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Microsoft released key details Tuesday of the next generation of software that it hopes will run the world's computers.
The software giant, whose dominance is under threat, said Windows 7 will replace the disappointing Windows Vista in January 2010.
Microsoft said the new operating system was designed to function like a tighter...
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 A huge blast wrecked a retail building on Thursday in Waukegan injuring eight people. The powerful explosion lifted the roof and reduced the structure of the building to debris. "The whole back of the building was pancaked," Deputy Fire Chief Dan Young said according to the Associated Press. Two people were trapped in the...
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 Dell announced today that is has released a new class of portable in the form of the Inspiron Mini 12. The system uses the Atom processor, 1GB of RAM and 80GB storage of a higher-end notebook, but has the profile of an ultraportable: it carries a 12-inch display, it weighs 2.7 pounds and it’s thicker with one inch. It seems that it’s...
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 Google Gears
represents the prototype of one of tech industry’s most important current
trends; it is an application that can keep browser-based applications running
while also offline, thus, allowing people to use their computers even if they
have no connection to the Internet. Google Gears was launched less than a year
ago, but now...
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 This could be just a rumor, but
on the other hand the idea is quite coherent. Microsoft has been reported by a
web site that it will embed in its Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) also some
tough features borrowed from Windows Vista. Although this could be just a
thought, the idea could be coherent, as this way the users will be able...
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 On April 18, Web-search behemoth Google filed an anti-trust complaint against Microsoft, alleging that the Redmond-crafted Vista OS is interfering (i.e. impairing) its own software.In 2004, Google introduced the highly praised Google Desktop Search, bridging the Web-search and the offline search and thus gaining more ground on...
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 After reporting in March that the first month of availability for Windows Vista meant 20 million copies sold, the Redmond behemoth is now boasting with 40 million licenses sold in 100 days.The news was reported by Microsoft founder and Chairman Bill Gates himself, during a press conference held in Los Angeles.Vista’s impressive success...
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 Apple targeted Microsoft in the latest round of the Mac versus the PC. Steve Jobs’s company came up with two commercials tweaking Microsoft’s marketing strategies. Even if the commercials were released for that sedentary audience to ponder in between kickoffs this weekend, both ads missed their objective, because it looks like they are...
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 The next version of Microsoft Windows will nag users much less than its maligned predecessor, Windows Vista and it will be available for testing next year. Windows 7 will let users choose to see fewer alerts and warnings from their computers, and that’s because notifications and pop-up windows alerting people to potential security risks...
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 Microsoft will release an emergency security patch for Windows users on Tuesday. The company hasn’t said that much about the reason for its release of the software update, which is rated critical for users of Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. It would seem it’s a flaw that can be exploited by online attackers in order to...
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 Microsoft has chosen to stick with its code name for a
Windows release. In a blog posting, general manager Mike Nash said that the
next version of Windows will be called Windows 7, because it’s the seventh
version of the operating system (OS). Nash added that Microsoft decided against
using an inspirational name because the company’s...
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 On Tuesday, at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner
Conference In Houston, the company launched its Vista Compatibility Center,
designed for giving PC users the chance to check whether or not their systems
and applications can get along well with Microsoft’s latest operating system.
However, things didn’t go smoothly. The center
was...
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 Although Vista sales are going up, lots of users that have been testing it complained about a wide range of issues. As Windows 7 should be out by late 2009, there are a lot of business customers that have decided to stick with XP until that happens.Because of this, on Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. issued a white paper in an attempt to...
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 Although Vista sales are going up, lots of users that have been testing it complained about a wide range of issues. As Windows 7 should be out by late 2009, there are a lot of business customers that have decided to stick with XP until that happens.Because of this, on Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. issued a white paper in an attempt to...
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 Yesterday, at the Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things Digital conference, it was up to Julie Larson-Green, Microsoft's corporate vice president for Windows experience program management, to present some of the features of upcoming Windows 7. A series of Multi-touch technology-based applications were shown, including some...
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 On Thursday, during a speech held in Tokyo, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates noted that since Vista was released in late 2006, more than 140 million copies of the operating system were sold. If we compare Windows XP and Vista, things seem to be looking good; while XP reached 400 million users in 51 months, it only took Vista 16 months to go...
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 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer presented Windows XP fans with some excellent news when he announced that the company may extend XP’s lifespan. Obviously enough, in order for this to happen, user feedback must come down hard on Vista, as such a decision can only be taken if the target demographic surpasses certain numbers."XP will hit...
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 Finally a release date for Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) was announced. According to tech website Neowin, this is the way Microsoft set up the schedule:- April 14, 2008: Support is available for the release version of Service Pack 3 for Windows XP;- April 21, 2008: Original Equipment Manufacturers, Volume License, Connect, and MSDN and...
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 On Thursday at the Gartner Emerging Trends conference in Las Vegas, Gartner analysts Neil MacDonald and Michael Silver identified several Windows-related problems. "Windows as we know it must be replaced," Gartner said in its presentation, according to ComputerWorld. One of the problems singled-out by analysts was the operating...
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 Windows fans had some very good news coming
their way on Friday, as Bill Gates hinted about the follow-up to Vista, Windows
7. According to News.com, Bill Gates said that the new operating system could be
launched as early as next year. But for the moment, as News.com noted, is still
unclear if Gates meant a beta or a final version....
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 Ars Technica revealed that in the 158 email pages that were
released as part of the Vista Capable lawsuit, there is information which leads
to the conclusion that sometime in 2007, 30% of Vista
crashes were caused by Nvidia driver-related problems. In numbers, this would
mean that out of a total of 1,663,748 crashes logged by...
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 Although most users seem to
simply hate Microsoft’s Windows Vista and to choose rather Windows XP, the
software maker still claims that Vista is No.
1. Released more than a year ago, Windows Vista has managed to become a both
popular and controversial operating system.
Vista
looks great, sounds smart, but lots of users that have...
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 Microsoft's Service Pack 1 for its latest operating system, Windows Vista, will be available to the public as of tomorrow, Tuesday. The announcement was made on TechARP.com, the Malaysian Web site that nailed the update's release to manufacturing (RTM) date several days early. Amazon.com lists Wednesday as the significant update's...
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 According to a report published on Thursday, it seems like Microsoft executives have put a lot of effort in order to make Windows Vista work even on their own computers after the release of the software, as e-mails have shown.The Seattle Post- Intelligencer reported that several e-mails that were unsealed and made public on Wednesday...
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 Microsoft has apparently finally figured out that it charged too much for its latest operating system, Windows Vista. Strangely enough, people had to pay more for the half-baked Vista when it came out full of bugs, and now when it is in much better shape, with the release of Service Pack 1 coming up (as with all Microsoft's operating...
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 Microsoft’s
Windows Vista operating system seemed to have caused much trouble already, but a
federal judge decided that the software maker had to pay also for what two
customers claimed to have been a misleading marketing campaign. The federal
judge decided to expand the lawsuit filed by these two persons to potentially
include all...
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 After a number of irritating
delays and broken promises, Microsoft is expected to eventually launch its
Windows Server 2008 operating system next week. However, you may not want to
leave behind the Windows Server 2003 so soon, as experts warned recently that
migrating to Microsoft Windows’ latest server operating system version...
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 Windows Vista Service Pack 1
blocking antivirus programs? This does sound like a creepy joke! But it’s not,
as Microsoft itself announced recently that the major update to its latest
Windows operating system could leave PCs vulnerable to all kinds of security
problems, such as hacker attacks, malware and so on. Microsoft said that...
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 doubleTwist Corporation, a company which was founded in March 2007 by Jon Lech Johansen and Monique Farantzos, moves even further with its efforts to liberate media for consumers, as it unveiled its initial product offerings and announced the close of its Series A venture funding from Index Ventures and Northzone Ventures.Jon Lech...
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 According to a report iDefense
made public over the weekend, a number of three specific exploits have been
affecting the fully patched versions of Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1 running on
Windows. Adobe Systems reportedly released another security update immediately:
Adobe Acrobat and Reader 8.1.2.
The first problem...
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 Microsoft announced on Monday
that it had already released the first Windows Vista SP1 to manufacturing,
which means that the software is likely to be launched sometime in March. According
to the software maker, the operating system update will include no less than
300 important fixes covering a wide range of flaws, from data...
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 Microsoft announced this week
that Vista, the latest version of the company’s
popular Windows operating system, dealt with significantly fewer publicly
disclosed security problems in its first year on the market than Windows XP and
rival open source operating systems. The software maker’s announcement is based
on a report written by...
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 Microsoft Corp. has announced that it would team up with Citrix Systems Inc in order to be able to deliver new virtualization--software services and solutions with Windows Server 2008, which would satisfy the needs and demands of customers.The new strategy will bring the next generation of Citrix Presentation Server and the Citrix...
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 Microsoft declared on Tuesday that it would disable the so- called kill switch from its Vista operating system, which had the role of hobbling the pirated versions of the top-selling software.The move comes after the company had several complaints from legitimate users that had problems with the kill switch that was restricting the use...
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 The famous software maker
Microsoft Corp. has recently denied that it has been its software that has
arbitrarily changed Windows Vista’ update settings. The company has even
claimed that it has been the users that are responsible for the modifications
that have generated the claims of unauthorized patch installs. So, it...
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 Petko Petkov. Once again this
developer’s name comes into the spotlight, but this time it is not related to
any Windows Media Player or Firefox bug. This time it is about Adobe’s
Acrobat/Reader, which has been reported since late September by this smart
developer of featuring quite a very risky bug in the way it handles the
Portable...
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 Recently Apple has eventually updated
the Windows version of its QuickTime, after the bug that the update has fixed
has become about 13 months old. The new update from Apple fixes a problem that
QuickTime has encountered for Windows XP and Windows Vista. The problem has
first been reported more than one year ago, in September 2006,...
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 Microsoft Corp. has apologized yesterday to the users for another problem that seems to have silently occurred over the last few weeks. During this time the people running on their computers Microsoft’s Windows XP or Windows Vista operating systems have had their OSs quietly updated with nine small executable files. Microsoft has...
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 Symantec has just unveiled the
2008 versions of its Norton Internet Security and Norton Antivirus suites. With
these new packs the company has said that the users will be able to feel safer
when surfing the Internet and not only. Norton Internet Security 2008 and
Norton Antivirus 2008 feature behavioral-detection capabilities, which...
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 Windows Genuine Advantage proved to be a genuine drawback
for Windows clients this Saturday. It is widely known that Microsoft fights a
long anti-piracy battle, but it is incomprehensible why WGA had to fight and
damage licensed copies.
A server error is blamed for the malfunctioning of WGA and
it was fixed within some hours, but...
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 The United
States of America and China have joined forces in
investigating and finally arresting the members of a Chinese counterfeiting
syndicate, which has been said of being responsible of distributing more than
$2 billion worth of counterfeit Microsoft software in more than 27 countries.
About 25 people have been arrested over...
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 Microsoft seems to be in a hurry,
as it has already started to discuss with its select partners and customers
about a new version of Windows. The company’s latest operating system, Windows
Vista, has just been released and its first service pack is also already on the
way, but Microsoft is preparing for a new project. The internal...
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 The Redmond software giant decided to discontinue the product that should’ve rivaled Adobe’s Photoshop Elements, simply because most of what it was supposed to do is already integrated in Windows Vista.Digital Image software (the name of the product) was first introduced in 2002, as a Redmond-crafted alternative to Adobe Photoshop...
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 VMWare Inc. recently announced the availability of WMWare Workstation 6.0, which brings new features as Windows Vista support, USB 2.0 and multiple displays monitors support.Although virtualization is a technology introduced more than 8 years ago, few have heard of it and even fewer are using it on a regular base (although the term is...
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 You don’t need a license to perform an
abortion. Having this in her mind, Bertha Pinedo Bugarin, 48, performed abortions
and prescribed drugs while pretending to be a doctor at Clinica Medica de la
Mujer in Chula Vista.
According to prosecutors, the woman performed abortions at the clinic on in Chula Vista during
February and March...
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The California Supreme Court prepares to decree that physicians
have no constitutional right to refuse medical care to gay people, as violation
of religious beliefs has nothing to do with their profession. The Court’s
initiative came on Wednesday, as a consequence of a prior event. Some doctors
refused to provide artificial...
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 Two Hollywood important
figures, Deepak Nayar and Sandy Grushow decided to launch on Monday a new
project called Filmaka. The site was tested for more than a year and they
recruited professional filmmakers from around the world to choose the best
competitors.
Deepak Nayar is the movie producer who stood behind the
films “Buena...
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 Lawyers for the surviving members of legendary band The
Beatles are suing to stop distribution of unreleased recordings made during a
performance at the Star Club in Hamburg,
Germany. This
was the first time when Ringo Starr performed with the group in 1962. The
president of Fuego Entertainment, Hugo Cancio, planned to release...
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 On Tuesday, Microsoft released a new patch bundle that
features three fixes for serious vulnerabilities of several Windows versions,
which could be taken advantage of by remote attackers.
Among the seven identified vulnerabilities, three were
considered to be "critical," three more were rated "important"
and...
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 On Wednesday, during the Google I/O conference, VP Engineering Vic Gundotra emphasized the browser’s supremacy over all the other internet-related platforms. This was said right before the announcement that the 3D mapping technology of the company’s desktop application, Google Earth, was ported into the browser. The one thing users need...
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 Adobe released on Wednesday its new Media Player along with downloadable and streamable content and instructional videos. The software rivals Microsoft's Windows Media Player, Apple's QuickTime and RealNetworks' RealPlayer. The video content that is offered by Adobe includes episodes of CSI: Miami and CSI: New York and music videos....
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 The Library of Congress and Microsoft Corporation announced on Thursday that they have reached an agreement which is designed to change the way visitors will have access to the library’s huge collection of historical artifacts.Microsoft will provide the technology needed for the visitors to be able to make a virtual tour of the historic...
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 Mozilla has released on Monday the new beta version of the widely used open-source Web browser Firefox, after a few months than it was expected due to more tests and examining did on the browser. This is the first phase of the release, that allows users to test the browser and to give a feedback that would help Mozilla before the...
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 Microsoft released nine patches which fix 14 security flaws on this month's "Patch Tuesday." Eight of the patches, of which six are rated "critical", address security flaws which could enable remote code execution. The ninth patch, rated "important", addresses a security flaw which enables a so-called...
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 Apple announced that the beta version of the Safari browser for Windows XP and Vista has been downloaded more than 1 million times in less than 2 days.The interest for the so-called “fastest browser on the market” was so big that Apple registered probably one of the biggest affluence towards its download servers in history. The...
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 Alienware, Dell’s subsidiary which manufactures high-end desktops for enthusiasts, has recently unveiled Hangar 18, an unusual desktop that sits…in your living room, under your TV.Alienware Hangar 18 is a device that allows you to watch, pause, and record your movies, TV shows, photos, and internet videos on your widescreen TV in high...
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 On Wednesday, Panasonic unveiled its new Toughbook CF-U1
ultra mobile PC.
This is the first time a Panasonic machine packs the Intel
Atom processor (Z520 1.33GHz with 533MHz FSB, 512KB L2 cache). The CF-U1 features
a 5.6-inch touch screen, 16GB solid state hard drive, 1GB memory, Intel
Wireless WiFi Link 5100 Series, Bluetooth®...
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 LiveScribe revealed recently a
new interesting gadget, the so-called Pulse SmartPen. It sounds really great,
but what exactly does this cool gadget do?
LiveScribe’s Pulse SmartPen is
nothing else than a piece of high technology incorporated in a regular-sized
pen; thus, the writing tool is integrated with a microphone and...
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 The new Ultra Mobile Device (UMD- an acronym also used by Sony to designate the mini-DVDs inserted in PlayStation Portable) from VIA Technologies aims to compete with the recently launched Palm Foleo.The UMD is built in collaboration with design partner First International Computer Inc. (FIC) and is called NanoBook. It features an almost...
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 At this year’s PWN2OWN contest, hackers were given the
chance to test their abilities on the security systems of Mac OS X, Windows
Vista and Linux. It appears that it sometimes pays to be “bad”, as winners were
awarded substantial cash prizes and the laptop they had hacked. They also had
to sign a nondisclosure...
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 In the light of Microsoft’s recent success with Windows Vista- which according to company’s estimates saw more than 40 million copies sold since launch- comes another study from the prestigious IDC, which shows the increasing strength of the open source software.IDC’s study demonstrated that the growth in adoption of standalone open...
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 It seems that
Microsoft doesn’t want to improve only its digital advertising business, as the
software maker has new ideas also for its virtualization business. Microsoft
announced recently two important acquisitions that are set to improve the
company’s existing development plans.
On Friday, Microsoft
announced that it decided...
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 Sun Microsystems announced it
recently decided to buy Innotek GmbH, a German company known for its VirtualBox
virtualization software that allows computers running Windows, Mac, Linux or
Solaris operating systems run additional OSs
side by side.
Innotek GmbH’s popular software
product is also open source code and it is aimed at...
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 Microsoft Corporation reported its figures for the second quarter, showing a record growth of 30 percent, 87 percent and 92 percent for revenue, operating income and diluted earnings per share, respectively, in comparison to a year before.As its revenue reached 16.37 billion, it has exceeded Microsoft’s previous record by around 2...
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 British Airways and TPG Capital decided to unite forces and make a bid for Spain’s largest airline, Iberia, the British operator announced Tuesday.Former Texas Pacific Group is a private equity investment firm with offices in Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. Its main area of activity regards major turnarounds and management...
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 Capcom recently announced that a PC demo of the critically acclaimed third person shooter Lost Planet: Extreme Condition will be released simultaneously worldwide on May 15.Lost Planet is already a Platinum title for the Xbox 360, with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, the PC version is expected to surpass that performance,...
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 According to an e-mail message from Microsoft, last-minute tweaks for Halo 2-Vista edition will delay its release until May 22.GamePro received an e-mail from Microsoft last week notifying them that the developers of Halo 2 for Windows Vista are forced to delay the release of the game, which had originally been scheduled for an American...
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 Hewlett-Packard (HP) has unveiled its new laptop called
Voodoo Envy, thus plunging in the race against Apple’s MacBook Air.
The Voodoo, only 0.70
inches thin and weighing less than 3.4 pounds, is to be made
available for the price of $2,099.
It comes with a 13.3" display and packs a Core 2 Duo
processor (customers...
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 On Monday, Apple finally announced the powering up of its iMac line with new Intel Core 2 Duo processors. This new iMac comes in three versions. The first, a 20-inch 2.4-GHz, featuring an ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT (with 128-MB memory), will be made available for the price of $1,199. The second ($1,499), a 20-inch 2.66-GHz, will feature an...
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 On Tuesday Hewlett Packard announced the launch of its new Mini-Note PC. Its shipping is set to begin sometime next week. The 2133 Mini-Note, starting at a base price of $500, has a nine-inch screen with 1280x768 resolution, weighs about 2 1/2 pounds and comes with an aluminum case and an optional webcam. The computer was outfitted with...
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 On Thursday, Nvidia unveiled the GeForce
9600 GT, the company’s GeForce 9 Series with a midrange graphics card. The
recently unveiled device marks the first time Nvidia has chosen not to launch a
new line of products with the highest-end product first.
Thus, the GeForce 9600 GT will be
serving for the most part of Nvidia’s...
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 Yesterday HP has just revealed a
brand new touchscreen personal computer which’s main feature is that it will
let its users to record voice and video notes. The new HP TouchSmart IQ775
personal computer seems to have been designed for sitting in a living room or a
kitchen, as its users will be able to perform basic computing actions...
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 Gateway Inc. seems to have really
prepared for this year’s winter holiday season, as the company has launched on
Thursday brand new amazing computers that the company hopes to be become hit Christmas
gifts. Gateway’s marketing strategy for 2007’s winter holiday season seems to
target especially the multimedia enthusiastic users; the...
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 Excepting two brand new web cam
models, Microsoft Corp. has announced yesterday also its releasing three new
models of notebook mice. The Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000, the Wireless
Notebook Mouse 7000 and the Mobile Memory Mouse 8000 have been all presented by
Microsoft as the ultimate mice that aim to reduce the touchpad fatigue of...
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 As a move aiming to re-invigorate
its desktop lineup, Lenovo Group Ltd. has announced yesterday a brand new
desktop computer, which will be the company’s quietest, smallest and most
energy-efficient such device. Blue Sky, or more formally the ThinkCenter A61
desktop computer, will be available starting with the next month for an...
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 Iomega Corp. represents one of
the world’s leaders in the data protection industry and it seems to become a
top company in network storage too. The company has revealed today a new line
of network hard drives, which will revolutionize the industry. This
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