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Longer battery life for wireless devices?

May 04, 2006 | User rating: 4.3 / 5 after 20 vote(s) | No comments yet

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) | No comments yet

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) | No comments yet

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) | User comments: 12

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) | User comments: 1

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) | No comments yet

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) | No comments yet

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) | User comments: 8

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) | User comments: 4

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) | User comments: 3

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) | No comments yet

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) | No comments yet

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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