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Latest News - August 2011
- Intel Ultrabooks to Dip Below $1,000 by End of Year
- Mozilla to Get a Grip on Memory Leak Issues in Firefox 7
- NVIDIA Appoints Steve Scott CTO Of Tesla Business Unit
- Sprint Is Planning To Offer Cloud Services
- Rumor Suggests Ice Cream Sandwich Could Come Sooner Rather Than Later
- Lenovo's ThinkCentre M71z Desktop Brings Core i CPU, $599 Price
- Amazon Reveals Kindle Cloud Reader, Based On HTML5
- Samsung Reveals 512GB SSD With 500MB/sec Write Speeds
- Intel Capital Creates $300 Million Ultrabook Fund
- SandForce Demonstrates Its SSD Processors With Toshiba 24nm MLC Flash
- NVIDIA And Samsung Announce The GALAXY R Tegra-Powered Super Phone
- Intel Acquires Trinigy, Adds 3D Engine To Gaming Portfolio
- Toshiba's Glasses-Free 3D Laptop Is Coming Soon
- New Lawsuit Alleges That Book Publishers, Apple Colluded To Drive Up E-book Prices
- Hidden Dagger: Apple's Samsung Injunction Reveals Similar Motorola Request
- How to Score a Discounted Nintendo 3DS AND 20 Free Games
- SATA and PCI-Express Combine to Form Awesome SATA Express Specification
- Apple Wins EU Injunction Against Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
- Verizon Hops On Bandwagon, Moves to Block Unauthorized Tethering
- Boxee For iPad Launches Alongside Media Manager
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All News for August 2011
Intel has big plans for its Ultrabook concept. At least one Santa Clara executive is banking on Ultrabooks accounting for 40 percent of the entire notebook market by the end of 2012, and while that sounds a bit ambitious, Intel is even more confident that we'll see Ultrabook models ship for less than $999 by the end of this year. How confident?...
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If you've ever yelled at your PC, "Holy system resources, Batman! Firefox is chewing through all my memory!," then you may have bigger issues than browser memory leaks (don't worry, we have issues too...). But you're also not alone. Firefox's frustrating tendency to continually grab more memory until you're forced to shut it down and restart...
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NVIDIA has just announced the addition of CTO Steve Scott to the company’s Tesla Business unit. Steve Scott was the chief architect of the Cray X1 and was involved in the design of the Cray XT, Cray XE and "Cascade" systems as well. According to his bio, Steve Scott holds 27 U.S. patents in the areas of interconnection networks,...
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Earlier this week, a Sprint executive said the company would offer cloud services for all sizes of businesses. Sprint’s cloud service is expected to be available in the fourth quarter. As part of these cloud offerings, Paget Alves, head of Sprint business markets, said the company will sell its network infrastructure as a service available...
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Rumor after rumor has suggested that Apple will be releasing a new iPhone at some point in the relatively near future. Depending on who you listen to, the latest iPhone could be announced as early as this month. Now, a new rumor suggests that Google may push up the release date of its next version of Android, known as...
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Nothing like the fresh smell of a new PC to get the morning started right. So thinks Lenovo, as they've just announced the latest in their biz-centric ThinkCentre line. The new M71z is an all-in-one desktop designed for large businesses, schools and governments, but as always, there's nothing stopping the average...
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Just months after Amazon's Cloud Music / Video offerings came online, the Kindle Cloud Reader is following suit. The new service will allow users to read nearly a million Kindle books right on the web browser, with no download or install required. It's entirely built around the HTML5 web standard, and automatically optimizes books for the...
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Speed: can one really ever get enough of it? For those working in the storage industry, the answer is obviously "no way," and Samsung would agree, judging by their newest solid state drive. The new high-performance 512GB PM830 Series SSD was just announced, boasting support for the Serial ATA Revision 3.0 interface with data transmissions...
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Intel Capital, the chip giant’s global venture-capital arm, has just announced the creation of a $300 million dollar fund devised to help accelerate the development of “ultrabooks” and adjacent innovations. Monies from the Ultrabook Fund will be invested into hardware and software firms working on products or technologies...
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SandForce announced that it will be demonstrating its SF-2000 series SSD processors with Toshiba’s 24nm MLC NAND flash at the Flash Memory Summit 2011 in Santa Clara, CA this week. The two companies are working closely to improve the quality and performance of NAND flash as well as drive down costs. The marriage...
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NVIDIA and Samsung announced the latest GALAXY smartphone known as the GALAXY R. This smartphone will feature a 4.19-inch WVGA Super Clear LCD and will utilize the NVIDIA Tegra 2 mobile super chip. The GALAXY R will run on Android 2.3. In addition to a dual-core CPU, the GALAXY R will also have a GeForce GPU. Although...
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After Intel canceled Larrabee and announced it would repurpose the project for high-performance computing, little was said of what would happen to the company's various gaming-related IPs. It's therefore somewhat surprising to hear that Havok, the physics SDK developer Intel bought several years ago, has recently acquired Trinigy and that...
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Toshiba's upcoming Qosmio F755 3D laptop, touted as the world's first glasses-free 3D laptop, now has a price. The Qosmio F755 3D laptop will cost $1,699.99. It will be available in mid-August. This laptop uses auto-stereoscopic display technology to offer 3D content without the need for glasses. The Qosmio F755 3D has a 15.6-inch display...
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A new lawsuit filed today by the law firm of Hagens, Berman, Sobol, and Shapiro alleges that a group of publishers including the Hatchette Book Group, HarperCollins, MacMillan, Penguin, and Simon & Schuster collaborated with Apple over several years to break Amazon's e-book pricing structure. The allegations are...
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According to Samsung, Apple's request to the EU for an injunction against the Galaxy Tab 10.1 caught it completely by surprise. If that's true, Motorola may be in for a shock as well. Buried within Apple's injunction request is a reference to a similar request related to Motorola's Xoom. Apple and Motorola are...
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You already know that Nintendo is slashing the price of its struggling 3DS handheld console from $250 down to $170, that's old news. And you probably also know Nintendo is throwing an apologetic bone to existing owners in the form of 20 free game downloads. That's old news too. But is there a way to get the discounted price AND cash in on...
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The Serial ATA International Organization (let's just call them SATA-IO for short) announced this week it's developing a new standard called SATA Express. This is exactly what it sounds like, in that the new specification takes the Serial ATA standard and PCI Express, tosses them into a high-tech blender, and what...
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Apple won a major victory against Samsung today; a German court has banned the Korean manufacturer from selling the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the entire European Union. The ruling is the latest setback for Samsung in its battle with Apple over allegations that its devices infringe on Apple's patents with respect to aspects of the iPhone / iPad's...
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Last Friday, AT&T gave notice that it would henceforth take steps to block unauthorized tethering. For those who aren't familiar with the term, "tethering" is the practice of using a cell phone's data link to provide wireless service to a desktop or laptop. Now, Verizon is evidently following suit. Customers who...
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Boxee is living proof that software is still capable of being a game-changer. What started out as a contest-winning program has now expanded in way that saw its own media box (D-Link's Boxee Box), and now, its own dedicated iPad app. The Boxee iPad app has been a long time coming. The company has just revealed Boxee for iPad along with...
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Four years ago almost to the day, the National Science Board handed the National science Foundation a mandate to build the most powerful petaflop-class supercomputer in the world. The NSF announced in turn that the system would be based on IBM's Power7 processor technology. One of the features that won IBM the...
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HDTVs are getting all sorts of big these days. An 82" HDTV still sounds massive, but not nearly as massive as it did a few years ago. What if multi-touch is mixed in with that massive size, though? That's what Perceptive Pixel has done, and the company has just introduced the world's largest projected capacitive display at the SIGGRAPH...
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