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Back at the end of January, we told you about the expected announcement today of the Kindle 2, the next-gen e-book reader. This morning, Amazon.com confirmed the news at a media event at the Morgan Library and Museum in Manhattan. The upgrades on the Amazon Kindle 2 include:• slimmer design - .36 inches thick, weighing less than 10 ounces•...
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What would life be like if you had access to random access memory that coupled the fast operating characteristics of DRAM with flash memory's ability to retain data while powered off? Pretty darn amazing, we imagine. Believe it or not, such a contraption is already in the works, and it has...
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Steve Wozniak is famous for many things, including co-founding Apple Computer with Steve Jobs, creating the Apple I and Apple II computers, bringing the first universal TV remote control to market, crashing an airplane, teaching high school, organizing the US Festivals, and even playing Segway...
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The BlackBerry Storm is currently available for $99 on Amazon.com's website, with a two-year service commitment. No rebate forms or other shenanigans to go through, either. There are some restrictions, per the site, besides the 2-year plan (emphasis ours): The purchase price listed above...
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If all you were expecting at Mobile World Congress this month was new mobile phones, you'll be pleasantly surprised to find that software vendors should be there en masse as well. Take Azingo, for instance, who will make the trek to Barcelona in order to showcase two new WebKit-based products...
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The struggling One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Foundation, which cut staff by 50% in January is dropping their "Change the World" program. Previously people could buy groups of from 100 to 1000 of the XO-1 laptops and donate them to places of their choice. But that option no longer exists on the...
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Last month, AMD launched the Phenom II X4 processor line-up, and with it ushered in the first desktop processors built using the company's 45nm process node. While the first two Phenom II processors to arrive, the 3.0GHz X4 940 and 2.8GHz 920, were clearly superior to previous Phenoms in terms...
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Last month, AMD launched the Phenom II X4 processor line-up, and with it ushered in the first desktop processors built using the company's 45nm process node. While the first two Phenom II processors to arrive, the 3.0GHz X4 940 and 2.8GHz 920, were clearly superior to previous Phenoms in terms...
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Didn't you hate when your college calculus processor insisted that an answer had to be "exact," and that "close enough" just wouldn't cut it? Clearly, you should have attended Rice University or Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. A team of researchers from both institutions have come together in order to create a revolutionary...
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By now you are probably aware of wildfires that have ravaged the southern state of Victoria in Australia. 108 people are dead at the time of this writing, over 700 homes destroyed, with 850 square miles (2,200 square kilometers) burned.Google engineers have pulled together a Flash map that...
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It's slightly disturbing to look at a robotic reincarnation of one of the world's greatest scientists, but it's the technology behind the rubberized face that's of interest here. At last week's Technology, Entertainment and Design conference, Albert Einstein reemerged as part of a...
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The old adage proves true once again: if it sounds too good to be true, well, we'll let you finish the rest. The so-called $10 laptop that was expected to be unveiled in India has turned out to be a complete letdown. For starters, it's not a laptop at all. Furthermore, it could cost two to...
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If the recent release of Intel's X58 chipset has taught us anything, it's that change can be good. In our first two forays with these new boards and Intel's Core i7 processor, we've been firmly impressed by the performance gains seen over legacy Core 2 architectures, much less AMD's...
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Many times, we focus on technology that strives to make our lives easier or that’s just plain cool. Too often, it’s easy to take the technology that helps to keep us safe for granted. One new software system, called BEAM 3D, is a safety application that could prove to be invaluable for...
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Is the e-reader revolution finally upon us? Now, we know that demand for Amazon's Kindle has been remarkable, but it would still be a stretch to say that e-books were all the rage amongst the general populace over the past year or so. As Amazon apparently prepares to unveil its next generation...
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IBM has laid off several thousand people during this recession. However, according to a internal IBM document obtained by CNNMoney, some of the North American employees can still save their jobs --- if they choose to move to another country and work at the local pay rate. In other words...
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Make no mistake -- NVIDIA has certainly pushed out a few new powerhouse graphics cards since the introduction of its GTX 260, but there's obviously plenty of demand left for what was the company's most impressive GPU to date in June of last year. As money gets tight and cutting edge boards...
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Intel may be placing its quad-core Itanium server chip back in the oven, but it's having no issues whatsoever shipping the latest iteration of its white-hot Atom CPU. The Intel Atom N280, which should arrive in ASUS' Eee PC 1000HE before any other mainstream machine, is now making its way to PC makers across the globe. Reportedly, the processor...
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Really, there's nothing to do here but sigh and hang one's head. Just days after Britain promised that all of its citizens would be provided broadband Internet access by 2012 and South Korea set forth a plan to implement 1Gbps Internet connections within its borders, Cuba has shamed the trend...
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We're already aware that on Monday Amazon.com will most likely be announcing Kindle 2. But will they also be announcing software for smartphones that will allow users to download, buy, and read Kindle books? The New York Times says that Amazon.com has confirmed that they are working on such...
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