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We're hiring! News writers and features editor wanted

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  • Posted March 28, 2013, 8:00 PM by Jose Vilches | Filed in Blog
  • Has the thought of collaborating on TechSpot ever crossed your mind? If so, here's an opportunity to join our editorial team. If you have a passion for technology and the necessary writing skills, give us a shout. We are looking for at least two editors to work on news coverage and feature articles.

Launching TechSpot similar downloads, other site enhancements

Launching TechSpot similar downloads, other site enhancements
  • Posted November 26, 2012, 9:00 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • Our small but dedicated group of web developers are always hard at work, making sure things are running smoothly across the site. Admitedly, half their time is spent on details that may not be so obvious: performance and stability enhancements,…

TS Community: Login with Facebook or Twitter, Windows 8 giveaway winner

TS Community: Login with Facebook or Twitter, Windows 8 giveaway winner
  • Posted June 28, 2012, 8:30 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • Thanks to everyone for reviving the Windows 8 discussion thread and congratulations to Marnomancer for winning our giveaway! As promised, we'll buy a license as soon as preorders open, which should hopefully be soon. Although most of you share obvious concerns over...

TS Community: Share your thoughts on Windows 8, win a copy

TS Community: Share your thoughts on Windows 8, win a copy
  • Posted June 14, 2012, 7:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Blog, Microsoft
  • Our Diablo III/Max Payne 3 giveaway has concluded with mattfrompa (another Matt from PA -- not me, I swear) being randomly picked as the winner. 136 members were entered into the drawing, including those who participated in Dawn1113's thread before…

TS Community: Saluting nostalgic games + Diablo/Max Payne giveaway

TS Community: Saluting nostalgic games + Diablo/Max Payne giveaway
  • Posted May 31, 2012, 8:30 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, Blog
  • Before proceeding with the latest highlights, we'd like to thank everyone for participating in the last giveaway. There were many great entries and it was tough to pick one winner. However, TechSpot staffers reviewed the submissions and abysal's Cosmos II build won fair and square...

TechSpot Community: Cooling guides + Phanteks heatsink giveaway

TechSpot Community: Cooling guides + Phanteks heatsink giveaway
  • Posted May 17, 2012, 6:00 AM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Blog
  • As TechSpot grows, we're producing more content and adding new features, but we're also working on ways to improve the community. The recent forum upgrade will let us do some really cool stuff in the future. For now, we want to run a bi-weekly post on community happenings...

TechSpot news: a preview of our new community software

TechSpot news: a preview of our new community software
  • Posted April 12, 2012, 9:37 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • Very soon we'll embark on upgrading our forum platform and with it the underlying code that marries TechSpot's content management system and the forum. In other words, our entire community software will be changed for good. We are very excited…

TechSpot's mobile site refresh, over 200k visitors monthly

TechSpot
  • Posted January 19, 2012, 3:38 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog, Mobile Computing
  • When we launched TechSpot's mobile site (m.techspot.com) ten months ago our goal was to mirror the experience and many of the features we offer on the main site. I'm glad to share today the response has been overwhelming. The site's usage has grown exponentially in such short timespan, and this past December we received a record 230,000 visitors!

Happy New Year & 2012's first tech poll

Happy New Year & 2012
  • Posted December 31, 2011, 8:29 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in Weekend Open Forum, Blog
  • Happy New Year everyone! This has been a great year in tech, though not necessarily the most exciting in the traditional sense of the PC industry that we've been watching for over a decade, 2011 has seen the biggest rise in mobile technology that is actually converging into that PC world...

TechSpot wishes you a Merry Christmas!

TechSpot wishes you a Merry Christmas!
  • Posted December 24, 2011, 1:51 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • On behalf of the TechSpot team I wish you, our readers a Merry Christmas. Our best wishes to you and your families these holidays! Thank you for your support and for being part of the TechSpot family.

Friday Night Fragfest: Join us in Battlefield 3 tonight!

Friday Night Fragfest: Join us in Battlefield 3 tonight!
  • Posted October 6, 2011, 10:10 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Blog, Gaming
  • As you're undoubtedly aware, Battlefield 3 has entered public beta . Despite the various disappointing announcements (no Steam availability, no in-game server browser, etc.) we still have high hopes for the game and we'll be playing the game tonight during our usual Friday Night Fragfest. Come join us.

TechSpot's Product Finder: Our Latest Project

  • Posted September 26, 2011, 12:52 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot, Blog Breaking News
  • For about a year we've been working behind the scenes on our latest project, the TechSpot Product Finder, a comprehensive up-to-date catalog of tech products. We hope this becomes your next destination to make well-informed decisions when you go out shopping for your next laptop, SSD, monitor, digital camera, HTPC, tablet, or even your next media player.

TechSpot Weekly: Internet job scams - A cautionary tale

TechSpot Weekly: Internet job scams - A cautionary tale
  • Posted March 28, 2011, 1:02 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog, Security
  • When I started to receive suspicious emails around mid-February about some job application for "HR positions" at TechSpot, I decided to disregard these completely. All TechSpot staff members have public email addresses that we make available to you in case…

TechSpot goes mobile! Check it out at m.techspot.com

TechSpot goes mobile! Check it out at m.techspot.com
  • Posted March 4, 2011, 1:53 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog, Mobile Computing Breaking News
  • TechSpot's mobile site (http://m.techspot.com) is making its debut today with a feature-packed and yet lightweight design that especially caters to users on the go. The mobile site integrates all our main sections including news, reviews, guides and the forum, with full commenting capabilities.

Join us tonight for TechSpot's Friday Night Fragfest

Join us tonight for TechSpot

Happy holidays from the TechSpot team!

Happy holidays from the TechSpot team!
  • Posted December 24, 2010, 4:16 PM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • Every year around the holiday festivities I like to think back about the way we've come, I know many of you have been visiting TechSpot for a long time and I couldn't be more grateful for that. To our readers, thank you for your support and for being part of the TechSpot family. Our best wishes to you and your families these holidays!

TechSpot Weekly: 'Friday night fragfest' and giveaway winners

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  • Posted November 15, 2010, 3:31 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • Starting this Friday, we'll host a weekly gaming event open to all TechSpot members. TechSpot's 'Friday Night Fragfest' will start every Friday at midnight eastern, 9 PM pacific. To kick things off, we'll mostly be playing Left 4 Dead 2 and Team Fortress 2, but other popular games will eventually be added to the mix. Also, jump in for our latest giveaway winner announcement.

TechSpot Weekly: Email notifications for news comments

TechSpot Weekly: Email notifications for news comments
  • Posted November 1, 2010, 7:15 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • First things first, I'm glad to report our on-going giveaway is doing extremely well, in fact, I'd dare to say it's going to be our most popular contest ever as more people continue to join every day and we haven't…

TechSpot Giveaway: 27-inch monitor, iPad, GTX 460??

TechSpot Giveaway: 27-inch monitor, iPad, GTX 460??
  • Posted October 25, 2010, 5:49 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • The holidays are almost here, so we better start giving away some stuff to our loyal readers, don't you agree? Rules for entering the contest are after the jump. We'll be polling you to choose among the main prize options: a 27" monitor, an Apple iPad, a laptop/netbook, 2TB external HDD, CPU/Mobo/Memory combo, GeForce GTX 460, 128GB SSD, a deluxe PC case. So what's your favorite?

TechSpot Weekly: Our homepage revamp

TechSpot Weekly: Our homepage revamp
  • Posted October 12, 2010, 2:28 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • Last week we launched TechSpot's new homepage bringing the biggest change we've made to the site since our last full redesign over two years ago. As you have likely noticed, the revamp consists, among other things, of a new 'headline…

TechSpot Weekly: The team is growing

  • Posted September 27, 2010, 4:52 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • Let's formally welcome Emil Protalinski and Mike Fischer to our editorial team. Emil is a seasoned news writer with hundreds of articles published on fellow websites Ars Technica and Neowin, while Mike is a long time TechSpot reader, community and…

TechSpot Weekly: Congrats Jos!

  • Posted September 6, 2010, 5:48 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • First and foremost, big congratulations to our editor Jose Vilches (aka "Jos") who took the big step this past weekend and got married. Best of luck on this new chapter that is set to bring more positive change as he…

TechSpot Weekly: GTX 460 SLI and Mafia II performance

  • Posted August 23, 2010, 6:22 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • First things first, thank you everyone who has contacted us for the news writer positions we posted about last week. If you haven't heard back from us yet, don't worry, we are just starting to send out emails today. Response…

TechSpot Weekly: We're looking for news writers

  • Posted August 16, 2010, 7:13 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in Blog
  • Has the thought of collaborating on TechSpot ever crossed your mind? If so, here's an opportunity to join our editorial team. If you have a passion for technology and have the necessary writing skills, give us a shout. We are…

TechSpot Weekly: Join us on Facebook + giveaway

  • Posted August 9, 2010, 5:42 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in TechSpot, Blog
  • During the weekend I was able to attend a few pending matters on the development side of things, one in particular that will become evident to you is the implementation of the ubiquitous Facebook 'Like' button in certain sections of…
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