AppliedMicro (AMCC) announced the availability of the Catalina SoC (APM86491) for low power and cost effective NAS systems today. The preceding generation version (APM82181) was the heart of the Western Digital My Book Live reviewed by us final year as categorically as the recently launched My Book Live Duo. Serving to remind us that the PowerPC architecture is still around in consumer ...

AppliedMicro (AMCC) announced the availability of the Catalina SoC (APM86491) for low power and cost effective NAS systems today. The preceding generation version (APM82181) was the heart of the Western Digital My Book Live reviewed by us final year as categorically as the recently launched My Book Live Duo. Serving to remind us that the PowerPC architecture is still around in consumer ...

Color us unsurprised that Ivy Bridge is destined to be faster and smaller than its predecessor, but unbeknownst to us is an fascinating tidbit concerning the upcoming architecture's GPU. The revamp will reserve resolutions in excess of 4K (topping out at a maximum of 4,096 x 4,096) -- a gigantic leap from the WQXGA (2,560 x 1,600) limitation of its Sandy ...

If you work from a small laptop on the scoot and need a larger screen than what the computer has by default, there are a few options out there. We went hands-on not long ago with the Lenovo LT1421 14-inch USB powered LCD for instance. Today a unused portable screen that gets power and connectivity from a USB harbour has launched ...

When Neal Patwari and his team of researchers developed a wireless network capable of seeing through walls, we assumed they were simply looking to domesticate their Alastor Moody-like superpowers. Turns out, they had far more essential matters on their minds. Patwari and his colleagues at the University of Utah have now penned a unused peruse in which they demonstrate how their ...

Panasonic has rolled out to emphasise a unused tablet in the UK called the CF-H2. The tablet is aimed at the field worker that needs a tablet to remain productive that can survive abuse that goes with working in the field. The tablet is powered by an Intel Core i5-2557M ULV processor operating at 1.7GHz. The processor also has vPro technology ...

It's been a while since we last laid eyes on Maingear's fine looking Clutch-15, and while it's still rocking that sexy exterior, the latest iteration has a little surprise for you under the hood. With the recent addition of NVIDIA's graphics switching Optimus technology, this portable's bringing the juice -- battery juice, that is. Aside from that, things look mostly the ...

The battle for graphics supremacy has been going for well over a decade now, with several casualties of war along the way (RIP 3dfx, Trident, S3, etc.). The primary competitors continue to be NVIDIA and AMD, and with NVIDIA having recently reclaimed the single GPU performance crown on both desktops and laptops with their GTX 580/580M, it’s time for AMD to ...

It's hard to believe, but with the show still six months away, we're already getting bombarded with CES-related e-mail. We do have one piece of intriguing news to report at this early stage of the game: Steve Ballmer is set to kick off the festivities with the preshow keynote on January 9th and it's a safe bet the presentation will be ...

Intel has been flaunting what the company reckons is “the world’s smallest cloud data center” though we can’t help but think they’d come in for major trouble trying to get it through an airport as carry-on luggage. The proof-of-concept is part of the company’s cloud strategy push , based on Intel Xeon processors.Hardware specifications for the compact cloud are unspecified, but ...