August 30, 2011
Part of the fun at hammering away on a mechanical keyboard is the audible click that emanates with each keystroke. The downside? Those around you might not appreciate an obnoxiously loud plank as much as you do. Razer’s new BlackWidow Stealth Edition is a mechanical keyboard utilizing silent key switches, giving users similar tactile feedback [...]
Tags: Black Widow Stealth, blackwidow, blackwidow stealth edition, hardware, keyboard, mechanical keyboard, News Worthy, Peripherals, razer
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April 28, 2011
When I heard about this lawsuit I had to stop and wonder, what possible reason someone would have for suing Sony over this. My original thought is that this is like suing the Watergate Hotel on the behalf of the entire nation for the break-in that caused the downfall of a president and the upheaval surrounding it. …
Tags: BP, gaming, hack, lawsuit, News Worthy, Playstation 3, psn, Sony, sued, Watergate
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March 9, 2011
Steve Ballmer gave a date for the long-awaited copy and paste update for Windows Phone 7 in his Mobile World Congress keynote; the ‘NoDo’ update (it may be a reference to ‘not Donut’ – the Android 2.0 release) which also makes it faster to s…
Tags: Mobile World Congress 2011, MWC 2011, News Worthy, TechRadar
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March 9, 2011
Microsoft may be looking for help developing a successor to the Xbox 360 console. The Redmond outfit posted a job notice on its Careers website looking for a graphics hardware guru in its Interactive Entertainment Business division. News of the positio…
Tags: console, gaming, hardware, jobs, microsoft, News Worthy, Videogames, Xbox 360
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March 7, 2011
Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 platform was fashionably late to the smartphone party, but in the slate shindig, Microsoft’s Windows platform is just going to be late. Citing “people with knowledge” of Microsoft’s plans, Bloomberg reports there won’t be a …
Tags: hardware, maximum tech, mobile, News Worthy, operating system, OS, slate, Software, tablet, windows
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March 6, 2011
Hitachi and Western Digital have been shipping 7200 RPM 3TB drives for several months now, but if you’re a Seagate fan, your horse has finally entered the race. The new 3TB Barracuda XT has started showing up for sale at various online retailers, and…
Tags: capacity, hardware, HDD / SSD drives, News Worthy, Seagate, seagate barracuda, Storage
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March 6, 2011
Remember when the hard drive industry tried to convince us they would never be able to pump out hard drives bigger than 100GB? Well according to Samsung the platter density war is still alive and well, and a new breakthrough has allowed them to hit 1TB…
Tags: areal density, hardware, HDD / SSD drives, innovation, News Worthy, samsung, Storage
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March 4, 2011
Remember when you could purchase a high-end AMD motherboard for around $100? You have to look all the way back to the Barton glory days, when the Asus A7N8X Deluxe and Abit NF7-S v2 dominated the talk of bang-for-buck ratios. But that was years ago, and inorder to get a top-of-the-line motherboard today, you’re looking [...]
Tags: asus, build a pc, gigabyte, hardware, motherboards, MSI, News Worthy
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