Windows 8 Launches Oct 26 at Midnight

From DailyTech: Micosoft fans, the time has come -- Windows 8 will be available tonight at midnight, and you can pick it up via download or variety of new devices.

Microsoft sent out its official Windows 8 press release today announcing that the new operating system will be...

Apple Reports Record Quarter Results amid Lack of Major Products

From X-bit Labs: Apple on Thursday disclosed its financial results for the fourth quarter of fiscal 2012, which ended September 29, 2012. Although during the quarter the company did not refresh its product line during the quarter, sales of all of its major products remained on strong...

AMD Has Six to Nineteen Windows 8 Tablet Design Wins

From X-bit Labs: So far Advanced Micro Devices has not been exactly successful with its tablet design wins. Acer’s tablet with a custom Ontario chip has failed to reach the mass market, whereas Fujitsu’s recently announced Stylistic Q572/F is too expensive. Nonetheless, the company’s...

LG at work on WebOS-based HDTV, report says

From CNET News.com: LG has teamed up with Gram, the organization established by HP to handle the WebOS project, to create a television that will be running on the open-source operating system, according to a new report from WebOS Nation. That blog reports that LG and Gram have been...

Sprint Announces New 4G Rate Plans

From DailyTech: Sprint has announced it will be introducing new rate plans for data usage on tablets supporting 4G LTE technology. Currently Sprint uses WiMAX in most of its 4G areas, but as it rolls out LTE networks moving forward, it plans to offer rate plans with up to 20% more...

Sony PlayStation 3 Cracked, Mass Pirated Games Face Their Dawn

From X-bit Labs: Hackers, who call themselves “The Three Musketeers”, this week released an equivalent of the so-called “master key” for Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 3 video game consoles. The new keys allow decrypting PS3’s level 0 (lv0) security layer used by the primary boot loader...

T-Mobile is first carrier to sell the Galaxy Note 2

From CNET News.com: T-Mobile is the first carrier out of the gate to bring its customers the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Note 2. As of today, any T-Mobile user can snap up the device.

Rumors floated this week that the carrier was already receiving shipments of the "phablet" in...

HP Unveils Full Windows 8 Computer Family

From DailyTech: HP has gone official with its complete line of Windows 8 PCs for consumers and business users. The lineup includes the HP Envy x2 ultrathin hybrid PC combining the benefits of a notebook and a tablet into one. The machine has an 11.6-inch touch display, Beats Audio...

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