MICROSOFT
NSA and PRISM Leaks Expose Just How Internet Privacy Is Not Real

NSA’s unlawful actions against its citizens finally pissing us off? Because it is out in the open along with our eyes. It is only human to share feelings of distrust and anger, and just like a rippling effect we are officially outraged.

 

BATTERY & POWER TECHNOLOGY
New Xbox Announced; Rumors Revealed

  Microsoft’s first new Xbox in eight years was officially announced today, streaming live from Xbox.com as well as a few other sites. From all the rumored next-generation names we had heard so far, such as the 720, Durango or … Continue reading

 

LAPTOPS & ULTRATHIN ULTRABOOKS
Microsoft Surface Tablet is Not a Shot Across the Bow: It’s a Real Torpedo – Opinion

Macroruffian-Giganticus seems to be so uncertain of the survival of its operating system products that it is apparently quite willing to eat its own friends alive.

 

CONVERGENCE & CONVERTIBLE HYBRID PCS
Dell XPS Duo 12 Laptop-Tablet & XPS 10 Tablet-Laptop: Faces of Convergence

Convergence of devices into hybrid or convertible forms is clearly the order of the day, and Dell Inc. will make two significant contenders.

 

GADGETS & PERIPHERALS
Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse Gets Tactile for Windows 8

The Microsoft Explorer Touch Mouse has a large touch-sensitive strip which replaces the traditional scroll wheel-button, and is used for vertical and horizontal, four-way touch scrolling.

 

APPLE
Microsoft Windows 8 Release Date & New Austin Retail Store

Microsoft will open 75 retail stores, and number 16 is coming to Austin. Windows 8 release date is expected in October; and that OS can support a maximum screen resolution higher than the new iPad's "retina" display.

 

AMD
2012 – 2013 PC Sales Growth Projected by Gartner Research

Gartner Research predicts a growth-rate for PCs more than seven times greater in 2012 than the previous year, and is forecasting even higher growth by the end of 2013.

 

MICROSOFT
Windows 8 Features vs Windows 7 – Executive Guide Release

Investors will notice, this probably guarantees entrenching Microsoft throughout most of eternity. However, if they break the desktop experience they're in trouble, because no one wants to waste money fixing what Microsoft should have gotten right in the first place.

 

APPLE
5 New Ultrabooks / Laptops + 1 Ghost = 2012

The next 18 months will see the Ultrabook / Ultrathin tidal-wave covering the global landscape, driven not only by improvements, but also by pent-up demand from corporate IT departments and consumers that have delayed purchases because of world-wide economic conditions. Here are 5 players and a yet-to-be-born machine.