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Apple's New MacBook Air: The End of the Conventional Hard Drive?

Apple introduced the latest version of the MacBook Air today, and it's a feat of miniaturization. Steve Jobs described it as "what would happen if a MacBook and an iPad hooked up." Perhaps most intriguingly, the new MacBook Air ...READ»

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How the iPhone 5 Can Stay Ahead of the Pack

Apple looks set to shun the next-generation 4G technology, LTE, for its first year in the U.S. Can it still retain its title as the most advanced smartphone, in the face of strong competition from Windows 7 and Android phones?READ»

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Honey, I Shrunk The Memory! Scientists Heralding Smaller Gizmos, Again

Rice University scientists are reporting advances in shrinking the technology that makes computer memory work--a huge key to the next revolution in gadget design. Soon your supercomputer may be iPhone-sized.READ»

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Flash Disk

BRANDED MEMORY STICKSUSB MEMORY STICKS After the introduction of flash drives, floppy disk drives have gone out of the picture. Just like the floppy disk drives, flash drives are also used for storage facility only. These drives ...READ»

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The First Windows Phone 7 Smartphone Leaks--and It's From Dell

The very first Windows Phone 7 handset just leaked--but it's not coming from any of the usual suspects. Yes, the amazing-looking Lightning is from Dell, of all companies.READ»

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Year of the Tablet Update: The iPad Isn't the Only Tablet Coming to AT&T

Just to prove that everyone and your mom will be coming out with a tablet this year, AT&T announced that they'll be bringing the OpenTablet 7 to their network sometime this year.READ»

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The Apple iPad may affect global memory prices

Will the forthcoming Apple iPad’s potential success have a knock-on effect for global memory prices?First, a startling fact for you – Apple already consumes almost one-third of total global NAND flash memory for use in its ...READ»

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Fast Forward: The Death of Moving Parts

[video_twistage 1]While it's true that the passing of almost anything inspires grief, nobody is going to miss videotape. Or squeaky, power-hungry hard drives. Or film. Yes, with the advent of plunging flash memory prices and some ...READ»

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What’s inside Your Digital Camera Bag

It all paid off. After months of saving money, you now have in your hands the digital camera you have been dreaming of. Together with your digital cam, you also acquired a good-quality camera bag. READ»

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Apple Finally Unveils Its Expensive 27-Inch Television

After the rumors, patents and supposition, Apple's just updated its lineup of computers and included a surprise: a 27-inch TV monster. Okay, it's actually an iMac, but it's quite definitely a move in the televisual direction. Today's ...READ»

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Why You'll Buy Apple's iTablet

The rumors surrounding Apple's tablet/netbook PC have worked up into a storm, far more than the drips and drops we've seen before. The various details suggest that it's really coming, it'll be great, and thus you will buy ...READ»

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Somniloquy: Will Sleep Talking Mode Help Your PC Save Energy?

Sleep mode, shutdown, awake mode...and sleep talking mode? A new hardware prototype from UC San Diego and Microsoft Research computer scientists introduces the energy-saving state--a middle ground between sleep mode and awake mode. ...READ»

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Apple Homogenizes its Lineup with More iMac, Mac Mini

Apple pulled the wraps off a suite of new hardware today--all upgrades to its desktop computing line, with both the iMac and Mac Mini getting some modernization. Although what Apple is doing might be better labeled ...READ»

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Three Ways to Lower Data Centers' Energy Thirst

The IT sector sucks up about as much energy as the aviation industry. This is largely due to the ugly guts of the Internet--the data centers with their racks of servers that must be constantly hooked up to power and cooled with ...READ»

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Why Your Future PC Will Boot-up in an Instant

I've always enjoyed watching the little twirling timer and Apple logo and hearing the "bing!" sound as my Mac boots-up (Windows users, you have your equivalent though it's not as pretty.) But now with a new chip breakthrough from ...READ»

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Carbon-Nanotube Memory Catches Up With Flash

Carbon nanotubes have been proposed as solutions to a host of modern technical problems, from space elevators to pin-point accurate drug delivery. But a more viable role for the 'tubes is as a computer memory storage device. And a ...READ»

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Why Integrated Solid-State Drives Will Make PCs Faster, Better

Solid-state drives are slowly taking over the PC data storage market--and for good reasons, with their reduced power requirement, resistance to knocks and potentially faster access times than regular hard drives. And the next step in ...READ»

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Sony Vaio P Now Official: a Lifestyle PC, Not a Netbook

After all that teasing, Sony's finally unwrapped the small and slim Vaio P. And as Sony's spin has it, it's not so much a netbook as a Windows Vista-running, super-widescreen "Lifestyle PC," so very sleekly designed it almost ...READ»

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Transparent Memory Chip Enables See-Through Gadgets

Transparent transitors are nothing new: they're used in LCDs, but they've never before been assembled into a full, working memory device. But now Korea's Advanced Institute of Science and Technology scientists have crafted them into ...READ»

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Bad News For Your Gadgets: Toshiba, Sandisk Slash Flash Memory Production

Toshiba and Sandisk had plans to increase production of NAND flash memory chips as part of their Flash Alliance fab partnership, after both companies opened new 300-mm wafer fab plants last year. But the recession has taken two bites ...READ»

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The Solid State Revolution

The death of moving parts means your stocking will be stuffed with smaller,faster, stronger -- and quieter -- gadgets. READ»

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Marine Electronics

For all the underwater or marine electronics that you have in mind it is always better to purchase good mechanical gear for yourself. Using these available equipments it would be a more of a blessing not have little stress, and ...READ»

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For all the underwater or marine electronics that you have in mind it is always better to purchase good mechanical gear for yourself. Using these available equipments it would be a more of a blessing not have little stress, and ...READ»

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Toshiba’s Refreshed “Satellite” Packs WiMAX

Now that Sprint [S] has announced its big WiMAX launch in Baltimore, bunches of companies are scurrying to announce products that will incorporate the wireless broadband technology. As of this week, the XOHM network in Baltimore ...READ»

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Sony PC For Music-Loving New Yorkers

If you're short on space, Sony's [SNE] JS1 all-in-one PC just might make your Soho studio apartment feel a little roomier. The 20.1-inch display is big enough for any gaming, light video or photo editing that you might want to do, ...READ»