One complaint that a lot of people have about Macs is that Apple usually doesn't offer machines at very low costs like $500 while quite a few Windows machines start at around $500. Apple has been pretty successful in the computer market even with the higher starting cost. However Apple might be … [Read more...]
Microsoft Confirms $100 Xbox 360 And Kinect Bundle
Most people who purchase smartphones purchase them from a carrier on a two year contract. They get the phone for a low cost of let's say $200, but they have to stick with that smartphone, and that carrier for two years unless you want to pay an early termination fee. The contract model has been … [Read more...]
Two Thirds Of Americans Won’t Pay Over $50 Per Month For Mobile Data
One thing that nearly all modern smartphones have is a data plan that you have to stick with for two years. The problem with mobile data plans at least in the United States is that they are really expensive, and according to some research most Americans really don't like the idea of paying a whole … [Read more...]
Hard Drive Pricing Is Suppposed To Drop Ten Percent By The End Of April
Last fall hard drive prices increased very dramatically due to the flooding in Taiwan. In many cases the cost of hard drives doubled since companies like Western Digital and Seagate weren't able to make hard drives in the flooded factories. If you're planning to purchase a hard drive you should … [Read more...]
In 2020 Mobile Data Might Only Cost $1 Per Gigabyte
Right now mobile data is extremely expensive. We're talking about $10 per gigabyte if you have Verizon's 5GB data plan. Mobile data has always been fairly expensive, but over the next eight years it's predicted that mobile data will be significantly cheaper. We're looking at possibly having … [Read more...]
Spotify Plans To Continue Free Listening For The United States
The popular music streaming service called Spotify arrived in the United States last July. Since then it has gained a ton of users because of the deep Facebook integration allowing users to share what they are listening to with friends. At launch Spotify announced that they'd allow United States … [Read more...]
Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Will Start Selling On March 1st For $500
At IFA 2011 Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab 7.7 which was a very interesting device. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 is a smaller tablet but with really fast internals and a really amazing high resolution Super AMOLED Plus display. At IFA Samsung didn't announce any specifics on the launch of the Galaxy Tab but … [Read more...]
AMD Launches The Radeon HD 7770 And The 7750 Graphics Cards
AMD has already launched their high end versions of their new 7000 series graphics cards with the Radeon HD 7970 and Radeon HD 7950. Both cards are quite a bit faster and better than what they have replaced. I guess one of the only problems with the high end 7000 series cards is the cost, not … [Read more...]
Spotify Ends Their Truly Unlimited Free Music Streaming Service
The biggest music streaming service right now in the United States, Spotify launched on July 14th, 2011 at least in the United States. It brought completely free and completely unlimited music streaming to the world if you didn't mind advertising. But Spotify mentioned that they'd only give us … [Read more...]
Nokia, Microsoft, And AT&T Together Might Spend $100 Million To Advertise The Nokia Lumia 900
Android and iOS are dominating the smartphone market as far as the software goes, and as far as the hardware goes Apple, Samsung, HTC, and Motorola are all leading the way. But Microsoft is really wanting to get their market share back and Nokia also has a similar plan that they are calling Rolling … [Read more...]
