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Nintendo Wii U to get Google Maps, get your GamePad controller ready for Street View

Google Maps pretty much dominates the mobile and PC markets, but what about consoles? Well, Nintendo's next-gen Wii U console is about to get a taste of the Maps application next month. Google Maps for the Wii U will use the ...

11 years ago

Crysis 3 will launch with high-res textures and more

When Crysis 2 launched, PC gamers were pissed off - Crytek's CEO promised they'd pushed boundaries, but the game launched without DX11, or high-resolution textures. It took months for the patch to be released, and even then, it ...

11 years ago

Botnet steals more than $37 Million by infecting PC and Smartphones

A new version of Zeus Trojan has been used in over 30,000 attacks in Europe  infecting computers and smartphones. The attack is designed to circumvent the 2-factor authentication by intercepting messages sent by back to the infected ...

11 years ago

AMD Radeon 8990 rumoured to launch in 2013

According to a recent leak that was discovered by Maximum PC,  AMD would be releasing AMD Radeon HD 8990 with 2x South Islands GPU core codenamed "Venus XTX". AMD Radeon HD 8990's specs, looking at the table, comes with 950 MHz ...

11 years ago

McAfee seeking asylum in Guatemala

U.S. Antivirus company owner John McAfee who is on the run from Belize Police, crossed into Guatemala and seeking political asylum couple of days ago. Its been 3 weeks since he's been hiding from the police as he's been suspected in ...

11 years ago

EU fines 6 companies 1.47 Billion Euros for CRT Monitor and TV Price Fixing

Just after the FBI released the updates about LCD price fixing that was being investigated, The European Commission had imposed the biggest antitrust penalty of a total of 1.47 Billion Euros combined within 6 companies including ...

11 years ago

AMD is not abandoning socket-mountable processors

Although Intel didn't confirm the rumours of their BGA mounted sockets, AMD on the other hand gave a sigh of relief to DIY enthusiasts by saying that they'll stick to socket mounts for processors. This is what AMD's Chris Hook ...

11 years ago

PlayStation is the most popular platform to enjoy Netflix

Netflix says that of all the devices that has the feature to stream Netflix, PlayStation 3 is the most popular platform for users to watch their favourite movies and series via Netflix in U.S. and globally.  According to ...

11 years ago

Netgear WN1000RP 2.4GHz WiFi Booster Review

It's safe to say that having wireless in the home is mandatory these days, but for a large number of people, getting decent signal right through their property can be a nightmare. Take my setup at home for example. Naturally ...

11 years ago

iPhone 5 pre-orders reach 100,000 with China Unicom

China's second largest wireless carrier, China Unicom, began accepting pre-orders on Apple's latest and greatest smartphone, the iPhone 5, on Monday. The phone will be officially released on December 14, with early pre-order ...

11 years ago

Wii U day-one updates won’t be baked into factory consoles until next year

Wii U owners should know the pain of day-one updates by now with their fresh next-gen console, but it looks like Nintendo won't be baking the updates into brand new consoles until next year. Nintendo of America president, Reggie ...

11 years ago

Samsung Galaxy S4 rumoured to be launched in April 2013

Codenamed "Project J", Samsung maybe planning to launch the 4th flagship line by April, 2013. Its rumoured to come with a 5 Inch AMOLED screen with 1080p resolution, 2GB memory, a 13 Mega Pixel Camera at the back of the phone. Its ...

11 years ago

LG is expected to be a major fabless Chip maker by January???

According to a report in Korea Times, the company is currently hiring a number of chip designers to boost its efforts and also done with the developed of their SOC to be used in Web-based TVs. It is also rumoured that L.G. is closed ...

11 years ago

In Win GRone Full Tower Chassis Review

Today I will be taking a close look at the GRone Full Tower PC Chassis from well the well known manufacturer In Win. The GRone is aimed right at the heart of the PC gaming market, which as many of you will be well aware of is full ...

11 years ago

New 21″ iMacs are “Assembled in United States”

A owner of a shiny new 21" iMac was surprised that his newly purchased system came with an unexpected "Assembled in USA" label- and not China as one would usually expect mostly when it comes to mass produced models. When he checked ...

11 years ago

Wii U updates eating away storage space

Thanks to the massive day 1 update, Nintendo Wii U owners have to give up 302MB space. With the titles using between 30MB to 100MB, signs are showing up that 8GB of storage space on Wii U is simply not enough for long term. The ...

11 years ago

AMD to introduce Piledriver Opteron Lineup

AMD is rumoured to introduce the new Opteron 3300 and 4300 series. The Opteron 4300 series offers 6 different processors with either Quad, Hexa and 8 core options with clock speed between 2.2 GHz and 3.5 GHz and TDP between 35 W to 95 ...

11 years ago

Qualcomm to invest $121 Million in Sharp

Looking at the potential of IGZO technology, Sharp and Qualcomm have set a deal which will greatly help the Japanese TV manufacturing company. Once the project progresses, Qualcomm plans to invest $60 Million more. Qualcomm is a ...

11 years ago

Dell China lists U2413 24Inch AH- IPS Monitor

Dell China lists a new UltraSharp monitor- 2413- with 16:10 aspect ratio and 1920 x 1200 resolution- as same as U2412M and U2410. The screen comes with factory calibration. However, unlike U2410 that comes with 8 Bit colour support, ...

11 years ago

Star Wars Battlefront III was 99% done when cancelled.. or was it 75%??

Free Radical's co-founder Steve Ellis revealed that SW Battlefront III was 99% complete when the funding was cut- off when the management switched hands. That was when Steve decided to leak an hour long footage ...

11 years ago

HIS Releases 2 new GPUs: 7950 IceQ X² Boost Clock and 7970 IceQ X² GHz Edition

HIS released couple of non-reference cards with AMD Radeon 7950 and 7970 Gpus: 7950 IceQ X² Boost Clock and 7970 IceQ X² GHz Edition. 7950's GPU Core is clocked @ 850 MHz which can be boosted to 950 and 1000 MHz on 7970 which can be ...

11 years ago

3DMark shows-off their new DX11 Benchmark Trailer: Fire Strike

FutureMark is working on a new 3DMark testing but they've given the first look of their new benchmark trailer designed for high-performance gaming pcs. FuturMark assures that "This will feature real time graphics rendering with ...

11 years ago

WD Red and Green get 5TB models in Late 2013

By October 2013 according to a Russian website and the 2 slides that he posted, Hard Disk manufacturer Western Digital plans to launch a 5TB drive. Both the drives feature 64MB Cache. The manufacturer will have 5TB drives ...

11 years ago

Corsair SP2500 2.1 PC Speaker System Review

We all know Corsair as one of the biggest players in the memory and power supply markets, but over the past year they have made huge strides in the peripheral industry with an influx of products spanning across keyboards, mice, ...

11 years ago

Win one of three Fractal Design prizes

We have really been getting in the festive spirit lately and have been working with our sponsors to offer some of the best competitions around, but these generally involve Facebook in some way or another and we know that some users ...

11 years ago

DOE starts a 5- year, $120 Million battery research program

The U.S. Department of Energy aims to bring development in battery technology and started a research project which will last 5 years. At a cost of $120 million for the next 5 years, it first plans to reproduce development environments ...

11 years ago

Intel to make Ivy Bridge more efficient for for MacBook Air and Windows 8 Ultrabooks

Intel is making plans for making a significant power consumption cut their future versions of their Ivy Bridge processors, most likely making it efficient enough even to be used in most tablets. As of now, Microsoft's Surface pro ...

11 years ago

Crysis 3 System requirements revealed

"Yes... but will it run Crysis 3?" Most likely Crysis 3 will become the new PC game which demands a lot of hardware power to run in full glory. For playing the game in High setting you would require a system with either i7 2600k/AMD ...

11 years ago

Acer announces TravelMate B113 Notebook Series for students

The latest model within the TravelMate series is aimed towards students with a price tag starting from $399 with the minimum specification starting from an i3 Ivy Bridge CPU with 4 gigs of ram, 500 GB and an 11.6" display with a non ...

11 years ago

k|ngp|n overtakes 1x 3DMark Vantage’s #1 ranking with EVGA GTX 680 Classified

Legendary extreme overclocker (and the maker of one of THE best LN2 pots) Kingpin has grabbed the #1 out of 1000 spot in 3DMark Vantage 1x GPU Performance leaderboard with EVGA GTX 680 Classified graphic card with a GPU/ Memory clock ...

11 years ago

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