It’s the signs of a changing world. Changing demands. Changing norms. And a changing face of gaming. It’s the digital era, and it’s officially being ushered in at GameStop. While many tied to the brick-and-mortar gaming industry have wondered just how they’d cope with the increasing demand from gamers to have new titles “on-demand,” GameStop is staying one step ahead of the curve. Of course, when you see just how far Blockbuster has fallen now that Netflix has entered the picture, you can better understand the

The new DataTraveler 112 from Kingston helps budget-conscious users break storage barriers, allowing them to easily store and move large files in a device no bigger than a pocketknife. With capacities of up to 32GB and a simple capless design, is this drive perfect for you?

Western Digital was visibly proud when they introduced the planet’s first 2TB desktop hard drive back in April. You might say it was just as proud as Hitachi was when they introduced the world’s first 1TB desktop hard drive back in early 2007. Regardless of actual pride levels, there’s no doubt that Hitachi is beaming today with this announcement. The device you’re looking at below is the industry’s first 2TB desktop hard drive with a 7200RPM spindle rate. If you’ll recall, the 2TB Caviar Green HDD we took a

Well, well–what have we here? As the world of point and shoot cameras gets ever more saturated, it’s growing tougher and tougher to differentiate between the masses. Sony’s newest two, however, are easy to spot from the crowd. The Cyber-shot DSC-TX1 and DSC-WX1 are the company’s first two cameras to utilize back-illuminated “Exmor R” CMOS sensor technology, a new approach to optics that supposedly provides “unprecedented advances in low-light performance with approximately twice the sensitivity of cameras with

Growing tired of solid state news yet? Nah, impossible, right? As the HDD looks increasingly aged, SSDs are stepping in at an alarming rate to replace ’em. Though, all the power saving, speed and durability in the world won’t matter if prices don’t stoop down to reasonable levels, and that’ll only occur with more competition in the sector. Today, Toshiba America Electronic Components (TEAC) has announced that its latest generation solid state drives, based on 43nm MLC NAND-flash, are now shipping to manufacturers

The world of mobile broadband routers just got a lot more interesting. With Sprint recently announcing ten new markets in which Clearwire’s CLEAR WiMAX will be distributed, the introduction of this device couldn’t possibly be more timely. Sprint’s Personal Hotspot PHS300S and Cradlepoint’s MBR-1000 Broadband Router for business are both being launched today, hot on the heels of the Novatel Wireless MiFi 2200 intelligent mobile hotspot. Unlike the latter, which supports data transfers as high as 3G, the new duo

When NASA's original Apollo 11 moon landing video was accidentally destroyed, it seemed the world had lost a visual record of one of man's greatest achievements. Fortunately, unique digital video restoration technology from Lowry Digital, powered by NVIDIA Tesla GPUs (graphics processing units) with CUDA technology, has enhanced television coverage of the original video so that we can now watch Neil Armstrong take a giant leap for mankind in high-definition (HD).

Lowry Digital worked with several video sources to produce the footage, working from low-quality images such as television broadcast video and 8mm film shot on a handheld camera that was pointed at the monitor at NASA's Honeysuckle Creek tracking station in Australia. The newly released Apollo 11 video was enhanced by removing artifacts like noise, flickering, darkened image corners, blurs and smears, enabling it to regain proper contrast and improved resolution. Enhancing each frame of the video on a CPU-only system would have taken Lowry Digital between 20 to 45 minutes to complete. Tesla GPUs deliver a 100-times boost in performance, cutting the restoration time for a single frame to seconds. The final Apollo 11 video will feature two and half hours of HD video.

Watch out Amazon, Sony’s got the Kindle in its sights.Sony today announced two new Readers – the Reader Pocket Edition and the Reader Touch Edition – that will come out at the end of the month and cost less or the same as the older, more established Kindle. The Pocket Edition has a five-inch display, comes in several colors (“including navy blue, rose and silver”) and fits, as one might expect, in a jacket pocket or a purse. It can store about 350 “standard eBooks” and can last about two weeks on a single charge,

NEC announced a new 23-inch desktop display for use in enterprise business environments, education, and government applications. The new MultiSyncEA231WMi is a 16:9 widescreen monitor with several advanced features including an IPS panel, which enables a large viewing angle and excellent image stability. The EA231WMi is NEC’s first desktop display with DisplayPort technology. To help conserve energy, the EA231WMi features a one-touch button for ECO Mode, allowing users to quickly switch between two energy-saving

In its annual 10-K filing dated July 30, Microsoft noted that its “Client” (OS sales) business segment faces competition from “variants of Unix, [which] are supplied by competitors such as Apple, Canonical, and Red Hat…The Linux operating system…has gained some acceptance, especially in emerging markets, as competitive pressures lead OEMs to reduce costs and new, lower-price PC form-factors gain adoption. Partners such as Hewlett-Packard and Intel have been actively working with alternative Linux-based operating