Category: PC & Tech

Social Networking giant Facebook has made an announcement that it would be rolling out its latest service, Facebook Credits. The service is set to be launched in 13 countries includes Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, UK, US, Venezuela. It starts from July 1st 2011, it intends to be used as an alternative payment option on social networking giant, and it will be supported by Live Gamer. The Credits would allow users to buy virtual currency and virtual goods that are available in Facebook apps.

The XC2V FLYPMode is one imposing looking vehicle, also called as Experimental Crowd-derived Combat Support Vehicle. DAPRA has billed this mean machine as the first crowd-sourced, military relevant vehicle design. After being selected as a winning entry to DAPRAs design competition, Local Motors tricked it out in just 14 weeks. We wont see this thing driving dirty in the desert anytime soon. Dont forget to look at the video

Lenovo has two tablets launch in the coming weeks, from looking the picture you can say the launch date by yourself. This shows the Android packed IdeaPad K1, debuts in late June or July, and it is rumoured as June 28th release date and ThinkPad later, the companys IdeaCentre nettop coming our way in August 30th. The IdeaPad K1 will feature a 10.1-inch display with 1280*800 resolution, 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, and run Android 3.x, the retail is expected about $500.

The first suitcase-desktop tease sporting an internal battery came from the NextComputing. The headlining promises two hours to four hours of battery life. NextComputings half a minute demo shows an unnamed workstation disconnected, unplugged, and lugged off. A desktop with a battery still beats a laptop without one. Dont forget to look at the video

The team of researchers from University of Minnesota has found a way to harness energy from our hot castoffs. The group has apparently created a brand spanking new alloy that spontaneously creates energy when its temperature raised by a small amount. Future uses a material Ni45Co5Mn40Sn10 include charging a hybrid car battery with the help of waste heat from its exhaust. The material is a phase changer; it can go from non-magnetic to magnetic in moments, when the temperature rises. They also try to get the waste heat from computers. Dont forget to check out the video

We already hit you about the Firefox 5, now it is the time for official release of Firefox 5.0, as the browser is expected to release, you can download it from the Mozillas site. Hit on the source link to download your Firefox 5 browser

Microsofts Redmond unveils updates to SkyDrive, includes speed boosts, revamped UI, and improved photo viewing. The latest version of the four year old service has cute wait time on actions like clicking folders, from six to nine seconds down to 100 to 300 milliseconds. The software updated features H.264 video playback, navigation system more skin to desktop browsing, single view for files, docs, and photos. Dont forget to look at the video

Now the companies are mostly releasing all-in-ones, now its time for Toshiba to hit their own. Toshiba announced the DX1215, the companys first entry for US market. The 21.5-inch touchscreen desktop has 2 USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, an HDMI port, 1TB of HDD, and built-in Onkyo speakers. The device comes with the wireless mouse and keyboard, and it will be hitting Best Buy stores and website on July 3rd starting at $930, for more details read the press release

For: Good Performance, Security Specs, Good Build quality, 3G radioAgainst: Battery doesnt lasts long, No extended battery, stiff keyboardThe HP ProBook 5330m a 13.3-inch has a metal body and a Beats audio a first on HP business machine, but staple across its consumer stable. The companys wooing with its matte display, optional prepaid mobile broadband, Intel vPro technology, and TPM circuitry. The device is priced at $799.

Commodore USA announced its Replica of famous C64. It promised a keyboard PC that duplicated original retro-beige finish, with an Atom CPU and an NVIDIA Ion graphics card. The numerous announcements and even after a cross-promotion with Tron: Legacy. The latest word from the company has pre-orders shipping next week, in 5 different varieties, from the bare bone chassis and card reader to C64x Ultimate costs $895 it includes 1TB HDD and a Blu-ray player. Dont forget to look at the video

Mozilla promised a faster refresh cycle for its web browser, following the release of Firefox 4, and made it good on that promise. The Firefox 5 is now available for download on Mozillas FTP server , just 12 weeks from last re-up. It brings support for CSS animation and more easily accessible do not track setting now available at the top of the privacy pane. If you want to play it safe, avoid last minute tweaks, you can always hold off for that to get official. If you dont want to wait means hit on the source links to download Firefox 5 from Mozillas FTP server

This is PFUs letter less keyboard, now you can conclude the why the keyboard is named like that. The Happy hacking keyboard for the later-focused overachievers out there, PFU just started selling the S-Type for Speed and Silence. This version promises to keep up with faster typists a vague claim indeed and pledges to make 30 percent less noise. With HHBKs other mortal prone to spelling errors can nab one with letters printed on keys. The device is priced at 30,000 ($371.61).

Linux users say good bye to Adobe now. Adobe has now announced that version 2.7 will be the last official release and going forward, the people had to rely on kind-hearted persons to fire up the Linux porting kit the company providing. Development teams will be is focusing on the growing realm of mobile and improving Air support on iOS and Android brings the browser-plus-flash app environment to webOS. The worlds favorite open source operating system hold just one percent of desktops market. It probably doesnt help that Adobe has trouble in getting in to play with especially 64 bit ones.

For: User Interface, Password manager, Remote managementAgainst: Spam filter, Slow updates, Comparison of Secure performance with NortonKaspersky Pure is more than an anti-virus and firewall protection. It offers Kaspersky Pure. This package is mainly targeting the home users who need a protection and all in one package.

HP added 11 new models utilizing the AMDs latest Vision technology, AMDs long-awaited hybrid CPU / GPU finally gone official today and HP is introduced the laptops with Accelerated Processing Powers. The Pavilion dv (dv4, dv6, dv7) and g (g4, g6, g7) series are both getting in on action, with the dv models getting Beats Audio and CoolSense as justifications for pricing. The ProBook laptops of both b (6465b, 6565b) and s (4535s, 4435s, and 4436s) are also getting A-series processor options. Pricing starts at $600 on the dv series and $450 for g series expected to ship in July, while ProBook models prices start at $519 and will arrive on June 27th. For more details read the press release

According to Billboard, HPs discussions with major record labels about a cloud-based service of some sort are now heating up, that is not meant as actual launch is imminent. One major label executive says Billboard that the service could be something like Qriocity for a variety of media, which can be delivered on any HP device, We dont know how serious they are, which is not exactly encouraging thing to hear. Some of them told HP could launch such a service, while some other sources say that HP is still trying to narrow down what their service look like.

According to Sophos, the security company, the net is rife with a new threat on the block. It approaches the users as a genuine Microsoft update, the main difference is being that it is not. It is actually a fake anti-virus rounding up in the grab of Microsoft update, and successful in luring users into trap. These days the criminals uses to convince users to believe that the fake anti-virus that they are being asked to download indeed a genuine update from Microsoft. The update pops-up only when the users are using Mozilla Firefox on Windows, those familiar with Microsoft updates, the genuine ones know they happen only on Windows Explorer. Sophos also stated that the users should comply with such security updates unless they have duly checked its Adobe, Microsoft, or Sophos themselves.

The new look of LG P330 is pretty clear that this one is hitting well, it got NVIDIA GT 555m, 13.3-incher with Sandy Bridge class Core i7. It looks quite good on its magnesium and aluminum suit, and not gets lost to sharing into the IPS panel. It weighs about 3.6 pounds, check out the spec sheet of it below and it will hit the retailers this September.