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You win some and you lose some, is the way it goes in life, even for Intel. The Santa Clara chip maker stands head and shoulders above everyone else in the semiconductor market, but it doesn't win all of its battles. To wit, Intel is disbanding its Digital Home Group, which builds SoC Atom variants for smart TVs and other similar consumer...
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Sony is recalling 1.6 million Bravia LCD TVs that were manufactured in 2007 and 2008. The TVs were primarily sold in Europe and the United States, though some were also sold in Japan and other countries. According to the recall notice issued by Sony, the affected sets may have a damaged...
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Today, WD announced that it is halting the production of hard drives in its facilities close to Bangkok, Thailand due to severe flooding. Although the company's employees are safe and the facilities are operational, the flooding has created problems with the region's infrastructure including...
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Sprint may be rumbling out with LTE markets of their own in the coming months and years, but they're already way, way behind compared to Verizon Wireless' rollout. And they're falling further behind every single day. The company is rolling...
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What if you could run an Android app on your Windows PC? Seems far-fetched, but it's not. BlueStacks has today announced the alpha version of BlueStacks App Player for Windows PC, a free software download that allows users to quickly run their favorite Android apps on any Windows PC, tablet or...
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The case of the missing iPhone 4 is finally over. Brian Hogan (below), 22, of Redwood City, and Robert Sage Wallower (pictured), 28, have changed their pleas from "not guilty" to "no contest" in the "lost iPhone" case, stemming from 2010. The pair, who had been accused of selling the...
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Another Roku? How about a purple one?! Roku just announced a new $50 model, the purple-hued LT model. In conjunction, the company announced that HBO GO would be launching on the Roku platform, bringing 1400 HBO titles to streaming. We're...
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Today AMD is officially taking the wraps off its latest FX-Series of desktop processors, targeted at performance-minded PC enthusiasts and overclockers. The FX-Series is based on the processor core formerly codenamed Zambezi, which leverages AMD’s much anticipated Bulldozer...
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When we sit down to arrange our thoughts and write an introduction for a new product launch, we typically want to put together some interesting and suspenseful prose that sets the stage for an exciting reveal of an as-yet undisclosed, eagerly anticipated product. No such luck this time around...
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Ultrabook? Zenbook? What's in a name, anyway? Asus has just held a press event in New York City, where chairman Jonney Shih has introduced the newest Ultrabook: the Asus Zenbook. It's really not much different than what we've seen before...
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ViewSonic is adding to its line of tablets with the ViewPad 10e, announced today. The 9.7-inch tablet will feature a 4:3 ratio, a 1Ghz Cortex A8 processor, and 4GB of built-in storage (expandable to 32GB with a microSD card). For connectivity, the ViewPad 10e sports wireless 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 3.0, and a minin HDMI connector. As far as...
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Patriot Memory added to its Pyro line of SSDs today with a trio of drives under the Pyro SE name. Available in capacities of 60GB, 120GB, and 240GB, the SandForce SF-2281-based SATA III SSDs feature synchronous NAND as well as TRIM, DuraClass, DuraWrite technologies. The drives have read/write speeds of up to 550MB/s / 520MB/s, 85,000 IOPS,...
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Tomorrow's the big day that Apple makes available its much anticipated iOS 5 update. To prepare you for iOS 5's upcoming arrival and all the goodies that go along with it, Apple today released its iTunes 10.5 software, a prerequisite for anyone hoping to upgrade their iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch device to Apple's latest and greatest mobile...
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How do you turn a Jaguar into a Titan? It's simple really -- just change its diet to include plenty of Tesla chips. That's what the Oak Ridge National Laboratory plans to do as it upgrades its Jaguar supercomputer with no less than 960...
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You have to suspect that companies are running out of clever names for devices when Samsung and Verizon Wireless settle on "Stratosphere" for their latest high-end smartphone. This particular handset is a member of the rapidly-expanding...
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Man, now things are getting interesting. Acer has just officially revealed the Aspire S3 Ultrabook, a 13.3" stunner-of-a-machine with an LED-backlit panel, widescreen aspect ratio, 1366x768 resolution and a body that's just impossible not...
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Is it true? Can it be true? Is someone playing some sort of sick prank? Nope, it's reality: the Facebook app for iPad. It has become almost a running joke at this point. How could the iPad, being such a tremendously popular device, and Facebook, being such a tremendously popular social...
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Sometimes with technology, what appears to be a fairly simple product opportunity in the market, isn't always delivered with timeliness or solid execution. Consider the current deluge of smartphone products in the market, all of which are enabled with Bluetooth wireless connectivity. And of...
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Mobile security company 3LM (“Three Laws of Mobility”), a subsidiary of Motorola Mobility, is ready for primetime with a solution that makes Android handsets enterprise-ready. The company is apparently ready to release its product from a private beta this week; it’s due for a...
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Netflix has done so many things right for so long that it’s baffling how badly the company has been bumbling around as of late. First, Netflix announced new pricing structures in July that were terribly unpopular; instead of paying under $10 a month for 2-at-a-time DVDs and unlimited...
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