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Western Digital Red WD60EFRX 6TB Review (Page 1 of 11)

While APH Networks is probably not the first -- or even the second, third, or fourth -- website to visit if you are looking for relationship advice, I think we had some great points posted in the opening of my Western Digital Red WD40EFRX 4TB review back in June 2014. Since the Western Digital Red WD60EFRX 6TB we are reviewing today is an improved and larger capacity version of the WD40EFRX as mentioned, what better thing is there to do than to...

G.Skill Ripjaws MX780 RGB Review (Page 1 of 4)

On first glance, you might look at me and say, "Aaron would never watch anime". I grew up watching more Arthur and Sesame Street than Pokémon or Digimon. I was also one of the few kids to not watch an episode of Dragon Ball Z until I was twenty years old. Even when all my friends in junior high were watching Naruto and One Piece, I was the odd one out, cheering on the Calgary Flames and watching live hockey. It was not until senior high when my...

Xiaomi hit by slowing Chinese market, misses device shipment goal

From ComputerWorld: Xiaomi said Friday it shipped over 70 million smartphones in 2015, short of an ambitious target it had announced last year, amid growing competition and high dependence on the Chinese market.

The Chinese company had forecast last year that it would sell at least 80 million...

The first fruits of Intel's biggest buy ever will come this quarter

From InfoWorld: Intel welcomed employees from its massive Altera acquisition this week, and the first products from the deal will come out this quarter.

The chipmaker poured out $16.7 billion to buy Altera, which makes FPGAs (field programmable gate arrays), or chips that can be reprogrammed for...

Foursquare checks in a new CEO

From CNET: When's the last time you used Foursquare?

Can't remember? That's part of the problem for the company behind the pioneering social app.

Also called Foursquare, the firm announced a major shakeup Thursday. Co-founder Dennis Crowley is stepping down as CEO to become its executive chairman...

Samsung to make Qualcomm's Snapdragon 820 chips

From ComputerWorld: Samsung Electronics will be making Qualcomm's upcoming Snapdragon 820 mobile processors, refueling speculation that the chips could find their way into the South Korean giant's premium smartphones, thus winning back lost business.

The chip maker said Thursday it had begun mass...

Microsoft expands 'Get Windows 10' campaign to domain-joined Win7 and 8.1 PCs

From InfoWorld: If you thought the "Get Windows 10" nagware/scumware/malware battle was growing ugly, you're about to see it erupt. Admins are next up to be under the gun.

Yesterday, Microsoft GM Matt Barlow posted a note on the Technet Windows for IT Pros blog that announced the beginning of...

Skype's magical real-time language Translator tool goes live for all Windows users

From PC World: Microsoft-owned Skype promised that real-time translation tools were coming, and now they're here. Skype Translator is now live for all Windows desktop users. If you’ve ever wanted your German cousin speak to you in his native language while you speak to him in English, now you can...

Netflix boss queues up $100M to get your kids better educated

From CNET: Netflix CEO and co-founder Reed Hastings just joined a growing list of tech leaders offering up their vast fortunes for charity. He took to Facebook on Tuesday to announce a new $100 million philanthropy called the Hastings Fund, which will focus on kids' education.

The new endeavor...

Microsoft offers developers free tools for its R programming language software

From ComputerWorld: Microsoft is giving developers and students a free crack at its new server software for the R programming language.

In a post to the company's Machine Learning blog, Microsoft Corporate Vice President Joseph Sirosh announced the new Microsoft R Server for Developers, which...