The Consumer Electronics Association has officially dropped CNET as its Consumer Electronics Show awards partner.  CEA has restored Dish’s DishHopper with Sling DVR to the plum “Best of Show” award at CES 2013.  CNET, now owned by CBS, had originally given the award to the new Dish product, until parent company CBS intervened and forced CNET to choose another product …

Dutch-based Royal Philips Electronics (Philips) has announced an agreement regarding the transfer of its Lifestyle Entertainment Business (Audio, Video, Multimedia and Accessories) to Japan’s Funai Electric Company.  Terms of the deal are reported to be 150 million euros ( a bit over $200 million US) and a 5-1/2 year licensing agreement.  The licensing agreement also involves an optional second five …

Fractal Design has announced the newest member of the Arc family – the Arc Midi R2. Known for excellent airflow, the Arc Midi R2 continues the tradition, maximizing circulation within the case and keeping even the most demanding systems cool. The sleek, minimalistic mid-tower ATX chassis comes equipped with three high-performance Silent Series R2 fans, including support for large radiators for water-cooling. …

Lenovo’s ThinkPad lineup has always garnered the company much respect and success over the years, and it seems as though that will continue for a long time to come. Already having a Windows 8 variant, the ThinkPad X131e will come with Google’s Chrome OS starting February 26, effectively making it a Chromebook. Samsung and Acer are already in the Chromebook …

The COUGAR SPIKE case is a mini tower chassis, but is designed to accept longer high-end gaming graphics cards thanks to the 330mm of clearance. Indeed, the list of functionality of micro-ATX motherboards is growing and becoming more complete. Many system builders feel that ATX motherboards can be replaced by micro-ATX builds nowadays. As such, COUGAR thinks that the mini gaming tower is …

When Lenovo invited Technology X to their AquaKnox suite, we did not expect much. When we got to the venue however, all of that changed as John Swinimer gave us a guided tour of Lenovo’s current and future offerings. A few nights before at Pepcom we received a great demo of Lenovo’s IdeaCentre Gamma: You will notice that like the …

Rosewill is known worldwide for their wide array of products, but aside from a few wireless adapters and components, total home and office networking is one area that was lacking…until now. At CES 2013 in Vegas, Rosewill gave TechnologyX a tour of their suite and surprised us with their new line of networking products. Rosewill is focusing on 802.11n as …

To say that our first appearance at CES was a bit overwhelming would be an understatement.  Most don’t imagine the behind the scenes work with days that start at 5 am only to finish at 3 or 4am the next morning.  A tyical day would include several meetings at different Vegas venues, trying to hit the show floor and then …

At the Samsung keynote the world was introduced to the newest, biggest brightest crystal clear 4k TV. Soon to be on the market? Well not really. I can’t see these being released in this size in the foreseeable future; and unless you just hit the jackpot in Vegas I’m sure the price is something less to be desired. It’s not …

The wonderful Annie Kan, Creative Manager of ZOTAC, gave me a great tour of the ZOTAC booth this evening. The company has come out with next-generation models of their HTPC line, which sells very well. The small ZBOX PC’s come in a variety of flavours; one in particular is so extremely tiny that it utilizes a lone mSATA SSD! The …