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Latest News - March 2011
- Apple Sets WWDC Date, Sells It Out In 12 Hours
- Lenovo Unleashes ThinkStation E30 Workstation & ThinkCentre M81 Desktop
- Intel Announces Third-Generation Solid-State Drive 320 Series
- Apple MacBook Pro 13-inch Review
- iPad 2 Owners Report Various Issues
- Is There Any Hope for MySpace?
- Ericsson And AT&T Team Up On Two New Embedded Mobile Broadband Modules
- Super Talent Releases Tablet-Sized mSATA SSD
- Chumby Reveals 'Chumby 8' Widget Display For $200
- Maingear Adds GTX 590 GPU To SHIFT And F131 Desktops
- FYI: the Oxford English Dictionary adds FYI, LOL and More
- Apple's Latest 'If You Don't Have an iPhone' Ad Touts the Retina Display Again
- High-Tech Hot Potato: AMD, Asus Clam Up On AM3 Compatibility Questions
- Sticky, Sweet, And Gooey: Google Delays Open-Sourcing Honeycomb
- Nook Color To Get Android App Store & Flash Support
- Digital Storm Adds GeForce GTX 590 To New Desktops
- OCZ Technology Ships One Millionth Solid State Drive
- iBuyPower Introduces Erebus Desktop, Adds GTX 590
- Apple Mulling AirPlay License Expansion To Include Video
- ZOTAC Reveals GeForce GTX 590 Graphics Card
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All News for March 2011
Well, that was quick. Apple's WWDC, which has been the launching pad for the newest iPhone the past few years in a row, was both announced today and sold out today. As the company has become increasingly important in the technology world, the Worldwide Developers Conference has become a hot bed for product launches, software overhauls and...
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Lenovo is adding the ThinkStation E30 workstation and ThinkCentre M81 desktop to its lineup. Thanks to Lenovo’s RapidBoot technology, Lenovo says both PCs are able to boot up 20 seconds faster on average than a typical Windows 7 computer. The ThinkStation E30 workstation builds on its predecessor, the E20, and...
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Intel officially took the wraps off their third-generation solid state drive, the follow-up to the company’s popular X25-M G2. The Intel SSD 320 Series drives, as they are known, feature a proprietary, Intel-built drive controller, paired to cutting edge, 25nm NAND flash memory. The drives also feature a number...
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The new MacBook family is available in five different models: two 13.3-inch units, two 15.4-inch versions, and a 17-inch behemoth. The base prices for these models range from $1,199 up to $2,499, but with configuration options such as faster processors, more memory, and larger-sized hard drives or SSDs, you can easily boost the cost considerably....
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The iPad 2 is essentially a thinner, lighter, faster version of Apple's first generation slate with a few new features sprinkled in for good measure (you can read our full review here), but some early adopters are getting more they bargained for. Complaints have begun to surface on a number of issues seemingly affecting the iPad 2, some...
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Let's face it, all the cool kids are using Facebook these days. Heck, with over 500 million members, even the uncool kids are using Facebook. Mark Zuckerberg's baby is exactly what MySpace wanted to be, at least in terms of numbers, and at this point it's tough to see MySpace sticking around for too much longer. Here's the thing. MySpace has...
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Embedded 3G clearly has a future, and embedded 4G beyond that. We really saw a major explosion in embedded 3G when U.S. carriers began to sell netbooks on contract last year, and while we haven't really noticed that trend continuing, it's obvious that people want access to a mobile data network in their handheld...
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Tablet PCs are clearly the next big thing when it comes to mobility, and while quite a few on the market already use Flash storage, having a few tablet-sized SSDs would certainly be a boon to the industry. SuperTalent has been producing SSDs for some time now, and just this week they announced a new mSATA interface SSD that conforms to new...
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Remember Chumby? Of course! These guys are back with a new platform and device, and while it doesn't look too different than the Chumby displays that we have seen in the past, the new Chumby 8 is both bigger and "better." This new one has an 8" LCD touch panel, complete with over 1500 free applications and a personalized stream of your favorite...
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If there's one thing you can count on, like clockwork, it's the prescence of new desktop rigs each time AMD or NVIDIA launches a new flagship graphics card. Companies like iBuyPower, Cyber Power, Digital Storm, HP, Dell and Maingear all jump at the chance to get something fresh into their lineups, and the latter is doing so now. The company's...
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) has added a set of acronyms from text message speak into its compendium of the English language. WTF? Among the new inclusions are LOL, OMG, and FYI. With those additions, we can now freely toss those terms around anywhere we like. The OED calls these "initialisms." As much as these terms are associated...
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Apple's continuing its series of "If you don't have an iPhone" ads with one trumpeting the benefits of its so-called retina display. While it may be the highest resolution screen on a smartphone (for now), it's hardly a retina display: that was debunked last year by a display expert. Dr. Raymond Soneira runs...
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Two weeks ago, we discussed Asus' claim that certain AM3 motherboards would function properly when paired with AM3+ processors. We've since spoken with both companies and have a (slightly) clearer idea of what to expect. Asus' announcement is not, in any way, a refutation of AMD's previous comments on Bulldozer...
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Only a few months ago, Honeycomb (Android 3.0) was a much-hyped fundamental improvement over previous Android releases like FroYo or Gingerbread. Thus far it's been mostly sizzle, rather than steak. Reviews of Motorola's Xoom often discuss persistent software bugs that are almost certainly caused by the half-baked...
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Plenty of users have rooted their Nook Color eReader with custom firmware in order to gain access to the Android Market and download applications. However, the majority of people have stuck with the official firmware that comes with the device. If you're in the latter camp and have longed for the day when you could download apps to your Nook...
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As so many other pre-fab PC makers have, Digital Storm is also unleashing a number of new / refreshed rigs this week showcasing NVIDIA's blazing fast new GeForce GTX 590 series GPU. In fact, the company's offering up two of these cards in SLI for those with the cash to spend, and there's also a Core i7-2600K processor if you're really looking...
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When it comes to milestones, this is definitely one that hits home in our industry. Solid state drives have been around for years at this point, and while they're hardly more affordable than they once were, and definitely not nearly as sizable (in terms of capacity) as HDDs, people are splurging on them. OCZ Technology has been a major SSD...
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Looking for a new system? Looking for one with a brand new GPU? This weekend is a good one to be looking, as NVIDIA has just produced a new GPU and iBuyPower has just issued a refreshed range of systems that feature that very card. The company has just announced immediate availability of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 dual GPU card, which will...
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Apple's AirPlay service has really taken of, and it looks like it may continue to do so in a slightly different way. While the service has been mostly used for audio streaming, and exclusively so in partner devices, there are new rumors that Apple may give partner companies the ability to add video streaming. It's reported that Apple's partner...
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Another week, another new GPU. NVIDIA took the opportunity recently to introduced the GeForce GTX 590, and now ZOTAC is taking a similar opportunity to sell new GPUs based on the new NVIDIA core. The company's calling this their fastest DirectX 11 graphics card, with a pair of Fermi graphics processors, a combined 1024 unified shaders, 3GB...
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The Japanese earthquake of two weeks ago has had a significant impact on the country's output of manufactured goods in every sector. As a result, the business markets are watching the company's silicon wafer and IC production carefully, with an eye towards foreseeing off any shortage-related price shocks. Easy answers and clear predictions...
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The Wham-o Frisbee is about to fly from your fingertips into the App Store. Indeed, that fabulous flying disc will launch with an iOS app in May. The app is being developed for Wham-O by software developer Kiloo. The Frisbee Forever app for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad is said to offer iOS gamers "unique challenges and obstacles in a rich complete...
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