Microsoft's Surface 2 Tablet Family Gets a $100 Price Cut

From DailyTech: The Surface Pro 3 may be the latest and greatest tablet from Microsoft — and one that the boys from Redmond are pitching hard against the Apple MacBook Air family — but the company still has another line of tablets that are aimed at more price-conscious buyers. The Surface 2 family...

QNAP HS-210 Review (Page 1 of 8)

Hello guys, Jonathan Kwan here. In this multi-author review, I would just like to start off with a little story before passing the time on to my colleague Preston Yuen for the next few pages. Earlier last week, I received a text message in the morning from a friend, asking if I was interested in seeing "Guardians of the Galaxy". Because I have spent pretty much the entire first week of August hanging out every night -- with pretty much the...

Intel highlights more of its wireless computing plans

From PC World: Intel is taking more steps to provide what it calls “wire-free” computing by 2016, a plan the company first talked about publicly in June at the Computex trade show.

The company is developing a smart dock through which laptops can wirelessly connect to monitors and external...

Google's Android search app adds multi-language voice feature

From CNET: Google on Thursday updated its Voice Search app -- which lets users say search queries aloud instead of typing them -- to support more than one language at a time. That means that a speaker who knows multiple languages can switch among them when making voice searches without having to...

Report: Microsoft to Announces Windows 9 on September 30

From DailyTech: It looks as though Microsoft is looking to put Windows 8/8.1 far behind it with its next operating system release. Microsoft insider Mary Jo Foley revealed last week that Microsoft is expecting to release a tech preview of Windows 9 next month to both developers and consumers....

LG's high-end smartphone features trickle down to new L series

From InfoWorld: LG Electronics is bringing features from its more expensive smartphones into the hotly contested low-end segment of the market.

On Thursday, the company announced the L Bello and L Fino, two 3G Android-based smartphones that echo some aspects of the design of LG's G3 flagship model...

Chrome OS everywhere: Acer announces new Chromebook, desktop Chromebox

From PC World: Taiwanese PC maker Acer is bringing Google’s Chrome operating system to desktops with a new unit that will arrive in the U.S. next month.

Acer’s Chromebox CXI, announced on Thursday (and pictured mounted on a separate Acer monitor above), puts the Chrome OS into a small enclosure...

SoundCloud amps up ways for artists to get paid. The price? Ads

From CNET: The "YouTube for audio" joined a fast-growing list of streaming-music companies parading new ways for artists to get paid through their platforms, but it's adding more commercials to do so.

The Berlin-based music and audio-sharing company introduced a tier called Premier to its free and...

Leaked Qualcomm Roadmap: 20 nm 64-bit Octacore Smartphone SoCs Cometh

From DailyTech: A Chinese microblogger, panjiutang, posted on the Chinese-language microblogging platform Weibo pictures of what appears to be a leaked Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) roadmap. If accurate the roadmap, which runs Q2 2014 through Q2 2015, suggests that the top mobile chipmaker's 64-bit...

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