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Technology moves at a breakneck pace. No one is disputing that. And it feels like just yesterday that we evaluated the Asus 2400ET, a touch-enabled All-In-One desktop that had high-end specifications and a $1,250 price tag to match. Turns out, that was nearly four months ago, and if you...
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Google announced an update for the Google Docs app so that it works better on tablets. The update includes a new design that takes advantage of the larger screen found on tablets. Included in this new design is a three-panel layout which lets you navigate, view your document list, and see document details from a single screen. The details...
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Yesterday's Apple keynote was primarily about the iPhone. No surprise there, given that the event was called "Let's Talk iPhone." But Apple still took the opportunity to introduce new features and new prices to the iPod touch and iPod nano...
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300Mbps? Well, that sounds fun! While many Scandinavian, Asian and European nations have had access to lightning-fast Internet at reasonable rates for years now, the United States has struggled with linking its massive real estate with...
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Microsoft sure is stretching the life of the Xbox 360. Despite being on shelves for years and years, the company continues to come up with new and innovative ways to make it feel like a brand new console all over again. The introduction of...
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In the wake of the death of tech luminary Steve Jobs, who died on October 5, 2011 at the age of 56, several celebrities in and outside of the tech industry have issued condolences, statements, and messages. Steve Jobs, of course, was until recently the CEO of Apple, and was Chairman of the...
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Exactly one week after the "big" iPhone 4S event, Samsung and Google will introduce Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0?) and the Nexus Prime. At least, that's what their invitation leads us to believe. This will be the next "big" event, and the alternative one for Android lovers, as opposed to iOS lovers. In the teaser video that Samsung has...
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As members of the press, we are tasked with telling a story, giving perspective, or relaying a message. But how do you possibly articulate in words, a message that simply must be delivered with such respect, clarity and importance, that it challenges the very language in which you speak...
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It's a sad day for Apple fans in particular and the tech world at large. Steve Jobs, co-founder and former CEO of Apple, has passed away at the age of 56. Jobs, who in 1976 co-founded what would later become one of the largest computer...
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At the Fusion 2011 event taking place in Taipei, Taiwan, AMD’s Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Graphics Division, Matt Skynner, showed off a working, next-gen mobile GPU, manufactured using TSMC’s 28nm process node. To anyone that follows AMD’s and...
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According to a forecast from Gartner, external controller-based (ECB) disk storage vendors will see remarkable revenue growth as the external cloud computing market (i.e., third-party cloud providers) continues to develop. In 2010, ECB...
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The spunky folks over at Webroot are firing on all cylinders in the creativity department, and we have to admit, what they're doing is both intriguing and comical. The company just unveiled its new SecureAnywhere line of antivirus Internet...
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The Windows 8 Start Menu Screen is shaping up to be a bone of contention between Microsoft's engineers and those following the company's Building Windows 8 blog. In a series of recent articles, Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky delved into the...
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Firefox has had its share of problems over the years, the biggest (and most persistent) one being the well documented memory leak. Some suffer from it, others don't. But frequent crashes? If you happen to be experiencing those, check your...
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The X7200 notebook from AVADirect already boasts some incredible features, including support for six-core Intel chips, dual ATI/NVIDIA GPUs, and up to three SATA drives, but now you can opt for up to 24GB of memory, too. In order to take advantage of all 24GB of RAM, users will need Windows...
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Thanks to a new Server Side Encryption feature, Amazon Web Service customers will be able to easily encrypt data stored on the company's Simple Storage Service (S3). Before this new feature was revealed, businesses had to choose an encryption algorithm, create and store keys, and "bottleneck"...
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id Software's Rage has launched for PC and the various consoles, but the game comes loaded with a laundry list of issues. Most of the graphical problems appear to affect ATI users, but not all--texture pop-in is reportedly a huge issue for both Nvidia and ATI. Texture pop-in, for those of you...
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In addition to the anticipated announcement of the iPhone 4S yesterday, Apple also introduced the iCloud service that will officially launch October 12, a few days before the iPhone 4S will be made available. According to Apple, iCloud is a set of free cloud services that includes iTunes in the Cloud, Photo Stream, and Documents in the Cloud....
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The Asus Eee Pad Slider is a break-out device, much in the way the Asus Eee Pad Transformer broke the mold not so long ago when it was announced. Though it's built on the same base NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform that many 10.1 Android Honeycomb slates are these days, the Slider offers a netbook-like slide-out keyboard solution that takes the...
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Oracle revealed on Tuesday plans for its next-generation mobile and embedded development platform, JavaME 7. JavaME is the mobile system upon which the most intelligent phones were based before there were today's crop of smartphones, and it still powers billions of devices. It is also the...
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Is this the Frankencam? Perhaps! JVC's new GC-PX10 is half video camera, half still shooter, and it's certainly one of the strangest hybrid cameras of any kind that we've ever seen. The company's marketing this as a camera that can offer...
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Hotmail is one of the oldest mass-market, free email services, but it's been overshadowed for years by Gmail. Microsoft has overhauled Hotmail several times in a bid to make the service easier to use, and is preparing to launch a new suite...
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