Intel lowers Q4 revenue over hard-drive shortage

From InfoWorld: Intel warned on Monday that fourth-quarter revenue will be lower than anticipated due to a hard drive shortage. The chip maker now anticipates quarterly revenue of $13.7 billion, down from a previous estimate of $14.7 billion.

The entire computer industry has been...

AT&T, Verizon test 4G LTE Nokia Lumia phone

From CNET News.com: Behind the scenes, Nokia is making some headway with the big two carriers in the U.S.

The Finnish handset vendor, eager for a comeback, is testing a 4G LTE version of its Lumia 800 smartphone, CNET has learned. That's despite the fact that the Windows Phone...

Samsung's Cell Phone Sales Surpass 300 Million

From DailyTech: Smartphones have dominated the discussion surrounding South Korean electronics conglomerate Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KS:005930). Samsung recently bested rival Apple, Inc. (AAPL) by 65 percent in calendar Q3 2011 unit sales to seize the global lead.

But it is...

webOS is Going Open Source, Future HP Hardware Still Unlikely

From DailyTech: HP has just announced that it will be taking its webOS mobile operating system open source. The company still hasn't committed to further producing its own hardware based around the operating system, but that doesn't mean that it couldn't change its mind in the future...

TSMC Confirms Expansion of 20nm-Capable Gigafab

From X-bit Labs: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing has announced that it had started to build it phase 3 of its Fab 15 which will produce chips using 20nm or thinner fabrication processes.

TSMC began construction on Fab 15, phase 1, in July 2010, and completed equipment move-in in...

AMD: GPGPU Accelerators in CPU Sockets Make No Sense

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices said that making special-purpose GPU-based accelerators compatible with CPU sockets makes no sense. The approach proposed by AMD is vastly different from the one that is allegedly offered by its arch-rival, Intel Corp., which insists on...

SteelSeries Sensei Review

"The trackball, a related pointing device [to the mouse], was invented by Tom Cranston, Fred Longstaff and Kenyon Taylor working on the Royal Canadian Navy's DATAR project in 1952. It used a standard Canadian five-pin bowling ball. It was not patented, as it was a secret military project." (Source: Wikipedia). Is it scary to think that the concept of a computer mouse is almost 50 years old? Back then, it was a very primitive and...

Fractal Design Define R3 USB 3.0 Mod | Lounge

Since I write a review almost every week throughout the year, it is hard to believe how many introductions I have written during my reviewing career. And although each of these introductions are as unique as it can be (Really, I am not kidding -- try going through all of my past articles), to be honest, there aren't many that really stands out in my memory. Although the Tt eSPORTS Meka G-Unit is definitely one of my recent...

Google's Chrome Will Run Console Games! Wait, What?

From PC World: Don't look for id Software's Rage or Bethesda's Skyrim in your browser anytime soon, but it sounds like Google has big time gaming plans for its Chrome platform—plans that already involve running stuff like Xbox Live Arcade game Bastion in Chrome directly.

Google...

Apple loses patent battle with Motorola; war drags on

From CNET News.com: Apple was dealt a significant blow in a German court today after a judge ruled the company is in violation of a Motorola Mobility patent.

According to Foss Patents, which obtained the ruling, the Mannheim Regional Court in Germany ruled today that Apple violates...

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