tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:58:49 +0000Motherboard SectionMac SectionMemory SectionCPU and Chipset ArticlesMobileIT Computing SectionDisplayGadgetsStorageSystemLinux SectionVedioCases/Cooling/PSUs SectionTabletsmartphonesCameraGraphics CardHARD DISKandroidWINDOWS SOFTWARESlapNewsSamsungGoogleIntelgpusguideAutomobilesGoogle MapsSonyTechnologycostAMDASUSBajajBikesFiscal ResultsG4GmailIP CamerasIphoneLgMicrosoftMotorola Xoom 2 reviewNetworkingNividiaPulsarREVIEWRouterSSDsTechsVediocardXperiaZENFONEZOTAC A75-ITX WiFinexusnostrade showhttp://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)Blogger327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-8289312269097484108Wed, 27 May 2015 12:56:00 +00002015-05-27T05:56:44.113-07:00ASUSMobileREVIEWsmartphonesZENFONE When I think about ASUS, the first thing that comes to mind are their PC components like motherboards, GPUs and the like. I also think of their desktop and laptop computers. Part of that is probably due to my longstanding interest in PCs and PC gaming, but even so, the idea of ASUS as a smartphone company is one that I don't think about that often. However, ASUS has been offering http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-asus-zenfone-2-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Anonymous)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-4781695325654650871Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:54:00 +00002015-04-28T11:54:41.560-07:00GoogleGoogle MapsMobilenexussmartphones Today Google officially announced their previously rumored entry into the world of wireless service. This new endeavor is known as Project Fi, and it's exclusive to owners of the Nexus 6 who live in the United States. While carriers have offered branded mobile devices at times, the entry of a company making mobile phones into the business of providing the wireless service for their http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2015/04/google-unveils-project-fi-network-for.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-8577394927333759414Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:41:00 +00002015-04-28T11:41:48.910-07:00Fiscal ResultsIphoneMac Sectionsmartphones Today Apple announced their earnings for their second quarter for fiscal year 2015. Once again, iPhone dominated their revenue stream, with 40% more units sold and 55% more revenue than the same period last year. Total revenue for the quarter came in at $58 billion, which is up 27% year-over-year. Gross margin for the quarter was up too, coming in at 40.8% for this quarter. Net incomehttp://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2015/04/apple-releases-fy-2015-q2-earnings.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-853110376066385005Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:29:00 +00002015-04-28T11:29:16.853-07:00G4Lgsmartphones 11:49AM EDT - That's a wrap. Time for some hands on 11:47AM EDT - Looks like we're wrapping up, it's the final summary 11:46AM EDT - test 11:46AM EDT - 4000 people will be invited to take part in a user experience 11:43AM EDT - Another video about users having some time with the phone 11:42AM EDT - G4 coes with QuadBeat 3 headphones 11:42AM EDThttp://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2015/04/the-lg-g4-day-live-blog-11am-et-start.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-3927143126403924620Sun, 02 Mar 2014 23:00:00 +00002014-03-02T15:00:03.554-08:00Cases/Cooling/PSUs Section After a lengthy hiatus, we're back with a new PSU and case reviewer. As we kick off our revised power supply testing and reviews, we wanted to cover the fundamentals of how we test and what to expect. Some of this is still a work in progress, as we have not gathered all of the equipment we would like to have, and as we move forward we will periodically provide updates to our PSU testing http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/how-we-test-psus-2014.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-7985803940019138450Sun, 02 Mar 2014 22:30:00 +00002014-03-02T14:30:00.778-08:00IP CamerasStorage Western Digital's campaign to delineate hard drive market segments and the accompanied colour-based branding has proved to be very popular. The Red drive lineup for the SMB / SOHO NAS market and the Black drives for the enthusiast segment have been greeted with good market acceptance. Today, Western Digital is expanding this initiative with the Purple branding for hard drives targeting the http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/western-digital-targets-surveillance.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-9196532933129906646Sun, 02 Mar 2014 09:09:00 +00002014-03-02T01:14:39.023-08:00Technology When Vidya Mukundan gave up her Mumbai job for the sake of children she thought of opening a shop in Kerala to tap into her fashion designing skills. A mother of two from Kannur, Vidya wanted to open a store in Kozhikode city, but she could not zero in on an apt spot. That’s when the young CA professional thought of opening a  virtual storefront on Facebook to sell designer sarees. Thehttp://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/for-them-each-fb-like-ring-in-cash.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-5868608684795007410Sun, 02 Mar 2014 09:00:00 +00002014-03-02T01:00:55.776-08:00AutomobilesTechnology The Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC) introduced the country’s first electric zero-emission bus in the city on Thursday. Although the bus has been in Bangalore for over a month now, it was officially launched by Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy after getting the required permissions from the Transport Department. The bus will run on a trial basis for the next three http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/countrys-first-electric-bus-launched-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-6161007701296000400Sun, 02 Mar 2014 08:57:00 +00002014-03-02T00:57:16.432-08:00AutomobilesBajajBikesPulsar Bajaj has pulled a massive surprise at the 2014 Auto Expo. While we expected them to show the faired version of the Bajaj Pulsar 200NS, the company has gone ahead and shown not one but two new Pulsars, both with the larger 375cc engine. The first is the one we knew about — the faired SS400 (see below), where SS stands for Supersports. And just like we visualised,the bike sports an overtly http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-6147892505904168184Sun, 02 Mar 2014 08:51:00 +00002014-03-02T00:51:35.135-08:00Mac SectionMobile For much of the iPhone's life Apple has enjoyed a first-mover advantage. At the launch of the first iPhone, Steve Jobs expected the device and OS would give it a multi-year head start over the competition. Indeed that's how the market played out. Although Android was met with some early success, it wasn't until well after the launch of the first Android devices that we started seeing broad, http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/the-iphone-5s-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-5368024581906377159Sun, 02 Mar 2014 08:42:00 +00002014-03-02T00:42:53.084-08:00MicrosoftTablet Shortly after general availability of the Surface Pro 2, Microsoft pushed out a firmware update that allowed the Marvell WiFi solution to drive down to even lower power states. I spoke with Microsoft after the update went live and immediately re-ran both of our battery life benchmarks on the Surface Pro 2. The improvement is significant. As a recap, both of our battery life tests are http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/microsoft-surface-pro-2-firmware-update.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-8380605584352972053Sun, 02 Mar 2014 08:40:00 +00002014-03-02T00:40:05.275-08:00Cases/Cooling/PSUs Section Introduction It has been 16 months since our last power supply review, but the long wait is finally over. We have a new PSU and cases editor, and this is the first of many new PSU reviews to come. The first PSU to hit our new testing lab is the S12G 650W from Seasonic. Seasonic is a company that hardly requires any introduction; they are one of the oldest and most reputable computer PSU http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/seasonic-s12g-650w-power-supply-review.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-2970544332728887875Sun, 02 Mar 2014 03:00:00 +00002014-03-01T19:00:02.123-08:00 With the annual Game Developer Conference taking place next month in San Francisco, the session catalogs for the conference are finally being published and it looks like we may be in for some interesting news on the API front. Word comes via the Tech Report and regular contributor SH SOTN that 3 different low level API sessions have popped up in the session catalog thus far. These http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/low-level-graphics-api-developments-gdc.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-1622567082396760172Sun, 02 Mar 2014 02:30:00 +00002014-03-01T18:30:03.839-08:00NividiasmartphonesTablet Yesterday I spent some time with NVIDIA where I played with the newly announced Tegra Note 7 LTE. Internally the $299 Note 7 LTE is identical to the WiFi-only version, but with the inclusion of a NVIDIA i500 mini PCIe card.  As many of you noticed in our announcement post of the Tegra Note 7 LTE, there is an increase in weight for the LTE version. It turns out the added weight is http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/nvidias-tegra-note-7-lte-and-tegra-4i.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-7607559380584410795Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:29:00 +00002014-03-01T04:29:12.442-08:00SamsungTablet Samsung announced two new mobile SoCs at MWC today. The first is an update to the Exynos 5 Octa with the new Exynos 5422. The 5422 is a mild update to the 5420, which was found in some international variants of the Galaxy Note 3. The new SoC is still built on a 28nm process at Samsung, but enjoys much higher frequencies on both the Cortex A7 and A15 clusters. The two clusters can run their http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/samsungs-exynos-5422-ideal-biglittle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-6589367929411759891Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:28:00 +00002014-03-01T04:28:39.538-08:00androidGoogleSamsung Joshua talked about Project Ara (from Motorola at the time) back in October as a campaign that focused on attracting OEM interest into a modular smartphone design.  The results of that campaign take the next step forward as Google announces the first set of developer conferences for a modular device. Headed under the Advanced Technology and Projects (ATAP) division, the http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/modular-smartphone-project-ara-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-5748669893092015641Sat, 01 Mar 2014 12:04:00 +00002014-03-01T04:04:03.113-08:00IntelSSDsStorage The days of Intel being the dominant player in the client SSD business are long gone. A few years ago Intel shifted its focus from the client SSDs to the more profitable and hence alluring enterprise market. As a result of the move to SandForce silicon, Intel's client SSD lineup became more generic and lost the Intel vibe of the X-25M series. While Intel still did its own thorough validation http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2014/03/intel-ssd-730-480gb-review-bringing.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-4989433240686889876Thu, 16 May 2013 04:47:00 +00002013-05-15T21:47:22.131-07:00GoogleGoogle Maps Even without any new hardware announcements, Google's opening keynote at I/O '13 this morning was an absolute treat on the software front, and even more so for developers. Notwithstanding the enhancements to Google Maps on the mobile front, the massive update to Google Maps for non-mobile devices was definitely the highlight of the morning. Most of us have have probably seen the gradual http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2013/05/google-maps-gets-major-upgrade-promises.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-2862361058615555609Thu, 16 May 2013 04:42:00 +00002013-05-15T21:42:09.293-07:00SonyTabletXperia The Android tablet market is getting decidedly crowded, with dozens of different offerings from big and small companies alike, in sizes from 5” to 13.3”. How do you make your device stand out from the crows when most tablets are running the same OS and variants of the same hardware? Sony hopes to garner increased consumer interest by incorporating remote control and macro functionality withhttp://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2013/05/sony-xperia-tablet-s-tablet-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-1235238747950182208Thu, 16 May 2013 04:33:00 +00002013-05-15T21:36:08.082-07:00lapSony Today Sony is launching their newest line of laptops, the VAIO Fit series. There will be two different lines, the Fit and the Fit E, and all of the new laptops are "thin and light" and feature aluminum exteriors. Sony didn't provide detailed specifications, but it sounds like the VAIO Fit series is going after users that like the idea of an Ultrabook but aren't willing to pay the higher http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2013/05/sony-announces-vaio-fit-series-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-2006741048336985865Wed, 15 May 2013 12:01:00 +00002013-05-15T05:01:30.905-07:00News A Jetstream aircraft became the first to fly "unmanned" across UK shared airspace last month. An on-board pilot handled the take-off, from Warton, near Preston in Lancashire, and landing, in Inverness. But during the 500-mile journey, the specially adapted plane was controlled by a pilot on the ground, instructed by the National Air Traffic Services. There were no passengers, but the http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2013/05/pilotless-flight-trialled-in-uk-shared.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-5396365941056247678Wed, 15 May 2013 11:59:00 +00002013-05-15T04:59:09.382-07:00News The Blackberry Messenger (BBM) app is to be offered as a download to run on rival platforms. Blackberry said it would initially offer texts, photo messages and group sharing functions on devices running Google's Android and Apple's iOS operating systems from "the summer". It added it planned to roll out screen sharing, voice and video calls - all without charge - later in the year. The movehttp://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2013/05/blackberry-expands-bbm-chat-app-to.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-2009752137920446187Wed, 15 May 2013 11:57:00 +00002013-05-15T04:57:53.927-07:00News A German federal court has told Google to clean up the auto-complete results its search engine suggests. The court said Google must ensure terms generated by auto-complete are not offensive or defamatory. The court case was started by an unnamed German businessman who found that Google.de linked him with "scientology" and "fraud". Google must now remove defamatory word combinations when http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2013/05/germany-tells-google-to-tidy-up-auto.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-6628959253585348101Wed, 15 May 2013 11:55:00 +00002013-05-15T04:55:46.081-07:00News A Facebook app offering users a one-in-six chance of deleting their account has been pulled from the site. Social Roulette mimicked the lethal game of Russian Roulette, in which players spin the cylinder of a revolver hoping to avoid the one loaded chamber. According to its developers, the app was brought to Facebook's attention by an automated system that deals with "negative http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2013/05/facebook-blocks-social-suicide-app.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6123022416833340066.post-6723460716819709546Tue, 30 Apr 2013 12:27:00 +00002013-04-30T05:27:18.042-07:00smartphonesTabletWINDOWS SOFTWARES While we're still waiting for Windows RT and iOS versions of the latest 3DMark, there is one cross-platform comparison we can make: Ivy Bridge/Clover Trail to the Android devices we just tested in 3DMark. The same caveats exist under 3DMark that we mentioned in our GL/DXBenchmark coverage: not only is this a cross-OS comparison, but we're also looking across APIs as well (OpenGL ES 2.0 http://myworldofmodernit.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-great-equalizer-part-2-surface-pro.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)0