Report: As Microsoft CEO, Elop could kill Bing, sell Xbox business
The search for a new Microsoft CEO is still underway. According to Reuters, the top five candidates include current Ford CEO Alan Mulally and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop. Bloomberg also believes Elop is a contender—and the news agency has learned some juicy details about what Microsoft might look like under his leadership.
Before joining Nokia in 2010, Elop headed Microsoft's Business Division, where he reportedly "pushed the company to enhance and find new ways to sell [Office] software." Bloomberg says Elop would pursue that same strategy if named CEO. Quoting ...
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Deal of the week: Graphics, keyboards, and cheap games
We have a nice collection of hardware and game bargains this week, including a high-end Radeon, some clicky keyboards, and some oldies but goodies from the Rockstar catalog:
North of the border, our Canadian readers can partake in NCIX's Spectacular November Sale Event . There are plenty of deals to ...
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Only a few days remain to enter our Dear Diary contest
There are only a couple of days left to enter our Dear Diary contest. We're giving away $2,300 in prizes, including gear from Gigabyte, Intel, Diamond, Rosewill, and Corsair. For a chance to win, all you have to do is write a diary entry from the perspective of a PC—your machine, a celebrity's rig, or even a fictional character's system. Entries must be between 50 and 350 words long, and they must be posted in this forum thread before noon Central Time on Sunday, November 10. The forum thread has the rest of the relevant contest details.
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Gigabyte amps up audio for G1.Sniper Z87 motherboard
We've long been critical of integrated motherboard audio, which typically doesn't measure up to the quality of even budget sound cards (at least when using halfway decent analog headphones and speakers). Onboard solutions continue to improve, though, and high-end boards are taking integrated audio to new heights. Gigabyte's G1.Sniper Z87 is the latest example. It debuts at Blizzcon today, and it's loaded with more audio goodness than we've ever seen on a motherboard.
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Driver update addresses ''variability in fan speeds'' on Hawaii-based Radeons
The PowerTune mechanism in AMD's Hawaii-based Radeon R9 290X and 290 graphics cards is a little different from the clock boosting schemes typically employed by GPUs and CPUs. Turbo mechanisms usually ramp up from a ...
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Nvidia suffers revenue, profit shrinkage
The numbers are in for Nvidia's latest fiscal quarter, and... well, the green team could be doing better. Although Nvidia's gross margin was up a couple of points compared to last year, revenue and profits were both down a ways.
Here are the numbers. They pertain to the third ...
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Nvidia's GeForce GTX 780 Ti graphics card reviewed
Boy, this is entertaining. AMD uncorks the Radeon R9 290X and captures the GPU performance crown. Nvidia counters by announcing price cuts and promising to introduce a mysterious new GPU, the GeForce GTX 780 Ti. Along the way, we've seen a host of new features and buzzwords injected into the high-end graphics space as part of the conversation: AMD's Mantle low-level graphics API, Nvidia's creamy smooth G-Sync display tech, and the TrueAudio DSP block built into the new Radeons. Prices have dropped pretty dramatically in the past month, too.
For a dying market, high-end PC graphics sure has a lotta vitality. Makes ...
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Samsung Spinpoint M9T is world's thinnest 2TB notebook drive
Seagate took over Samsung's hard drive business a couple of years ago, and it continues to crank out mechanical drives under the Samsung name. The latest one is the 2.5" Spinpoint M9T, which crams an impressive 2TB of storage into a case just 9.5 mm thick. The Spinpoint isn't skinny enough to match 5- and 7-mm notebook drives, but it's a fair bit thinner than competing 2TB offerings, which are 15 mm thick.
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Thursday Shortbread
The Pick 6
- Reuters: Twitter shares rocket 92% higher in NYSE debut
- Intel's industry predictions for 2014
- Guru3D, Hardware Heaven, HotHardware, KitGuru, Ocaholic,
PCPer, techPowerUp!, TechSpot, The SSD Review, and
TweakTown review OCZ Vector 150 SSD
- CowcotLand, Futurelooks, Guru3D, Hardware Asylum,
Hardware Canucks, Hardware Heaven, Hardware.Info,
HotHardware, HTL, KitGuru, LanOC Reviews, Legit Reviews,
OCC, PCPer, and techPowerUp! review Nvidia GeForce
GTX 780 Ti
- Guru3D's GeForce GTX 780 Ti SLI review
- Ocaholic pits GTX 580 vs. GTX 780 - should you upgrade?
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Project CARS is coming to SteamOS
Add another game to the growing list of titles coming to SteamOS. World of Mass Development has confirmed that crowd-funded racing sim Project CARS will be released for Valve's Linux-based living room OS. Backers can already access early builds on Steam for Windows. The final version, which is due in fall 2014, will be released for both Windows and SteamOS. The game is also coming to the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and Wii U.
As a long-time fan of driving games, I'm really looking forward to this one. I backed the project last year and can't wait ...
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Newegg bundles AMD processors with SimCity, Blood Dragon
If you want to play Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon or the latest SimCity game, AMD's processors just got a little more attractive. Newegg is bundling those games with a bunch of FX and A-series processors. The deal extends from the $200 FX-8350 down to the $65 A6-5600K. Purchased separately, the games are worth $50.
This is a limited-time offer; the deal expires just before midnight on December 2. ...
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OCZ's Vector 150 solid-state drive reviewed
The playbook for SSDs is pretty well established. Controller updates are few and far between, so new drives typically combine existing technology with flash fabbed on a finer manufacturing process. That's not the most exciting recipe, but it makes sense. These days, most folks want SSDs to be cheaper rather than faster. Transitioning to finer lithography is the best way to lower the all-important cost per gigabyte.
OCZ followed that formula when it released the Vertex 450 earlier this year. That drive paired the Indilinx Barefoot 3 controller from OCZ's ...
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Intel forms new business unit to tackle the Internet of things
At IDF in September, Intel surprised us with Quark, a tiny SoC that's one fifth the size of a Atom chip. The chip has already gone on to spawn an Arduino-compatible development board, and it's destined to power devices in the "Internet of things" everyone keeps talking about.
Now, Intel has made the small SoC an even bigger deal by forming a new business unit dedicated to connected devices. According to Reuters, the Internet of Things Solutions Group will report ...
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Microsoft pimps Internet Explorer with anime mascot
If you've spent enough time on the Internet, you've probably come across OS-tans—unofficial manga mascots for operating systems and other software. They're sometimes cute, sometimes creepy, and always very Japanese.
Well, believe it or not, Microsoft has used that concept for its latest Internet Explorer marketing campaign. The result is a ...
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Samsung working on custom 64-bit processor core
During an analyst event in South Korea, Samsung unveiled plans for some interesting new mobile technologies. The audio and slides for all the event's presentations are available online, and there's a lot of analyst-focused information to wade through to get to the juicy tech details. Here are the highlights.
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