Amazon Releases HTML 5 Kindle Web App
Well, this could be interesting. Amazon yesterday announced the availability of its new Kindle Cloud Reader, an HTML 5 web app designed to let you read your Kindle books on...
17 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/11/2011
Two New SATA Specs: SATA Express & µSSD
The SATA IO working group announced one new spec and that it has begun work on another: µSSD and SATA Express, respectively. These two specs span the gamut from...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/11/2011
HTC Invests $300M in Beats Electronics, Audio is a Priority for Future Smartphones
Earlier tonight HTC announced, via AllThingsD, that it would be investing $300M in Beats Electronics, LLC, creators of the famous Beats by Dr. Dre brand. Beats is still a...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/10/2011
Toshiba Announces First Glasses-Free 3D Laptop
In the rush to move everything into the third dimension, Toshiba has announced their latest glasses-free 3D notebook, the Qosmio F755 3D. The laptop is even capable of displaying...
6 by Jarred Walton on 8/10/2011
Intel Announces Ultrabook Fund, $300M to Kick off Innovation
At this year's Computex Intel announced a "new" category of notebook computer designed to further blur the lines between traditional notebooks and tablets: the Ultrabook. Requirements for an Ultrabook...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/10/2011
Samsung Announces PM830, Its First 6Gbps SSD with up to 512GB Capacities
With each subsequent generation, Samsung's SSDs have been getting noticeably better. Two years ago its drives were unrecommendable, but just this year we met the Samsung SSD 470. While...
4 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/10/2011
GameFly To Offer Downloadable Game Rentals This Fall
GameFly continues to impersonate Netflix. The videogame rental service, which has long followed the Netflix disc-by-mail delivery model, recently announced plans to emulate Netflix’s Instant Streaming service by offering...
11 by Craig Getting on 8/10/2011
Samsung Galaxy R Announced - A Tegra 2 Smartphone
Earlier this year while at MWC, Anand and I broke news of a Samsung Galaxy phone with Tegra 2 inside. At the time, we assumed it was a Galaxy...
9 by Brian Klug on 8/10/2011
Sony Announces PSN PLAY Program: Buy Four Select Games, Get One Free
With Microsoft’s Summer of Arcade promotion becoming an annual success, Sony’s prepared an answer: the PlayStation Network PLAY program. Pre-orders for the program begin today (August 9), and the...
2 by Craig Getting on 8/9/2011
Nokia to Suspend Sales of Symbian, Feature Phones in the US
Nokia President Chris Weber announced in an interview today that the company will completely stop selling feature phones and Symbian-based smartphones in the US in order to focus on...
12 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/9/2011
Lenovo Introduces New ThinkCentre M71z All-In-One Desktop
Lenovo today announced yet another addition to it’s M-series enterprise class all-in-ones with the new M71z. The new AIOs are aimed specifically at large businesses, schools and government...
6 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 8/9/2011
Spotify Has 1.4 Million Users in the US, 175,000 Who Pay
As you may recall, streaming music service Spotify leaped across the pond to American users last month with the blessing of the major music labels. For those of you...
13 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/9/2011
Xbox Live Arcade Favorite Bastion Coming to PC Aug. 16
Supergiant Games’ Bastion, which kicked off Microsoft’s exclusive Summer of Arcade promotion on July 20th, will get its PC release on August 16th. It will cost $14.99 and is...
7 by Craig Getting on 8/9/2011
OpenGL 4.2 Specification Released
Coenciding with the start of SIGGRAPH 2011, Khronos has released version 4.2 of the OpenGL specification. Khronos routinely updates the OpenGL specification to add new features to the API...
6 by Ryan Smith on 8/8/2011
HTC Launches HTC Dev Developer Portal - HTC Pen SDK and S3D SDK
Earlier this year at Qualcomm's annual Uplinq conference, HTC announced that it was going to open up parts of Sense to devleopers and launch HTC OpenSense. HTC OpenSense is...
1 by Brian Klug on 8/8/2011
Apple Releases Crippled Education-Only iMac
Apple today updated its education store with a new iMac for especially price-conscious schools: for $999, you can buy a 21.5" iMac with a 3.1 GHz dual-core Core i3...
31 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/8/2011
AMD to Enter RAM Market with Radeon-branded DDR3
AMD's website suggests that the company will be entering the RAM market soon with their own RAM modules. The modules will be branded as Radeon, just like AMD's GPUs...
23 by Kristian Vättö on 8/8/2011
iOS 5 Allows Initial Setup for Airport Extreme/Express & Time Capsule
While iOS 5 seems to be a groundbreaking release on several fronts, one of it’s lesser documented features is the ability to configure new Airport Extreme/Express and Time Capsule...
4 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 8/6/2011
Electronic Arts Promotes EA Sports President Peter Moore to COO
Electronic Arts is “shifting from defense to offense,” says CEO John Riccitiello, and one integral part of that shift is the promotion of Peter Moore to Chief Operating Officer...
6 by Craig Getting on 8/5/2011
Intel's Haswell IGP to Feature DirectX 11.1, Increased Professional Application Support
Intel's integrated graphics processors have long had a poor reputation when it comes to gaming, and while the IGPs get a little closer to competitiveness with each iteration, that...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 8/5/2011
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