OCZ Vertex 4 firmware upgrade 1.5 speeds up sequential writes up to 510MBps
OCZ Vertex 4 series, the fastest SSD available on the market, just became even faster with the latest 1.5 firmware release. The higher capacity drives have a significant increase on…
HP Backs Out Of ARM Devices Running Windows
In a rather surprising statement, Hewlett Packard (HP), the world’s largest seller of personal computers, has said that it will be making a paradigm shift from tablets based on ARM…
Micron to Buy Chip-maker Elpida
U.S.-based Micron Technology (IW 1000/436) unveiled a deal on July 2 to buy troubled Japanese chip-making rival Elpida Memory for $2.5 billion. Micron, the world’s fourth largest maker of microchips,…
RunCore miniDOM the smallest SSD in the world
The smallest SSD on earth.rSSD series mini SATA DOM SSD, Mini Dom, is the first single-chip DOM product in the world. Based on the advantage of the solution, we can…
ASUS Launches the User-Tunable Xonar Essence One Plus Edition
ASUS Launches the User-Tunable Xonar Essence One Plus Edition Award-winning external USB DAC and headphone amplifier now ships with a bundled Op-Amp swap kit, allowing audiophiles greater sound characteristic modification…
Intel Z77 USB 3.0 isn’t performing on par with ASmedia
If you bought the Intel Z77 chipset mainboard, one of the reasons you wanted it is because of embedded support of USB 3.0 in addition to other new features that…
Sony mobile releases ice cream sandwich android 4.0 update for Xperia S
The long awaited update is here. If you own the Xperia S, you can now update it to the latey version of android. Using pc companion. Post your experiences below…
ASUS and Google Announce Nexus™ 7 Tablet; World’s first 7” quad-core tablet, featuring Android™ 4.1, Jelly Bean
ASUS and Google Announce Nexus™ 7 Tablet World’s first 7” quad-core tablet, featuring Android™ 4.1, Jelly Bean Singapore (June 28th, 2012) — Unveiled at Google I/O 2012, Nexus™ 7 is…
Apple announces launch of iTunes music, movies store in Singapore
Apple on Wednesday announces the launch of iTunes music and movies store in Singapore plus 11 asia countries. At last apple users will now be able to purchase a wide…
Winners of BIOSTAR Lucky draw 2012
Winners of BIOSTAR Lucky draw Jack Wu BIOSTAR TZ77XE4 Jasper John S. Cecilio BIOSTAR TH61A Jeffrey Yeo BIOSTAR TH61A Please contact us within the next 7 days otherwise voiding your…
Singapore adopts DVB-T2 digital terrestial broadcast standard; switching analogue to digital by end 2013
Adoption of DVB-T2 standard will pave the way for better viewing experiences over all seven free-to-air channels SINGAPORE — The Media Development Authority today announced that Singapore’s free-to-air (FTA) TV…
Microsoft announces Windows Phone 8; upgrade for Windows Phone 7.5 users to Windows Phone 7.8
With Windows Phone 8, the similarity is more than skin deep. We’ve based the next release of Windows Phone on the rock-solid technology core of Windows 8. It means Windows…
Sony Mobile showcase it’s latest Xperia smartphones – Xperia™ ion, Xperia™ go, Xperia™ acro S, Xperia™ neo L, Xperia™ miro and the Xperia™ tipo in Singapore
Sony Mobile showcases its latest Xperia™ smartphones in Southeast Asia • Xperia™ ion comes with two HD cameras on a 4.6” screen, largest amongst the Xperia™ series • Xperia™ go…
MIcrosoft launches Surface, it’s own brand Tablet
Microsoft just announced it’s own brand tablet Surface. It comes in two flavours: The first being Windows RT is lighter at 676g and 9.3mm thin. It has a 10.6″ ClearType…
LIVE Microsoft mystery event in LA announcing own brand Windows RT tablet?
Just like everyone else, I am excited to see what Microsoft has in stored for it’s Windows 8 Tablet. Will Microsoft be annoucing their own hardware, a tablet with ARM…
Microsoft to unveil own tablet with Barnes & Noble at media event ?
According to Cnet, Microsoft’s mysterious media event scheduled for tomorrow. It is speculated that Microsoft will launch it’s own brand tablet with Barnes & Noble to challenge Apple’s iPad. In…
We are back on a better server
OCWorkbench has been down for the past 3 days. We are down because of the enormous traffic that was brought in by Computex and PC SHOW 2012. We are up…
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Kingston Statement on SF-2000-based Encrypted SSDs
Kingston Statement on SF-2000-based Encrypted SSDs Hsinchu, Taiwan – June 13, 2012 – Kingston, the independent world leader in memory products, along with LSI, its SSD processor partner, have recently…
ASUS Motherboard Receives World’s First WHQL Windows 8 Certification
ASUS Motherboard Receives World’s First WHQL Windows 8 Certification Achievement underscores commitment to ensuring motherboard compatibility and stability in preparation for Windows 8 launch 2012/06/12 Building on its innovation and…