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Items tagged with 'Firmware'

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Try, Try Again As Intel Releases TRIM-Enabling Firmware

Try, Try Again As Intel Releases TRIM-Enabling Firmware

Thursday, December 03, 2009 - by Michael Santo in News
Intel has re-released TRIM enabling firmware for its Intel X25-M and X18-M SSDs. TRIM is available in Windows 7, and its function is to prevent the performance degradation that SSDs see over time.  TRIM clears flash pages instead of marking them as available when users delete data. That is what happens for normal hard... Read More
Kindles Get 85 Percent Battery Power Boost On Wireless

Kindles Get 85 Percent Battery Power Boost On Wireless

Wednesday, November 25, 2009 - by Amy Vernon in News
Amazon.com has an early Christmas present to Kindle purchasers: 85 percent more battery life if you're going wireless. The company announced today that the battery would last up to seven days, even if the wireless is turned on. That's three days more than the previous battery, which lasted four days. The battery life with... Read More
Apple Issues 7200RPM Hard Drive Fix, New Bluetooth Firmware

Apple Issues 7200RPM Hard Drive Fix, New Bluetooth Firmware

Friday, August 21, 2009 - by Shawn Oliver in News
People may gripe that a company like Apple gets all sorts of positive publicity simply because its iPod and iPhone products are selling so well, but there's a dark side to rampant fame as well. The bad definitely comes with the good, and a chorus of angry MacBook Pro owners have apparently made themselves heard.The story... Read More
Intel Issues BIOS Bug Fix For 34nm Solid State Drives

Intel Issues BIOS Bug Fix For 34nm Solid State Drives

Tuesday, August 11, 2009 - by Shawn Oliver in News
The quirk affecting Intel's 34nm SSDs is one that's likely to trouble just a small minority of users, but it was big enough for the outfit to temporarily halt shipments a few weeks back until a firmware fix was published.Today, that very fix is being made available to the public, and it fixes the bug that caused corruption... Read More
QNAP Issues Version 3.1 Firmware For NAS Drives

QNAP Issues Version 3.1 Firmware For NAS Drives

Thursday, July 09, 2009 - by Shawn Oliver in News
QNAP not only provides a respectable array of NAS devices (as we saw in own testing), but it also looks out for its customers. In fact, we can't think of another company that issues as many firmware updates and provides more new features to existing owners than QNAP.Today, the company is doling out another monumental update... Read More
Apple Issues iMac & MacBook Pro Firmware Updates

Apple Issues iMac & MacBook Pro Firmware Updates

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - by Shawn Oliver in News
Just days after Apple started to ship its newest lineup of MacBook Pro units, the company has already issued a firmware update. Why so fast, you ask? For whatever reason, Apple decided to ship some of its hard drive-based MacBook Pro units with a SATA drive interface pegged at "just" 1.5Gbps. Apple followers would know... Read More
Super Talent's UltraDrive SSD Performance Tool

Super Talent's UltraDrive SSD Performance Tool

Friday, May 15, 2009 - by Shawn Oliver in News
We're not quite sure what to read into this, but Super Talent has quietly issued a firmware update that sounds an awful lot like the update Intel issued around this time last month. Surely you remember that, right? Essentially, Intel's otherwise fantastic X-25M and X-18M solid state drives were shown to degrade with time... Read More
Intel Issues Firmware Fix For X-25M / X-18M SSDs

Intel Issues Firmware Fix For X-25M / X-18M SSDs

Monday, April 13, 2009 - by Shawn Oliver in News
A few weeks back, Intel took some flack for shipping its X-25M and X-18M SSDs with a syndrome that caused their performance to slowly degrade under certain conditions. Intel responded by saying it was highly unlikely that end users would be affected under real-world conditions, but they were still left wondering whether... Read More
iPhone, iPod Touch Get a Small Software Update

iPhone, iPod Touch Get a Small Software Update

Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - by Michael Santo in News
Size is in the eye of the beholder. A 0.0.1 upgrade from 2.2 to 2.2.1 sounds minor, but size-of-download-wise? Whew. On Tuesday Apple released a minor update to the iPhone / iPod Touch Software, 2.2.1. The typically vague release notes say: iPhone 2.2.1 Software Update This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including... Read More
Verizon Wireless Posts BlackBerry Storm Update

Verizon Wireless Posts BlackBerry Storm Update

Saturday, December 06, 2008 - by Sarah Miller in News
As the first ever BlackBerry smartphone with a touchscreen, the BlackBerry Storm has generated a lot of buzz. Unfortunately for RIM, the press hasn’t been 100% positive, with headlines stating things claiming the BlackBerry Storm sucks. Not only did Wired and David Pogue from New York Times have less than favorable things... Read More
Verizon Wireless Updates BlackBerry Storm

Verizon Wireless Updates BlackBerry Storm

Sunday, November 30, 2008 - by Sarah Miller in News
The good news is that one of the two rumored firmware updates for Verizon Wireless’ BlackBerry Storm has materialized; the bad news is that it’s not available to the masses quite yet. BlackBerry Enterprise Server users will be the first to receive the newly released firmware update for the Verizon Wireless BlackBerry Storm.... Read More
PS3 2.41 Firmware Due Mid-Week

PS3 2.41 Firmware Due Mid-Week

Monday, July 07, 2008 - by Michael Santo in News
You read that right, PS3 fans.  Those with unbricked PS3s, anyway.  Sony will be releasing FW 2.41 in mid-week, with (hopefully) none of the issues seen with the 2.40 FW.According to customer support, firmware version 2.41, which should be clear of all errors, will out "midweek", although Sony is yet to make an... Read More
PS3 Firmware Update 2.40 Goes Live

PS3 Firmware Update 2.40 Goes Live

Wednesday, July 02, 2008 - by Michael Santo in News
The much-anticipated PS3 Firmware 2.40 - has gone live, as promised, just as July 2nd rolled around.  The update includes: XMB access in-game Trophy Support (the PS3's answer to the Xbox 360's achievements) Expanded Gamer Profiles Of course, the big question is: why are you still reading this?  Start downloading.... Read More
Upcoming PS3 Firmware to Add BD-Live

Upcoming PS3 Firmware to Add BD-Live

Thursday, March 20, 2008 - by Michael Santo in News
BD-Live (AKA Blu-ray Disc Profile 2.0) titles were released earlier this year, despite the fact that there were no players yet capable of supporting BD-Live.  But ...Hi again everyone. Here’s a quick preview of the next PLAYSTATION 3 system software update coming up in the next few days. Firmware v2.20, introduces... Read More
PSP Skype Launches with Firmware 3.90

PSP Skype Launches with Firmware 3.90

Thursday, January 31, 2008 - by Michael Santo in News
For those of you skinnies, meaning owners of PSP-2000s, Skype for the PSP has arrived.  For you fatties, sorry.  The program needs the extra memory of the PSP-2000.As well as enabling free calls between users, Skype will allow PSP owners to send and receive voice and text messages, and make paid for calls to landlines... Read More
PS3 Firmware 2.0 Corrupting Consoles?

PS3 Firmware 2.0 Corrupting Consoles?

Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - by Michael Santo in News
A number of complaints have surfaced which indicate that Sony's latest PS3 firmware may be corrupting consoles, resulting in them having a variety of problems, including complete loss of  functionality.Users report, via the official PlayStation forums, running into numerous hardware problems since updating the PS3’s... Read More
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