Quick Note: Corsair Trots Out World's First 6Gbps, 90GB SSDs

From DailyTech: Another day, another SSD is released. The steady stream of ultra-fast SSDs into the consumer market is becoming rather routine, however, Corsair today is claiming that it has the world's first 90GB SATA 6Gb/s devices.

The Force Series GT offers read speeds of 555MB/s...

AT&T Axes Budget Texting, Leaves Only Most Expensive Unlimited

From DailyTech: AT&T, Inc. looks to continue its modifications to its smartphone plans, announcing this week that it would soon be terminating the budget texting tier and forcing new customers to either enter the $20 USD/month "unlimited" tier, agree to more expensive pay-per-text...

Dell: Windows 8 for Tablets Looks Encouraging

From X-bit Labs: Dell, one of the world's largest suppliers of personal computers and various IT services, said that the early work with Windows 8 operating system when it comes to tablets is encouraging. Besides, the company said that both Google Android and Microsoft Windows are...

Best Buy May Slash HP TouchPad Prices

From PC World: Best Buy may offer heavily discounted Hewlett-Packard TouchPads in the coming weeks because the big box retailer is rumored to be having a hard time unloading its stock of WebOS tablets. Best Buy has reportedly sold just 25,000 TouchPads after ordering 270,000 to sell...

Nintendo intros streamlined Wii console

From CNET News.com: Nintendo has announced a slightly reconfigured Wii console.

According to a statement from the game company, the Wii's new look is designed to make the console sit horizontally, rather than vertically. Nintendo didn't say exactly how it accomplished the feat, but...

Quick Note: Apple Addresses Early Lion Bugs with 10.7.1 Update

From DailyTech: Steve Jobs may often proclaim that "It just works", but that hasn't always been the case with OS X 10.7 Lion which was released late last month. There have been plenty of issues with the new operating system and Apple has released the 10.7.1 update to address them....

AMD Quietly Debuts Graphics Processors for All-in-One Desktops

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices has quietly started to sell a lineup of AMD Radeon HD 6000A designed specifically for all-in-one (AIO) desktops, such as Apple iMac, which require relatively low power consumption and thermals, but which do not need ultra-cool chips that are...

Sony Cuts Pricing of PlayStation 3 in All Markets

From X-bit Labs: Sony Computer Entertainment on Tuesday said it would reduce pricing of PlayStation 3 video game system across all the markets where it is available. With cut costs, Sony can expect the popularity of PlayStation 3 is likely to grow.

From now on, Sony PlayStation 3...

Amazon promises to improve redundancy after Dublin outage

From InfoWorld: AWS (Amazon Web Services) learned a lot of lessons from the outage that affected its Dublin data center and will now work to improve power redundancy, load balancing and the way it communicates when something goes wrong with its cloud, the company said in a summary of...

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