Ray Willington
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If you have a bunch of old hard drives laying around, collecting dust, there's a good use for them that you may have not considered. TRENDnet has just introduced a new batch of 5Gbps USB 3.0 hard drive enclosures, which means that your old hard drives have now been given a new lease on life as...
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If there's one company that loves customizations in the gaming PC business, it's iBuyPower. These guys are usually first out of the gate with offering new gear from CPU and GPU suppliers, and now they're staying at the front of the field...
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Who loves a sneak peek? More like who doesn't love a sneak peek, right? Gigabyte has just forwarded us details surrounding their upcoming 6-Series Motherboards that will support the new second-generation Intel Core processors. You may know...
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USB 3.0 has been out for awhile now. Loads of notebooks and desktops are shipping each day with USB 3.0 support, and while we still wish that each and every PC would make the jump to 3.0, at least progress is being made. But there's one qualifier there: the only USB 3.0 machines shipping are Windows-based PCs. In other words, no Mac is supporting...
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A little old, a little new. Mix them together and you get Onkyo's newest. The Onkyo CS-V645 DVD/CD Mini AV system has a touch of retro style, but it supports one of the newest media players. By glancing at it, you may expect this unit to...
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Well, it looks like another major company is branching out to become even more major. Jawbone is a company most closely linked to Bluetooth headsets. Their "Icon" line of headsets have generally set the standard for fashion and style for...
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Mac users, you aren't being snubbed any longer. Today, Skype for Mac has been revealed in Beta, bringing the same features that version 5.0 already delivered on the PC side to OS X users. The new Skype 5.0 for Mac introduces a revised user...
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These days, getting funding for a project is rather difficult. A lot more difficult than it once was, that's for sure. But it's pretty clear that Panasonic believes in what Tesla is going after, as they have just set aside $30 million to...
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Panasonic's DMC-GF1 has easily been one of the company's most highly touted cameras, and one of the most popular interchangeable lens units altogether. But the GF1 has started to show its age somewhat with this newer era of Micro Four...
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Could it be? Another tablet? Of course, it's the year of the tablet! The next in line to pump out their best anti-iPad effort is Toshiba, with the Folio 100 actually being one of the slicker units that we have seen recently. This is another Android-based tablet, presumably to go head-to-head...
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Have you ever wished you could hook up your PC in one room, and then use it in another? You can definitely do this if you own a laptop, but here's a better solution for desktop owners: the Jack PC. The Jack PC EFI 7900 is really just a thin client PC at heart, but it's bottled up into a small...
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Now this is an idea worth acting upon. Amazon's Disc+ On Demand program has just been expanded, which hopefully makes it large enough to make a serious impact on the industry. If you haven't heard of the program before, it's probably...
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It may not sound like anything very significant, but to anyone who has ever used an enterprise machine, it is. Generally, company issued notebooks are slow to load and slow to awake from sleep. Much of that has to do with the loads of corporate security programs that have to load in the...
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T-Mobile USA is really blowing things out here lately. They just proclaimed to be America's largest 4G carrier, and they're also pushing the new myTouch 4G phone as a major competitor to the iPhone and a host of other handsets on less...
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If you just so happen to be in the market for a new monitor, ViewSonic just so happens to have a new pair to choose from. The company's new VG36-LED Series of monitors are just being introduced this week, with two new ones in the line to...
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Another day, another media streamer. That certainly seems to be the case here lately, as company after company continues to introduce new ways to stream media from the Internet and your networked storage locations onto your television. The newest one to join the bandwagon is the Acer Aspire...
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Well, this should be interesting. T-Mobile USA has had their hand slapped before for calling their HSPA+ service "4G," with Sprint and Clearwire claiming to actually offer true 4G service (WiMAX). In reality, T-Mobile's HSPA+ service is based on 3G protocols, but it's tweaked for higher speeds...
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If you own a Western Digital NAS drive (like the My Book Live, WD ShareSpace or My Book World Edition), and you also own an Android smartphone, this news is definitely aimed at you. Western Digital just introduced the WD Photos app for Android, giving even Android users the ability to check...
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More tablets! Oh, wait. These aren't the tablets you're probably thinking of. Rather than introducing new Windows 7-based or Android-based tablets, Wacom has just announced a new round of tablets that are meant for creative professionals. Pros that use Photoshop more than e-mail. The Wacom STU...
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Are you ready for a surprise? Unfortunately, you probably won't find it here. A new report, put out by research firm Strategy Analytics, has found that Apple is in firm control of the tablet PC market, and it's unlikely that the situation will change in the near term. Years ago, tablet PCs hit...
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Tablets, tablets and more tablets. When will the flood end? We have all ideas we're just at the beginning, honestly, and more will come as Windows 7 gets pushed out onto even more touch panel devices. Today, Creative has introduced two new...
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Stealth PC is a fitting name for a company that makes PCs smaller than the average Wii. The company is back again with a familiar design, this time introducing the LPC-100M. This is considered a rugged, small form factor PC that's designed to slide away and withstand the elements. It's also...
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