At The Nexus #17: 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.

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.

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!

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

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