Sony says PlayStation Network back online

From CNET: Sony said its PlayStation Network is up and running again after it was taken down Sunday by an apparent hacker attack.

The company said on the PlayStation Blog that the gaming network was shut down by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a common hacker technique that...

Microsoft's Surface 2 Tablet Family Gets a $100 Price Cut

From DailyTech: The Surface Pro 3 may be the latest and greatest tablet from Microsoft — and one that the boys from Redmond are pitching hard against the Apple MacBook Air family — but the company still has another line of tablets that are aimed at more price-conscious buyers. The Surface 2 family...

QNAP HS-210 Review (Page 1 of 8)

Hello guys, Jonathan Kwan here. In this multi-author review, I would just like to start off with a little story before passing the time on to my colleague Preston Yuen for the next few pages. Earlier last week, I received a text message in the morning from a friend, asking if I was interested in seeing "Guardians of the Galaxy". Because I have spent pretty much the entire first week of August hanging out every night -- with pretty much the...

Intel highlights more of its wireless computing plans

From PC World: Intel is taking more steps to provide what it calls “wire-free” computing by 2016, a plan the company first talked about publicly in June at the Computex trade show.

The company is developing a smart dock through which laptops can wirelessly connect to monitors and external...

Google's Android search app adds multi-language voice feature

From CNET: Google on Thursday updated its Voice Search app -- which lets users say search queries aloud instead of typing them -- to support more than one language at a time. That means that a speaker who knows multiple languages can switch among them when making voice searches without having to...

Report: Microsoft to Announces Windows 9 on September 30

From DailyTech: It looks as though Microsoft is looking to put Windows 8/8.1 far behind it with its next operating system release. Microsoft insider Mary Jo Foley revealed last week that Microsoft is expecting to release a tech preview of Windows 9 next month to both developers and consumers....

LG's high-end smartphone features trickle down to new L series

From InfoWorld: LG Electronics is bringing features from its more expensive smartphones into the hotly contested low-end segment of the market.

On Thursday, the company announced the L Bello and L Fino, two 3G Android-based smartphones that echo some aspects of the design of LG's G3 flagship model...

Chrome OS everywhere: Acer announces new Chromebook, desktop Chromebox

From PC World: Taiwanese PC maker Acer is bringing Google’s Chrome operating system to desktops with a new unit that will arrive in the U.S. next month.

Acer’s Chromebox CXI, announced on Thursday (and pictured mounted on a separate Acer monitor above), puts the Chrome OS into a small enclosure...

SoundCloud amps up ways for artists to get paid. The price? Ads

From CNET: The "YouTube for audio" joined a fast-growing list of streaming-music companies parading new ways for artists to get paid through their platforms, but it's adding more commercials to do so.

The Berlin-based music and audio-sharing company introduced a tier called Premier to its free and...

Leaked Qualcomm Roadmap: 20 nm 64-bit Octacore Smartphone SoCs Cometh

From DailyTech: A Chinese microblogger, panjiutang, posted on the Chinese-language microblogging platform Weibo pictures of what appears to be a leaked Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) roadmap. If accurate the roadmap, which runs Q2 2014 through Q2 2015, suggests that the top mobile chipmaker's 64-bit...

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