Tom's hardware was heavily suspected of falsifying benchmarks in exchange for money from Intel and Microsoft years ago (Google it you lazy pricks!). Tom's and other sites often provide BS benchmarks. Meaning, they spec a new Intel against an old AMD and claim Intel is way better. In other cases, they load up a system with 256GB of memory and give the system they want to talk down 4GB. While these cases are technically not false, the merit and the motive behind such benchmarks are worth chastising people that publish this type of information. Often finding the spec's of the real test gear is buried and extremely difficult to find.

Sorry, but I trust companies proving benchmarks as far as I trust my turds will fly. If you work in IT, setting up your own bench marks for these types of applications should be trivial. Most vendors will give you gear to demo. I don't trust companies that rely on vendors for gear and revenue to provide real data, there has been way too much shit in the pool. If I don't personally test or know the person that did, it did not happen.

It's not a ban, it's a boycott. Turns out that people don't like games where the best the can be is set dressing for the glorification of a violent foreign power when that same power back in the real world indiscriminately sends out robots to bomb the next village on a weekly basis.

What's the problem? Does the employee contract have a clause against subcontracting?

They also allege that Hogan has an old grunge against Samsung because they own part of Seagate (which had sued him into bankruptcy 20 years ago) and that he's a patent-owner himself (and very pro-patent)--neither fact he disclosed during the jury selection process.

Is the iPhone 4S outselling the iPhone 5 for some reason? Why is the current Samsung model being compared against Apple's last year model? I'm confused.