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Latest News - April 2014
- Don't Hassel The Hoff, He's Selling Knight Rider's KITT
- Microsoft To Offer Windows For Free On Smartphones And Tablets, Universal App Development
- Nokia First To Roll Out Windows Phone 8.1 Devices - Lumia 630, 635, and 930
- Qualcomm's New Standard Takes Gigabit Wireless From Pipe Dream To Deployment
- Microsoft's Windows Phone 8.1 Update Introduces Friendlier Pricing, Refreshed Look, Cortana Voice Assistent
- Nexus 10 Refresh Could Be Imminent; Google Play Listing Changed to 'Coming Soon'
- Gartner Reports IT Spending On The Rise To $3.8 Trillion In 2014
- Amazon’s $99 Amazon Fire TV: Movies, Music, Games, Voice Search, And More
- Intel To Bolster Ecosystem, Software, And Content Exclusively For Intel Powered Devices
- Two And A Half Geeks 4/2/14: NVIDIA GTC, Pascal, Titan Z, Crucial and Samsung SSDs, WD MyCloud EX2
- Microsoft Developing Windows For Smart Devices And Robots With Intel Quark and Galileo
- WhatsApp Claims To Have Sent 64 Billion Messages In 24 Hours
- 33 Percent Of Wearable Device Early Adopters Reportedly Are Bailing On Them
- KitKat Now On Over 5 Percent Of Android Devices
- BlackBerry Breaks Up With T-Mobile, Leaves Door Open For Future Reunion
- ADATA Premier Pro SP920 SSD Family Review
- Oracle Sails Past IBM To Become World's Second Largest Software Vendor, Microsoft Sill No. 1
- Chromecast Levels Up With VUDU, Crackle, And Rdio Apps
- Apple Patenting Interchangeable iPhone Lens Bayonet Mounts
- Slic3r Version 1.0 Now Available For 3D Printing Mavens And Novices Alike
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All News for April 2014
It's unfortunate that today's generation is more likely to associate David Hasselhoff with his drunken attempt at eating a cheeseburger off of the floor than with his portrayal of Michael Knight, a high-tech crime fighter who rode around in one of the coolest cars of all time, a 1982 Pontiac...
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Winds of change are surely blowing now that Satya Nadella has taken over the CEO role at Microsoft. During the company's BUILD conference this week, blockbuster news was announced regarding the pricing future of its most notable product:...
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Hot on the heels of Microsoft announcing its upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update, Nokia unveiled a trio of handsets built around the platform. They include the Lumia 630, Lumia 653, and Lumia 930, the latter of which has the distinction of...
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Today, Qualcomm is announcing full support for a new wireless transmission method that could significantly boost performance on crowded networks. The new standard, MU-MIMO (Multiple User - Multiple Input and Multiple Output) has a...
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Big things are coming to Windows Phone users. Microsoft today announced a bunch of new features as part of its upcoming Windows Phone 8.1 update, not the least of which is a personal digital assistant of its own called Cortana. It's...
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When Google's Nexus 10 came out in late 2012, it proved to be a great choice for those looking to get a larger tablet - and even today, it still has respectable specs. But, a span of 17 months since its original launch and the fact...
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A million dollars isn't cool. Do you know what's cool? Try $3.8 trillion, which is how much market research firm Gartner anticipates will be spent around the world on IT in 2014 (Gartner was equally optimistic last year). If that proves to...
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Amazon confirmed today one of the worst-kept secrets in the industry, which is that the company now has its own streaming set top box. It’s called the Amazon Fire TV, and true to the rumors, it offers streaming TV and movies as well...
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For as dominant as chipmaker Intel has been in the PC market, it’s been unable to replicate that success in the mobile market, losing extensive ground to ARM-based devices. The company has an aggressive plan to change that, and...
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In this episode of HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks, Marco, Dave and Iyaz discuss various announcements that came out of NVIDIA's GPU Tech Conference last week including the big, bad dual-GPU powered GeForce GTX Titan Z, SHIELD updates...
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Microsoft is getting into the smart devices business. The company’s BUILD conference is happening this week in San Francisco, and it appears that someone at Microsoft made a new “Windows on Devices” website live before...
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WhatsApp just refuses to work with pedestrian numbers. Take for example its sale price to Facebook, which is snatching up the instant messaging service for $19 billion. That's a pretty big number, though not as high as the new record the...
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Entirely new product categories generally take time to take off. Even the smartphone took years before penetration rose above 50% in advanced markets such as the United States. But it certainly feels as if there's something different at...
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Slowly but surely, Android 4.4.x KitKat is finding its way onto an increasing number of mobile handsets, tablets, and hybrid devices. According to Google's Developers Dashboard for Android, KitKat is now found on 5.3 percent of Android devices, a figure that's generated by analyzing devices...
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Evidently BlackBerry is still miffed at T-Mobile for encouraging users to trade in their BlackBerry handsets for iPhone devices. As a result, the Canadian handset maker has decided to terminate its relationship with the fourth largest...
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A few weeks back, we took a look at a new series of solid state drives from Crucial, the M550, which leveraged Marvell controller technology, 20nm MLC NAND flash memory, and firmware optimizations gleaned from the last couple of years of SATA SSD advancements. Ultimately, we found the M550...
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Though the hardware market has been contending with declining sales -- at least in terms of traditional PCs -- software is another story altogether. According to latest data released by market research firm Gartner, the worldwide software...
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Google faces immense competition in the streaming space, but even so, the company's Chromecast dongle has two things going for it. The first is price. At just $35 -- and sometimes cheaper if there's a promotion or sale taking place -- Chromecast is one of the most affordable ways to upgrade...
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Apple snagged a patent from the USPTO for a bayonet mount for the iPhone that would be used to attach and swap out interchangeable camera lenses. It could be used for any iOS device, ostensibly, but it really only makes sense on a mobile device with a high-quality camera. Apple notes in the...
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Although the 3D printing market has and will continue to grow rapidly, there are still some capabilities that the market needs that we take for granted on the paper printing side of things. For instance, you have to convert those excellent...
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Bigger may be better, but small is most certainly en vogue. The Raspberry Pi jumpstarted the modern day small PC craze, and the Intel-based MinnowBoard family is growing as well. The MinnowBoard MAX is the latest member -- a single-board...
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If you're going to hang around the web's rumor mill, then today -- April 1, otherwise known as April Fool's Day -- is one of the better days to do it, because at least you have an 'out' if a story ends up being bogus. That said, Apple...
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