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Latest News - January 2015
- Crucial Cranks Out MX200 And BX100 Solid State Drive Lines
- Parrot Takes Flight With Bebop Drone and Skycontroller
- Gigabyte Rolls Out X99-SOC Champion Motherboard, Broadwell-U BRIX Mini PCs
- Samsung Brings Blazing Speeds To External Storage With Portable SSD T1
- Sony’s Walkman Returns As $1,200 Media Player Running Android 4.2
- Sony’s SmartWatch 3 Gets Stylish, Stainless Steel Makeover
- Booming Mid-Range Smartphone Sales Help HTC Post First Revenue Gain In 3 Years
- Sony PlayStation 4 Sales Top 18.5 Million Worldwide
- HP Unwraps ZBook 3D Mobile Workstations
- Not For U.S. Consumption: Lenovo Teases Fresh Smartphones, Wearable, Selfie Flash
- SanDisk Unveils New Budget SSDs And Mobile-targeted USB Flash Drive
- Lenovo Breaks Out Stylish FLEX 3, YOGA 3 Convertibles; Touts 'AnyPen' Tech For YOGA Tablet 2
- Lenovo Announces LaVie Z Series: The World’s Lightest 13.3-inch Convertible, Laptop
- ASUS Unleashes 4K Monitor, Numerous Gaming Peripherals At CES
- ASUS Advances Convertibles With Transformer Book Chi Series, Reveals New ZenFones
- Amazon’s Hardware Division Overhauled Following High-Profile Fire Phone Flop
- Is That You, HAL? 2016 Chevy Models Predict When Components Will Fail
- UE MEGABOOM Bluetooth Speaker Promises 100-Foot Range, 360-Degree Sound
- HP Takes On Chrome OS With Candy-Coated, $180 Stream Mini Windows PC
- Microsoft’s Nokia 215 Smartphone Costs Just $29, Targets Emerging Markets
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All News for January 2015
We tend to get pretty excited about new solid state drive (SSD) announcements. Why? Well, the more SSDs that flood the market, the better the chances that prices will continue to push downwards. See where we're coming from? With that in mind, Crucial took advantage of the Consumer Electronics...
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Pepcom’s Digital Experience gives the media a chance to take a sneak peek at some of the coolest gadgets as CES kicks off, so we checked out the latest gear from HP, Patriot, and the like. This year we found ourselves dodging a number of drones, including Parrot’s Bebop, which hovered at about...
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Gigabyte is introducing a new X99 motherboard for overclockers that are on a budget. The X99-SOC Champion, like the other members of Gigabyte’s X99 motherboard lineup, supports Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition (LGA 2011-v3 socket) processors...
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External hard drives are pretty commonplace these days and are great for backing up large amounts of data, but now that prices of solid state drives have come down from the stratosphere, is there a market for external SSDs? That's a...
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Long before there were smartphones and iPod devices, there was the Walkman, which allowed us to groove to Guns N' Roses belting out Paradise City and Sweet Child O' Mine while on the go. Of course, it was helpful to carry a pen or pencil...
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Sony’s SmartWatch 3 was released just a few months ago, but was quickly overlooked as more stylish Android Wear devices — namely the Motorola Moto 360, LG G Watch R, and ASUS ZenWatch — started hitting the market. It’s hard to fault consumers for favoring the more stylish designs of Sony’s...
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Down in the basement on my workbench littered with PC parts, floppy disks, and other tech items from past eras is an HTC Dream, otherwise known as the T-Mobile G1. It's thick, heavy, and slow by today's standards, but it's notable as being...
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Console gamers continue to flock to Sony's popular PlayStation 4 console with sales to date topping 18.5 million units, the Japanese company announced today. During the holiday season, various sales and promotions helped the PS4 notch more than 4.1 million unit sales globally en route to...
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HP announced two new updates to its ZBook Mobile Workstation line at CES today. The PC maker’s new ZBook 14 G2 and ZBook 15u G2 are both workstation ultrabooks that support 3D graphics and undergo HP’s heavy testing process for enterprise devices.
The HP ZBook 14 G2 runs on Core i5 or i7 processors with 16GB of memory, as well as AMD FirePro
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Lenovo has already blitzed us with numerous tablets, convertibles, laptops, and all-in-ones, but the Chinese OEM isn’t finished yet. Far from it. It’s also has some smartphones and wearables to announce, but for better or worse, they won’t...
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SanDisk has just taken the veil off of a trio of flash-based storage devices, including two solid-state drives, and a multi-purpose USB 3.0 flash drive.
At the top is the SSD Plus, an SSD targeted squarely at the value market. That's so...
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Not everyone needs the extra level of “robustness” that comes with Think-branded laptops, tablets, and all-in-ones, so Lenovo luckily provides some cheaper alternatives for folks that don’t want to break the bank. Lenovo is taking the...
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Lenovo has worked in conjunction with NEC Personal Computers (NECP) to bring U.S. customers a new flavor of lightweight laptop and convertible devices. The new Lenovo LaVie Z HZ550 and LaVie Z HZ750 both shatter any expectations of what...
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If there's one constant at CES, it's that ASUS will announce an enormous number of products from a variety of different categories. As we can now see, this event is no different. For this post, I'll be taking a look at the peripherals and...
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ASUS is making its presence known at CES this year, and in doing so is unleashing the new Transformer Book Chi Series. The 2-in-1 detachable laptops range in size from 8.9” to 12.5” and can be equipped with screens featuring a resolution...
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Amazon had high hopes for its Fire Phone; especially after the success it's seen with its Kindle and Kindle Fire tablet releases. Unfortunately for Amazon, it's not as easy to compete in the mobile phone space, and to compound the problem...
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“Just a moment. Just a moment. I've just picked up a fault in the AE-35 unit. It's going to go 100% failure in 72 hours.” General Motors’ latest technology, which will find its way into future Chevrolet vehicles, has us thinking back to...
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With smartphones and tablets being so commonplace these days, we're all classified as mobile warriors. However, most of the devices lack mojo in one critical area -- speakers. At best, we hope for serviceable sound from speakers integrated...
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Microsoft is pulling out all the stops when it comes to battling an insurgency from Google with Chrome OS. Microsoft has resorted to offering Windows 8.1 with Bing free to OEMs that provide low-cost laptops and desktops to consumers as a...
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Microsoft today announced its Nokia 215, the company's most affordable Internet-ready phone to date. The entry level device carries a price tag of just $29 before taxes and subsidies, though don't get too excited -- this little handset is...
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The Consumer Electronics Show is about to get underway, and Intel is leading the pack with a set of CPU announcements. It has been six months since the company took the lid off its first 14nm processor, the Core M, but that CPU is designed...
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With the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas kicking off today, you can expect a bevy of product and service announcements, one of them being Roku's plans to support 4K Ultra HD streaming for future Roku TV models. The company said it's prepared a Roku TV reference design for 4K smart...
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