Gregory Sullivan
Gregory Sullivan
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Due to popular demand, Dell is once again offering the OS that customers can't seem to get enough of: Windows XP. Dell received over 10,000 votes on their IdeaStorm website, enough to continue offering XP on selected models. Microsoft countered that Dell's move was in response to a "small minority of customers" with a "specific...
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Apple's smart phone, or dumb computer, the iPhone, is still on schedule to ship in late June, if the the wireless provider for its service knows what he's talking about. "Our expectations are good. Our testing has been good," said AT&T Chief Operating Officer Randall Stephenson. "The iPhone is on target to launch in June."...
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Intel's Chairman Craig Barrett wants you to know that Intel,along with other well-known companies like Cisco Systems, GHAFARI, Microsoft, and Occidental Petroleum, are dropping something useful on Lebanon for a change. Servers and support, for instance. "Access to education and technology increases the opportunities for the people...
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Intel is making some noise this week at their Intel Develeoper Forum in Beijing. The most interesting new product announcement might be the 45nm low-power microprocessor they've called Silverthorne. It's perfect for powering Ultra Mobile Personal Computers and Mobile Internet Devices, and with multiple communications connections, they'll...
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Blackberry wireless e-mail service is a mighty useful thing. Many business people rely on it for all their communications. A great many voices cried out, and then were silenced, when Blackberry service was lost over most of the Western hemisphere last night at around 5 PM PDT. And the bad news is that restoration of service might be just...
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Your MP3 player is a marvelous thing. But the one thing it isn't, is high fidelity. People are coming to the realization that pretty good sound reproduction is good enough, and that is spelling doom and gloom for the retailers that depend on high-end home stereo for their livelihood. Tweeter Home Entertainment Group Inc., a Canton,...
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Toshiba's entering the desktop external hard drive market with a bang, offering a 200 GB unit for $229.99 MSRP. Sweet. Toshiba's USB 2.0 portable external hard drives come bundled with the NTI Shadow software. The click-free, switch-free and button-free backup solution...
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Yahoo's been struggling to stake out internet territory that Google doesn't already inhabit for a while now.Yesterday they announced they'd entered into a partnership with over 250 newspapers to give those papers a larger online exposure while giving Yahoo some precious, precious, advertising revenue. Sacramento-based McClatchy...
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Widescreen LCD monitor sales are expected to nearly quadruple in 2007, (wrote HotHardware news editor Gregory Sullivan on his brand new 20" Optiquest widescreen monitor he purchased last week by clicking on the Newegg ad on the front page of HotHardware. And very satisfied with the purchase and the vendor he is.) according to a report in DigiTimes...
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Microsoft has an application to deliver rich media on the Web, designed to go head-to-head with Adobe's popular Flash program. They call it: Silverlight. Key [A manager at Microsoft]said Microsoft is targeting three core audiences with Silverlight, formerly code-named WPF/E: content providers that want to distribute video and rich...
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Adobe announced yesterday at the national Association of Broadcasters trade show that they've got a new flash based platform that lets you download and watch videos on or off-line. The content providers are supposed to like this better as they can send along whatever they've been using to make money on the content with the video....
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Samsung announced Friday they'll be selling a disc player that will play either HD DVD or Blu-ray discs. Should be available by the end of the year. "Consumers are hungry for more HD content but are currently confused about competing formats," Dongsoo Jun, executive vice president of the Digital AV Division at Samsung," said in a...
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We hardware fanbois at HotHardware observe which processor is chosen by computer manufacturers like an old man at a racetrack watches the horses. Hewlett-Packard surprised us a bit by skipping right past Intel and AMD and using chipset maker Via Technologies of Taiwan for the processor in their new desktop, aimed at the mainland Chinese...
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Sony has smelled the coffee and is discontinuing the production of their Playstation 3 Gaming Console with the 20 GB harddrive. Their 60 GB models was the only version consumers were interested in anyway. While some industry watchers have speculated that the 20 GB model's demise will lead to an earlier than planned price...
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Dialing information on your phone usually costs over a dollar. No thanks. Google's begun offering a free 411 service; just dial 800-GOOG-411 and yell what you're looking for into the phone, and hope your accent doesn't throw the automated service off.The service applies speech recognition technologies to figure out what you're searching for,...
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Remember all those pictures of their grandchildren you e-mailed your parents? Well, they're too busy watching Matlock re-runs to learn how to back them up, and you know eventually they're going to lose them all. Let's help. Polaroid has the answer for anyone that needs easy backup. 40 gigs, plug it in to the USB port, and turn it on. Store...
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Combine a radiator that looks like it's from a 1967 Ford Fairlane, some heat paste, and a nice quiet fan, and what do you get? Enzotechnology's Ultra-X chilled overclocking goodness. BurnoutPC has the skinny with lots of pictures. And graphs. We love graphs. The Enzotechnology Ultra-X...
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McAfee's semi-annual overview of their on-going security research says that cyber-criminals are becoming more sophisticated, and are banding together in loose associations to swap code and deliver support for their nefarious endeavors. They've got their eye on your smartphone, too. Among the specific trends...
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Lots of people swear by the Dell Axim series of pocket PCs. Those people should have their shoelaces and belt taken away for a while, as Dell has decided not to sell them anymore. A few years ago, Dell entered the handheld market and immediately shook it up. Its Axim series of Pocket...
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Matsushita announced today that they'll soon be selling 42-inch plasma TVs with high definition screens. You can already buy plasma hi-def screens that are larger than 50 inches, but this signals that plasma makers are trying to compete with LCD in the smaller, more affordable ranges of hi-def sets. Matsushita hopes to challenge...
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SanDisk is partnering with Yahoo to offer wireless downloads from Yahoo's Music service on their Sansa Connect mp3 player. Streaming radio from Launchcast and Flickr photos too. Neat. The US $249 model comes with 4Gb of memory, a 2.2-inch colour LCD screen, inbuilt Wi-Fi and a MicroSD...
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Starting the week of May 7th, Xbox 360 users will have access to Windows Live Messenger features, and be able to taunt their friends seamlessly. Here's a pic of the QWERTY beast you can do it with: Members of the six-million-strong Xbox Live community currently send more than two...
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