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Intel Unveils New SoC to Bring Internet Content to the TV Screen

August 24th, 2008 · No Comments

Yahoo Widget Channel will be the first software to take advantage of Intel’s new SoC
The online advertising market is huge — IDC says that internet advertising is on track to surpass newspaper, cable TV, and broadcast TV advertising by 2012 with predicted overall revenue of $51.1 billion.
DailyTech reported in June the Google alone is predicted to make [...]

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Acer Unveils Aspire X1200 Small Form Factor Desktop

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

Acer X1200(Source: Acer)Acer X1200 starts at under $450
Desktop sales have slowed due to the rise of notebooks across most manufacturers over the last few years. Despite that fact, a market remains for desktop computers — especially those that are small and low-cost.
Acer, thethird largest PC maker in the world, added a new [...]

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AMD Unveils Three New Moderately Priced Phenom Quad-core CPUs

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition is fastest Phenom part ever
AMD announced today its highest performance quad core processor to date. The new CPU is called the AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition. Along with the new Black Edition processor AMD also unveiled the Phenom X4 9350e and Phenom X4 9150e processors.
The [...]

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AMD unveils trio of quad-core Phenom chips

July 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Advanced Micro Devices Tuesday unveiled three new quad-core Phenom X4 processors, including a high-end Black Edition chip.
The 2.6GHz AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition processors are aimed at power users and gamers, according to a report from AMD. And the 2.0GHz AMD Phenom X4 9350e and 1.8GHz AMD Phenom X4 9150e processors also were released [...]

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Nikon Unveils High-end D700 D-SLR Camera

July 9th, 2008 · No Comments


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Toshiba unveils laptop that uses powerful Cell chip

July 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Toshiba Monday unveiled the first laptop computer to use the computing-intensive Cell chip that was first was designed for Sony’s PlayStation 3 game console.
The PC maker announced three new high-end laptops — the Qosmio G55, Qosmio X305 and Qosmio F55. Designed for gaming and multimedia applications, the new machines are slated to hit the market [...]

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Toshiba unveils 160GB 1.8-in. hard drive

June 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Toshiba plans to introduce two new 1.8-in. hard drives, which the company claims can reduce the storage footprint in ultra-portable and sub-notebook PCs by as much as 40% compared to traditional 2.5-in. drives.
Toshiba said the single-platter 80GB MK8017GSG and dual-platter 160GB MK1617GSG drives will ship to mobile PC manufacturers and resellers in August. Patty Kim, [...]

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AMD unveils low-power Opteron processor

May 17th, 2008 · No Comments

Advanced Micro Devices Monday unveiled five low-power quad-core server processors, and said that manufacturers are planning to use the chips in both blade and rack-mounted servers.
The x86 Opteron HE processors are designed to run in a 55-watt ACP thermal envelope. They are available in the 2300 and 8300 series product lines for two-, four- and [...]

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HP unveils low-cost mini-laptop for education market

April 10th, 2008 · No Comments

Hewlett-Packard unveiled a low-cost mini-laptop this week that’s aimed at the education market.
The HP 2133 Mini-Note PC, which has a starting price of less than US$500, is a rugged machine with an 8.9-in. diagonal WXGA display - three inches smaller than HP’s next smallest laptop screen. The full-featured laptop is aimed at education markets in [...]

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Intel unveils new low power chip/building block

April 3rd, 2008 · No Comments

Intel officially unveiled its low-power, newly architected Atom processor line at its Intel Developer’s Forum in Shanghai Wednesday.
The chips, aimed at the embedded and mobile Internet device markets, are designed for low-power and long battery life, according to Anthony Yung, a spokesman for Intel. The company introduced

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