Remember when Plextor ruled the optical drive market with premium ODDs that typically performed better than the competition? That was long before the price of CD/DVD burners fell to around the cost of a case of water, and these days Plextor appears fully focused on solid state drives (SSDs). Announced at CES 2012 is Plextor’s [...]

Using its new Phase Change cooling system (set to be available yet this quarter) and its professional overclockers, ORIGIN PC now offers the GENESIS system with a ridiculous 5.7GHz overclock. The Phase Change Technology can allegedly chill the CPU out as low as -40 degrees C. The above is a pretty cool (pun intended) bit [...]

Microsoft made a surprise announcement a couple of weeks ago when it informed the tech world that the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas would be the last one in which the Redmond software giant gives a keynote or rents floor space. The company is pulling out after this year, at least as far [...]

The folks at Turtle Beach know a thing or three about ear candy and so it’s no surprise that the gurus of gaming audio used the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas to unveil a couple of new headsets, the Ear Force XP300 and Ear Force XP400. Both are fully wireless operating on dual-band 2.4GHz [...]

Just about every company represented at CES has a theme or two it’s focusing on at the show, and for Seagate, this year the spotlight is on mobile storage technologies, hybrid storage, and of course, speed. Seagate is showing off its update to the GoFlex Satellite drive, a battery-powered, mobile storage solution that streams media [...]

A Dell exec tells Reuters the company has learned from others’ mistakes and has a better understanding of what consumers want.

Verizon’s 4G LTE lineup makes room for the LG Spectrum, a 4G LTE Android phone with a nice combination of high-end features.

If your eyes are crossing from all the sights at CES, put on some of those comfortable new 3D glasses and take a look at some highlights from our second full day at the O.K. Gadget Corral.

Ads that were once relegated as “sponsored” stories on the right side of users’ Facebook home pages are now labeled “featured” and being included within their news feeds.

With no new Alienware or Asus high-end gaming laptops on display, it’s up to boutique builder Origin to represent PC gaming.