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Lenovo, HP, Dell Integrating SDXC Readers in New 32nm Intel “Arrandale” Laptops
Don’t want to be obsolete before launch Most laptops and netbooks today come with a SDHC flash memory card reader. One of the major benefits of standardization is the ubiquity it allows. Consumers can take a SD or SDHC card from a digital camera or camcorder and transfer the data quickly to a laptop, enabling... »
Office 2010 Set for June Launch
Office 2010 in six version glory coming next summer The most widely used productivity application on the planet is Microsoft Office. Microsoft makes the lion’s share of its money from sales of Office and its Windows operating system. Windows 7 hit the market recently and has been racking up impressive sales numbers. As of mid-November, Windows... »
Samsung Shipping DDR NAND & 3-Bit MLC Flash, Expects Use in SSDs
Your choice of higher speed or lower cost Samsung Electronics is the largest NAND flash memory manufacturer in the world, accounting for 38.5 percent of the global market in Q3 of 2009. All of that money helps when conducting research and development into new technologies which are critical for maintaining that lead. The company is making... »
Intel, AMD Settle Antitrust Disputes, Intel to Pay AMD $1.25 Billion
Intel, AMD kiss and make up Intel and AMD have been involved in long-standing dispute over intellectual property and antitrust issues. Intel was fined $1.45B by the EU for its anticompetitive practices and last week, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel. Cuomo had rather harsh words for Intel, stating, “Rather... »
Built Around the Browser, Google’s Chrome OS Launches, Reinvents the Operating System
New OS is specifically geared towards the netbook market A radical new day has dawned for the operating system. Today Google finally aired its long awaited Chrome Operating System. The operating system was detailed at a press conference starting at 1 p.m. EST, and the open source code was posted online just before the start... »
Apple Tablet Will Restore Comic Books To Former Glory
“What is it in France they say? ‘America contributed three things to culture: jazz, musical comedy and comic books.’” You can already buy two on iTunes. And if things pan out, you’ll be get the third on the Apple tablet. Over the last few weeks I’ve been talking to people within the comics industry to... »
Droid Phone Released, Bests iPhone in Many Areas, Lags in a Few
Apple once again is challenged in the smartphone arena While the Blackberry is currently the bestselling smartphone, thanks largely to a strong core of business users, sales numbers indicate the iPhone dominates the multimedia entertainment phone market. Verizon’s Droid phone, which launched on Friday, may change that as it looks to be solid competitor... »
Google Seeks Mobile Web Advertising Domination, Buys AdMob for $750 Million
Google enters yet another market with AdMob purchase Search and advertising giant Google has purchased mobile web advertising technology firm AdMob for $750 million in stock. The mobile internet experience on mobile phones and PDAs has been improving rapidly, but mobile web access still suffers from interoperability and usability problems. Part of this is due to... »
Upcoming Zinc-air Batteries Store More Than Three Times the Energy of Lithium-ion
First zinc-air batteries will hit next year in small form factors Rechargeable batteries are used in so many different products that we use today – everything from our computers and mobile phones to our cars have batteries inside. One of the major areas of research is in new battery technologies that will increase the run... »
USB 3.0 and SATA 6G put to good use: benchmarks
The fine folks at both HotHardware and PC Perspective have run the new ASUS P7P55D-E Premium motherboard through its paces, which has the particular distinction of handling both USB 3.0 and the up-and-coming SATA 6G through controllers by NEC and Marvell, respectively. Lucky for us, both sites’ tests came to similar conclusions. The Seagate... »
