Longer battery life for wireless devices? May 04, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Those worries about what happens when you need to make that urgent phone call on a dying cell phone, or having your laptop go blank mid-document could soon be lessened. Researchers at the University of Rochester say they've ... | |
![]() Apple sways potential users with Boot Camp May 03, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Offer a choice and they will come. This appears to be the situation with Apple Computer's Intel-based computer line, released this year as part of the company's conversion to Intel logic boards and processors. | |
![]() Samsung Develops 7-inch WVGA, Single-Chip LCD for Mobile Devices May 02, 2006 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the industry's first amorphous silicon (a-Si) seven-inch, single-chip TFT-LCD panel that reproduces colors in high resolution (WVGA-level, 800×480 pixels). | |
Computer mouse may go extinct November 19, 2008 | User rating: 2.3 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The computer mouse may someday become an endangered species. Instead of rolling a mouse around to move a cursor around on the screen, more and more users will gesture with their fingers on touch screens and multi-touch trackpads, ... | |
![]() Intel Launches Core i7 -- Fastest Processor on the Planet November 18, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 19 vote(s)
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Intel Corporation introduced its most advanced desktop processor ever, the Intel Core i7 processor. The Core i7 processor is the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs and is the most sophisticated ... | |
![]() Oak Ridge supercomputer is the world's fastest for science November 17, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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A Cray XT high-performance computing system at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory is the world's fastest supercomputer for science. The annual ranking of the world's top 500 computers ... | |
![]() DOE's Oak Ridge supercomputer now world's fastest for open science November 10, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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The latest upgrade to the Cray XT Jaguar supercomputer at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has increased the system's computing power to a peak 1.64 "petaflops," or ... | |
Sometimes you just have to let go to move forward November 05, 2008 | User rating: 2.8 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Apple recently introduced its newest MacBook computer that sports many of Apple's latest designs. These include its unibody enclosure where the computer is fashioned from a solid piece of aluminum. Being carved out from a ... | |
![]() HP beefs up data centers while trimming electric use November 03, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 2 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
Hewlett Packard on Monday rolled out new services aimed at trimming appetites of electricity-hungry data centers while beefing up the amount of computing power crammed inside. | |
Digital projectors making grand entrance at movies October 29, 2008 | User rating: 4.6 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Digital projectors should soon replace film on more than 20,000 of North America's 42,000 movie screens. | |
![]() Asus recalls Eee Box desktop PCs shipped with viruses October 15, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 2
A Taiwan discount personal computer manufacturer has begun a voluntary recall of desktop computers delivered to Japan after it found they had been infected with a virus before shipment. | |
![]() Super Talent Introduces a 128Gb SSD for Under $300 September 30, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 25 vote(s)
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If you have been waiting for the price of Solid State Drives (SSD) to come down in price, the time has finally come. Super Talent has introduced their 128Gb, 2.5-inch, SATA II "MasterDrive LX" for the affordable ... | |
![]() Netgear Launches A New Family Of Wireless-N Routers September 29, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Netgear today has announced a new family of Wireless-N networking solutions that will make it easy for anyone to upgrade their wireless home network to Wireless-N technology. This new technology supports the ... | |
![]() Toshiba Launches 1.8 inch 250Gb SATA Hard Drive September 26, 2008 | User rating: 3.5 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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Toshiba has announced their new MKxx29GSG series 1.8-inch SATA Hard drives, including the 1.8-inch 250GB(MK2529GSG) hard drive, which is the first in the industry. | |
![]() Dell Introduces Studio Desktop and Studio Slim Models September 23, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Dell has just rounded out its Studio line with its new Studio Desktop (MT) and Studio Slim (ST) models. Dell offers each model with a choice of Core 2 Duo or Core 2 Quad processors, up to 8GB of RAM and integrated ... | |
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