On A Word to Word Basis
Matthew Petschl and Ryan Rampersad discuss all the action that Western Digital is getting, early Ivy Bridge benchmarks, a marketing campaign that answers to A Higher Calling, a cheap Sprint Android phone, a couple Dropbox updates, the estimated new iPad costs and more, At The Nexus.
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This week, Matthew Petschl, garage survivor extraordinaire, and Ryan Rampersad begin with Matt's run in with a small military base, Ryan's TWiT brick and the iPad Special. Then Western Digital buys out Hitachi, sells out to Toshiba while Ivy Bridge benchmarks are revealed, a new marketing campaign from Virgin Mobile by Brandson begins, a cheap Sprint phone, Dropbox updates, potential iPad build costs, and more!
Links
- TWiT Brick House Bricks Set 1 by John Slanina
- A Friendlier Cellphone Brand
- Sprint: ZTE Fury
- T-Mobile executive: Key to fixing industry is removing device subsidies
- New 4G iPad seen costing $310 to make, lowering margins
- Western Digital-Hitachi: Consolidating Hard Disk Industry
- Western Digital completes $4.8b Hitachi GST buyout, becomes world's largest HDD manufacturer
- FTC to Require Western Digital to Sell off Assets in Acquisition
- Toshiba to acquire Western Digital's 3.5-inch HDD manufacturing equipment
- Intel Ivy Bridge benched early, shows huge leap in graphics
- Uptime
- Uptime
- Next Xbox to lose the disc drive, says MCV
- Ubuntu 12.04 Wiki
- Wine FAQ
- SlashGear: Raspberry Pi delays