We were beginning to think motherboard makers had grown completely uninterested in showing off anything that's not built around Intel's X79 chipset for LGA2011 Sandy Bridge-E processors, but that isn't the case with ECS. The mobo maker recently announced the H61H2-A2 Black Deluxe, a new slice of silicon built around Intel's H61 Express chipset with additional chips to support USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gbps[......]
With few exceptions, Microsoft's share of the browser market has been steadily declining since at least November 2009, which is how far back Net Marketshare lets us look. Back then, Microsoft's Internet Explorer was the dominant browser on desktops with a 64.46 percent share. And today[......]
Intel came up with the Ultrabook category in hopes of blowing Apple's MacBook Air out of the water. Ultrabooks are supposed to be thin and light. They're intended to be powerful and well equipped with features[......]
The financial woes of Las Vegas-based copyright trolling firm Righthaven worsened Saturday when one of the defendants it unsuccessfully sued for infringement asked a judge to allow seizure of the firm’s assets — with the help of the U.S. [......]
Justin Bieber has condemned legislation to make unauthorized streaming a felony punishable by five years in prison, calling it "ridiculous." In a Thursday interview with a Washington, DC, radio station, he said that the legislation's sponsor, Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), should be "locked up—put away in cuffs." The news is surprising because two days earlier, his lawyers sent a cease-and-desist order to the website FreeBieber.org, which also opposes the bill. The site highlights the possibility that the legislation would make felons of artists like Bieber[......]
When it launches, Motorola's Maserati will be known as the Droid 4, so that should alleviate any confusion as to whether Motorola's getting into the automobile business (it's not). Hardcore typists who want nothing to do with a virtual keyboard and prefer to pilot a physical plank will want to take the Droid 4 out for a spin, on 4G LTE highways, no less[......]
GameStop is the place you go to for used game trade-ins, new titles, new and used hardware, accessories, and things of the sort, most of which are related to consoles (save for a sad one-sided rack of PC games). [......]
Samsung said it shipped 28 million smartphones during its third fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2011, which represented a 40 percent increase on-quarter and 300 percent year-on-year. Perhaps just as important, Samsung raced ahead of Apple in smartphone sales, which sold 17 million iPhone devices in the same time frame. Samsung's continued global rollout of its flagship Galaxy S II smartphone is doing particularly well and has sold more than 10 million units in the five months since its introduction, Samsung said[......]
It's no secret that major copyright owners like Viacom have been working with members of Congress on legislation to censor so-called “rogue sites” on the Internet. With today's introduction of the Stop Online Piracy Act , such legislation is finally moving forward in both the House and the Senate. Now all it needs is support—and how better to obtain that support than by passing out free muffins with a large chunk missing[......]
In the midst of the all the spy shots of upcoming X79 motherboards that surfaced this past week, MSI today announced a board you can use right now. It's the Z68MA-G43 for socket LGA1155 processor owners, which rules out support for Sandy Bridge-E, though it does adopt the latest PCI Express Gen 3 high-speed data transfer standard, MSI says. The board has four DIMM slots with support for up to 32GB of DDR3-2133 (OC) memory[......]
FinalWire just put the finishing touches on version 2.00 of its AIDA64 application, a streamlined diagnostic and benchmarking tool that now supports LGA2011 Intel Sandy Bridge-E processors. Looking ahead to future platforms, the latest build also adds preliminary support for AMD Krishna and Wichita APUs, Intel Atom Cedarview processors, and Ivy Bridge and 7-Series chipsets. According to the release notes , AIDA64 v2.00 provides enhanced support for Western Digital hard drives with detailed ATA auto-detect information, temperature measurements, and SMART disk health status detection. [......]
Many of you are waiting with bated breath for Intel to release its upcoming Sandy Bridge-E processors and can't wait to build an LGA 2011 system. If you choose not to, however, it won't be for lack of motherboard options, especially if you're a fan of Gigabyte. After posting spy shots of its G1.Assassin 2 motherboard, Gigabyte just sent us an email loaded with images of each and every X79 motherboard it currently has on tap[......]
With the introduction of the XPS 14z notebook, it's almost as if Dell took off its white glove, slapped Apple in the face with it, and said "How do you like them Apples?" The XPS 14z is thinner than a MacBook Pro at less than an inch thick (0.9 inches high), it has an optical drive (making it the thinnest 14-inch laptop to feature an ODD, according to Dell), and it's cheaper than a MacBook Pro to boot. Dell said it squeezed a 14-inch HD display into a 13-inch laptop form factor, ultimately offering 10 percent more viewing area than a 13.3-inch display. It sports an anodized-aluminum finish and a latch-less design Dell describes as "simple, yet elegant." But how does it compare to a MacBook Pro? [......]
Nvidia today made available its first set of WHQL-certified GeForce videocard drivers from the Release 285 family, version 285.62. [......]
Anonymous' “CabinCr3w” group has upped its information warfare efforts in support of the Occupy Wall Street movement by publishing the personal contact information of Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan, including his personal phone number, on its Tumblr blog . [......]
