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Thunderbolt to have double the bandwidth in 2014

The current generation of Intel's Thunderbolt interface is based off a controller known as "Cactus Ridge". Cactus Ridge can provide 10 Gbps of bandwidth in both directions per channel. The current Thunderbolt connection allows for ...

12 years ago

MSI’s SSD line up is leaked

We brought you the news not that long ago that Microsoft would be entering the SSD market with LSI corporation's Sandforce controller business. MSI have chosen the "Reflex" brand name for their first series of stand-alone SSDs. As ...

12 years ago

Dell to launch “Sputnik” Ubuntu developer laptop

Earlier this year Dell launched "Project Sputnik" , an innovative attempt to see if it could fuse the world's of the modern laptop with that of the Linux based Ubuntu operating system. The laptop is aimed towards software ...

12 years ago

Google forced to stop Nexus 7 16GB sales

Google clearly wasn't prepared for the amount of demand the Nexus 7 has received. Demand for the 16GB variant has been blisteringly high compared to the Nexus 7 8GB which has suffered relatively low demand - great news for Google ...

12 years ago

Minecraft facing lawsuit from another Patent Troll

Minecraft is the latest name to fall victim to the patent trolling that is plaguing hardware and software companies alike. The Mojang company, who make the "indie" game Minecraft, have been served up a tasty lawsuit courtesy of ...

12 years ago

EA’s CEO expects new consoles sooner rather than later

  As of late the gaming industry hasn't been doing so well, compared to past trends and figures anyway. The main indicator of this is the fact Wall Street share prices for EA and other big game developers are reaching low ...

12 years ago

Firefox 15 to fix memory leaks

Memory leaking has been a thorn in the side of Mozilla's Firefox for quite a while now. But the problem certainly hasn't gone unnoticed at Mozilla as the next installment of Firefox, version 15, should come with fixes for popular ...

12 years ago

Intel i7 3970X on the way for Q4

It's been a while since we've seen any LGA 2011 action from Intel at the consumer level. They have released a whole array of enterprise orientated Xeon processors but we have only seen 3 consumer grade processors for the enthusiast ...

12 years ago

AMD introduces its XMP-equivalent “AMP”

Intel developed its own brand of memory support for Intel chipset motherboards a while back. The XMP profiling system pre-loads memory with a compatibility profile that means memory will work with any Intel motherboard that ...

12 years ago

OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid 1TB PCI-Express Solid State Drive Review

Solid State Drives are the way forward, we all know that and for many reasons. They are VERY fast and operate with a silent operation, as well as being smaller and having a longer life expectancy and these are only the main points ...

12 years ago

eTeknix Insider Edition #23

It's been another busy week here at eTeknix, with another great selection of product reviews,  this week we have the latest edition of the popular Antec Three Hundred chassis, with the Three Hundred Two, the very serious hardware ...

12 years ago

Auto Club Revolution Free-to-Play PC Review

This last few weeks I have found my self losing plenty of time in Auto Club Revolution, a free-to-play online racing title that at least from my perspective seems to have cropped up out of nowhere, coming from the developers at ...

12 years ago

Emprex Keyboards Review

Today I'm taking a look at a range of budget friendly keyboards from Emprex, but who are Emprex I hear you ask?  Well they are fairly unheard of over on this side of the globe, having done work as an OEM manufacturer for many ...

12 years ago

Google ordered to censor piracy search terms in France

Google always seems to find itself victim to the censorship requirements of the hundreds of nations it operates in. In France a 2010 court case started by the French recording industry group SNEP took legal action in an attempt to ...

12 years ago

Office 2013 drops Windows Vista and XP support

In Microsoft's latest system requirements listing for its Office 2013 software there is a rather notable exclusion, a lack of Windows XP and Windows Vista operating system support. The lack of Windows XP support does not come as ...

12 years ago

Apple and Samsung having meetings to resolve patent war

In case you have been living under a rock recently, then you'll know about the extended patent disputes going on between Samsung and Apple: Apple ordered to apologise to Samsung (UK) Apple goes after Galaxy 10.1 tab retailers ...

12 years ago

OCZ preparing next generation SSD controllers

Believe it or not but we've already had two generations of the OCZ -customised Marvell-based Indilinx controller. Now OCZ are preparing the third installment of Indilinx with TSMC. CEO Ryan Peterson has been explaining that OCZ ...

12 years ago

Fractal Design launches the R4 case

Fractal Design's R3 was a very popular and well received case across the hardware community. Now Fractal Design is ready with the successor, the R4. Built around the same principle idea of silence, the R4 features an abundance of ...

12 years ago

EVGA preparing a mini-ITX Z77 motherboard

EVGA has been teasing fans on Facebook with some sneak pictures of the upcoming mini ITX Z77 motherboard. Back in May EVGA's Product Manager Jacob Freeman announced that EVGA were working on a mini-ITX Z77 motherboard, in response to ...

12 years ago

EK preparing full cover MSI 7970 Lightning waterblock

MSI's HD 7970 Lightning edition graphics card was praised for its fantastic overclocking abilities. But if you're one of those people who want to push your chip further than the air cooler allows, then EK's new water block solution ...

12 years ago

World’s third biggest spam botnet shut down

Good news today for those of you fed up with spam mail. The world's third biggest spam botnet, known by the name "Grum", has been shut down. It was believed to be responsible for around 18%, nearly a fifth, of the world's total ...

12 years ago

Seagate to buy OCZ

Early reports are suggesting that the hard drive giant Seagate may be looking to take over OCZ. Seagate was apparently not the only contender to take over OCZ but are the contender who have emerged successfully. Seagate has been ...

12 years ago

SilentMaxx develops passive Sandy Bridge-E system

SilentMaxx is launching a range of fully passive Sandy Bridge-E systems, the series of systems is named the SilentMaxx Fanless I-850 gamer series. The CPU is cooled by the SilentMaxx TwinMax passive CPU cooler which is capable ...

12 years ago

Apple ordered to apologise to Samsung

Samsung's victory over Apple in the UK was a welcome relief to consumers, allowing Samsung to sell their Galaxy 10.1 tab to the UK market. Apple's claims that the Galaxy 10.1 tab was a copy of the iPad have been falsified in court, ...

12 years ago

Facebook shares fall as statistics reveal users are dropping

Facebook shares have been reasonably stable for the past few weeks - trading at the $30 level give or take some small fluctuations. However, this week they have fallen a couple of dollars to $28 for quite an important reason. ...

12 years ago

RIM gets granted a keyboard and text prediction patent

Samsung and Apple are rapidly expanding their patent portfolios, and going after anyone who infringes upon them in the slightest way. Add to that the immense dominance both Apple and Samsung have over the smartphone market in terms ...

12 years ago

YouTube offers face blurring technology

It appears YouTube has listened to human rights activists and freedom lovers everywhere. It will now offer an in-house face feature that allows users to blur out peoples faces as an optional extra. You do not have to always blur ...

12 years ago

Icy Dock MB971SP-B 5.25″ Hot Swap SATA Caddy Review

It has only been a short time since we had a look at our last Icy Dock product, the MB994SP-4SB-1 Quad Bay SATA backplane, and like that, our next product that we're looking at is a hot swap drive bay, but this time with a bit more ...

12 years ago

Nexus 7 tablets experiencing screen lift and dead pixels already

It would appear that even after going through both the Google and ASUS design and quality testing processes, many Nexus 7 tablets are still developing quite significant faults early on in their lifespan. According to many users of ...

12 years ago

Windows 8 launch date revealed

We already brought you the news not that long ago that Microsoft was likely to launch Windows 8 in October. This has now been confirmed by Microsoft, with consumer availability for October and enterprise/partner availability for ...

12 years ago

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