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Latest News - May 2011
- Seagate Reveals Media Streaming GoFlex Satellite Hard Drive
- Dell Teases With XPS 15z Gaming Notebook Video
- Sony's PlayStation Network Offers "Welcome Back" Program
- New MS Security Report Shows Infections Down, Malicious Java Exploits Way Up
- PopCap Inks Deal with Amazon to Ship Android Games, Score Plants vs Zombies for Free!
- Microsoft Expects Kinect Games Portfolio to Triple by End of Year
- Samsung Launches Developer Forum for Android Programmers
- HP Labs Improves Next-Generation Memristor Technology
- Hardware Roundup
- Dell Venue Pro Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Tested, Burned-In
- Corsair Introduces Force Series 3 SSDs
- WD Launches 3 TB SATA Hard Drives For AV Platforms
- 21: HotHardware's Two and A Half Geeks Webcast - May 16, 2011
- Microsoft-Backed E-Reader Shown Off: Will It Hit Production?
- Sony Ericsson Drops Lawsuit Against Clearwire, Who Drops Phone Plans
- Amazon's Daily Free Apps Making an Impact on Appbrain's Daily Hot List
- HP Revamps Pavilion Desktop Line, Intros x2301 Monitor
- The iPad 2's Rear Camera Mostly Going Unused: Report
- RIM to Recall Over 900 PlayBooks: report
- Motorola Xoom To Get Verizon 4G LTE Upgrade Soon, With Less Hassle?
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All News for May 2011
Is it a hard drive? Or is it a media streamer? Or is it both? The answer, believe it or not, is "C." Seagate has just created a totally wild new portable hard drive, which not only holds 500GB of storage and ships with a GoFlex adapter and a USB 3.0 cable, but also has a built-in 802.11b/g/n...
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The Dell XPS 15z. You better get ready, because your next gaming laptop is coming, and coming soon. Dell's CEO has just tweeted that the company will have the XPS 15z coming soon, and while it's anyone's guess as to when "soon" is, it has to be sooner rather than later. Is that enough "soon"...
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PSN's back! PSN's back! Tell the world! Most of the world has known that Sony's PlayStation Network has been back online in most areas for a day now, but Sony's not satisfied with just bringing things back online. Now, the company's detailing a new plan to hook customers up who are forgiving...
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Today, Microsoft released its detailed security report covering the latter half of 2010. Industry tends in general are positive—vulnerability disclosures in 2010 fell 16.5 percent from their 2009 levels and approximately 35 percent...
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PopCap Games, makers of the highly popular (and super fun) Plants vs Zombies defense game, just signed an agreement with Amazon to offer its first Android games to the U.S. market, exclusively on the Amazon Appstore for Android during two...
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Here's the thing about motion controlled gaming. It's fun, in a gee-whiz sort of way, but once the newness wears off, you're left with what some (many?) gamers would consider nothing more than a gimmick. Is that the case with Microsoft's...
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Samsung is taking pity on Android developers who may feel overwhelmed or lost on where to start or are in need of technical support. The solution? A new Android Developer Forum tacked onto the existing Samsung Developers website. Samsung's grand idea is to create a one-stop shop for all things...
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Today, HP announced a notable development in its efforts to design memristor technology. The company has managed to map the chemical changes and basic structures of its own prototypes. The startling implication is accurate—HP managed to build a memristor before it fully understood how...
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Video: Gigabyte Radeon HD 6870 1GB SOC Graphics Card Review @ APH Networks Sapphire Radeon HD 5850 Xtreme Review by Ultimate Hardware Motherboards and Chipsets: MSI Z68A-GD80 (Intel Z68) Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Motherboard Review @ OCWORKBENCH MSI P67A-G43 LGA 1155 Motherboard Review @ ReviewDesk.com Processors:...
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At a glance, the Venue Pro looks just like the Venue. And specifications-wise, they're largely the same as well. The Venue Pro has the same 4.1" AMOLED display (800 x 480 resolution), 1GHz QSD8250 Snapdragon processor, 8GB of internal storage, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM and no extra microSD card...
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Corsair announced the Force Series 3 family of solid-state drives. The newly Force Series 3 models use the new SATA 6.0 Gb/s (SATA 3) interface to deliver high speed for a reasonable price. The Force Series 3 features the highest performance version of the latest-generation SandForce SF-2281 SSD Processor with out-of-box read and write speeds...
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Western Digital added 2.5 TB and 3 TB versions to its family of WD AV-GP SATA hard drives for the audio-video (AV) market. These 3.5-inch hard drives offer 24x7 reliability as well as low power consumption for storage-intensive AV applications such as digital video recorders, video...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and a Half Geeks, Dave, Iyaz and Marco discuss Intel's new Z68 Express chipset with Smart Response Technology for Sandy Bridge processors, Samsung’s hot new 4.5-inch Infuse 4G Android...
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E-readers are nothing new. At this point, they're actually kind of old. And for those who have following their progress, you may remember that Microsoft was reportedly working up a "Courier" project that was eventually scraped altogether...
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Did you know that Clearwire was considering making a smartphone, or cellphone? The same Clearwire that provides 4G (WiMAX) services to consumers and carriers like Sprint. Yeah, probably not. You know why? Among other things, Sony Ericsson...
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If you're wondering if the paid apps turned free that Amazon.com distributes every day in its Amazon Appstore are getting much uptake, the answer is yes. How do we know? Via Appbrain's daily hot list of apps. Appbrain, which used to be the...
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Earlier in the month, HP announced a number of new business and consumer notebooks. Now, it's time for the company's desktop line to get a bump of their own. This evening, HP has revealed a newly refreshed line of desktop PCs, including redesigned Pavilion consumer desktops that have seriously...
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For a time, there were rumors that the iPad 2 would have a front-facing camera, but no rear-facing camera. After all, the thought was, who'd really want to lift up a tablet to take an image? That thought appears to have been correct. We can extrapolate that fact by using Flickr's stats on the...
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It certainly isn't the sort of press that RIM wants: more than 900 of its brand-new BlackBerry PlayBook tablets have been recalled. The good thing is that the faulty batch of tablets was shipped to one vendor: Staples. If you didn't buy your PlayBook from Staples you have nothing to worry about. The bad thing is there's been no official announcement...
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When we gave you our take on the Motorola Xoom Android Honeycomb-powered tablet, we shared our disappointment that Verizon 4G LTE network service was currently not enabled on the device but would be coming in the months ahead. The...
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A new platform is only as good as the support surrounding it, and now Gigabyte is giving Intel a little of that with a new Z68 motherboard. But it's not just "yet another Z68 mainboard." This is being called the world's first Z68...
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Great news this weekend for avid PlayStation gamers. After having the PSN service go down for an unprecedented amount of time following a credit card breach, Sony has finally flipped services back online in the states and internationally. It requires a mandatory System Update, bringing...
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