Update to Google Play Store includes colorful layout

From CNET News.com: On the evening before the Google I/O keynote address, the Web giant has spruced up its Google Play Store.

Version 4.1.6, which appeared Tuesday night, features colorful home buttons for the store's App, Movies, and Games categories, as well as improved spacing...

HP Announces New SlateBook X2 and Split X2 Detachable PCs

From DailyTech: HP has announced the addition of two new products to its x2 detachable PC portfolio. The two machines include the HP SlateBook x2 and the Split x2. The SlateBook x2 is the first Android detachable device using the NVIDIA Tegra 4 mobile processor. HP promises that the...

Dell Slashes XPS 10 Windows RT Tablet Price

From DailyTech: Microsoft bet big on Windows RT as a tablet operating system for devices running ARM processors. So far, that bet hasn't really paid off with consumers staying far away from Windows RT devices. Some major computer manufacturers have abandoned their plans to launch...

Commodity DRAM Price Rebound Results in Strong First Quarter

From X-bit Labs: With commodity DRAM prices on the rise, contract price for mainstream DDR3 4 GB modules increased from $17.25 in the beginning of the first quarter to $23.5 at the end of March, a 36.2% increase. As a result, DRAM industry revenue for the first quarter of 2013...

Nvidia Shield slams into stores in June for $349

From CNET News.com: On Tuesday, Nvidia announced pricing and availability details for its Android-based portable gaming device.

Shield (no longer known as "Project Shield") will be released in June with a $349 pricetag. Pre-orders also began today for those that signed up (by...

Report: HTC First Facebook Phone to Be Discontinued

From DailyTech: AT&T announced only a few days ago that it was cutting the price of the HTC First phone with Facebook Home from $99 to $.99 with a new contract. At the same time the wireless carrier also announced that the off-contract price of the device would drop from $450 to $350...

Nokia Lumia 925 Debuts Packing PureView Camera Innovation

From DailyTech: Nokia has officially introduced its new Lumia 925 smartphone running Windows 8. Nokia boasts about its PureView camera promising "the best" low light images and a new aluminum body.

The smartphone features the new Nokia Smart Camera mode that will be coming is an...

AMD Introduces Open 3.0 Platform for Servers

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices on Monday announced availability of servers based on its AMD Open 3.0 specification, defined as part of the Open Compute Project, delivering workload versatility and performance equal to competing proprietary OEM servers at significantly lower...

Samsung Announces World’s First 5G mmWave Mobile Technology

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics announced that it has successfully developed the world’s first adaptive array transceiver technology operating in the millimeter-wave Ka bands for cellular communications. The new technology sits at the core of 5G mobile communications system and...

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