Microsoft Q3 2014 Financial Results
This afternoon Microsoft held an earnings call to announce the results of their third quarter for fiscal year 2014. Overall GAAP revenue was down less than 1% over Q3 2013...
25 by Brett Howse on 4/24/2014Samsung Galaxy Beam 2 Revealed on Samsung China Website
Back in 2010 Samsung launched the original Samsung Galaxy Beam i8520. The phone ran Android 2.1 which was a bit outdated at the time as Android 2.2 launched just...
14 by Brandon Chester on 4/24/2014Apple Q2 2014 Fiscal Results
Today Apple announced its Q2 results, and sales of the iPhone continue to dominate revenue and earnings for the company. Revenue for the quarter came in at $45.6B – a...
27 by Brett Howse on 4/23/2014Upcoming GIGABYTE BRIX with GeForce GTX Inside
For the past 12-18 months, GIGABYTE’s BRIX platform has made inroads into the small form factor ecosystem with the help of Intel’s Haswell and AMD’s APUs under the hood...
39 by Ian Cutress on 4/23/2014OnePlus launches the OnePlus One: Initial Thoughts
Edit: In the time since the initial launch, there's been confirmation that the OnePlus One does in fact support 802.11ac. It's a single spatial stream part, Qualcomm's WCN3680. In what...
67 by Joshua Ho on 4/23/2014VESA and MIPI Announce Display Stream Compression Standard
For some time now the consumer electronics industry has been grappling with how to improve the performance and efficiency of display interfaces, especially in light of more recent increases...
85 by Ryan Smith on 4/22/2014Apple Releases iOS 7.1.1 Update: Addresses Touch ID and Keyboard Issues
Hot on the heels of the major 7.1 release, Apple released a new update for iOS on iPod Touch, iPhone, and iPad. The iOS 7.1.1 update focuses primarily on...
13 by Brandon Chester on 4/22/2014G.Skill Launches 32GB DDR3L-2133 1.35V SO-DIMM Memory Kit
The topic of SO-DIMM memory is an interesting one. As it currently stands, almost all laptops with interchangeable memory slots have SO-DIMM slots, as well as a few...
12 by Ian Cutress on 4/22/2014AMD Posts Catalyst 14.4 Release Candidate Drivers
Coinciding with this week’s launch of the Radeon R9 295X2, AMD has posted their latest Catalyst drivers, now at version 14.4. Catalyst 14.4 is the first driver set for...
19 by Ryan Smith on 4/21/2014Google Updates Hangouts: Merging IM and SMS
Today, Google announced an update to Hangouts that brings some new features. The first mentioned is merging conversations, which brings feature parity with iMessage in that regard. Google has...
15 by Joshua Ho on 4/21/2014HTC Adds Sense 6 Progress to Software Update Page
HTC has updated their software update status page with a section that displays the current status of the HTC Sense 6.0 upgrade. The page indicates that they intend to...
7 by Brandon Chester on 4/21/2014AMD Announces Refresh of Never Settle Forever Program
After letting their Never Settle Forever gaming bundle program slowly lapse over the past few months, AMD sends word this morning that they’re going to be significantly refreshing the...
11 by Ryan Smith on 4/21/2014Galaxy S5 Follow-Up: Water Resistance, Adobe RGB Testing and More
A Closer Look at Water Resistance Recently on the podcast, Anand mentioned that I was looking at how the Galaxy S5 performed when running benchmarks underwater. This ultimately started after...
45 by Joshua Ho on 4/19/2014AMD Q1 2014 Quarterly Earnings Analysis
AMD hosted their quarterly earnings conference call this afternoon to announce their financial results for the quarter ending March 2014. While they still reported a GAAP loss of $20...
37 by Brett Howse on 4/17/2014Newegg Opens Business to the UK and Australia
As a consumer, more competition can be a good thing. Competition in manufacturing brings innovation and might help drive core pricing down, whereas competition in selling pits retailers against...
46 by Ian Cutress on 4/16/2014Ruckus Brings Cloud-based Management to Public Wi-Fi Networks
We have been expanding our coverage of wireless networking recently. In particular, there has been plenty of recent action in the enterprise Wi-Fi domain. One of the top requirements...
3 by Ganesh T S on 4/15/2014AnandTech Live - Podcast Recording at 12:30PM ET on April 15
The past month has been pretty crazy around here with big releases from HTC, Samsung and just yesterday, Microsoft. I'm going to be wrapping all of it up in...
44 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/15/2014Quantenna Announces Development of 10G Wi-Fi 802.11ac Chipset
At the beginning of 2012 Broadcom announced its first 802.11ac chipsets under the banner of 5G (5th generation) WiFi. Since then we've seen the latest high end notebooks adopt...
19 by Ganesh T S on 4/14/2014G-Technology and LaCie Roll Out Thunderbolt 2 Lineup
Thunderbolt is Intel’s high-bandwidth, do-everything connector, designed as a potential future path for all things external to a system - displays, USB devices, external storage, PCI Express, and even...
24 by Ganesh T S on 4/11/2014CyberLink Launches PowerDVD 14 with HEVC Support
A couple of years back, we reviewed CyberLink's PowerDVD 12 in detail. At that time, support for the mobile ecosystem was one of the most important targets for CyberLink...
37 by Ganesh T S on 4/8/2014