Comcast also at the bottom It has been a tumultuous year for internet service providers as the Federal Communications Commission continues to debate on net neutrality laws. But other issues that included customer service gaffes and the potential merge between Time Warner Cable and Comcast have not painted ISPs in a good light. As a…
Samsung takes a break from mobile handsets to announce a pair of PC products Between all the Galaxy smartphone and tablet releases, we’re a little surprised Samsung has time to take a breath, let alone announce a pair of sleek looking PC products. Yet that’s exactly that the company has done today. Specifically, Samsung today…
Top Deal: Building a budget rig for the folks or kids? Or for yourself? Hey, more power to you — they don’t all need to be ultra-high end dream machines that cost more than a Kia. If you need a place to start, check out today’s top deal for an AMD A8-6600K Richland Processor Black…
Where are all the low-cost Windows laptops? Microsoft and Intel have started working together to promote low-cost Windows laptops in the $200 and under range, which prior to the collaboration was a space that mostly belonged to Chromebooks. So far things are off to a slow start, at least if Amazon’s holiday sales are any…
AMD has high hopes for its Carrizo processors Heading into the new year, AMD’s resolution is to increase its laptop market share, and the key to doing that lies in its Carrizzo and Carrizo-L laptop chips. Going forward, the chip maker will take a plug-and-play approach that will make it easy for hardware partners to…
It’s been the most amazing year of my life. In January 2014, Axiom Verge was a hobby project I’d been working on nights and weekends for almost four years. By April it was picked up by the PlayStation Pub Fund, then in June it won best of E3 awards, and in September Nintendo’s former indie…
Say goodbye to Internet Explorer as you know it The reason Microsoft is rolling with Windows 10 instead of Windows 9 for its next major operating system is because the changes are so dramatic, it warranted a generational leap in naming the product. That’s the official story Microsoft wants us to believe, anyway, and while…
A headset for platform agnostic gamers We obviously favor gaming on the PC, and that’s not about to change. However, we also recognize that some gamers like to groove on multiple platforms. Apparently so does Asus, which just announced its Strix 2.0 headset with support for PC, Mac, PlayStation 4, smartphones, and tablets. Granted, you…
We know many of you experienced issues connecting to PSN over the weekend, so in response to popular demand, PlayStation Store is extending our Flash Sale and Holiday Sale. There’s still time to take advantage of a lot of great games at heavily discounted prices! The Flash Sale will be extended until 12:00pm Pacific Time…
Looking back at another wild year in the tech sector Two years ago, the world was supposed to end, based on the Mayan calendar. And last year, we heard about the death of the PC ad nauseam. Of course, neither of those things happened, setting up yet another event-filled 12 months of technology news that…