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Latest News - September 2011
- Apple Slates Oct. 4 Event for Campus, as Moscone is Booked
- Broadcom's New NFC Modules Cut Power Consumption, Offer New Features
- Netflix To Get DreamWorks Animation Streams... Starting In 2013
- SDSC Launches High-Performance Data Storage Cloud
- Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet Preview, Hands On Video
- Specs, Images of Multiple Xoom 2 Variants Leak
- Toshiba Brings USB 3.0 Speeds To Canvio Basics, Brings New Canvio 3.0 HDDs To Life
- Asus Intros Three New ET Series All-In-One Desktops
- Sprint Confirms Tethering Data Cap Coming October 2nd
- AMD Shakes Up Management A Bit
- Samsung Galaxy S II Hits 10 Million Sold
- Blizzard Bumps Diablo III Release to Early 2012
- Texas Instruments Acquires National Semiconductor, Chips Shake Hands
- Star Wars: The Old Republic Gets a Release Date
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All News for September 2011
Reports point to an October 4 event to unveil the next-generation iPhone, although it's still not confirmed by Apple itself. One problem with the rumor has already been pointed out: Moscone Center, where Apple usually holds these things, is booked by Oracle that day. What to do, what to do? AllThingsD, which earlier broke the Oct. 4 date,...
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NFC has officially hit the big-time. How do we know? Because Broadcom just put out a press release introducing the first NFC chips in 40nm, which would have probably been chuckled at by the public even a decade ago. But now, NFC is on the tip of every tongue in tech, particularly now that Google Wallet is rolling out...
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Netflix may have taken some seriously flack earlier in the month for the spin-off of their DVD rental business, but it looks like it's back to good news today. Well, sort of. The company just landed a deal with DreamWorks Animation -- a multi-year premium pay-TV window agreement that stands solely in the U.S. for now...
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Did you know that there's an actual place in the world called the San Diego Supercomputer Center? Let's just say you just found your next place of employment, huh? It sounds like a pretty awesome venue, and they just announced the launch of what is believed to be the largest academic-based cloud storage system in the U.S., specifically designed...
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Lenovo's first business-class Android-based tablet has arrived. The ThinkPad Tablet comes with many of the features business users want from a tablet, including full encryption, remote wipe capabilities, productivity apps, VPN support, pen-based handwriting recognition technology, and more. Running on Android 3.1, the ThinkPad Tablet comes...
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The Motorola Xoom was the first Honeycomb (Android 3.x) tablet, but it never really took off. To be truthful, although some reports are that Android tablets have broken the one-third mark in terms of tablet shipments (compared to the iPad 2), Android tablets still have a ways to go. The Motorola Xoom 2 might be a step in that direction. The...
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Storage. Can't live with it, and you definitely can't live without it. Right? Right! Toshiba knows the deal, which is why they're introducing a new portable HDD that taps into the growing cloud bandwagon. The company is unveiling their new Canvio 3.0 portable HDD line today, offering storage capacities of 500GB, 750GB...
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Another new day, another new all-in-one PC for your consideration. Asus has just unveiled their newest AIO lineup, featuring the 21.5” ET2210, 23.6” ET2410, and 27” ET2700. All three of them have 1080p LED-backlit touch panels, 2nd-gen Intel Core i processors, USB 3.0 and e-SATA connectivity, 802.11 N wireless LAN, Digital...
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Well, we all knew it had to come to an end at some point. With the other major U.S. carriers doing away with truly unlimited data months ago, Sprint was attempting to hold out and use that as a competitive advantage. But evidently, even they are starting to cave. Sprint recently confirmed that they will soon introduced a data ceiling for their...
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While the management shake-up over at HP is obviously the largest of the past week, a fellow California-based company is making some moves of their own. AMD recently announced that Rick Bergman is leaving AMD. President and CEO Rory Read will serve as interim general manager of AMD’s Products Group, and the company also announced that...
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As if you need any reason to wonder why Apple is so keen on keeping Samsung's devices, including the Android-based Galaxy S II from being sold in parts of Europe, here's a stat: Samsung on Sunday issued a press release indicating that the Galaxy S II has sold 10 million devices. That's sold, not shipped, but, they also added the two key words...
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It isn't our intention to rub salt in the wounds of Diablo fans who missed out on participating in the Diablo III closed beta program, but while those lucky gamers are getting their next-generation hack-and-slash on, everyone else will have to wait until next year. Blizzard made the unfortunate announcement that Diablo III is officially being...
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Two companies that you don't hear too much about are joining hands, but just because they stay out of the consumer spotlight, that doesn't mean that they aren't monumentally important. Texas Instruments, the company that made your college-era graphing calculator as well as a processor in some sort of mobile or...
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The release date of the highly anticipated MMORPG Star Wars: The Old Republic has been made public. Bioware and LucasArts have confirmed the official release date for video game to be December 20 in North America and December 22 in Europe. The release date was revealed at the Eurogamer Expo in London. BioWare co-founders Dr. Ray Muzyka and...
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