December 7, 2011
You know things are looking good when you stop in the middle of a week just to make public that things are going well. That’s what AT&T did, with John Stephens, AT&T Senior Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, announcing today that AT&T is on track to break its single-quarter record for smartphone sales. [...]
December 7, 2011
Seen spotty 4G LTE service today? You aren’t alone. Veizon Wireless has confirmed “an issue” with the service that is causing trouble with select 4G devices. If you’re using a 3G device, you’re golden. The full message from the company is below: Verizon Wireless engineers have been working to resolve an issue with 4GLTE service [...]
December 7, 2011
Super Talent and SSDs have gone together like peas in a pod for years on end, but there’s one section of the market that the company has been avoiding until now: pro/enthusiast. At least, that’s what the company purports, and they’ve entered that very market with the introduction of their fastest 2.5″ SSD to date, [...]
December 7, 2011
AMD launched a new suite of HD 7000 SKUs today aimed at the midrange and value mobile markets, but these aren’t the 28nm, Southern Islands GPUs that consumers have been watching for. These new HD 7400M, 7500M, and 7600M parts are rebranded 40nm hardware. The “new” chips are all based on AMD’s HD 6000 “Northern [...]
December 7, 2011
In order to provide ample memory to support 16 core chips, Super Talent announced new DDR3-1333MHz RDIMM modules for servers. These are quad-channel, quad-rank modules that come in 8GB capacities. Super Talent has tested the new modules on AMD Interlagos motherboards. Super Talent Introduces Quad-Channel, Quad Rank DDR3 RDIMMs Enabling 128GB…
December 7, 2011
File this one under “It’s About Freakin’ Time”: Verizon may offer family data plans next year, according to a report from Fierce Wireless. The report cites comments by (newly-appointed) Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference indicating that Verizon has been working on developing…
December 7, 2011
If you should happen to run across a USB flash drive on the subway, you may want to leave it there, assuming you weren’t planning to take it to lost and found to begin with. There’s a good chance it’s infected with malware, and that doesn’t just apply to USB keys you find on the [...]
December 7, 2011
It’s pretty clear that Google’s Android Market is growing quickly and giving Apple some competition. A recent announcement from Google sheds a little more light on the growth of this app store. This past weekend, Google said the Android Market exceeded 10 billion app downloads. The current growth rate is one billion app downloads…
December 7, 2011
Happy Hump Day, folks! We know the week starts to feel like it’s dragging on at this point, but we’ve got just what you need to inject some excitement into your day—some HOT deals! Straight from our friends at LogicBuy, we have a handful of deals on tap, including a pair of HP laptops and [...]
December 7, 2011
Adobe on Tuesday confirmed the existence of an unpatched zero day vulnerability rated as “critical” in Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macs, Adobe Reader 9.4.6 and earlier versions for UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macs. In theory, the critical vulnerability could cause…