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...

OCZ Vector 256GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

In September last year, we have reviewed the OCZ Vertex 4 256GB. For those who have not read that review, or do not recall the details of it, I would highly recommend you to go through the introduction and conclusion of that article before starting this one. Now, assuming you are familiar with my Vertex 4 review at this point, let's just say the Indilinx Everest 2 in OCZ's former flagship did not quite turn out to be Fala Chen in...

Wii U unit sales jump 40 percent -- and still disappoint

From CNET News.com: The video game industry once again had a down month as console and software sales slipped.

Total industry sales hit $810 million in February, representing a 25 percent drop compared with the same period last year, market researcher NPD said yesterday. Hardware...

Microsoft Surface Pro sales hit 400K in a hurry

From CNET News.com: Microsoft has sold 400,000 Surface Pros since launch, according to a Bloomberg report.

That's not a bad start for a very pricey tablet -- starting at $899 -- considering that the Windows 8-based Pro launched only about a month ago.

"That's a respectable number...

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