a premium on speed, reliability and maximum storage capacity," said Eugene Chang, VP of Product Management at the OCZ Technology Group. "The Colossus core-architecture is also available to enterprise clients with locked BOMs (build of materials) and customized firmware to match their unique applications."

In addition to capacities up to 1TB, the OCZ Colossus delivers high performance made possible by an internal RAID 0 architecture:

The Colossus line is built with cost-effective multi-level cell (MLC) flash to make it a viable option for enterprise clients.

The Colossus SSD is available in 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, and 1TB solutions to accommodate a broader spectrum of applications than current 2.5? SSD products; the 3.5" housing is a straight drop in for many existing rack systems. The Colossus SSD series has a 1.5 million hour mean time between failures (MTBF) and comes backed by a 3-year warranty. 

New Fermi-based GPUs by Nvidia

Nvidia unveiled the Tesla 20-series of parallel processors for the high performance computing
(HPC) market, based on its new generation CUDA processor architecture, codenamed "Fermi".

Designed from the ground-up for parallel computing, the NVIDIA? Tesla 20-series GPUs slash the cost of computing by delivering the same performance of a traditional CPU-based cluster at one-tenth the cost and one-twentieth the power, the company claims.

The Tesla 20-series introduces features that enable many new applications to perform dramatically faster using GPU Computing. These include ray tracing, 3D cloud computing, video encoding, database search, data analytics, computer-aided engineering and virus scanning.

The Tesla 20-series GPUs offer support for the next generation IEEE 754-2008 double precision floating point standard, ECC (error correcting codes), multi-level cache hierarchy with L1 and L2 caches, support for the C++ programming language as well as up to to 1 terabyte of memory, concurrent kernel execution, fast context switching, 10x faster atomic instructions, 64-bit virtual address space, system calls and recursive functions.

At their core, Tesla GPUs are based on the parallel CUDA computing architecture.

The family of Tesla 20-series GPUs includes:

- Tesla C2050 & C2070 GPU Computing Processors

• Single GPU PCI-Express Gen-2 cards for workstation configurations
•   Up to 3GB and 6GB (respectively) on-board GDDR5 memory
•   Double precision performance in the range of 520GFlops - 630 GFlops

- Tesla S2050 & S2070 GPU Computing Systems

• Four Tesla GPUs in a 1U system product for cluster and datacenter deployments
• Up to 12 GB and 24 GB (respectively) total system memory on board GDDR5 memory
• Double precision performance in the range of 2.1 TFlops - 2.5 TFlops

The Tesla C2050 and C2070 products will retail for $2,499 and $3,999 and the Tesla S2050 and S2070 will retail for $12,995 and $18,995. Products will be available in Q2 2010.

As Nvidia has previously announced, the first Fermi-based consumer (GeForce) products are expected to be available first quarter 2010.