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Samsung Electronics announced a new cutting edge laptop line known as the Series 7. The new Series 7 laptops are designed to give mobile users a powerful computing experience in a highly portable design. The laptops feature Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processors, 6 or 8 GB of RAM, a sleek...
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Apple's iTunes Match service, recently opened to developers, either streams or doesn't stream, depending upon how you interpret things. Confused? It's all a matter of semantics. An Apple spokesperson, speaking to AllThingsD, denied the service provides actual streaming of music. "An Apple...
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When people think of the Wacom brand, they generally think of sketch-pads of the digital variety. Larger, square drawing pads used by digital artists. But the company is taking a more mainstream approach with their latest product, Inkling. It's a new digital sketch pen that captures a digital...
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It looks as if the MHL invasion has started. The new Mobile High Definition Link was first spotted on the Samsung Galaxy S, where the micro-USB port doubles as a 1080p output. And now, HDTV companies are starting to place this port on...
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Well, the time has come! Samsung's Galaxy S II, a phone that we recently reviewed and found to be amongst the top of the Android class, is finally coming to U.S. shores on a trio of carriers. As rumors had suggested, Verizon Wireless is the lone operator of the Big Four that has rejected it...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 Ultimate 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com [Tech ARP] Mobile GPU Comparison Guide Rev. 11.7 ineASUS GeForce GTX 560 DirectCU II TOP Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews Motherboards and Chipsets: Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 & AMD A8-3800 @ LanOC Reviews MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) PCI-Express 3.0 @ techPowerUp ASUS...
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GlobalFoundries and Samsung announced today that they intend to synchronize their 28nm high-performance/low-leakage production facilities. This new agreement follows a 2010 collaboration between GloFo, Samsung, IBM, and STMicroelectronics in which all four firms agreed to cooperate in building...
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Razer believes that not only is PC gaming not dead, it can continue to get better, in this case through the use of the silent versions of the Razer BlackWidow Stealth or Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Stealth mechanical gaming keyboards. These...
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Lian Li introduced the PC-90, a new full-tower chassis that will be available at the beginning of September. This PC-90 is available in striking black or silver hairline-brushed anodized metal casing. The case features a tool-less design and is compatible with HPTX, XL-ATX, ATX, and micro-ATX motherboards. The PC-90's HDD drives are mounted...
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Corsair's Force Series GT solid state drive (SSD) line pushes the high-speed storage pedal to the metal, but until today, you couldn't purchase one larger than 120GB. That all changes with the introduction of new 180GB and 240GB models, both of which are available for purchase immediately...
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Before we go any further, we feel compelled to remind everyone not to shoot the messenger. Savvy? Great, now onto the news. Alex Simons, Director of Program Management for Microsoft, announced in a blog post that Windows 8 would adopt the Ribbon interface for Windows Explorer. Whoa there...
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The CyanogenMod team claims to have gotten Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) running on the HP TouchPad. As was noted earlier, developers had appeared to be nearing a first port of Android on HP's now dead webOS tablet. A post and video on the RootzWiki website show an Alpha build of the CyanogenMod 7 firmware running on the TouchPad. CyanogenMod...
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Wow, Fusion-io doesn’t mess around; just a few weeks after acquiring IO Turbine, the company has made ioTurbine software (note the subtle name change) the centerpiece of its new ioCache solution. ioCache uses an ioMemory product with...
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Nokia announced yesterday that the security of its developer forum website was compromised by an attacker operating under the #AntiSec banner. The attacker, who exploited an SQL injection vulnerability in the site's forum software, managed to obtain a database table with user account information. The attacker had compromised more data than...
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There's just got to be a joke that begins, "Two chatbots walk into a bar ..." because when chatbots talk, it's funny. Cornell University researchers wanted to see what would happen when two chatbots talked to one another. So they rigged up two systems that would allow instances of the chatbot Cleverbot to interact. It doesn't take long for...
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Ever wanted 2D games to become 3D on your 3D smartphone? That's a lot of Ds, we know, but LG is making it possible. The company just announced at IFA 2011 that they will be demonstrating the world's first OpenGL-based 2D to 3D game...
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With all this talk surrounding the proposed AT&T / T-Mobile USA merger, it leaves Sprint in a weird place. Verizon Wireless already has a commanding share of America's CDMA market, and after scooping up Alltel, they aren't really in...
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Developers now have access to the iTunes Match beta. iTunes Match is how Apple will provide cloud-based music services; rather than requiring a user to upload his music library like Amazon Cloud Drive and Music Beta by Google do, Apple will scan your drive for "matches" against a library of...
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Well, the Boxee Box seems to be getting better and better. As the updates continue to fly in, MOG's highly-regarded music streaming service is now being served on D-Link's media streamer. This is the first on-demand music service to bundle music and radio in HD for TVs that the Boxee...
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Battlefield 3 has become something of a hot item in recent months thanks to the game's incredible visuals and gameplay videos that have left long-time fans of the series salivating. BF3 is the sequel to Battlefield 2 (released back in...
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Crucial announced the availability of a firmware update for its m4 SSDs (FW 0009). The update will both solve a problem or two and also provide performance enhancements. Specifically, FW 0009 will eliminate an issue wherein drives experience intermittent failures in cold boot ups on some host...
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Lenovo is now offering Virtual Computer NxTop. With NxTop 4.0, IT departments can use a desktop virtualization solution that offers both centralized and distributed storage options for virtual machines. NxTop 4.0 is optimized on select Lenovo Think-branded PCs to deliver unique capabilities...
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