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Latest News - July 2009
- Samsung Plays E-Reader Card With SNE-50K
- Averatec Rivals MacBook Air, MSI X-Slim With N3400 Ultraportable
- T-Mobile Gets Trackpad-Equipped BlackBerry Curve 8520
- $99 Palm Pre Deal Turns Out To Be A Goof: Best Buy
- hField Technologies Wi-Fire Adapter Boosts Wi-Fi Range
- Apple Blocks Google Voice-Enabled Apps (Incl. Google's!) From the App Store
- AMD ATI FirePro V8750 Workstation Graphics Card
- Research Firm Believes Strong GPU Market A Sign of New Growth
- Hardware Roundup
- Dell Settles Federal Discrimination Lawsuit
- Ricoh Unveils GR Digital III With Fast Lens
- AT&T Drops Price Of Refurbished iPhone To $49
- Despite Analyst Agitation, An AMD Atom Is No Answer to Company's Woes
- MediaGate Introduces MG-M²TV Media Streamer
- MySpace: The next online gaming destination?
- Linux Exec Guesses PCs Will Be Free With Data Plan Soon
- WD Debuts 750GB And 1TB 2.5" Scorpio Blue HDDs
- Bill Gates Quits Facebook After Friend Request Bombardment
- Garmin-Asus Nüvifone Finally Ships (To Asian Markets)
- Apple Complaint, and Price Drop, Brings "Laptop Hunters" Ad Change
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All News for July 2009
We're a little rusty on our "old sayings," but we're pretty sure one of them goes: "If you can't beat 'em, join 'em." With seemingly everyone jumping into the E-reader game these days, we guess it was just a matter of time before the consumer electronics giant known as Samsung jumped into the ring. Following the likes of Amazon, Plastic Logic...
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TriGem USA, the parent company responsible for the Averatec notebook line, has really been on a hot streak of late. After announcing two new all-in-one PCs over the past two months, the outfit is now setting its sights on MSI's X-Slim, Apple's MacBook Air and Asus' Seashell families. The sleek, all-aluminum 13" N3400...
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Research In Motion's BlackBerry line has a long history of being the go-to smartphone for the business crowd. By and large, the BlackBerry hasn't changed much over the years, sticking to its vertical form factor, full QWERTY keypad and generally small screen. Those attributes, along with a few nice extras, are all present on the company's...
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All those who were angry on Sunday, please calm down. Despite the fact that the sales force and the computers seemed to think it was a one-week promotion, that price drop to $99 for the Palm Pre on Sunday was nothing more than a glitch. The confusion began when a picture of an in-store banner promoting a week long special of a $99 Pre with...
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Got issues getting a signal? Don't mind strapping some extra hardware on your notebook in order to make things better? If not, then give hField Technologies' a look, which has just issued a new long-range Wi-Fi adapter that can supposedly help users maintain a wireless signal from up to 1000 feet away from the router. In case you're wondering,...
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We wrote earlier about the new BlackBerry and Android Google Voice apps that Google had released. They offer great functionality, allowing you to dial directly from your phone with your Google Voice number, but there was no iPhone version. Well, we'll never see it, unless Apple relents.Word comes that Apple has...
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When doing research for a new graphics card, mainstream users might come across a professional workstation-class video card and wonder what all the fuss is about. On the surface, one must look at the enormous price differences and question the justification when technically the hardware used to build the cards is very similar. But those that...
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Jon Peddie Research released its quarterly report on the state of the GPU market today and optimistically forecasts a strong third quarter. The second quarter bucked seasonal trends; sales were up a massive 31.29 percent. That's in contrast to what we typically see in Q2; over the past eight years sales have usually...
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Video:MSI N275GTX Twin Frozr OC Video Card @ Benchmark ReviewsMotherboards and Chipsets:ASUS M4A785TD-V EVO Review AMD 785G+SB710 @ OCWMemory and Storage:Corsair Performance Series Solid State RAID Report @ TweaktownRuncore Pro IV 1.8" SSD @ TweaktownIntel's second-generation X25-M solid-state drive @ TR-NewsVantec NexStar Dual Bay Hard Drive...
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Dell has agreed to settle a lawsuit brought by female employees for $9.1 million. The original case focused on a group of women who were employed at Dell in C1 through D3-level positions. Under the terms of the settlement, Dell will pay $5.6 million to the women in question and will use the other $3.5 million to raise the salaries of currently...
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Ricoh may not be the first brand you think of when it comes to digital cameras, but the company has some good offerings. Take the new GR Digital III, for instance. This new camera features a fast 28mm, f/1.9 lens. That’s something you don’t usually see on a point-and-shoot digital camera. The GR Digital III also uses a new 10 megapixel CCD...
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AT&T used its Twitter page to let us know that it has dropped the price on the refurbished 8GB iPhone 3G to just $49, while supplies last. The Twitter posting suggests visiting att.com to order. The $49 price tag is half the price of an unopened 8GB model. If you’re looking for a 3G capable iPhone and don’t need the faster specs and better...
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Several financial analysts have weighed in on AMD's Q2 performance since the company announced results, and their collective opinion has been anything but good. In the wake of its earnings call, AMD has been taken to task over its failure to provide an answer to Atom (or a netbook processor in general), weak margins...
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Well, what have we here? Unless our eyes are deceiving us, we believe we're looking at the latest media streamer in the long line of newfangled media streaming devices. As media becomes more and more mobile (and thus, less and less attached to whatever device it's actually stored on), AV addicts are finding the allure of taking their content...
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In an attempt to arrest MySpace's ever-faster decline into irrelevance, News Corp. is transforming the social network into an online gaming destination.The company, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch, had to do something, after all, once MySpace lost major ground to Facebook in June, posting smaller U.S. numbers than the latter — Comscore...
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Software pioneer Bill Gates always wanted a PC on every desk in the world, but we aren't quite sure he envisioned it happening like this. In much the same way as the cellphone industry took off in the 1990s with the advent of the "free-on-contract" phone, a Linux bigwig is suggesting that PCs are the next to follow in those footsteps. Linux...
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Look out, archive junkies! Western Digital is now coming for you down there in the mobile realm, a place where you once thought the "never enough space" bug couldn't bite. Today, the company who beat everyone to the 2TB mark in the desktop hard drive space has developed and shipped the industry's first 2.5" 1TB HDD. The drive, which is joined...
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Is there such a thing as being too popular? Having too many friends? If you're Bill Gates, we guess the answer is "yes." The famed Microsoft co-founder has recently admitted to giving up Facebook after "too many" people wanted to befriend him. Of course, we find it kind of silly that Mr. Gates expected anything other than an onslaught of friend...
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Garmin-Asus, the partnership that many doubted would ever bear fruit, is finally gearing up to ship their first product. When it was originally announced back in 2008, the nüvifone was viewed as a serious iPhone competitor and a real top-notch product for the smartphone industry at large. Unfortunately for Garmin-Asus, a lot has changed over...
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At the Worldwide Partner Conference in mid-July, Microsoft COO Kevin Turner noted that the Laptop Hunters ads are working, saying that Apple demanded Microsoft pull the ads because it (Apple) had lowered its prices:And you know why I know they're working? Because two weeks ago we got a call from the Apple legal...
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Free stuff is hard to beat, wouldn't you agree? It's been a little while since we've cleaned out the closets here and offered up a sweepstakes, but we felt the time was right for another one. Today, we're offering up a 2.5" Seagate Momentus 5400.5 80GB hard drive, which should slot perfectly in that notebook you're repairing/building, or in...
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Video:Sapphire HD 4890 Vapor-X 2GB Review @ OCCNvidia GeForce GTX 295: Operation "Renaissance" @ XBitLabsNanovision MiMo UM-710 - 7" USB Monitor Review @ XtremeComputingMotherboards and Chipsets:Foxconn BloodRage GTI @ InsideHWASUS M4A785TD-V EVO 785G Motherboard Preview @ Legit ReviewsProcessors:Intel Celeron Dual-Core Linux Performance @...
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