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Fractal Design Ion+ 760W Platinum (Page 1 of 4) | Reports

I recently purchased a plane ticket to fly to Vancouver from Calgary to attend my friends' wedding. Given both cities are major population centers in...

Patriot P200 512GB Review (Page 1 of 11)

One interesting thing I find with media consumption services is how they can seemingly predict your preferences. This can be seen in YouTube or...

Ballistix Elite DDR4-4000 2x8GB Review (Page 1 of 10)

Some people ask me why I like baking, and I often reply with the fact that baking is much more of a science, while cooking is an art. This is not to...

1STPLAYER Bullet Hunter MK6 Review

It has been a couple weeks since I have come back from working at a summer camp, where there would be a new set of kids coming and going every week....

Cooler Master MM710 Review (Page 1 of 4)

If you have had instant noodles in the past, you probably know how great they are. Instant noodles were invented in Japan by Momofuku Ando. According...

Rumor mill: Seagate to buy SanDisk?

From EETimes: The rumors were flying at the Flash Memory Summit here.

The big rumor is that Seagate Technology Inc. is interested in buying all or part of SanDisk Corp., according to sources in the industry. Some analysts dismissed the rumor, saying it would be a bad marriage.

Confirmed: AOL will acquire Socialthing

From CNET News.com: AOL's People Networks division, formed when the company acquired Bebo, has picked up a new friend: Socialthing, a Boulder, Colo.-based start-up that aggregates social feeds from sites like Digg, Twitter, and Flickr.

The acquisition has not yet been completed, but is close to it.

New Intel chipset could awaken the PC as phone

From CNET News.com: One of the biggest drawbacks of current PC-based Internet phone services like Skype, which allow people to make phone calls from their computers over the Internet for free or for reduced fees, is that you can't receive calls when the computer is turned off. But that is changing with a new chipset introduced by Intel Thursday that allows computers to wake from "sleep" to accept calls and do other tasks like accept downloaded content.

Intel Unveils Next Generation Turbo Memory

From DailyTech: Since Microsoft launched Windows Vista, there have been a number of complaints from users regarding usability of the operating system and other problems. One of the most common complaints about operating system is the sometimes sluggish response times in machines with inadequate amounts of memory onboard.

Articles Roundup August 14, 2008

Akasa Omega @ techPowerUp
ASUS Republic of Gamers Convention: Part 1 @ Techgage
NZXT Sentry LX High Performance Fan Controller Review @ Rbmods

Intel Unveils USB 3.0 Spec to Third Parties

From X-bit Labs: ntel Corp. on Wednesday said that it had made available the Extensible Host Controller Interface (xHCI) draft specification revision 0.9 in support of the USB 3.0 architecture, also known as SuperSpeed USB. The xHCI draft specification provides a standardized method for USB 3.0 host controllers to communicate with the USB 3.0 software stack.