Bitcoin-stealing malware hidden in Mt. Gox data dump, researcher says

From PC World: An archive containing transaction records from Mt. Gox that was released on the Internet last week by the hackers who compromised the blog of Mt. Gox CEO Mark Karpeles also contains bitcoin-stealing malware for Windows and Mac.

Security researchers from antivirus firm Kaspersky Lab...

Sony Increases PlayStation 4 Price in Canada by $50

From DailyTech: Gamers in Canada that haven't purchased a PS4 console yet may be kicking themselves when they see what Sony now has in store for them. Sony Entertainment Canada has confirmed that the game console will see its price increased by $50 in Canada.

That means that the purchase price is...

Sony's PS4 Outsells Microsoft's Xbox One for February

From DailyTech: Sony's PlayStation 4 pulled out another monthy sales win over Microsoft's Xbox One, although the gap is starting to narrow.

According to Xbox Wire, Microsoft sold 258,000 Xbox One consoles for the month of February. However, Sony sold around 287,000 PlayStation 4s according to...

OCZ Vertex 460 240GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

Would you rather be the best of the worst, or the worst of the best? For most people, the obvious choice would be the latter. Being the best of the worst means you are still among the best; being the best of the worst means, despite all merits, you are still one of the worst. To put it in perspective, I would like to quote something I wrote in my Gigabyte Fly review last year. "[The Ultimate Bass Experience] claim is no different than someone...

SanDisk, Toshiba sue SK Hynix in trade secrets cases

From CNET: Toshiba and SanDisk are seeking damages from SK Hynix in separately filed lawsuits, both of which allege that the company profited from the theft of data surrounding NAND flash memory technology.

Toshiba and SanDisk have partnered for years to produce the flash memory chip technology...

Nokia brings Refocus camera app to all Lumias running Windows Phone 8

From PC World: Nokia’s Refocus app—which lets users play with the focus after a picture has been taken—is now available for all Lumia smartphones with Windows Phone 8.

Nokia has been launching new camera features and apps on its top-end models first, and then later making them available to cheaper...

Google Drive 100GB, 1TB Plans See Major Price Cuts

From DailyTech: Google is heating up the online storage competition by slashing some of its Google Drive prices.

According to Google's official blog, the company is cutting the price of its monthly 100GB plan from $4.99 to $1.99, and is majorly slashing the price of its 1TB plan from $49.99 to...

Android exploit eats up WhatsApp chat databases

From InfoWorld: Bas Bosschert, a self-billed "consultant/sysadmin/entrepreneur," has demonstrated a proof-of-concept exploit that shows how the locally stored message database used by WhatsApp can be read by any other Android application with local access to the file system.

Though the WhatsApp...

Amazon Prime price jumps to $99 per year

From PC World: Amazon is tacking $20 onto the price of its Amazon Prime service, bringing the yearly cost to $99.

This is the first price hike for Amazon Prime since it was introduced nine years ago. The service originally included just free two-day shipping on most orders, but has since expanded...

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