A new, and unclaimed, eBay outlet appears to be run by Apple and offers refurbished products at large discounts to Apple's official refurbished stores, hinting at a new path for the company. More...
Lenovo's Windows 8 and RT Yoga devices are still to be released. But the early arrival of the Yoga 11 running Windows RT, at a lesser price point, might give some competition to Microsoft's Surface. More...
Apple may be planning to release a cheaper version of its MacBook Air, with a report suggesting that the new lower-cost notebook could be on track for a launch in Q3 2012. More...
Microsoft has released firmware version 3.1 for all models of their Zune MP3 players. The 3.1 update adds three new games: Checkers, Sudoku and Space Battle. A new multi player mode for the existing Texas... More...
Although the Xbox 360 has been, in many regards, a success for Microsoft, Japan has yet to embrace the console like the rest of the world, preferring instead Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation 3. Tokyo-based... More...
Harmonix revealed that instead of charging 500 Microsoft Points ($6.25) for a three song pack as Activision does with Guitar Hero III, they would be releasing the packs for 440 Microsoft Points ($5.49) with --... More...
On his blog, Dean Takahashi is found talking about Jasper, the code name for the next motherboard for the Xbox 360 that is slated for August 2008. He criticizes Microsoft's speed in shrinking the size... More...
A cut price PlayStation 3 (PS3) with a smaller hard drive and no backwards compatibility with previous consoles goes on sale later this month. The £299 PS3 has a 40-gigabyte hard disk and will be... More...
Amazon has launched a public beta of its long-anticipated digital music download store, offering more than 2 million songs as MP3 files (a third of iTunes' current library). Most tracks are variable bit rate 256kbps... More...
Just two weeks after revealing that some employees had falsified corporate revenue to meet earnings targets, Dell reported a profit of $733 million for its fiscal 2008 second quarter, up 46 percent from its mark... More...
These days, literally the smallest whisper about falling costs of blue-violet laser diodes will set off speculation about a PlayStation 3 price drop. Yesterday, Sony announced that it would be shipping its second-generation Blu-ray Disc... More...
Samsung Electronics may produce a cheaper version of its new Q1 Ultra ultra-mobile PC in a bid to boost sales, a senior company executive said Thursday. "In order to have more users who can afford... More...
How cheap are they? How about the cheapest AMD-based Dimension E521 for less than half of the cheapest Core 2 Duo-based system. How about almost half of the cheapest Pentium D-based system? If you hunt... More...
Bit-tech are reporting that they have learned that AMD are close to shipping a more affordable addition to its superb Athlon 64 X2 architecture. After the initial launch, which was out of... More...
Bloomberg is the latest of the news outlets to jump on the latest as yet unconfirmed news that Apple will move to the x86 architecture, according to Jean-Louis Gassee who oversaw Apple's products and research-and-development... More...
Speaking in an exclusive interview with GamesIndustry.biz, SCEE development chief Phil Harrison has said that the PS3 will be cheaper to develop for than the PS2 was initially, with the system's power being much easier... More...
Is your slow internet connection preventing next-generation consoles from reaching their full potential? According to Kaz Hirai Sony Computer Entertainment America president it is. He feels that it's necessary that broadband needs to... More...
The world's largest mobile phone maker Nokia started shipping its revamped N-Gage gaming phone on Wednesday, and said due to operator subsidies it could sell cheaper than previously flagged. Nokia said the phone could... More...
Licensing discounts on the cards as Redmond shows signs of cracking. Microsoft customers could win big discounts as the software giant comes under increasing pressure to reduce licensing costs or lose deals... More...
Concern over the lifespan of the iPod's rechargeable battery has reached the House of Commons, with 11 MPs putting their names to a motion calling for Apple to ensure that replacement batteries are plentiful in... More...
TAIWANESE WIRE Digitimes is reporting today that Apple will introduce mag-alloy cases for desktop iMacs in the first quarter of 2004. And, claims the wire, it will also throw a huge amount of plastic parts... More...
A Microsoft-sponsored white paper from research group IDC, which compares the total cost of ownership of Microsoft's Windows 2000 and Linux server environments across five enterprise computing workload situations at 104 companies, found that the... More...
Thanks Josh for this one. "It's hardly a controversial statement, is it? Nobody likes paying £40-£45 (50-60 Euros) for a new videogame, especially when it only cost 40p to make. And the truth... More...
In the second quarter of 2001, renewed capacity expansion kept supply above demand, and CD-R discs fell to US$0.14 a unit. Ritek did go back up to US$0.22-0.24, but the recent increase in demand has... More...
The low-priced Pentium 4 desktop has arrived. As expected, PC makers on Monday launched a bevy of new computers that combine Pentium 4 processors with standard memory. These machines don't perform as well... More...
PC manufacturers will push the Pentium 4 toward wide circulation on Monday with new computers that for the first time wed the chip with standard memory, rather than Rambus memory. Virtually every... More...