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It might come as a surprise to some (it does me), but according to a Google-conducted survey which queried 1,430 people, the most popular use for a tablet is gaming. In fact, a staggering 84% of those people claim to be tablet gamers, with other popular activities including 'Searching for...

When building an HTPC, there are multiple angles to tackle - components, power consumption, software, and so forth. But what about peripherals designed to complement the HTPC you're building? Quality options are not as common as we'd like, but the GlideTV Navigator looks to be an exception, and...

It's been called a "significant redesign", and for good reason. GNOME 3.0, released today, looks nothing like the GNOME desktop of the past, and for devout users, a completely new user interface awaits. Gone is the bottom taskbar, and typical menu system. Instead, GNOME 3.0 is designed to...

It's not too often that a headline manages to give me a minor case of whiplash, but one that compares Microsoft-bashing to kicking a puppy... well, that's right up there as one of the best. According to Linux Foundation chief Jim Zemlin, that's not just a sensationalist headline, but it's...

Today, multi-tasking on a PC is something most of us take for granted, and if the ability to multi-task suddenly disappeared... alright, I don't want to talk about it! In the earlier days of computing though, multi-tasking was an unknown, a total rarity. But believe it or not, even though...

In recent months, we've seen AMD and NVIDIA go back and forth with releases that are designed to one-up the other at the respective price-point, and with AMD's Radeon HD 6790, it doesn't look like this game will end anytime soon. Set to compete against the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, the HD 6790...

So, I'm thinking I might be needing a full-tower sooner than later. Internet is conking out a lot, and I almost wonder if it's due to the discrete card overheating! (Might not be, but the inside of this chassis gets warm, that's for sure). I don't particularly care for huge chassis, but I'm...

So... I admit that this game kind of came out of NOWHERE for me, because I was oblivious to the fact that EA broke the Need for Speed series into two sections - one for "sim-ish' gameplay, the other for typical NFS open-world racing. Despite being a huge NFS fan, I haven't been quite on top of...

Well that didn't take long. After our previous post regarding the surprise launch of Intel's 510 Series where we questioned what may have become of the much awaited "G3" drives, we have our answer. Intel has launched its X25-M G2 successor under the guise of the Intel SSD 320 Series. This...

Choosing the right CPU, GPU, or even SSD could be considered difficult - but so could simple peripherals, such as an HDD enclosure. These seem to be a dime a dozen, and while many consumer purchases may boil down to aesthetic value, we've discovered with Zalman's ZM-HE350 U3 that not all...

Out of the "Well, that's not surprising!" file comes a story of Canadian ISP Rogers and its throttling of the most popular MMO game around, World of Warcraft. One avid WoW fan, Teresa Murphy, had gotten tired of getting booted from her game and having sluggish performance aside, and as a...

"Ah, I'd love to use a high DPI mouse, every day - And kick major ass in every game I play - But until I get another, where the sensor doesn't lack - I'll do what I can, and use the mouse called BLACK." You can read through Jamie's in-depth look at Thermaltake's latest gaming mouse and then...

Solid-state storage may dominate the headlines more often than most HDD vendors would like, and TRIM may have negated the need for a proper defrag, but Diskeeper, with its "11" version, reminds us that our lowly mechanical drives are still prone to slowdown over time, whether at home, or in...

On Tuesday, Oracle issued a press release in which it announced the end of its support for Intel's enterprise-level Itanium processors. On the surface, an announcement like this from a company like Oracle is none-too-surprising, but going even further, the company stated the reason was due...

In what might be the most ridiculous demand for damages ever witnessed, various companies in the recording industry are mass-suing file-sharing service Limewire for a total of $75 trillion. Yes, trillion... as in 75 followed by 12 zeros. Does the entire world's wealth added together even amount...

After months of delays, Mozilla has finally released its Firefox 4 Web browser, and so far it has already accrued over 8 million downloads. Generally, if a product's release date keeps getting pushed back, it makes it even harder for the end-result to live up to the hype. Is Firefox 4 an...

Catering to those who demand great GPU performance for a modest price, NVIDIA has launched its $130 GeForce GTX 550 Ti. Compared to the GTS 450 which it replaces, the GTX 550 Ti delivers faster performance, a beefier memory bus and what NVIDIA touts as being one of the best performance per watt...

On occasion, we post a news feature called "In the TG Lab", and in it, we give a quick preview of a product that we're soon to publish an in-depth look on. There's also been a couple of times when we've posted these features talking about products that we were adopting into our test suites, but...

It's been a little while since we've last seen a PCMark update, so it might have been assumed that Futuremark got caught up with its other products and had forgotten about it. Not so, as proven today with an announcement of PCMark 7, a full suite dedicated to testing the overall performance of...

Taiwan-based Cubitek, an old player with a new name in the chassis market, has launched its Magic Cube. While the name of the product may not make one sit up and take notice, the design should, seeing how components are housed in three separate aluminum chassis. Read the rest of our post...