Apple upgrades MacBook Pro line

From CNET News.com: Unveiled this weekend, the upgrades run across the board to include the 13-inch, 15-inch, and 17-inch models.

The entry-level 13-inch MacBook Pro now sports a 2.4 gigahertz processor, inching up from 2.3Ghz previously, while its hard drive capacity has been...

Netflix to Launch Streaming Service in UK, Ireland in Early 2012

From DailyTech: Netflix may have hit a few speed bumps throughout 2011, but now it's moving ahead once again at full speed as the video streaming/DVD company plans to make its way into the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Netflix started streaming videos in the U.S. in 2007. It...

Thailand Floods Cause Storage Shortages

From DailyTech: PC sales are under continued pressure from a hard drive shortage caused by major flooding in Thailand, with one-fourth of the world's HDDs originating from the flood-ravaged nation.

The floods have shutdown more than 14,000 factories and forced at least 660,000...

Intel Core i5-2405S Review (Page 1 of 11)

What do you call a processor that is ten months late, uses a lot of power, and overpromises in performance but underdelivers in practice? Now it would be kind of mean to point fingers and name names here, but I promise you it is not Sandy Bridge. Earlier this year, we have reviewed a couple of Intel's second generation Core CPUs, including the Intel Core i5-2500K and Core i3-2120 -- with both living up to everything every...

UEBO M50 Review (Page 1 of 4)

Up here in the cold frozen wastelands of Canada, we are celebrating thanksgiving almost a month before our American friends down south. (Editor's note: This review was written over Thanksgiving, so we are not stuck in any sort of time lag, haha.) So, what do I have to be thankful for? Well, I am thankful that it hasn't snowed yet, and that UEBO has sent us the M50 media player to review. I am also thankful for the massive turkey...

RIM Runs Into Trademark Dispute Over BBX Name for Future OS

From PC World: Less than a week after it announced plans for a new platform called BBX for its smartphones and tablet, Research In Motion is facing the threat of legal action from a software company in Albuquerque, New Mexico, that claims that BBx is the trademark of software it...

Verizon subscriber growth sags in Q3

From CNET News.com: Today, Verizon reported that its profits increased to $3.54 billion, or 49 cents a share, compared with $2.7 billion, or 23 cents a share, during the same quarter a year ago. Adjusted profits for Verizon were 56 cents a share. Analysts had expected 55 cents a...

Inside Google's Ice Cream Sandwich phones, tablets

From CNET News.com: Texas Instruments will be leading the way on Android 4.0. Its dual-core OMAP4460 chip is inside the Samsung Galaxy Nexus which, in turn, is the launch vehicle for Android 4.0.

This didn't happen overnight. TI and Google have been preparing for this week's Ice...

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