New Super Mario Bros. 2 for 3DS Coming this August

Where Super Mario 3D Land was a title that felt like a blend of Super Mario Galaxy and Mario 64, New Super Mario Bros. 2 looks like it falls directly in line with the spirit of its titular predecessors. New Super Mario Bros. (for the DS) and New Super Mario Bros. Wii were both 2D titles, and this game looks.

Is Samsung Prepping a New Galaxy Tab 10.1 for its May 3 London Event?

It sounds like Samsung may have more than the Galaxy S III lined up for its upcoming May 3 event in London. According to a report from CNET Asia, citing unnamed sources, the Korean company is preparing to introduce a 10.1-inch Galaxy Tab “to complement the handset launch.” The device will apparently run a dual-core.

$7 Million Worth of Smartphones Are Lost EVERY DAY (infographic)

Internet security firm Lookout Mobile conducted a study recently, trying to shed light on when and where we typically lose our smartphones. The infographic below offers some interesting tidbits gleaned from the report. Turns out, it tends to happen during major holidays or festivals. That’s not too shocking — a little too much St. Patty’s Day.

This One-Inch Thick Steel iPhone Case is Bulletproof

Not only does this one-inch thick steel case add 4.6-pounds to your iPhone, it costs $650. That’s a relatively small sum, I suppose, for those looking for protection against .50-caliber rounds. The case will only protect the back of your device, so keep that in mind the next time you’re on duty. Why didn’t Apple include this

The Complete iPad 3 Review: Retina Display, A5X, 4G LTE, And Camera

We're back with a more comprehensive review of Apple's new iPad 3, including new gamutbenchmarks pitting the iPad 3 against an array of recent Android-based tablets. Is Apple's latest offering a disappointment to those expecting more—or a game-changer?

Every new product launch from Apple is enveloped in hype and hoopla. Some folks look for reasons to love the new hardware, while others spend hours looking for that one flaw that'll get everyone's attention. Not surprisingly, the iPad 3 launched to a full media circus.

But not everyone's expectations were satisfied by Apple’s third-generation tablet. Looking back at how this product family has evolved, the iPad 2 advanced in a pretty clear way. It was smaller, thinner, lighter, and delivered better performance. The iPad 2 was expensive, yes. However, its improvements over the company's first-generation effort made the price tag worthwhile for a great many.

The third-generation iPad is a different beast. Rather than tackle "smaller, thinner, lighter, and faster" again, Apple bolsters this device's image quality with a significantly higher-resolution display. The HD resolution is accompanied by a more powerful graphics processor able to maintain performance, even under the load of greater pixel density.

Our LCD benchmarks allow us to accurately quantify the image quality improvements, which you may have already seen in our first look at the iPad 3. To briefly recap, we found substantially better colorperformance and saturation. 

Asus Transformer Prime TF201: A Tablet With A Higher Calling

Apple's new iPad is turning heads, but it's not the only compelling choice. Four months after its introduction, Asus' Transformer Prime TF201 shows us that tablets aren't exclusively content consumption devices. Some make it easier to get work done!

We weren't able to review Asus' Eee Pad Transformer Prime when it first launched. But in light of Apple's new flagship tablet, the third-generation iPad, we thought it important to follow up and question whether the Asus effort still measures up. After all, Apple has a knack for generating headlines that suggest its competition cannot compare.

Certainly, the iPad's market performance continues to be a powerful force. However, the fact that other manufacturers are building and selling their own Android-based devices means that there has to be room to grow outside of Apple's walled garden.

Peeking Into A Shopping Bag On iPad 3 Launch Date

As a case in point, on the morning of the iPad 3’s release, a few of us headed out to take pictures of the lines forming for Apple’s latest gadget. While we were out there, we noticed that several people had forgone the queue and were walking out of Best Buy with Android-based tablets in their bags.

Web Browser Grand Prix: Chrome 18, Firefox 11, Windows XP

Over the past two years, we've tested the top five Web browsers using modern PC hardware. But today, going against all that is sacred to the enthusiast crowd, we're breaking out an old beige box to bring you Web Browser Grand Prix: Windows XP Edition!

This is the tenth installment of the Web Browser Grand Prix series. To commemorate that number, our test system is going back ten years in time.

That's right, back to the days of IDE hard drives, AGP graphics, CRT monitors, and Windows XP.

Bet you thought it was going to be OS X again, huh?

Granted, this type of test rig doesn't exactly fit with the regular Tom's Hardware crowd, which no doubt leaves a lot of enthusiasts asking one question: "Why?"

Though most of you probably haven't used a system like this since the early 2000s, I'm willing to bet you're stuck supporting at least one person still plugging along on a similarly spec'ed machine as their daily driver. Whether it's Grandma, Grandpa, Mom, Dad, Aunt Harriet and Uncle Al, or that neighbor who received your hand-me-down machine back in 2003, we all get dragged into it. It's inevitable. The calls for help will come.

Since browsing the Web is one of the only modern tasks such a system is capable of, more often than not the issue usually has something to do with "the Internet being slow." So, can the Web browser you leave on that dilapidated machine play any part in making the pre-Vista experience better? If so, by how much?

Before we can get to the embarrassingly-low benchmark scores and the answers to these questions, let's get caught up on what has happened in the world of Web browsers since Web Browser Grand Prix 9:

Recent News & Events

02/15/12: Mozilla spells out its Firefox roadmap for 2012. The browser is to receive a new JavaScript engine and user interface in Q2.
02/21/12: Microsoft accuses Google of bypassing IE privacy settings. Google contends that IE's cookie technology is "widely non-operational".
02/28/12: Google offers up a million dollars in prizes for hacking Chrome.
03/13/12: Mozilla releases Firefox 11.
03/19/12: Google Chrome surpasses Microsoft Internet Explorer in browser market share for a single day.
03/23/12:  Even at three years old, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 is still the number-two browser, holding an estimated 17% market share, second only to Chrome 17 at 27%.
03/25/12: Microsoft claims Chrome market share statistics are misleading due to Chrome's pre-rendering and the lack of geoweighting by the major stat trackers.
03/27/12: Opera updates to version 11.62 on the desktop.
03/28/12: Mozilla launches BrowserQuest, an HTML5 game that looks suspiciously like The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past.
03/28/12: Google releases Chrome 18 to the stable channel.
03/29/12: Mozilla says that the new six-week release cycle for Firefox is not set in stone.

Now, let's take a quick look at past Web Browser Grand Prix winners and today's contenders.