Canon PowerShot G15 Review

Canon’s PowerShot G-series of compact digital cameras has everything it takes to bring smiles to enthusiasts. Tough build, brilliant optics, lots of external controls and stellar performance are only a few of the many great things about the cameras belonging to the series. Previous addition to the G-series was the G1 X, which was the first of its kind—a compact digital camera with a 1.5-inch type sensor (almost as large as ones found in entry-level...

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Mobile Grudge Match: HTC Butterfly vs Sony Xperia Z

The battle of flagship smartphones is a never ending story. Each year, a new chapter begins and we kick off 2013 with the HTC Butterfly vs Sony’s Xperia.The battle of flagship smartphones is a never ending story. Each year, a new chapter begins and we kick off 2013 with the HTC Butterfly vs Sony’s Xperia Z. Both these handsets mirror the absolute best of what their respective manufacturers have to offer with today’s technology. Let’s take a quick...

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Crowdfunded NCase M1 Mini-ITX enthusiast chassis inches toward reality

Although there are some solid small form factor cases available, none of them are perfect -- at least not if you're Wahaha360 and Necere from HardOCP's forum. Disappointed by popular enclosures such as theSilverStone SG05, the guys teamed up last year to design their ideal chassis. After months of feedback from HardOCP members and Lian Li engineers, the pair have unveiled the fruits of their labor: the NCase M1.Some of the M1's specs could...

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Scientists develop computer that never crashes

Depending on what you are doing, a computer crash can be classified as anything from a minor annoyance to a complete disaster. I’ve been experiencing some BSODs lately of unknown origin and let me be the first to tell you, it’s pretty darn annoying when you are right in the middle of something important – like work – and everything shuts down before you get a chance to save.Fortunately, researchers and scientists at the University College London have...

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Microsoft's Digital allows Computer Interaction with Hand Gestures

Microsoft’s research lab in Cambridge, UK has developed a new way to interact with the digital world using intuitive hand gestures. “Digits” uses 3 different IR cameras to track the positions of fingers with respect to each other.One of the applications for this technology includes 3-D spacial interaction with a mobile device. By assigning gestures to certain functions, the user could conceivably control any aspect of a device. This also...

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Surface Pro sells out quickly - due to high demand or low supply?

Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet hit retail shelves last Friday but you wouldn’t know it if you happened to venture into any number of big box stores this weekend. That’s because the slate was nowhere to be found – sold out in virtually every location, we’re told.Both the 64GB and 128GB units were sold out online through Microsoft’s website by Saturday. All of this could mean one of two things: either Microsoft had a fantastic sales weekend...

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Rumored Apple "iWatch" to feature curved glass design

Fueled by sources purportedly familiar with Cupertino's developments, a report by The New York Times indicates Apple's rumored wristwatch-like device will feature curved glass. Rumors suggest the "iWatch", as it is being called for now, could enter production as early as this year.Interestingly, Apple was issued a patent in December for a novel process which yields high-quality, curved glass. Could the company be leveraging...

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Australia subpoenas Microsoft, Apple to explain why products cost Aussies more

Australian parliamentary officials have launched a formal inquiry which aims to examine why many tech products cost Aussies up to 50 percent more than they do for American consumers. Reportedly, Microsoft, Apple and Adobe are among some of the companies who have been ordered to appear on March 22 in Canberra for questioning.''I'm firmly of the view that the only way to get answers from some of major IT vendors is to compel them to appear,''...

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Phones that beat iPhone 5 in U.S.?

Though Apple's iPhone still the reigns as "the phone that redefined phones," there are four Android phones from Motorola, HTC, and Samsung that U.S. users like better than iPhone 5 and have rated higher for user satisfaction, according to a poll from OnDevice Research. Check out these phones that users rated higher than iPhone 5.Read More....

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Microsoft's SkyDrive now hosts over one billion Office documents

Earlier today Microsoft revealed that its cloud-based SkyDrive service now plays host to more than 1 billion documents. There’s little doubt that the service saw a massive increase in use thanks to its tie-in with the recently released Office 365.Microsoft also used the occasion to announce a new feature in SkyDrive and the Office Web Apps. Up to this point, anyone that wanted to edit a document would first have to sign into...

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Alleged iPhone 5S photos from inside Foxconn leak online

A new batch of alleged next generation iPhone photos have found their way online courtesy of a Chinese website. The pre-production images appear to have been taken inside a manufacturing facility – said to be Foxconn – and show the front and rear panels of a device that looks very similar to the iPhone 5.Details are lacking at this hour but based on rumors circulating last week, we could see not one but two new iPhones launch...

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Weekend Open Forum: At what age did you get your first cell phone?

I grew up in a time when landlines were the primary means of voice communication. Sure there were cell phones in the early ‘90s but they were typically reserved for business executives and the wealthy. The pager (or beeper) was the go-to device for getting in touch with people on the go through most of my teenage years.My first cell phone was a Nokia 5110 that I got when I was 18, arguably the most popular handset at the time due to the fact that...

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Dead Space 3 PC Graphics Test

The third installment in the Dead Space series was released this month, and considering the game made our list of 2013's most anticipated PC games we thought we would check it out to see how it looked and performed. Dead Space 3 is the direct sequel to the January 2011 release of Dead Space 2.Like the first two games, Dead Space 3 79 is a survival horror third-person shooter. In addition to drop-in/drop-out co-op, Dead Space...

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A third of PC owners are shifting tasks to mobile devices

A new report from NPD Group further drives home the notion that the PC industry has a serious problem on its hands. As we all know, the problem in question is mobile devices – they continue to chip away at an industry that most probably never imagined could fall on such hard times.The report notes that 37 percent of consumers that used to access content from a computer have now switched to using tablets and smartphones to accomplish...

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HP rumored to be considering company "break up"

In 2011, former CEO Leo Apotheker proposed jettisoning HP's iconic PC business -- a division which suffers from notoriously anemic profit margins -- in an attempt to return HP to greater profitability. Although Apotheker's successor, Meg Whitman, canned that idea, unnamed sources "familiar with the matter" claim HP may once again be mulling over breaking the company apart. This time around though, it could be more than just its PC unit. In December's...

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Microsoft 'Blue' to encompass Windows 8, Phone, Services and RT

Microsoft is currently working on a feature pack update for Windows 8, codenamed Blue, that’s expected sometime this summer or fall. This isn’t the first time we have heard about Blue as early rumors suggested it could be the follow-up operating system to Windows 8 but now, we’re hearing a different plan courtesy of Mary Jo Foley from ZDNet.The journalist claims a trusted source told her that Blue not only represents updates to Windows 8 but instead,...

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