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There was a time when Taiwan made cheap bicycles. That was four decades ago, when it was one of the country’s main exports. Today, Taiwan takes in more than US$16 billion in revenue from bicycles and it is the home to Giant Bicycle, one of the world’s leading bicycle makers.
Taiwan is better known for being [...]

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Hewlett-Packard has merged its Voodoo PC business unit with its consumer business, the company said Wednesday.
Voodoo’s laptops and desktops will now be sold alongside HP’s consumer Compaq Presario and Pavilion PC lines, said Ann Finnie, an HP spokeswoman. “It is just the next step of integration into the business units that deliver Compaq Presario and [...]

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ASUS Trinity Tri-GPU Graphics Prototype @ HotHardwareDailyTech’s roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Saturday
Notebooks

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LCC debuts its Lightning GT and its fast-charge system

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Voodoo PC will hang on as a brand name only
Nearly two years ago in September 2006, HP announced that it purchasedgaming PC maker Voodoo for an undisclosed amount of money. Originally, Voodoo remained a separate entity from HP and continued to focus on creating gaming machines for high-end gaming customers.

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Advanced Micro Devices is developing a low-power processor for mobile devices and sub-notebooks, the company confirmed Friday, quashing months of speculation that it had abandoned the project.
The chip will compete with Intel’s Atom processor and potentially supplant AMD’s low-power Geode x86 system-on-chip, which is included in One Laptop Per Child’s XO laptop. Based on the [...]

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Apple’s demand that a Mac clone maker recall computers because the company installed Mac OS X on the machines may be an extreme measure, but it’s hardly unprecedented, an intellectual property attorney said Friday.
“It would be extreme because it would likely put Psystar out of business, but it’s not a remedy that’s coming out of [...]

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ASUS’ latest addition to the Eee PC family, the 10-inch 1000H, is now available in Australia sans the Linux operating system than made it famous.
The 1000H is the third-generation Eee PC and differentiates itself from its predecessors with a 10-inch display and a 80GB hard drive, and about an additional 450 grams of weight at [...]

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OCZ Vendetta 2 CPU Cooler @ MadshrimpsDailyTech’s roundup of hardware reviews from around the web for Tuesday
Processors
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 @ OCC

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Wild-card vote will likely allow satellite deal to go through
The FCC is set to approve a proposed merger between XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio shortly, with the final tie-breaking vote to be cast in the merger’s favor.
That final vote belongs to Republican FCC Commissioner Deborah Taylor Tate, who according [...]

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