Microsoft offering free Media Center upgrade to Windows 8 Pro users until January 31st 2013
By Mark Hearn posted Oct 26th 2012 3:27PM Home theater PC enthusiasts weren’t too thrilled when Microsoft announced that it was stripping Media Center and its codecs for DVD playback and broadcast TV from Windows 8 in favor of a paid add-on. The folks from Redmond are offering a temporary reprieve, in an effort to reward early adopters. Windows 8 Media Center Pack is for free to customers who purchase Windows 8 Pro… at...
Apple Introduces iPad mini
Everything you love about iPad — the beautiful screen, fast and fluid performance, FaceTime and iSight cameras, thousands of amazing apps, 10-hour battery life* — is everything you’ll love about iPad mini, too. And you can hold it in one hand. Learn more The rest is here: Apple Introduces iPad miniCheck Here
Microsoft starts $40 Windows 8 upgrade sales
Microsoft today opened its virtual store and began selling upgrades to Windows 8 Pro for $39.99, making good on a promise made last summer. Originally posted here: Microsoft starts $40 Windows 8 upgrade salescheapest Texas insurance
Windows 8 is in stores today — are you buying a copy?
By Jon Fingas posted Oct 26th 2012 4:00PM That special moment has come which usually rolls around only once every three years: Microsoft has released a new version of Windows. For the version 8 update, though, the stakes are higher than ever. Redmond isn’t just trying to convince legions of existing Windows users that they should break their PC update cycles. It’s trying to reclaim a foothold in a tablet space that’s...
Samsung Galaxy S III mini radios get probed by FCC
By Steve Dent posted Oct 26th 2012 4:29PM The Samsung Galaxy S III mini (aka the GT-i8190) may have a Napolean complex, carrying as it does the name of its bigger sibling while endowed with a garden-variety 4-inch, 800 x 480 screen and other downmarket specs. But that didn’t stop the inevitable FCC rendezvous, where its array of 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi, GPS, GLONASS, FM, Bluetooth 4.0 (LE) and NFC radios were waved through (and lack...
