Desktop Ivy Bridge processors reportedly getting delayed again, this time until Q2 2012

Ivy Bridge seems to be moving away from us every time we get closer – Intel has reportedly told its partners that their next generation desktop CPUs won’t be hitting the market in March-April as previously thought, but instead will come out some time in Q2 2012.

The new processors feature several key improvements that make it worth the wait – or it did at least when we thought they were coming sooner.

The new 22nm process and utilization of 3D transistors result in a significantly reduced power usage, plus the built-in GPU should finally offer acceptable gaming performance.

Here’s what the lineup should look like. It matches what they now have with current Sandy Bridge processors (no surprises like hex-cores or anything), but check out the TDP specs – they are lower across the board and Ivy Bridge will still outperform their Sandy Bridge counterparts in every scenario.

It all sounds very good, but Q2 seems far off – especially when you consider that this isn’t the first time Intel pushed the release date for Ivy Bridge back (fingers crossed they won’t do it again). Also, the budget minded Core i3 Ivy Bridge CPUs will come even later, we’ll only be getting Core i5 and Core i7 in Q2.

Okay, maybe Q2 isn’t as distant as I’m making it sound, but some (like me) would rather wait a few months after the debut for the prices to drop, so Q2 means such people will have to wait until Q3 to get one.

There’s no info on whether the mobile parts of the Ivy Bridge lineup have been delayed along with the desktop processors.

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Samsung strikes again at the heart of Apple fans mocking the lacking 4G LTE capability of the iPhone [VIDEO]

December 2nd, 2011 byVince

Fun stuff, Mobile phones, Various

After the releasing its controversial video on the web mocking Apple’s iPhone 4S and its fans waiting for its launch alike, Samsung has now stick its finger deeper in the wound and has decided to continue pouring salt in it by launching yet another clip.

This time the Korean manufacturer targets more at the missing 4G LTE feature of the iPhone 4S rather than its size or brand-obsessed fans. This doesn’t mean Apple fans are going to like it though.

The video shows the same people we are already familiar with from the last video standing in line with 15 hours left until the store opens. Suddenly they spot a woman checking her phone and they feverishly ask her if she knows whether the new iPhone will have 4G or not. After a short exchange of words though one of the fans checks her iPhone and reports the news that the iPhone they are standing in line for won’t feature 4G LTE.

Check the second video of the Apple-mocking series from Samsung:

I wonder if Samsung are going to release a third video to round up the series nicely. Interestingly, the action in the first one was taking place 9 hours until store opens, while this clip shows us the queue of people 15 hours until the opening. What do you reckon will happen next? Is Apple going to take some action in “I am a PC and I am a Mac” style?

Update: Well, as it turns out, there is a third one out there. In this one an iPhone and Galaxy S II owner are comparing availability of apps in both applications markets. Unsurprisingly, as it’s a Samsung commercial, the Android user has the winning hard stating that he gets to try the app before actually buying it. Here it goes.

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Napster dies all over again, unlikely to rise from the ashes a third and final time

December 2nd, 2011 byAlex

Desktop software, Mobile Services, Mobile software

In case you feel like you’ve been here before, you’re not wrong. Audiophiles who like to share audio files will remember Napster making a name for itself in 1999 and the early 2000′s and subsequently bowing out again by 2002, only to come back from the dead in 2003.

It now looks as though the music service won’t be cheating death a second time around however.

The original Napster was the creation of one Shawn Fanning, a 19 year-old student who wanted to create a way of sharing MP3 tracks with his friends. His peer to peer sharing software, was for a time an internet sensation, but once the free exchange of music started cutting profits off from the recording industry, it came under heavy fire.

The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America) filed a lawsuit in April of 2000 as part of the Digital Millennium Copyright, in an effort to take the service offline. Artists such as Metallica and Dr. Dre openly opposed the service too, Dre going so far as to file a lawsuit of his own.

The resultant actions Napster had to take by blocking the sharing of unauthorized files took all the steam out of the service and as a result it died a death in 2002 after media giant Bertelsmann’s attempted to buy it for a reported $9 million.

Similar services in the meantime rose and fell to legal action such as Kazaa and LimeWire, but Napster appeared back on the scene in 2003 under new owners Roxio, (typically known for their CD and DVD-burning wares), who picked up the company for $5 million in bankruptcy court.

Despite the relaunch, the service was a shadow of its former self and didn’t really make anymore waves in its new form. Best Buy stepped in to utilize the music service for their own needs, apparently forking over a cool $121 million to take it off Roxio’s hands, but this is where the train ride had to stop.

Despite the amount being undisclosed, it’s safe to say that Best Buy’s investment probably didn’t pay off when they recently sold the service on to one of the Web’s oldest music subscription services, Rhapsody and that’s it.

Rhapsody have seemingly absorbed the once well-loved music service into its own infrastructure without so much as a whisper and unless it can somehow pull the same trick again and rise from the dead, its unlikely we’ll be seeing the name Napster on the inter-webs peddling its music services ever again. R.I.P.

Did you use the service in it’s original form or it’s newer incarnations and does it bother you in the slightest. Let us know in the comments. Click here to see what’s left of Napster.com.

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