PC Gaming
Low cost device represents a significant mobile play Entry level handsets launched in emerging markets don’t typically elicit too much attention, though in this case, there’s a reason why some people are making a big deal out of Samsung’s latest smartphone. The Samsung Z1, launched today in New Delhi, runs the company’s own Tizen operating…
Its all part of an “optimal organization design” Back in October, AMD revealed that it would be implementing a restructuring plan and laying off about 7 percent of the company’s workforce. What appears to be part of its restructuring process, AMD announced that AMD General Manager of its Computing and Graphics segment John Byrne, Chief…
Multi-bay NAS storage shootout There’s nothing quite like having a system fail and then realizing you hadn’t backed up your data. In the back of your mind, you always knew this day might come, but procrastination and poor planning has caught you with your pants down, and you have no one to blame but yourself….
Top Deal: Live is a constant barrage of decisions, such as to push or not push the ‘Do Not Push’ button, Italian or Chinese for dinner, go to work or call in sick, get a tablet or a secondary laptop, and the list goes on. Well, we can help! Always push the button, order Italian…
The modern day milk carton At last count (September 2014), Facebook was sitting pretty with 864 million daily active users, and 1.35 billion monthly active users (as of September 30, 2014). With so many eyeballs zeroing in on the world’s largest social playground each and every day, Facebook and the National Center for Missing and…
Millions subscribed to Spotify after Taylor Swift pulled a disappearing act Can a streaming music service survive without the likes of Taylor Swift and her latest 1989 album? The answer is a resounding ‘Yes!’ as evidenced by Spotify’s latest head count. In a blog post this week, Spotify announced that it’s up to 60 million…
HP is one strong quarter away from regaining the PC supply crown The fourth quarter of 2014 saw 80.8 million PC shipments, representing a year-on-year decline of 2.4 percent, according to the number crunchers at International Data Corporation (IDC). That was enough to beat out expectations of a 4.8 percent decline, which was helped by…
Rockstar giveth and taketh away We don’t want to come off as curmudgeons halfway through the first month of a new year, so let’s start by focusing on the good news surrounding Grand Theft Auto V for PC. For one, Rockstar Games today shared the first screenshots of GTA V for PC, which were taken…
A different kind of streaming box In the old days, PC gamers would sit in front of a large CRT monitor in a dedicated room littered with spare parts, game boxes (yes, there was actually a time when PC games came in big retail boxes!), empty potato chip bags, and other things scattered all around….
CyberPower Trinity PC, tiny PC on an HDMI stick, and more While CES 2015 was more of an evolutionary year as opposed to a revolutionary one, there were some interesting devices in the PC space. If you’ve read our CES 2015 prediction piece, nearly all of that came true. We saw a bunch of VR…