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Dell will make entertainment more of a focus for all its consumer products, but declined to confirm a report that it will take another swing at the digital music player market.
The music player could ship as early as September, priced at less than US$100, according to the report in the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday. [...]

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Microsoft Monday said that it would begin pushing Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) to most users “shortly.”
The announcement, made by Nick MacKechnie, a senior manager for Microsoft’s New Zealand operations, was not unexpected, as the company had previously said it would release Windows XP SP3 to Automatic Updates sometime in the “early summer.”
“We would [...]

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WiMAX connectivity is coming to devices other than the cell phone and laptop

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Intel engineers first began toying with a low-power microprocessor almost a decade ago, but their initial design was rejected by the company’s top executives and the effort stalled soon after, an Intel executive said on Wednesday.
The initial concept behind Atom, Intel’s new family of low-power chips for mobile devices, had its genesis in a research [...]

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GameStop cites lack of customer interest as reason for dropping the Zune
Microsoft’s Zune was dealt a blow recently when one of its large retail partners opted to not sell the Zune any longer. GameStop says that it decided to remove the Zune from its product line because of poor demand from its customers.

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Apple will rule the living room in five years, analysts said Thursday as they slapped down the Tarot cards to predict what the company would be up to in 2013.
“The home destination is where Apple wants to roost,” said James McQuivey, an analyst at Forrester Research who co-authored a report released Thursday grandly titled The [...]

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WSJ: “Dell is dropping the XPS line”, Dell: “Nuh-uh!”
Yesterday, the internet was abuzz regarding a story from the Wall Street Journal concerning Dell’s XPS lineup. The paper reported that Dell would drop its XPS lineup to focus squarely on the Alienware brand.

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Toshiba also says the price of NAND will drop 50% every year from now on

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Gartner’s analysts argue that conflicting server needs are increasing, neccesitating Windows to adopt a multi-kernel approach or perish under bloat and complexity.(Source: Gartner)

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MacBook Air users might need to move their new ultra-thin laptops to keep bits moving to and fro, Apple said in a note on its support site, just one of several problems posted now that the new portable has started shipping.
Among the documents that populate the support section Apple unveiled this week for its [...]

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