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Latest News - September 2010
- Segway Company Owner Dies in Freak Segway Accident
- RIM Unveils Its PlayBook Tablet
- Verizon, EU Give Thumbs-up to Bug Labs' Open Source Hardware
- New Left 4 Dead DLC "The Sacrifice" Coming October 5
- DROID R2-D2 By Motorola Coming Soon
- Acer Announces New Aspire TimelineX Notebooks
- OCZ Introduces More Affordable Onyx 2 Solid State Drives
- Oracle Announcement Sends AMD, ARM Shares Soaring
- Origin PC's EON17 is a Beastly Desktop Replacement
- Microsoft Renegs on Windows Phone 7 Tethering Claims
- Activision/Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick's Latest Great Idea
- Wi-Fi Seen As Critical To Relationships, Life In General
- Jorno Foldable Bluetooth Keyboard Brings QWERTY To Your Mobile Devices
- Google and Schmidt Convicted of Defamation, in French Court
- iBUYPOWER Launches Two Phenom II X6 Powered Systems, Limited Edition Dragon Chassis
- Six Silicon Valley Tech Firms Forced To Halt Anti-Competitive Hiring Blocks
- AMD Follows Intel; Warns On Q3 Profits
- Microsoft Declares It's Time To Focus On PC Gaming
- Hardware Roundup
- Sony Debuts VPL-VW90ES 3D Front Projector And VPL-VWPRO1
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All News for September 2010
The British owner of the Segway company, who had purchased the company less than a year ago, in December 2009, from inventor Dean Kamen, has died in a freak accident, driving the vehicle off a cliff. Jimi Heselden was 62. Heselden was reportedly using the Segway to inspect the grounds of his...
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As expected, RIM on Monday unveiled its tablet at the company's 2010 DevCon conference. RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis channeled Apple CEO Steve Jobs with a sort of “one more thing” moment, saving the announcement for the end of his keynote address. Lazaridis described the PlayBook (not the rumored BlackPad) as “the first professional...
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Bug Labs sells open source hardware modules that lets you build just about any kind of gadget you can imagine. Last week the New York startup got a big helping hand from (who-would-believe-it?) Verizon. At the same time, it finally got the...
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LEFT 4 DEAD "THE SACRIFICE" COMING OCTOBER 5 Latest DLC Coming to Both L4D1 & L4D2 September 27, 2010 - Valve, creators of best-selling game franchises (such as Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, and Counter-Strike) and leading technologies (such as Steam and Source), today announced the...
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Attention all Star Wars fans: the phone you've been waiting for is almost here. Verizon Wireless wants you to know that the limited edition DROID R2-D2 by Motorola will be available online and in select Verizon Wireless Communication stores beginning this Thursday, Sept. 30. In addition to a themed outer shell and box, the DROID R2-D2 will...
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Acer refreshed its line of Aspire TimelineX notebooks. The new Aspire TimelineX 1830T-68U118 boasts of a battery life of up to eight hours. This 11.6-inch notebook weighs just over three pounds and is powered by an Intel Core i7 680UM processor. Acer also announced three additional Acer...
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OCZ Technology Continues to Drive Solid-State Drive Prices Down With the Launch of Onyx 2 New OCZ SATA II SSD Delivers the Price to Performance Ratio Mainstream Consumers Demand SAN JOSE, CA - September 27, 2010 - OCZ Technology Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:OCZ), a leading provider of high-performance...
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In the past nine months Oracle both acquired Sun Microsystems and recently launched an updated version of that company's 'Niagra' processor. That's an impressive amount of work in such a short time, but Oracle CEO Larry Ellison isn't done shopping. Last Friday, at a company investment meeting...
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There's no mistaking Origin PC's new EON17 notebook for exactly what it is: a full-on desktop replacement with more bells and whistles than, well, a bells and whistles store. Believe it or not, the 17.3-inch HD screen (1920x1080) is probably the tamest feature on the EON17's spec sheet. Want...
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Talk about a sike out. Just last week, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 chief, Brandon Watson, said it would be up to each wireless carrier whether or not to support tethering on the new mobile platform at launch. As it turns out, he was wrong, and we're officially bummed. "A company spokeswoman...
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Covering the declarations of Bobby Kotick is a bit like monitoring the behavior of an active volcano. It's impossible to predict exact when he'll blow, but when he inevitably does, the event will blast molten stupid in every direction. The man's latest bright idea is to charge for cutscenes...
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You always have to watch out for a Wi-Fi survey conducted by the Wi-Fi Alliance, but based on our own experiences, we actually have to agree with the findings here. According to results from a new poll conducted by Wakefield Research on behalf of the Wi-Fi Alliance, Wi-Fi is becoming more...
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Recently, a Solid Line iPad case added a physical keyboard to Apple's hot-selling tablet. But it only functions with one particular tablet, so if you aren't an iPad owner, you can't really take advantage. Now, there's a more universal...
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A French court has convicted Google and CEO Eric Schmidt for defamation. The ruling came as a result of Google's Suggest function, which brought up terms such as "rapist" and "satanist" when people Googled the plaintiff's name. The man who filed the lawsuit had been previously convicted of...
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For whatever reason, people love to buy limited edition products. Even random limited edition products like cars, foods and even PCs. iBUYPOWER has just launched two new AMD Phenom II x6-powered towers in limited edition dragon chassis...
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Wow, this is odd. According to a new report today from the United States Department of Justice, six very well recognized silicon valley companies are have their hands slapped by a very powerful entity. The DoJ has mandated that six...
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When Intel announced it would miss its Q3 targets in late August, there was speculation as to whether or not AMD would escape the same fate. With the third quarter having officially ended, the answer is no. According to a statement the company made late last week, revenue will be down 1-4.5 percent compared to second-quarter revenue of 1.65...
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It's been a few years since Microsoft paid much attention to the PC gaming industry, but someone apparently wandered past the sole employee in the PC gaming devision and kicked him a few times. With Halo Reach released and Kinect in the launch tube, MS has announced it wants to "push the...
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Motherboards and Chipsets: ASRock 890FX Deluxe4 @ PureOverclock Memory and Storage: Hitachi LifeStudio Mobile Plus Review @ Benchmark Reviews Comparing VelociRaptor, SSD and RAM Drive @ OCAU A-DATA Nobility N005 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive @ Tweaktown Plextor PX-B120U External BD-ROM Drive @ TechwareLabs Systems: Cryo PC Helix Review - XSReviews...
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HDTVs seem to be all the rage these days, particularly 3D HDTVs. But there are other ways to enjoy big screen content, namely front projectors. These have a smaller, but arguably more devout, following, and Sony knows that. Sony has been producing high-end projectors for many years, but now...
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A sophisticated computer virus that targets solely Siemens SCADA, or "supervisory control and data acquisition," systems, has infiltrated systems across the globe, and has hit Iran "very hard." The Stuxnet virus has reportedly struck industrial sites throughout Iran, including its nuclear...
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A handful of Android smartphones may have received updates this past week, but Sony Ericsson's Xperia X10 smartphones were notably absent from the list. According to a recent blog post, the company doesn't intent to start updating its Xperia X10, X10 mini and mini pro until the end of October...
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