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It looks like the PC market can sometimes be too hard to handle, especially when you have to compete with big names such as HP, Dell or Acer. Such could also be the case with Fujitsu Siemens Computers that, according to a recent Reuters piece, may soon become history and cease to exist.The news hasn't been yet c... |
16 July 2008
09:38 GMT |
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Although there's no official word yet on the desktop version of the Eee PC, ASUS has decided to release one product that is meant to be the world's smallest mini PC with full HD support. Dubbed ASUS Mini PC Nova Lite PX24, the small sized system comes to offer users an alternative to a powerful home enterta... |
3 June 2008
11:02 GMT |
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Have any of you gamers out there thought that a high-performance gaming desktop system can be used for something more significant than just gaming? Well if you haven't, somebody did, namely a research group called ASTRA which is part of the Vision Lab at the University of Antwerp. The members of the group have a... |
30 May 2008
03:29 GMT |
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One of the biggest computer system manufacturers, Fujitsu Siemens, has just unveiled its new Amilo 3000 range of laptops. The company has built this new product using a straightforward black and white design which, although simple, promises to bring a lot of innovative features.The company's new Amilo 3000 produ... |
29 May 2008
11:56 GMT |
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If you recently happened to visit Alienware's website, you might have noticed the American vendor's recent offer. However, if you haven't done this yet, here's a little insight into what they are now offering to extreme users. Their high-end desktop computer system, Area-51 ALX has just received a... |
23 May 2008
05:16 GMT |
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If you are a gamer and you also enjoy viewing the Transformers series, then Acer, one of the leading vendors in the worldwide PC market, has something for you right now. It's called Aspire PREDATOR and it is one mean-looking desktop PC. Designed mainly as a high-performance gaming rig, this system brings out all... |
21 May 2008
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AMD, one of the leading manufacturers of computer technology, has just announced it is going to pay more attention to gaming users. The company, which is today responsible for powering the visual experience of the two most popular gaming consoles in the world, has just announced the birth of AMD GAME!. With AMD GAME... |
19 May 2008
04:41 GMT |
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For humans, writing meant a huge technological and cultural revolution. Information was at last to be recorded in a more secure way than via human memory. Writing and reading seem natural for us, but they had to be invented and perfected. In 1996, on the left bank of the Euphrates River, 100 km (60 mi) of Aleppo (Syr... |
5 April 2008
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Digital media solutions provider Mesiro has just unveiled its newest PC system especially tailored to match the needs of the Home-Theater PC enthusiast. Built using what the company names "the Scandinavian design", the new addition in the HTPC portfolio comes with interchangeable skins that can be directly applied on... |
31 March 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Computers have long since ceased being simple accessories to help us in performing day-by-day tasks. They have successfully managed to mix performance with fashion and elegance, and there is a multitude of examples to back up this case, from Gigabyte's colorful notebooks to the Zeus mobile pieces of jewelery.But... |
31 January 2008
11:08 GMT |
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Without question, TYAN is one of the most important sever-manufacturing companies and, while its revenues or market share are not as impressive as those sported by Dell or other big-name providers, it is nonetheless a worldwide recognized brand. Right now, it looks like TYAN plans for some expansion, as the company h... |
31 January 2008
07:59 GMT |
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In the long list of Google Products' options that you will most likely never use, but are there anyway, the Google Calculator incorporated in its Search can now do its job using the Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures that Donald Knuth, a former computer scientist at Stanford University, introduced in issue... |
14 January 2008
03:19 GMT |
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After lots of rumors about the open source operating system made by Google, called Android, the marvelous creation is finally out and running. The first impression that Android made is that it is going to be a huge phone operating system, and from all the tests that have been made, everybody can say the same thing.Th... |
19 December 2007
07:40 GMT |
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SanDisk Corporation announced that it will soon begin extended shipments of solid state drives (SSDs for short) units to computer systems integrating companies. This move comes after the storage manufacturing company successfully completed an OEM launch of its 32GB solid state drive that comes packed in the 2.5 small... |
28 September 2007
04:16 GMT |
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Embedded systems and computers that come in small form factors are not something new nowadays as the industry always has one or more tasks better suited to a smaller, quieter and less energy intensive hardware platform. Lately, more and more such miniaturized computer systems largely made of x86 compatible hardware p... |
20 September 2007
06:25 GMT |
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Water cooling is now widely used as a custom cooling solution for overclocked machines because it is cheaper and more easily installable than other more exotic solutions while being more efficient than the default air cooling kits that are installed for factory on the hot computer hardware parts.Commonly only the cen... |
5 September 2007
09:11 GMT |
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Shuttle is a company best known around the world for its mini and barebone computer systems that are ideal for office related tasks and home use in entertainment as a media center nodal point. Well, the hardware manufacturing company wishes to show that it can do better with the launch of its latest product the Shutt... |
4 September 2007
10:06 GMT |
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The system on a chip, SoC for short, design is nothing as it has been used for several years now in embedded systems but now Intel sees a great potential in this market so it prepares to launch its very own embedded processor named Tolapai. A previous attempt at the embedded systems' market ended badly for Intel... |
30 August 2007
09:18 GMT |
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All in one desktop systems were very popular some twenty years ago but it looks like the trend is coming back after all this time with Apple's new iMac system and Sony's new VAIO LT19U computer. After Apple made the first step in that direction, Sony thought long and hard and saw a potential unexplored mark... |
27 August 2007
10:41 GMT |
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Dell finally decided to equip some of its top of the line desktop computer series with the hardware necessary to support CableCARD and now it is ready for customers. Coming out with a better hardware selection and allowing end users to customize the hardware layout of their machines, Dell's XPS desktops feature... |
20 August 2007
11:13 GMT |
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Like always on Saturday night, you're dead drunk and since you're such a brave person, you will prove that you can drive home safely on your own (by the way, who would dare try to face your punches and curses just to grab your keys?). Well, Nissan has found a solution to your problem now. If not for the sak... |
9 August 2007
15:06 GMT |
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SiS announced that computers from Tsinghua Tongfang that are intended mostly for the Chinese market are coming on the market equipped with the SiS671 chipset. In order to make the most of the high sales summer period, the two hardware manufacturers and vendors decided to reduce the price of the S series, T series, an... |
8 August 2007
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Dell was the first big name in the select club of the top computer hardware manufacturers and vendors that took the risk to ship a computer pre loaded with a Linux distribution. The first such machines arrived on the United States market in May and because they proved to be a success, the manufacturing company decide... |
8 August 2007
03:28 GMT |
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A recent proposal to fit every yellow cab in New York with GPS systems is causing massive protest among drivers who threaten to call strike until the order is revoked. The trade body representing more than 8,000 drivers is considering this last resort action against city officials.Two months ago, this project was vi... |
27 July 2007
10:35 GMT |
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There are computer customers out there that are more concerned about their PC's design and "cool" and elegant case than about what's inside of that "cool" case. Well, these users need a computer for pretty easy tasks as surfing the Web, emailing or as a multimedia center; they are not computer geeks, nor ex... |
27 July 2007
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It's a common sight in numerous science fiction stories and movies: a planet with two suns (often of drastically different colors) producing double shadows, multiple sunrises and sunsets and other exotic phenomena that would appear utterly alien to us Earthlings, like Luke Skywalker's home planet, Tatooine... |
26 July 2007
03:32 GMT |
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Shuttle is a company that for some time now is specializing itself in small form factor (SFF for short) computer systems. It now introduces the new mini barebone computer for media centers and offices. Built around the Intel G33 Express chipset, the Shuttle XPC Barebone SG33G5M comes as a big surprise in terms of per... |
21 July 2007
05:20 GMT |
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SiS announced that their SiS671 chipset will be used by Fujitsu when producing the Desktop PC FMV-D3240. This entry-level computer is well-equipped for various tasks. The mainboard supports Intel's Core 2 Duo, Pentium 4 and Celeron processors running at a FSB of 800, 667 and 533MHZ and in combination with SiS�... |
10 July 2007
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The name comes from the fact that Brazil nuts, in a container of mixed nuts, always come on top when the container is shaken, even though they are the largest and heaviest in the bunch. This phenomenon also happens with other large-sized elements in a mix, like cereals in a muesli mix, but nobody has managed to pre... |
5 July 2007
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Inspiron 1420 Notebook joins the four Ubuntu 7.04 systems offered by Dell Inc. I think many of you remember the catchy announcement made by Dell, saying they would start releasing desktop computers and notebook systems with pre-installed Linux as an option. The open source fans got so excited with the idea that they ... |
27 June 2007
06:38 GMT |
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Have you ever looked at the sky at night and found the famous band of stars called the Milky Way? Probably, but did you notice it's tilted at an angle? Well, this thing really puzzled astronomers for quite some time.That's because what you saw is actually our galaxy itself, seen from the side. The classica... |
26 June 2007
09:51 GMT |
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Feet, yards, inches, miles, gallons, ounces, these may mean something to some people around the world, while others struggle with online converters or, worse, software designed to convert these values, that are not reliable most of the times.How about fathoms, rods, chains, furlongs, leagues?Did anybody hear about t... |
19 June 2007
12:59 GMT |
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Pluto is the ninth planet of our solar system, the smallest and the farthest. No, wait, it's not a planet anymore. Trouble never seems to end for this little fellow, after the "embarrassment" of being degraded to a lower rank.The former planet has been dissed again. As it turns out, it's not even the bigge... |
15 June 2007
02:48 GMT |
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Astronomers were able to observe for the first time the properties of a giant binary system consisting of the most massive stars ever found. The giant binary system is located 20,000 light years away near the centre of the Milky Way and consists of two extremely massive stars orbiting each other.The strange thing ab... |
9 June 2007
06:28 GMT |
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It may sound strange, but it seems some planets are ejected from the solar system where they were born, while still in an early development stage, and set to wander the interstellar space. That's kind of a scary thought, even though actual pictures of such planets may look good.Remember the sci-fi series of the... |
30 May 2007
04:18 GMT |
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Most astronomers believe that our solar system formed from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud, which was likely several light-years across and probably birthed several stars. But a new find contradicts that nebular hypothesis, saying it wasn't a black hole that gave birth to the Sun and the p... |
25 May 2007
06:53 GMT |
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The recent years have seen an important increase in video surveillance, which started spreading from public and private buildings to the streets. The city of London has more surveillance cameras monitoring its citizens than any other major city in the world and in a single day a person could expect to be filmed 300 ... |
18 May 2007
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It seems that nothing is standing still in this Universe. Not even our solar system. The phrase "faster than a speeding bullet" appears to be characterizing very well our solar system.New data sent in by NASA's two Voyager spacecraft gave astronomers a whole new perspective. The two probes are now the most dist... |
11 May 2007
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Dwarf stars are known to astronomers for some time now, but never has an association of two dwarfs been of such great interest for the scientific community.A white dwarf is an astronomical object which is produced when a star of low or medium mass dies. These stars are not massive enough to generate the core tempe... |
19 April 2007
09:54 GMT |
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Nanotechnology and the study of very small robots that could one day do a lot of good has been one important aspect for a number of researchers and the applications in which these robots could be used are many. A similar process has begun in the computer industry with the introduction of smaller and yet smaller compo... |
21 March 2007
06:11 GMT |
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PC users build their own systems according to their needs and budget. As every PC user has his/her own personality, each tends to imprint it onto their systems. There are people that build up their systems, trying to get the most out of those fancy components. However, unlike regular PC users, the modding fans are a ... |
13 March 2007
10:49 GMT |
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If you somehow happened to stumble upon $12,000 and you're not sure what to do with it, try building a server-like PC. $4,000 customized PCs from Alineware or VooDoo PC won't stand a chance against a $12,000 monster configuration. But what exactly should this PC configuration include in order to get the mos... |
12 March 2007
08:52 GMT |
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Getting tired of your big, noisy, hot PC which devours huge amounts of energy? Not everyone needs monster 3D graphics cards and quad-cores to do their on-line shopping or book airplane tickets. Even those large manufacturing companies admit that they could really benefit from smaller cases, cooler CPUs and quieter fa... |
7 March 2007
07:35 GMT |
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I don't know how many of you have had the opportunity to play on a classic Commodore C64 gaming platform, but I have good news for those nostalgic C64 fans! Commodore is prepared to make a comeback into the IT world with a new gaming rig that will be showcased next week, during the CeBIT fare in Germany. The act... |
7 March 2007
06:15 GMT |
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Some time ago, rumors about a potential operating system developed by Google and meant to challenge the one developed by Microsoft were continuously spreading on the Internet. Although the company refused to comment, its officials never denied them, letting the fans hope their computer activities will be revolutioniz... |
6 March 2007
12:31 GMT |
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