The Samsung Galaxy IRS finally turn to Ice Cream Sandwich

The official update long-awaited Samsung Galaxy IRS under Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich arrives.

The smartphone Android Samsung star, Galaxy SII, is finally emerging on the horizon the official update that will make the move towards Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.

Indeed, on the Sammobile.com site are currently available files containing the Roma to the Galaxy IRS under Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 and for the Hungary, the Poland and the Nordic countries. Samsung will deploy the official update from tomorrow as a first step in South Korea.

Other European countries including the France should not delay to also receive this update within hours or even days via the Kies software.

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Instagram for Android app approach imminent

Instagram, the lighthouse of iOS photo sharing application arrives very soon on Android.

Downloaded by more than 27 million people around the world on iPhone, Instagram, sharing photos on social networks Facebook and Twitter application, prepares to go out in the days to come on Android.

Kevin Systrom, co-founder of Instagram, said cultural festival and musical SXSW (South by SouthWest) that "very soon", the application would be available on the mobile OS from Google and this version looks even better than on iPhone, it promises!

The application should remain free but advertising, which was previously not present, could make its appearance. Cheeeeese…

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The prices of NVIDIA cards are down

The Fermi range graphics cards are now a little more accessible, until Kepler...

Pending the arrival of the new GeForce Kepler, NVIDIA reviews its fee schedule of the current range. To make a little more competitive GeForce GTX 580 cards to AMD cards, the price is revised downwards and it is now available at €339 in boutique.

The GeForce GTX 580 1.5 GB map becomes less expensive than the Radeon HD 7950. What's position on price/performance. If the 3 GB version is now at the same price as the Radeon HD 7950, the GeForce GTX 570 is also entitled to its low and appears now to €249.

NVIDIA therefore moves its former range of graphics cards down to allow flexibility for the introduction of the new range Kepler should more likely delay. We are also eager to test the new GeForce coming unbeatable according to NVIDIA.

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Need for a 10 Gb/s network? Intel has the solution

Intel presents its new controller X 540 for 10 Gb/s management and support of the fondeur Xeon processors.

Apart from the professional field, the 10 Gb/s interfaces are not widespread. But professional networks use more this type of interface to meet the growing demand for bandwidth with the collaborative work and storage of data on the servers.

The map Intel X 540 - T2 on PCI-Express 3.0 and the controller Intel X 540

To meet the demand, Intel announces the launch of its controller that supports 10 Gb/s called X 540. Of course, this chip is fully retro-compatible with previous standards, such as Gigabit Ethernet. But Intel offers more support for new features such as the Advanced I/O virtualization or the iSCSI and even Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The skier is the integration of its maximum chip because it can take advantage of the Direct I/O mode that connects the card to the PCI-Express bus 3.0 to the cache of the processor directly, thus speeding up the treatment of packets are transferred without the need to make of mirroring in RAM.

This chip can be found a place on a PCI-Express 3.0 x 8 card for example or even on a motherboard for server. For the moment, he is did not mention of the price, but the precise skier that its offer will be competitive for the rapid adoption of this new standard of the data transport.

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Sony unveils its Xperia Sola

3.7 inch 854 x 480, dual-core processor 1 GHz for 9.9 mm thick, this smartphone will come to put between the Xperia U and Xperia P. announced under GingerBread 2.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 for July), it will be sold to the surrounding of €329 towards the end of April. We discover in this video, the important features of this new Sony, including the Floating Touch smartphone.

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AFOX unveils a Radeon HD 7850 Slim

The Hong Kong AFOX manufacturer presents version single slot of the Radeon HD 7850.

AFOX is a constructor of Hong Kong which is not yet well known in Europe and who sought to stand out from others by proposing original products.

On its stand of CeBIT in Hanover manufacturer thus unveiled a version slim of the Radeon HD 7850 design reworked up then to stay in a small package on a single slot.

    

Model AF7850-1024D5S1 thus its GPU overclocked to 900 Mhz instead of 860 Mhz on the reference map, however the memory goes 2-1 GB and is not dual-core to 1125 Mhz instead of 1200 Mhz advocated by AMD.

The cooling system fan however seems a little light and does not inspire great confidence level efficiency and noise, so test.

Level connectivity, the map is complete and offers a DVI dual link port, HDMI, DisplayPort and a mini DisplayPort output. No tariff or possible date of availability in the hexagon has been clarified.

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Seagate updates its GoFlex Slim line

External hard drives Seagate's GoFlex Slim spend 5200 to 7200 trs/min as well as USB 3.0 for more speed.

In April 2011, Seagate has released its FreeAgent GoFlex Slim line 9 mm format. Initially limited to a speed of 5200 trs/min, the manufacturer corrects shooting by proposing today in the same range ultra thin two disks turning this time to 7200 trs/min. The hard drive case has an interface USB 3.0 for transfers and backups of data faster than on the 2.0 version and weighs only 160 grams in the bottom of the bag, as a smartphone.

The new FreeAgent GoFlex Slim is declined in two capacities, one 320 GB already available in store for $ 99 is €104 all taxes and the other 500 GB that is displayed at the price a little high of $ 170.

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