HP to Produce One More Run of Touchpads
The HP Touchpad's saga continues: after being introduced, discontinued, and liquidated, HP now says that it will be manufacturing a "limited quantity" of the tablets before the end of...
10 by on 8/30/2011Windows 8 Improves Native Support for ISO, VHD Files
Today's Building Windows 8 blog post is from Rajeev Nagar, and describes how Windows 8 can natively mount and work with files stored in ISO and VHD files. For those...
16 by on 8/30/2011Windows Explorer Gets Ribbon Interface in Windows 8
The Windows 8 details continue: Today on the Building Windows 8 blog, Alex Simons takes us through some changes to the Windows Explorer, chief among them the fact that...
45 by on 8/29/2011Razer Announces Blade Gaming Laptop
Razer, a gaming-centric company known primarily for its mice and keyboards, today announced that they would be introducing a gaming laptop, the Blade, in Q4 2011. The $2799.99 laptop is...
21 by on 8/26/2011AMD Names Rory Read as New CEO
AMD has finally chosen a new CEO: Rory Read has been selected to fill the position that Dirk Meyer vacated in January. Read was previously President and COO of...
15 by on 8/25/2011Steve Jobs Resigns As Apple CEO; Tim Cook Now In Charge
As of this evening, Steve Jobs has resigned his post as CEO of Apple, naming Tim Cook as his successor. This news follows an extended health-related leave of absence...
33 by on 8/24/2011Windows 8 Aims to Improve File Copy Operations
The trickle of Windows 8 news continues ahead of next month's BUILD conference: today on the Building Windows 8 Blog, Microsoft's Alex Simons detailed several improvements to the way...
39 by on 8/24/2011Sprint to Carry Next iPhone, Says Wall Street Journal
Sprint will be joining AT&T and Verizon in carrying Apple's next iPhone, reports the Wall Street Journal citing "people familiar with the matter." This would make Sprint the third...
13 by on 8/24/2011App Store Installer for Lion Updated to 10.7.1
The App Store installer for OS X 10.7 Lion was updated to version 10.7.1 today, confirming that Apple will be keeping the installer up to date as new point...
3 by on 8/23/2011Native USB 3.0 Support Coming to Windows 8
Windows 8 will be bringing with it native support for USB 3.0 controllers, writes Microsoft's Dennis Flanagan, Director of Program Management for the Devices and Networking Group. This is...
19 by on 8/22/2011TouchDroid Project Bringing Android to HP Touchpad
The open source community is wasting no time taking ownership of HP's orphaned Touchpad tablet: a new group called the TouchDroid team is looking to bring Android to the...
18 by on 8/22/2011Intel's Cedar Trail Atom Processors Delayed to November
Cedar Trail, the next-generation version of Intel's Atom processor, has been delayed from September 2011 to November 2011 because of graphics driver and Windows 7 certification issues, reports DigiTimes. As...
13 by on 8/18/2011AMD Releases Catalyst 11.8 Drivers
AMD today released version 11.8 of its Calalyst driver package for Windows. As with previous releases, version 11.8 is available for all 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows XP...
14 by on 8/17/2011IE9 Detects Over 90% of Socially Engineered Malware
Independent security organization NSS Labs released a report today claiming that Internet Explorer 9, the latest version of Microsoft's web browser, detected 99.2% of all socially engineered malware in...
22 by on 8/16/2011All PS3 Models Receive $50 Price Cut
Sony's PS3 console is getting a price cut: in the US, the 160 GB model will now cost $249 instead of $299 and the 320GB model will now cost...
17 by on 8/16/2011Firefox 6.0 Released
In keeping with its new accelerated release schedule, Mozilla released the stable version of Firefox 6.0 to Windows, Mac, and Linux users today, just over seven weeks after the...
31 by on 8/16/2011Apple Begins Selling $69 Lion USB Drive
As promised, Apple today began offering a USB installer for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion in its online store for a price of $69, a $40 premium over the...
15 by on 8/16/2011Microsoft Opens Windows 8 Development Blog
It seems like not all that long ago we were talking about the launch of Windows 7, but 2012 is right around the corner, and it's bringing Windows 8...
16 by on 8/15/2011Observations on the Google-Motorola Purchase
If you've been on the Internet for very long today, you've probably already heard about this: Google intends to purchase Motorola Mobility Holdings for $12.5 billion, or about $40...
56 by on 8/15/2011Symantec Releases Free Security Software for Android
Symantec, well known for its extensive lineup of security products on both the Windows and Mac platforms, today released Norton Mobile Security Lite, a freeware security product aimed at...
13 by on 8/11/2011