Intel has just launched the new 9-Series chipsets, specifically Z97 and H97, upgrades to Z87 and H87 respectively, designed to support performance desktops. The 9-series is claimed to offer few improvements over…
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EE returns as 2014 Glastonbury Festival’s ‘official technology partner’
EE has announced that it is the official technology and communications partner for Glastonbury Festival this year. This is the second year in a row that the mobile operator has agreed to…
Hackers steal records of 480,000 Harley patients; try to blackmail plastic surgery clinic
Hackers have hit a UK-based plastic surgery clinic – Harley Medical Group – and made away with personal information of over 480,000 patients and even tried to blackmail the company in a…
Intel launches Education 2-in-1 convertible laptop
Intel has unveiled the new Education 2-in-1, a laptop-tablet hybrid with Windows 8.1 for the education market. The new Intel Education 2-in-1 will come with a detachable keyboard base, which will allow…
Sony sends out warning over Vaio Fit 11A battery overheating issues
Sony has requested all Vaio Fit 11A customers to immediately stop using the laptop citing overheating battery problem that poses a fire risk. Sony announced that it will soon be rolling out…
Windows XP is dead, but Bliss lives on
After more than 12 years, Microsoft’s Windows XP operation system has retired on Tuesday, April 8. But, the most famous image of the blue sky, rolling pasture and fluffy white clouds that…
Google offering heavy discounts on Chromebooks to Windows XP users
Google, in collaboration with VMWare, is offering as much as $200 (£120) off on its Chromebooks to business users who are still using Windows XP. Organisations using VMWare’s Horizon DaaS – a…
Stuart Parkin receives Millennium Technology Prize
British-American physicist, Stuart Parkin has been awarded with the 1 million-euro (USD 1.3 million) Millennium Technology Prize in recognition for his work on increasing the digital data storage on magnetic disk to…
Gartner: PC shipments declined, but end of Windows XP support eased the decline
Worldwide PC shipments have dropped to 76.6 million units in the first quarter of 2014, down 1.7 percent from Q1 last year, claims Gartner in its latest report. The PC shipments as…
Wi-Fi Protected Setup adds NFC tap-to-connect
Internet of things will push more and more gadgets into our businesses and households and managing their connectivity is going to be a daunting task – specifically for those gadgets that won’t…
Google I/O 2014 conference registrations delayed by a week
Google I/O 2014 developer conference registrations have been pushed back by a week at the last minute from its originally scheduled date. Registration for the Google I/O conference scheduled to be held…
Qualcomm unveils next-generation Snapdragon 810, 808 processors
Qualcomm on Monday unveiled Snapdragon 810 and Snapdragon 808, its next generation 64-bit flagship processors for smartphones and tablets, claiming them to be its “highest performing” processors to date. The Qualcomm Snapdragon…
Samsung rolls out new lineups of SD & microSD cards
Samsung has announced new range of SD and microSD cards in its PRO, EVO and Standard lineup with a diverse range of capacities from 4GB to 64GB. The new lineup is designed…
LaCie introduces three new 4K solutions with Thunderbolt 2 technology
LaCie, Seagate Technology’s premium brand that makes exceptional external storage devices, will show off its three new storage solutions: LaCie 8big, 5big and 2big, at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show…
Intel unveils Braswell chip for entry-level devices
Intel has taken the wraps off a new product codenamed Braswell, to be manufactured on the upcoming 14nm process, at the IDF 2014 conference in China. The company is yet to give…