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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

About three months ago, Firefox's Modern UI interface made its first appearance in the nightly build channel. We haven't heard much Modern UI talk...

Type: News story Tags: Internet Software

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

Traditional hard drive makers have been slow to get into the SSD business,...

Type: News story Tags: Storage Servers Workstations

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

Last year, Epic released a Flash version of its Epic Citadel tech demo. Now, thanks to WebGL, there's a new flavor of Epic Citadel...

Type: News story Tags: Gaming Internet Software

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

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

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

Next-generation Haswell motherboards are approaching, and Gigabyte has teased a few details about what it has in store for the new platform. The firm has...

Type: News story Tags: Motherboards Multimedia