Intel announced that they’d not sell Intel branded motherboards after the Haswell generation, winding down the business in the next three years.

We had been invited by Nokia to their Lumia 920 launch event, which thankfully was much more interesting than Microsoft’s Windows 8 launch.

Western Digital’s older Raptor and current-gen VelociRaptor drives have usually been considered the fastest non-SCSI consumer hard drives, spinning at 10,000 RPM. Their weakness, however, has usually been the relatively higher cost per GB than other hard drives of similar capacity, while not quite offering the performance of a solid-state drive.

The Office 2013 Preview has been out a while, and I’ve spent over a month with it, so here’s what I think about it. I’ve only used Word, PowerPoint and Excel, because these are the only Office programmes I ever need to use.

So I typed in BSNL’s home page address in the evening on Friday, and was met with the routinely occasional “Oops!” message Chrome throws at me when I occasionally visit the BSNL home page, telling me that it couldn’t find the page I wished to visit.

This one is for all those who might not want to spend more than 10k on an Android smartphone, but still want a taste of higher end features.

2013 is set to bring the next step in the evolution of smartphones, full HD displays. With HTC, Lenovo, Sharp, LG and Oppo Mobile (don’t worry, I hadn’t heard about them either) leading the charge, this should be an emerging trend to watch out for next year.

We kicked off Tech Chronicle with a graphics card roundup in October last year, so I found it fitting to dedicate an article in November’s first issue to GPUs.

Media around the world seemed to get carried away last week with Steve Ballmer’s letter to Microsoft’s shareholders.

I’ve been watching the notebook space for a while now and have also been waiting for the first “ultrabook”; and in my opinion there hasn’t been one yet.