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GAME not stocking Mass Effect 3, internal memos revealed | Posted on: 29/02/2012 @ 20:00

The internal memo emailed to GAME and Gamestation staff this morning which broke the news that the company will not be stocking Mass Effect 3 at any of its stores has been leaked online.

Cancelled Batman game footage shows up | Posted on: 29/02/2012 @ 17:50

vr-zone.com - Footage has surfaced of a cancelled Batman game based on the Gotham by Gaslight alternative universe comic, which shows the potential of the unfortunately axed title.

Phobya LED-Flexlights Test | Posted on: 29/02/2012 @ 17:49

Getestet wurden die LED-Flexlights von Phobya. Im den letzten Jahren ist dieser Pool um einiges größ...

XSPC?s Razor 7970 water block detailed | Posted on: 29/02/2012 @ 10:48

Made for the Radeon HD 7970 and HD 7950, its mainly made out of copper.

Apple iPad 3 Event Scheduled For March 7th In San Francisco | Posted on: 29/02/2012 @ 0:24

It's not like we weren't expecting it, but Apple's now made it official. The event is scheduled for March 7th at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10AM PST.  Apparently, the event is about something they would really like us to see, and touch. If you pay close attention to the image, that is definitely not 1024x768 pixel display, but instead a super-high resolution ...

Samsung cram 1080p resolution into 4.8? phone display | Posted on: 28/02/2012 @ 20:00

Over 2 million pixels in a 4.8" display.

Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 Revealed at MWC | Posted on: 27/02/2012 @ 23:00

The Galaxy Note, in 5.3" guise, has just hit the States after decent sales in Europe and Asia; and now we have a new member of the Note line, a 10.1" variant. We mentioned speculation yesterday that the Note 10.1 could have a high-density display and next-generation SoC. Turns out the speculations were most likely wrong on both counts. The Galaxy Note 10.1 brings a 1.4 GHz dual-core SoC, probably ...

ASUS to put 1920 by 1200 IPS display on Transformer pad infinity tablet | Posted on: 27/02/2012 @ 20:12

Will be the largest resolution tablet on the market until the iPad 3 comes out.

The ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity: 1920 x 1200 Display, Krait Optional | Posted on: 27/02/2012 @ 17:00

The Eee Pad brand is gone, ASUS has officially reduced it to just Transformer Pad. One of the first tablets to carry the new Transformer Pad brand is one we saw at CES. Back then it was known as the Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF700T, but now it's simply the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity. Equipped with a 10.1-inch Super IPS+ 1920 x 1200 display, the Transformer Pad Infinity is ASUS' new ...

New CEO Hirai Pledges to ?Rebuild? Sony | Posted on: 27/02/2012 @ 5:12

BARCELONA?Several weeks after being named Sony’s new CEO and president, Kazuo Hirai made an appearance here at Mobile World Congress and pledged to “rebuild” Sony after a bruising 2011 that saw big losses and a devastating hack of the PlayStation Network. The main purpose of Sony’s Sunday media event was to unveil its latest smartphones, [...]

Intel Extreme Series Z77 motherboards detailed | Posted on: 25/02/2012 @ 14:36

Dual PCIe 3.0 lanes, 8 SATA ports and four DIMM slots.

Wayland Work Towards State Machine For Display Control | Posted on: 24/02/2012 @ 23:00

Tiago Vignatti on Friday published initial code seeking comments regarding a state machine for display control on the Wayland Display Server...

PSN downtime for next week scheduled | Posted on: 24/02/2012 @ 15:00

Scheduled maintenance will take place next thursday, March 1, bringing down PSN servers from 16:00 until 07:00 UK time the following morning.

AMD Piledriver to use energy recovery technology | Posted on: 23/02/2012 @ 22:36

Which will offer 5-30% reductions in power consumption.

Review: X-Rite i1 Display Pro | Posted on: 23/02/2012 @ 10:13

Calibrating your monitor ensures that it displays colours and tones exactly as they should be, and many devices to suit all budgets exist for the task. The X-Rite i1 Display Pro is one of the latest additions to the X-rite stable, and it's billed as the world's first spectrally calibrated colourimeter. Compatible with Wide-Gamut LCDs and even projectors, it promises fast calibration together with ...

LG's Optimus 4X HD: 1.5GHz Tegra 3 Smartphone w/ 4.7-inch HD Display to Launch at MWC 2012 | Posted on: 23/02/2012 @ 10:12

Although we're still waiting on the global announcement, LG Korea has already announced the Optimus 4X HD one of the first Tegra 3 based smartphones. The 4.7-inch display is expected to have a 1280 x 720 IPS panel. LG also claims a device thickness of 8.9mm, although it's unclear if that's a uniform thickness or just at the device's thinnest point.  NVIDIA's Tegra 3 powers the 4X HD, ...

Verizon Wireless Acknowledges Another LTE Outage | Posted on: 23/02/2012 @ 8:00

Verizon Wireless said it was investigating another outage within its LTE network on Wednesday, with customers from all over the nation reporting that they were without 4G service. Verizon acknowledged the outage via its Twitter account. “VZW is investigating customer issues in connecting to the 4G LTE data network,” the company said. “3G data, voice and [...]

Mini Review: ASUS P1 Portable LED Projector | Posted on: 22/02/2012 @ 14:48

We don't get a lot of projectors for review, but ASUS sent us their P1 Portable LED Projector and so we wanted to do a short write up of the device. It's a small projector primarily intended for portability and business use--something that you could easily carry with you as you travel to meetings so that you know you'll have a viable projector for your presentation. Tipping the scales at less ...

Samsung Spins Off LCD Business | Posted on: 21/02/2012 @ 7:00

Samsung confirmed Monday that it will spin off its LCD business. “Currently, the display market is undergoing rapid changes with OLED panels expected to fast replace LCD panels to become the mainstream,” Samsung said in a statement. As a result, changes “are essential to improve our competiveness for our Display business,” Samsung said. With this [...]

DisplayLink KMS Driver Arrives, Supports Hot-Unplug | Posted on: 21/02/2012 @ 1:48

There's a new KMS/DRM driver to introduce to the world: UDL. UDL is a DRM kernel mode-setting driver for the USB-based DisplayLink graphics adapters...

Samsung board approves LCD business spin-off | Posted on: 20/02/2012 @ 21:37

vr-zone.com - The board of directors at Samsung has approved a plan to spin off its ailing Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) business.

x32 Support For Linux Kernel Called In For Review | Posted on: 20/02/2012 @ 20:00

The x32 effort, an undertaking to provide a native 32-bit ABI for x86_64 on Linux, is finally moving closer to fruition. Peter Anvin has published the set of x32 patches for the Linux kernel that are now up for review and comments...

Samsung to split LCD business, confirms it begins with Samsung Display on April 1st | Posted on: 20/02/2012 @ 12:00

Samsung Display, the new name for Samsung's display business

LG launches Optimus Vu: with 5-inch display ahead of MWC 2012 | Posted on: 20/02/2012 @ 9:49

vr-zone.com - With Mobile World Congress 2012 being just a week away, Korean electronics maker, LG, has decided to unveil their new Optimus Vu: smartphone before the event. The Optimus Vu: boasts a 5-inch IPS display with 4:3 aspect and supports LTE technology.

Evidence Points to Retina Display on the iPad 3 | Posted on: 18/02/2012 @ 20:00

Want more proof that the iPad 3 will have a super-slick, high-resolution “Retina” display that blows the screen on Apple’s current-generation tablet out of the water? MacRumors reported Friday that it’s got an iPad 3 display and published microscope-enlarged images that purportedly show a screen with precisely double the linear resolution of the iPad 2′s. [...]

Samsung S27A850D Monitor Review | Posted on: 18/02/2012 @ 15:25

Review of the Samsung SA850 S27A850D 27-inch LED Monitor. The Samsung SA850 monitor is in a class th...

Report: Rumors of Samsung LCD Spinoff Point to Price Cuts | Posted on: 17/02/2012 @ 7:12

Industry buzz suggests that Samsung may soon be planning to spin off its LCD division. If that happens, the impact could be felt in the prices of everything from HDTVs to notebooks and tablets, according to a new report from NPD DisplaySearch. Currently, Samsung sources more than half of its LCD panels for its television [...]

Full Ivy Bridge line up revealed | Posted on: 17/02/2012 @ 2:36

Only some processors get HD 4000 graphics, Core i3s to lack PCI-E gen3.

Reasons for no Mass Effect 3 PC Controller Support revealed | Posted on: 16/02/2012 @ 20:48

There's no BioWare masterplan behind Mass Effect 3 not supporting gamepads on PC - the team was overstretched and couldn't spare the time and effort required.

Samsung Galaxy Nexus 32GB GSM seems to be canceled | Posted on: 16/02/2012 @ 12:12

Samsung's Galaxy Nexus won't be made available in 32GB it seems

Windows Store App Submission Process Detailed | Posted on: 16/02/2012 @ 5:24

Microsoft’s Jonathan Garrigues has detailed some aspects of the submissions process for the upcoming Windows Store on the company’s Windows Store for Developers blog. The post describes in detail the various steps involved in the app submission process, and Microsoft’s efforts to address developer complaints about its competitors’ storefronts. Most of Microsoft’s efforts focus on ...

AMD Trinity APUs detailed further | Posted on: 14/02/2012 @ 18:36

Star of the show to have 4 cores at 3.8GHz with 384 radeon cores at 800MHz.

iPad 3 Launch Date Revealed: Get Ready for Quad-Core Wonder | Posted on: 14/02/2012 @ 14:00

If you are waiting for the arrival of the next gen Apple, then you do not have to wait for long. A couple of sources have put forth March 7 as the likely date for the unveiling of iPad 3. While Apple centric blog iMore has cited unnamed … [visit site to read more] iPad [...]iPad 3 Launch Date Revealed: Get Ready for Quad-Core Wonder is a post from: UK Gadget and Tech News, Reviews and Shopping ...

GeChic On-Lap 1301 Portable Monitor Review @ ThinkComputers.org | Posted on: 10/02/2012 @ 3:50

ASUS VG278H LCD Monitor 3D Vision-2 Kit @ Benchmark Reviews | Posted on: 10/02/2012 @ 3:49

I-O Data soon to release new 23-inch IPS display | Posted on: 10/02/2012 @ 3:49

vr-zone.com - I-O Data is readying up a new 23-inch IPS based monitor for launch at the end of the month, initially set to arrive in the Japanese market at an equivilent cost of about US $347.

Watch it OLED, LCD, Plasma: Mitsubishi's "LaserVue" Laser Projection TV Wins Energy ... | Posted on: 10/02/2012 @ 3:49

vr-zone.com - While OLED is taking a lot of media space recently, and LCD and Plasma TVs are touting 3D and Smart TV technologies, there is a new player coming to the market. Mitsubishi's "blast from the past" TV entered retail sales in the U.S.

GeChic On-Lap 1301 Portable Monitor Review | Posted on: 09/02/2012 @ 5:36

I have been doing a lot of traveling lately.  On thing that I always miss when I am traveling is my 2 large monitors from my home desktop system.  Going from them to a laptop screen is not that fun.  You can purchase laptops with pull-out screens, but they are few are far between and are quite expensive.  So what are you to do if you want a dual-screen setup on your laptop?  Get a portable ...

ASUS VG278H LCD Monitor 3D Vision-2 Kit | Posted on: 09/02/2012 @ 4:09

BenchmarkReviews.com: We live in a three-dimensional world, and display technology is finally catching up to how we see things. Games, movies, multimedia video, and even photos are now widely available in stereoscopic 3D. Packaged with a NVIDIA 3D Vision-2 glasses kit, the ASUS VG278H LCD Monitor gives you that big screen experience with vivid color, 120Hz high-definition 1080p picture quality, ...

Mass Effect: Infiltrator for iOS revealed | Posted on: 08/02/2012 @ 16:36

EA has revealed a new Mass Effect game, titled Mass Effect: Infiltrator for iOS devices.

French Company Releases Military-grade, Ultra-Dense OLED Screens: 2687 and 5374 PPI! | Posted on: 08/02/2012 @ 8:37

vr-zone.com - If you never heard about a MicroOLED, think again. Based in the heart of French Silicon Valley, next to SOITEC and STMicroelectronics, MicroOLED is creating next-gen OLED display for professional devices.

Intel's Berryville Atom CE processors revealed | Posted on: 06/02/2012 @ 18:13

vr-zone.com - By the end of this quarter, or early next quarter Intel should be unveiling its next generation of Atom CE processors, currently codenamed Berryville. Although as amusing as the code name might be, Intel has gone through great lengths to make Berryville a real contender in the consumer electronics market space and maybe even giving some high-end ARM solutions a run for their money.

New Battlefield 3 DLC to be unveiled next week | Posted on: 04/02/2012 @ 1:48

A selection of DLC is to be shown next week at a New York event.

AMD Explains Trinity codename: Piledriver, Northern and Southern Islands | Posted on: 03/02/2012 @ 23:25

vr-zone.com - In the breaks during Financial Analyst Day, one AMD executive took the time to explain why the Trinity received its name. It comes from the fact that this is a final part in which AMD will do mix-and-match between different generations of architectures.

AMD Trinity ULV 3DMark scores revealed | Posted on: 03/02/2012 @ 16:48

vr-zone.com - AMD has revealed internal 3D Mark Vantage benchmarks for two upcoming Trinity APUs that will find their way into "ultrathin" ultrabook competitors - A6 17W ULV and an 25W LV.

ViewSonic launches affordable LED backlit IPS display | Posted on: 03/02/2012 @ 0:26

vr-zone.com - It seems like monitor manufacturers are finally starting to move away from TN panels with recent arrivals of several affordable IPS panel based displays from a wide range of manufacturers. ViewSonic has joined the fray with its new VX2336s-LED model which as the name implies features an LED backlit IPS panel featuring what ViewSonic calls SuperClear IPS technology.

Launch dates for the rest of the HD 7000 series revealed | Posted on: 01/02/2012 @ 2:36

HD 7870 and 7850 to arrive in March, HD 7770, 7750 to arrive in Mid February.