New Apple TV Now Supports 1080p
Apple just announced a new version of the Apple TV with 1080p decode support. The Apple TV OS gets a UI update and will presumably work with Apple's new...
1 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/7/2012Apple: iOS 5.1 Available Today, Japanese Siri Included
Apple just announced that the long awaited iOS 5.1 update will be available today. In it, Apple is enabling support for a Japanese version of Siri. More updates from...
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/7/2012Live at Apple's iPad Event
We are live and in the audience at Apple's iPad event today. Check back for updates and analysis of its announcements as they're made.
2 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/7/2012Western Digital To Sell Hitachi's 3.5” Hard Drive Business To Toshiba, Complete Hitachi Buyout
Almost exactly a year ago, Western Digital announced that they would be buying Hitachi’s hard drive division from Hitachi for $4.3 billion. Since then, the two companies have been...
9 by Ryan Smith on 3/6/2012Corsair Releases Accelerator Series SSDs
Corsair released a new SSD series today branded Accelerator. Like the name suggests, this series is aimed for caching purposes and is bundled with NVELO's DataPlex caching software. Corsair...
11 by Kristian Vättö on 3/6/2012Verizon Wireless Announces its Android 4.0 Update List
Getting Android devices updated to the latest version of the OS is something of an arduous prospect, and in recent months we've been getting an even clearer view of...
17 by Brian Klug on 3/6/2012Google Rebrands and Renames Android Market to Google Play
The Android Market has slowly evolved to become much more than a place for vending Android applications, and today Google announced that it is rebranding the Android Marketplace to...
12 by Brian Klug on 3/6/2012ZyXEL Launches Cloud-Enabled HD IP Surveillance Cameras
ZyXEL announced the retail availability of the two latest members in its IP camera lineup today. With 'cloud' being all the craze it is right now, the units carry...
4 by Ganesh T S on 3/6/2012Android Market App size raised to 4GB from 50MB
If you've tried any of the bigger, beefier Android games, chances are good you likely have come across an initial asset preload method which goes something like this: The...
9 by Brian Klug on 3/5/2012GlobalFoundries Granted Independence, Acquires Remaining Stake from AMD
When AMD originally spun off its foundry business in 2008, the resulting Foundry Company (as it was called back then) was 55.6% ATIC owned and 44.4% AMD owned. Since...
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/4/2012AMD Executes on Promise of Agility, Intends to Acquire SeaMicro for $334M
At its 2012 Financial Analyst Day, AMD mentioned a conscious shift towards being a more agile company. Wanting a bigger piece of the high margin server market, AMD is...
5 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/2/2012AT&T Sets Unlimited 3G Data cap to 3GB, 4G LTE Unlimited cap to 5GB
AT&T recently started taking heat as subscribers with grandfathered unlimited data plans saw their downstream throughput throttled after consuming just over 2GB on AT&T's 3G HSPA+ network. The primary...
47 by Brian Klug on 3/1/2012TI Demos OMAP5 WiFi Display Mirroring on Development Platform
On our last day at MWC 2012, TI pulled me aside for a private demonstration of WiFi Display functionality they had only just recently finalized working on their OMAP...
3 by Brian Klug on 3/1/2012Toshiba Announces Excite 10 LE, Shipping March 6th
At CES this year, we got a chance to go hands on with the Excite, Toshiba's latest and greatest Android slate. To recap, it's an OMAP4 device that features...
12 by Vivek Gowri on 3/1/2012Windows 8 Consumer Preview: A Quick Look at Battery Life (Updated)
With each new operating system in recent history, Microsoft has promised better battery life. We tested this back in the early days of Windows 7 and found that while...
113 by Jarred Walton on 3/1/2012AMD Releases Video Driver for Windows 8 Consumer Preview
In conjunction with today’s release of the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, AMD has released a new set of drivers specifically for Windows 8. Dubbed the AMD Catalyst driver for...
18 by Ryan Smith on 2/29/2012OCZ Releases 180GB and 360GB Models of Agility 3
Today OCZ added two more capacities to their Agility 3 lineup: 180GB and 360GB. Agility 3 isn't the first SSD series to feature such SSD capacities, but more often...
26 by Kristian Vättö on 2/29/2012Microsoft Demonstrates Windows to Go
Windows 8 supports installation to removable flash media via a feature called Windows to Go. Your apps, settings, and OS can all be installed to a USB stick and...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/29/2012Microsoft Demos Windows 8 on 82-inch Touchscreen
Microsoft is talking a lot about the importance of touch input to the Windows 8 experience in everything from tablets to high-end desktops. To show just how far you...
23 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/29/2012Microsoft Shows Windows 8 CP on Tegra 3, Krait, OMAP 5 & Clover Trail
Update: Despite Microsoft referring to the test platform as running on a next-generation OMAP processor, TI tells us that the Windows 8 tablet was running an OMAP 4470, not...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/29/2012