Browser underdog Opera fights for survival

From CNET News.com: Opera Software, the scrappy Norwegian browser maker, today faces arguably the biggest competitive threats of its 15-year history.

The first challenges are on personal computers. Right after Google's Chrome burst onto the scene two years ago, Opera slipped from...

New browser RockMelt oozes into beta

From CNET News.com: Little has been known about stealth start-up RockMelt except that it's a browser, specifically (and yet ambiguously) a "Facebook browser," and it's backed by browser godfather Marc Andreessen. Well, now RockMelt has crept out of the woodwork into a limited beta...

Windows Phone 7 Devices On Sale Today in U.S.

From DailyTech: After months of speculation, a name change, a publicity stunt burying the iPhone and Blackberry, and an uncharacteristic press event held last month (followed by an unprecedented ad campaign that's been running since then), the cat is finally out of the bag today --...

Toshiba Makes MacBook Air SSDs Available to OEMs

From DailyTech: It appears that Apple's brand new MacBook Air isn't going to be the only notebook on the market to have access to Toshiba's new small form factor SSDs. Toshiba announced today that it will be making its Blade X-gale SSDs available to its other customers.

The...

AMD's Llano Production to Initiate in July 2011

From X-bit Labs: The code-named Llano accelerated processing unit (APU), which combines x86 cores with DirectX 11 graphics engine on the same piece of silicon, from Advanced Micro Devices has hardly been an easy project for the world's second largest supplier of microprocessors...

Arctic Cooling ARCTIC NB201 Review

It is hard to believe it has been over two years since we last took a look into this category of products for reviews (It really shows how diverse we are here at APH Networks, haha). Now that the wait has finally come to an end, we can dive right back into another laptop bag review. Lately, Arctic Cooling has become somewhat (in)famous for their various products that do not pertain to their usual internal component cooling...

Mozilla's New Firefox Beta for Android Improves Speed, Size

From PC World: Mozilla has released an faster, smaller beta version of its Firefox 4 browser for Android-based smartphones with an improved user interface, according to a Thursday blog post.

The new beta version requires only 17 MB of storage space instead of about 43 MB, but...

Dell hybrid tablet Duo coming soon

From CNET News.com: Dell's hybrid Netbook-tablet is "coming soon," according to a Dell promotional video. Will this give prospective iPad buyers pause?

The Inspiron Duo, which debuted at Intel's developer conference in September, converts in a novel way between a Windows 7 Netbook...

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