Tag Archives : PC

Razer, maker of high-tech gaming accessories and peripherals, has just announced its newest gaming controller, the Hydra, which is a subtle twist to the new age of gaming controllers.  The Razer Hydra is effectively two Nintendo Wii Nunchuks, utilizing magnetic motion sensing.  THe Hydra promises ultra precise tracking down to 1mm and 1 degree movements, which is a lot more sophisticated than [...]

Amazon has announced a new cloud-based music storage service called Cloud Drive. The new service allows you to store up to 5GB of music and playback tracks via your Android smartphone, Android tablet, Mac, or PC. Users that purchase a complete album via Amazon’s MP3 store will automatically be upgraded to 20GB of storage, free of charge, and tracks purchased on Amazon are automatically uploaded [...]

Mozilla just made Firefox 4 available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux computers, and features a redesigned UI, a new panoramic tab manager, improved security and privacy controls, integrated Firefox Sync services, tab grouping, an optimized JavaScript engine designed to improve Web app performance, GPU-accelerated page rendering and plenty more. The new version of Firefox is available for download [...]

HP, in a somewhat unsubstantiated rumor, might be considering selling its PC business.  Samsung is the front-running heir to the business.  All this coming from a couple of Asian publication sources, the rumors apparently have been circulating in Taiwan since last year.  An earlier report indicated that Lenovo was a possible buyer and even suggested Foxconn might have shown interest in the business. HP [...]

HP’s CEO Leo Apotheker is saying that all HP PCs being manufacturered in the near future will also be running webOS.  “Starting next year, every one of the PCs shipped by HP will include the ability to run WebOS in addition to Microsoft Corp.’s Windows,” said Apotheker. HP’s chief is trying to incentivize developers to create software for his company’s acquired platform, which he [...]

Razer shows us future of mobile PC gaming —Gaming company Razer has unveiled a concept device at CES 2011 called the Razer Switchblade, which looks to bring PC desktop gaming to a portable form factor. Razer Switchblade looks to bring PC desktop gaming to a portable form factor With the keyboard and mouse interface being one of the major strengths of PC gaming but a major problem when it comes [...]

Windows compatible with AirPlay via AirMediaPlayer —A simple solution is bringing Apple’s AirPlay streaming media functionality to Windows. Developer Apostolos Georgiadis has assembled a neat little Windows application called AirMediaPlayer that allows Apple’s iOS devices to stream music and video via AirPlay to a Windows PC. AirMediaPlayer is free to use and is compatible with any AirPlay-equipped [...]

Pioneer first to offer BDXL Blu-ray drive, Pioneer BDR-206MBK —Pioneer has come out with the world’s first optical personal computer drive capable of reading and writing to the new BDXL Blu-ray format. The integration of additional layers into Blu-ray discs offers a single quadruple-layer storage capacity of up to 128GB, and will likely see the new device head straight for media professionals [...]