Nintendo 3DS priced at $250, available in March
To say that Nintendo's handheld gaming consoles have been popular would be a huge understatement. According to Wikipedia's tabulation of worldwide console sales, the Nintendo DS, Game Boy, and Game Boy Advance occupy three of the top five spots. The DS alone is said to have sold over...
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Apple breaks new records with latest results
At this point, Apple posting record-breaking quarterly results almost doesn't qualify as news. The Mac maker is riding a tidal wave of shiny aluminum and glass, and there's little the competition seems to be able to do about it. Case in point: the company's first 2011 fiscal quarter, ended December...
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GeForce 266.58 drivers boost performance, add 3D, SLI profiles
A new set of GeForce graphics drivers quietly crept onto Nvidia's website late yesterday. This 266.58 driver release promises performance improvements for GeForce 400- and 500-series graphics cards, a plethora of 3D Vision-related enhancements, improved Nvidia Surround performance, and some fresh SLI profiles to boot. Now that's a graphics...
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Tin Can Day Shortbread
Eight is Enough AppleInsider: Apple profits surge 77% on record sales of 4.1M Macs, 16.2M iPhones, 7.3M iPads TechFlash: Apple is world's no. 2 computer maker... if iPad is a computer C|Net: As claims against Nvidia begin, what settlement means Engadget's exclusive: hp / Palm's webOS tablets...
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GlobalFoundries changes plans for 20-nm process
It looks like GlobalFoundries, IBM, and other Common Platform members have done a little soul searching and decided to abandon the gate-first manufacturing approach they've been championing for some time. AMD and GlobalFoundries have made it clear that they're committed to gate-first manufacturing through the 28-nm half-node, but as...
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New SAS models added to WD's enterprise lineup
Western Digital has expanded its line of enterprise-class Serial Attached SCSI hard drives. The 2.5" S25, better known to enthusiasts as a sled-less VelociRaptor, has added 450 and 600GB capacities to go along with the 147 and 300GB models already available. All four capacities share the same...
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Portal 2 to offer cross-platform multiplayer
For all the sniping and insults thrown back and forth between console and PC gamers, we haven't had much opportunity to face off on the same battlefield. Microsoft is rumored to have experimented with cross-platform multiplayer only to cancel the project after PC gamers armed with keyboards and mice...
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Another column about the Verizon iPhone
It seems like only yesterday that we were all hot, bothered, brothered, sistered and in a tizzy about AT&T being the sole, sucktacular wireless provider for the iPhone. (Hold on, the iPhone wireless telecommunications device from Apple, Inc. (NYSE:AAPL); there you go, SEO freaks.) But, in fact, it was seven...
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Report: Acer plans Sandy Bridge-powered Android slates
And now for something completely out of left field. According to IDG News, Acer is planning two or three new slates that will feature Sandy Bridge processors and run Google's Android operating system. The report strains believability when it mentions the use of quad-core Sandy Bridge CPUs... and boggles...
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Bethesda shows first Elder Scrolls V screenshot
Just over a month after unveiling the teaser trailer for its next The Elder Scrolls title, Bethesda has come back with something a little meatier: the first public screenshot of the game, which popped up on the Bethesda Blog yesterday. The dungeon-y setting...
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Thesaurus Day Shortbread
7 Up techPowerUp!: Socket pin burnout returns to haunt LGA1155? Donanim Haber: AMD quad-core Fusion Llano faster than Core i3-540 (in Turkish) Fudzilla: OLPC ARM version is faster than Intel's X-bit labs: AMD intros new version of Radeon HD 6970 with $279 price-point and AMD plans to enable...
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The TR Podcast 79: A Sandy Bridge to CES
Between a detailed look at Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors (not to mention the slew of motherboards that come along with them) and all the news from CES to discuss, we've recorded one of our longest episodes in a while.
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Evidence points to high-density display on the iPad 2
As unlikely as it sounds for Apple to start piling on pixels in a 9.7" slate, MacRumors has uncovered evidence that the second-generation iPad may have a higher-resolution display than its predecessor. The clue? A pair of unused, jumbo-sized graphics inside Apple's iBooks 1.1 app. One of the graphics is...
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Steve Jobs takes another medical leave
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is taking another leave of absence in order to deal with an unspecified medical problem, according to reports everywhere like this one at CNBC. Jobs has already faced multiple health issues in recent years, including a liver transplant and a form of pancreatic cancer. As...
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