Staples Closing 225 Stores Across North America

From DailyTech: RadioShack isn't the only retailer closing stores this week. According to CNN, Staples announced that it would close hundreds of members of its own chain.

Staples plans to close 225 stores in North America by mid-2015, which equates to about 12 percent of its North American stores...

OCZ Vector 150 240GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

As time progresses on, it has become quite a wakeup call to me that I am really not that young anymore. Being a person born in 1990, I have witnessed the end of the non-digital age (You know, where people did not have cell phones and actually talked to each other, went outside to ride bikes, and actually did homework research in the library by reading real books), and the massive shift in people's lifestyle as we embrace the changes brought upon...

ARM to Drive Tablet & Set-Top SoC Convergence

From EETimes: The battle over the digital TV market among semiconductor companies is undergoing a quiet but major transformation, as key players reshuffle and target devices multiply.

First, the players doggedly chasing the DTV and set-top market are no longer traditional TV chip vendors. Instead...

Hewlett-Packard quietly rolls out budget-friendly HP 8 Android tablet

From GreenBot: Seemingly under cover of night, Hewlett-Packard, once the world's once mightiest PC maker, unleashed its latest budget Android tablet in the U.S. Similar to the Slate 7 Android tablet that shipped last April, the new HP 8 is priced at $170 and boy do the specs match the price...

Windows 8.1 Update 1 Leaked Early

From DailyTech: Windows 8.1 may not be a highly regarded in the enthusiast community, but that didn’t stop some Windows 8.1 loyalists from discovering that Windows 8.1 Update 1 was sitting on Microsoft’s servers, ripe for the picking.

Initially, Update 1 was available by simply adding a new key in...

IBM workers in China strike to protest Lenovo server sale

From PC World: Not all are fans of Lenovo’s recent plan to buy IBM’s x86 server business. Since Monday, close to 1,000 workers at an IBM factory in China have been protesting the proposed acquisition, fearing they may lose their jobs if the deal goes through.

IBM’s x86 server factory in Shenzhen...

Benchmarks for NVIDIA Tegra K1 Hit the web

From DailyTech: During CES 2014, NVIDIA was showing off a new processor that fits into the Tegra line: the Tegra K1. This week, some benchmarks that are claimed to be from that chip have hit the web.

We already know most of the hardware specs on the K1, including the fact that the chip has 192...

Samsung Unleashes Tizen-Based Gear 2 Smartwatches

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics has announced a new family of wearable gadgets, the Gear 2 smartwatches. The manufacturer slightly changed the internal architecture of its smartwatches in a bid to make them more powerful and more independent than their predecessor. The new devices are powered...

Fairchild Faces $315M Patent Infringement Charge

From EETimes: Fairchild Semiconductor of San Jose, Calif., must pay at least $105 million in damages -- possibly three times that amount -- having been found guilty of infringing two patents on power supply ICs held by Power Integrations Inc., also based in San Jose, in a North California district...

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