Motorola Xoom set for preorders at Best Buy

From CNET News.com: Best Buy is taking preorders for Motorola's Xoom, a tablet that is expected to challenge Apple's dominance of the market.
Motorola's Xoom is priced at $799 with 3G, upgradable to 4G.

A new entry on Best Buy's site shows the Xoom priced at $799 for a version that...

Intel previews next Itanium mainframe chip

From CNET News.com: Intel is previewing its next Itanium processor today and improvements include better power management, reliability, and architecture. No timeline was set for the next Itanium, code-named Poulson.

The next Itanium will be designed to take advantage of advances in...

AMD Marketing Campaign Makes Fun of Intel Chipset Woes

From DailyTech: Many people at AMD were likely rubbing their hands together when Intel unveiled that it found a major flaw in the design in its Cougar Point chipset. The design flaw will ultimately cost Intel in the neighborhood of $1 billion USD. In fact, AMD is taking time out of...

Intel to Build a New 300mm Fab for $5 Billion

From X-bit Labs: Intel Corp. on Friday announced plans to invest more than $5 billion to build a new chip manufacturing facility at its site in Chandler, Arizona. Although the company is looking forward 450mm chip fabs, the new factory will process 300mm wafers at least initially...

Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS Black Review

What do you get when you combine a good gaming computer with a good gaming keyboard? A good gaming experience. How about combining a good gaming computer with a good gaming mouse? Another good gaming experience. However, have you ever thought about combining both a good gaming keyboard and a good gaming mouse with a good gaming computer? Over the course of many years in the gaming industry, I have put very little thought into...

Thermaltake Tt eSPORTS Challenger Pro Review

The world of gaming, especially that of PC gaming, has become more than a simple hobby for a lot of us. In fact, gaming has grown and shaped itself, becoming part of people's lifestyle. Tournaments, from the World Cyber Games (WCG) to the famous GSL tournaments, have made gaming a fascination to viewers, fans, and gamers alike. I myself have devoted countless hours to this world of gaming, and by no means do I consider this time...

Intel to ship 10-core Xeon processor in first half

From InfoWorld: An Intel spokesman on Thursday said its upcoming 10-core Xeon processor, code-named Westmere-EX, will reach servers in the first half of this year.

The chip will succeed Intel's fastest server chip, code-named Nehalem-EX, which was released last year and includes up...

Lenovo to Launch LePad Tablet Worldwide in June

From PC World: Chinese PC maker Lenovo plans on selling its LePad tablet worldwide in June, but will first launch the device in China at the end of March, a company spokesman said on Friday.

The LePad, Lenovo's first tablet computer, was unveiled in January during the Consumer...

Chrome beta hits v.10, Chrome dev hits v.11

From CNET News.com: Google released two new versions of Chrome yesterday, version 10 for beta users and version 11 for developers willing to put up with more instability.

With Google's six-week update schedule, the new releases are milestones that Chrome users pass--often not...

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