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Cisco Systems, a major networking hardware manufacturer, has decided to stop developing any future WiMAX hardware, specifically in WiMAX base stations and radios. While they’ll still produce IP platform hardware for WiMax (for carriers to use WiMAX), they’ve decided to cut consumer-orientated networking gear for WiMAX.

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Cisco Cutting WiMAX Hardware Development [Cisco Cutting WiMAX Radios, Base Stations From Plans, Still Work On IP Platforms - Has LTE Won The 4G War?]

Dell has released a pair of new desktops for business, providing medium-grade processing power in slimline case builds.  The Dell Vostro 230 Slim Tower and Mini Tower desktop PCs are as inexpensive as they are small, starting in price at $389.

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New Dell Vostro 230 Slim Tower, Mini Tower Desktop PCs Revealed [New Dell Business Desktops Get Slimline Treatment]

Although it was hinted at during CES, ASUS has showed off the official press shots for their new motherboard in their ROG line, the Rampage III Extreme. The ROG (Republic of Gamers) is ASUS’ brand for their high-end enthusiast parts and the Rampage III Extreme motherboard looks like it will …

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ASUS Offers Pictures Of High-End Rampage III Extreme Motherboard [New ROG Motherboard Gets Press Pics, LGA 1366 Socket, Intel X58 Chipset, USB 3.0]

Apple is preparing a new 27-inch LED Cinema Display to coincide with a new Mac Pro workstation release.  The Apple 27-inch LED Cinema Displays will be larger than the current 24-inch LED-backlit model, Apple’s first featuring this technology.

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Rumors Out Apple's 27-Inch LED Cinema Display [Apple's Larger LED Cinema Display Would Coincide With New 12-Core Mac Pro Workstation Release]

The Microsoft Browser Ballot, a little pop-up that informs European users that they have a choice in their browsers beyond Internet Explorer, actually may be working, as Opera is reporting a huge boost in their downloads since the browser ballot was patched into EU versions of Windows.

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Opera Sees Huge Spike In Downloads Following EU Browser Ballot Screen [Many European Users Flocking To Opera Following Addition Of Browser Ballot To Windows, Opera Pushes For Global Roll-Out]

Last week at the Game Developer’s Conference, AMD held a little press conference to unveil what they call the “Gamer’s Manifesto”. Presented by AMD’s Chief Marketing Officer, Nigel Dessau, AMD revealed four promises to the gaming public and developers with whom they work.

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AMD Outlines Gamer's Manifesto For Gamers, Developers [AMD Promises Rights To Gamers, Developers, Will Innovate and Support Industry Standards]

This is not the first time we hear that T-Mobile USA is going to get the iPhone at some point later in 2010. In fact we did talk about this incredible move last year at a certain point in time when the iPhone was rumored to arrive either from Verizon …

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iPhone 4G Coming to T-Mobile This Winter/Next Spring? [T-Mobile USA Said (Again) to Carry Apple’s iPhone by the End of the Year or Early in 2011; Is It the iPhone 4G?]

Yesterday Andrew told us how Windows Phone 7 Series was not going to come with the Copy and Paste function which also happens to be one of my 8 reasons not to ditch your iPhone in favor of the first Windows Phone 7 Series handset that’s going to be available …

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Windows Phone 7 to Get Copy & Paste Support Later [Microsoft Says Copy & Paste Function Will Head to WP7S Phones After Launch; Money Will Grow on Trees Thereafter]

It looks like the first BlackBerry slider smartphone from RIM is going to become reality soon. We’ve talked about it extensively here on TFTS and we’ve gotten all sorts of leaked pictures to prove the existence of such a handset. And now we hear that the slider is going to …

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BlackBerry T (Talladega) Slider Smartphone to be Launched Next Month? [RIM to Announce Its First BlackBerry Slider Handset in April; For Some Reason They Call It T (Talladega)]

EVGA’s new motherboard, the Classified SR-2, is just about as high-end as you’ll find a motherboard, short of workstation and server grade equipment. It’s the newest entry into EVGA’s Classified series of mainboards and the board is specially designed for overclockers and it features two LGA 1366 processor slots, a …

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EVGA Unveils High-End SR-2 Motherboard ["Classified SR-2" Motherboard Features Intel 5520 Chipset, Dual LGA 1366 CPU Slots, Twelve DDR3 RAM Slots, USB 3.0]

Sony has aggressively started to prepare its potential customers for the PlayStation Move, or the first attempt of the company at motion controlled gaming. And Sony knows for a fact a tough battle awaits them. Nintendo’s Wii is still selling strong and with Microsoft Project Natal motion controller coming later …

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PlayStation Move Ad Takes a Hit at Nintendo’s Wii & Microsoft’s Project Natal [Sony Starts Advertising PlayStation Move Motion Control Gaming; Wii & Xbox 360 Consoles Won’t Really Care Yet]