Archive for April, 2009

OS 4.7.0.141 Leaked for the BlackBerry Storm 9530

This will be the last BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) OS update for April, I promise Less than a day after OS 4.7.0.141 dropped for the BlackBerry Storm 9500, the same build is now available for the BlackBerry Storm 9530!


BlackBerry 9630 coming to Telus?

The BlackBerry (NSDQ: RIMM) Tour headed to Verizon (NYSE: VZ) will also be coming to the Great White North, according to internal sales info at Telus (NYSE: TU). Given, the SKU is just for a 9630 case, it’s probably safe to assume the phone will be showing up shortly thereafter.


Shrink your Gmail layout with Gmail Compactor

It seems like Gmail users are always hungry for new ways to tweak Gmail’s appearance. One trick that will save some space in your sidebar is the Gmail Compactor script. If you have Greasemonkey or a similar userscript engine installed, just download Gmail Compactor to turn the text links in your sidebar into space-saving icons.
The […]


Feedmil: a long tail search engine for RSS feeds

Feedmil is a search engine for RSS and Atom feeds based on the concept of the “Long Tail.” Basically, the idea is that small, obscure feeds have an audience as long as the interested people have a way to find them via search technology. So, instead of just entering search terms into Feedmil, you also […]


Palm going Centro for next webOS handset?

The Boy Genius Report just got ahold of this ultra-blurry shot of what purports to be Palm’s next webOS device, with a supposed fall release date and zero other info to go on.


Braidwood to be Intel made

One of our sources has given us some more details with regards to Intels upcoming Braidwood Turbo Memory modules and from our understanding, this is an entirely new ballgame compared to what Intel offered last time around.
For starters, it wasnt clear if the P55 chipset was going to get support for Braidwood or not, but […]


AMD 785 chipset has Radeon HD 4200 graphics

The soon to launch AMD 785 chipset has better DirectX 10.1 based graphics and this will be the main difference compared to current integrated AMD 780G mainstream / value chipset.
AMD 780G has a DirectX 10 based IGP core and its GPU is branded as Radeon HD 3200, while AMD 785G will get a Radeon HD […]


RS880D has 700MHz IGP

DirectX 10.1 in Q4 2009
AMD plans two new IGP chipsets, the AMD 785G that we mentioned earlier, and a faster version that still doesn’t have a real name, and is codenamed RD880D. This new chipset also gets DirectX 10.1 based graphics that works at 700MHz, it supports 2×8X Crossfire as well as UVD 2.0.


Cyberlink launches new video conversion software

Cyberlink has launched MediaShow Espresso, a video conversion software package optimized for Intel Core i7 CPUs as well as Nvidia CUDA and ATI Stream technology.


MSI and ASUS turned their backs on ION

According to our info, two big players in the netbook and nettop industry, Asus and MSI chose to skip NVIDIAs ION party. We guess that Intel is just a better friend than NVIDIA in these tough times and as we were able to see at Cebit, they already can do nettops that are based on […]