The internet suffered a number of slowdowns as people the world over rushed to verify accounts of Michael Jackson’s death. Search giant Google confirmed to the BBC that when the news first broke it feared Continue reading “Web slows after Jackson’s death”.
Nvidia’s GT200 generation will get a 40nm refresh, and from what we hear, the new chips will all become DirectX 10.1 compatible. This refresh should be coming in end of summer or early September time Continue reading “Upcoming Nvidia Graphics Cards Will Get DirectX 10.1”.
Rumors are growing louder that Intel will be launching new SSDs based on the firm’s 34nm NAND chips within just a couple of weeks. Previous reports had said Intel planned to come out with its Continue reading “Intel Rumored to Launch New 34nm Nand SSDs in Two Weeks”.
Corsair today announced two new products in its Performance Series SSD family: the P128 and P64 high-performance solid-state drives. Building on the success of the award-winning P256 SSD, the Corsair P128 delivers the same 220MB/sec Continue reading “Corsair Launches New 128GB and 64GB Performance Series SSDs”.
Apple has finally allowed pornography into the iTunes App Store. The application, called Hottest Girls, costs $2 and includes 2200+ images of topless, sexy babes and nude models. This is certainly an interesting move from Continue reading “Porn Comes to the iTunes App Store With Hottest Girls Application”.
Microsoft on Wednesday announced retail pricing for Windows 7 that’s at or below comparable Windows Vista prices, while also offering a chance for people to preorder the software at a substantial discount. From Friday through Continue reading “Microsoft sets Windows 7 pricing – $319 for Ultimate”.
AMD has set an internal guidance to gain back a 15% share of the global notebook market, according to sources at notebook vendors. The company’s next-generation Tigris platform has already landed orders from Hewlett-Packard (HP), Continue reading “AMD aims to gain back 15% share of notebook market”.
In-Win X-Fighter AL-13 Series Case Review @ motherboards.org and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums! In Win set out to design a unique solution on their X-fighter case Continue reading “June 25 News from Around the Web”.
GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the appointment of Norm Armour as vice president and general manager and Eric Choh as vice president of operations to lead an expanding team dedicated to developing Fab 2, the companys next Continue reading “GLOBALFOUNDRIES Announces New Fab 2 Executive Team”.
ZeniMax Media Inc., parent company of noted game publisher Bethesda Softworks, today announced it has completed the acquisition of legendary game studio, id Software, creators of world-renowned games such as DOOM, QUAKE, Wolfenstein, and its Continue reading “ZeniMax Media Acquires id Software”.
One of our readers directed me to a thread over at OCZ this morning where it seems that Tony from OCZ has announced a new Turbo Vertex Series is about to launch. Tony confirmed that Continue reading “OCZ Announces Turbo Vertex MLC SSD Coming Soon with 278MB/s Read”.
SanDisk Corporation today introduced the fastest 32-gigabyte (GB) SDHC card on the market. The 32GB SanDisk Extreme SDHC card at up to 30 megabytes per second (MB/s) read and write speeds combines industry-leading performance with Continue reading “SanDisk Unveils World’s Fastest 32GB SDHC Card – 30MB/s”.
WD today introduced its newly redesigned My Book World Edition II dual-drive network storage system in capacities of up to 4 TB. With the double protection of two Mirrored (RAID 1) drives and continuous backup Continue reading “WD Announces newly redesigned My Book World Edition II dual-drive network storage systems”.
NZXT Cryo S Review @ OCC and other reviews from around the web can be found by visiting our forums! “The NZXT Cryo S notebook cooler is a very well made laptop cooler that does Continue reading “June 24 News from Around the Web”.
IBM’s “Roadrunner” supercomputer at the Los Alamos National Laboratory held on to its title as the world’s fastest computer, followed once again by Cray’s “Jaguar”. IBM’s “Roadrunner” has held this title since June 2008! The Continue reading “IBM ‘Roadrunner’ Holds World’s Fastest Computer Crown”.
