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
