Barnes & Noble to Launch Nook Tablet One Day After Kindle Fire

From DailyTech: There has been a lot of tablet-related talk going on these days with Amazon's new tablet, Kindle Fire, due to hit the market November 15. But it looks like the Kindle Fire has an unexpected competitor launching the very next day.

According to Engadget, which managed...

Next-generation 28nm GPUs Could Be 45 Percent Faster

From DailyTech:
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is the world's largest semiconductor foundry, and as such is constantly under pressure from its customers and competitors. The company recently announced that its newest 28nm process has entered mass production...

OCZ Plans Inexpensive SSDs Based on Triple-Bit-Per-Cell NAND Flash

From X-bit Labs: OCZ Technology, a major own-brand vendor of solid-state drives, said that triple-cell-per-bit (TLC) NAND flash memory could be used for solid-state drives. In fact, the company plans to use the memory originally intended for temporary storage solutions (e.g. memory...

Early Sales of Ultrabooks Disappoint - Report

From X-bit Labs: Based on an unofficial report, Acer Group and Asustek Computer should be pretty dissatisfied with sales of their initial so-called ultrabooks. Apparently, sales of the Intel-lead ultrabooks by Acer and Asus are 2-3 times below original expectations.

Sales of...

Arctic Cooling Arctic Sound E461-BM Review

If you live in a city as "spontaneous" as Calgary, you would not be surprised by how fast summer quickly turns to winter. Just a few days ago (More specifically, Halloween), I crawled out of bed being greeted with a small patch of snow. We all know the feeling, waking up praying for it to be a beautiful day, only to find the opposite. For Calgary, however, you tend to prepare for the worst before you hope for the best. Much like...

Arctic Cooling Accelero XTREME Plus II Review

Brakes are to cars as coolers are to computers. They aren't the selling point of the product, but you sure miss them when they aren't working. When it comes to cooling solutions for computer components, there are always a number of features that they have in common. This includes copper metal for conductivity, fans for airflow, and aluminum fins to prevent it from weighing a ton. Of course, those are only the basics; it's the...

RIM's down in U.S., but future is brighter elsewhere

From InfoWorld: There's little doubt Research in Motion faces problems, especially as its share of the global smartphone market shrinks and doubts emerge from some traditional enterprise users of BlackBerry who felt burned by a recent network outage .

But the picture for RIM isn't...

AMD To Trim Workforce by 10%, Expects $200M Operational Savings

From DailyTech: In August, AMD announced that it was getting making former Lenovo President and COO Rory Read its new President and CEO. At the end of October, AMD announced that its net income of $97 million was constrained by yield issues with its 32nm manufacturing process.

Now...

Motorola Announces Xoom 2, Xoom 2 Media Edition

From DailyTech: Motorola's first entry into the Android tablet market was by all accounts a flop. The company, however, is looking to make things right this time around with a second generation product. The company has announced two new tablets that are running both Android 3.2....

Western Digital Denies Rumours Regarding Shipment Issues

From X-bit Labs: Western Digital on Thursday denied reports that it ceased shipments of hard disk drives to Taiwanese customers. The company continues to serve all its clients worldwide in the situation when most of its production capacities are halted.

Early on Thursday a Taiwan...

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