Virgin Mobile launches its offensive: quadruple-play from €29.99 and mini-forfait to €4.99

Make the point on the strategy of Virgin Mobile, which announces three new packages including two mixed with a quadruple-play offering.Virgin Mobile has, as expected, announced new offerings this week. The first virtual operator French first started to be reassuring about the impact that could have on the arrival of Free Mobile on the market. Recognizing "explosion" on the fifteen days following the announcements of Free, pressure is quickly settled...

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Bing Desktop: the integrated Windows search bar

The firm of Redmond yesterday launched the beta version of Bing Desktop, its autonomous search bar into Windows 7.Yesterday Microsoft has made available for download the beta version of its utility called Bing Desktop. It allows, directly from the Windows desktop, to search via the search engine Bing of the firm without having to open a Web browser.1.4 MB file installs a search bar that is place by default to the center of the screen (an option allows...

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The Trinity of AMD APUs: 29% faster CPU, 56% to the GPU...

A document from AMD provides guidance on earnings to the new generation of APUs...On one of the pages of a document AMD marketing piochée at SweClockers, found some arguments put forward by the caster to praise new APUs of the Trinity range, which will be replace the generation Llano. Found therefore that, according to AMD, the APUs Trinity is average 29% more efficient in productivity (and therefore on the CPU part) are the Llano. Better, the graphical...

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6 GB memory for the Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 Toxic

The Chinese manufacturer Sapphire prepares a model of Radeon HD 7970 with 6 GB of memory, known as Toxic.Russian site OCLab was able to get their hands and thoroughly dissect the graphics card Radeon HD 7970 Sapphire Toxic with no less than 6 GB memory GDDR5. The map is entirely changed, PCBs, frequencies, and cooling system are then optimized to provide high level performance. The GPU Tahiti of this map is overclockée of plant to 1150 Mhz frequency...

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A bucket for your nitrogen...

Extreme processor cooling fans, here is a bucket of quality for new records of overclocking...The bucket for cooling extreme Reeven, unveiled in January, is ready for launch in several markets. In the Japan, for example, it will be marketé by Scythian. This jar measures 7 x 7 x 16 cm and weighs 900 grams. Also known on the reference RECC-01, it is primarily designed aluminum and its base is copper nickel plated, where the dissipation is from 18 circular...

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Alims: prices down in Cooler Master

Cooler Master celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and gifts to customers, as with its Silent Pro including price feeds are reviewed in the decline.Cooler Master celebrates 20 years and is all tables. The power supplies, manufacturer concedes a decrease in price on all models of its Silent Pro modular, monorail and certified 80 + Bronze. Silent Pro Gold and Hybrid blocks are not affected. What this now gives resellers of brand partners:Silent...

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Instagram finally available on Android

Available for two years on iPhone, the application of vintage Instagram photo sharing finally arrives on Android terminals.Smile, cheeeese! Instagram, one of the apps lights of the iPhone, sort of photographic social network, is finally available on Android.With its 30 million users around the world on iOS, Instagram prepares to invade the globe via mobile terminals on the OS to the small green robot. Downloadable since yesterday on Google Play,...

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Cubitek ICE: a new range of enclosures alu of the mini-ITX at the HPTX

Cubitek presents five new ICE, aluminum and visibly well-designed series enclosures.Cubitek, manufacturer of boxes, presents a new line of products under the name "Ice Series". No less than five new models are introduced, all designed with plates of 2.5 mm thick aluminum. These five models range from the format mini-ITX at the HPTX, a range of prices ranging from $ 169 to 359.                     ...

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OCZ Vertex 4: just launched and already available

OCZ launches its fourth generation of flash Vertex drives, this time above based on a Mount Everest 2 Indilinx controller.OCZ Announces and launches today its new SSD the Vertex 4 range. Architected around a 6 Gbps SATA III interface, these SSD operate controller Everest 2 from Indilinx, therefore a new step in the transition made by OCZ SandForce of Vertex 3-Indilinx controllers controllers, business with Octane. NAND flash chips used are of type...

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Optimize the performances of your graphics with HIS iTurbo

HIS Chinese society offers its software iTurbo to make the best of graphics cards.Delivered in bundle with its graphics and maps available free for download on its web site, HIS offers a complete, ergonomic and easy to use graphics tweaking tool with iTurbo.iTurbo gives you then total control over the settings of your graphics card (voltages and frequencies of the GPU and memory, speed of the ventilos) allowing a simplified overclocking. The soft...

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Intel 313 Series: the new cache SSD hybrid storage

All the technical details of this new range of SSD are finally known. It is not oriented disk storage, but SSD designed for hybrid storage.Intel formalizes the launch of its new line of flash memory drives by opening the product page on its website and its technical declination "ark" for the 20 GB and 24 GB. The Intel SSD 313 Series come succeed the Series 311 and are specially studied for as disk cache and not in discs for the operating systems...

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Intel Haswell-EX and the DDR4

A few digressions on the DDR4, more than of real info. But a priori, should not expect the DDR4 in our computers before 2015, while companies there will have just before law.As explained recently, all known elements point to the year 2014/2015 as being those of the arrival on the consumer market a new DRAM standard, the DDR4. According to VR-Zone, first processors actually support these new DDR4 SDRAM will be the declension "business" of chips Intel...

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A WiFi router in electrical outlets

Planex Communications, a Japanese company has a Wi-Fi router that fits into electrical outlets.The MZK-KR150N is a WiFi router miniaturized, proposed by the firm Japanese Planex Communications, which can shelter down a wall into an electrical outlet. Why have a large box, also design it, that takes place, to draw cables for power supply and connect to the network when you can all gather in a small package which houses discreetly in a plinth in place...

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BIOSTAR launches a new card mother AM3 +

For all AMD processors supporting socket AM3 +, BIOSTAR launches motherboard well off and not expensive to €75.There is not for Intel processors, at least not in Biostar that proposes us today a new motherboard on socket AM3 +. Its name? TA970XE.The ATX format, it is managed by chipset AMD 970 as its name indicates, of the SouthBridge SB950 and feed into the CPU by its five floors of food, very little for a card which is oriented overclocking and...

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The Freebox revolution magnifying glass transition to summer time

Every last Sunday of the month of March is the transition to summer time but this year the Freebox Revolution has missed the boat.You to are surely overview Sunday morning and to have perhaps suffered the consequences if you use your Freebox Revolution as a reference clock: it is not passed to the time automatically.Indeed, the main display of the Freebox Server always displays back to winter, or one hour less than what it should display (13 h 37...

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Elpida finally purchased by Micron?

Japanese DRAM deposit balance specialist could be purchased by Micron who made an offer, but others are also on the move...Late February, announced the filing of balance of Japanese Elpida, specialist of the RAM and world important player in this market which, as a few days earlier, explained should have a major impact on the computer industry. Or the month of January, we talking the possibility of a merger of Elpida with another actor of the DRAM...

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SilverStone out his package all dressed in white

SilverStone declines his micro-ATX PS07 Precision Series in white version package.If the black box was already rather pretty, SilverStone has to add to its Precision Series PS07 a new color, white. Outside as inside, this ESS-PS07 is dressed in white and also supports its mini-ITX and micro-ATX motherboards. However, any editing will be upside down, because the manufacturer reversed the meaning of the motherboard, addition BTX and food can be found...

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Sony VAIO passes under ChromeOS, and ARM...

With an operating system a little abandoned by its creator, Sony tries the ChromeBook. A boost for Google?Japanese Sony seems interested by the operating system from Google, ChromeOS. We learn it by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) dealing with control all incoming or from products in the United States to ensure the respect of local standards.   Photos of the Sony VIAO VCC111 (click to enlarge)Therefore information and photos...

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