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ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC

Lenovo Adds Touch of Simplicity to New MultiTouch Screen ThinkPad PCs

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Lenovo today is bringing business users a new way to work with multitouch screen technology on the versatile and portable ThinkPad X200 Tablet PC and slim and powerful ThinkPad T400s laptop. Lenovo is also ...


HP ProBook 5310m

HP Introduces ProBook 5310m and Pavilion dm3 Notebooks

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

HP today introduced the world's thinnest full-performance notebook PC as well as a slim, stylish consumer notebook that delivers an optimal balance of mobility, performance and affordability.


IBM Announces Highest Performance Embedded Processor for System-on-Chip Designs

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created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

IBM today announced the industry's highest performance, highest throughput processor for system-on-chip (SoC) product families in the communication, storage, consumer, and aerospace and defense markets.


ASUS Introduces the Designo MS Series LCD Monitors

ASUS Introduces the Designo MS Series LCD Monitors

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created Sep 10, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Asus today unveiled the brand new ultra-slim Designo MS Series LCD monitors MS246/ 236/ 227/ 226/ 202 to astound users with a perfect combination of exceptional style and picture quality.


Samsung Announces 640-Gigabyte 2.5-inch Hard Disk Drive for High-end Mobile PCs

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created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Samsung Electronics today announced its new 640-Gigabyte (GB) 2.5-inch Spinpoint M7 internal hard disk drive. The new 640GB hard drive, now the top-density drive of the popular M7 family, has an areal density of 516-Gigabit ...


Intel's new Core i5 processor.

Intel Launches Three New Quad-core Processors

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created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (12) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- Intel has launched three new quad-core processors utilizing Intel's new Nehalem architecture. These processors, formerly codenamed Lynnfield, are aimed at desktop computers, as well as the ...


Verbatim TUFF-'N'-TINY USB drive

Tiny flash drive is also durable

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (8) | comments 6

Just the other day, my son was looking for his flash drive that is a requirement for all college freshmen. His mom was the one who found it due to the loud clanging noise coming from the automatic dryer. ...


Graphics chips speed up medical imaging

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created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Beyond just jazzing up video games, one of the growing array of applications being found for the powerful graphics-oriented chips that Nvidia and Advanced Micro Devices sell is in speeding up medical imaging, which can be ...


Blu-ray drives seeing limited growth within PCs

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

The sharp video quality of Blu-ray disc players, increases in the devices' technical capabilities and growth in the number of high-definition video titles has made the devices one of the most-popular consumer-electronics ...


Samsung Develops First Commercial LTE Modem for Mobile Phones

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Samsung Electronics announced today that it has developed the first Long Term Evolution (LTE) modem that complies with the latest standards of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), which were released in March 2009. ...


Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module

Hitachi develops a 3mm thin-type finger vein authentication module

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Hitachi, Ltd. today announced the development of a 3mm thick thin-type finger vein authentication module. Finger vein authentication is a biometric identification technology which employs near infrared light ...


SDSC dashes forward with new flash memory computer system

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created Sep 02, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Leveraging lightning-fast technology already familiar to many from the micro storage world of digital cameras, thumb drives and laptop computers, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) at the University of California, ...


Hitachi Unleashes Ultra-Fast Half-Terabyte Mobile Hard Disk Drive

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created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Hitachi today announced that is it shipping its fifth-generation, 7200 RPM mobile hard disk drive. The Hitachi Travelstar 7K500 is a 500GB, 2.5-inch, 3Gb/s SATA drive designed for notebooks, gaming systems and professional ...


New Iowa State supercomputer, Cystorm, unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second

Cystorm supercomputer unleashes 28.16 trillion calculations per second

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created Aug 21, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (9) | comments 8

Srinivas Aluru recently stepped between the two rows of six tall metal racks, opened up the silver doors and showed off the 3,200 computer processor cores that power Cystorm, Iowa State University's second ...


The tablet PC could be Apple's next big thing

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created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Figuring out what Apple Inc. has in store for its next big product launch has become as popular a game as gathering to pick fantasy football drafts every fall.