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Gropable Gadgets: Future Touchpad Controls Will Be Wrap-Around

The Nano Touch device currently being demoed by Microsoft research adds a wonderful twist to modern touchscreen tech: the back surface of the device is touch-sensitive too. Though this sounds clumsy at first, it's actually a rather ...READ»

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Intel's Next-Gen 32nm Chips Need Less Power for More Speed

Intel's [INTC] announced details of its next-generation chips, fabricated using a 32nm process, due to go on sale late 2009--the chip's transistors switch 22% faster and result in processors much smaller than the current 45nm ...READ»

ARM-Powered Apple Netbook is On the Way
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Speculation Increases That ARM-Powered Apple Netbook is On the Way

While he said Apple [AAPL] had some "interesting ideas" about netbooks, Steve Jobs squashed thinking that his company would be entering the netbook market when he spoke at Apple's last quarterly earnings call, saying there are "not a ...READ»

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Radio Shack's $99 Netbook Beats OLPC To The Bottom

Nick Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child XO PC scheme never made it below the magic $100 barrier that it was originally touted at and now it looks like the march of technology, and the netbook phenomenon has caught up to it in the US. ...READ»

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AMD Announces "Puma" Notebook Chips

Today AMD made official its line of "Puma" notebook processors, which are AMD Turion X2 Ultra dual-core mobile processors with ATI Radeon HD 3000 graphics baked in. That's a mouthful, sure, but it translates into a ...READ»

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Intel Announces SSD Drives for Netbooks

Seeing the incredible consumer interest in "netbooks" -- aka UMPCs, sub-notebooks, or "nettops" -- Intel [NASDAQ: INTC] has announced it will begin production of solid-state hard drives with the "value ...READ»

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