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Latest News - May 2012
- VIA Hops on the Low Cost PC Bandwagon with a $49 APC Android System
- Is Chrome Really the Most Popular Browser in the World?
- It's Official: Google Closes Deal to Acquire Motorola Mobility
- Pentax Tempts Outdoorsmen With Rugged K-30 DSLR
- Virgin Mobile Offers $40 No-Contract Plan: Unlimited Talk/Text + 50MB Data
- ViewSonic Outs 1080p Full HD Pro8300 Projector
- Cable ISPs Band Together to Offer Free WiFi Hotspots
- MSI Unleashes Z77A-GD80 Motherboard With Thunderbolt
- ASUS Launches P8Z77-V PREMIUM Motherboard With Thunderbolt
- Arctic Launches Accelero Xtreme III Cooler for Nvdia and AMD Graphics Cards
- Elpida's Bankruptcy is Great News for Remaining DRAM Players, IHS iSuppli Says
- Grab a Recertified Kindle Keyboard 3G for $80
- Voyager Mobile's No-Contract, Frill-Free Wireless Plans Now On Sale
- Samsung's JK Skin: "Still A Big Gap In Patent War With Apple"
- Mark Zuckerberg, Billionaire Facebook Co-Founder, Ties the Knot
- Microsoft Offers Free Xbox 360s! (With Purchase of PC)
- Hasselblad Slashes Prices by 23 Percent, Still Charges a King's Ransom
- Gogo Teams With AeroSat To Take Inflight Wi-Fi Global
- Microsoft Looks Back At The Path Of Windows, Waves Goodbye To Aero
- $74 Android PC on a Stick Sells Out, Stock to Return in June
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All News for May 2012
The vibe Silicon Valley must be getting from the masses is that low cost, pint-sized PCs are the wave of the future, hence why we're seeing so many of them recently. The most popular of the bunch right now is the Raspberry Pi PC, but lo...
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Several reports have popped up online claiming that Google's Chrome browser is winning the brutal browser wars, having topped Microsoft's Internet Explorer in overall usage yesterday, as noted by StatCounter, an independent website analytics company. It was, according to StatCounter, a one-day...
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Google can go ahead cross off "Acquire Motorola Mobility" from its to-do list, because as of today, the acquisition is officially a done deal, the sultan of search announced in a blog post. The deal, which jumped over several regulatory...
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Sometimes, weather just doesn't cooperate. For times when rain and mist quite literally moisten your parade, most folks would be content with simply not taking photographs. But if you're armed with Pentax's new 16MP K-30 DSLR, you can shoot away without too much worry. The company's latest...
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Voyager Mobile one day, and now, Virgin Mobile the next. These days, it's the prepaid carriers making just as many waves as the postpaid ones, and Virgin Mobile is stepping up its game with a new $40 Unlimited Talk and Text plan ideal for...
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ViewSonic wants the HD projector to be something that isn’t just for enthusiasts--in the press release below, the company pitches it as something for “professionals to pitch a business opportunity, for teachers to present multimedia, or for entertainment in the living...
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Good news if you get your Internet service through Bright House Networks, Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications, or Time Warner Cable: You just got free access to about 50,000 WiFi hotspots. The quintet of cable ISPs announced that they’ve partnered to provide free WiFi hotspot access...
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Asus isn't the only motherboard manufacturer who is unleashing Thunderbolt technology today. MSI also announced the official release of its Z77A-GD80 motherboard with Thunderbolt support. This motherboard was showcased at CES 2012 in January. The Z77A-GD80 features the newest Intel Z77 chipset...
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ASUS launched its P8Z77-V PREMIUM motherboard which features the Thunderbolt connection interface. Thunderbolt promises transfer speeds that are twice as fast as USB 3.0 and up to 20 times faster than USB 2.0. It offers simultaneous bi-directional 10Gbps transfer speeds over a single cable...
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Today's graphics cards push pixels harder and faster than ever, and it takes plenty of cooling prowess to keep these modern day GPUs from burning up. Stock coolers get the job done, but they tend to run loud. Enter third party players like...
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Remember when high performance system memory used to command a king's ransom? Those days are long gone as tough times have fallen on DRAM makers struggling to turn a profit, no easy task when you're selling memory products at rock bottom...
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It's been said that patience is a virtue, but in the land of technology, it can also be a money saving tactic for those willing to wait. And wait and wait and wait. In this case, if you've always wanted a Kindle Keyboard Wi-Fi + 3G but couldn't swallow the price tag, with or without the...
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Another mobile carrier in the States? Well, we can't really complain about increased competition, now can we? With the MVNO library growing by the month (seemingly, anyway), here's another to consider: Voyager Mobile. After a slight delay...
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Samsung and Apple. It's the tech war of the decade, and the two titans are at each other's throat in the public eye. Despite doing business with one another in backrooms for chips and whatnot, there's no love lost when it comes to design...
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Life is good for Mark Zuckerberg, the main face and primary co-founder of Facebook, the largest social networking site on the planet. Zuckerberg celebrated his 28th birthday on Monday, became a billionaire when Facebook became a publicly...
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In a promo that’s sure to encourage students to study very hard at their desks and not play their brand new Xbox 360s all semester, Microsoft is reprising last year’s offer of a free 4GB Xbox 360 for students with the purchase of a qualifying Windows PC worth $699 or more (in the...
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Hasselblad has been catering to photographers for over five decades and specializes in medium format cameras, which are priced accordingly. In case you didn't know, the typical medium format camera can cost as much as a Kia, or more, so...
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Bringing the Internet to rural places is one thing, but bringing it to every corner of the sky? That's a goal that we can also get behind. Gogo has delivered Wi-Fi to huge amounts of aircraft crisscrossing America. But, to truly dominate, you need the whole world looking your way. Thus, the...
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Windows 8 is coming this year. At this point, it's accepted. It's almost taken for granted. But building an entire operating system is an insane job, and doing it time and time again is even crazier. Microsoft has been pounding away at...
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Ultra low cost PCs are all the rage these days, from the $25 Raspberry Pi to a $74 Android 4.0 USB/HDMI thumb drive based on AllWinner's A10 design. The latter was recently made available to purchase from an overseas vendor, and...
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Verizon Wireless stirred up a hornet's nest of sorts when word got out earlier this week that Big Red was planning to shove grandfathered users off of their $30/month unlimited data plans that they signed up for prior to VZW rolling out...
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Fraps, the popular real-time video capture and benchmarking utility, has been updated for the second time in less than a month, a rare occurrence for a program that typically goes months at a time before receiving new code. The latest version -- Fraps 3.5.1 -- brings just a couple of tweaks to the table, including: Added support for exFAT...
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