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Latest News - October 2011
- Hardware Roundup
- Imation Announces First NAS Appliances
- TDK to Double Hard Drive Capacity with Frickin' Lasers
- Sprint's Going LTE In 2012, Still Tending To WiMAX Customers
- LG Display Touts World's Most Energy Efficient LCD TV
- Consumer Tech Spending Still Rising, Digital Distribution Is Too
- E FUN's 8" Nextbook Premium 8 Tablet Ships For $300
- Sony Considering Buying Ericsson Out Of SE Project?
- Here's to the Craziest of the "Crazy Ones." Farewell, Steve
- And, They're Sold Out. Did You Expect Differently?
- Steve Wozniak Interviewed After Steve Jobs' Passing
- Delta And Gogo Expand In-Flight Internet And Entertainment Options
- Lenovo's N5902 Multimedia Remote Gains Backlit Keyboard
- Western Digital's WD TV Live Streaming Media Player Gains Spotify Action
- HP Gains Autonomy, In More Ways Than One
- Kyocera Makes Haptics Happen (Sort Of?)
- Rdio Offers Free Web Streaming
- Samsung, Google Postpone Launch Of Nexus Prime
- iPhone 4S Pre-orders Begin, Unlocked Version Slated for November
- Super Talent Sticks Its Green Thumb into Servers with Eco-Friendly Memory
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Video: [Tech ARP] Desktop Graphics Card Comparison Guide Rev. 23.4 Motherboards and Chipsets: ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 (Intel Z68) Motherboard Review @ Tweaktown Memory and Storage: Corsair Force GT 240GB Solid State Drive Review @ Tweaktown Kingston HyperX SSD 240GB Upgrade Bundle Kit @ TestFreaks Power: Funky Kit Review: HEC Cougar SX 550w...
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Digital storage company Imation is adding NAS appliances to its portfolio, according to a Computerworld report. Appliances are in the InfiniVault or DataGuard lines, both of which Imation acquired when the company bought ProStor Systems’s assets in August. InfiniVault is a tiered storage system that uses fixed RAID and RDX removable...
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Outside of Hollywood, lasers mounted on sharks is a technology that may never be realized. But in hard drives? The mad scientists at TDK on working on this very thing, and once completed, it has the potential to more than double the capacity of today's hard drives. This isn't a theoretical...
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Well, isn't this quite the bombshell? Sprint was steadfast in their support for WiMAX, despite the fact that T-Mobile's 42Mbps HSPA+ network (and especially Verizon Wireless' LTE network) was faster. WiMAX was widely seen as the first "4G"...
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Size matters, sure, but so does power efficiency. It's becoming an increasingly important thing this day and age, with power constraints becoming all the more evident and efficiency numbers becoming just as important as diagonal inches, resolution specifications or asking price. LG Display is...
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Wondering if this whole "consumer electronics" thing is just some fading trend? Wonder no more. It's been fairly obvious to us, following the industry over the past decade and change, that technology is only growing more and more...
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New tablets? Naturally. These things are flowing like wine at an afterparty these days, and now even a company by the name of eFun is jumping in on the... fun. The company has just announced their new $300 Nextbook Premium 8 Android-based tablet, which -- perhaps not surprisingly -- looks a...
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Is Sony considering removing the "Ericsson" from Sony Ericsson? Perhaps. These rumors have been around in some form or fashion for years now, but they're seeming to become more and more intense as time passes. Years back, SE axed many employees as the iPhone and other Android smartphone...
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It's unclear to us why the death of Steve Jobs has hit us hard. We never knew him personally. We love Android and hate the iOS closed model. Despite that, while watching the videos when writing this, we would tear up, occasionally. Is it because his age isn't that far off of...
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While Apple hasn't released exact sales figures yet, AT&T said that in its first 12 hours of sales it sold 200,000 iPhone 4S units. In addition, there is indication that demand is high, and across the board: Apple's online store is now sold out of iPhone 4S pre-orders, on all carriers...
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Sometimes, images are worth a thousand words. Sometimes, videos are worth even more. Steve Jobs is the man most commonly associated with Apple, but he's actually just half of the duo that created the company. Steve Wozniak, the other Steve, is the vital second part. Woz considers himself the...
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In-flight Wi-Fi still feels like it's a futuristic thing, and Delta's been doing their best to expand Gogo's services to every plane they can. This week, the airline announced an expanded in-flight Wi-Fi effort as well as entertainment...
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Looks like Lenovo's toying with new ways to get you typing. The company has just introduced the new N5902. That's not telling you much, but the photo below just might. It's a unique, portable keyboard, but it's actually much more than just that. It's a "multimedia remote," complete with L/R...
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Roku, Popcorn Hour, Amazon -- who in the world do you choose these days? Streaming options are boundless, it seems, and Western Digital is dead-set on continuing to be a player in the industry. The company's new WD TV media player family...
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During Leo's final days at CEO of HP, there was a lot of talk regarding the personal PC business, and the company's future relationship with Autonomy. Now, as Meg Whitman has confirmed that she'll be making the decision on the former within a month or so, the latter has come to a conclusion of its own. HP announced this week that they had...
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According to a report by Tech-On!, Kyocera Corp. demoed a new touchscreen panel for mobile devices at CEATEC Japan that simulates the feeling of touching a physical button. Bearing the moniker “New Sensation Touch Panel”, the new touchscreen apparently uses piezoelectric elements embedded between the LCD and touch panels. When...
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Ah, you gotta love some healthy industry competition; consumers always win. Today’s win is brought to you by online music service Rdio, which now offers free Web streaming. The music streaming market has plenty of players, and with the recent arrival of Spotify to the U.S., it makes sense for Rdio to elbow for more room by rolling out...
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Yesterday, we told you about the Nexus Prime, a hot new smartphone that was expected to be unveiled next week. Now, we're getting word that Google and Samsung may be delaying the arrival of this highly-anticipated smartphone. In a statement released today, the two companies said they won't be...
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Is everybody over the fact that Apple didn't announce an iPhone 5? Did it not bother you in the first place? Great, let's move on, because today's the day you can put your pre-order in, assuming iOS is what floats your boat. Undecided on a...
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System memory isn't the cause of your high energy bill at home -- check your fully loaded entertainment center instead -- but when it comes to servers and server farms, low power memory can have a real impact on a company's bottom line...
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According to a report from Uncrunched.com, Nuance is planning to acquire Swype. The terms of the deal are still vague, but the report cites a source familiar with the deal as claiming the price tag could be $100 million or more. If you've used one of today's popular Android smartphones, you're probably familiar with Swype. This popular alternative...
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Video: Sapphire HD 6850 1GB Vapor-X Edition @ OCC ASUS GTX580 DirectCU II Graphics Card Review @ OCIA.net VisionTek Ulimate 8GB DDR3-1600 @ PureOverclock Motherboards and Chipsets: Gigabyte X58A-OC Intel X58 Motherboard Review @ ThinkComputers.org ASUS F1A75-M PRO @ PureOverclock Processors: Intel Core i3 2120 Review @ OCC TR reviews AMD's...
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