OWC announces a cheaper 128GB Mac Pro RAM kit compared to what others offer

If you need to stuff 128GB of RAM into a new Mac Pro, OWC appears to be the cheapest way to go.

News         March 27, 2014

Plextor’s M6M mSATA SSDs offer big performance built for smaller devices

Plextor's new M6M line of mSATA SSDs will attempt to bring speedy data transfer rates while catering to slim computing gear.

News         March 26, 2014

Puget Systems offers to give their Windows 8 systems a Windows 7-like look and feel

Puget Systems offers its customers the option to tweak Windows 8 and make it function and feel like its more popular cousin, Windows 7.

News         March 26, 2014

Microsoft releases source code for MS-DOS and Word for Windows

The source code for MS-DOS and an early version of Microsoft Word for Windows are now available to the public through the Computer History Museum.

News         March 26, 2014

Ex-Microsoft employee arrested for leaking Windows 8, passing trade secrets

Former Microsoft software engineer Alex Kibkalo was arrested in Seattle on Wednesday, accused of leaking Windows 8 prior to its release.

News         March 20, 2014

Intel’s Black Brook reference AIO desktop design looks familiar

Intel unveiled the "Black Brook," an all in one desktop PC that sports a built in battery, and looks awfully familiar.

News         March 20, 2014

Intel’s upcoming ‘Devil’s Canyon’ CPUs are built with overclockers in mind

Intel reportedly plans to release a new set of high-end CPUs designed specifically to maximize their overclocking potential later this year.

News         March 20, 2014

Toshiba’s new wireless adapter gives external hard drives wireless connectivity

Got an external hard drive you wish you could access wirelessly? Check out this adapter, which lets you do just that.

News         March 19, 2014

Unix botnet Operation Windigo steals your credentials and sends tons of spam

An Internet security research team has discovered "Operation Windigo," a Unix botnet which has infected thousands of systems.

News         March 19, 2014

New Corsair Carbide Series SPEC cases are aimed at penny-pinching PC builders

Corsair's new line of PC cases offer some decent visual flair and features for the bargain basement price.

News         March 19, 2014

Apple pushes Safari 7.0.3 for Mavericks, 6.1.3 for Mountain Lion to developers

Apple has released betas of Safari version 7.0.3 on Mavericks and 6.1.3 and Mountain Lion to developers.

Computing         March 19, 2014

Google account phishing scam hooks users with fake Google Drive login

There's a phishing scam going around that tricks users into giving up their Google login credentials using a fake, but legitimate looking Google login page.

News         March 18, 2014

Dropbox buys Zulip, a chat client that’s in private beta

Dropbox now owns Zulip, a private messaging start-up currently in private beta.

News         March 18, 2014

Avast security exec: ‘Abandoning Windows XP is a big mistake’

Avast Antivirus COO Ondřej Vlček calls ending support for Windows XP 'a big mistake.'

News         March 18, 2014

New Mac Pro gives Windows 7 the heave-ho, won’t run in Boot Camp

The new, high-end Mac Pro offers a lot of bells and whistles, but Windows 7 support in Boot Camp isn't one of them.

News         March 18, 2014

Cloud down! GChat and Google Drive experience service issues

Google Talk has experienced a service outage today.

News         March 17, 2014

UK banks buying extended Windows XP support from Microsoft for ATMs

The UK's five largest banks join a group of institutions that will pay Microsoft to continue updating Windows XP even after they stop supporting it.

News         March 17, 2014

Microsoft unwraps OneNote for Mac OS X, and makes it free to use as well

Microsoft just unveiled OneNote for Mac OS X today, which is free to use.

News         March 17, 2014

Roughly 10 percent of federal government PCs will run Windows XP after support is cut off

Roughly ten percent of federal government PCs will continue to use the aged operating system once the cutoff date for support arrives next month.

News         March 17, 2014

Your favorite browser probably didn’t hold up at this week’s Pwn2Own hackathon

Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari weren't safe during the Pwn2Own hacking competition at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver.

News         March 14, 2014

Asus Duet’s marriage between Google and Microsoft on the rocks

Asus has quietly put their the Transformer Book Duet TD300 on ice after Google and Microsoft both put the brakes on its release.

News         March 14, 2014

Google’s new search layout melds paid ads with real search results

Google's newest tweaks to their search layout could make it more difficult to tell the difference between ads and actual results.

News         March 13, 2014

Google Drive’s new prices make Dropbox, OneDrive seem like ripoffs

Google just announced some dramatic price cuts for their Drive cloud storage service.

News         March 13, 2014

Bright House Networks to become first cable provider to offer 1GB in-home broadband

Bright House Networks, a regional cable provider, will be the first to offer 1GB Internet service to residential customers in the U.S.

News         March 13, 2014

The FAVI Swivel Screen case gives your iPad Air a notebook-esque QWERTY keyboard

Favi's Swivel Screen portfolio case gives your iPad air a physical QWERTY keyboard.

News         March 13, 2014

LaCie Little Big Disk may be the world’s fastest portable hard drive

LaCie claims that its Little Big Disk can transfer data at a record-setting 1.375GBps.

News         March 12, 2014

With these new notebooks, Razer hopes to pretty much own your bank account

Razer just revealed a pair of ridiculously powerful notebooks, but as you might expect, they won't come cheap.

News         March 12, 2014

Maingear’s New Pulse 14 aims to balance power, portability and price

Maingear hopes to give laptop lovers the best of all three worlds: a good price, plenty of power, and a healthy amount of portability.

News         March 12, 2014

Windows XP users should ditch Internet Explorer, says US Dept. of Homeland Security

CERT doesn't really think you should be using XP at all, but if you have to, they want you to at least switch to a browser other than Internet Explorer.

News         March 11, 2014

Apple’s loyalty program just got better for schools and businesses

Apple values their education and business customers more than ever, as they've recently made sweeping improvements to the loyalty program for those groups.

News         March 11, 2014

Intel’s new 800Gbps cables push data faster than ever

Intel is leading the charge to make next-generation cables that can handle the ever-increasing power of our most massive computers.

News         March 11, 2014

DRAM price fixing lawsuit settles for $310M

Anyone who bought anything with DRAM in it between January 1, 1998 and December 31, 2002 may be entitled to some settlement money.

News         March 7, 2014

MSI’s Nightblade barebones rig is a good fit for novice PC builders

This barebones gaming PC offers a framework to work with, leaving you to choose and stuff in essential components like the CPU, graphics card and more.

News         March 7, 2014

Asus announces AMD AM1-compatible motherboards

The AM1M-A and AM1I-A motherboards will be among the first to hit the market designed to work in tandem with AMD's AM1 APUs.

News         March 6, 2014

Dell Announces New Kid-Proof Latitude 13 “Education Series” Laptops

The main selling point of Dell's newly announced Latitude 13 "Education Series" laptop come are designed to survive the fast pace of the classroom.

News         March 6, 2014

Mozilla wants to know why Dell is charging customers for Firefox

Dell is charging U.K. customers to pre-install Firefox on their new PCs, and Mozilla is not happy about it.

Guides         March 6, 2014

Microsoft to unveil DirectX 12 at GDC 2014

Redmond will be unwrapping the next generation in its long-running graphics API in a couple of weeks.

Best Ofs         March 6, 2014