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Latest News - August 2011
- Sony, Hitachi, & Toshiba Merge Display Businesses
- OCZ RevoDrive Hybrid PCI-Express Ready To Launch
- HP to Produce More TouchPads? Don't Call it a Comeback! (Seriously, Don't)
- Dell S2330MX Ultra-Slim Monitor Reviewed
- Motorola Targets Business Users With New Motorola PRO+ Smartphone
- AT&T / T-Mobile Merger Hits A Justice Department-Sized Snag
- Samsung Introduces Sleek & Compact Series 7 Laptops
- iTunes Match Appears to Stream, Despite Apple's Denials
- Wacom's Digital Inkling Pen Brings Sketches To The Masses
- Kanex Reveals MHL-To-HDMI Adapter For 1080p Smartphone Output
- Samsung's Galaxy S II Comes To AT&T, T-Mobile And Sprint
- Hardware Roundup
- Samsung, GlobalFoundries Announce New 28nm Collaboration
- Razer Launches Silent BlackWidow Stealth & BlackWidow Ultimate Stealth Gaming Keyboards
- Lian Li Launches Full-tower PC-90
- Corsair 180GB and 240GB Force Series GT SSDs Hit Retail
- Windows Explorer in Windows 8 to Come Wrapped in Ribbons
- CyanogenMod Now Running on HP TouchPad
- Fusion-io Announces ioCache Virtualization Solution For Data-Intensive Applications
- Nokia Forum Attacked by Hackers
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A chord of three strands is not easily broken, or at least Sony, Hitachi, and Toshiba hope so. The three companies are merging their respective small- and medium-sized LCD display businesses (i.e., smartphone and tablet screens) and joining together with Innovation Network Corporation of Japan (INCJ). The new company will be called Japan Display....
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The enticing SSD/HDD hybrid from OCZ that we mentioned earlier this summer, the RevoDrive Hybrid PCI Express, is ready to launch. One can be yours for $499.99 (MSRP). The RevoDrive Hybrid is built to offer SSD performance and HDD storage capacity; specifically, 100GB SSD and 1TB HDD, in a PCIe form factor. The magic is in the Dataplex software,...
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It turns out all you need to do to dethrone Apple's iPad is launch a $500 tablet with modern hardware, discontinue the device, and mark it down to $99 (or $149 for the 32GB version). Hewlett Packard did exactly that and now owns the hottest selling tablet on the market, only the OEM failed to anticipate such rapid...
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Back in the day, even a 19-inch CRT weighed around 40 pounds and dominated your computer desk with all that junk in the trunk. But like everything else in the realm of technology, computer displays evolved. First came LCDs, and then LCD displays sporting an LED backlight like the Dell S2330 Ultra Slim monitor. That's one of the reasons why...
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Motorola announced a new smartphone that is designed with business users in mind. This smartphone features a touch screen as well as a physical QWERTY keyboard. The Motorola PRO+ is powered by a 1GHz processor and Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). In addition to various apps and security features that are designed with...
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Well, this isn't looking good for those already planning to attend the marriage of T-Mobile USA and AT&T. While it was starting to look as if the proposed merger would end with the two holding hands and riding off into the sunset, things have taken a dramatic turn today. The U.S. Department of Justice filed court papers in Washington to...
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Samsung Electronics announced a new cutting edge laptop line known as the Series 7. The new Series 7 laptops are designed to give mobile users a powerful computing experience in a highly portable design. The laptops feature Intel Core i5 or Intel Core i7 processors, 6 or 8 GB of RAM, a sleek brushed-aluminum body that's less than one inch...
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Apple's iTunes Match service, recently opened to developers, either streams or doesn't stream, depending upon how you interpret things. Confused? It's all a matter of semantics. An Apple spokesperson, speaking to AllThingsD, denied the service provides actual streaming of music. "An Apple spokesperson confirms that any music you want to access...
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When people think of the Wacom brand, they generally think of sketch-pads of the digital variety. Larger, square drawing pads used by digital artists. But the company is taking a more mainstream approach with their latest product, Inkling. It's a new digital sketch pen that captures a digital likeness of your work while you sketch with its...
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It looks as if the MHL invasion has started. The new Mobile High Definition Link was first spotted on the Samsung Galaxy S, where the micro-USB port doubles as a 1080p output. And now, HDTV companies are starting to place this port on their own sets, enabling handset users to deliver content to screens directly from...
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Well, the time has come! Samsung's Galaxy S II, a phone that we recently reviewed and found to be amongst the top of the Android class, is finally coming to U.S. shores on a trio of carriers. As rumors had suggested, Verizon Wireless is the lone operator of the Big Four that has rejected it, leaving AT&T, T-Mobile USA and Sprint to carry...
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Video: Sapphire Radeon HD 6670 Ultimate 1GB Graphics Card Review @ eTeknix.com [Tech ARP] Mobile GPU Comparison Guide Rev. 11.7 ineASUS GeForce GTX 560 DirectCU II TOP Video Card Review @ Legit Reviews Motherboards and Chipsets: Sapphire Pure Platinum A75 & AMD A8-3800 @ LanOC Reviews MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) PCI-Express 3.0 @ techPowerUp ASUS...
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GlobalFoundries and Samsung announced today that they intend to synchronize their 28nm high-performance/low-leakage production facilities. This new agreement follows a 2010 collaboration between GloFo, Samsung, IBM, and STMicroelectronics in which all four firms agreed to cooperate in building out their low-power 28nm process nodes. One of...
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Razer believes that not only is PC gaming not dead, it can continue to get better, in this case through the use of the silent versions of the Razer BlackWidow Stealth or Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Stealth mechanical gaming keyboards. These new peripherals offer mostly the same specs and features as the originals, but...
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Lian Li introduced the PC-90, a new full-tower chassis that will be available at the beginning of September. This PC-90 is available in striking black or silver hairline-brushed anodized metal casing. The case features a tool-less design and is compatible with HPTX, XL-ATX, ATX, and micro-ATX motherboards. The PC-90's HDD drives are mounted...
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Corsair's Force Series GT solid state drive (SSD) line pushes the high-speed storage pedal to the metal, but until today, you couldn't purchase one larger than 120GB. That all changes with the introduction of new 180GB and 240GB models, both of which are available for purchase immediately. "Force Series GT is our fastest, most flexible line...
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Before we go any further, we feel compelled to remind everyone not to shoot the messenger. Savvy? Great, now onto the news. Alex Simons, Director of Program Management for Microsoft, announced in a blog post that Windows 8 would adopt the Ribbon interface for Windows Explorer. Whoa there Johnny, put down the pitchfork. The blog post runs through...
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The CyanogenMod team claims to have gotten Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) running on the HP TouchPad. As was noted earlier, developers had appeared to be nearing a first port of Android on HP's now dead webOS tablet. A post and video on the RootzWiki website show an Alpha build of the CyanogenMod 7 firmware running on the TouchPad. CyanogenMod...
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Wow, Fusion-io doesn’t mess around; just a few weeks after acquiring IO Turbine, the company has made ioTurbine software (note the subtle name change) the centerpiece of its new ioCache solution. ioCache uses an ioMemory product with ioTurbine software to offer scalable data caching for data-intensive...
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Nokia announced yesterday that the security of its developer forum website was compromised by an attacker operating under the #AntiSec banner. The attacker, who exploited an SQL injection vulnerability in the site's forum software, managed to obtain a database table with user account information. The attacker had compromised more data than...
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There's just got to be a joke that begins, "Two chatbots walk into a bar ..." because when chatbots talk, it's funny. Cornell University researchers wanted to see what would happen when two chatbots talked to one another. So they rigged up two systems that would allow instances of the chatbot Cleverbot to interact. It doesn't take long for...
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Ever wanted 2D games to become 3D on your 3D smartphone? That's a lot of Ds, we know, but LG is making it possible. The company just announced at IFA 2011 that they will be demonstrating the world's first OpenGL-based 2D to 3D game conversion engine available on a smartphone platform. A result of LG's efforts to...
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