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Today, Western Digital announced the world's highest density hard drive, as they reach the 3TB mark with their newest, 5th generation Caviar Green product. The Caviar Green 3TB serves up a super-sized combination of reduced power consumption, lower operating temperature, and a quieter...
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Apple for the first time crested over $20 billion in quarterly revenue, thanks in large part to insatiable demand for the iPhone. Indeed the iPhone-ization of consumers worldwide caused researchers to study the phenom. They determined that a particular kind of envy causes people to buy them...
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While solid state drives get faster, mechanical hard drives get larger. Not long ago, we celebrated the first 1TB hard drive, and since then, welcomed 1.5TB and eventually 2TB drives to the consumer market. Yes, the performance increase that SSD's offer is more than impressive. However, they still can't touch the capacity that traditional...
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NVIDIA and 3D go together like...well, they just go together well. NVIDIA has been pushing 3D about as hard as any company out there (aside from Sony, that is), and particularly in the PC space, few companies have done more to push the...
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Bose. It's a name that most people recognize. It's a respected, and equally controversial, name in audio. But mostly, Bose has focused on home theater and bedroom audio systems. They have branched out into headsets and over-ear headphones in recent years, as well as putting their name on a new...
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All good things, as they say, must eventually come to an end. Even for high ranking officials at Microsoft. The world didn't end when Bill Gates decided to call it quits, and we suspect that Microsoft will forge ahead even with Ray Ozzie...
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While attending a press event out in Los Angeles, California last week, to discuss the impending Radeon HD 6870 and HD 6850 launch, we had the chance to get an early look at some of the first, fully functional samples of AMD’s...
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We hate to fan the flames of political mudslinging over government spending and other topics that tend to attract Internet tough guys, but even we were surprised by this one. MeriTalk, the government IT network, just published the findings of its "Uncle Sam's Lost and Found: $15.4 Billion" study that examines the Federal government's ability...
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Moboclix, which makes it their business to know everything there is to know about mobile applications, claims Apple's App Store now has over 300,000 apps. That number includes both free and paid apps, and is still an impressive number when you weed out all the fart apps, particularly when you...
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It seems that the disc requirement for streaming Netflix on a game console is now history. Earlier in the year, eager PS3 and Wii owners were checking their mailboxes each and every day in hopes of seeing a new red disc in there. That disc, when inserted into their console, would enable them...
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For all but the most budget conscious buyers, piecing together a home brewed rig often entails forking over a premium for certain components, depending on what you're trying to accomplish. If you're a gamer, you probably bought a high-end graphics card (or at least that's what you should have...
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To say that Steam is doing well would be like saying Bill Gates has a little bit of money saved up. You think? Steam isn't just doing well, it's growing at a phenomenal rate. According to Valve, there are now over 30 million active accounts on Steam, and growing. "Steam is on track to record...
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Dell is expanding its monitor portfolio with a handful of new LED monitors. As part of Dell's Studio LED monitor lineup, the 22-inch (ST2220), 23-inch (ST2320), and 24-inch (ST2420) monitors offer 1920 x 1080 full HD resolution, a response time of 5ms, and a dynamic contrast ratio that is...
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RIM has sold a flip-styled BlackBerry phone before, but it's still a rare find in the company's family. Usually, they stick to the form factor that most are familiar with: solid front devices with half of the front being the display, and...
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For all but the most budget conscious buyers, piecing together a home brewed rig often entails forking over a premium for certain components, depending on what you're trying to accomplish. If you're a gamer, you probably bought a high-end graphics card (or at least that's what you should have...
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NEC announced the new MultiSync EX Series of monitors. The first model in the series, the 23-inch MultiSync EX231W, features a slim bezel, a weight of 9.3 pounds with stand, and a USB pass-through on the top of the monitor for easy connection to a webcam or flash drive. The LED-backlit monitor...
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Clearwire and Sprint have been offering 4G (WiMAX) services in various parts of the United States for quite some time now, but the latest introductions are probably the most significant yet. Actually, it's a pretty safe bet that these are...
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Ever heard of HyperMac? If you have ever shopped for an extended battery pack for your MacBook, MacBook Pro or iPad/iPhone, then you probably have. The company has earned somewhat of a positive reputation in the Apple circle for offering some of the best external battery packs around for...
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If you thought that the e-reader market was saturated already, here comes another one. Pandigital, which is no stranger to the market, has just introduced a new 6" ePaper model that more closely aligns with the options offered by Barnes & Noble and Amazon. Rather than using an LCD, which...
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Video: Palit GeForce GTS 450 Low Profile 1GB Video Card @ Tweaktown Funky Kit Review: Gigabyte Geforce GTS 450 Extreme Overclock Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS Rampage III Formula @ PureOverclock EVGA Classified Super Record 2 SR-2 Motherboard Review @ Legit Reviews Memory and Storage: Futurelooks News Flash - Patriot Memory's Xporter Rage...
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We frequently hear from our Canadian friends about how much they are reamed for their cell phone plans. The New American Foundation's Open Technology Initiative (OTI) has done a study and confirmed that. The U.S. is second most expensive...
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In terms of Google's names for its Android releases, we didn't expect a change, and we're not getting one. Reportedly, the name for the next unnamed version of Android will be "Ice Cream." Hopefully you are not lactose-intolerant. We already knew that Android 3.0, the next major release...
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