Computers-Plus

Nokia has announced it will hold its annual Nokia World event on 25 and 26 September 2012, in Helsinki, Finland. The past events have been the launchpad for some exciting hardware, so anticipation for this year’s event is sure to be high.

While all eyes will be on the Yerba Buena Center today, come September, attention will turn to the Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre in Helsinki, Finland for Nokia World 2012.

Previously, Nokia World has been held in London, and this years relocation to Helsinki coincides with the city being named the World Design Capital 2012, and with Nokia CEO Stephen Elops comments regarding Nokias pride in its Finnish roots.

This annual event sees thousands of people connected with Nokia and the mobile industry gather to hear about the latest innovations, take part in workshops and most importantly for us, anyway to see some new hardware unveiled.

Last year saw the arrival of the Lumia 800 and the Lumia 710, and the year before that a huge swathe of new Symbian phones including the N8.

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Intel’s “Sandy Bridge-EP” Xeon E5 server chip launch extravaganza is not just about servers. It also includes some chippery for their forebears: old-fashioned, heavy-duty, desktop machines that are still called workstations.

Intel usually has a variant of its single-socket server processors – in years gone by, the Xeon SP and then the Xeon 3000 and now the Xeon E3-1200 – geared up for double-duty as processors for single-socket workstations. Last April, when the Sandy Bridge family of chips were first making their way into single-socket laptops, desktops, and servers with the four-core Xeon E3-1200s, all models of the chips could be used in single-socket workstations, particularly the slightly more expensive variants of the Xeon E3s that had Intel HD Graphics 3000 GPUs built in.

That extra GPU pushes the watts on the E3s up to 95 watts, compared to 80 watts without it. The

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It’s rare to find a quad-core processor in a machine for less than a grand, let alone a bundle that includes not one, but two LED monitors thrown into the mix. This deal on a Dell Optiplex 790 desktop and two LED monitors is that bundle.

The Dell Optiplex 790 may not be the most beautiful desktop tower OK its downright utilitarian but at least its powerful enough to get the job done. In the grey box the high point is a quad-core Intel Core i5 CPU, which has more than enough horsepower to keep any system drumming along smoothly. Its other specs are, admittedly, pretty basic. T

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T-Mobile sounds a bit bitter today.

The wireless operator has asked the Federal Communications Commission to reject a deal Verizon Wireless reached to acquire some wireless spectrum for some $3.9 billion, saying it would create excessive concentration of mobile service spectrum holdings that is contrary to the public interest.

Lest anyone forget, the price Verizon Wirelesss deal would be one-tenth the price AT&T was going to pay for T-Mobile, a deal the government rejected despite the assurances from T-Mobile and AT&T that competition wouldnt be an issue.

That deal faced plenty of industry yelling, most loudly from Sprint Nextel.

But not from Verizon.

Verizon Communications CEO Lowell MacAdam actually urged the government to let the AT&T-T-Mobile deal go through.

I have taken the position that the AT&T merger with T-Mobile was kind of like gravity, McAdam said.

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