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Sony may have been hoping to keep the cat in the bag, so to speak, unveiling the new PSP Go to the public at the company’s Tuesday conference at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2009.  However, in the fast and furious world of video game development and journalism, such secrets seldom stay secrets for very long.
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The smartphone world is buzzing with rumors of new smartphones from Palm and Apple. The iPhone is one of the most popular smartphones on the market and has helped AT&T win new customers to its mobile network.
Palm is looking to grab some of the iPhone’s thunder with its new Pre smartphone which will be [...]

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Microsoft has sold more than 30 million Xbox 360 units since the console’s release in 2005, the company said in a statement.
Furthermore, the Microsoft Xbox Live service — which gamers must pay to use — has more than 20 million active global members, with more than one billion downloads from the Marketplace.  Microsoft reportedly [...]

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ATI, the graphics division of AMD, has been working to spread its Stream GPGPU technology, which helps speed up applications by exploiting the parallel nature of its GPU products. Since ATI is a part of AMD, Stream has been designed to work with the CPU, instead of exclusively offloading all work onto the GPU. Signal processing, financial analysis, [...]

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Shuttle makes a full line of small form factor computer systems that pack all the components needed for a PC inside a small chassis that needs little space. For some users, even the smallish SFF machines Shuttle is famous for are too large.
To meet the needs of the consumer wanting a computer in a [...]

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Keith Crain’s family has been publishing trade newspapers since 1916.  Today, Crain Communications focuses heavily on the auto industry, publishing both Automotive News and AutoWeek.  As chairman of the board, Keith Crane has extensive experience following the automotive industry and can be expected to have some interesting insight.  Thus, when he recently sounded off on [...]

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DailyTech has learned that JMicron will be unveiling a new NAND flash controller for use in Solid State Drives (SSDs) in the near future. The JMF612 chip uses an ARM9 core in a 289-ball TFBGA package, and will support the use of up to 256MB of DDR or DDR2 DRAM as an external cache.
The [...]

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The Apple App Store has been an unmitigated success for the company. It has spawned a host of competitive offerings from virtually every other smartphone maker hoping to grab some of the success for themselves in a time when phone makers need all the profits they can get.
The latest application store to open for [...]

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As one of the most financially successful companies in this recession economy, Apple makes a popular target for taxation.  However, recession stricken North Carolina plans to go the opposite route, hoping to lure a huge Apple server farm into the state in exchange for a massive tax break that could total as much as $300M [...]

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For those critics who bill Microsoft’s Windows Vista a commercial failure for failing to surpass Windows XP in sales, and inability to capitalize in the netbook market, perhaps they should reserve judgment a bit longer.  Just as Windows 7 hype is reaching full swing in preparation for a October release, the U.S. Army announced that [...]

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