Windows 7 Service Pack 1 heads to users March 19

From CNET News.com: As Microsoft marches toward its early April 2013 end-of-free-support deadline for Windows 7, the company is planning to update automatically some of those who still have yet to install the first (and seemingly only) Service Pack for the operating system.

As...

EA CEO Resigns Due to Financial Misses

From DailyTech: Electronic Arts' (EA) chief executive officer announced his resignation today due to missed financial targets.

EA CEO John Riccitiello has resigned after six years of service, which will be effective March 30, 2013. Riccitiello will also no longer be a member of the...

AMD Preps Radeon HD 7790 Bonaire Graphics Card

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices is working on a new graphics card based on a new graphics processing unit. The new Radeon HD 7790 will use all-new Bonaire graphics chip that promises to significantly boost performance of inexpensive graphics cards. Sapphire Technologies, one...

Valve Adds Virtual Reality to Team Fortress 2

From X-bit Labs: Valve Software, the creator of popular game franchises like Counter-Strike, Half-Life, and Left 4 Dead, today announced the addition of an experimental virtual reality mode to Team Fortress 2. The new mode will be released in the coming days as part of an update to...

Microsoft to end Windows Phone 7.8 and 8 support in 2014

From CNET News.com: Microsoft has put an end date on its support for Windows Phone 7.8 and Windows Phone 8.

The company's support page lists both operating systems, and says that Windows Phone 7.8 will be supported through September 9, 2014, while Windows Phone 8 will receive...

Belkin Completes Linksys Purchase

From DailyTech: Back in late January of 2013, Belkin announced that it intended the purchase Linksys from Cisco. Cisco had originally purchased Linksys for $500 million in 2003 in an effort to gain access to the consumer networking market. That investment didn't work out so well for...

Sony Unveils New Xperia SP, Xperia L Smartphones

From DailyTech: The last big announcement we heard from Sony on the smartphone front was during CES 2013 when it showed off the Xperia Z smartphone. Sony is back this week with the announcement of two mid-range, Android-powered smartphones that fit into the Xperia line: the Xperia SP...

Samsung Promises Tizen-Based Smartphones This Summer

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics has dumped its own Bada operating system for low-cost handsets and decided to co-develop open-source Tizen OS in a bid to make its entry-level smartphones better. The world’s largest supplier of mobile phones hopes that the first products powered...

Nintendo Wii U Gets Price-Cut from Retailers in the U.K.

From X-bit Labs: Sales of Nintendo Wii U are nothing but disaster and even the platform holder itself slashed fiscal years sales target of the latest video game systems from 5.5 million units to 4 million units. Officially Nintendo does not want to cut the price of Wii U since it...

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