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Latest News - November 2012
- Western Digital Intros 4TB USB 3.0 My Book Studio External HDD
- Nokia Announces HERE Mapping And Services Platform
- AMD Refutes Reuters' Claim, Company Not Up For Sale
- Google Fiber Installations Kick Off in Kansas City, The Rest of the World Remains Envious
- ASUS Vivo Tab RT Windows 8 Tablet Landing at AT&T on November 16th
- Foxconn Replaces Human Workers with 1 Million Robots
- Pentagon’s Top Supplier Lockheed Martin Notes Cyber Attacks Increasing, More Sophisticated
- Droid DNA by HTC is First Android Phone to Sport a 5-inch, 1080p Display
- Intel Unleashes New Extreme Desktop Processor and DX79SR Motherboard
- HTC One X+ and One VX To Ship with AT&T November 16, Pre-Orders Start Today
- Apple’s Palo Alto Flagship Store an Unbearably Noisy Echo Chamber
- Crysis 3 Multiplayer Preview Shines, Even In Alpha
- Halo 4 Sales Skyrocket to $220 Million in First 24 Hours
- NVIDIA Supercharges Black Ops 2 Performance with GeForce 310.54 (Beta) Drivers
- Maingear Expands Its Gaming Laptop Line with the Nomad 15
- Samsung's Galaxy Stratosphere II Coming Soon To Verizon With Slide-Out Keyboard
- Gogo Launches ATG-4 To Increase In-Flight Wi-Fi Speeds
- Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft's Windows President, Leaves Company
- Intel’s Exascale HPC Revolution and Xeon Phi
- Acer Debuts C7 Chromebooks for $199
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All News for November 2012
Western Digital has a new USB 3.0 hard drive to showcase, and it's for Mac users. The new My Book Studio external hard drive is tailor made to operate at blazing speeds with Apple's new line of Mac products, which (finally) support USB 3.0. The...
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In recent years, Nokia's biggest announcement has revolved around its decision to partner with Microsoft and make Windows Phone the company's exclusive smartphone OS. But this -- this might be just as monumental in time. The company has had an impressive mapping system for years, and in a bid...
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The Internet is abuzz this evening after Reuters ran an exclusive report claiming Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) had hired J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. to "explore options," including a potential sale of the company. You can imagine the sullen faces on AMD fans far and wide, and also those who...
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If you don't live in either one of the two Kansas Citys, get ready to be ridiculously envious. Google has just posted on its official Google Fiber blog that installations of its 1Gbit/s Internet service have now begun, with houses that opted...
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When we reviewed the ASUS Vivo Tab RT a couple of weeks ago, we found that the device was a solid piece of hardware that gave reason for optimism that the new Windows 8 and Windows RT tablets would offer a compelling alternative to Android and...
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Foxconn (Hon Hai Precision) may have finally figured out a solution to all those pesky accusations of poor working conditions that keep popping up in headlines -- robots! The human condition being what it is, workers comprised of blood and guts tend to gripe and moan when employers saddle them...
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The good news is that Lockheed Martin, the U.S. government’s largest IT provider and the group that runs the military cyber center, apparently has a heavily fortified cyber border around itself and has been able to withstand serious cyber...
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Your 65-inch high definition television probably boasts a Full HD 1080p (1920x1080) display. You know what else does? HTC's brand new Droid DNA, which is purportedly the first smartphone in the U.S. to scale that kind of resolution down to a...
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The answer to the question of which CPU/motherboard combo from Intel delivers the most extreme desktop performance is the Intel Extreme Edition Core i7-3970X (3.5GHz, 4GHz Turbo) CPU and the Extreme Series Intel Desktop Board DX79SR...
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Smartphone shoppers overwhelmed by the choices out there face an even tougher decision as HTC has added a pair of compelling options to AT&T's lineup. On the higher end of the smartphone spectrum is the quad-core HTC One X+, and for bargain...
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There's a new Apple Store in Palo Alto, California, and it's making headlines for the wrong reason. Blogger and local resident Jean-Louis Gassée, who also used to serve as president of Apple's Products Division, is a fan of the Cupertino...
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Normally we don't cover games that are still in alpha. While beta coverage is typically a good example of how final gameplay is shaping up, alpha is a time when major design elements are still in flux. We're making an exception for Crysis 3's recent multiplayer test, however, to highlight just...
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Gamers hoping to cling to some semblance of productivity this week don't stand a chance. On one hand, there's Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 to occupy your time into the wee hours of the morning, and if that doesn't float your boat, Halo 4 launched earlier this week, amassing more than $220 million...
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Now that you've called in sick to work or decided to skip this morning's chemistry lab in order to play through a few more missions in Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, you might as well squeeze the most performance out of the game as possible. To...
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Maingear is rounding out its laptop lineup with the new NOMAD 15, giving you a 15-inch alternative to the larger NOMAD 17 gamer. Customization is key at boutique builders like Maingear, so it’s no surprise that the laptop is offered with several graphics, processor, and other component...
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Android's on a roll, and with the holiday season coming up, OEMs are trying their best to get a multitude of options out there to satisfy every budget. Now, Samsung has announced that its Galaxy Stratosphere II will be arriving on Verizon...
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In-flight Wi-Fi is one of those strange technologies. On one hand, it feels like the future. Being able to get online while cruising at 500MPH+, some 35,000 feet in the air, is truly venturing into Jetsons territory. But on the other hand, paying $12+ per session, and barely being able to load...
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Here's a twist nobody saw coming: Steven Sinofsky, the President of Windows and lead architect on Windows 8 has announced his resignation from the company. That's an abrupt change considering that Sinofsky had been floated as a possible...
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Last month, Intel brought us out to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in Austin to brief us on its latest and greatest foray into high-performance computing (HPC) and exascale level processing performance. For Intel, years of heady talk about parallelism and exascale computing have...
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More Chromebooks are coming, or at least they’re coming from Acer and Samsung. Samsung announced its latest Chromebook just a couple of weeks ago, and today Acer announced its C7 Chromebook line. Due to the nature of Chromebooks, specs between different manufacturers are only so compelling, so the most exciting feature of the Acer C7...
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If you like keeping current with your DirectX version and happen to dislike Windows 8, you're going to be finding yourself in a bit of a bind. Despite having shipped alongside Windows 8, DirectX 11.1 hasn't been talked about too much. In fact...
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Samsung has developed a creative solution to consumers’ desire to have a speedier and more convenient way to share photos with its Samsung Galaxy Camera, which is now available from AT&T. The camera runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and has...
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