New Windows Start Screen Demoed on Lumia 900 running Windows Phone 7.8
We just caught up with Greg Sullivan, senior product manager for Windows Phone, who was showing off a Lumia 900 running a non-final Windows Phone 7.8 build. The WP7.8...
16 by Brian Klug on 6/20/2012Microsoft Announces First Windows Phone 8 Hardware Partners, Qualcomm SoCs Inside [Update: MSM8960]
Probably one of the biggest rumors leading up to the Windows Phone 8 announcement was some speculation that Qualcomm would lose its exclusive status as the sole SoC vendor...
44 by Brian Klug on 6/20/2012Existing Windows Phone 7 devices will get updated to Windows Phone 7.8, not Windows 8
Looks like some of the earlier rumors about the upgrade path for existing WP7 devices turned out to be true. Microsoft just now announced that existing WP7 devices will...
27 by Brian Klug on 6/20/2012Windows Phone 8 Adds support for Multi Core SoCs, Higher Resolutions, microSD, and NFC
We're at the Windows Phone 8 summit, where Microsoft just made support for a bunch of new WP8 features official. The rumors were true, and the platform is moving...
5 by Brian Klug on 6/20/2012Microsoft's Windows Phone Summit in San Francisco - We're There
We're inside the venue at Microsoft's Windows Phone developer summit in San Francisco. From the look of the posters we're in for some new features, including some facial recognition...
19 by Brian Klug on 6/20/2012Acer’s Timeline Ultra M5: Ivy Bridge Ultrabooks with Kepler GPUs
In an interesting twist, back in March when NVIDIA was unveiling their new Kepler GPUs, Acer started shipping their Timeline Ultra M3 Ultrabook before the Kepler NDA expired. While...
20 by Jarred Walton on 6/20/2012Hynix to Acquire Link A Media Devices (LAMD)
Hynix published a press release that they have acquired Link A Media Devices (commonly referred to as simply LAMD). The cost of the acquisition has not been revealed, nor...
1 by Kristian Vättö on 6/19/2012Microsoft Surface - We Go Hands On [UPDATE: Detailed Impressions]
Post-announcement, Microsoft took us to a backroom in Milk Studios to give us hands on experience with the Surface. They weren't lying, even the preproduction units feel awesome in...
161 by Vivek Gowri on 6/18/2012iBuyPower's Valkyrie CZ-17 Rides In
Ordinarily we try to avoid posting announcements of every new notebook system from individual boutique vendors since most of the time what they're really announcing is that they're carrying...
6 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/18/2012Nokia Announces PureView 808 Coming to USA for $699
The last time we played with the Nokia PureView 808 was at MWC, where I came away very impressed with the device and what I saw in terms of...
17 by Brian Klug on 6/18/2012Microsoft's Major Announcement in LA - We're There!
We're at Microsoft's major announcement in LA - it's been shrouded in secrecy, with Redmond only releasing venue details earlier today (a mere 5 hours before the start of...
26 by Vivek Gowri on 6/18/2012Pipeline Review: Razer Tiamat 7.1
What is it? Razer’s Tiamat 7.1, the first headset to feature 10 discrete drivers for true 7.1 surround sound. How much? $179.99 from Razer’s webstore or Amazon.com What does it do? The...
14 by Vivek Gowri on 6/15/2012TI Demos Windows RT UI Performance on OMAP 4470
Last week at Computex, TI showed Anand Windows RT running on one of their own reference tablets. While performance was good according to Anand, Microsoft has instructed partners to...
20 by Brian Klug on 6/14/2012Western Digital Enters Router Market with My Net Series
We recently had the opportunity to take a meeting with Western Digital in San Francisco, California while a good chunk of the press were out in Taipei for Computex...
25 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/14/2012Windows 8 on the Retina Display MacBook Pro
This will likely be the last small update before my full review of the next-gen MacBook Pro with Retina Display. Many of you have asked for information about the...
81 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/14/2012The next-gen MacBook Pro with Retina Display: SSD Analysis
After a week in Taiwan, and a weekend in San Francisco, I'm finally back home and hard at work on the Retina Display MacBook Pro Review. One of the...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/13/2012The Acer Iconia Tab A700 Brings 1920x1200 to $449
We've been hearing about the impending ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity with its 1920x1200 display for some time now with no concrete word on when it's coming to market, but...
19 by Dustin Sklavos on 6/13/2012AMD Announces FirePro W600, Sets Their Sights On Digital Wall Market
For AMD’s FirePro customers, they know that with GCN coming up on 6 months old now that this is the time to keep an eye on product announcements. It...
10 by Ryan Smith on 6/13/2012Samsung Announces TecTiles - Programmable NFC Tags and Application
Probably one of the biggest complaints I hear related to NFC is just how slowly adoption and uptake of the technology is going. While NFC-enabled phones aren't really anything...
9 by Brian Klug on 6/13/2012The New MacBook Air Uses Toshiba's SATA 6Gb/s SSDs UPDATE: Samsung Too
Yesterday's keynote was certainly one of the biggest events for Macs that Apple has held in years. The main focus was obviously in the new MacBook Pro with Retina...
10 by Kristian Vättö on 6/12/2012