PC Gaming
Don’t expect a patch for WebView in pre-KitKat Android devices If you own an Android handset running a version of the open source operating system that predates Android 4.3 KitKat, you won’t be the recipient of a patch for WebView, a component of Android that developers use to display web content in their apps. WebView…
Top Deal: If you’re building a rig for Aunt Mabel for surfing the web and poking around Facebook, you’re probably not going to select a top end processor and multiple graphics cards. On the flip side, you don’t want to stick her with your 10-year old system that’s collecting dust in the basement — you…
Fast and slow rings receive January build simultaneously A couple of days after its much talked about “Windows 10: The Next Chapter” event and over two months after the last official preview release, Microsoft on Friday rolled out a new Windows 10 Technical Preview build to the Windows Insider Program. A lot has changed from…
Apple remains silent Having recently ruffled Microsoft’s feathers by (responsibly) disclosing three unpatched vulnerabilities in Windows to the general public, Google’s Project Zero team has now turned its attention to the other side of the PC-Mac divide. The outfit recently spilled the beans on three zero-day vulnerabilities in Apple’s OS X operating system. It is…
Tablets and laptops powered by 5th generation Intel Core processors Earlier this week, Fujitsu joined many other PC vendors around the world in announcing new mobile PC models built around 5th generation Intel Core processors. The Broadwell-powered models announced by the Japanese company include both tablets and notebooks, and they all mean business. These new…
A formal announcement is said to be imminent In February 2014, Google invited 34 cities across nine U.S. metro areas to work with it to “explore what it would take to bring them Google Fiber”. It was originally supposed to announce the names of the cities next in line for its Gigabit Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) service…
Top Deal: Gaming. Productivity. Content creation. Heck, even just firing up Windows and surfing the web. What do these all have in common? They all tap into your RAM, and if you don’t have enough, performance can suffer. Some tasks are bigger RAM hogs than others, of course, and if you want to be sure…
Microsoft jumped the gun on Twitter There’s a lot of buzz and excitement surrounding Windows 10 at the moment, which is understandable since Microsoft just finished revealing a bunch of extra details at a scheduled press event. However, if you direct your attention to Microsoft’s Lumia Conversations blog, there’s a bit of a buzz-kill for…
Apacer exec expects another free fall in SSD pricing Solid state drives may never reach the tantalizing price-per-gigabyte ratio that mechanical hard disk drives enjoy, though that’s okay, we’re willing to pay a premium for performance. However, that premium might not be finished shrinking. We already saw NAND flash memory pricing take a nose dive,…
“The Internet will disappear” – Eric Schmidt Could you imagine if the suits in charge at Google one day decided that enough was enough, and pulled the plug on all of the company’s services, like Gmail and search? While it wouldn’t be the end of the Internet, it would certainly be a major inconvenience for…