Dell Challenges Rivals With Premium Laptops, Tablets; Feds Shut Down Silk Road; Hulu Plus on Chromecast

Daily News October 3, 2013   View Online | Manage Subscription | Follow Us TOP STORIES Dell Challenges Rivals With Premium Laptops, Tablets With XPS laptops boasting better-than-Retina resolutions and new Windows 8 Venue tablets and hybrids, Dell is taking on the competition directly. Share This: Feds Shut Down Black Market 'Silk Road' Drugs Site U.S. officials have seized a website notorious for trafficking in illegal goods, known as Silk Road, and arrested the man believed to be behind it, Ross William Ulbricht. Share This: Hulu Plus Now Available on Google's Chromecast Hulu Plus is now available on Google's Chromecast dongle, meaning customers can now easily "cast" their favorite TV shows to the TV. Share This: Microsoft Investors Reportedly Want Board to Drop Gates Some Microsoft investors reportedly want to clean house entirely in Redmond, and are recommending that Bill Gates be removed as chairman of the company he co-founded. Share This: Scribd, HarperCollins Launch E-Book Subscription Service Online publishing platform Scribd this week launched a new subscription service that provides unlimited e-book access for $9 per month. Share This: Western Digital My Cloud Simplifies Network Storage Hard drive leader Western Digital launched the new My Cloud service for users to organize, centralize, and secure digital content across multiple devices. Share This: Windows 8.1 Now Available for Pre-Order Microsoft is getting a jumpstart on sales of its Windows 8.1 operating system, which is available now to pre-order online. Share This: Report: Apple to Fix iMessage Problems Via iOS Update Apple will reportedly fix a problem with iMessage via an upcoming iOS update. Share This: Featured Research Expense Management Top 6 Considerations for Online Expense Management On-Demand CRM SMB On-Demand CRM Comparison Guide CRM Through the Ages CRM Through the Ages: An Infographic FEATURED OFFERS AWARD-WINNING TECH now on sale! SOS Online Backup 100GB/mo  |  Backup MSRP: $9.99 |  $9.99 Eye-Fi Mobi (8GB)  |  Storage MSRP: $49.99 |  $49.24 + Free Shipping  Webroot Antivirus  |  Security MSRP: $39.99 |  $19.99 Bitdefender Antivirus Plus 2014  |  Security MSRP: $39.95 |  $39.95 Acer C7 Chromebook  |  Laptops MSRP: $279.99 |  $249.98 + Free Shipping  Plantronics BackBeat Go 2  |  Headphones MSRP: $79.99 |  $79.99 + Free Shipping  eNewsletter Information You are subscribed to PCMag.com's Daily News with the email address pctipworld@gmail.com. Click here to unsubscribe from this newsletter. To subscribe to other e-mail newsletters from Ziff Davis, change your delivery format from HTML to text, or change your email address, click here. Copyright ©2013 Ziff Davis, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Ziff Davis, Inc., 28 East 28th Street, 11th Floor, New York, NY 10016