From DailyTech: The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) met recently to issue a draft international standard of a new video compression format offering twice the performance of current standards. The new video compression format is called High Efficiency Video Coating or HEVC. The...

From DailyTech: For many years, if a PC gamer wanted high-quality audio and sound effects for their video games, they had to add a sound card to the mix. As integrated audio technology on most main boards and gaming computers improved, the sound card became redundant for many gamers...

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has released processor product data sheet documents covering specifications of low-cost AMD Athlon II and AMD Sempron central processing units (CPUs) that belong to family 15h better known as Trinity. The new low-cost chips will support all the...

From X-bit Labs: Although Nvidia Corp. introduced its cloud graphics solutions for gamers and professionals earlier year and even added appropriate hardware functionality into select graphics processing units (GPUs) based on Kepler architecture, the company does not expect cloud...

From CNET News.com: Google's program to pay outsiders who find Chrome security vulnerabilities is working well enough that the company has concluded it's time to add new financial rewards.

"Recently, we've seen a significant drop-off in externally reported Chromium security issues...

From DailyTech: Corsair is a company that has made it's name in the computer hardware market for years with RAM and then expanded into power supplies, gaming peripherals, and cooling devices. Corsair has now announced that it acquired Raptor Gaming to expand its PC gaming product...

From DailyTech: Windows RT -- the branded name for Windows on ARM architecture chips -- is bad news for some Windows enthusiasts. The critical release marks the first major personal computer Windows release in which Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) has turned away from a direct-sales model...

From X-bit Labs: Toshiba Corp. has cancelled release of Windows RT-based devices it planned to launch this year due to a delay of components by a third party. As a result, instead of Windows RT media tablet and notebook, Toshiba will concentrate on making available products featuring...

From X-bit Labs: Lenovo, one of the most renowned suppliers of business-oriented personal computers has announced its second-generation ThinkPad tablet PC. The new slate-type system designed for business users will support Lenovo's proprietary technologies, but will be vastly...

From CNET News.com: Research In Motion's upcoming operating system, BlackBerry 10, could soon be made available for non-BlackBerry devices, according to the company's chief executive, Thorsten Heins.

Heins told Bloomberg that QNX, the software that BlackBerry 10 is based on, is...