Samsung goes Mega with two new Galaxy smartphones

From CNET News.com: Samsung has unveiled two new smartphones that push the envelope of screen size in the smartphone space.

Dubbed Mega, the two devices Samsung showed off today come with the customer's choice of a 5.8-inch screen or a 6.3-inch option. Both devices come with Android...

EA Wins Worst Company Award for Second Straight Year

From DailyTech: Each year Gawker Media's The Consumerist site doles out a dubious distinction to one dastardly corporation -- the title of "Worst Company In America". Last year pro-digital rights management Electronic Arts, Inc. (EA) beat out bailout whipping-boy Bank of America...

Samsung ATIV Book 6 Laptop Destined for the U.S.

From DailyTech: Samsung has announced a new notebook computer running Windows 8 that will be coming to the United States soon.

The notebook is officially called the ATIV Book 6, features a Core i7 processor and has a 15.6-inch screen (1080p resolution). The machine will also feature...

AMD: Sony PlayStation 4 Will Show Ultimate Physics Realism

From X-bit Labs: John Gustafson, chief product architect at graphics business unit of Advanced Micro Devices and a renowned industry veteran, praises the heterogeneous system architecture of Sony Corp.’s PlayStation 4 as well as its ultra-fast unified memory sub-system. In addition...

OCZ Readies Vertex 5 Solid-State Drives with Barefoot 3 Controller

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology Group, a leading maker of solid-state drives for PCs and enterprises, is reportedly working on Vertex 5 solid-state drives that will be powered by Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller as well as inexpensive NAND flash memory. The new drives are projected to...

Windows 8 tablets to go quad-core? Intel talks next chip

From CNET News.com: Intel discussed the next-generation "Bay Trail" tablet processor today at its annual conference in Beijing. Expect to see a new crop of faster yet still power-efficient Windows 8 -- and likely Windows 8.1 -- tablets later this year.

An "entirely new Atom...

Apple Eyes 4K Desktop Displays With Next Generation Thunderbolt

From DailyTech: With Google Inc.'s (GOOG) new "Pixel" Chromebooks beating Apple, Inc.'s (AAPL) premium laptops in the pixels-per-inch (ppi) arms race, Apple is reportedly pondering releasing 4K Thunderbolt 2 displays for sometime in 2014. 4K (typically referring to 3840x2160 pixel...

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