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Mac OS X 10.7 development already underway

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 18th 2009 No Comments

With Snow Leopard happily padding around hundreds of thousands of Macs around the world, it comes as little surprise to hear that Apple are already a few weeks into development of OS X 10.7. Sign of the upcoming OS refresh has been spotted in the change log of the open source "launchd" framework: a new entry for Mac OS build number "11A47" has turned up, and going by Apple's general nomenclature for build codes, that points squarely at OS X 10.7.

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Nokia Nseries to all run Maemo not Symbian by 2012

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Nov 18th 2009 No Comments

Maemo – as on the Nokia N900 – is still more of a geek’s paradise than a consumer-ready platform, so we hope the development team responsible for it will be working hard over the next couple of years. That’s because the Maemo marketing team have let slip that, as of 2012, Maemo will replace Symbian as the OS for Nokia’s entire Nseries range of handsets.

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EFI-X Mac hack dongle accused of stealing GNU code

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Sep 9th 2009 2 Comments

EFI-X’s OS X hack dongle always seemed too good to be true; according to a new report from Tom’s Hardware, it really was. The adapter promised to take a computer built from standard PC components and allow Mac OS X to be installed on it, without the usual patching and tweaking required for a regular “Hackint0sh”. However, as one EFI-X owner has discovered, it seems the company did little more than repackage Chameleon/Boot-132 bootloader code onto a DRM-encrypted USB stick.

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Nokia Xseries & Cseries tipped, plus Ilo and Booklet devices

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jul 20th 2009 No Comments

Two upcoming ranges of devices from Nokia have been tipped, after listings for the Cseries and Xseries were discovered in Finland’s trademark database. Although no official delineation of the ranges has been made, current thinking is leaning toward seeing the C-prefix as for mainstream, numbered devices, while the X-prefix might refer to Maemo 5 based devices. There are also references to the Nokia Booklet and the “Ilo by Nokia”.

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Intel rebrand with Core i3, i5 and i7; Centrino shifted to WiFi/WiMAX

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jun 18th 2009 No Comments

intel core i3 i5 i7 rebranding Intel have announced that it will be rebranding its CPU range to supposedly simplify the lineup, focusing on the “Intel Core” prefix and transitioning the Centrino brand to cover the company’s WiFi and WiMAX products. Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 will eventually replace Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad, distinguishing different feature sets; somewhat confusingly, some processors will slot into multiple i-prefix categories, depending on their capabilities.

For instance, the upcoming Lynnfield desktop processor will be an Intel Core chip, but have various models that slot into the i5 or i7 segments. Broadly speaking, i3 is an entry-level chip, i5 is a mid-level chip and i7 is the flagship high-level processor. It’s not all change, though, as the Celeron and Pentium brands limp on to cover “affordable entry-level” and “basic computing” respectively.

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EFI-X OS X dongles getting V2.0 USB and PCI Express versions

By Chris Davies on Monday, Jun 1st 2009 No Comments

OS X hack-dongle masters EFI-X have announced their two new devices vying for attention at Computex 2009 this week, a new version of the their USB 2.0 adapter and a PCI Express version. The new EFI-X V2.0 sports an improved BPU over the first-gen model that the company suggests is better at hardware management for multi-OS installs.

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T-Mobile 3G Sidekick clears FCC: Sidekick LX 2009?

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Apr 9th 2009 No Comments

A new Sidekick has been passed by the FCC, using T-Mobile USA’s AWS 3G bands. Although there’s no confirmation on which device it is – the product name is PV300 – the expectation is that this is the Sidekick LX 2009 (aka Sidekick 2009).

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New HTC smartphone tipped for Verizon spotted

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Mar 12th 2009 No Comments

Suggestions of a new Verizon Wireless smartphone made by HTC have been spotted at the GSM Global Certification Forum. The device, listed as the HTC XV6175, is unusual because it supports the GSM 850, 900, 1800 and 1900MHz bands.

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EFix USA preps built-ready Hackintosh desktop

By Daniel Lim on Friday, Dec 12th 2008 No Comments

Speaking of hackintosh; some of you probably heard of EFix, an USB-based dongle that permits a retail DVD installation of OSX with compatible PC hardware. In fact, I’m running one on a PC system that has been though XP, Vista and now is EFix-powered MAC OSX. Does it work? Yes, buggier than previously Vista-powered system but it boots and craps out as usual. For those that aren’t preferred to go though lengthy time of putting together PC parts and pieces, but anxious to get a taste of Mac-clone, you’ll get your wishes; Efix USA (Not the official manufacturer of EFI-X) readies desktop featured an OCed Quad core processor will get officials as soon as early next week.

Update : EFI-X reseller EFIX USA said they will NOT be selling the system after all. EFI-X (the manufacturer of the USB dongle) has made it clear that they do not support system builder that uses EFI-X.

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Have Sprint’s fortunes turned?

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 3rd 2008 2 Comments

sprint logo Over the past year or so, it’s become almost customary to prefix mention of Sprint with the phrase “beleaguered carrier”. The cash-consuming Nextel merge and WiMAX XOHM roll-out both took their toll on the company coffers, while users complained of lacking customer service. Has Sprint managed to turn things around in the tail-end of 2008, however? Recent research into telephone support found that Sprint was the fastest carrier to answer its phones: more than 91-percent of calls in 30 seconds or less, and 99-percent in two minutes or less.