Great news for potential BlackBerry PlayBook buyers and RIM fans, as EA Sports has teamed up with RIM to give their BlackBerry PlayBook a good launching app, even when we don’t even have a concrete shipment date for this highly anticipated tablet.

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Not much info was shed over at Mobile World Congress 2011 by Google, but the reappointed CEO Eric Schmidt did mention an important thing during his round of talks over there. He mentioned that the next version of Android will “start with an I, be named after a dessert” and combine Gingerbread for phones and Honeycomb for tablets into a cohesive whole.

Schmidt is referring to Ice Cream. Anyway, Eric didn’t say anything about timing, other than updates have been happening on a “six month cycle.” Considering that Honeycomb has yet to officially launch on any devices, we’d say that’s not so long to wait.

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If you’re a tree hugger, I’d recommend you this instead of some hybrid that has inefficient system and unstable Ni-MH batteries and weak combustion engines. This here is the lightest bicycle in the world. This is a real traveling tool for tree huggers. Period.
Weighting at only 6.28 pounds, it’s called the Spin Light Bike. It’s the world’s lightest, fully-built two-wheeler.
A collaboration between over a dozen companies worldwide, nearly every piece of the Spin Light Bike is made of carbon fiber, from the frame to the brakes and even the cranks. As you’d expect, few of these parts are available at your LBS, meaning custom components had to be made to order, so don’t be disappointed when we can’t give you a price.

And for those poor souls griping about carbon fiber’s perceived lack of longevity, know this: the Spin’s collaborators have logged between 12,000 and 15,000 miles since its initial build. So you don’t have to worry about broken bikes half way hiking up Mt. Santubong.

SOURCE via Het Fair Wheel Podium

Finally it’s here. After months of beta testing and feedback Microsoft has finally make public the feature-complete version of their latest browser in the form of Internet Explorer 9 Release candidate. The RC includes several new features that build on the browser’s core theme of speed, design, privacy and security as well as interoperability. After 25 million beta downloads, tonnes of user feedback, Internet Explorer 9 is ready for the prime time! Hopefully it’s up to the talk.

“The release candidate is a major milestone that signals it’s time for developers to start taking advantage of Internet Explorer 9′s features,” said Yong Yu Tsing, Windows Client Group Product Marketing Manager, Microsoft Malaysia.

“Our focus with Internet Explorer 9 has been on creating the platform for the next class of web experiences, tapping into the power of the whole PC,” she said.

For more info head on over to the MSDN website over at the source below. You can also get your IE9 RC over at Windows Update.

SOURCE via MSDN

5 years of preparation, and he ain’t gonna let some simple shit stop him this round!

When everyone is much sidetracked with MWC 2011, Intel has secretly dropped its latest yet dated Bloomfield processor, Core i7 990X into stores. Amidst all the controversy behind the recall of Sandy Bridge chipsets, Intel is still keen to launch new processor for this much dated yet still very powerful in some way platform, the X58.

Since it’s just a bumped up 980X, most of the specifications are the same. The 990X is a 32nm processor. Six cores are available here much like the 980X, and with Hyper Threading you get twelve virtual threads. L3 Cache is the same at 12MB, and you only get 1 QPI link. Clock speed is of 3.46GHz, but with Intel’s SpeedStep Turbo you’re getting speed of up to 3.73GHz. As usual, it’s considered an “Extreme Edition” processor, so the price is also over at the extreme level of $999 per tray.

SOURCE via Intel

I’m not sure why Apple is doing this; I mean the current screen size is just ok so why change it. But this is quite a clear move actually. We’ve been hearing things like Apple tinkering with a new mini-iPhone, and all other Android rivals have bigger screen size, so it’s no surprise if Apple decided to join the crowd for a bigger screen size.

Well, if DigiTimes and its chatty “upstream component suppliers” are to be believed then the next generation iPhone will be sporting a 4-inch display. While DigiTimes can, at times, be a suspect source for Apple information, the idea of a larger 4-inch iPhone flagship to help differentiate itself from a smaller iPhone nano and legacy iPhone 4 (that becomes the budget model) does make some sense.

SOURCE via Digitimes

It seemed that Nvidia is dead serious with their Tegra division. After being a top contender in ARM SoC market by having a number of smartphone and tablet manufacturers using their powerful Tegra 2 chip, Nvidia is not chilling out just yet, and have announced the next Tegra chip, which is a quad-core SoC. Read more…

Apparently many Nexus S owners have been complaining about their brand new Gingerbread phone with Google experience over at the Google Mobile Help. Now, complains are usual, everyone complains about everything, but this one is quite a serious issue apparently.

Users are expressing that their handsets are frequently losing data signal and, once lost, a reboot is required to reconnect. And you think that this is just a normal ‘handset hangs, force reboot it and that’s all’ issue, but no. Imagine you calling your girlfriend using your Nexus S just before your Valentine’s Day dinner, and it hang due to data signal lost, and auto reboot itself. Man, you have some serious explanation to do to her. It’s been said this could be related to an issue that’s been around since 2009 (issue 2845), but a new issue in the Android bug tracker has been created, 14672, which specifically deals with the Nexus S.

The good news here is that Google has acknowledged this bug, and has already fixed it. “All of the issues described in the post are resolved and will be fixed with an OTA that will go out soon.”

SOURCE via Google