Valve Sets Its Sights Beyond Games With Steam

From DailyTech: Valve is a major video game company and has very impressive titles to its name, including Half Life. Valve also has a popular digital distribution platform called Steam that has been used to distribute digital versions of retail video games.

Valve has now announced...

ZOTAC Announces ZBOX with Integrated GeForce GT 520M

From DailyTech: ZOTAC has unveiled a new ZBOX mini with NVIDIA GeForce GT 520M graphics. The new and small computer could be the ideal home theater PC thanks to its high-definition video playback capability.

“We’re pleased to inject the power of NVIDIA® GeForce® graphics to our...

Toshiba Reveals First 3.5 Hard Disk Drives in Years

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. has announced the launch of a family of advanced 3.5" hard disk drives for the first time in many years. The HDDs provide up to 3TB of capacity as well as 5700rpm, 5940rpm or 7200rpm spindle speeds. Volume shipments of the drives, produced with...

Google exposes smart results in search

From CNET News.com: Your search results in Google are about to get a big dose of Knowledge, the company announced today at a press breakfast at its San Francisco office.

Google's Knowledge Graph, its "smart" recognition of people, places, and things in search queries, is coming to...

Android, iOS Continue Smartphone Assault During Q2

From DailyTech: The latest statistics for Q2 2012 for the smartphone market are in from research firm IDC. The numbers show that Google and Apple own 85% of the smartphone market overall. IDC reports that that represents a new combined high for the two operating systems.

"The...

Nokia to Reveal First Windows Phone 8 Smartphones at Nokia World

From X-bit Labs: Nokia Corp. is expected to reveal its first Windows Phone 8-based smartphones in early September at its Nokia World event. The move will enable the company to demonstrate its next-gen cell phones ahead of Apple's introduction of new iPhone rumoured to happen in mid...

Samsung working on Android 4.1 update for Galaxy S III

From CNET News.com: Samsung is on the verge of releasing an Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for its Galaxy S III smartphone, according to a recent SamMobile report. The mobile blog claims that internal testing of the new firmware is complete and that a public-ready version is ready...

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