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Perhaps best known for its broad line of laptop bags, Targus also manufactures laptop accessories to carry in the bags–travel mice, presentation remotes, and the like. Tuesday morning, the company announced six new mobile accessories, all specifically designed to coordinate with Apple MacBooks.
The lineup includes two travel mice: the $50 Wireless [...]

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MI6 is heading to Faceboook to help recruit new employees
The British Secret Intelligence Service (SIS), also known as MI6, is using social networking web site Facebook to help recruit possible new recruits, it was reported over the weekend.  The company is now advertising on the website with more than 100 million active users, hoping to [...]

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Few tasks in life approach the horror that is modern commercial air travel. Arguably the most dreaded aspect of which is the infamous security checkpoint, where one’s person and belongings are poured over, with a curiously particular attention paid to shoes, liquids, and naturally, laptops. There are two certainties to life on the checkpoint line: [...]

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The fourth time is a charm for SpaceX, after successfully launching a rocket into orbit
Space Exploration Technologies, also known as SpaceX, successfully launched a commercial rocket into orbit carrying a dummy payload.  On the company’s fourth attempt, the Falcon I vehicle headed into space after launching from Omelek Island with a 364-pound dummy satellite.
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(Credit: LG Electronics)
Quick quiz. What has an Intel Atom processor, a 10-inch screen, and weighs less than three pounds? A notsmallnumberof Netbooks.
What has the above specs, plus 3G mobile broadband? The LG X110 Momo Netbook. The addition of integrated HSUPA 3G connectivity helps separate the X100 Momo from the rest of the [...]

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Super Talent releases a new budget line of SSDs
When it comes to SSDs, Super Talent isn’t standing still when it comes to new models. Super Talent and OCZ have both been battling it out to bring faster, cheaper models to the masses based on multi-level cell (MLC) NAND technology.
Just two weeks ago, Super Talent launched [...]

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If you live in Baltimore and want to experience fast, wireless Internet speeds, then congrats, you’ve chosen your place of residence wisely. On Monday, Sprint announced that Baltimore would be the first U.S. city to have access to its new WiMax mobile data network known as Xohm.

Xohm is a wireless data [...]

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High-powered x-rays enable scientists to enable high-power optics.
A stubborn crystal compound may enable better fiber optics and long range biological and chemical weapon detection systems, thanks to the tenacity of Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory scientists. The researchers used the ChemMatCARS beamline, the most powerful x-ray diffraction machine in the western hemisphere, to peer [...]

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Think wishful: Concept dream designs of the mysterious Apple Brick have surfaced on blogs.
(Credit: Yves Behar/OLPC)
By now you’ve probably heard the rumors that Apple is having an event on October 14th where Steve Jobs will introduce new Apple laptops to the world. At this point, it’s unclear whether the lines will be refreshed [...]

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Baltimore residents will be able to get WiMAX service downtown only
WiMAX is one of the mobile technologies that promised so much and ultimately was not able to deliver on its promises — at least on the scale that most people hoped. Sprint began talking up its Xohm service in early 2008.
About the time Sprint put its [...]

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