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An ARM MacBook could revolutionize the industry

, May 6th 2011 Discuss [14]

It’s a strange week to be talking about Apple dumping Intel. Only a few days ago, the company was proudly unveiling its new iMac line-up, relying on Core i5 and Core i7 processors – along with AMD GPUs – to make them the fastest all-in-ones Apple has offered to-date. Yet at the same time as Intel’s latest quad-core chips are finding their way into what Apple’s Phil Schiller describes as “the world’s best desktop,” there’s also talk that the company’s close relationship with Intel is about to get served with divorce papers. ARM is coming, and the computing industry will never be the same again.

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Apple ditching Intel for ARM in future MacBooks tip insiders

, May 6th 2011 Discuss [15]

Apple is reportedly planning to ditch Intel’s processors for ARM-based chips, a potentially huge revolution that will supposedly kick off with the company’s MacBook notebooks. According to SemiAccurate‘s sources, Apple is looking to a mid-2013 timescale for the transition, when 64-bit cores such as NVIDIA’s Project Denver are common.

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iPad 2 shortage down to LG Display tip insiders

, May 6th 2011 Discuss [0]

LG Display is reportedly ramping up 9.7-inch LCD IPS panel production for the iPad 2, after production issues supposedly hamstrung Apple's ability to get the coveted slate onto shelves. According to DigiTimes' sources, LG Display's shipments will only get back up to original estimates sometime this quarter; analysts have suggested that production rather than demand is the biggest limit on the iPad 2's sales success. Read The Full Story

OS X Lion release via Mac App Store as Apple puts DVDs on notice?

, May 5th 2011 Discuss [1]

Apple is already delivering developer version of OS X Lion via the Mac App Store, but according to the latest leaks the company plans to distribute the full version through its download store too. AppleInsider's sources claim Apple intends to make the Mac App Store the "preferred method" for distributing OS X 10.7 Lion, the Mac OS update expected to arrive this summer, with a physical version only for those with connections too slow for the download or who, for whatever reason, prefer not to download. Read The Full Story

Anonymous denies Sony PSN “We are Legion” calling card

, May 5th 2011 Discuss [11]

Hacking collective Anonymous has reportedly denied being responsible for planting a file seemingly incriminating itself in the PlayStation Network hack, suggesting that instead the group has been framed by whoever completed the exploit and stole millions of user records and credit card data. Kazuo Hirai, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sony Computer Entertainment America, had told a US subcommittee investigating data theft that the file - named Anonymous and containing the phrase "We are Legion" - was discovered on one of the hacked Sony Online Entertainment servers. Read The Full Story

Refreshed Google TV to miss Google IO, debut for holiday 2011?

, May 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

Google TV may be faltering, but we'll have to wait longer than next week's Google IO conference in order to see the search giant's proposal for fixing it. That's the latest murmur from the rumor machine, with AllThingsD hearing from their insider sources that while Google will be holding a session for developers wanting to code TV-friendly apps at IO 2011, the actual reveal of the refreshed Google TV - and, indeed, the launch of the Android Market for Google TV - "won't be announced until sometime in the coming months." Read The Full Story

HP’s Amazon-rivaling cloud plans leak: Backbone of webOS media store?

, May 4th 2011 Discuss [0]

HP has made no disguising its plans for the cloud, with CEO Leo Apotheker confirming earlier this year that the company had software-as-a-service ambitions among other things, but now the full scope of HP's plans to take on Amazon Web Services has been revealed. Scott McClellan, chief technologist and interim vice president of engineering for HP's new cloud services business, prematurely confirmed the proposals on his LinkedIn profile, and The Register spotted the details before HP whipped them down. Among the tidbits: an HP "object storage" service that could form the backbone of the HP Music Store and HP Movie Store. Read The Full Story

Nokia phone/tablet strategy leak alleges Windows 8 slates and Vanjoki “backup”

, May 4th 2011 Discuss [7]

Details on Nokia's alleged phone and tablet strategy for 2012 and 2013 have emerged, suggesting that the company is indeed looking to Windows 8 for its slates and that Maemo 6 will be rolled out for one final hurrah before being effectively dropped. Arch insider Eldar Murtazin has spilt the beans, claiming that Nokia is looking to release 5-7 mid-to-high end Symbian^3 handsets in 2012, along with a single tablet. Read The Full Story

Samsung “Alex” Chrome OS netbook revealed

, Apr 29th 2011 Discuss [4]

The Chrome OS leaks keep coming, with the Acer ZGB netbook and Seaboard tablet being followed by details of Samsung's offering with Google's new platform. The Samsung "Alex" is a 1280 x 800 netbook powered by Intel's dual-core Atom N550 1.5GHz processor, along with a SanDisk SSD P4 and Qualcomm Gobi 2000 3G WWAN connectivity. Read The Full Story

HTC Kingdom and HTC Rider leak: Euro EVO 3D?

, Apr 29th 2011 Discuss [3]

Two unannounced HTC Android smartphones have leaked, the HTC Kingdom (left) and HTC Rider (right). Caught in the wild by 911Sniper (here and here), the two handsets look physically similar, but the Kingdom has a qHD, 960 x 540 display; both phones appear to have a front-facing camera, and it's suggested that at least one could be the GSM version of the HTC EVO 3D. Read The Full Story

RIM’s BlackBerry 7 a simple OS 6.1 rebadge?

, Apr 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

RIM may be closer to releasing BlackBerry 7, its new mobile OS, sooner than we thought, though it's not quite the software revolution we were hoping for. According to CrackBerry's sources, RIM intends to launch BlackBerry 6 at its BlackBerry World 2011 event next week; however, rather than being the QNX-based smartphone platform rumored before, it's expected to be a more straightforward rebrand of what has, until now, been known as BlackBerry 6.1. Read The Full Story

Apple slashes CDMA iPhone 4 orders in half tip insiders

, Apr 28th 2011 Discuss [0]

All eyes may be on Apple's white iPhone 4 today, but according to the latest reports coming out of Taipei, the real movement may be around the CDMA version on sale at Verizon. DigiTimes' sources claim Apple has halved its order with Pegatron for CDMA iPhone 4 production, now asking for just 5m of the handsets in 2011. Read The Full Story
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