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Technology: What's Cooking at Apple?

When unfulfilled Apple rumors don't die, there's usually a good reason. Having moved on from the iPhone, the tech rumor mill is now churning up new whispers of a game-changing Apple product: an ultra-thin MacBook. Ultra-thin laptops ...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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Dell To Introduce Vostro Laptops

For about a month, rumors have been circulating that Dell [NASDAQ:DELL] had a new full-sized notebook line brewing. Now confirmation has arrived in the form of an upcoming sale flier labeled the "Dell Business" flier for ...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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Samsung Attempts Purchase of SanDisk

Samsung [005930] had a few billion laying around, so the company decided today to make an unsolicited offer to purchase Flash memory maker SanDisk [SNDK]. In what was apparently an attempt to broaden its influence as the ...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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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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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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BlackBerry Javelin Leaked

RIM [NASDAQ:RIMM] is capitalizing on the BlackBerry's increasing popularity by cranking out new models Asus-style. Next up is apparently the BlackBerry Javelin, a non-3G smartphone that seems to be a value-proposition model for the ...READ»

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Asus Reveals More Laptops; Large-Screen, Gaming-Oriented

Taipei-based Asus [TPE: 2357] is expanding its consumer electronics line so quickly that it almost doesn't do justice to the impressiveness of each device's individual specs. Case in point: two large-screen portables they were ...READ»

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Asus Intros Two Powerful Gaming Notebooks

Taipei-based Asus [TPE: 2357] is expanding its consumer electronics line so quickly that it almost doesn't do justice to the impressiveness of each device's individual specs. Case in point: two large-screen portables they were ...READ»

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Asus Continues World Domination; Releases Smartphone

Late last Friday, the world's most fecund tech company, Asus, [TPE:2357] announced it's latest gadget: a Windows Mobile phone. It's called the P552w, and sports a touchscreen interface, a respectable 624MHz processor, 3G radios, ...READ»

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SanDisk Announces 32GB CompactFlash Cards

Let's say you take a lot of photos. A lot of photos. Like, tens of thousands. Well, SanDisk [NASDAQ:SNDK] announced the CompactFlash card of your dreams this week: a 32GB card, double their old max capacity of 16GB. The new 32GB ...READ»

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Fresh Details on Sony's New XPERIA X1 Smartphone

More details have surfaced on Sony Ericsson's (NYSE: SNE) much-anticipated Xperia X1 phone, which the company is positioning as a “mobile Web communication” device. The X1 – which is the first of the Xperia line due out – has ...READ»

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Fresh Details on Sony's New XPERIA X1 Smartphone

The X1 – which is the first of the Xperia line due out – has a spec list that reads like an open challenge to the iPhone.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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Lenovo Announces Ultra-Portable Notebook

They're calling it the Ideapad S10, and with its 10-inch LED backlit screen and 2.4lb weight, Lenovo's [OTC:LNVGY] new ultra-portable is looking pretty spiffy. It measures just 9.8 x 7.2 inches and comes preloaded with Windows XP, ...READ»

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Fun Blogs

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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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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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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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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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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The Digital Darkroom

Sometimes, the best way to help people get the picture is to take one. Now that digital photography is finally ready for the world of work, we've assembled pixel-perfect tools for outfitting your digital darkroom.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»