Heatsinks. We all use them. Most of us have installed them. They make our CPUs cooler, allowing higher frequencies without damage to the processor. But what's in it to make it so effective?
Firefox has teamed up with Microsoft for Bing users to bring Firefox with Bing. This is just a custom version of Firefox that makes Bing the default search engine for the search bar, AwesomeBar, and home page.
Rumors about HP spinning of its PC business have been floating around for a while, and indeed HP has been considering doing just that. But in an announcement today, HP has decided to keep the PC business apart of the company.
LSI, a semiconductor and software manufacturer, has announced officially that it will acquire SandForce, the famous SSD controller chip manufacturer, for $322 million in cash and $48 million in stock.
IBM, arguably one of the most influential companies in the history of computers, has announced that they have decided upon a new CEO, as Sam Palmisano has been due to step down from the position he took in 2002. Who is this new CEO?
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is probably one of the most anticipated games right now, now that Battlefield 3 is released. All of the fancy previews and whatnot have got a lot of people begging the question: what will it take to run this?
AMD plans to release new APUs in hopes of gaining more market share in the coming years. These new processors will compete in the "ultrabook" market, as well as in the regular notebook market.
NVIDIA has recently released their newest set of drivers, namely the 285.62 WHQL drivers. As always it fixes bugs, improves performance and compatibility, yada yada. A list of new things will follow, taken from here.
If you haven't read by now, major flooding over in Thailand is affecting a whole number of factories, and companies such as Western Digital and Seagate have had to shut down production because of it.
Researches have found a way to identify a bit-torrent user through Skype, and even go so far as to call the user and initiate a handshake with the bit-torrent client.
For the World of Warcraft fans out there, Mists of Pandaria was announced. This brings all of the usual new features, such as a higher level camp, new zones and dungeons, a new class, a new race, and all sorts of other stuff.
Due to the flooding happening over in Thailand, where a lot of major hard drive manufacturers such as Seagate and Western Digital have their factories, hard drive prices are expected to rise in November.
If you have an SSD with the SandForce SF-2000 controller, you've probably had issues with blue screens of death because of the drive. All sorts of SSDs use this controller, such as the Kingston HyperX as well as OCZ's Agility.
StarTech, a company who makes connectors for different computer peripherals, announced recently a hard drive duplicator that doesn't need a computer. It has four SATA drive bays, with support for both 2.5in and 3.5in drives.
Floods happening in Thailand have hurt Western Digital's factories more than projected. Flooding first shut down their factories there a little under a week ago, but they didn't think the flood would damage anything in their factories.
Microsoft has finally closed the Skype deal, after problems getting approved by various places such as the European Union. I wonder if this is the last stop for Skype.
We all know Google is getting huge. From social networking to e-mail to mobile phones, the company seems to have its hand in most every market. But just how big are they?
Ubuntu version 11.10, dubbed "Oneiric Ocelot," was released today. The big main feature is the new and improved Unity UI, seen before in the netbook version.
Due to flooding over in Thailand, Western Digital (ironic that their factories are in the East) has closed down their HDD plants over there, which are responsible for 60% of the 54 million hard drives they shipped last year.
Microcenter, and increasingly popular tech company similar to Fry's, has confirmed that AMD's new AM3+ FX series (Bulldozer) processors will be released on October 12, 2011. Yes, that is tomorrow.
TDK has recently discovered a way to double hard-disk drive capacity, meaning that if they can figure out how to do this economically and find the right materials, HDDs will be in our future for even longer.
A while ago Netflix announced that they were going to split their DVD and streaming services into two different companies: Netflix for streaming and Qwikster for DVDs.
Years ago, HP discovered a new "element" in integrated circuits called a memristor, or memory resistor. Basically it's like the flash used in RAM, but it won't lose its data when power is removed.
Back in May, there were announcements that Microsoft was going to buy Skype. Well, the European Union has approved the deal, meaning that Microsoft is that much closer to finishing this deal.
Corsair recently announced two new SSDs that bring a little bigger size with a heaping helping of performance. Using the SandForce SF-2280 SSD Processor, the new drives from in 180GB and 480GB sizes.
Recently we posted about a patent filed by Facebook employees that provides for "A method for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain..." Later in the day I posted the article…
If you haven't tried out the Windows 8 developer build, it's calling you. For those of you who have, you'll probably understand all the complaints people have been having with Windows 8's new Metro UI in place of the Start Menu.
Hitachi-LG Data Storage (a joint venture between the two companies) has agreed to pay a $21.1 million fine and plead guilty to charges of rigging bids and fixing prices of optical disk drives.
For the first time since 1996, IBM is now worth more than Microsoft. This is due to IBM's stock price slowly rising 22% since the beginning of 2011, while Microsoft's stock price has dropped 8.8% in the same time.
A patent was recently found, filed by various employees of Facebook, that describes "A method for tracking information about the activities of users of a social networking system while on another domain..." Yes, even after a Facebook spokes…
The long-awaited Ubuntu One Windows application is now out of beta and available to the public. This means that you can now access all of your cloud-stored data across multiple platforms.
