According to reports by U.K gaming mag MCV, the next generation Xbox – codenamed “Durango” – is due to arrive next year and will not ship with an optical storage drive. MCV’s sources say that the next generation Xbox will use interchangeable solid state card storage, similar to the game cartridge of yore, instead of [...]

Citing his company’s belief that there is “a lot of demand” for a Windows 8 tablet, Dell CEO Michael Dell told the business talk show Bloomberg West that his company is prepping a Windows 8 tablet for release the day the OS becomes available. “Having a secure Windows tablet that works with all the Windows [...]

Last week AMD performed an impressive coup-de-data-centre against Intel, acquiring server manufacturer SeaMicro for its intellectual property – of which Intel once sought. Now, in a brave act to save face, Intel has said that it wasn’t even interested in SeaMicro in the first place. “We weren’t interested,” said Diane Bryant, the general manager of [...]

Today, Intel announced the Intel Ethernet Controller X540, the industry’s first fully integrated 10GBASE-T controller. This space-saving single-chip solution delivers outstanding performance for low-cost, low-power LAN on motherboard (LOM) and Converged Network Adapter (CNA) designs. The Intel Ethernet Controller X540 will help drive broader 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) adoption by providing connections that are backward-compatible [...]

Ray Ozzie’s first public comments on Microsoft, after stepping down from the company abruptly in 2010, were melancholic – foreboding of a time where the company would be quickly declining in relevancy under its current business model. “People argue about ‘are we in a post-PC world?’. Why are we arguing? Of course we are in [...]

NVidia has rebuffed Apple’s claim that their A5X graphics chip, found in the iPad 3, is four times as fast as NVidia’s Tegra 3. Apple first made the claim during CEO Tim Cook’s presentation launching the iPad 3. The slide that made the claim did not provide any technical footnotes or references to benchmarks that [...]

This lovely press release from Gigabyte came through the Hardware Canucks news inbox today. Claiming number 1 spot for motherboard durability is certainly a brazen claim to make. Head over to the forums to discuss whether Gigabyte can live up to its claims.  GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today [...]

G.SKILL, the worldwide leading high performance memory designer, has shown the fastest quad channel memory at a whopping speed of DDR3 2666 MHz 16 GB(4 x 4 GB) with ASUS ROG RAMPAGE IV EXTREME motherboard and Intel Core i7-3960X processor at CeBIT 2012. To provide overclocking enthusiasts the best memory solution, G.SKILL R&D team is always dedicated [...]

AMD has confirmed the existence of a minor bug in some of its line of processors that could cause errors when executing code. The bug was first discovered by Matt Dillon, developer of the OS DragonFly BSD. In a blog post, Mr. Dillon said he discovered the bug – called a segmentation fault – by [...]

For the week of February 27 to March 2 RIM’s Playbook ruled supreme at Future Shop, outselling Apple’s iPad. The Canadian retailer announced the news in a March 2 tweet, which was met with a response of “Yay!” from RIM. RIM has aggressively cut the price of the Playbook, lowering the 16GB model to $199. [...]