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Hot Deal on an Intel 320 Series 80GB SSD – $70 After MIR!
If you’re presently looking to buy an SSD, Newegg and Intel are running a promotion that is sure to clear out some inventory. For two more days Newegg is selling the Intel 320 Series 80GB SSD for just $70 with free shipping, after a $50 mail-in rebate. Intel is not known for their competitive pricing so this deal may have something to…
What’s Stopping You From Purchasing an SSD?
If there’s no SSD installed in your current rig, I have a simple question. Why? When SSDs first launched a couple of years ago, everyone shared the same reason: pricing. A 64GB SSD for $500 was less-than-ideal, and add on theuncertainty of a brand-new technology… it’s easy to see why most people were a little reserved.
Latest Humble Bundle Launches with Android Support
The folks behind Humble Bundle have just released a new collection of games up for grabs (err… for cheaper prices), and this time there’s a twist. In addition to the Windows, Mac OS X and Linux support we’ve come to expect, Android has been added on as an additional platform this time around (sorry, iOS fans). I’m not…
Microsoft Announces ‘Office 15’ Technical Preview – But Don’t Get Too Excited
Through its official Office blog, Microsoft has announced that a “technical preview” version of Office 15 has just been released, an important milestone in its development process. Unlike the technical preview for Windows 8, the one for Office 15 isn’t available to the public, but is instead limited to testing by those hand-picked by…
AMD Releases Second Southern Islands Enthusiast Card: Radeon HD 7950
AMD has today followed-up to its Radeon HD 7970 launch this past December with an option that slots in right beside NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 580, price-wise. With an SRP of $500, the Radeon HD 7950 isn’t inexpensive, but it’s not meant to be. More often than not, it clearly wins in benchmarks when facing the GTX 580…
Boycotting Apple? You Shouldn’t Stop There
Apple last week posted its most impressive revenue statement to date, and with it came renewed calls for a boycott of the company’s products. The reason I’m sure will come as no surprise. Foxconn has been in the news many times over the past year or so due to its abnormally high rate of employee suicides and poor worker…
Intel Releases New Core i5 & Mobile Celeron Processors
Intel quietly rolled out 7 new processor models this past weekend, 3 belonging to the desktop Core i5 family and 4 belonging to the mobile Celeron family. With this launch also comes Intel’s first “P” models (E, K, S and T weren’t enough, it seems), which simply denotes that the processor does not include integrated…
Writing a Book? Reasons Why You Should Self-Publish
Writing a book? Not sure whether to go the publisher vs. self-publish route? Don’t know the benefits of either? James Altucher, an author who’s dabbled a bit in both, has written a great article over at TechCrunch that can help clear a lot up before making your decision. While the focus of the article is more towards entrepreneurs…
No ‘Wii U’: Nintendo Rumored to Change Name of Next Console
When I first learned of Nintendo naming its current-gen console the “Wii“, I did a quadruple take. I then had to look at the calendar and make sure that it wasn’t April 1. When that wasn’t the case, I figured Wii was just a codename- because no company would be that foolish to name their product something like that, right? Well, of course…
Facebook Rumored to File for IPO this Week
For as long as Facebook has existed, so has the rumor that the company is about to go public. Late last week, the Wall Street Journal topped off this rumor by saying that it could happen as early as this coming Wednesday, with Morgan Stanley acting as the underwriter. The company is currently valuated at $75~$100 billion, and with…
Steam Unveils Mobile App for iOS and Android – A Quick Look
Fans of Valve’s Steam platform have long requested a mobile app to be built around the service, and catering to that demand, one is finally en route. The app at the current time is in a closed beta stage, but it can still be downloaded by anyone who wants to add their name to the list of beta hopefuls (the respective app pages…
Western Digital Unveils First Thunderbolt Enclosure
With the growing momentum of Thunderbolt on the Mac platform, it was only a matter of time before storage giant Western Digital unveiled its first solution. That comes in the form of the My Book Thunderbolt Duo, a dual-drive enclosure that, as you’d expect, connects via Thunderbolt in lieu of USB or LAN. Details are a little…
Apple Posts Best-Ever Quarter; $46.3B in Revenue
Apple held its Q1 2012 earnings call yesterday, and the talked-about results can be summed up with just one word: “wow”. Surpassing all analyst expectations, Apple posted $46.3 billion in revenue and $13.06 billion in profits, resulting in a year-over-year gain of 118%, a new record for the company. With these profits…
Blizzard Skipping a Year for BlizzCon; Next Event to be Held in 2013
In a bit of unexpected news, Blizzard has canceled its popular BlizzCon gaming conference for 2012, opting to hold the next one in 2013 instead. This move was done for no other reason but focus, as the company is currently working on three different games or expansions and wants to make sure that those get out in due time.
Scientists Claim to Have Found Most Relaxing Song Ever
It goes without saying that music is one of the best inventions ever. It can cheer you up when you’re feeling down, pump you up for a workout, help you fall to sleep and complement any possible mood you happen to be in. So, what song should be listening to if your ultimate goal is to relax? Believe it or not, a group of scientists have found…
SSD News: Firmware Update Edition
It seems just about everyone has begun 2012 by releasing firmware updates; as usual many are to resolve those pesky, newly discovered BSoD problems that have plagued just about every SSD at one time or another. Here’s a short summary of recently announced firmware updates for Crucial m4, Samsung 830, and OCZ Octane users.
With CEOs Swapped Out, Future of RIM Still Uncertain
BlackBerry fans have had good reason over the past year to be seriously concerned about the company, and with the recent stepping down of both company CEOs and the ushering of a new one, things are not looking much more positive than before. As a whole, it seems that it doesn’t matter who runs RIM… the company just doesn’t “get it”.
YouTube Surpasses 4 Billion Video Views Per Day
When Google purchased YouTube back in November 2006, did anyone expect that in a mere five years, the site would become the third most visited on the Internet? Though video-sharing sites are now a dime a dozen, looking back, Google had to have known what video was going to become, and given today’s stats, the…
Kingston Launches Entry-level SandForce SSDNow V+ 200 SSDs
In what is sure to be a very confusing mix for some of subtly different names, Kingston has launched the SSDNow V+ 200 series of solid-state drives. Kingston first began utilizing SandForce controllers in the premium HyperX SSD line, delivering some of the absolute best performance we had seen to date from a single SSD.
First MegaUpload – Who’s Next?
As we posted yesterday, popular file-sharing website MegaUpload was taken down by US authorities for a number of different reasons. A big one was that the company behind the site was accused of taking in $175 million in “criminal proceeds”, while at the same time causing loses of $500 million to the affected companies. One thing…
Intel Reports Record Year for Revenue: $54 Billion
We posted earlier this week that Intel might experience a hit to its sales revenue during 2012 due to the timing of Windows 8’s launch, but putting that aside for the time-being, the company has just announced its best-ever year-over-year financial report. In total, the company reached $54 billion in total revenue, a staggering 24% bump…
Department of Justice Shuts Down File-Sharing Site MegaUpload
One of the world’s largest file-sharing websites, MegaUpload, is down for the count. After a well-orchestrated raid played out in multiple countries, the US Department of Justice were successful in not only taking MegaUpload.com offline, but also in ceasing numerous assets related to the site founder, Kim Dotcom, who was also arrested…
The Credit Card That Aims To End Fraud
For about as long as credit cards have existed, there have been companies that have worked hard to figure out the best possible methods of keeping their data safe. There have been some good attempts made in the past, but it seems it’s impossible to find a good blend of security and convenience. After all, while extreme security…
Intel Introduces Processor Overclocking Insurance Plan
Intel has just released an interesting insurance program for its current-gen K and X series processors that target the overclockers out there. Under this paid program, if a CPU dies or goes wonky as the result of overclocking, Intel will replace it for free. For those hoping to push their brand-new i7-3960X hard, purchasing a plan like this…
Dear Esther – A Gorgeous Story-Driven Game That Makes You Think
It goes without saying that independent developers are important to the gaming industry, with one of the biggest reasons being “innovation”. Indie developers aren’t quite so worried about trying something new, something odd, or something that might not even feel like a game. Take Dear Esther, for example, a “ghost story” game…