Microsoft offers free month for Xbox Live users hit by outage

From CNET News.com: Xbox Live members affected by a recent outage of the Cloud Saved Games feature will be treated to an additional month of membership on the house.

Xbox Live's Cloud Saved Games lets members store their saved games online so they can play them on a different...

Report: AMD to Kill Off VISION APU Branding

From DailyTech: For two generations of accelerated processing units (APUs) -- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.'s (AMD) CPU+GPU single die affordability/mobility-focused solution -- the word "VISION" has been tacked on to indicate that the chip is an APU. The branding first popped up in...

LG To Unveil New Refined Smart TV Lineup at CES 2013

From DailyTech: LG is on the verge of unveiling a new line of smart TVs at CES 2013. The company is prepared to unveil its CINEMA 3-D Smart TV line at the show. The TV series will offer easier content access and sharing along with an updated Magic Remote and simplified user interface...

Toshiba to Demo SDHC Memory Card with TransferJet at CES

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. will showcase a reference display of an SDHC memory card with TransferJet close proximity wireless transfer technology at the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show in early January, 2013.

The SDHC memory card on reference display will be a...

OCZ Agility 4 256GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

Just because some things are equivalent, does not mean they are the same. In the same way no one refers to "8 Mile Road" as "12.8748 Kilometer Road", or say "Give them 2.54 cm and they will take it 1.609 km" instead of "Give them an inch and they will take it a mile", just because two SSDs have equivalent capacity, does not mean they are the same. A while back, we have reviewed the OCZ Vertex 4 256GB, featuring an Indilinx...

Nook Media draws $89.5M Pearson investment

From CNET News.com: Barnes & Noble's Nook Media unit has pulled in a fresh cash infusion, this time from book publisher Pearson.

The two companies announced today that Pearson will invest $89.5 million in cash in Nook Media, the B&N subsidiary that oversees the Nook e-reader...

RIM's patent payment to Nokia starts at $65M

From CNET News.com: Research In Motion is making an initial payment of $65 million to Nokia as part of the settlement of the patent dispute between the two companies.

The payment was disclosed in RIM's most recent 6-K filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, and was...

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