Qualcomm Buys Handhelds Business From AMD By Jane McEntegart, Aaron Heibert Published 21 January 09 AMD has sold its handheld chip division to Qualcomm. The news comes just a few days after rumors about further layoffs and salary cuts in the company.
OCZ Releases New 2.5-inch Apex SSDs By Aaron Heibert Published 21 January 09 OCZ, one of the world leaders in memory technology enters the ring with their new Apex SATA II 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive(SSD) series at cost effective pricing.
Elcomsoft Uses GPGPU for Fast WPA/WPA2 Crack By Aaron Heibert Published 19 January 09 How secure do you think YOUR wireless network is? That's a question that many people might want to revisit later on thanks to GPU-powered general-purpose computing (GPGPU).
Toshiba Wants to Buy Fujitsu's Storage Business By Aaron Heibert Published 19 January 09 Toshiba, one of the world’s largest flash memory manufacturers, is taking heavy interest in Fujitsu’s storage division.
The Uber-cool $40,000 Emperor Chair/Workstation By Aaron Heibert Published 19 January 09 If you have ever worked in a cube-based environment, then you know all too well the boring, pseudo-fabric walls that hold you to what seems to be solitary confinement imposed by torturous employers. NovelQuest now has your escape rope from the pit!
Dell Loses Battle over Misleading Customers By Aaron Heibert Published 14 January 09 If you have ever had to deal with the way Dell and Dell Financial Services handles financing, you probably already know where I am about to go with this.
TK Xpressar RCS100 for Radeon HD 4000 By Aaron Heibert Published 9 January 09 Ready to take the leap into liquid cooling or phase change cooling, but not quite ready to figure it all out yourself? Thermaltake presents us with its Xpressar RCS100. Graphics Cooling solution to follow.
Apogee GT Triple-Channel DDR3 Memory Kits By Aaron Heibert Published 9 January 09 And yet some more new memory to add into the decision mix for the new system build you might be planning. It seems that everyone is scrambling to get their triple-channel DDR3 kits out the door.
Possibility:IBM Planning Mass Layoffs By Aaron Heibert Published 9 January 09 It is definitely a possibility when you look at the larger picture. IBM would not be the only entity moving itself into ‘restructuring’ mode, like many others. This type of information has nearly become s staple of daily news.
Apple Drops DRM: the Expanded Edition By Aaron Heibert Published 8 January 09 Apple is really going out with a bang – out from attending the Macworld conference, that is. In a last hurrah, the company has decided to drop Digital Rights Management (DRM) from all 10 million plus songs on iTunes by the end of this quarter.
MSI X-Slim X320, Challenges MacBook Air By Aaron Heibert Published 8 January 09 Are Netbooks too small for you? Looking for something with a bit more view size? MSI has launched their X-Slim X320 notebook – It is a notebook on a diet coming in at 1.3 kg and only 1.98 cm thick!
Adobe Flash Coming to Blu-Ray By Aaron Heibert Published 5 January 09 Ready for a richer user experience in your living-room? Looks like Intel and Adobe are going to be working together to bring consumers Flash based interfaces coupled with the Intel CE 3100 Media Processor.
G.Skill Unveils 'Perfect Storm' Memory By Aaron Heibert Published 2 January 09 Back in December of 2008 we brought you news of G.Skill releasing its 2,000 MHz triple channel DDR3 kits for Intel's Core i7 platform. At the time, those kits that were rated for CL9 and CL8 respectively.
Nvidia Hosts Mobile Drivers Directly By Aaron Heibert Published 22 December 08 We all know the procedure, right? You need to update your mobile graphics driver, but when you get to the downloads section of the notebook manufacturers site, the driver is 3, 4, 5 or more revisions behind. D’oh!
OCZ Intros New FLEX EX Memory By Aaron Heibert Published 18 December 08 In need of some memory for your newly planned system build? Be it air or liquid cooled, OCZ delivers its new line of Flex EX Performance memory – claiming the world’s fastest Air or Liquid cooled DDR2 4GB Kit currently available.
Intel's Q8300; May be Last Quad Core By Aaron Heibert Published 2 December 08 Following suit with our Intel road map back in September of this year, Intel has has launched the last Quad-Core that consumers may see for the next while, if more are to come at all – The Q8300.
Plextor Announces New Optical Drive Lineup By Aaron Heibert Published 24 November 08 A name that used to crop up when talking about elite optical products years ago has made a comeback! Plextor has come out of the woodwork, announcing a new lineup of optical drives after lying low for a while.
Falcon Northwest Claims Fastest PC By Aaron Heibert Published 20 November 08 Got deep pockets and the compulsory need for speed, and something custom that nobody else has without having to do it yourself? I think you need to check out Falcon Northwest.
Nvidia Releases X58/SLI ForceWare By Aaron Heibert Published 20 November 08 Did you hear that? Nvidia has just released its ForceWare 180.48 drivers, aka ‘Big Bang II’. The new ForceWare set is required to enable SLI on ‘some’ new and upcoming Intel X58 Express based boards. We covered a bit regarding the ‘Big Bang II’ release,
Netgear's New LAN Powerline Adapters By Aaron Heibert Published 20 November 08 Look ma! No wires! Well, sort of. NETGEAR introduces their Powerline Adapters for HD and Multimedia Streaming without the hassle of degraded wireless performance and most of all, wires.
Mushkin's New Triple-Chan DDR3 Kits By Aaron Heibert Published 19 November 08 With all the buzz surrounding the Intel Core i7 debut, memory manufacturers are delivering the goods. Mushkin is now offering up its triple channel kits to the mix, with some pretty impressive timings.
Report: 3GB vs 6GB RAM on Core i7 Benched By Aaron Heibert Published 19 November 08 Planning to build your brand spanking new Intel i7 based gaming system with that fancy new Intel X58 Express board? Just make sure you toss 6GB of memory into the mix for the best possible experience, according to Corsair’s recent study.
Dell Unveils Core i7 with New XPS By Aaron Heibert Published 18 November 08 Adding to their successful XPS line of gaming desktops, Dell introduces its new XPS 730x gaming system to the line-up. The new ‘x’ denotes the cross over from Core 2 to Intel’s new i7 platform along with the new X58 chipset.
Kingston Shipping HyperX T1 Series Memory By Aaron Heibert Published 14 November 08 Kingston Technology brings us another line of enthusiast based memory with its new T1 heat spreaders and HTX technology. HTX technology is a new innovation design by Kingston’s engineering team dedicated to building enthusiast memory.
Fujitsu Launches 500 GB Notebook Hard Drives – Full Drive Encryption By Aaron Heibert Published 12 November 08 With the ever increasing demand for more storage by users that are always on-the-go, Fujitsu launches a set of hard drives at half of a terabyte.