Mystery Samsung phone with Snapdragon S4 pops up in benchmarks, may or may not be Verizon's Galaxy S III

While pre-release benchmarks have a very hit or miss record for clues as to what future devices will bring, they almost always raise eyebrows. Nowhere is that more true than in a round of NenaMark2 testing uncovered this weekend: a previously unknown Samsung SCH-i535 for Verizon has tipped up sporting a 1.5GHz, dual-core Snapdragon S4 instead of one of Samsung's own chips, like the Exynos 4 Quad. Given that the SCH-i515 is the model badge for Verizon's Galaxy Nexus, it's not a great leap in logic to speculate that this is a custom version of the Galaxy S III.

Engadget, Mystery Samsung phone with Snapdragon S4 pops up in benchmarks, may or may not be Verizon's Galaxy S III

Samsung Galaxy S3 hits the FCC

It looks like the Samsung Galaxy S3 is just another step closer to making its way to North America as it hit the FCC this morning. This device supports AT&T’s HSPA+ radios, but will not work on T-Mobile’s as those users would likely be stuck on Edge. Couple in in the fact that LTE is absent and we’d say this one is going to be headed straight for the great white north. Of course, no North American carriers have announced plans to carry the device but we’re alright with assuming some will in due time. In the meantime, if Samsung wanted to sell the Galaxy S3 in North America right now, they very well could.

Android Phone, Samsung Galaxy S3 hits the FCC

ISO 27001 Certification Achieved by Skyscape Cloud Services

London – May 15th 2012 – Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave Assured Cloud Services Company, today announced that it has achieved certification to ISO27001:2005, the global Information Security Management System standard.With information security and effective process management being at the heart of the Company, certification was completed in a little over four months, with the LRQA Assessment Team identifying no non-conformances or observations.

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Panasonic Let's Note J10 10.1-Inch Notebook

The Let's Note J10 is another upcoming 10.1-inch notebook from Panasonic that will feature a 10.1-inch 1366 x 768 LCD display, a 2.50GHz Intel Core i5-2450M processor, a 4GB DDR3 RAM, a 128GB SSD, an SD card slot, WiFi, WiMAX, an HDMI port and run on Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (SP1) OS. The Let's Note J10 will begin shipping from May 18th for 170,000 Yen (about $2,128).

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More than 70 percent of mobile users pay little for apps, big spenders make up for us cheapskates

We know smartphone and tablet owners like to buy games. But if you go by a new ABI exploration of user habits, most of us aren't buying much of anything. More than 70 percent of the crowd spends little to nothing on mobile apps, dragging down the average of $14 spent per month among paying customers to a median of $7.50 when you include the skinflints. As you might imagine, that leaves the remaining 30 percent making up for a lot of slack: three percent of downloaders represent a fifth of all the spending in the mobile app world.

Engadget, More than 70 percent of mobile users pay little for apps, big spenders make up for us cheapskates

Intel launches new Ivy Bridge Xeons, targets microservers

Intel is pushing out that delicious Ivy Bridge update to server chips and, interestingly, it's not focusing purely on the high end to start. In total, 28 new Xeon CPUs were introduced today, including the E5-4600 and 2400 families targeted at four and two socket systems, respectively. Those tweaked mainstream processors aren't the interesting part, though. We're more intigued by the updated E3 series, the low-end offerings that are aimed small businesses and light web-hosting duty. In particular the new E3-1220L v2 slashes power consumption to an impressive 17w by going with just two cores and only 3MB of cache.

Engadget, Intel launches new Ivy Bridge Xeons, targets microservers

Patrick Dempsey makes ALMS debut at Laguna Seca

Actor Patrick Dempsey is no stranger to racing. After his wife sent him to a three-day Skip Barber driving school, the actor fell in love with road racing has gone on to compete in Grand-Am for the last several years. McDreamy even got the chance to race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2009, finishing in 9th in the GT2 class behind the wheel of a Ferrari F430 GT. After getting a taste of Le Mans, Dempsey now has aspirations to return to the legendary endurance race, but this time with his own team and his own car.

Autoblog, Patrick Dempsey makes ALMS debut at Laguna Seca