Noctua NF-F12 PWM and NF-P12 PWM Review

While it is important to be outstanding on paper, practical excellence is what that keeps you going in the long run. Take cars, for example. Yes, I will admit most of us here are not exactly the biggest fans of Hyundai and Kia, and we do frequently take jabs at their products, but the reason is because we have actually test driven them in an objective manner. We were not paid to say anything good about them, nor were we swayed by all the...

Acer CloudMobile Ice Cream Sandwich phone ready for MWC

From CNET News.com: Well, well,well. Acer has already won an award for a phone that few in the mobile industry knew existed.

The electronics-maker issued a press release today sharing its iF design award for the Acer CloudMobile, an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich phone that the...

Report: Apple to Debut iPad 3 During First Week of March

From DailyTech: Rumors regarding the iPad 3's introduction and release dates began circulating back in December, with many suspecting that the iPad 2 successor would make an appearance in February 2012. However, All Things D has reported that an event to introduce the iPad 3 will...

Micron Further Cuts Memory Power Consumption with DDR3Lm

From X-bit Labs: Micron Technology on Thursday introduced a new product category of low-power DDR3 solutions targeted at the tablet and ultrathin notebook markets. These 2Gb and 4Gb DDR3Lm solutions focus on low self-refresh power (IDD6) for longer battery life, while maintaining the...

Intel Haswell to Boost Efficiency of Highly-Threaded Applications

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. said that its next-generation multi-core processor code-named Haswell will support Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX). These new synchronization extensions are useful in shared-memory multithreaded applications that employ lock-based...

Oracle Buying Taleo for $1.9 Billion in Direct Hit at SAP

From PC World: Oracle is buying cloud-based talent management and employee recruitment software vendor Taleo for roughly $1.9 billion, the company announced Thursday. The move comes shortly after SAP's move to acquire SuccessFactors, a close competitor of Taleo, for $3.4 billion in a...

Windows 8 bundled Metro apps revealed

From CNET News.com: The Windows 8 Consumer Preview will give us a healthy dose of Metro apps, whether we want them or not.

With the Consumer Preview due out on February 29, Microsoft is reportedly finalizing the Metro apps that will be bundled with the new OS. Citing "sources...

Hackers Mug Google's Wallet App on Rooted Android Devices

From DailyTech: Near field communications (NFC) technology has been around overseas for over half a decade now, but it's finally jumping from the Asian market to the United States. The technology allows you to wave your smartphone over readers to pay for anything from gas to...

Lenovo Announces Q3 Financials, Posts Record Profit

From DailyTech: Lenovo has reported its Q3 2011/2012 financial data, and the numbers look good. The company recorded quarterly sales of $8.4 billion and pre-tax income of $192 million. This marks the 11th quarter in a row that Lenovo has grown faster than the PC industry as a whole...

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