The HD 7970 vs. the GTX 680 – revisited 3 years later

The GTX 680 versus the HD 7970 was a classic confrontation that began in 2012 that we are now repeating 3 years later. Codenamed Tahiti, the then new AMD flagship Radeon HD 7970 was announced on December 22, 2011, and …

Moving to New Devices

More Instruments – It’s Getting Harder to Justify Moving to New Devices Recently, I was talking with a friend who was struggling with a major purchase decision for her film workflow: Desktop iMac MacBook Pro Each had features she wanted/needed. …

Rise of the Tomb Raider and Tom Clancy’s The Division launch this week

The PC version of Rise of the Tomb Raider is set to launch right after midnight tonight, and the closed beta for Tom Clancy’s The Division launches Jan 29 to 31. BTR is ready with Rise of the Tomb Raider …

Boomer Market Getting More Interesting

Older Value – Boomer Market Getting More Active, More Interesting Most of us in the industry didn’t do much for New Year’s Eve because we try to save ourselves for Storage Visions (two days before) or CES (Consumer Electronics Show). …

Civilizing the loT Wild West

Land Rush! – It’s Time to Civilize the IoT Wild West Recently, I compared notes with Rob Enderle (Enderle Group) about the “good ol’ days” of smallish summer CES (Consumer Electronics Show) and the recent behemoth that featured everything from …

More Devices Means More Ads Chasing You

Seen, Unseen – More Devices Just Means More, Not Better Ads I admit it. I love reading, watching, listening to ads. I also love good editorial – educational, informative, interesting editorial. That’s probably why I recently reread two books on …

Keep Your Eyes to the Skies

Drones’ Good, Bad … Keep Your Eyes to the Skies as Drones Fly Out of Stores It’s estimated that 1M UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) or drones if you prefer were gifted this Christmas. All I can think of are my …

CES 2016 Wrap-up – Something for Everyone

Hunting – CES Always Has Jewels, Promises, Something for Everyone International CES is one of the best AR (alternate reality) events you can attend … ever! Fight your way through the aisles and aisles and aisles … and you swear …

Helping Consumers Jump to Tomorrow

Ask, Listen – Consumers Need Time/Help to Jump to Tomorrow Every day; engineers, programmers, brilliant idea folks– physically and remotely– sit around conference tables around the globe to plan the next insanely great IoT (Internet of Things), IoE (Internet of …

Driver Performance Analysis Featuring JC 3, AC Syndicate, Rainbow 6 & DiRT Rally

As regularly featured by BabelTechReviews, this driver performance analysis charts the performance of 31 games using the GeForce WHQL 359.06 driver released on December 1. However, in a change from our usual driver performance evaluation, we are also focusing on …

Don’t Give Too Much this Holiday Season

Great Deals It’s amazing how many helpful people there are in the world. Over the past two months, I’ve had individuals from around the globe: Give me hints on how I can lose weight, clean my colon, earn more money …

The Year Ahead

The Year Ahead — 2016 –A year of Technology Cloud Bursts, El Nino-Like Changes It may not be a profound observation; but every day we get up, the damn world has changed. No wonder 2015 passed so quickly; and we’re …