A Super-Earth in the Habitable Zone of a Six-Planet System

A new super-Earth planet that may have an Earth-like climate and be just right to support life has been discovered around a nearby star by an international team of astronomers, led by Mikko Tuomi, University of Hertfordshire, and Guillem Anglada-Escude, University of Goettingen.

The new super-Earth planet exists in the habitable zone of a nearby star and is part of a six-planet system. The system was previously thought to contain three planets in orbits too close to the star to support liquid water. By avoiding fake signals caused by stellar activity, the researchers have identified three new super-Earth planet candidates also in orbit.

Mikko Tuomi said: “We pioneered new data analysis techniques including the use of the wavelength as a filter to reduce the influence of activity on the signal from this star. This significantly increased our sensitivity and enabled us to reveal three new super-Earth planets around the star known as HD 40307, making it into a six-planet system.”

Cray unleashes 100 petaflop XC30 supercomputer with up to a million Intel Xeon cores

Cray has just fired a nuclear salvo in the supercomputer wars with the launch of its XC30, a 100 petaflop-capable brute that can scale up to one million cores. Developed in conjunction with DARPA, the Cascade-codenamed system uses a new type of architecture called Aries interconnect and Intel Xeon E5-2600 processors to easily leapfrog its recent Titan sibling, the previous speed champ.

Apple drops out of Top 5 in China, Galaxy S III tops iPhone 4S in Q3

The iPhone is the most common smartphone almost everywhere in the world... almost. According to analysts at Canalys, in the third quarter this year Apple dropped out of the Top 5 smartphone makers in the Chinese market.
And it's an important market - according to Canalys again, China became a bigger market than the US earlier this year.
Samsung maintains a tentative lead in China holding 14% of the market, with local maker Lenovo breathing down its neck with 13%.
To rub salt in the wound, Samsung's Galaxy S III took the title of "World's best-selling smartphone in Q3 2012," according to Strategy Analytics. There were 18 million Galaxy S III units sold and "only" 16.2 million iPhone 4S phones. Of course, iPhone 4S sales were down in Q3 because everyone was waiting for the iPhone 5 to launch.
Anyway, back to China. The third place there is surprising - it's held by Yulong, who are not known outside of China, but managed to score partnerships with the country's to major carriers - China Telecom and China Mobile.

HTC unveils October revenues, Q4 not starting off well

HTC's performance in this year's third quarter was underwhelming and the final quarter for the year isn't starting off great either. The company announced its revenues for the month of October - $588 million, which is down from the $1,508 million it made in October last year.
That's 61% down year-on-year, while last year's results were up 36% compared to October 2010. This is the biggest year-on-year slide that the company has reported this year.

Smartphone and tablet sales to top 1.2 billion devices in 2013

Gartner, a leading IT research and advisory company, has compiled estimates on the growth of smart devices and the effect they will have on the consumer electronics market. According to the report some 70 percent of total devices sold this year were either tablets or smartphones.






Android is expected to continue to dominate the mobile market even in the business sector, with 56% of devices expected to run on Google's OS by 2016 (up from 34 percent this year).

Sony to outsource up to 40% of phone manufacturing

Sony is looking to ship more phones in 2013, according to DigiTimes, going from a projected 35 million to 50 million. To get the job done, the company plans to outsource some of the manufacturing to big ODMs.


Foxconn has been manufacturing low-end Sony phones since Q3 of this year. According to sources, Sony will add Arima and Compal to the list of makers early next year. Together, the three companies are expected to get orders for around 30-40% of the Xperia phones to be made in 2013.

LG Nexus 4 specs and pricing confirmed

 

The Carphone Warehouse just could not wait until next week and decided to put the next pure-Google droid for pre-order now with full spec, price and delivery date.

Here are the specs. The LG Nexus 4 has a 4.7 "LCD screen with 768 x 1280 and a Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset with quad-core processor at 1.5GHz and 2GB of RAM. In other words, is based on Optimus G, exactly as expected.

The camera is referred to as "8 + MP", so it's really an 8MP 13MP camera and  Shoots 1080p @ 30fps video, although it has only 8GB of non-expandable memory. This does not mean that there will not be a 16GB version later.

LG Nexus 4 preorder σε site ,Specs,τιμή

 
Το Carphone Warehouse απλά δεν μπορούσε να περιμένει μέχρι την επόμενη εβδομάδα και αποφάσισε να διαθέσει το επόμενο pure-Google  droid για προ-παραγγελία τώρα,με πλήρη spec, τιμή και την ημερομηνία παράδοσης.
 
Εδώ έρχονται τα specs. Tο LG Nexus 4 έχει μια 4,7 "οθόνη LCD με 768 x 1280 και ένα Snapdragon S4 Pro chipset με επεξεργαστή quad-core στο 1.5GHz και 2GB μνήμης RAM. Με άλλα λόγια, είναι με βάση το Optimus G, ακριβώς όπως αναμένεται.

Η κάμερα αναφέρεται ως "8 + MP", άρα είναι πραγματικά μια 8MP κάμερα 13MP και όχι. Τραβάει 1080p @ 30fps βίντεο, αν και έχει μόνο 8GB μη-επεκτάσιμη μνήμη. Αυτό δεν σημαίνει ότι δεν θα υπάρξει μια έκδοση 16GB αργότερα.

Samsung Galaxy S III is official (video)

Samsung Galaxy S III

OS: Android 4.04 Ice Cream Sandwich
CPU: Quad-core 32nm ARM Cortex A9 1.4 GHz processor, Exynos 4212 Quad chipset
GPU: Mali-400MP
RAM: 1 GB
3G/ HSPA
Screen: 4,8", 4.8" 16M-color HD (720 x 1280 pixels) Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen, Gorilla Glass
Camera: 8 Megapixel, Full HD video 1920×1080 pixels 30fps
Front Camera: 1.9 Megapixel, video HD
Memory: 16/32/64GB storage, microSD card slot
Wi-Fi n, GPS/ Glonass, Bluetooth 4.0, micro USB, 3.5mm audio jack, FM radio, TV-out, USB-on-the-go, NFC,Wi-Fi hotspot
Batery: 2100 mAh
Dimensions: 136.6×70.6×8.6mm
Weight: 133

TSMC ramps 28nm ARM Cortex-A9 chip to 3.1GHz, gives your desktop jitters

We know TSMC's energy-miser 28-nanometer manufacturing process has a lot of headroom, but the company just ratcheted expectations up by a few notches. Lab workers at Taiwan's semiconductor giant have successfully run a dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor at 3.1GHz under normal conditions. That's a 55 percent higher clock speed than the 2GHz maximum that TSMC normally offers, folks, and about twice as fast as a 40nm chip under the same workload. Don't expect that kind of clock speed from your next smartphone or tablet, though: expect processors of this caliber to find "high-performance uses," which takes us that much closer to NVIDIA's Project Denver as well as other ARM-based desktops, notebooks and servers that should give x86 chips a run for their money.