Patriot Unveils SandForce-powered Wildfire SE, Pro SSDs

From DailyTech: Patriot Memory has unveiled two new SSDs -- the Wildfire Pro and the Wildfire SE -- for consumers that are powered by the SandForce SF-2281 controller. Both SSDs are aimed at general computer users looking for increased productivity and improved performance for gaming...

Microsoft Ships Windows 8 Preview PCs on Nvidia and Qulacomm PCs

From X-bit Labs: Microsoft Corp. has started to supply developers so-called Windows-on-ARM (WOA) systems. The software giant has chosen Nvidia Tegra 3 as well as Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 system-on-chip (SoC) products. The designers of chips cheer, but the question about actual...

Nvidia to Introduce Tegra Grey Late This, or Early Next Year

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. said it would introduce its code-named Grey system-on-chip that integrates application processors, graphics capabilities and baseband capabilities either late this year, or early next year. Previously Nvidia only implied it would release Tegra "Grey"...

Kingston SSDNow V+200 120GB (Page 1 of 10)

"SSDs are quite pointless," my friend said before the beginning of our Engineering Economics lecture last semester. "They don't do anything besides improving your boot time. Programs don't load that much faster compared to a 7200RPM hard drive." Of course, as with most people who actually own an SSD, this is a statement you cannot resist to argue with. "That's like saying a Ferrari is not much better than a Honda Civic. Sure, you...

Possible iPad 3 glitch: Hi-res apps may hit 3G download limits

From CNET News.com: he high-resolution "retina display" expected on the next iPad should make users happy--but may present challenges for developers.

As detailed today by The Next Web, the higher resolution display will increase the pixel count and size of graphics used in iPad apps...

Canon Gets Official With $3,500 EOS 5D Mark III D-SLR

From DailyTech: Fans of high-end Canon D-SLR cameras have reason to be excited today; the company officially announced the new EOS 5D Mark III. The new camera is positioned between the EOS 5D Mark II and the top-of-the-line EOS-1D X. The new 5D Mark III has a 22.3-megapixel full...

Verizon Complains That it Must Lock Android to Manage Them

From DailyTech: Google Inc. (GOOG) is supposedly a champion of developer rights and software freedoms. So it seems highly curious that while the majority of Android manufacturers like Samsung Electronics Comp., Ltd. (KS:005930) and HTC Corp. (TPE:2498) unlock their bootloaders...

Nvidia: GeForce Kepler Graphics Processors Will Be Unbeatable

From X-bit Labs: Nvidia Corp. has officially started advertising campaign of its next-generation Kepler graphics processing unit (GPU) that is due out in March or April. The company has posted a word on a Facebook wall claiming that performance of Kepler would be unbeatable....

Microsoft Azure Stabilizes After Leap Year Glitch

From PC World: Microsoft's Azure cloud infrastructure and development service was apparently running nearly trouble-free on Thursday, following a series of outages on Wednesday that affected multiple aspects of the system

The Azure service health dashboard showed only one problem at...

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