Ever since Intel introduced their Core 2 Duo processors last year, it’s been nothing but hell for AMD. In order to stay competitive with their rapidly aging architecture, AMD was forced to drastically cut prices in order to present the customer with a better value than Intel. Knowing that they’d forced AMD into a corner, [...]

For anyone who’s followed the rumors and speculation leading up to today’s announcement, there really wasn’t anything all too surprising: the “classic” iPod got it’s usual size upgrade, the Nano gained some weight; and, as everyone expected, the new kid on the block is the Touch, an iPod-only iPhone. However, despite the fact that nothing [...]

The Big Bang of the digital audio revolution occurred exactly 25 years ago, on the 17th of August, 1982. This was the day that a Philips factory in Langenhagen, Germany, pressed the very first commercial Compact Disc, and propelled the world forward into the digital age of music.
The idea of a Compact Disc was first [...]

The whole thing started when a man, who calls himself “Magus,” in Atlanta, Georgia, went out to his local Target and bought himself a brand new Xbox 360 Premium for $350. After unpacking his new console, he noticed that there was something out of the ordinary on the rear of the console: an HDMI port, [...]

DRM is a bitch when it comes to copying music for a friend, but pretty soon we’ll have another reason to hate it. Apple recently filed a patent suggesting that in the near future you might not even be able to charge a friend’s iPod, let alone slip him a few tunes.
Apple’s patent outlines plans [...]