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Earlier this week, Microsoft announced that Windows 8.1 would be a free upgrade for Windows 8 users. We also learned that a public preview...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

Each week, our release roundups gather some of the announcements and press releases that hit our inbox but didn't make it into our daily coverage....

Type: News story Tags: Power Memory

PowerColor has developed a new spin on AMD's Radeon HD 7850 graphics card. The simply named SCS3 HD7850 has stock clock speeds and 1GB...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Cooling

Microsoft is getting awfully chatty about Windows Blue this week. Yesterday, company CFO and marketing chief Tami Reller teased the upcoming OS update. Now,...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

Yes, AMD still makes system memory. Not only that, but it's just introduced its quickest memory kit ever: the Radeon RG2133 Gamer Series, which packs...

Type: News story Tags: Memory

How's Windows 8 selling? About as well as Windows 7 did three years ago, judging by numbers posted this morning on the official Windows...

Type: News story Tags: Windows

For years, cable TV subscribers have asked for a-la-carte service that would allow channels to be purchased individually. Cable providers have resisted, but it...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Internet

Windows 8 tablets keep getting cheaper. The latest models are available for well under $500, and if that early listing we saw last week...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Windows

This week in our look at miscellaneous tidbits and announcements, we bring you fresh news from ASRock, Cougar, Noctua, Scythe, and Zotac: ...

Type: News story Tags: Graphics Motherboards Power Cooling Storage

At the Fusion Developer Summit last June, AMD CTO Mark Papermaster teased Kaveri, AMD's next-generation APU due later this year. Among other things, Papermaster...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Memory

Earlier this morning, Fortune posted a story saying Corsair was about to...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Cases Cooling Input devices

Corsair is known for its large, roomy enthusiast cases, but it hasn't dabbled in smaller form factors. That's changing today with the new Obsidian...

Type: News story Tags: Cases

Remember when Amazon was just an online bookstore? Today, the e-tail giant...

Type: News story Tags: Multimedia Personal tech

We've known for some time—through unofficial sources—that some of Intel's next-generation Haswell processors will have dedicated graphics memory on the CPU package. What we...

Type: News story Tags: CPUs Graphics Memory

Well, this is a little disappointing. Remember that rumor about Windows 8.1 bringing back the Start button? According to The Verge, which quotes "sources...

Type: News story Tags: Operating systems Windows

The rumor mill has been predicting the arrival of smaller Windows tablets for a while. Microsoft lent weight to those predictions when it lowered...

Type: News story Tags: Mobile computing Windows Personal tech

This week in our look at miscellaneous product releases and announcements, we bring tidings from Biostar, Lian Li, and Scythe: Biostar...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Cases Cooling

How did Microsoft weather last quarter's slump in PC shipments? Not too badly, by the looks of it. The software giant has posted...

Type: News story Tags: Software Windows