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Wireless Emerges as Top Chip Spending Area For OEMs

Feb 6, 2012 8:00 am

OEMs are now spending more on semiconductors for wireless devices than for computers. [more]

AMD: We Need Third Party IP to Differentiate

Feb 6, 2012 6:34 am

AMD Implies on "Major" Tablet Maker as Interested in APUs [more]

Microsoft experiments ahead of Windows 8's public beta, is the Start button going the way of the dodo?

Feb 6, 2012 5:52 am

As we draw closer to the Windows 8 public beta this month, we've come to learn many different details of what Microsoft is cooking behind the scenes in the new OS, which is expected to debut in final form by the end of this year. [more]

Weekend tech reading: Micron CEO dies in plane crash

Feb 5, 2012 10:22 pm

Micron chief dies in crash Steven R. Appleton, chairman and chief executive of Micron Technology Inc. and one of the most prominent figures in the semiconductor industry, died Friday when the high-performance airplane he was piloting crashed at Boise, Idaho's airport. The death of the... [more]

Gold and Bronze: NZXT Power Supply Units Roundup

Feb 5, 2012 5:02 pm

Today we are going to talk about five power supply units from NZXT ranging in capacity from 650 W to 1000 W and certified according to 80 PLUS Bronze and Gold standards. ... [PCSTATS] [more]

Compact Network Attached Storage from Synology: DiskStation DS411 Slim

Feb 5, 2012 5:01 pm

This compact product working with 2.5hard drives brings low power consumption (green solution), quiet operation, reliability and easy disk replacement in a small size. The operating system, Synology DiskStation Manager 3.0, delivers rich features for multimedia, Internet sharing, data... [more]

Intel Core i7-3820 vs. Core i7-2700K and Core i7-3930K

Feb 5, 2012 5:00 pm

In the nearest future Intel is going to start selling their new quad-core LGA 2011 processor Core i7-3820, which will boast low price tag of only $285. Lets see how attractive the new product is going to be. ... [PCSTATS] [more]

IBM Quietly Starts to Make Chips for AMD

Feb 5, 2012 1:17 pm

AMD's Fusion Chips Are Made by IBM [more]

Valve Working on Secret TF2 Project; Fans Want HL3

Feb 5, 2012 7:00 am

The Team Fortress 2 blog is hinting at a top secret project slated to hit Steam in 2012. Meanwhile, fans are actually demanding new Half-Life 3 news, protested on Saturday as a result. [more]

Sony's New CEO Sees a Tough Road Ahead

Feb 4, 2012 10:10 pm

Kazuo Hirai, who takes over as President and CEO of Sony Corp. in April, believes the company needs to set aside previous tradition and focus on the new "user experience" in order to succeed. [more]

Corsair Vengeance M90 Performance Laser Gaming Mouse Review

Feb 4, 2012 5:03 pm

Corsair has recently entered the mouse/keyboard gaming peripherals market and decided to make a good impression. The M90 mouse features multiple programmable buttons for RTS/MMO gamers, contains an aluminum chassis for increased durability and comes with the Avago Technologies ADNS-9500... [more]

Vertex 3 120GB SSD Drive

Feb 4, 2012 5:02 pm

"The Vertex range of drives can be considered the benchmark when comparing performance in their respective range and with the release of OCZs Vertex 3 range we are now offered with 500MB/s write and 550MB/s reads. Today we bring to you OCZs 120GB model of the Vertex 3 which is offered in... [more]

HotHardware's Two and A Half Geeks Webcast

Feb 4, 2012 5:01 pm

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Marco, Iyaz and Dave discuss the Asus Transformer Prime Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update, AMD's A8-3870K Black Edition unlocked Llano APU, Dell's Alienware X51 small form factor gaming PC, the brand new AMD Radeon HD 7950 and... [more]

AZZA Fusion 3000 Tower Case

Feb 4, 2012 5:00 pm

"Today for review we have the AZZA Fusion 3000, the smaller brother of the Fusion 4000. It is a bit of a misnomer, however, to refer to the Fusion 3000 as a "smaller sibling" considering the daunting size of this 10 slot full-sized tower case. It fits up to an Ultra ATX motherboard with plenty of... [more]

Kingston HyperX 2400mhz Review

Feb 4, 2012 1:01 pm

Intels X79 platform has transformed the high end enthusiast market, with performance levels outside anything that AMD can currently challenge. We have reviewed several memory kits in recent months but today we are looking at the latest HyperX 2400mhz memory 8GB kit from Kingston. ... [PCSTATS] [more]

Radeon HD 7950 Overclock Guide

Feb 4, 2012 1:00 pm

We take a Radeon HD 7950 overclock it the normal way and then voltage tweaked. So that way we will demonstrate not one, but two maximum overclock conditions alongside TDP, heat, noise and performance levels. You will notice that if you go for long lifespan a long-lived card that overclocking... [more]

Xclio Touch 787 Super Tower Chassis Review

Feb 4, 2012 10:03 am

"On top of an improved Touch panel of this chassis, we are also moving up in chassis classes. Here we go from the mid-tower design of the Touch 320, skip right over full towers, and deliver a Super Tower chassis! The optical bays stay tool-less, but this time there is a whole new look at HDD... [more]

AXIOM EP125 V3 8 125 Watt Subwoofer Review

Feb 4, 2012 10:01 am

Recently, we reviewed the Axiom M3 v2 bookshelf speakers and found them to be great speaker for the price point but bookshelf speakers are only capable of reproducing the higher areas of the sonic spectrum. Bookshelf speaker based audio systems require a subwoofer to produce the lower frequency... [more]

enthusiast community with the A8-3870K

Feb 4, 2012 10:00 am

AMD entices the enthusiast community with the A8-3870K, an unlocked version of its A8 APU. That means no locked multipliers. Will it allow for new levels of performance? Find out in our review! ... [PCSTATS] [more]

EU Asks Google to Delay Policy Changes for Investigation

Feb 4, 2012 9:00 am

EU regulators have asked Google to step back while they conduct an investigation. [more]

Corning and Samsung Mobile Display to Make Rigid Glass for OLED Displays

Feb 4, 2012 6:59 am

Corning and Samsung to Jointly Develop Lotus Glass [more]

AMD Reveals Ultrathin Prototype, Roadmaps

Feb 4, 2012 3:00 am

In addition to revealing its 2012 and 2013 roadmaps, AMD sported an ultrathin form factor packed with its Trinity APU. [more]

Weekend Open Forum: Your worst gaming habits

Feb 4, 2012 12:52 am

Although I've never pillaged someone's RuneScape account at knifepoint, I have plenty of less-than-proud moments in my gaming history -- like many of you, I imagine. My lowest point was undoubtedly spending months of free time on a little-known MMORPG called Dofus back in 05 or so. I paid... [more]

Dropbox offers an additional 5GB of cloud storage to beta users

Feb 3, 2012 11:30 pm

For users willing to be guinea pigs, Dropbox is offering an opportunity to score 5GB of free space through the popular cloud storage service. PCWorld is reporting the 5GB is actually in addition to the standard 2GB issued to free users, making the possible total for free Dropbox users a... [more]

Micron's CEO Dies in Plane Crash Friday Morning

Feb 3, 2012 11:00 pm

Micron's CEO was killed Friday morning while trying to land his plane at the Boise airport. [more]

Micron Loses Chief Executive as Steve Appleton Dies in Plane Crash

Feb 3, 2012 10:51 pm

Steve Appleton Passes Away in Plane Accident [more]

Germany Bans Apple's iCloud; iPhone 4, iPad 2 Spared From Second Ban

Feb 3, 2012 10:24 pm

Apple surely is bitter for having to pay a top Android phonemaker for its "innovation" [more]

Micron's CEO Dies in Tragic Plane Crash

Feb 3, 2012 10:11 pm

Executive was piloting experimental plane, had crashed once before unharmed [more]

Deals for Feb 3: 23" Dell UltraSharp IPS LCD Monitor $229

Feb 3, 2012 10:00 pm

Get your weekend tech deals here! [more]

Google's privacy policy cornered by European Commission and Congress

Feb 3, 2012 10:00 pm

Continuing the story we posted earlier this week, the European Commission has asked Google to hold off on rolling out their new privacy policy. The EC is assigning French data protection authority, CNIL, to work with Google and explore the repercussions of Google's upcoming unified privacy... [more]

Weekend game deals: 66% off Warhammer titles, Section 8: Prejudice

Feb 3, 2012 9:30 pm

If you didn't grab Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine for $25 via GamersGate last week, Steam has it for only $17 as part of its "Warhammer Weekend" promotion. You'll also find 66% off seemingly every other game in the franchise as well as their DLC packs and last May's Section 8:... [more]

Anonymous eavesdrops FBI conference call, posts audio online

Feb 3, 2012 8:30 pm

The hactivist group Anonymous claims to have intercepted and recorded a conference call between the FBI and the British police cybercrime division Scotland Yard that took place on January 17. Anon has since released an audio recording of the roughly 15-minute long conversation online. [more]

2/3/2012 Daily Hardware Reviews

Feb 3, 2012 7:57 pm

DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday [more]

Google Bouncer boots malicious apps from Android Market

Feb 3, 2012 7:30 pm

Google's relaxed stance on app screening on its Marketplace has been known to let a quite few malicious apps slip under the radar. Whether security concerns surrounding its Android platform are accurate or exaggerated, the company is taking them seriously enough to launch a new security... [more]

Corning and Samsung to jointly develop Lotus Glass for OLED devices

Feb 3, 2012 6:30 pm

Corning and Samsung have announced a new partnership between the two companies that will see Corning’s Lotus Glass technology utilized in upcoming OLED products from Samsung. Lotus Glass is said to be somewhat similar to Gorilla Glass but delivers higher processing temperatures and improved... [more]

Self-Guided Bullet is a Soldier's Best Friend

Feb 3, 2012 6:02 pm

New design could reduce collateral damage, improve long range hits, and even potentially steer around obstacles [more]

Apple is Now World's Largest PC Company (If Tablets Are PCs)

Feb 3, 2012 6:00 pm

Canalys is, as far as we know, the only major market research firm that has chosen to include tablet shipments in overall PC unit shipments. [more]

Google Introduces New Android Security System "Bouncer"

Feb 3, 2012 5:49 pm

Bouncer screens apps in the Android Market for malicious activity [more]

Valve at work on secret Team Fortress 2 project, Meet the Pyro short

Feb 3, 2012 5:30 pm

A new post on the Team Fortress 2 blog hints at an upcoming secret project for 2012. The post is short on details but readers are told that it’s something brand new, isn’t a hat or a map and that “it’s really cool.” [more]

Thermaltake SMART 630W Power

Feb 3, 2012 5:03 pm

A couple of weeks ago, we have taken a look at the Thermaltake SMART 730W power supply. The SMART series is a value oriented line of PSUs designed to be not only budget friendly, but also eco-friendly. But the thing is, not everyone needs 730W. To cater to those who only need a power supply that... [more]

ROCCAT Alumic Mouse Pad

Feb 3, 2012 5:02 pm

ROCCAT's newest double sided gaming surface is dubbed Alumic. New for the Alumic is an aluminum core construction, to which ROCCAT has applied two different plastic surfaces. The Alumic features a control and speed side in order to accommodate all gaming styles. ... [PCSTATS] [more]

Financial Analyst Day

Feb 3, 2012 5:01 pm

AMD has released an updated roadmap for these next two years, and the information contained within is quite revealing of where AMD is going and how they are shifting their lineup to be less dependent on a single manufacturer. The Financial Analyst Day has brought a few surprises of where AMD is... [more]

MSI Z68A-GD65G3 Motherboard

Feb 3, 2012 5:00 pm

Today we have a motherboard review for you, we finally got back on track and are focusing on hardware and MSI is a big step towards our goal. We are looking at the Z68A-GD65G3 that has some nice features such as; UEFI, Military class components, and even THX audio. Lets find out if also performs... [more]

Motorola blocks some Apple devices in Germany, wins iCloud injunction

Feb 3, 2012 4:30 pm

Apple has been dealt a couple of blows today in the ongoing patent infringement cases filed against the company by Motorola. The first involves a decision by the Mannheim Regional Court, in which Judge Andreas Voss issued a permanent injunction against iCloud and any devices that use it, for... [more]

Air Force Plans to Move to Multirole Aircraft Due to Budget Cuts

Feb 3, 2012 4:15 pm

Air Force is updating aircraft such as the F-16 and retiring aircraft such as the A-10 [more]

10% Motherboard Price Hike due to Value of Cu + Chinese Minimum Wage Raise

Feb 3, 2012 4:08 pm

Motherboard vendors ASUS and Gigabyte are expected to hike their motherboard prices by about 10% as early as the end of the first quarter of 2012, in response to increases in the price of copper and labor costs in China. Further, Digitimes reports; " Motherboard prices were hiked by 5-10% in... [more]

Bail Denied Again for Megaupload Founder Kim Dotcom

Feb 3, 2012 4:08 pm

Courts consider Dotcom a flight risk [more]

Anonymous targets Greece Ministry of Justice for signing ACTA treaty

Feb 3, 2012 3:30 pm

Anonymous targeted the website of the Greek Justice Ministry this morning as the leaderless group kicked off a day of protests against the financially embattled European country for its decision to the sign the controversial ACTA treaty. The so-called hacktivists replaced the Justice Ministry... [more]

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