If you are heading to the event this coming Thursday, do check out the offers available from the various vendors. You can find the scanned price lists at this location or embedded below:

HP TouchPads at COMEX 2011

AT HP BOOTH 8428 – HP DIRECT COUNTER ONLY

The 16GB and 32GB HP TouchPads will be available for S$118 (S$126 with GST) and S$188  (S$201 with GST) per unit respectively during the first two days of COMEX 2011 (1-2 September 2011). 100 units of the 16GB and 32GB versions each will be available each day and this purchase is limited to one unit per person, regardless of whether it’s 16GB or 32GB. The mode of purchase is cash and carry only, no credit cards or NETs. This is non-refundable and non-returnable.

These units will be available at HP booth 8428 (specifically the HP Direct counter), Hall 402/403.

AT HP BOOTHS (8150, 8245, 8428)

You will also be able to purchase a HP TouchPad 16GB and HP TouchPad 32GB for S$49 (with GST) and S$119 (with GST) respectively with any purchase of a HP TouchSmart610 -1138d, 1178d, 1188d; and HP Pavilion dv4-3020TX, HP Pavilion dv6-6144TX, dv6-6105TX and dv6-6106TX.

Your purchase-with-purchase HP TouchPad will be available at RewardsLINK, first come first serve, while stocks last.

RewardsLINK

3 Temasek Boulevard #02-163

Suntec City Mall, Singapore 038983

Opening hours:  Monday – Sunday, 11.00am – 7.00pm

Eve of X’mas /New Year/CNY: 11.00am – 3.00pm

Closed on X’mas, New Year and CNY

Email: contactus@marquev.com

M1 launches new mData

mobile broadband plans with

faster speeds from only $12 per month

SINGAPORE, 31 August 2011 – To provide better mobile surfing experience to customers, M1 Limited (M1) will launch four new mobile broadband plans that will be differentiated by data bundle sizes and publish the typical speeds customers will experience, from the low price of $12 per month on 1 September 2011.

M1’s new competitively priced mobile broadband plans will be provisioned at 7.2 Mbps or 21 Mbps theoretical download speeds. However, customers will now be able to know what their mobile broadband experience is, with the publishing of typical download speeds, ranging from 0.6 to 6.7 Mbps.

For customers’ subscribing to the theoretical speeds of 7.2 Mbps they can choose from a range of plans valued from $12 for 5GB to $40 for 50GB.

“These new plans, together with the published typical download speeds, are designed to allow our customers to pay for what they need. With faster speeds, more flexibility and lower costs, M1 customers will now get to enjoy the best value plans and even greater mobile broadband experience”, said P. Subramaniam, Chief Marketing Officer, M1 Limited.
mData’s monthly mobile broadband data usage above bundle will be capped at a maximum of $69.30, dismissing customers’ worries of oversized bills.

M1 mData MOBILE BROADBAND PLANS

ASUS launches O!Play Mini Plus Smart TV Set-Top Box
World’s first HD media player with integrated Acetrax and Facebook support
 
Singapore (August 30, 2011) — Bringing internet based entertainment to the living room, ASUS has launched the O!Play Mini Plus. It offers access to a multitude of online services for endless entertainment from both video and social media websites, while featuring Gigabit LAN and Wireless N to ensure that content is fast and smooth. The O!Play Mini Plus is also versatile, able to play content from a connected PC, smartphone or tablet, and even automatically playing files straight from a connected USB drive.
 

Popular online entertainment
This set-top box provides limitless online entertainment, including access to Mediafly, Dailymotion*, Facebook*, YouTube, Picasa, Flickr, thousands of internet TV and radio stations, and much more. It’s also the world’s first HD media player that supports Acetrax, the most popular online video on demand service in Europe. The O!Play Mini Plus also allows easy sharing of photos and videos on Facebook by simply pressing a button on the bundled remote control.
 
Wireless N and Gigabit Ethernet for smooth streaming of HD files
The O!Play Mini Plus features Gigabit Ethernet LAN support for lag-free streaming of HD multimedia content. High Definition multimedia files can be quite large, so the ability to transfer with high speed connections is a must. It also houses built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi support, so users can go wireless with their O!Play Mini Plus should an Ethernet connection not be accessible.
 

Versatile and instant multimedia sharing
The O!Play Mini Plus features O!Direct and O!MediaShare, which enable users to stream media files from a variety of devices straight to an HDTV without complicated setups. O!Direct offers fast and reliable one-click streaming of content from a desktop PC or notebook to the TV, bringing broad multimedia enjoyment to the living room, both wired and wirelessly, without the need for USB storage devices. Offered as a free download from the Android market, the ASUS O!MediaShare application enables wireless streaming of multimedia enjoyment like Facebook albums and YouTube videos from a smartphone or tablet to an HDTV.
 
Plug-n-play videos without a remote control
Another user-friendly feature on the O!Play Mini Plus is the easy to use AutoPlay function. It allows users to plug a USB hard drive, flash drive or SD/MMC/MS/xD card directly into the O!Play Mini Plus, which then automatically begins playing videos stored in the “AutoPlay” movie folder without the need to enter the user interface.
 

*Facebook and Dailymotion support will be available through a firmware upgrade by the end of October 2011
 
Specifications
Items Description
Supported Video formatsMPEG1/2/4, H.264, VC-1, RM/RMVB    
Supported Video file extensionmp4, .mov, .avi, .asf, .wmv, .flv, .mkv, .ts, m2ts, .dat, .mpg, .vob, mts, .iso, trp         
Supported Audio formatsMP3, WAV, AAC, OGG, FLAC, aiff, Dolby Digital AC3, DTS Digital Surround, Dolby Digital Plus, PCM/LPCM, Dolby TrueHD, ID3 Tag 
Supported Image formatsJPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF    
Supported sub-title formatsSRT, SUB, SMI, SSA, TXT       
I/O ports1 x Power (DC-in) input 
1 x USB 2.0 port          
1 x e-SATA/USB 2.0 Combo     
1 x Gigabit LAN port (1000Mbps)
1 x HDMI port  
1 x Analog audio/video output    
1 x digital audio output (S/PDIF) port     
1 x SD/MMC/MS/xD card slot (4 in 1)    
DimensionsW x D x H:
151.85mm x 106.7mm x 29.03mm
Weight: 175g
Power Source12Vdc, 2A
Power Consumption10W

Gigabyte introduces Ultra Durable 4 boards with Glass Fabric PCB technology that repels moisture caused by humid and damp conditions

Taipei, Taiwan, August 30, 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today launched its latest Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic motherboard technology. Debuting on the Intel® H61 Express Chipset, GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic is a range of exciting technologies that safe-guard PCs from common everyday threats, including humidity and moisture, electro-static discharge, sudden power loss and high operating temperatures.

“GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic builds on the success of previous GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ brands, adding new protective technologies that are crucial to DIY PC builders everywhere,” commented Henry Kao, Vice President of GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit. “The Ultra Durable 4 Classic logo makes a pledge that our customers will respect and appreciate: lasting stability and peace of mind.”

GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic motherboards embrace a range of exclusive technologies that guarantee our customers the absolute best protection for their PC, with built-in features that prevent common malfunction threats users encounter on a day-to-day basis.

Humidity Protection
There is nothing more harmful to the longevity of your PC than moisture, and most parts of the world experience moisture in the air as humidity at some point during the year. GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic motherboards have been designed to make sure that humidity is never an issue, incorporating a new Glass Fabric PCB technology that repels moisture caused by humid and damp conditions. Using a new kind of PCB material which reduces the amount of space between the fiber weave, Glass Fiber PCB technology makes it more difficult for moisture to penetrate compared to traditional motherboard PCBs. This offers much better protection from short circuit and system malfunction caused by humid and damp conditions.

Electrostatic Protection
All GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic motherboards use high quality IC microchips that are rated with higher electro-static discharge (ESD) resistance than traditional IC implementations. GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic motherboards use ICs with up to 3 times the ESD resistance levels compared to traditional ICs. This helps to better protect the motherboard, its components and the PC in general against potential damage caused by static electricity, a common threat to today’s PCs.

Power Failure Protection
If your home experiences a sudden power outage for any reason, GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic motherboards are equipped to ensure that you won’t be dealing with a fatal malfunction. All GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic motherboards use patented DualBIOS™ technology to provide fail safe protection for the BIOS on your motherboard, automatically refreshing your BIOS from a back up version in the case of a critical power outage. GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic motherboards also feature special anti-surge ICs that protect your motherboard, and your PC, from any surge in power delivery that may occur, helping to ensure that your PC is equipped to deal with any kind of irregular and inconsistent power delivery.

High Temperature Protection
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic motherboards feature specially selected components that make your PC capable of higher temperatures in more extreme conditions, while at the same time preventing your PC from overheating. Using all solid capacitors for the GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 Classic range both reduces overall board temperatures while, making the motherboard more robust at higher temperatures. The choice of Lower RDS(on) MOSFETs also helps to reduce operating temperatures significantly compared to traditional MOSFET solutions. These component technologies combine to guarantee enhanced longevity and stability for your PC.

GIGABYTE H61 Platforms
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable™ 4 motherboards are currently available for GIGABYTE H61 platform motherboards. The Intel® H61 Express Chipset supports 2nd generation ‘Sandy Bridge’ Intel® Core™ CPUs, and deliver Intel’s industry-leading performance and advanced integrated graphics capabilities. Motherboards based on the Intel® H61 Express Chipset also offer a comprehensive range of unique GIGABYTE features that give mainstream PC users the most compelling platform on the market today.

StarHub’s Prepaid Card, The Preferred Tourist Prepaid Card, offers tourists the ultimate Singapore experience with attractive perks

Singapore, 25 August 2011 – Visitors to Singapore can now experience the best of Singapore with The StarHub Preferred Tourist Prepaid Card, allowing them to enjoy great tourist benefits and staying connected through voice calls, SMS, and access the Internet.

Visitors will feel right at home with the attractive perks at just S$15. They will enjoy free data access on the Singapore Tourism Board’s YourSingapore Guide mobile application, additional free 30MB of local data access for their Internet surfing needs, free IDD 018 Calls to 18 destinations to call back home, 20 free local SMS, per second billing, and more!

YourSingapore Guide is a free mobile application that hosts the latest and most essential information about Singapore. Tourists can use this application to navigate around the island with useful route suggestions, travel fare estimates, and maps, and gain access to over 1,000 ways to enjoy Singapore‘s sights and sounds. Currently, YourSingapore Guide is supported on iPhone and Android smartphones, and will be available on other smartphone platforms later.

In addition, customers can also look forward to exclusive merchant privileges such as 1 for 1 Singapore Sling at St James Powerstation, Discounts off Kaya & Coffee powder gift sets at Toast Box and GoSingapore Pass for special packages to places of interests in Singapore.

Launched jointly by StarHub and the Singapore Tourism Board (STB), The Preferred Tourist Prepaid Card is available in both regular and microSIM formats. It can be conveniently purchased at UOB Foreign Exchange Counters at Changi Airport, TravelMania at Orchard MRT, StarHub shops and selected exclusive partner outlets. Available in 4Q2011, StarHub’s tourist WiFi will allow tourists to enjoy free wireless surfing in Changi Airport and selected hotspots throughout town. Customers can also top up the card via the Internet top-up, all existing StarHub Prepaid Top-up cards, and Electronic top-up via the ATMs (DBS/POSB), AXS stations, and SingPost SAMs.

Said Ms Joanna Chan, Vice President of Personal Solutions, StarHub: “Singapore receives an average of a million visitors monthly so far this year. Going forward, the Singapore tourism landscape promises to offer more choices with more tourist attractions opening at the two Integrated Resorts in late 2011 and 2012. We would like to extend our hospitality to tourists by offering them memorable experience when using The StarHub Preferred Tourist Prepaid which is packed with exclusive merchant privileges, and free data access on YourSingapore Guide app that gives them over 1,000 ways to enjoy Singapore. Our visitors can enjoy maximum savings with the benefits, and at the same time conveniently call, text and access the Internet when they are in Singapore.”

“The advancements in mobile technology have radically influenced the way people plan and experience their travels. Our partnership with StarHub has enabled us to co-create a great tool to help visitors experience Singapore with as much ease as possible. The YourSingapore Guide app completes the YourSingapore experience as visitors can begin their Singapore journey by designing their itinerary on the YourSingapore website, before arrival in Singapore, and make use of the myriad services found on the YourSingapore Guide app once they arrive,” said Ms Sophia Ng, Executive Director, Brand & Marketing at STB.

For more information, please visit www.starhub.com/visitsg.

Singapore, August 24, 2011 – Nokia today announced the launch of three feature-packed, mass market smartphones, bringing the latest smartphone functionality at attractive price points and including market-leading innovation with Symbian Belle. The Nokia 700, Nokia 701 and Nokia 600 extend the range of available designs, features and functionality in the Nokia Symbian smartphone range. Symbian Belle powers all three, with single-tap NFC technology sharing and pairing, the most personal user interface so far and a more powerful mobile Web browsing experience. As well as allowing content to be shared between devices, NFC capabilities allow any of the three new smartphones to pair with NFC-enabled mobile accessories such as speakers or Bluetooth headphones and headsets. To extend the range of available NFC-enabled accessories, Nokia is also announcing the launch of the Nokia Essence Bluetooth Stereo Headset, which can be paired with any NFC-enabled smartphone simply by tapping the two devices together.

While all three smartphones contain recognizable Nokia features, they each represent a very distinct set of priorities to allow users to choose what matters most in a smartphone. The most compact touch screen monoblock smartphone in the world (Nokia 700); a sleek and stylish smartphone with the world’s brightest mobile display for indoor or outdoor use (Nokia 701), and Nokia’s loudest entertainment smartphone (Nokia 600) all bring firsts to the Nokia product portfolio.

“After bringing exciting new features to the Symbian user experience only two months ago with Symbian Anna, we are now driving the platform even further with our most competitive Symbian user experience ever,” said Ilari Nurmi, Vice President at Nokia. “Symbian Belle and the three new handsets we are launching today show our commitment to continue delivering Symbian products that allow people to choose what is most important to them in terms of user experience, design, functionality and price. These will not be last products or updates we will deliver on Symbian.”

“After bringing exciting new features to the Symbian user experience only two months ago with Symbian Anna, we are now driving the platform even further with our most competitive Symbian user experience ever,” said Ilari Nurmi, Vice President at Nokia. “Symbian Belle and the three new handsets we are launching today show our commitment to continue delivering Symbian products that allow people to choose what is most important to them in terms of user experience, design, functionality and price. These will not be last products or updates we will deliver on Symbian.”

Nokia 700: Nokia’s smallest smartphoneAt only 50 cubic centimetres, weighing 96gm and at 110 x 50.7 x 9.7 mm, the Nokia 700 not only becomes Nokia’s most compact smartphone in the Symbian range, it is the most compact touch monoblock smartphone in the world. What it lacks in size it makes up for in functionality, with single-tap NFC sharing and pairing capabilities, a 1Ghz processor, 3.2 inch AMOLED screen ClearBlack display, 2GB of internal memory (with the option of using a 32GB microSD card for a total of 34GB), HD video capture and 5MP full focus camera with LED flash. The Nokia 700 is also Nokia’s most eco-friendly smartphone. With a long battery life, extensive use of eco-friendly materials and features to minimize battery consumption, it is the perfect smartphone for any environmentally-conscious smartphone user.

Nokia 701: Nokia’s brightest smartphoneThe Nokia 701 is a sleek, slim smartphone incorporating the world’s brightest ever mobile phone display, based on a 3.5 inch ClearBlack display that makes it perfect for indoor and outdoor use. It also has active noise cancellation for the clearest sound quality and, like the other new smartphones, provides single-tap NFC pairing and sharing capabilities, allowing content to be shared and sound to be streamed wirelessly to headphones and NFC-enabled speakers.

Based on the popular Nokia C7 design, the Nokia 701 smartphone also has a 1GHz processor, 8MP full focus camera with dual LED flash and 2 X digital zoom, 2nd front-facing camera and HD video capture. It comes with 8GB internal memory and the possibility to increase to 40GB by installing a 32GB microSD card.

Nokia 600: Nokia’s loudest smartphoneThe Nokia 600 smartphone delivers a big sound and a big personality in a small package and is Nokia’s loudest at 106 Phons. With built-in FM radio antenna for listening to radio without headphones and FM transmitter that makes it possible to broadcast music from your phone to any FM radio, the Nokia 600 is a music-lover’s dream. With 60 hours of music playback time, an incredibly powerful external loudspeaker and the ability to also stream music wirelessly to NFC-enabled accessories, it is the perfect smartphone to get the party started. Available at a lower price point than the Nokia 700 and Nokia 701, the Nokia 600 still comes with a 1 GHz processor; 5MP full focus camera with LED flash and HD video capture, and 2GB of internal memory with ability to increase to 34GB using a 32GB microSD card.

Symbian Belle

Symbian Belle is the latest in a series of planned software updates to the Symbian platform, which started with Symbian Anna and will continue into 2012. Symbian Belle increases the number of home screens from three to six providing more room to display applications and services. Live widgets, now come in five different sizes, making the home screens come alive and giving users more flexibility to personalize the user experience. It also includes a pull down menu and taskbar to access notifications from any of the home screens and further enhancements to the Web browsing experience. All in all, Symbian Belle provides Nokia’s most competitive, seamless and intuitive Symbian experience so far. One of Symbian Belle’s most exciting features is the single-tap NFC sharing and pairing capability. This allows contacts, videos and images to be shared with other NFC-enabled devices and smartphones, as well as pairing with NFC-enabled mobile accessories such as speakers and headsets. Gaming fans also benefit from the NFC capabilities of the new handsets with the ability to unlock additional levels in Angry Birds or find a hidden blade in Fruit Ninja just by touching two NFC-enabled devices together. On the Nokia 701 smartphone, which comes preloaded with Asphalt5, two friends can even pair to compete on the same racetrack. Nokia Essence Bluetooth Stereo HeadsetThe new Nokia Essence Bluetooth Stereo Headset uses special active noise cancellation technology to eliminate an unprecedented 99.8% of background noise – delivering pure, high-fidelity sound no matter how noisy the surroundings for people who don’t want to sacrifice audio quality when going wireless. Using NFC technology, the Bluetooth headset can be paired with any NFC-enabled smartphone simply by tapping the two devices together.

Featuring the next generation PCIe GEN 3, this board has all it takes to be the fastest board available for the Intel platform. It is ready for the future with PCIe Gen 3 graphics card. The board also features the NVIDIA aging NF200 chipset to generate more PCIe lanes. It also incorporates the PLX chipset as well for PCIe lane switching. In addition, it also has XFast LAN and other interesting features on board. Check out the video for more.

Fujitsu IS12T Mango phone Available for Pre-Order in Japan.

The folks at the Au KDDI store in Nishi-Kasai in Tokyo Japan that they’re going to have the Fujitsu IS12T as early as this Thursday, August 25th, 2011.

This Fujitsu Toshiba masterpiece going by the name of IS12T comes in a couple of fantastically loud colors or your choice of black, and it runs Windows Phone 7.5 Mango. This is the cellular partnerships’ first Windows Phone ever AND it appears very much to be the first device to be released with Mango out of the box. This device has a massive 13.2-megapixel camera, 32GB of internal storage, and is both waterproof and dust-resistant! What more could you want?

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Introduction

The ECS Black Deluxe Series P67H2-A2 motherboard is the brand new high-end LGA 1155 socket product fully supports the 2nd Generation Intel Core i3, i5, i7 and unlocked edition K-sku desktop processors to deliver amazing overclocking capabilities.

Features NVIDIA SLI and ATI CrossFireX technology and 2 PCI-E x16 Gen.2 expansion slots, that allow hardcore gamers to get an unbelievable gaming performance. In order to improve system stability and safety, ECS P67H2-A2 equips all-solid capacitors, Lower RDS(on) MOSFET and ECS exclusive 15 μ technology, this enhances system durability while running at full-loading mode for a long time. ECS application kit including eOC, eGS, eSF, eBLU, eDLU and eJIFFY also offers a convenient way to extract performance, save energy consumption and keep drivers and BIOS up-to-date.

In terms of expansion, the board comes with 4 x 240 pin DDR3, the board supports up to 32GB of DDR3 up to DDR3-2133 (OC). The board 2 x PCI Express Gen 2.0 x16 slots,  1 x PCI Express x1 slot and  2 x PCI slots supporting CrossFireX and SLI.

With Marvell SATA 6Gbps controller on board, it supports SATA 6Gbps for speedier transfers to/from HDD. There is also eSATA support 6Gbps. For faster transfers, the board is also equipped with USB 3.0 support. Data transfer will be much faster than before. For audio, there is Realtek ALC892 8-Ch High Definition audio CODEC. There are also 2 GbE ports based on RealTek RTL8111E Gigabit Fast Ethernet Controllers with Teaming.

Other features include 15u Gold contact, Qooltech III, All solid capacitors, ADD indicator (as Debug code and temperature), eJIffy, eBLU, eDLU, eSF, eOC, eGS, EZ Charger etc.

Below is a an unboxing video of P67H2-A2

The ASUS MARS II is a monster graphics card consisting of two GeForce GTX 580 GPUs on a single PCB using triple slot cooling. Unlike the NVIDIA GTX 590, the MARS II comes with full GTX 580 clock speeds which give the card an almost 20% performance advantage over the GTX 590, making the card the fastest graphics card in the world, but also the most expensive at $1500.

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PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug 18, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –

HP (NYSE:HPQ) today announced financial results for its third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2011, as well as the commencement of a company transformation described in detail in separate press releases issued today.

HP unveiled the details of a plan to accelerate the strategy introduced in March. The plan introduced today will:

Move HP into higher value, higher margin growth categories
Sharpen HP’s focus on its strategic priorities of cloud, solutions and software with an emphasis on enterprise, commercial and government markets
Increase investment in innovation to drive differentiation

As part of the transformation, HP announced that its board of directors has authorized the exploration of strategic alternatives for the company’s Personal Systems Group. HP will consider a broad range of options that may include, among others, a full or partial separation of PSG from HP through a spin-off or other transaction. (See accompanying press release.)

HP will discontinue operations for webOS devices, specifically the TouchPad and webOS phones. The devices have not met internal milestones and financial targets. HP will continue to explore options to optimize the value of webOS software going forward.

In addition, HP announced the terms of a recommended transaction for all of the outstanding shares of Autonomy Corporation plc for £25.50 ($42.11) per share in cash. Autonomy’s software powers a full spectrum of mission-critical enterprise applications, including pan-enterprise search, customer interaction solutions, information governance, end-to-end eDiscovery, records management, archiving, business process management, web content management, web optimization, rich media management and video and audio analysis. The addition of Autonomy will accelerate HP’s ability to deliver on its strategy to offer cloud-based solutions and software that best addresses the changing needs of businesses. (See accompanying press release.)

“We’re focused on improving performance across the business,” said Léo Apotheker, HP president and chief executive officer. “HP is taking bold, transformative steps to position the company as a leader in the evolving information economy. Today’s announced plan will allow HP to drive creation of long-term shareholder value through a focus on fewer fronts, thereby improving its ability to execute, invest in innovation and drive a higher-margin business mix.”

Google Inc. and Motorola Mobility Holdings, Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire Motorola Mobility for $40.00 per share in cash, or a total of about $12.5 billion, a premium of 63% to the closing price of Motorola Mobility shares on August 12, 2011. The transaction was unanimously approved by the Boards of Directors of both companies. The acquisition of Motorola Mobility, a dedicated Android partner, will enable Google to supercharge the Android ecosystem and will enhance competition in mobile computing. Motorola Mobility will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. Google will run Motorola Mobility as a separate business. The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2011 or early 2012.

The latest ‘tweet’ we received from our friends in the industry is the Intel X79 mainboards will be ready for some action as early as September this year. There will be some launch events in this part of the world.

On the other hand, processors will not be made available. Thus, manufacturers that launches their products will end up having difficulty promoting it with benchmark figures as these are not allowed.

So, will you get the Intel X79 boards ? Here are some early pictures of Intel X79 boards display at Computex 2011

MUZEE presents USB drive-based ICD-7 Internet Cloud -Multimedia Dongle

Internet Radio / TV / Video / News / Magazine / eBook / Game

Bring you worldwide entertainment

MUZEE, a leading cloud multimedia solution provider, is pleased and proud to present its multimedia player “ICD-7” product series. The MUZEE ICD-7 is an application software embedded in a USB flash drive that provides users with convenient and quick access to our database which filled with links up to 350,000 Internet videos, 200,000 e-books, 20,000 radio stations, 10,000 magazines, 5000 TV channels,10,000 games and 10,000 news sources. With a click, you can watch TV in US, listen to radio in France, read a newspaper in Japan and play a video game all in a matter of seconds.

Simply plug in & click, no installation needed, no subscription, no monthly charge

Just plug into the USB port and select the contents. There is no subscription required. One time charge only and you could enjoy the service with lifetime updates and absolutely no monthly payments.

Stylish and chic, designed by iF Concept Design Award winner

iF awarded designer, Patrick Sung, came up with the idea of “POPER MAN” and exudes a relax feeling with clean smooth forms. MUZEE not only delivers with comprehensive contents but also the aesthetic appeal for its multimedia device.

Real time entertainment & quality monitoring around the clock

Enjoy non-stop online entertainment and users could prerecord or record their favorite real-time programs and read all kinds of worldwide e-books/magazines/news with the translation function. All the contents are filtered in advance and updated 24/7 with new sources.

MUZEE has been specialized in developing Internet multimedia devices and services since 2003. The unique patented products help to find multimedia contents easily for users on any Internet connected device, whether it is a desktop, laptop, netbook, set-top box or smart TV. The product and solutions have made MUZEE the most user-friendly cloud multimedia platform in the market.

A user by the name of longshot442 from XDA forum has published a 404MB file which contains the official RTM build of Mango, which is, the build 7720.

It has been claimed that users are able to flash devices ranging from NoDo, 7661 or build 7712 up to 7720. To do this, you do not need to restore from your backup, but instead can directly update.

User cyberdel among the first to successfully flash the phone with the once the file was leaked:

“install on htc trophy is finished:

at first i see on the bootscreen there is no mark anymore like “Not for resale” an Version is…. tada…. 7.10.7720.68

i am very happy now, good night”

Others have since reported success as well, regardless of device, carrier or network i.e. which tells us that the files might just be the developer release, meaning device neutral. Instructions, translated from German, can be found here. You can download the files at your risk from here or here. Original thread at XDA starts here, which we strongly encourage you to read first! Discuss in comments.

Remember, using this is at your own risk! The site do not endorse this method at all and take no responsibility when any issues occurred due to the flash. Having said that, enjoy.

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Research firm IDC, recently released its Q2 data on the microprocessor market.  According to the latest report, AMD seems to have improved over Q1 2011 and gained some share.

IDC’s report mentions that AMD’s share in total PC microprocessor market increased by 1.5% in Q2 2011 compared to previous quarter. However if we dig deeper it seems that the company gained share in notebooks and desktops but continued to perform poorly in servers where its share further declined to 5.5%. Although AMD is expected to launch its bulldozer CPU in later half of this year, we have reduced our market share expectations for the full year 2011 from slight gains to slight losses.

However, the notebook market share gain was a positive surprise and consequently we have adjusted our expectation in the category slightly upwards.

Price estimate for AMD stands at $9.90 , implying a significant premium to the market price.

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If you have always been looking for a cheaper alternative to maximise your memory bandwidth on the A75 platform, the Kingston Genesis HyperX is the ready solution. It is able to run at it’s rated speed and beyond. On other A75 solutions, most DDR3-2133 + modules might not work very well at this speed. This is largely due to BIOS issues that remains to be ironed out.

Below is a CPUID screen shot running the modules KHX2133C9AD3X2K2-4GX with an overclocked A8-3850 processor.

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Fabless chip designer AMD has decided to expand its Radeon brand to include DDR3 memory modules

It looks the same as a normal DDR3 Memory module only there is a big Radeon badge on it.

According to AMD’s website, three 2GB long DIMMs are being released as part of a new Radeon memory line. Each memory is a 240-pin socket type dual in line memory module designed to hit a different niche.

The ‘Entertainment’ memory runs at 1333MHz (9-9-9 latency), then there is the ‘Ultra Pro Gaming’ DIMM working at 1600MHz (11-11-11) and last we have the ‘Enterprise’ memory which doesn’t have finalised specs but will probably run for five years boldly going where no one has gone before before being mothballed for a couple of decades.

The DDR3-1333 module has been spotted in the Land of the Rising Sun and will set you back $20. It is not clear why AMD is making this move. After all the memory market is not doing that well and competition is tough.

We would not have thought that the sorts of people who buy AMD chips are the types who want an “only AMD” machine.

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ECS Black Deluxe Series P67H2-A2 motherboard is the brand new high-end LGA 1155 socket product fully supports the 2nd Generation Intel Core i3, i5, i7 and unlocked edition K-sku desktop processors to deliver amazing overclocking capabilities

Features NVIDIA SLI and ATI CrossFireX technology and 2 PCI-E x16 Gen.2 expansion slots, that allow hardcore gamers to get an unbelievable gaming performance. In order to improve system stability and safety, ECS P67H2-A2 equips all-solid capacitors, Lower RDS(on) MOSFET and ECS exclusive 15 μ technology, this enhances system durability while running at full-loading mode for a long time. ECS application kit including eOC, eGS, eSF, eBLU, eDLU and eJIFFY also offers a convenient way to extract performance, save energy consumption and keep drivers and BIOS up-to-date.