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Looking for a new keyboard on the cheap, but would love to go wireless? Enter the K360 from Logitech. Sporting a compact design, the K360 offers a reliable wireless connection and is touted as being able to last up to three years on a single set of batteries. It's not perfect, but at $20, it's...

Mobile apps are big business, and it goes without saying that if you are a developer with a great idea, there are mega-opportunities to be had. Look no further than Angry Birds developer Rovio. The folks there released what's in all regards a simple game, but it's been downloaded and played by...

Of all the available computer chassis on the market, a personal favorite of mine is the SHIFT, from MAINGEAR. First touted as being the base to a "supercomputer", the company has remained ardent in keeping the chassis exclusive to those who purchase a complete PC. For those who have craved...

When I installed a solid-state drive into my personal PC this past spring, it was magical. All of a sudden, I booted into my OS faster, applications opened quicker, and there wasn't ever a time when I encountered OS lag due to a slow I/O. It goes without saying that games also stand to see a...

As expected, benchmarking results from the last version to this one remain comparable. The changes are as follows: - Bullet physics library updated to version 2.79 to improve compatibility with future CPUs and GPUs. - For most systems containing multiple GPUs, for example integrated...

City of Industry, California, December 15th 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the ‘Xmas and New Year Contest’, its latest overclocking competition run in conjunction with HWBOT.org. The GIGABYTE ‘Xmas and New Year...

Doesn't that sound like a story I just made up? Well, I didn't: "According to the Jakarta Globe, police in Banda Aceh, the provincial capital and largest city in the province of Aceh, Indonesia, raided a punk rock concert Saturday (December 10), shaving the mohawks and stripping the...

With the launch of Intel's Sandy Bridge-E processors last month came what seemed like a billion quad-channel memory kits to choose from. We posted about Corsair's and Kingston's offerings, with both companies focusing mostly on more sane 16GB kits but also offering 32GB kits for those who wanted...

Futuremark this week added a brand-new benchmark to its collection, called Powermark. Unlike PCMark and 3DMark, Powermark is designed with the professional and enterprise customer in mind, and as such, there is no free or "advanced" edition available. The goal of the tool is to simulate...

Curious to know what the healthiest and unhealthiest restaurants are in the US? Look no further than this article: http://fitbie.msn.com/eat-right/tips/restaurant-report-card-2011/tip/0 Best: Subway Worst: Cheesecake Factory

In what has to be a blur of names for regular users, OCZ Technology is launching the Petrol SSD family. Enthusiasts may still recall the recently launched Octane family, which harnessed the next generation of Indilinx controllers to deliver reasonably high levels of performance. Simply put...

Enthusiast-level gaming notebooks don't need to cost a fortune; something ASUS proves with its $1,249 G53SX 15.4" offering. It features a 1080p display and an NVIDIA GTX 560M that's able to power today's games to it. This, in addition to an Intel quad-core processor and 12GB of RAM make it a...

Our friends at CyberPower are holding a 12 day promotion where you could win some sweet prizes for just a little bit of effort: http://www.cyberpowerpc.com/LandingPages/Facebook/12DaysChristmasGiveaway/

Yet another Humble Bundle has launched, and this one is goood (it does in fact earn that extra 'o'). This time around, seven excellent indie titles are up for grabs including Super Meat Boy, Bit.Trip Runner, NightSky HD, Shank and Jamestown, with Cave Story+ and Gratuitous Space Battles tossed...

NVIDIA has just kicked off a new promotion entitled, "12 Days of Gear Up Giving", where it's offering its Facebook fans a chance at some sweet prizes. There's a catch though. The prizes become better as NVIDIA's GeForce Facebook page earns more fans, so it's worth getting your friends to enter...

Ever install an app and then two or three hours later come back up for air? I experienced this last night after stumbling upon GO Launcher EX, a robust app for Android that allows you to perform an 'extreme makeover' to make it more functional and more fun to use. It brings a lot to the table...

Intel has been running on a relative high lately, having just celebrated the 40th anniversary of its first micro-processor, the 4004, and prior to that setting a new quarterly record, posting $3.1 billion year-over-year growth. But what should have been a continuation of good news through Q4 has...

Google has never been shy about paying its respect to both the heroes of history and those of our time, and today, the company's search engine logo is dedicated to none other than Robert Noyce, the co-inventor of the integrated circuit and co-founder of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. In...

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With the major changes HP experienced this past August, the future of its webOS mobile operating system became unclear. At the time, the company effectively pulled the plug on its own webOS-based products, and admitted that it didn't know what it was to do with the software from there-on-out...