With the usual extreme predictability of Apple’s events, Apple sent out an invitation this week announcing their October 22nd iPad event. With the release of the new iPhone 5s only a month ago, Apple has followed the pattern of an iPhone release in September and iPad release in October. The live news event will be held at the Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco at 10 a.m., which is where all iPad announcements have been made in the past. Apple is known for unique designs in their invitations giving hints to what the show will reveal. Like…
Author: Justin Vendette
It’s no surprise that Google collects every user’s data only to make a profit from it. Becoming one of the top five wealthiest companies in the world doesn’t just happen from creating a free search engine; Google’s AdWords was estimated to bring the company a total of $33.3 billion in 2011 which is 97% of Google’s total revenue. Google has been doing this for years, scanning and understanding what you search for at Google.com in order to to provide targeted ads. The search engine giant is moving to the next level by incorporating your Google+’s profile pictures into Google AdWords,…
With LG in talks about creating a curved Smartphone for November, Samsung has taken it to the next step by unveiling the 5.7inch display Galaxy Round. Far from a circular design, the new smartphone has rounded sides and takes advantage of Samsung’s new Full HD Super Flexible AMOLD display that they showed off last year. When set on a flat table, the curved design allows it to rock back and forth giving a notifications update, sort of how the New Moto X has their active display. This will be known as the Roll Effect: Currently the Galaxy Round will debut…
The following are common steps on how to fix Internet Explorer issues. If you have issues after trying the following steps please post in our Internet Explorer forum. It should be noted that the following steps are only for IE 8, 9 and IE 10. If you are running Windows XP, IE 8 is the highest supported browser. Windows Vista can run up to IE 9 and Windows 7/8 will run IE 10. It is highly recommended that you use the highest version of IE that your system supports. The following is set up into three different categories: Internet Explorer…
With solid state drives on the rise as the new standard hard drive, and mechanical drives headed to the days of the CD, it’s very likely we will be seeing SSDs completely replace mechanical drives in the near future. Today, I will be reviewing a new 240GB SSDNow from Kingston (model SV300S3D7), who was very generous and sent one out for review. Throughout the contents of this review I will be discussing the following topics: what an SSD is, unboxing of the unit, features, performance/specifications, and finally my overall thoughts. Figure 1 – Hard drive size comparison with two Kingston…
Last week marked the official time of the end of the partnership between Beats Audio and the smartphone manufacturing giant, HTC. Just under a month ago, rumors spread that Beats Audio had plans to move away from HTC entirely. Looking to buy back the remaining 25% stake that HTC holds, Beats Audio put up $265 million to reacquire the minority stake. Even though Beats is now an unrestricted company again it seems as if they are still looking for a new owner. CEO and Co-founder of Beats, Jimmy Iovine, had this to say about the final transaction: “These transactions represent…
Microsoft has announced that just over 37,000 total requests, from five major countries, have been sent to them regarding collecting user data about their customers. The governments that are requesting this type of data, not only from Microsoft, but other companies as well, are The United States, Turkey, Germany, the United Kingdom and France. The requests are for the first six months of 2013 and affect a total of 66,539 user accounts. It’s a large number, indeed, but the numbers are on track from last year’s statistics in which Microsoft received 75,378 requests affecting 137,424 accounts. Microsoft held strong and…
We have all had it happen, one of our electronic devices can’t maintain a normal day’s worth of battery power. If you’re a traveler that wishes to watch a movie on your tablet during your long flight but still need power to finish up your meetings for that day, this product may be for you. Today I’ll be going over one of RAVPower’s newest devices, the KnightRider RP-PB13 Power Bank. Throughout the review I’ll be taking a look at the unboxing, a product description, features and specifications. I would like to thank RAVPower for supplying TSF with this unit. Figure…
Has Verizon gotten confused on purchasing companies? Well no. Verizon has now “officially” regained 100% share in Verizon Wireless, for a purchase of $130 Billion. Back in 1999, Verizon sold 45% share of Verizon Wireless to the British carrier, Vodafone, to assist with getting Verizon Wireless into the global market. The payment to Vodafone is a hefty one as Verizon will pay a mix of $58.9 billion in cash, $5 billion in notes and $60.2 billion in common stock for Verizon. Also included in the deal, Verizon will sell its minority shares in Vodafone back to them for $3.5 billion;…
Random-access memory (RAM) is where the PC stores a relatively small amount of ephemeral data that is more rapidly accessed by the Central Processor Unit (CPU) rather than data stored on a long-lasting memory device, such as hard drive or CD. Unlike data that are stored on long-lasting memory devices, information within RAM is lost when there is no power. While either buying or upgrading RAM it can become tricky, as purchasing the incorrect type of RAM and attempting to install it within your PC could cause your PC not to boot at all. Throughout this article is a complete…