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Low cost tablets are fast becoming a reality. It took some time, but Google’s hardware partners finally got the memo that consumers are interested in affordable Android tablets, and the lower the price the better. That’s not to say Android can’t compete with the iPad…
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Gigabyte and Nvidia tag team the Ultrabook scene. In terms of portability, an Ultrabook is a great solution for taking work with you, but what about when you want to unwind with a bit of gaming? Integrated graphics hardly cut it, so Gigabyte went and…
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Company touts energy efficiency and graphics performance ahead of Haswell launch The arrival of the next generation of Intel Core processors is drawing near and, as you would expect, the chipmaker is busy drawing the world’s attention to all that is worth highlighting about its…
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Team Green captures the single-GPU crown, again. Today Nvidia pulls the wraps off its $650 GK110-based 700 series flagship card, the GeForce GTX 780. This board slides directly into the yawning chasm that exists between the $500 GK104-based GTX 680 and the $1,000 GK110-based GTX…
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There’s a new mobile sheriff in town. Mobile gamers rejoice, for AMD hasn’t forgotten about you. On the contrary, the Sunnyvale chip designer just unveiled its Radeon 8970M, which AMD claims is the fastest laptop GPU on the entire planet. And not only is it smoking fast,…
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The 700-series graphics cards share the same cooling solution. The rumored Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 and GTX 770 graphics cards, which were said to be arriving in late May as of last week, have allegedly had their pictures leaked to the Web. The said pictures were posted on…
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Select Haswell parts will feature Intel’s supercharged Iris graphics. Nobody brags about integrated graphics, and that’s because there’s not much there worthy of boast. That’s fine, but if manufactures insist on pushing thin and light platforms on the masses and shrinking the desktop, then is…
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Tiny drives for ultraportables. Western Digital, a major player in the storage space, today announced it’s begun shipping what it claims are the world’s first ultra-slim 2.5-inch, 5mm hard drives and solid state hybrid drives (SSHDs) designed for space constrained devices, such as Ultrabooks and…
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New graphics cards from Nvidia could be set for a summer debut. Summer is just around the corner, and with it is the Computex computer expo in Taipei, Taiwan. Are you wondering what the event will introduce to the computing world? So are we, and…
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Is there a market for high priced Ultrabooks? Sometimes you have to throw caution to the wind and hope everything works out, which is exactly what Samsung’s doing with its new Series 9 Premium Ultrabook. It’s a $1,400 Ultrabook that flies in the face of conventional wisdom…
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Even with prices going up, it’s still a great time to be a PC gamer. Are you planning to build a gaming PC for the summer? If so, you might want to get started early in order to get the most bang for your buck.…
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Console gamers await the launch of Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox 720. GameStop chief Paul Raines referred to 2012 as a “challenging year for console gaming” in a statement related to the new and used game retailer’s financial report for its fourth quarter and fiscal…
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Why hasn’t this already been done? For first person shooters, real-time strategy titles, and most gaming genres outside of sports, using a mouse and keyboard trumps a console controller, hands down. I won’t debate this, but after reading about the Stinky Footboard, I am willing to…
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Latest stable build features new tray popup UI San Francisco-based cloud storage company Dropbox on Tuesday updated its desktop client, transforming the hitherto bland tray menu into something much more pleasant and useful. Although this is the eighth time that the Dropbox desktop client has been updated…
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Windows 8 may be struggling, but Internet Explorer is thriving. For years Internet Explorer has been easy to pick on, but for once the Redmond based software giant is bucking the trend. Market share for Internet Explorer has reached an 18-month high, and it seems to have…
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The STRaND-1 nanosatellite carries a Google Nexus One At a time when the who’s who of the mobile world are busy strutting their stuff at the Mobile World Congress, Surrey Space Centre (University of Surrey) and Surrey Satellite Technology (SSTL) Ltd are celebrating a mobile launch…
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Steve Ballmer sat for a spell with MIT Technology Review to discuss the Windows 8 ecosystem. It’s no easy task to gauge the impact Windows 8 is having on the industry, in part because the industry is changing. The traditional desktop is taking a backseat…
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iFixIt’s teardown of the Surface Pro reveals that it’s even more difficult to service than Apple’s iPad. Our diabolical friends at iFixIt gave Microsoft’s Surface Pro notebook/tablet the teardown treatment, and as always, they documented the surgery with plenty of pics every step of the way. It’s a given that…
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Teenage girl plans to buy “stuff” with the $200 she’ll receive for quitting Facebook. An interesting story about a 14-year-old daughter who convinced her dad to pay her to suspend Facebook for five months is making the rounds. Paul Baier, a research consultant in Boston, posted an image on…
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A journalist claims Android is popular because it’s cheap, not because it’s good. Android is stomping all over iOS in market share. According to data compiled by International Data Corporation (IDC), Android was installed on 75 percent of the 181.1 million smartphones shipped around the…
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Top 5 participants will be flown to Taipei, Taiwan for a shot at the grand prize. The grand prize is a million New Taiwan dollars. Unfortunately, it ‘only’ works out to about US$33,333, though that’s still a nice chunk of change. Other prizes are up…
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That CD you bought from Amazon 10 years ago now appears in your Cloud Player account. Mega online retailer Amazon is embracing the digital age in a big way. The company today announced the launch of Amazon AutoRip, a retroactive service that provides customers with free…
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Hactivist group promises more shenanigans in 2013. If you thought the hactivist group known as Anonymous would fade from view in the New Year, think again. Anonymous posted a message making it clear it intends to keep on hacking, telling the world, “We are still here…Expect us.”…
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After Android success, NVIDIA now hopes its TegraZone app will make a splash on Windows RT Having its Tegra 3 SoC chosen for two platform-defining tablets, the Google Nexus 7 and the Microsoft Surface RT, has got to be one of the highlights of NVIDIA‘s year. However,…
