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APPLE
Apple’s New 12-Inch MacBook Is Super Light for All the Right Reasons

At Apple’s Spring Forward event today, the company announced an incredibly light 12-inch MacBook with Retina Display. This comes at a time when Apple has already been doing great, announcing new PCs, and enjoying customer anticipation of the next gen … Continue reading →

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
New Acer Chromeboxes Sport Lots of RAM, Core i3 Processors

Acer made an announcement for the CXI Chromebox, a different way to bring the Chrome OS to your desktop without a Chromebook! Acer keeps its commitment to Chrome tight in its own line of PCs, and the CXI continues the … Continue reading →

 

SAMSUNG
Samsung Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, Add New Features, Drop Old Ones

News of the Samsung Galaxy S6 has been around for quite some time, but details emerged this week where we can finally decide just how awesome this thing is. We’ve always known it would be different, but just how different? … Continue reading →

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Desktop Lovers Will Love Intel’s New Iris Pro GPUs

This week, during the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Intel showed off a new integrated graphics line using fifth-generation Core processors for desktop PC enthusiasts and desktop gamers. First announced back in January, the “65-watt, unlocked desktop Core i7 … Continue reading →

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
System76 Launches Meerkat, Broadwell-Powered Mini-desktop PC

System76 is a Colorado-based computer manufacturer, best known for its open source software support; and use of Ubuntu Linux in its notebooks, desktops, and servers-which were actually some of the first to come with Linux pre-installed. The number 76 is … Continue reading →

 

INVENTIONS & INNOVATIONS
The N1, Nokia’s $249 Tablet Finally Arrives in China

Nokia’s N1 tablet, announced this week at the Mobile World Congress, is already being called an “iPad with Android” due to its striking resemblance to the widely-loved device. Another factor worth getting out of the way is that the N1 … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
InfiniFlash from SanDisk Hold up to 512TB at $1/GB

SanDisk just announced InfiniFlash, a 512TB, all-flash storage platform intended for apps to hold high performance databases, streaming video, and other big data. The technology is being touted as an entirely new category in the market (The Inquirer). Three models … Continue reading →

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Microsoft Helps HP Design New Convertible Spectre x360

Monday, at the Mobile World Congress, HP unveiled a new “premium” convertible PC in its high-end Spectre series. The Spectre x360, which has been a project 1 ½ years in the making, is an exciting collaboration design with none other … Continue reading →

 

INTEL
Intel Announces New Mobile Chip Series, X3, X5, X7

Intel needs a little push when it comes to the mobile market, especially after losing $4.2 billion last year. But hey, it’s not all bad news. The company actually made progress, going from nothing to something, presence-wise. Now they just … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Spark’s New Electron Cellular Board for the IoT

Remember Spark Labs from Kickstarter? The company raised a bunch of funding after launching Spark Core, its open source Wi-Fi dev kit board for the Internet of Things (IoT). Soon after, it was the Spark Core, Photon, then the Internet … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Beautiful (and Indulgent) Take on Retro Gaming, the R-Kaid-R

We’ll never forget about arcades and arcade games, no matter how digital our lives become. Well, maybe the kids growing up in this era, where smartphones are handed to them as a toddler, will. One company, individual actually, by the … Continue reading →

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Razer’s OSVR Opens up VR Hardware and Software

One cool thing that has happened with the blooming virtual reality industry is the amount of participation and cooperation among companies. Everyone wants a part of it. So much so, companies like Oculus, Valve, and even Samsung collaborating and sharing … Continue reading →

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
FCC Approves Strongest Net Neutrality Rules to Date

In a landmark decision today, the Federal Communications Commission approved its long-awaited network neutrality plan, which reclassifies broadband internet as a Title II public utility. This classification will also enable the agency to have more regulatory power over the internet … Continue reading →

 

DISPLAY SCREEN TECHNOLOGY
Get Ready for Valve to Announce Its SteamVR Device

To no surprise at all, the next in line for developing its very own virtual reality device had to be software giant Valve, whose Steam online gaming platform is consistently boasting with success. All should be revealed next week at … Continue reading →

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
Samsung Develops New Space Saving Module, ePoP

I feel like I’m always complaining about smartphone batteries. I mean, they’re supposed to be getting better, and if it were up to me, long battery life would be the number one spec to win my heart over, even if … Continue reading →