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Latest News - September 2011
- Leaked Memos Detail WebOS Split Within HP
- Toshiba's FlashAir Wireless SDHC Card Rivals Eye-Fi
- Doom Free To Go On Sale In Germany After 17 Years
- Apple Forces Samsung To Yank Galaxy Tab 7.7 At IFA
- Amazon's Kindle Tablet Sees Biggest Leak Yet: $250, Ships By Christmas
- Habey Reveals New ION-Powered Embedded Rig, Quiet As A Mouse
- Samsung Reveals Two New Portable Optical Drives, One With Wi-Fi
- HTC Jetstream AT&T 4G LTE Tablet Hands-On Sneak Peek
- Acer Aspire S3 Ultrabook Is A 13.3" Slab Of Beautiful
- Creative Reveals New Gaming Headsets For Console And PC Gamers Alike
- Zotac Reveals Tiny ZBOX Nano AD10 SFF Desktop PC
- D-Link Intros ShareCenter Pro N-Series And S-Series Storage Solutions
- Uncertainties Abound: Intel, AMD May Both Delay Next-Generation CPUs
- NEC 24-inch MultiSync P241W Desktop Monitor Launches
- Thermaltake's LifeCool Notebook Cooling Pad Supports 17-inch Laptops
- Frogger Turns 30 and Still Needs a Crosswalk, Gets a New App Instead
- HTC Reveals Two New Mango Phones
- Toshiba Introduces AT200 Ultra-thin, Ultra-light Tablet PC
- MeeGo, The Bell Tolls For Thee (Maybe)
- ASUS G74-SX-A1 Notebook Reviewed, Tested and Burned In
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All News for September 2011
Well, there are surprises and then there are things you'd expect to happen. This is a tale involving both. PreCentral has managed to get their hands on new internal HP documentation that somewhat describes how things are going to go down now that they've made the heartbreaking decision to kill off webOS consumer devices. The memos, which were...
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Eye-Fi really started something, huh? While SD cards were fine just holding memories and excess files for years, soon that became "not good enough." Eye-Fi added a wireless piece to the puzzle, enabling these cards to wirelessly send photos and such from the camera to the cloud/PC/etc. And now Toshiba's taking it one step further. The company...
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Here's a weird one. Doom, the first-person shooter we all grew up playing, hasn't been on sale in Germany –– ever! A rather strange report has surfaced over the weekend, showing that the classic will finally be on sale after 17 years of being on a ban list. Yeah, 17 whole years! As it was, the Federal Department for Media...
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Well, this can't be good for Samsung. During last week's IFA show, Samsung unveiled one of their slimmest, sleekest tablets yet. The Galaxy Tab 7.7 seemed to be an immediate hit on the show floor, and while the company wouldn't talk about pricing or release dates, they did confirm that it would not be on sale in Germany. Even the display unit...
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Is the Amazon Tablet truly upon us? So says TechCrunch. While rumors have been running for months on end concerning a future tablet from the same company that delivered the Kindle, no one really had much concrete evidence that such a mystery truly existed until now. The publication has apparently seen, handled and...
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Years back, embedded systems weren't much good in the consumer realm. They were used for rather boring enterprise applications, and not much else. But with the power packed even into low-end CPUs and APUs these days, that's all changing. Habey USA is leading that charge in a way, with the introduction of quite a few...
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Introducing a new optical drive may not be top priority these days for tech companies -- particularly with many machines going without one altogether -- but Samsung's looking out for those of us who still rely on those tried-and-true coasters. The company has just revealed a new pair of drives, with one in...
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A few days ago, HTC and AT&T announced that the HTC Jetstream Android 3.1 tablet would be coming to AT&T’s network. The Jetstream’s standout features include a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core SoC with Adreno 220 graphics, a 10.1” screen with a resolution of 1280x768, an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera,...
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Watch out, mobile users -- the "ultrabooks" are coming! A few years ago, these things known as "smartbooks" briefly hit the market. And almost no one purchased the. But the ultrabook category just might have legs. Apple's MacBook Air has been a major seller, and there's no question that Acer's new Aspire S3 (their first ultrabook) looks really...
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Turtle Beach, Razer and a few others may be jockeying for position in the crowded gaming headset game, but Creative -- a company best known for their Sound Blaster heyday -- is giving them some real competition. The company just revealed a new range of Sound Blaster gaming headsets at the IFA 2011 conference in...
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Small just keeps getting smaller. Zotac's ZBOX line has been around for a few years now, and we've been rather impressed with every iteration that we have played with. But the "palm-sized" ZBOX Nano AD10 makes those prior models look like giants. The new AD10 series shrinks the form factor even more, and inside it's packed with an AMD Brazos...
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Sure, D-Link probably makes that router in your house, and it definitely makes your Boxee Box, but how about some enterprise love? That's what enterprise consumers are getting today, with the company introducing the ShareCenter Pro N-Series and S-Series models offering disaster recovery capabilities for remote backup...
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AMD and Intel are both preparing to launch new CPU architectures between now and the end of the year, but rumors have surfaced that suggest the two companies may delay their product introductions, albeit for different reasons. Taiwanese site DigiTimes refers to various unnamed "PC Players" who have apparently reported...
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NEC Display Solutions is on a roll this week; yesterday it announced the new 20-inch EX201W display, and now the 24-inch P241W desktop monitor is available, as well. The first of the new MultiSync P-Series, the widescreen P241W is designed for Web graphics and photography with a wide-angle e-IPS panel. There’s also a version for the...
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Thermaltake today announced its new LifeCool Notebook Cooling Pad, and it takes but a single glance to conclude that laptop coolers have never looked so funky. That's okay as long as it works as advertised, and towards that end, Thermaltake promises the LifeCool will play nice with all notebooks between 10 inches to...
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You'd think that after 30 years, Frogger would have found alternate routes to his destination, ones that wouldn't present life-threatening dangers at each and every step. But what would be the fun in that? Instead, you can still control the little green frog past dangerous moving obstacles, and you can do it in an all...
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HTC recently revealed two new Windows Phones that will be coming to carriers later this year. These two new phones run on the latest version of Windows Phone, known as Mango. The HTC TITAN is the higher-end model of the two new phones. This phone has a 1.5GHz processor and 16GB of storage with 512MB of RAM. It features a 4.7-inch screen with...
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Toshiba announced a new tablet that is ultra-thin and ultra-light. The new AT200 tablet is only 7.7mm thick and weighs about 1.23 pounds. The AT200 runs on Android 3.2 aka Honeycomb and features a 10.1-inch screen with a resolution of 1280 x 800. Other key specs include a 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 processor, 1GB of DDR2 RAM, up to 64GB of internal...
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Rumors have surfaced that Intel is bailing on MeeGo, the nifty open source mobile OS the company developed with Nokia. Digitimes first let fly that Intel was discontinuing MeeGo development. At this point it’s just a rumor, and Intel hasn’t made any announcements pertaining to it, although the Digitimes post stated that Intel “remains...
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ASUS’ line of G73 Stealth notebooks proved to be all-around solid desktop replacements, equally ideal for gaming, multimedia, and productivity. In fact, the Asus G53 and G73 line, from Asus' Repulic of Gamers (ROG) family, has been very successful in the market, praised by press and end users alike. We took a look at the previous generation...
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Looks like HTC has quietly slipped its users a spying app that tracks an alarming amount of user behavior and sends that data off to itself and perhaps others via a mysterious service in the cloud. The snooping app came nestled with the 2.3.4 Android update pushed out to some of its smartphones such as the Sensation 4G and EVO 4G. TrevE and...
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There have been quite a few awesome designs in the world of radios lately, but this new design from Revo Technologies takes the cake. The K2 is a beautiful tower made of aluminium and rubber, capable of delivering reception of a wide variety of radio formats including DAB, DAB+, FM and internet radio. K2 also offers...
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