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Apple Unveils The iPad – A Huge, Expensive, iPod Touch

If you have not heard by now, then you live on Mars, most likely in a cave, probably with headphones on. Apple unveiled the iPad today. It is basically a huge iPod Touch with internet service for 30 bucks a month. The device is lacking a ton of features, like multitasking and SMS messaging. The [...]

Natal to replace TV remote?

It seems Microsoft’s plans for Natal are getting bigger by the minute. Marc Whitten, the general manager responsible for Microsoft’s Xbox Live service, stated during the Streaming Media West show that he sees Project Natal replacing the traditional remote control for the TV even.
"With the flick of my wrist I can change [...]

7 Reasons Why Microsoft Should Make PCs

If Microsoft wants to be like Apple, so be it. The company should design, build and sell consumer PCs directly to customers. As Steve Jobs says, "good artists copy, great artists steal." Microsoft needs to steal Apple’s whole approach to marketing its products and managing its brand, not just copy its retail store ideas.
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Solar backpacks made from Nazi satchels

A limited-edition series of solar bags and backpacks are made from actual Nazi-era satchels. They’re called KILLA Vintage series #1 bags, and the Canadian company that sells them promises only 20 per year. (props to Talk2myShirt)

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XBox360 802.11n WiFi Adapter Surfaces On FCC Site

It looks like there is a new XBox360 802.11n WiFi adapter in the works for the XBox360. It has two antennas, as you can see by the pic, which means 802.11n. Adding this spec to the Xbox360 shoud be the WiFi adapter is actually worth getting, believe it or not. Of course, it will probably [...]

New laptop sports two full-size screens!

A company called gScreen, based in Alaska, has created a two-screen laptop that’s the first I’ve seen to feature full size screens side-by-side. A unique sliding mechanism has the screens sandwiched together when the laptop is closed, but the one in back goes to the left and the one in front goes to the right [...]

Intel moves forward with 34nm SSDs

Intel has delivered the industry’s first Solid State Drives (SSDs) based on 34nm manufacturing process. The 34nm based SSDs is superior to 50nm variant and boasts advantages like drop-in compatibility, latency reduction by 25 percent and faster random write Input/Output Operations Per Second (IOPS) which is now up to 6,600 and 35,000 for write and [...]

Apple drops to 5th position in US computer sales

According to an article by Electronista, Apple has dropped to 5th in US computer sales, citing early reports by IDC. Apple has shipped 12.4% fewer computers than it did last year, falling to 1.21 million Macs. Its market share will remain the same at 7.6% but will have been eclipsed by Toshiba, which could jump [...]

Intel plans for new Core i7, Celeron and Atom processor leaked

Motherboard manufacturers have apparently spilled the beans on the future plans of Intel. According to them, Intel is planning to launch couple of Celeron, Atom chips and one Core i7 processor.
Celeron CPUs will be 45nm based from the E3000 Series running at 2.4GHz (E3200) and 2.5GHz (E3300) respectively. Celeron E3000 Series will mostly get [...]

SATA 3.0 standard ratified; 6Gbps, isochronous SATA inbound

The SATA International Organization, the industry consortium governing Serial ATA interfaces, yesterday released a finalized version of the SATA 3.0 specification, which features 6.0Gbps data transfers and a number of improved features while remaining completely backwards-compatible with existing drives, controllers, connectors, and cables. While current hard disk drives can’t saturate SATA 2.0’s 3Gbps data rate, [...]


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