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- FCC Looking To Upgrade 911 Emergency Centers To Receive Video/Photos
- Sprint Won't Carry 4G WiMAX Model Of RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook
- Hardware Roundup
- Google Integrates Native Client Into Latest Chrome Beta
- Dell Targets Small Businesses With New Vostro V131 Laptop
- Samsung Galaxy S II Announcements Coming For U.S Carriers On Aug. 29
- Trim-Slice Micro PC Runs On NVIDIA's Tegra 2
- Vuzix Ships Wrap 1200 3D Video Eyewear: It's 3D, *IN* Your Glasses
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Coming In Early 2012
- The IBM PC Turns 30, Let the Spanking Commence!
- Thermaltake's Spacecraft VF-I Mid-tower Case Lands on Earth
- NVIDIA Reveals More Kal-El, Windows 8 Details During Earnings Call
- Lenovo Unveils ThinkVision LT1421 Mobile Monitor, Two New Edge Series Laptops
- 31: HotHardware's Two and A Half Geeks Webcast - Aug. 12, 2011
- Acer Expands Iconia Tab Line With 7-inch Model
- Mad Catz Cyborg R.A.T. Albino Edition Gaming Mouse Ships With PC/Mac Support
- SteelSeries Reveals Configurable Sensei Gaming Mouse
- Skype For Mac v5.3 Brings Lion Support, HD Video Calling
- STEC’s ZeusIOPS SSDs Benefit From New ASIC Archiecture
- Microsoft Accused of Double-Billing Customers for Xbox Live
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All News for August 2011
Recently, the launch of the Child ID app proved that the U.S. government wasn't scared of tapping into modern-day, consumer-friendly tech to provide a service to the American people. Now, the FCC is pushing for 911 texting. The Federal Communications Commission is envisioning a project called Next Generation...
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Unfortunate news for RIM: while sales of the PlayBook tablet haven't been nearly as brisk as some other competitors out there, it looks like Sprint won't be investing time and effort into pushing the 4G WiMAX version on their store shelves. That means that only the Wi-Fi model will remain, with no 4G edition at all to...
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Video: ASUS GeForce GTX 560 Ti DirectCU II 1GB DirectX11 Video Card Review @Hi Tech Legion GeForce GTX 590 Water Block Roundup @ PureOverclock Motherboards and Chipsets: ASUS E35M1-M Pro Motherboard Review @ Neoseeker Gigabyte G1.Sniper and GA-X58A-OC: LGA1366 Mainboards for Gamers and Enthusiasts @ XBitLabs ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3 Review...
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One of the roadblocks to more powerful Web apps is the inability of those apps to harness a local machine’s computational power. Native Client (NaCl), now integrated into the next Chrome beta release, is designed to help solve this problem by providing a way to execute native code within the browser. Launched back at the end of 2008,...
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Dell introduced the new Vostro V131 laptop which boasts of a battery life that can last for up to 9.5 hours. This thin laptop offers Intel Core i3 and i5 processor options as well as a LTE connectivity option to ensure you're always connected. The Vostro V131 also has Bluetooth 3.0 for connecting your wireless peripherals. A fingerprint reader...
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Samsung Mobile has been sending around this invite to various media outlets advertising an event for August 29th. The image is entitled Galaxy_S_II_Invite_v2.jpg, which leads many believe that the famed Galaxy S II is almost ready to make it's American debut. We recently reviewed the global version of this phone...
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Admittedly, small form factor machines have seemingly vanished from the spotlight in recent years, but there are still a handful of companies out there working at them. CompuLab is one of them, and this week they've introduced the Trim-Slice. The Trim-Slice H is an ARM Cortex A9-powered desktop that runs on NVIDIA's Tegra 2 chipset. The...
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Vuzix is a company that's been pushing out wraparound head goggles for some time now, mostly focusing on bringing portable video right in front of your eyes. They seem a bit awkward at first, but it's the only way to experience a big screen while on an airplane, for example. Now, the next logical step is into the...
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The long-running and immensely popular Counter-Strike series is getting another sequel in early 2012 with the release of Counter-Strike: Global Offensive, or “CS:GO” for those in the know. The sequel will be available on Steam (for both Macs and PCs), as well as the Playstation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. CS:GO will feature updates...
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Can you remember what you were doing 30 years ago? Some of you were in diapers, others were graduating college, and some of you may not have even been born yet (sorry about your social security, kids). IBM, on the other hand, released its very first personal computer on August 12, 1981. It was called the IBM PC 5150, and it could be had for...
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Thermaltake just added a new case to its arsenal, one in which it feels will "encourage space addicts to explore cyberspace with endless possibility." Um, sure. But don't let the goofy marketing tune you out, because on paper, Thermaltake's Spacecraft VF-I looks like another promising chassis from Thermaltake. The VF-I is a mid-tower case...
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NVIDIA’s CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, Rob Csongor (Investor Relations), and Karen Burns (Interim CFO) hosted a conference call yesterday to discuss the company’s Q2 earnings for fiscal year 2012. The financial data looks good for NVIDIA, but the always outspoken Jen-Hsun Huang also revealed a few interesting bits...
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Lenovo announced a new mobile monitor for road warriors. The new LT1421 is a 14-inch display that connects through a USB port and can be propped up with a photo frame stand. This monitor weighs less than two pounds and measures less than one centimeter at its thinnest point. Lenovo also announced two new additions to...
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In this latest episode of HotHardware's Two and Half Geeks, Dave, Iyaz and Marco talk about the Kingston Wi-Drive that adds wireless storage to iOS devices, Intel investing 300 million bucks in UltraBook development, the Lenovo IdeaPad Tablet K1 and other things lurking in Dave's lab. We also answer a few interesting...
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Acer is adding to the Iconia Tab lineup with the introduction of the new Iconia Tab A100. This 7-inch tablet will run on Android 3.2, making it the industry's first 7-inch Honeycomb-powered tablet in the United States and Canada. You'll find an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor with 1GB of RAM as well as a GeForce GPU in this tablet. Key...
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There are game peripheral companies, and then there's Mad Catz. The company's Cyborg line has grown stranger by the year, and has drawn the eyes of many a user. It's not all for negative reasons, though. The new Cyborg R.A.T. Albino Gaming Mouse is definitely one of the slicker, wilder looking mice to surface this...
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When it comes to gaming mice, it's important to pick a device that matches the hand well. After all, losing those deathmatches comes down the player, their connection, and their mouse. SteelSeries is a big name amongst the hardcore fraggers, and the company's latest contraption is definitely one of its finest. The new Sensei is equipped with...
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Skype for Mac hasn't exactly done well with users. The overall user interface tweaks made to the software went over poorly with many, and they certainly went out of their way to make sure those complains were heard loud and clear. Now, the company is looking to silence the criticism with an all-new release tailored for use with OS X Lion....
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Good things are happening at this week’s Flash Memory Summit 2011 in Santa Clara, CA, including STEC’s announcement of a new architecture for its enterprise-class ZeusIOPS SSDs that it will be demoing. The ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) architecture is designed to both substantially improve performance and...
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An Xbox Live customer has filed a class-action lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging that the company has been renewing subscriptions and double-billing customers without their consent. The suit was filed by Ryan Graves, an Indiana resident that claims Microsoft's pre-paid subscriptions are "governed by vague and onerous terms of use." Graves...
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After a few days of duking it out with Exxon Mobil, Apple has taken the number one spot in the list of most valuable companies in the world. For a brief period of time on Tuesday, Apple took position ahead of Exxon Mobil, but by the end of the day the situation had reversed. Yesterday, the same thing happened, but Apple managed to hang onto...
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Dell added to its newest new line of z-series notebooks with the announcement today of the Inspiron 13z and 14z. The pair complements the recently-released XPS 15z by introducing more options for thin Dell notebooks, but these come in at a lower cost; the Inspiron 14z, for instance, starts at $599.99, while the XPS 15z starts at $999.99. The...
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