TechRadar's popular Buying Guides have been given a overhaul – with the next two magazines on PC components and phones sporting the spiffy new design. [......]
TechRadar's popular Buying Guides have been given a overhaul – with the next two magazines on PC components and phones sporting the spiffy new design. The latest issues of the Techradar PC Upgrade and Phone Buying Guides are about to go on sale, featuring even more up-to-the-minute reviews and a stunning new design. The PC Upgrade Buying Guide features reviews of more than 160 components and goes on sale 22 March. [......]
One puck to control them all Square Connect’s SQ Blaster solves a problem we’ve been grappling with for some time now: Integrating control over the devices we manage using the Z-Wave home-control protocol (especially lighting) with control over the devices we manage using infrared, all with a single universal remote. The fact that this hardware/software combo is inexpensive is icing on the cake. [......]
News and rumor site Fudzilla is reporting that Intel will begin shipping the B3 stepping for its 6-series chipset part by Monday, February 14th. For those of you who live in a cave under a rock on another planet, the original 6-series chipset contained a "design flaw" that affected several SATA ports. Only SATA ports 0/1 were unaffected, as well as those that might have been provided by a third-party (like Marvell, for instance). [......]
Santa Clara, we have a problem. [......]
It's a shame there were only 250 " Collector's Edition Tron Wireless Controller " devices ever made, because the thing looks f'in awesome. On the bright side, it's not grossly overpriced (it runs $50), despite the limited edition run. According to the product description, "this controller represents Clu, the current dictator of the Tron world, and the The Black Guard, his elite fighting force." Orange accents light up and run across the top and bottom portions, while the Tron logo sits on the bottom middle. [......]
By Tim Conneally , Betanews Hacking the Xbox 360 Kinect controller is all the rage right now, but it's not exactly sanctioned by Microsoft. [......]
We've been intrigued by Dell's Inspiron Duo convertible laptop ever since we first spied it several weeks back, and now it's here. Dell announced the funky notebook yesterday, which sports a flip-hinge design so you can use it as a traditional netbook or as a tablet. "Dell is changing the shape of computing, with products that usher in new experiences and allow people to stay connected to each other and the content they love from almost anywhere," said Sam Burd, vice president, Dell Consumer, Small and Medium Business Product Group[......]
Patriot Memory today announced new densities, speeds, and triple-channel kits added to its Viper Xtreme series. The new "Sector 7" tri-channel kits, as they're being called, come in both 12GB and 6GB capacities with speeds of 2000MHz and 1600MHz[......]
Nvidia has taken its fair share of heat over, well, the heat output of its high-end Fermi cards, namely the GeForce GTX 480. [......]
It's officially the end of an era, folks, one that quite frankly we're surprised lasted as long as it did. In any event, Sony announced it has stopped the Japanese production of its once popular Walkman portable cassette players[......]
The Web is bustling with chatter over some Nvidia-branded videocards spotted in Best Buy. Perhaps looking to pick up the slack left by BFG in the retail sector, Nvidia plans to sell a few different Fermi-based graphics cards under its own moniker. [......]
A very capable multitouch, multimedia machine The $900 Acer Aspire 5745PG-3882 is an attractive-looking, moderately priced notebook with some nifty multitouch features, a high-quality display, and audio attributes that make it a very capable multimedia system. But with middling 3D graphics performance, it’s not going to make anyone’s top-10 list of portable gaming rigs[......]
A recent survey hit my radar this weekend and, I must say, I’m not that surprised by the results. Contrary to my usual columns, I won’t bury the lede: Accenture polled 300 large organizations in both the public and private sectors and—surprise!—found that half of them are “fully committed†to using open-source software in their businesses. To be honest, I expected results more in line from the Zenoss survey I ran across this weekend, which notes that 98 percent of all enterprise companies use open-source software in some capacity[......]
While Amazon and Barnes & Noble go for each other's jugular by releasing new and lower priced eBook readers, Sony says it's content to sit on the sidelines rather try to chase the lowest price eReader crown. "Pricing is one consideration in the dedicated reading device marketplace, but Sony won't sacrifice the quality and design we're bringing book lovers to lay claim to the cheapest eReader," said Phil Lubell , Sony's vice president of digital reading. [......]
