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Latest News - May 2012
- Nokia's Flagship Lumia 900 Windows Phone is Half Price at $50
- Wikipad Gaming Tablet Coming With Android 4.0, Controller Add-On
- Asus Shows Off N-Series Notebook In Promo Video
- Samsung Announces Galaxy S III at London Event
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Now Available from Custom Builders
- T-Mobile Targets First Time Smartphone Buyers With T-Mobile Prism
- Lian Li Announces Brushed Aluminum PC-Q09FN Mini-ITX HTPC Case
- HomeFusion Broadband From Verizon Wireless Now Available Nationwide
- PC Gaming Market Alive and Thriving as Related Hardware Business Tops $23 Billion
- Internet Explorer Increases Market Share for Second Consecutive Month
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 690 Dual-GK104 GPU Review
- RunCore Brings New Super-Tiny SSD To The Table: Look Closely
- EchoStar Issues World's Slimmest DVR
- Pebble Smartwatch Project Partners with RunKeeper
- Dells Adds Ivy Bridge to a Pair of Desktops
- MSI Announces New Generation Of Gaming Laptops With GT60 And GT70
- Eurocom's Racer 2.0 Gets Ivy Bridge And AMD Radeon HD 7970M Graphics
- Snag a Refurbished Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook for 600 Smackers
- MSI's R7870 Hawk Graphics Card Brings an Unlocked BIOS and Digital Power to the Overclocking Party
- AOC's USB-powered 22-inch HD Display Now Available to Purchase
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All News for May 2012
If you're thinking about purchasing Nokia's Lumia 900 smartphone directly from Nokia or through AT&T's website, or even at your local Best Buy, do yourself a favor and shop around. It's not that the Lumia 900 is expensive by any stretch -- just $99 with a 2-year service agreement -- but if you look around, you can...
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Android 4.0 is finally making the rounds at a pretty good clip, and if you can believe it, it's actually making it onto something other than a phone or tablet. Yes, the Wikipad is a gaming-centric handheld, and yes, it's using Ice Cream Sandwich. It's actually one of the few highly unique Android 4.0 products we've...
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Wondering where all the notebooks are? Well, they're in the oven for a back-to-school release, but Asus is giving the world a quick peek at an upcoming series. The company's upcoming N-series laptop is looking mighty impressive, with SonicMaster Premium audio (from Bang & Olufsen), a backlit keyboard, "ripple-like" speaker mesh, a sleek...
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Samsung took the wraps off of its latest smartphone, the Samsung Galaxy S III, at an event in London. The device sports a 4.8-inch HD Super AMOLED display with a 0.01ms response time, Android 4.0 ICS, 8MP rear camera with LED flash, front-facing 1.9MP camera, and a quad-core processor. There will be three storage options: 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB,...
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If you haven’t yet read our coverage of NVIDIA’s insane GeForce GTX 690 graphics card, go do it now. Seriously. The thing is a monster, essentially a pair of SLI’d 680s in one package. It has 3,072 CUDA cores, 915MHz/1019MHz base/boost clock, 6008MHz memory clock, 4GB total GDDR5, and a smokin’ hot aluminum and magnesium...
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T-Mobile announced its latest budget-friendly smartphone in the form of the T-Mobile Prism. This Huawei-made device will cost just $20 after a rebate and with a two-year contract. Users who don't want to commit to the contract can purchase the phone for $150. The Prism runs on Android 2.3 and features a 3.5-inch HVGA...
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Lian Li is a luxury case maker with a serious fetish for brushed aluminum, and you can see that with the company's newly announced PC-Q09FN, a mini-ITX enclosure intended for home theater PC (HTPC) chores. If you're familiar with Lian Li's HTPC line, you can think of the PC-Q09FN as a more roomier version of the...
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Starting today, Verizon Wireless will begin offering HomeFusion Broadband service throughout the country. This service provides high-speed in-home Internet access via the company's 4G LTE network. Verizon Wireless says customers should expect average data rates of 5 to 12 Mbps on the downlink and 2 to 5 Mbps on the...
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Some people would have you believe that PC gaming is all but dead, nothing more than a decrepit reminder of the early days of videogames, and one that's on life support as publishers and developers switch their focus to dedicated consoles and mobile platforms. They are, of course, dead wrong. So wrong, in fact, that...
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Something strange is happening the world of browsers. It wasn't all that long ago when it was conceivable to think that Internet Explorer would no longer be the most used browser on the planet in 2012, and certainly not by the second quarter. But lo and behold, not only is IE in command of the browser wars with a...
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After testing the GeForce GTX 680 last month, it was practically a foregone conclusion that a dual-GPU powered graphics card based on the same GK104 GPU was coming down the pipeline. The GK104 at the heart of the GeForce GTX 680 was able to best AMD’s current flagship GPU more often than not in our testing, and it did so while consuming...
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Talk about tiny. As flash memory and NAND gets smaller and smaller, so too do modules that acts as storage mainframes for things like phones and tablets. RunCore has today introduced a single-chip SATA DOM SSD, the Mini DOM. It uses the SATA II interface, and ffers even higher performance and reliability as compared...
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You know, we were really beginning to wonder about the DVR. Phones, laptops, tablets and even towers have shrank considerably over the past two to three years, but DVRs are still... shaped like DVRs, by and large. But now, EchoStar is giving DVR lovers reason to celebrate, with an ultraslim model that actually looks fairly beautiful. It's...
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Last month, the Pebble smartwatch project was the darling of Kickstarter, raising $3.7 million in mere days; at this moment, the project is poised to top the $8 million mark at any time. Amid the swooning the Pebble devs are no doubt experiencing, the group is finding time to strike deals with other developers. The group announced that the...
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Hot on the heels of an update to its Alienware gaming laptop line that brought Intel’s 3rd-generation Core processors to the series, Engadget noticed that Dell has added Ivy Bridge chips to its Vostro 470 mini tower and XPS 8500 desktops. The Vostro is designed for businesses and has modest specs that are ideal for office-type applications....
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MSI announced the GT60 and GT70 gaming notebooks which feature Intel's 3rd generation Core i7 quad core processor, Nvidia GeForce GTX 670M discrete graphics, Super RAID Dual SSD, and a SteelSeries gaming keyboard. These notebooks also offer up to 32G of memory and professional grade Killer Gaming Networking. For...
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Eurocom added the newest AMD Radeon HD 7970M GPU to the EUROCOM Racer 2.0 notebook. The EUROCOM Racer 2.0 is a 15.6-inch small form factor notebook that uses the Intel Mobile HM 77 Express chipset and supports the full line of 22nm Ivy Bridge processors. The notebook also supports up to three storage drives and up to...
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You know we're always looking out for you guys and gals, right? Good, because it's in that vein that we want to give you a heads up on a semi-killer deal for an Ultrabook. Daily Steals, a site we've ordered from before, is selling a refurbished Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook for a low $600. Ignoring the fact that this is...
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Don't tell overclockers that running a graphics card beyond its rated specs only results in a nominal performance gain, and while you're at it, don't tell MSI, either. While in some cases overclocking a GPU might not translate into a big fps bump, those who embrace the art are equally interested in squeezing every...
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AOC today dropped us a note to let us know that its new 22-inch high-definition USB-powered display (model e2251Fwu) is now available nationwide. The e2251Fwu is a nifty 22-inch monitor that has the potential to transform your laptop into a dual-display machine, so long as you have a free USB port to plug it into. And...
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RIM has some major moving to do if it hopes to rekindle some of that fire it once had. The smartphone world is very different now, and people expect much more. BlackBerry OS largely has not kept up with other smartphone operating systems, and the world is watching BlackBerry World this week in Orlando to see what RIM ushers in next. One of...
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Is the world ready for a new BlackBerry? More accurately, can RIM force the world to wait much longer? The smartphone game has changed dramatically, and while RIM's user base is still millions strong, it's offering up a smartphone platform that isn't as strong as iOS and Android in many ways. And the market is responding. RIM has announced...
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