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Friday, November 06, 2009
VSO Software today released its latest version of the video converter and burning software, ConvertXtoDVD 4.
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Dell anounced today the Dell Adamo XPS,a laptop measuring 9.99mm or just four-tenths of an inch.
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The Blu-Con 2.0 was held on Tuesday at the Beverly Hilton, California. The conference is dedicated to the topic of Blu-ray and its potential future within the movie, hardware, software, gaming and retail industries.
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Microsoft said on Thursday it will issue six patches next week for 15 vulnerabilities, including three critical bulletins affecting Windows and two important Office-related bulletins.
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Google has been busy developing new tools related to developers of JavaScript web-apps, web retailers and also released the Dashboard offering more control and transparency to users account data.
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Best Buy Mobile, the mobile retail unit of Best Buy Co., Inc., today announced a retail partnership with Google that will help bring Google Mobile App to consumers.
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OCZ and ASUS will hold the world?s first 3DMark overclocking competition at this year?s Dreamhack Winter 2009 November 27-28 in Sweden, calling to computer enthusiasts throughout the world.
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Sales are for the week of October 18 - 24, 2009 of Microsoft's Windows 7 boxed software surpassed those of Vista's first few days on the U.S. market, according to leading market research company, The NPD Group.
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Kingston Digital today announced it has joined with Paramount Digital Entertainment (PDE), a division of Paramount Pictures, to deliver full-length motion picture feature films on Kingston Flash memory products.
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Thursday, November 05, 2009
Nero announced today that Nero 9 Lite, a free entry point to the Nero 9 "Reloaded" suite, offering disc copying and data disc burning functionality, is now available to consumers as a download from www.nero.com.
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EU lawmakers and governments agreed Thursday on proposed new telecommunication rules that better protect European mobile phone and Internet users being cut off by their service provider.
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Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology (TSST) today announced the SH-S243N 24x DVD burner and the SH-B083A/L Blu-ray disc combo drives, both compatible with the new Windows 7 operating system.
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Pioneer announced today the completion of assessments on antitrust laws overseas for the optical disk joint venture with Sharp
Corporation.
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Codemasters haaannounced that the Games for Windows ? LIVE version of their successful racer DiRT 2 will feature DirectX 11 support.
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Infineon Technologies AG and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company today announced that they are extending their development and production partnership to a 65nanometer (nm) embedded flash (eFlash) process technology targeting next generation automotive, chip card and security applications.
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Samsung developed an 8-chip technology with a thickness of just 0.6mm, the world's thicknes multi-die package according to the company.
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Toshiba today introduced a new line up of 1.8-inch HDDs with a maximum capacity of 320GB, the highest yet announced by the industry, targeted at thin and light mobile PCs and portable external hard disk drives.
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Wednesday, November 04, 2009
AT&T, Orange, Telefonica, TeliaSonera, Verizon, Vodafone, Alcatel-Lucent, Ericsson, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nokia, Samsung Electronics, and Sony Ericsson have defined the preferred way to ensure the introduction and delivery of voice and SMS services on Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks worldwide.
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It is not the first time Nvidia is rumored to enter the x86-based microprocessor market. This time an analyst claims that the Nvidia may be closer to the development of CPUs due to preserve both GPU and chipset revenue.
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Other World Computing has releaed Mercury Pro 12X Blu-Ray burner, an external Blu-Ray writer for PCs and Macs that feature four connectivity options, the USB 2.0, both FireWire 400 and 800, plus the eSATA.
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Nokia announced five new affordable phones which will support Nokia Life Tools, and these phones will also be available globally.
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Microsoft has released an update for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, adding support for DirectX 11
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Yahoo is reportedly teaming up with OneRiot in an effort to provide up-to-the-minute Internet search results.
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Sony Computer Entertainment Japan (SCEJ) today announced that a "PSP (PlayStationPortable) (PSP-3000) Value Pack" will become available on December 3, 2009, as a limited time offer for the holiday season at a recommended retail price of 19,800 yen (including tax).
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The NVIDIA OptiX ray tracing engine is now available for downloading, offering developers flexibility to accelerate their ray tracing applications.
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Super Talent Technology today announced the new SuperSpeed USB 3.0 RAIDDrive, which supports transfer speeds up to ten times faster than USB 2.0 drives.
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VIA Technologies today introduced its new VIA Nano 3000 Series processors, bringing enhanced digital media performance and lower power consumption to Windows 7 notebook and all-in-one desktop PC markets.
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Google released Chrome Beta v4.0.223.16 which is the first Beta release for 4.0. This release includes many bug fixes and for the first time Bookmark Sync is enabled.
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Microsoft today unveiled a preview of its new design for the popular MSN home page, which offers easy access to Bing search and favorite social networks.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Micron Technology today announced the company has combined the 34-nanometer (nm) 4Gb SLC NAND flash memory and 50nm 2Gb LPDDR to produce an advanced NAND-LPDDR MCP combination.
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WD today announced its entry into the traditional enterprise market segment with volume production shipments of its first 10,000 RPM, 2.5-inch, small form factor, SAS interface hard drives.
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NVIDIA's GeForce GT240 GPU is expected to be available in a couple of weeks and early reports unveiled its specifications.
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Microsoft has launched Internet TV in Windows Media Center for Windows 7 users, allowing them to watch videos from a variety of providers via the Internet right in Windows Media Center in addition to live and recorded TV.
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Best Buy announced today a new on-demand movie and entertainment service will be powered by Sonic's Roxio CinemaNow and will allow consumers to have access to buy or rent movies.
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Yahoo today debuted an open source version of Traffic Server, a high performance application server for builders of cloud services.
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Bittorent Inc is about to rerlease uTorrent 2.0, a new P2P client software that will take advantage of the case μTP (micro-transport protocol), which eliminates the need for ISPs to throttle or stop BitTorrent traffic.
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Sony Ericsson today unveiled the XPERIA X10, the first phone in a family of phones to run on Google's Android operating system and will be on sale early next year.
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Monday, November 02, 2009
SRS Labs announced today that it is partnering with DivX, to develop the SRS WOW HD DivX Edition plug-in for the DivX player and DivX Web Player.
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G-Technology by Hitachi, a provider of premium storage solutions for the Mac, creative pro and high-end audio/video (AV) markets, today announced that it is incorporating Hitachi?s 2TB, 7,200 RPM, 32MB cache buffer hard drives across its entire 3.5-inch product line.
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NVIDIA today announced that it is now accepting applications for its ninth annual NVIDIA Fellowship Program, to fund work that helps to solve complex visual computing challenges. Grants of $25,000 for each selected project will be announced in Spring 2010.
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A high-definition Wii has been rumoured almost since the original Wii came out in 2006, and the latest one describes Wii 2 as a game console with a Blu-Ray drive.
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Moser Baer India Ltd has entered into an agreement with Corona Marketing Group for promoting its OEM and DataRight-branded Optical storage media products in North America.
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The Swiss IT cooling solution provider ARCTIC COOLING today launched the new ARCTIC RC PRO, a RAM cooler designed for DDR2 and DDR3 SDRAM modules.
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Roxio today announced the availability of over 30 applications for Windows 7 users and PC OEMs who wish to complement and expand the digital media functionality of Windows 7.
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Expanding its line-up of quiet fans, Noctua today introduced its first 140mm model.
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Verizons' all-fiber-optic FiOS service launched on Friday the EPIX movie channel , letting subscribers watch films on-demand on televisions or on the Internet.
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The Mozilla community released Firefox 3.6 Beta 1 for download. This beta version of the next version of Firefox is built on the Gecko 1.9.2 web rendering engine, containing many improvements for web developers, Add-on developers, and users.
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While the market for High-Definition TV (HDTV) has hit the
mainstream, the industry has already started speculating about
the commercialization of Ultra-High Definition (UHD).
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Following a meeting in Seoul today between the Vice Chairman and CEO of Samsung, Yoon-Woo Lee, and the CEO of Microsoft, Steve Ballmer, Samsung Electronics announced that it will collaborate with Microsoft on efficient energy usage in computers.
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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Nokia will close its gaming service N-Gage next year in an effort to focus on the mobile gaming service and build up the portfolio of games in Ovi Store.
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Friday, October 30, 2009
Following numerous rumors last month, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has revealed it recently run into issues with its 40nm process technology impacting yields.
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Facebook outlined changes to its privacy policy on Thursday and asked for feedback from the social network's users.
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Google on Wednesday announced the launch of a brand spanking new version of orkut.
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Apple today introduced new Apple TV 3.0 software featuring a redesigned main menu for easier navigation and on-demand HD movie rentals and purchases, HD TV shows, music and podcasts from the iTunes Store.
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The first Internet addresses containing non-Latin characters from start to finish will soon be online thanks to today's approval of the new Internationalized Domain Name Fast Track Process by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) board.
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
Canonical released today Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop Edition, the latest version of the popular Linux desktop distribution.
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The Taiwan Fair Trade Commission yesterday announced that it has imposed monetary penalties on Philips, Sony and Taiyo Yuden for violating fair trade rules and monopolizing the recordable media market.
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Google unveiled a free navigation system for mobile phones Wednesday. The company announced the next step for Google Maps for mobile, Google Maps Navigation (Beta) for Android 2.0 devices.
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Google on Wednesday partnered with Web services Lala and MySpace's iLike to give music fans an easier way to find, sample and buy songs on the Internet.
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ASUS today announced a range of enhanced motherboard solutions that deliver USB 3.0 and SATA 6Gb/s data throughput performance.
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Disney.com today announced it has launched an app for iPhone and iPod touch on the App Store.
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Intel and Numonyx B.V. today announced a key breakthrough in the research of phase change memory (PCM), a new non-volatile memory technology that combines many of the benefits of today's various memory types.
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Dell today unveiled the industry?s smallest 12.1-inch rugged convertible tablet PC that is the first with a multi-touch display, the Latitude XT2 XFR.
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Moser Baer, the world?s second largest manufacturer of Optical Storage media, has launched Print Max, a BDR White Inkjet Printable discs designed to work with Primera Technology's range of products.
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Nokia has released a new Nokia N97 software update 2.0 that adds new functionalities to the device.
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LG Display will showcase new technologies and products at FPD (Flat Panel Display) International 2009 to be held at the Pacifico Yokohama (Exhibition Hall) in Japan from October 28 to 30.
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JVC today announced the availability of a new entry-level Blu-ray player.
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Google has officially released the software development kit (SDK) for its Android 2.0 operating system (also known as Eclair).
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Intel's latest firmware for its SSDs was made unavailable today by the company duw to issues related to the Windows 7 operating system
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Toshiba today announced the launch of a new CMOS image sensor that will bring 14.6 million pixels to digital still cameras and to mobile phones supporting video imaging.
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Kingston Digital today announced the release of the SSDNow V Series 40GB Boot Drive, the latest addition to its V (Value) family of solid-state drives (SSD).
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Third quarter shipments of graphics processors jumped an amazing 21.2% over Q2, which was already a great quarter clearly signaling the holidays will be robust for PCs and the industry in general, according to the latest data released by Jon Peddie Research.
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Nokia today announced the Nokia 6788, its first device for TD-SCDMA - China's domestic 3G standard, at an event in Beijing.
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S3 Graphics on Monday launched the Chrome 5400E embedded graphics processor.
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Samsung Electronics said on Monday that they developed the world?s slimmest 40 inch LCD panel, which records 3.9 millimeters in width.
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Nero announced today that Nero users can enjoy their favorite Nero products on the Windows 7 operating system.
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Nintendo will soon launch a large-screen version of its DSi game console in Japan, a report said Tuesday.
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Up until now, if users wanted to use Google Voice, they needed to choose a new number (a "Google number"). But not everyone wants to switch to a new phone number, so Google created a lighter version of Google Voice for people who are willing to trade some features for the ability to use their existing numbers.
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Hitachi, Toshiba and Sony said Tuesday that their optical disk drive operations in the U.S. received subpoenas from the U.S. Department of Justice in an investigation into potential antitrust violations.
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DivX and MediaTek today announced the DivX Plus HD Certification of MediaTek's MT8530 chip.
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On the heels of the Microsoft Windows 7 introduction, Intel today announced the availability of the Intel Solid-State Drive (SSD) Toolbox, with Intel SSD Optimizer and firmware update, for its 34nm Intel X25-M Mainstream SATA SSDs.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
The remarkable eyes of a marine crustacean could inspire the next generation of DVD and CD players, according to a new study from the University of Bristol published today in Nature Photonics.
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The Google Maps team rolled out last week a number of refinements to the look and feel of Google maps.
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Sony Computer Entertainment America Inc. (SCEA) and Netflix,today announced that they are joining forces to make movies and TV episodes from Netflix available to be streamed instantly to TVs via the PlayStation 3 (PS3 ) computer entertainment system.
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Tilera Corporation today announced its new TILE-Gx family - four new processors from Tilera including the world's first 100-core processor: the TILE-Gx100.
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Friday, October 23, 2009
Once again, Microsoft clarified that it has no plans to release a Blu-ray drive for the Xbox 360 game console.
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Following the official release of Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system, both AMD and Nvidia promise to offer consumers an exceptionally rich, intuitive and stable computing experience through their products.
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AMD has opened to the public the latest Catalyst Software Suite Version 9.10 for the Radeon series of GPUs offering support for Windows 7.
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Amazon.com today announced "Kindle for PC," the free application that lets readers enjoy Kindle books on their personal computers (PC).
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Ericsson and Samsung have successfully achieved interoperability between the world's first commercial LTE device from Samsung and the live network from Ericsson in Stockholm, Sweden - an important milestone in making 4G a reality.
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Nokia announced that it has today filed a complaint against Apple with the Federal District Court in Delaware, alleging that Apple's iPhone infringes Nokia patents for GSM, UMTS and wireless LAN (WLAN) standards.
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Thursday, October 22, 2009
ASUS today announced that a select group of its notebooks and Eee Series PCs - including the Eee PC, Eee PC Touch, EeeBox PC and EeeTop PC - will feature exclusive enhancements designed to improve the overall Windows 7 experience.
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Microsoft began to roll out Windows 7 operation system on Thursday with the hope of shaking off the negative image created by previous Vista version, aiming to strengthen its grip on the PC market.
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Research In Motion (RIM) today announced the sleek and powerful BlackBerry Bold 9700 smartphone, aiming to reassert its dominance in the professional market.
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Sharp has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 35.8% using a triple-junction compound solar cell.
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Acer today has officially announced the new Acer Aspire 5738DG-6165, a 15.6-inch screen laptop for movie and game fans featuring a a 3-D screen.
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Toshiba today announced the launch of its first direct methanol fuel-cell product: Dynario, an external power source that delivers power to mobile digital consumer products.
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Microsoft and Google have both began integrating Twitter messages into their search engines, the companies announced today.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Memory technology licensing companiy Rambus today announced it has achieved a new breakthrough level of power efficiency with its latest silicon test vehicle developed through its Mobile Memory Initiative (MMI).
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