Sony Xperia Sola follows fingers, performs NFC tricks

From CNET News.com: Sony's new Xperia NXT series of Android smartphones are distinctively styled but haven't exactly bowled me over with cutting edge components or software. The latest handset to join the company's offerings also lacks quad-core processing and Android Ice Cream...

Sony Officially Outs A57 D-SLR With Translucent Mirror

From DailyTech: Sony has announced its latest D-SLR camera called the A57. The camera can shoot 12 frames per second and offers full HD video recording along with auto portrait framing. The camera uses Sony's Translucent Mirror Technology that allows incoming light to hit the CMOS...

Intel Reportedly Working on Internet TV Service

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of chips, is reportedly working on an Internet TV service. Not a lot of details about the service are available now, but since Intel owns loads of telecommunication technologies as well as some codecs and software, the chip...

IBM's New Optical Chipset Delivers 1Tb/s Transfer Speed

From X-bit Labs: IBM scientists have unveiled a prototype optical chipset, dubbed “Holey Optochip”, that is the first parallel optical transceiver to transfer one trillion bits – 1Tb (125GB/s) – of information per second.

At 1Tb/s, IBM’s latest advance in optical chip technology...

Mozilla Begins Windows 8 Firefox Development

From PC World: A Mozilla engineer says development of a touch-centric version of Firefox for Windows 8 has begun in earnest and also highlighted a few interesting details about Web browsing in Windows 8.

A proof of concept version of Firefox for Windows 8 is scheduled to be up and...

Nokia to launch Windows 8 tablet later this year, says report

From CNET News.com: Nokia could hit the Windows 8 tablet market later this year with its own 10-inch device.

Citing "sources at upstream component suppliers," DigiTimes says that Nokia will likely debut a dual-core Windows 8 tablet in this year's fourth quarter at the earliest...

Intel to Integrate PCI Express 3.0 Support into Thunderbolt

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. said earlier this week that it had begun works on improving speed and features of Thunderbolt interconnection to PCI Express 3.0 levels. Intel does not disclose any actual details of implementations or set dates at this point.

"We are working on...

G.Skill Debuts 2.66GHz Quad-Channel DDR3 Memory Kit

From X-bit Labs: G.Skill, a leading maker of ultra high-end memory modules, unveiled the industry's fastest 2.66GHz quad-channel memory kit for Intel Corp.'s Core i7-series "Sandy Bridge-E" microprocessors at CeBIT trade-show. The 16GB kit is aimed at no-compromise enthusiasts, who...

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