DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday

Are solid-state drives really getting this cheap this quickly? Barely more than a month has gone by since Kingston launched a trio of SSDNow V solid-state drives, including a 64GB model priced at $208 (or $216 as part of an upgrade bundle). Today, Newegg is selling one of those...

A recent study conducted by mobile research company Flurry Analytics has found that 44 percent of apps currently being tested for the Apple iPad fall into the crowded games category.

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It's raining free Skype WiFi this weekend. Around the world. The whole freakin' wide world. Freakin' free!

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Zotac's H55 ITX was the first Mini-ITX motherboard to hit the market using Intel's H55 Express chipset. Now, it looks like the board will be getting some competition from Gigabyte. SemiAccurate has come across pictures of an H55N-USB3 mobo posted on the XFastest forums. Although no...

A Microsoft kernel expert has proposed that developers "rethink" the basic architecture of current operating systems to fully exploit the benefits of multicore chips.

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DailyTech's roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Friday

Lawrence Latif THE INQUIRER

Share price falls off a cliff

Blackberry Leaks has obtained a number of images that appear to depict an unknown device running OS 6.0.

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David Neal THE INQUIRER

Price and availability out

Remember that HP Slate Steve Ballmer showed just three weeks before the iPad's launch? Although somewhat overshadowed and out-hyped by the Apple product, the device is no mere proof of concept. Spanish site Clipset has dug up a few juicy nuggets of information about the tablet, and it...

NComputing has introduced a $20 "ambidextrous" System-On-Chip (SoC) that is expected to bring advanced virtualization capabilities to multiple mobile-based platforms.

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Claims could have a big impact on $1B USD suit against YouTube

David Neal THE INQUIRER

Survey finds smartphones are killing dongle use

David Neal THE INQUIRER

Murder she didn't write

An intrepid developer has managed to successfully unlock Microsoft's recently released Windows Phone 7 emulator. 

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Spencer Dalziel THE INQUIRER

Company closing accounts

Review: The new king of the middle

Shares of Palm plummeted on Friday as the mobile phone manufacturer warned revenue for the current quarter would total far less than Wall Street had originally expected.

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Printing process uses carbon nanotubes