Get ready to see Firefox like you've never seen it before. Mozilla is working on an all new version of its popular browser for Windows 8, which will include a new Firefox front end and system integration points that will better integrate with the Metro UI environment. It will be a full-screen browser focused on touch interactions, and it will...

Forget about your classic Air Jordan sneakers from Nike, or your Kobe 7 kicks and Lebron 9 shoes (both also from Nike). Arguably the coolest pair of sneakers ever were the Converse Weapons, which could be bought about two-and-a-half decades ago in obnoxious yellow or garish green, depending on whether you favored Magic Johnson or Larry Bird....

Custom PC maker iBUYPOWER is now including the Intel Core i7-3820 (3.6GHz) processor a an option for its Chimera 4, Paladin XLC, and Erebus Custom Liquid Cooling systems, replacing the X58-based CPUs the company was offering. In the emailed press release, Vice President of iBUYPOWER Darren Su, said, “We are excited to offer these speedy...

After a short hiatus, our daily HOT deal posts are back, courtesy of our friends at LogicBuy. On tap for you all today, we have deals on ThinkPad X130e AMD-based laptop, the Alienware Aurora Core i7-based gaming desktop system, an OCZ Agility 3 SSD, an LG HD TV and a Dell LED-backlit, FullHD LCD... 11.6" Lenovo ThinkPad X130e AMD E-300 1.3GHz...

The leap from a so-called “dumbphone” to a smartphone is huge; unfortunately, so is the cost in most cases. There’s a growing market domestically and worldwide for entry- and mid-level smartphones, and MediaTek has a platform designed for those smartphone market segments. In a press release, MediaTek quotes Neil Mawston,...

Apple recently took a PR hammering after the New York Times published a report claiming that labor conditions at the company's Chinese partner Foxconn continued to be poor--and that Apple knew about it and chose to do nothing. CEO Tim Cook blasted the allegations at the time, but has followed up nonetheless. Apple announced today that the...

The impact of piracy on the music business has been studied in detail, but the relationship between illegal downloads and film revenue hasn't been explored to nearly the same degree. A new study from researchers at the University of Michigan and Wellesely College has examined the impact of BitTorrent on domestic and foreign ticket sales and...

Samsung is expanding its Galaxy Tab line with the introduction of the new GALAXY Tab 2. This 7-inch (1024x600) tablet will be available in 3G and Wi-Fi only versions. The GALAXY Tab 2 is Samsung's first Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)-powered tablet. Key hardware features include a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, up to 32GB of onboard...

Shares of Apple rose to above $500 for the first time ever on Monday, continuing a rally that began over two weeks ago when the Cupertino outfit reported record quarterly revenue of $46.33 billion and record quarterly net profit of $13.06 billion, or $13.87 per diluted share. Those and other positive figures weren't lost on investors, who...

In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks webcast, Marco, Iyaz and Dave discuss the MainGear SHIFT do-it-yourself case kit and the recently released Intel SSD 520 series solid state drive built on SandForce controller technology. The guys also discuss the used game debate and game devs locking down DLC content for new game...

Origin announced a powerful new laptop for gamers, artists, and professionals in the form of the EON17-X desktop replacement laptop. The EON17-X features an Intel X79 chipset along with 2nd generation Intel hexcore processors and overclocked NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580M graphics cards in SLI. This laptop is also the first laptop from Origin to...

Well, this just got even more interesting. Last October, it was reported that Samsung's Galaxy Nexus was designed to be "Apple-proof." Basically, it was engineered specifically to step outside of those bounds that has drawn fire from Apple's legal team. Guess they missed the market. Apple has just upped the ante in the Apple vs. Samsung spat...

Google TV's getting even better. With 2012 being the year that Google finally tries to really hone in on making Google TV a product with a serious amount of traction, massaging YouTube into the mix seems like a sound idea. After all, billions of hours of content are consumed in what feels like a blink of an eye on YouTube, and making the whole...