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World Wide Web Turns 20 Years Old, Where Were You Back Then?

Posted 04/30/2013 at 8:32am | by Paul Lilly

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Tim Berners-Lee helped change the world more than two decades ago.

If you plan on going out to eat today, save room for dessert and order a slice a cake in honor of the web's 20th birthday. That's right, it's been two whole decades already, though the wheels were set in motion several years before in 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist working at CERN, first proposed an information management system that would later become the World Wide Web. These days he serves as the director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

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Samsung Reportedly Readying Octa-Core Nexus 11 Tablet

Posted 04/29/2013 at 11:42pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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Nexus 10 successor said to pack an 11-inch display

Given Google's unwillingness to disclose sales figures pertaining to its Nexus tablets, we are left with no other choice but to rely on educated guesses by market analysts like Enders Analysis strategy consultant Benedict Evans, who recently estimated the total sales of Nexus 7 to be around 6.8 million units and that of the Nexus 10 around one-tenth as much. Evans’ Nexus 10 sales estimate in particular, if it bears any truth, is nothing to write home about. But, if a new rumor is to be believed, Nexus 10 manufacturer Samsung may be working on redeeming itself by launching the world’s first octa-core tablet.

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Corsair Isn't For Sale, But Is Looking for Investment Partner to Fund Buying Spree

Posted 04/29/2013 at 1:43pm | by Paul Lilly

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A private equity firm plans to invest $75 million into Corsair.

Everyone take a sigh of relief, Corsair isn't for sale, and therefore isn't at risk of ending up in the hands of a person or organization that doesn't share the same passion for PC peripherals as Corsair does. What about the rumor floating around that suggests Corsair may be sold to private equity firm Francisco Partners? Corsair tells Maximum PC the rumor is "inaccurate," though the company is looking to secure an investment.

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Windows Phone Ad Pokes Fun at Samsung and Apple Feud

Posted 04/29/2013 at 11:20am | by Paul Lilly

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Nokia's Lumia 920 is a lover, not a fighter.

It does seem at times as though Apple and Samsung almost enjoy fighting with each other, doesn't it? A new ad promoting Nokia's Lumia 920 smartphone and the Windows Phone platform it runs on comes right out and says it, and then implores viewers, "Don't fight. Switch." The 1-minute ad spot does little to promote the Lumia 920's features or Windows Phone software, but you have to hand it to Microsoft for at least trying to get into the thick of things.

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Thermaltake Introduces Water 3.0 Liquid Cooling Systems

Posted 04/29/2013 at 10:45am | by Paul Lilly

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Liquid cooling made easy.

Just as you can configure and build your PC from scratch, cooling enthusiasts can also piece together a custom liquid cooling solution, provided they have the requisite cash and experience. For everyone else, self-contained liquid cooling systems are the next best thing, offering similar benefits but for less money and far less risk. Enter Thermaltake, one of the more active players in the LCS market, which just announced a trio of new cooling products.

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First Radeon HD 7730 Graphics Card Spotted in the Wild

Posted 04/29/2013 at 8:56am | by Paul Lilly

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MSI's Radeon HD 7730 breaks cover and gets benchmarked.

A rather active user on the Chinese-language forum Coolaler posted several pictures of an MSI Radeon HD 7730 graphics card. As far as we can tell, the entry-level card's model was supposed to have been kept a secret, as identifying information on the retail box was replaced with a red censor strip, but it's tougher to hide such things from software. In addition to the model number, there are also some benchmark numbers to share.

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Sony Xperia Tablet Z Available to Pre-order for $500

Posted 04/29/2013 at 8:24am | by Paul Lilly

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There's no thinner 10.1-inch tablet, according to Sony.

Sony's wedge-shaped Xperia Tablet S didn't exactly take the Android tablet market by storm, and truth be told, we don't think the Xperia Tablet Z will either, though it's an interesting slate. The Xperia Tablet Z, which is now available to pre-order for $500 on Sony's website, is supposedly the world's thinnest 10.1-inch slate measuring just 0.27 inches thick and weighing barely more than a pound (1.09 pounds, to be precise).

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Intel Confirms Haswell Will Launch on June 3rd at Computex

Posted 04/28/2013 at 4:08pm | by Justin Kerr

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Countdown

A countdown begins for geeks, by geeks.

We all knew it was coming this summer, but now we also know it will only be 3,337,200,000,000,000 more nanoseconds until Haswell officially launches. Our back-of-the-envelope calculations align this countdown with Computex 2013, a show we fully expect to be dominated by Intel powered machines showing off the new architecture.

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Microsoft Packs in Free T-Mobile Hotspots With Select US Forbes Magazines

Posted 04/28/2013 at 1:45pm | by Justin Kerr

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Nothing makes us think subscription based software quite like 15 days of free Wi-Fi. Wait what?

It’s not easy to get your ad noticed these days, but packing in a T-Mobile hotspot, complete with 15 days of complimentary access sure doesn’t hurt. Select US editions of Forbes are arriving on door steps today with built in routers, and its all part of a marketing campaign by Microsoft to draw attention to Office 365.

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Google Drive Update Enables Offline Support for Documents

Posted 04/28/2013 at 9:55am | by Justin Kerr

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Google Docs

Google takes another step in the right direction.

In terms of features, Microsoft Office has Google Doc’s beaten hands down. The bad news for Microsoft however, is that the vast majority of features a typical user cares about are quickly being addressed. Of those missing features, the most common complaint we hear is lack of offline support. The option to work without an active Internet connection has come and gone from Google Doc’s over the years, but its back again for Chrome users, and hopefully its here to stay this time.

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