AMD Names Rory Read as New CEO
AMD has finally chosen a new CEO: Rory Read has been selected to fill the position that Dirk Meyer vacated in January. Read was previously President and COO of...
15 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/25/2011
Sonnet Announces Thunderbolt to ExpressCard/34 Adapter
Sonnet announced a Thunderbolt to ExpressCard/34 adapter today. The exact name of the product is the Echo ExpressCard/34 Thunderbolt Adapter and it is simply a box with an...
6 by Kristian Vättö on 8/25/2011
GameStop Opening Boxed Copies of Deus Ex, Removing Free Game Coupons
PC gamers hoping to snag a free OnLive copy of Deus Ex: Human Revolution with their boxed copy should steer clear of GameStop. The retailing giant recently instructed its...
21 by Craig Getting on 8/24/2011
Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO; Tim Cook Now In Charge
As of this evening, Steve Jobs has resigned his post as CEO of Apple, naming Tim Cook as his successor. This news follows an extended health-related leave of absence...
33 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/24/2011
Windows 8 Aims to Improve File Copy Operations
The trickle of Windows 8 news continues ahead of next month's BUILD conference: today on the Building Windows 8 Blog, Microsoft's Alex Simons detailed several improvements to the way...
39 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/24/2011
Nokia Releases Three Smartphones with New Symbian "Belle"
Nokia has revealed three new smartphones today: Nokia 700, Nokia 701 and Nokia 600. Nokia 600 Nokia 700 Nokia 701 Screen Size 3.2" 3.2" 3.5" Resolution 640x360 640x360 640x360 Display Type N/A AMOLED IPS NAND 2GB + microSD 2GB + microSD 8GB + microSD CPU ARM 11 @ 1GHz ARM...
19 by Kristian Vättö on 8/24/2011
Sprint to Carry Next iPhone, Says Wall Street Journal
Sprint will be joining AT&T and Verizon in carrying Apple's next iPhone, reports the Wall Street Journal citing "people familiar with the matter." This would make Sprint the third...
13 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/24/2011
Ubisoft Removing DRM from PC Version of From Dust
From Dust, the much-hyped “God game” from Out of this World developer Eric Chahi, hasn’t had the smoothest launch on PC. It currently lacks graphics options, has an...
11 by Craig Getting on 8/23/2011
App Store Installer for Lion Updated to 10.7.1
The App Store installer for OS X 10.7 Lion was updated to version 10.7.1 today, confirming that Apple will be keeping the installer up to date as new point...
3 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/23/2011
Penny Arcade Team to Debut "Pandora for games" App at PAX
The webcomic mavens over at Penny Arcade are teaming up with EEDAR, a games industry consultancy created by former game designer Geoff Zatkin, to create the Decide-o-tron app for...
7 by Craig Getting on 8/23/2011
JEDEC Reveals Key Aspects of DDR4
DDR3 made its debut in mid-2007 when Intel released P35 chipset with support for DDR3. Today nearly all desktop, mobile and server platforms support DDR3. iSuppli estimates that DDR3...
34 by Kristian Vättö on 8/23/2011
AMD's A8-3850 up to 26% Faster than A6-3650
When AMD introduced its Llano desktop parts it mentioned two different GPU configurations: an on-die Radeon HD 6550D with 400 cores running at 600MHz and a Radeon HD 6530D...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/23/2011
Native USB 3.0 Support Coming to Windows 8
Windows 8 will be bringing with it native support for USB 3.0 controllers, writes Microsoft's Dennis Flanagan, Director of Program Management for the Devices and Networking Group. This is...
19 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/22/2011
WiFi Galaxy Tab 10.1 Gets Improved GPU Performance With TouchWiz UX
So you read our TouchWiz UX Review and thought, "I'll pass on this one." Well, think it over one more time. When Anand discovered that Sammy's LTE Tab was...
7 by Jason Inofuentes on 8/22/2011
TouchDroid Project Bringing Android to HP Touchpad
The open source community is wasting no time taking ownership of HP's orphaned Touchpad tablet: a new group called the TouchDroid team is looking to bring Android to the...
18 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/22/2011
Intel to Release New Itanium CPUs in 2012: New Architecture and Up to Eight Cores
Intel held a keynote at Hot Chips conference in Stanford University last week where it announced some details of upcoming Itanium CPUs. While originally meant to conquer the enterprise...
16 by Kristian Vättö on 8/22/2011
Google Fiber Goes Live Near Stanford
Google announced last October that they would be beta testing their Google Fiber initiative in a small residential neighborhood affiliated with Stanford University, and one lucky Redditor posted the...
45 by Jason Inofuentes on 8/22/2011
AMD Updates Brazos with E-450, E-300 and C-60 APUs
When AMD first introduced its Brazos platform at the end of last year it promised annual updates to the platform. Today we get the first official update to the...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/22/2011
Updated: HP TouchPad Reduced to $99 and $149 (16GB & 32GB)
If you haven't heard by now, HP is significantly reducing the price of the WiFi TouchPad in order to clear all inventories of the tablet. The 16GB WiFi TouchPad...
35 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/20/2011
Google Bolsters Music Beta With New Magnifier Blog
Google Music Beta, the search giant’s music streaming service, launched earlier this summer to tepid reviews before drifting into the background after the much-ballyhooed release of Spotify in the...
13 by Craig Getting on 8/19/2011
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