WD Unveils World's Thinnest 1TB Mobile Hard Drive

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital Corp. on Monday announced that it is shipping the world’s thinnest 1TB hard drive, the 2.5”/7mm WD Blue. The drives are aimed at thin notebooks as well as ultrabooks that need plenty of storage space at a low cost.

WD Blue 1TB (WD10SPCX) hard disk...

Microsoft Now Provides Free Covers with Surface Tablets

From X-bit Labs: As some of Microsoft Corp.’s partners decrease pricing of their Windows RT-based products, Microsoft Corp. is taking a different approach in a bid to make Surface RT media tablet more competitive. From now on the world’s largest software developer will bundle a cover...

Dell to challenge Lenovo's Yoga with 11-inch convertible laptop

From CNET News.com: Dell plans to offer consumers its own flavor of an 11.6-inch convertible laptop with Windows 8 by year's end.

Due out in time for the 2013 holiday season, the Dell XPS 11 ultrabook will sport a hinged keyboard that allows it to transform into a Windows 8 tablet...

Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 gets new 8 and 10.1 inch models

From CNET News.com: Samsung has released the details for an 8-inch and a 10.1-inch tablet joining the popular Galaxy Tab series, along with the 7-inch model currently available.

In an announcement Monday, the South Korean firm unveiled the Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 models in the new...

ASUS Rolls Out 7 New Products at Computex 2013

From DailyTech: It's Computex time in Taipei, and ASUS has unveiled seven new products ahead of the conference's start tomorrow.

ASUS announced the Transformer Book Trio, the Transformer Pad Infinity, the MeMo Pad HD 7, the Fonepad Note FHD 6, the VivoPC, the VivoMouse and the RT...

ARM Reveals Cortex A12 With Malli T600 GPU, OpenGL ES 3.0

From DailyTech: While many high-end smartphones and tablets may soon be getting ARM Cortex-A15 MPCORE processors, ARM Holdings Plc (LON:ARM) just announced a mid-range target solution, the Cortex-A12.

The new CPU core design is meant to deliver a 40 percent performance bump over...

AMD Develops NUC-Like Systems with Partners

From X-bit Labs: Advanced Micro Devices last week confirmed that it is working on Intel NUC-like systems with partners. Unlike its arch-rival, the company plans to deploy its low-cost/low power microarchitecture into the market of ultra-small – 4” by 4” – desktop computers.

“We are...

ASUSTOR AS-602T Review (Page 1 of 7)

One day, I received an email from our Editor-in-Chief asking if I would like to review a product from ASUSTOR. At first, I thought this was a company from some subdivision of ASUS, the PC components manufacturer. Actually, this is not correct, but not entirely incorrect either. When I took on the task of looking up the name, I soon discovered while they are a separate company that makes NAS devices, they are actually an...

Gigabyte Fly Review

What is in a name? When Ferrari announced the LaFerrari earlier this year at the Geneva Auto Show, the car was impressive in almost every way, except for its name. I mean, if I was Lamborghini, I would have announced the Lamborghini McLamborghini the next day. In many ways, the name of a product is very important, because this is how people identify it by. Earlier last month, when Gigabyte sent us their latest headphone, the Fly...

Oracle reveals plans for Java security improvements

From PC World: Oracle plans to make changes to strengthen the security of Java, including fixing its certificate revocation checking feature, preventing unsigned applets from being executed by default and adding centralized management options with whitelisting capabilities for...

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