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This week in our rundown of miscellaneous release announcements, we're looking at new gear from Cooler Master, G.Skill, and Rosewill: Cooler...

Type: News story Tags: Cases Power Memory

A decade is an eternity in the PC industry. Ten years ago, the Pentium 4 was trading blows with the Athlon XP, hard drives...

Type: News story Tags: Cooling

I guess the rumors were right—this time. Google has officially taken the wraps off its Drive service, which promises 5GB of free cloud storage...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Using The Pirate Bay to download legitimate content is sort of like reading Playboy for the articles. Some folks do, but most are there...

Type: News story Tags: Internet

Rumors about a free, cloud-based Google storage service date back to at least 2007. The search giant may finally be on the cusp of...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Internet

This week's deal post is all about three-letter acronyms and initialisms. Let's start with SSDs: Newegg is running one of its Shell Shocker promotions on...

Type: News story Tags: Power Storage Memory Gaming

At the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing, China, Intel is advocating a standardized battery design for ultrabooks. Although the firm concedes that high-end ultrabook...

Type: News story Tags: Power Mobile computing

Intel is no stranger to the world of enterprise-grade SSDs. Its first offering for that market, the X25-E, was released way back in the...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

Chrome has been getting more and more synchronization features over time, and now, Google is adding the icing on the cake: tab synchronization across multiple...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

Remember Larrabee? Intel's ill-fated desktop GPU has been reborn as Knights Corner, a high-performance computing chip targeted at servers and supercomputers. It's being...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Servers Workstations

Although I've been here watching and helping document it the whole time, I am still vaguely amazed that we have gotten to the point where...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet

We'll keep it simple this week: go here to visit Newegg's weekend DIY PC sale page, which offers promo codes for discounts of 10-15%...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Motherboards Power Storage Software

We have a little bit of everything this week, with announcements from Corsair, Fractal Design, and Razer about everything from headphones to fans: ...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Cases Cooling

After giving CEO Carol Bartz the boot (via phone call) last year, Yahoo is now gearing up to let go another 2,000 employees. The...

Type: News story Tags: Internet

Last month, we told you all about Mozilla's plans for a Metro version of Firefox. Now, Mozilla's Brian Bondy has updated his blog...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

After many months of slow decline at the hands of Firefox and Chrome, Internet Explorer might be starting to gain popularity again. The latest...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

I have to admit, I generally start to roll my eyes and tune out whenever a certain brand of Linux-loving, introverted geek starts lecturing about...

Type: News story Tags: Internet

We've got a handful of hardware deals and couple of game sales for you all this week. Let's start with the hardware, because that's where...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Power Storage Gaming