Xi3 Piston Not the Steam Box – but a nice piece of kit! The Xi3 Piston console is being backed by Valved, and is being considered a third-party Steam Box will set you back a rather cool $1000 and should be hitting the stores in time for Christmas (this year). If you are one.

Intel reported to be considering major price cuts to their SSD 320, 330 and 520 lineup Hard Drive prices have been all over the shop recently, with traditional hard drives being extremely expensive from last yeah (although their price is now starting to fall again) SSD’s on the other hand have long been considered.

A prototype Solid State Drive architecture has recently been unveiled by a team of researchers lead by a professor  of Chuo University which combines NAND flash with ReRAM components to boost performance while simultaneously cutting power draw by as much as 93%. The prototype device writes eleven times faster than a standard multi-level cell NAND flash components, while.

A project, currently named ‘Samsung Facebook’ by Samsung has been confirmed to be underway by unnamed officials within Samsung. The new social networking site will eventually rival Facebook and is based on its Family Story system which is designed to share Photos, reminders and memos on samsung smartphones and televisions. It’s apparently coming along.

For around a decade now, AMD (or for most of that period, should I say ATI) were well known for their pretty much monthly release of WQHL-certified video drivers. This offered many numerous benefits, such as slowly being able to implement new features (rather than a large slew at once) and this in turn reduced.