At the iPad 3 next-gen iPad unveiling this week, Apple flashed up a slide claiming that the iPad 2 was 2x as fast as Nvidia’s Tegra 3, while the iPad 3 would be 4x more powerful than Team Green’s best tablet. Nvidia’s response, delivered by spokesperson Ken Brown, boils down to “Hey guys, it’s flattering [...]

T-Mobile’s Chief Marketing Officer Cole Brodman has an interesting idea for revamping the mobile industry — and it involves killing the subsidy plans that have driven smartphone adoption over the past five years. Brodman was participating in a round-table at the Geekwire tech summit; other speakers included Jon Irwin, the president of Rhapsody),…

Well, it can’t be all gumdrops and rainbows; the folks behind the tiny $25 Raspberry Pi Linux-based computer, a trendy item in tech circles that saw demand immediately outpace supply when it went up for preorder, announced that due to a small manufacturing problem, the first wave of Raspberry Pis will be delayed. According to [...]

According to a report from Digitimes, industry sources have indicated that a co-branded Google and ASUS tablet may be coming to the U.S. as early as May. The tablet reportedly would be a 7-inch model and cost between $199-$249, and would also feature the Google Play Store. This is in line with earlier rumors that [...]

We’ve been looking forward to Windows 8′s Consumer Preview for months. This, after all, is Microsoft’s big chance to show what they’ve been working on and unveiling bit by bit for the past year; a chance to evaluate the sum total of changes and advancements baked into the next-generation operating system. We’ll discuss some of [...]

Between low-cost tablets like Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet, and the recent unveiling of Apple’s new iPad model, it’s quickly becoming apparent that we’re living in a tablet PC world. But don’t despair, traditional PCs aren’t about to go the way of the dodo. On the contrary, PC shipments will grow [...]

Microsoft isn’t too keen on discussing the Xbox 720 or whatever it plans to call its next generation game console, and apparently the Redmond outfit isn’t all that keen on optical drives, either. We’ve heard reports that the next Xbox iteration might ditch optical storage hardware entirely, and now at least one website claims to [...]

Don’t you just hate it when you’re trying to update your Facebook status on your all-in-one (AIO) PC when suddenly it burst into flames? You’ve never had that happen, you say? And you don’t know anyone else who has experienced that either? Fair enough, though Lenovo isn’t taking any chances and has decided to voluntarily [...]

Nearly one year ago, we told you about Western Digital’s plan to acquire Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. Now, that acquisition is officially complete. The deal is effective March 8, 2012 and involved $3.9 billion in cash and 25 million shares of WDC common stock valued at approximately $0.9 billion. These shares give Hitachi, Ltd. approximately…

Google will partner with Asus on a 7-inch tablet. Another in a string of reports on the rumored tablet. [Read more]